Lyman Bostock & Thurman Munson

[LoneRhino]

I started a game in 1976 (I'm playing the Mariners). I just started the1980 season and Lyman Bostock & Thurman Munson are alive and well. Does the game ever have as a random event a player dying? It would have to be extremely rare.

[Hooray Saturday]

no Damon Rutherfords in OOTP!

[maineyankee7]

Originally Posted by Hooray Saturday

no Damon Rutherfords in OOTP!

Love this!

[LansdowneSt]

Originally Posted by LoneRhino

I started a game in 1976 (I'm playing the Mariners). I just started the1980 season and Lyman Bostock & Thurman Munson are alive and well. Does the game ever have as a random event a player dying? It would have to be extremely rare.

No. The game doesn't randomly have people die in their prime. There are two choices in a historical game "Retire According to History" and not. You have it toggled off. This allows users to see how Gehrig, Koufax, Munson, Bostock, etc. might have done had they not been become sick, been injured, or died.

To create such a storyline, you could edit the html that has the storylines and edit the file to make such a storyline on your own. Or edit the injury file (IIRC it is a txt file), and change some injury to death by whatever.

[LoneRhino]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

No. The game doesn't randomly have people die in their prime. There are two choices in a historical game "Retire According to History" and not. You have it toggled off. This allows users to see how Gehrig, Koufax, Munson, Bostock, etc. might have done had they not been become sick, been injured, or died.

To create such a storyline, you could edit the html that has the storylines and edit the file to make such a storyline on your own. Or edit the injury file (IIRC it is a txt file), and change some injury to death by whatever.

I don't want to do that. I was just curious to see if the game would go down that dark road. It's probably better that it doesn't.

[sharknut]

In my sim, Steve Garvey retired at the age of 23 to donate a kidney to his sister

That's as close to a player dying that I have seen

[joefromchicago]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

No. The game doesn't randomly have people die in their prime. There are two choices in a historical game "Retire According to History" and not. You have it toggled off. This allows users to see how Gehrig, Koufax, Munson, Bostock, etc. might have done had they not been become sick, been injured, or died.

To create such a storyline, you could edit the html that has the storylines and edit the file to make such a storyline on your own. Or edit the injury file (IIRC it is a txt file), and change some injury to death by whatever.

There will never be a storyline that results in a player dying. Years ago, Markus mentioned that OOTP would include player deaths (so that, for instance, you wouldn't have 150-year-old retired players still hanging around in your database), but that never happened and I think that's now completely off the table since OOTP entered into a licensing agreements with MLB and the MLBPA. So yes, if users want storylines that kill players, the only way to do that is to edit the HTML file themselves. Even then, though, players can't die, they just retire. The only people who die in OOTP are owners, which I take as a subversive commentary on late-stage capitalism.