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Originally Posted by TLB1975
Fully agree with what you have pointed out. I'm having my own challenges with the manager goals. Some of them, quite frankly, make no sense. I'll give an example.
I'm playing as the Pirates, it's 8/4/2020. I trade last year at the deadline for then 32yr old SP Andrew Cashner from the Padres (now 33, turning 34 in September). He was under contract for the current 2020 season at $10.8M and is a FA after. Both his national and local popularity are insignificant. Being I'm the Pirates, I am budget constrained and have several young players that a bigger priority would be extending them past their arbitration years. My owner has set a goal that I resign Cashner. And what does Cashner want - 5yrs, $105M. To me, this goal makes no sense. In a partial yr last year with me, Cashner went 9-3 with a 3.35ERA and a 1.7 war. Full season, 14-10 3.28 ERA, 144K's/60BB's, 3.3WAR. Why would a "penny-pincher" owner want me to sink $100+M into a 34yr old, recently acquired, above avg starter?
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I like the fact that owner demands do not always make perfect sense. In real life, do you always know why your boss tells you to do something? If you do not already, imagine your boss is a very powerful man, probably a billionaire, and someone who is not accustomed to having their orders questioned. When I get a demand like the one above I imagine a situation where the owner's wife is possibly friends with Cashner's wife. During the games, they sit in the owners box drinking wine a chatting. The reason he wants him resigned is too keep his wife happy (or maybe to keep her from bothering him during the game
). Or maybe Cashner has agreed to start doing commercials for one of his business associates. Or better yet, keep it Pittsburgh specific and imagine Cashner has agreed to do some commercials for Seven Springs in the coming off season
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My point is, not everyone in the organization has the same agenda. The GM and manager often have different agendas. Adding a owner into the mix who may or may not have his own hidden agenda is fun. If the owner's demand always fell in line with what you were planning on doing anyway - win more games, upgrade obviously weak positions, resign core players in their primes - this feature would not be a challenge.
As for the OP, as much as I am truly enjoying this feature, yes it needs a lot of fine tuning. I have faith though it will eventually get where it should be as long as we keep questioning these ones where the the mechanics just don't seem to work as far as how to complete the task. I doubt this will get to where it needs to be in patches alone. It will probably be future version that finally gets it right.