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Originally Posted by phightin
I'm in the process of trying to test out some age and talent modifiers in a modern day MLB world to try to overcome some of the flaws in realistic game play. As most of you know in the OTTP world players will usually flame out, going from good or great players to relative worthless minor leaguers rather quickly when players reach their late 20s. I'm not as concerned about this as I do not think there is a way to overcome that issue but more with trying to get this to occur during players early 30s (32-33) rather than their late 20s (28-29) which should be their prime.
My first question would be if anyone has experimented with this yet and looked into the future to see the results?
My plan is basically to use vorp to look at the top 5% or so of the league from 2011 and establish an average age of the top players. I then want to use that as guide to hopefully hit that target area each year in the game. Right now I will only do hitters as I'm not sure what to do with pitchers yet.
Does anyone have any suggestions on possible age/talent modifier settings that may work best? I will probably lower all of them to try to find a balance.
OTTP is a great game but unfortunately more of a platform for fictional leagues or user controlled ones. Realisitic gameplay and ageing like this has always been a problem.
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I disagree that this is a problem only for MLB leagues. I think this can be a problem for fictional leagues too. It's not about having players perform like their real life counterparts. Its a question of realistic aging patterns. You expect most guys in your league to decline in their 30s in both MLB and fictional leagues. Yes, some players will have talent drops during their prime years, but it shouldn't be the norm (for both MLB and fictional leagues).
You could make the argument that perhaps it is funner for gameplay-sake to have such randomness, since you just never know what's going to happen. But this problem also hurts the gameplay because it takes away the decision of ever giving a big long term contract to any good player. Never give a long term contract to a player coming off a good year - he most definitely will not live up to it with the talent change randomness the way it is.