Relocation storylines

[Padreman]

I think it might be cool to add storylines in regards to relocation. I know in the game you can just edit the name of the team and city and that's pretty much me location but if there was a function that you can press that will also trigger a storyline and during that process you choose if the team is going to be moving to a new city a new league or a new division. Get player and fan reactions. If they're moving to a different legal maybe to a new division maybe break down some of the other teams are going to be in the same division because of something like this were to happen in real life it's big news. I know I should've put this in the suggestion section but maybe they'll do no good I know a lot of the people in here don't like storylines to begin with so I just don't know if it's even worth mentioning in the official suggestion area.

[thorpegiovanni]

Did the Chargers inspire you to think of this ? lol
Good idea though.

[Padreman]

Originally Posted by thorpegiovanni

Did the Chargers inspire you to think of this ? lol
Good idea though.

Yes sadly

[lightgrenade07]

This is one of those things where, sadly or not, I think the creativity has to come from the user rather than the game.

Case in point: I've developed a scenario for a fictional league in which Ellis Howell, an Atlanta businessman, buys the Buffalo Bulls in 1935, moves them to Atlanta, and then clashes with the league over integration in baseball in the '40s and '50s. Things come to a head in 1955 when Howell re-brands his team as the Atlanta Bull Runners, incorporates the Confederate flag into the team logo, and builds a segregated dugout for away teams in the Atlanta ballpark to protest the Brown v Board decision from the year before. (Yeah, I know the battle was refered to as Manassas in the South, but you know...creative license and all). Eventually, a combination of public demonstrations, player protests, league pressure and ill health compel Howell to sell the team to a southern California ownership group. The team moves to Anaheim, and calls itself the Roadrunners.

This storyline leads to changes in:

-scheduling (some teams forfeit road games in Atlanta to protest the segregated dugout, and one year Howell orders his team to forfeit a road trip to protest league fines)

-player transactions (obviously Howell isn't signing any players of color, unlike some of his competitors - and by the '60s, some draftees will refuse to play for Atlanta)

-finances (Howell is going to pay some hefty fines for defying the league's Board of Governors - composed of his fellow team owners - time after time, and fan interest is going to wane after years of the team being known more for racial issues than for winning ballgames)

-free agency/collective bargaining (players threaten to file an anti-trust lawsuit because they don't want to be part of the Atlanta Bull Runners)

*(I guess it bears pointing out that the New Orleans franchise doesn't have these issues)

Etc.

How you program that kind of scenario into the game is beyond me.

[Padreman]

Originally Posted by lightgrenade07

This is one of those things where, sadly or not, I think the creativity has to come from the user rather than the game.

Case in point: I've developed a scenario for a fictional league in which Ellis Howell, an Atlanta businessman, buys the Buffalo Bulls in 1935, moves them to Atlanta, and then clashes with the league over integration in baseball in the '40s and '50s. Things come to a head in 1955 when Howell re-brands his team as the Atlanta Bull Runners and incorporates the Confederate flag into the team logo to protest the Brown v Board decision from the year before. (Yeah, I know the battle was refered to as Manassas in the South, but you know...creative license and all). Eventually, a combination of public demonstrations, player protests, league pressure and ill health compel Howell to sell the team to a southern California ownership group. The team moves to Anaheim, and calls itself the Roadrunners.

This storyline leads to changes in:

-scheduling (some teams forfeit road games in Atlanta to protest the segregated dugout, and one year Howell orders his team to forfeit a road trip to protest league fines)

-player transactions (obviously Howell isn't signing any players of color, unlike some of his competitors - and by the '60s, some draftees will refuse to play for Atlanta)

-finances (Howell is going to pay some hefty fines for defying the league's Board of Governors - composed of his fellow team owners - time after time, and fan interest is going to wane after years of the team being known more for racial issues than for winning ballgames)

-free agency/collective bargaining (players threaten to file an anti-trust lawsuit because they don't want to be part of the Atlanta Bull Runners)

Etc.

How you program that kind of scenario into the game is beyond me.

See stuff like that would be awesome. You would really be into the game from
A
While different angle and level

[rpriske]

I thought relocation WAS in the game, under league evolution rather than storylines.

Is that not the case?

It should be.

[mitchkenn]

i tend to write my own story lines for the Newspaper when i decide an owner needs to "retire" and then sell his club, or when as GM i decide to jump ship for another organization. It's actually pretty fun creating your own story lines.