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12-18-2019, 07:34 PM | #1 |
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Is there an end point?
In my years of playing OOTPB I usually start a new franchise before I (manager/Gm) gets too old or I need a change, so haver rarely gone past 20 years.
In my current Franchise I am now 74 and unemployed. Just waiting on my last players to make (or not) the HOF. Does the game make you retire at some point or can you be manager/Gm for "ever". Its still saying for me to get a job. Basically does age matter in regards to you (as Manager or Gm)? |
12-18-2019, 07:59 PM | #2 |
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I have no idea
Now I'm curious if you ever die |
12-18-2019, 11:35 PM | #3 |
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you can Retire your manager, I don't think the game will do it for you but honestly IDK if you will die tho.
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12-19-2019, 12:00 AM | #4 |
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You don't die. The game will not force retire you. So unless you do it, you will continue to be active (and age) in your league/world until you retire the league, it corrupts or some such.
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12-19-2019, 01:02 AM | #5 |
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The bolded alternative is a fate worse than death!
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12-19-2019, 02:17 AM | #6 |
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This makes me wonder... what's the furthest anyone's ever played into the future?
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12-19-2019, 09:42 AM | #7 |
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With the exception of owners, nobody dies in OOTP.
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12-19-2019, 11:35 AM | #8 |
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I'm quite sure several centuries ie 200+ years have been posted in these forums.
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12-19-2019, 11:56 AM | #9 |
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12-19-2019, 12:10 PM | #10 |
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12-19-2019, 12:14 PM | #11 | |
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As for CBeisbol's question about players dying, a guy in one of my saves suffered a fractured skull and his career was declared over the day after it happened. I thought that was a little creepy. Last edited by old fat bald guy; 12-19-2019 at 12:17 PM. |
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12-19-2019, 02:30 PM | #12 |
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12-19-2019, 03:38 PM | #13 |
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Players absolutely do not die in the game. Only owners.
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12-19-2019, 04:17 PM | #14 |
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Yeah, players live forever. I just loaded up a game and unretired a 124 year old Babe Ruth. Heck, he still has a 40 rating in RF. Stick his corpse out there with a glove on it and he'll catch a few balls. And he'd still probably hit better than Chris Davis.
This makes me think what about player-owners? Too bad Derek Jeter isn't listed as the Marlins owner. If he was, he could die in game as an owner, and then you could unretire his player ID afterwards. The ghost of Jeter playing.. very spooky. |
12-19-2019, 04:54 PM | #15 | |
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There are definitely leagues that have simulated a couple hundred years into the future and if you really wanted to you could start as early as 1800. Ballplayers never die in large part because once they've retired they're kind of dead in baseball terms anyway. Managers retire as well, and IRL they generally don't do that job until they're dead either. There are plenty of guys, from Tony LaRussa to Jim Leyland to Bobby Cox, who might be able to do most of the job if they really had to but who just aren't going to be able to tell athletic 25 year olds to hustle, and who nobody wants to see wearing a baseball uniform.
I feel like the game mostly avoids the sadder aspects of the game when it can so I appreciate the decision not to have a death mechanic...
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12-19-2019, 07:44 PM | #16 |
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I am so glad the game doesn't have Death as a injury or even after, ya it might be a cool news story but its just common sense that you know players have passed on but you could always ask for it to be a news story.
I have a league where the oldest active coach was born in 2045 league is 135 years old, stopped play since OOTP18 to start new Universe no idea how far I would be by now.
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12-19-2019, 08:22 PM | #17 |
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Former players do pass away in my WPK fictional league. Of course, any news story about this has to be created by me as the game doesn't know they've passed away. But I have an entire analog process for making this happen.
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12-20-2019, 10:16 AM | #18 |
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*One of my sims is in the 20s and I only go down to B levels in the minors. Also, the leagues are already integrated so there’s no Negro Leagues either. I also find that the game doesn’t really generate random players who are heads and shoulders above everyone else so I also like to manually create comps for inner circle Hall of Famers (Lou Gehrig and Charlie Gehringer in last year’s sim), special outliers (Hack Wilson), and players who help to wreck the natural competitive balance that the game institutes in those years (the Yankees signed Earl Combs from a small minor league affiliate and so even though the game does generate players of his caliber relative to the league, the Yankees aren’t dominant enough yet). Otherwise, I even use baseball reference’s transaction logs to approximate the trades, purchases, and waiver claims in my league.
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12-21-2019, 07:04 AM | #20 |
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If you are playing historical and do not click, players retire as in history, then they can play forever I think. I know in a test league I did I forgot to click it and fast sim 50 years and hade 70 year old players still playing. I should have fast skimmed a couple hundred years and then check. Basically player were taking their last real ratings and that was just repeating every year for them. Disable player development was clicked also.
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