Foreign Player Restraints, Multiple Leagues Question

korme · 11-01-2011, 11:40 PM

I have my regular MLB and all of the minors, and added the *** (Japan). I set the minimum number of foreigners allowed on *** rosters to 2.

Theoretically this would be working as I want, journeymen MLB players going to Japan. But, Japan's teams sign a bunch more than 2, and tons of American-born players sit on *** team's reserve roster.

So I added a AAA to the *** to try to see if maybe having 2 rosters and not just an unlimited reserve squad would counter the loophole. It didn't, there's now an unlimited amount of American guys in the AAA division of the ***.

I hope everyone understands what I'm getting at. I only want two American players in each organization. Is this fundamentally possible?

Who Killed Kenny? · 11-02-2011, 08:01 AM

I have the same problem. It has been there since OOTP 2006 and the introduction of foreign player restrictions. The restrictions only apply to the major league level in game. This is annoying since if that league has a draft and foreign players are in the draft, it will draft the best available player regardless of nationality and may sit that player indefinitely. Likewise a team may sign 3 excellent foreign players but 1 of them sits on the reserve roster indefinitely.

In leagues with restrictions the roster AI needs to be aware of the restrictions. But its been like this for years and I don't see it likely to change. Maybe no one has opened a ticket for this yet and Markus isn't aware of the problem.

Petepont · 11-02-2011, 08:14 AM

I had this problem once, when I set up a large world with many international leagues. My fix was to dramatically decrease the financial settings of the non American leagues. This meant that the Japanese teams weren't financially able to sign more than a few of the best players, if even any of them. Basically, they were only able to sign players who weren't good compared to the MLB, and then only if there wasn't serious demand for their services in the American leagues.

olivertheorem · 11-02-2011, 09:58 AM

I think the key (given that I do not have access to the code, obviously) is that the setting is an active roster limit only. I would think that changing that in some fashion to allow for it to be an entire organization limit wouldn't be that hard, but I'm not a programmer so it might be a lot harder than I think.

korme · 11-02-2011, 09:12 PM

Pretty disappointing to hear then

11-01-2011, 11:40 PM	#1
korme Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: bloodbuzz ohio Posts: 99	Foreign Player Restraints, Multiple Leagues Question I have my regular MLB and all of the minors, and added the * (Japan). I set the minimum number of foreigners allowed on * rosters to 2. Theoretically this would be working as I want, journeymen MLB players going to Japan. But, Japan's teams sign a bunch more than 2, and tons of American-born players sit on * team's reserve roster. So I added a AAA to the * to try to see if maybe having 2 rosters and not just an unlimited reserve squad would counter the loophole. It didn't, there's now an unlimited amount of American guys in the AAA division of the ***. I hope everyone understands what I'm getting at. I only want two American players in each organization. Is this fundamentally possible?

11-02-2011, 08:01 AM	#2
Who Killed Kenny? Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 410	I have the same problem. It has been there since OOTP 2006 and the introduction of foreign player restrictions. The restrictions only apply to the major league level in game. This is annoying since if that league has a draft and foreign players are in the draft, it will draft the best available player regardless of nationality and may sit that player indefinitely. Likewise a team may sign 3 excellent foreign players but 1 of them sits on the reserve roster indefinitely. In leagues with restrictions the roster AI needs to be aware of the restrictions. But its been like this for years and I don't see it likely to change. Maybe no one has opened a ticket for this yet and Markus isn't aware of the problem.

11-02-2011, 08:14 AM	#3
Petepont Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Behind You Posts: 222	I had this problem once, when I set up a large world with many international leagues. My fix was to dramatically decrease the financial settings of the non American leagues. This meant that the Japanese teams weren't financially able to sign more than a few of the best players, if even any of them. Basically, they were only able to sign players who weren't good compared to the MLB, and then only if there wasn't serious demand for their services in the American leagues.

11-02-2011, 09:58 AM	#4
olivertheorem All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,919	I think the key (given that I do not have access to the code, obviously) is that the setting is an active roster limit only. I would think that changing that in some fashion to allow for it to be an entire organization limit wouldn't be that hard, but I'm not a programmer so it might be a lot harder than I think.

11-02-2011, 09:12 PM	#5
korme Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: bloodbuzz ohio Posts: 99	Pretty disappointing to hear then