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Old 04-18-2007, 02:11 AM   #4 (permalink)
Bryan Swartz
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Join Date: May 2006
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I left this alone until the patch, but first off thanks for the comments/suggestions. I haven't changed the MLEs(at least, not from what I originally intentionally set them at) ... because I want to gradually bump up the talent levels over time. I don't want to artificially 'hold down' player's numbers -- that's not the issue. The issue is the game deciding the PCMs I have set aren't appropriate all on it's own. Neither is this an issue of a player's developing to grow beyond the norms and become a standout -- as I said I set talent changes to 1. But besides which, that isn't what's happening.

Last setup is a representative example: Nobody hits better than .325 the first five years. Sixth year, a second-year player hits .453, with another rookie batting .398. The next year, same players hit .518 and .461 respectively. On dozens of startups you never see these kind of players created(even as mature veterans) immediately ... but within a few years they always pop up. Only conclusion I can come to is that the game does not PCMs the same when generating players in out years as it does originally -- so I'm wondering why this is and what if anything I can do about it. I have looked at everything the manual has to say about this and it would appear that it should be working the way I expect it to, but it isn't.
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