Is there an end point?

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by BirdWatcher

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.

That makes you the Grim Reaper, thus? My stars, man, will you take on the prerogatives of God in your league? In your universe? Do you also ordain weather calamities, earthquakes and volcanoes, and crop failures?

The hubris. The utter, shameful hubris. You must know, sir, that pride does goeth before a fall. Here I allude to the ultimate, terrible catastrophe on which I commented above. What will you do when that happens, eh? Summon your lightning bolts and strike at the carcass of your creation? For that is the one celestial event that is beyond even your powers, Jehovah!




[Just to be sure, all of this is tongue-in-cheek. ]

[BirdWatcher]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

That makes you the Grim Reaper, thus? My stars, man, will you take on the prerogatives of God in your league? In your universe? Do you also ordain weather calamities, earthquakes and volcanoes, and crop failures?

The hubris. The utter, shameful hubris. You must know, sir, that pride does goeth before a fall. Here I allude to the ultimate, terrible catastrophe on which I commented above. What will you do when that happens, eh? Summon your lightning bolts and strike at the carcass of your creation? For that is the one celestial event that is beyond even your powers, Jehovah!




[Just to be sure, all of this is tongue-in-cheek. ]

Trust me, you got the response you were going for, as I am chuckling still over this.

But just to be clear, I may be the grim reaper, but only in the sense of being the one who gathers the souls of the dead, not the who ordains who dies when. That is up to the omnipotent and impartial god of the dice.

[Hasta la vista pelota]

I may be thinking of another game, but I believe player deaths were at one time in OOTP, but someone complained about it and they took it out. Or maybe that was in-game deaths and not old-age deaths.

Anyway, this discussion reminds me of the often-told story that goes something like this (I've heard many variations.):

A young sportswriter in the 1950s asked an old-timer what he thought a great hitter like Ty Cobb would hit against "modern" players. After all, he hit something like .367 for his career while playing mostly in the dead-ball era.

"Oh, Cobb would hit about .280, .290 today," the old-timer said.

"What, a great hitter like Cobb would hit only .290 today?"

"Well, you must remember, Mr. Cobb is currently 65 years old."

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Hasta la vista pelota

I may be thinking of another game, but I believe player deaths were at one time in OOTP, but someone complained about it and they took it out. Or maybe that was in-game deaths and not old-age deaths.

Anyway, this discussion reminds me of the often-told story that goes something like this (I've heard many variations.):

A young sportswriter in the 1950s asked an old-timer what he thought a great hitter like Ty Cobb would hit against "modern" players. After all, he hit something like .367 for his career while playing mostly in the dead-ball era.

"Oh, Cobb would hit about .280, .290 today," the old-timer said.

"What, a great hitter like Cobb would hit only .290 today?"

"Well, you must remember, Mr. Cobb is currently 65 years old."

We all have to remember that real players are officially in this game now. To have the game predict their dates of death would be macabre indeed.

Great story about Cobb.

[Westheim]

Anybody remember the dead kid storyline drama some years back?

The end point for my Raccoons will come when the game decides to eat the files one byte after the other. And not one day sooner!!

[BirdWatcher]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

We all have to remember that real players are officially in this game now. To have the game predict their dates of death would be macabre indeed.

Great story about Cobb.

Agreed!
I certainly only would use my analog former player death process with fictional players. It would be far too creepy to use it with real players, even if they are just code.
Plus, I will not go all J. Henry Waugh and kill off current players. Not gonna happen.