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Old 08-16-2007, 07:29 PM   #21 (permalink)
Le Grande Orange
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Suggestion:

Let OOTP recreate, at the user's discretion, the various strike/lockout/war shortened or altered seasons that have occurred during MLB's history.

Reason:

At the moment, the seasons which in the real world were shortened or altered due to various events are not recreated in OOTP. So, for example, the 1918 season is played out in full in a historical league even though in reality it was shortened considerably due to WWI.

Allowing this option for historical leagues means the following seasons which suffered some sort of disruption could be recreated in the game: 1918, 1972, 1981, 1985, 1990, 1994, 1995, and 2001 (the 1976 and 1980 seasons would also make the list if spring training disruptions are included).

To make these shortened/altered historical seasons even more immersive, news stories should be triggered on the appropriate dates which relate the background to the disruptions, just like real-world newspaper stories did.

Priority:

Medium/High.
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