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Originally Posted by thehef
Perhaps, with some care and attention, OOTP minor league module could be a one-of-a-kind, envy of the sim baseball game world. Here's hoping!  |
It already is. No other game has anything close to the breadth and depth historical minors as included in OOTP! Don't miss seeing the trees for the forest here.
I hope you know I say that not critically, but with a lot of love and appreciation for all your efforts and passion for the historical minors
It's truly appreciated.
And I know maybe you get the feeling I'm always the one saying, no or later, to your (great) proposals. But honestly, that's not coming from a lack of appreciation of the historical game. In fact, just speaking personally, this is probably my favorite part of OOTP and I'm always pushing behind the scenes for us to do more here.
The difference is, that I know a little more about just how much is required to add some of these features, along with how much manpower we actually have available to deal with some of this (along with juggling all the other things we want/need to develop or fix up).
Some of what (I get the feeling) seems like it should be a trivial thing to work out, to you or the other folks who love historical play too, is really not trivial at all. Separating the minors and making it less rigid f.e. This would very likely be a difficult and time-consuming thing to code. It's not a matter of just deciding to do it, and taking an hour or two and then it would be done.
To the larger question there, again, there's a reason playing historical minors with real transactions is not recommended. If it had been possible to make historical minors work satisfactorily with real transactions with just a few tweaks, we'd have done so already.
I suppose if someone presents us with a (reasonably) complete minor league transactions db, that could change the picture and make the extra effort needed to tweak things worth it.
But failing that, I do not think we're likely to put much extra effort into making this one specific aspect of things more functional (historical minors with real transactions and lineups), since even if we fixed up some stuff, this would overall still not be properly functional without a much larger minor league transactions/lineups database than is presently available (at least to my knowledge).