Building Stadiums

jag2k2 · 08-05-2002, 11:10 AM

In OOTP4, when your team gets very successfull (say 90+ interest) you run out of seating space, causing you to miss alot of money that could be made to further improve your dynasty. I know you can increase the ticket prices and manually change the seating capacity, but I think it would be much more challenging if there were some sort of feature to where you had to build a new stadium. This could be based on your success, the amount of money you have saved up, and fan interest. This would force the manager (me) to try and assemble a "value" team instead of a "glutton" team to better balance finance and winning. In essence we the players would have to shop for a winning team at a low payroll with the goal of winning games, keeping fans interested, and working towards a great new stadium. Just a thought I have been having through my last 100+ hours in this game. What do you guys think?

SufferingSoxFan · 08-05-2002, 06:55 PM

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Originally posted by jag2k2
This would force the manager (me) to try and assemble a "value" team instead of a "glutton" team to better balance finance and winning. In essence we the players would have to shop for a winning team at a low payroll with the goal of winning games, keeping fans interested, and working towards a great new stadium.

Sounds like the way Belicheck runs the New England Patriots.

Anyways, I think that most guys (myself included) use their imagination and house rules. For example, I just completed and am playing in New Fenway Park. I assumed 50% public financing of a $350 million stadium project. I popped it in an amortization schedule (T-Value) using a 30 year payback at 5%. I increased the seating capacity to 57,000 and changed the dimensions all around (got rid of green monster). The yearly principal and interest comes to about 10.2 million. I will merely manually deduct this amount from my cash balance at the end of every season.

I got rid of the green monster because I think it did more bad than good. For example, Nomar hit a home run in Texas last night that would have been an off the wall single at Fenway.

08-05-2002, 11:10 AM	#1
jag2k2 Bat Boy Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 14	Building Stadiums In OOTP4, when your team gets very successfull (say 90+ interest) you run out of seating space, causing you to miss alot of money that could be made to further improve your dynasty. I know you can increase the ticket prices and manually change the seating capacity, but I think it would be much more challenging if there were some sort of feature to where you had to build a new stadium. This could be based on your success, the amount of money you have saved up, and fan interest. This would force the manager (me) to try and assemble a "value" team instead of a "glutton" team to better balance finance and winning. In essence we the players would have to shop for a winning team at a low payroll with the goal of winning games, keeping fans interested, and working towards a great new stadium. Just a thought I have been having through my last 100+ hours in this game. What do you guys think?