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Originally Posted by David Ball
Teams' market size doesn't seem to correspond to the actual size of their cities. Is that the case or am I missing something? I am thinking about resetting market sizes to correspond better to reality, but I'm sure the financial system is a matter of complicated interactions that might be upset if you make a seemingly simple and unproblematic adjustment.
If I input my own values, will I cause problems? And if I do that, will the new values remain until I reset them again, or will the program make changes as it goes, on a random basis or using some logic of its own?
Also, there's a field labeled "fan interest adjustment," and I haven't been able to find anything about it in the manual. Can anyone explain what it means?
So many things to learn with this game...
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In the OOTP financial system, cities are just names. There are some reasons why it has to be that way, but that means going into some explanation of the financial model.
It is possible to change things to make it a bit more like real life. Here are some guidelines for you:
1. Market size is the only thing you need to change. It's OK to fiddle with fan interest if you want, if you think some team is getting short-changed or the opposite, but market size is the easiest to fix.
2. Don't make big changes at any one time. Do it gradually over the course of 2-3 seasons. The AI can do strange, undesirable things otherwise.
3. Don't try to represent the true real life disparities that exist. I've found that it's best to keep the spread in market size (say, between NY and KC) to not more than 3-1 (not 10-1, as could happen otherwise).
4. Any values to enter won't reset.
Fan interest adjustment is like a trend indicator. If it's negative, it means the fans are growing restless. Positive means the fans like what they are seeing and want more of it. It's really just a factor used in the game engine, and I wouldn't fiddle with it (or else, if I did, it would be to set them all to zero).
Hope that helps.