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I guess I may be seeing lower Fight Outside numbers because I've been watching matchups between good (mostly very good) opponents. The trainers may be more sensitive to circumstances, especially the caliber of the opponents, than I thought.
For myself, I agree with a lot of the suggestions and complaints that have been made, but I am going to continue to use the strategies. Even in their imperfect state, I feel that as long as you don't use overly effective trainers, the strategies give a flavor and rhythmn to a fight without influencing the results unduly or inappropriately. They also let me intervene occasionally to do interesting things. Sometimes I do somthing I think will help a fighter win his fight, but I will also occasionally have one carry a lesser opponent or try to survive to a losing decision with his dignity and brain cells intact, rather than risking both trying for a late round KO.
Merely by forcing Take a Round Off a lot on his opponents, I was able to push Primo Carnera's career a lot farther than it would ordinarily have gone in one universe. As an experiment, I have even tried having both of fighters take every round off in order to simulate a bout in which neither fighter is taking much of an interest except in his paycheck. This really does produce a boring fight, and I don't know that I would recommend trying it. But all these things happen in reality and if you're trying to model the real world in your universe, it isn't necessarily a bad thing to have a tool that helps you simulate them.
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