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Originally Posted by FuzzyDarkness
After trying a lot of things in this game, I come to the conclusion, that this game is more about the experience, the journey and not about the final result.
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Don't get this thread wrong, I'm not hating, just putting it out there to hear from other people, if they play just to win or play because they have their own stories in mind and don't care about the results?
I love this game, so no negativity from me.  |
Don't tell Rob Manfred or the cartel owners but... so is real baseball.
In my last long game, I have a US championship and a world championship setup, and simmed up to 1970. In '70 my team won the league pennant easily, but got bumped right out of the US and world tournaments. I bulked up my pitching, ran away with the pennant again, by dozens of games, and won the US tournament on 2 or 3 game 7 wins. Then one of those teams swept me out of the world tournament. The next year, some of the prospects I'd been piling up started hitting the majors, ran away with the division again, but lost in the US semifinals. But we beat that team at Worlds and went on to win the world title.
Over that '72 winter I wanted to improve my defense. I discovered a 30 year old 3B that was like a cross between Wade Boggs and Brooks Robinson that had been stuck in tbe minors (because of a bug in the AI/my setup, but anyway). I swapped some prospects for him, and after a couple months he was hitting .350 and on his way to stardom. But my pitching was falling apart and the team didn't look bound for glory...
About that time I set the game aside, then v.21 came out and I started playing MLB seasons. I haven't converted my old season yet, it's so big I'm afraid it won't work. But whether I get it to OOTP 21 or load up 18 again, I'm looking forward to seeing Bob Hart again, and my no-average power hitting utility IF that ends up starting somewhere every year (Hart moved him off 3B!), or the ex-pitcher I found in the Dominican who hits 40 bombs per year but still can't catch the ball in RF.
So... you're doing it right
You "win" at OOTP even when you lose.