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Originally Posted by chucksabr
I assume these options are related to changes made in real-world American baseball? So, for example, if I choose "More/Less offense", will the offense evolve to reflect the same deadball and liveball periods during the same years the Majors experienced them? I think this might be true, because I have it enabled and am up to 1923 on my league's dry run, and I see offense spiked in 1893, 1911 and 1920, just like in the majors.
If I were to turn this off, would it have the effect of run scoring evolving up and down on its own, creating hitters eras and pitchers eras? Or would it basically stay flat, with random spikes for individual teams?
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The second one is what it does. You would get a news story along the lines of the mound being raised/lowered or the like, which would be followed by a general decrease/increase in scoring.
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Same with the business aspects like schedule length, roster size, options year, FA and arb minimum service, etc. If I keep these unchecked, will the game ignore these issues entirely and maintain the universe as it is in its first year through eternity, or will it employ and modify changes in these within the game during seasons of its own choosing?
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If you leave those unchecked, the game will not change from from their initial settings. If you check them, there is a random chance that they will change from year to year. I believe the changes are announced on either the day after the postseason ends or on January 1.
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How about the manual evolution option under League > History > {any option below} > League Evolution? It allows you to add things yourself, but it doesn't provide a menu of what types of evolutionary things will affect play--it provides only a date to enter and a free-form description box. How will the game know how to respond to your description properly?
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I am REALLY not sure on this one. Maybe it makes your settings match the year?
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Lastly, for those of you with extensive fictional league experience, what are your recommendations as to which if any of these settings to enable?
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And finally, this is for someone else to answer as I don't play fictional that much.