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Originally Posted by Padreman
The only thing that's pre-determined is I know every single year they'll be somebody that will come in here and accuse the game of being predetermined
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I know this is regarding an older version of the game, and I have doubts that after all this time anyone will even see this post, but I just have to say, I have been curious about this for some time now. I'm playing a fictional historical game on OOTP 23. I like to play out my games and sometimes it feels like the AI has simply decided enough is enough and the AI time is going to pile on some runs. Recently I loaded up a game where the situation was 2 on and 2 out in the 3rd inning with my ace on the mound. Decent hitter up, first pitch, hit into next week. And it just felt like a bunch of bull crap. I can't explain way, but I decided to test the predetermined outcome theory. I killed the game without saving, and reloaded the game. Homerun. Could just be a hot batter who was likely to hit one, reloaded, homerun, reloaded homerun. Each time there were different pitches, different locations and different counts but I tried this 28 times before giving up. There were 25 balls hit out of the park and 3 inside the park home runs. Now technically the algorithm could randomly select home run as the outcome for the at-bat 28 times in a row, but it doesn't seem likely. Seems like the code has decided my ace needs to be taken down a notch and 11 games over .500 is enough for the middle of May. To be fair..... my team has had plenty of success, and some of that success felt a little outlandish too and now it feels all too likely that the AI threw me a few bones in that success too, but the illusion of "realistic results" is now shattered for me. I don't know if it's just the next at bat that is pre determined or a string of them or what. But I have to come to believe that no matter how many times I load that save in that situation I will always see the AI hit a home run if I "Pitch to Batter". I know I could intentionally walk the guy, pull my pitcher, visit the mound, try other things but I wanted to know if this predetermined outcome thing was real and it sure feels that way to me after this experiment. Sadly, it kinda shatters the illusion of not seeing predetermined outcomes. I'm not saying the game has decided who is going to win or how many games or any nonsense like that. I'm just sharing what I found by experiment and it seems this next at-bat has already been determined. I'm going to test it more times before I continue this game but I'll probably give up soon since it's getting boring and the only variance in result is where the home run lands.