Talent Change Randomness

[UltimateAverageGuy]

I wanted to get some input on where you guys set your TCR number and how you like it.

[koohead]

I've always left it at default. I do find more top prospects ending up as bench pieces and Quad-A type players than I see late round picks turning into All-Stars, but that's probably closer to reality than the alternative. Haven't felt a need to change it since OOTP18 or so

[quillenl]

I changed it to 1 a couple months back to test some stuff... and honestly have just been leaving it there. It does not make nearly the impact I had expected and I often forget it has been set to 1 entirely. If the change from 100 to 200 is as marginal as that from 1 to 100 then I'll be parking this under settings I no longer care about alongside Player Development budget.

I'm not saying it is not doing anything, just that at "1" I expected very few surprises, or changes in potential, and have been seeing basically the same results I always saw previously with default. I use primarily historical players which means far fewer 18 years olds... and I am sure that is a potential contributor to what I see.

tldr version: Have it set to 1 these days.

[BBGiovanni]

I turn it down to 75, I've found it to be a good level for my games.

[itsmb8]

Really cant go wrong. Ive seen many have great results at 200, and the same with 50.

[jimmysthebestcop]

I always set it to minimum 150. The biggest thing is about how you play. If you play every new version of OOTP and start a new save from opening day. If you don't crank up the TCR then it will pretty much be exactly the same talent wise.

Yes all the players and draft guys get new ratings and unless someone blows an elbow or blowsup potential or busts in that year time then game plays very very similiar.

You will find yourself going after the same prospects over and over because you have a damn good idea who makes it and who doesn't.

Some players use it as difficulty setting. I don't really see it that way. My minors become so good I don't care if a top guys busts because there will be just as many never was's that make it.

I see TCR more as a universe shake up. If you are playing fictional, historical, importing year after year then sure TCR isn't much of a use outside of the "difficulty" thing.

[polydamas]

I've tried it with 125 primarily, but I'm currently sticking with 100.

Someone made the point that the devs most likely have spent the most time testing and tinkering with it, so it makes sense to trust their judgement.

[jimmysthebestcop]

Originally Posted by polydamas

Someone made the point that the devs most likely have spent the most time testing and tinkering with it, so it makes sense to trust their judgement.

Don't ever believe this statement whenever it is brought up on the forum. It just doesn't make any sense. OOTP biggest selling point is the complete customization and setup of one's universe so not customizing it goes against the nature of OOTP. Plus the dev's have stated many many times "it's your game, play it however you want".

All of the default settings are fine for certain game play throughs and completely illogical for other types of play throughs.

Fictional, historical, modern mlb, import every year all of those game types are setup completely different from one another. Then you have each user own desires coming into the picture.

Example some players might start from opening day each year with 1 team. Play 10 or 15 years and then start over with a different team on the same opening day again. Now some players might want it to be exactly the same, so they wouldn't touch TCR. While other players want it to be at least somewhat different so they would crank it up. if not they already know who develop and who will bust.

It really comes down to what each users wants out of OOTP. For some all of the defaults might be good enough. For the rest they will always change something up.

[SirMichaelJordan]

Originally Posted by polydamas

I've tried it with 125 primarily, but I'm currently sticking with 100.

Someone made the point that the devs most likely have spent the most time testing and tinkering with it, so it makes sense to trust their judgement.

Default settings doesn’t necessarily mean BEST. Just the right balance that would fit a general audience. Hence why the default injury setting isn’t defaulted to high (realistic) by default for MLB QuickStart even though it better represents current MLB.

MLB quick start doesn’t even have the draft set to 40 rounds by default.

Setttings are there to create the environment you want.

[Syd Thrift]

I have it at 120, which I did to partially counteract the fact that development is set to 1.1 and aging to 0.9. The idea here is, a lot of the times players do come up young and looking good and then they just kind of peter out (and as far as aging goes, most of the time a team only looks to bring in a prospect when there's an actual hole to fill - the bigger the prospect, the more malleable they'll be about the "hole", but nevertheless there has to be a hole).

I'm considering bumping it up a bit but it seems... OK so far.