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Originally Posted by SittingDuck
The interesting thing is - and again it's my opinion - if someone developed a baseball sim that had an outstanding AI with only a portion of what OOTP presents otherwise (or any other baseball sim for that matter), then I think a HUGE proportion of baseball text simmers would swing themselves right into that game, at the detriment of OOTP and other baseball sims. That's how important many feel a top-notch AI is. Baseball is a thinking man's game. How can a great AI not top the list as most important?
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I know I'd be one. As much as I like the setup, options, looks, stats, customability, etc. of this fantastic game, if I find one with a great AI, I'm there. No doubts. And will gladly fork over well more than the industry standard $20-$50 range for it too. Because I've been looking for it my whole adult life. Not much time left either, so I'm thinking this one might be the best I'm gonna find.
It's AI is bad, and I've said it before. But it's about the best I've seen. And I've tried many, many, many other games.
Would still love to find someone put forth the effort though. I was wondering one time if it would be feasible if some really smart baseball guys got together with some really smart writers of algorithms, and the just wrote the basic algorithms to good, solid AI. Two sets of AI. On field, in-game management AI, and then organization wide, roster building, financially motivated planning AI.
And they sold the algorithms to those who wanted to make and sell the actual sims. In other words, if they created these wonderful algorithms and copyrighted them and sold them under the name "RealAI" or something, then individual sellers of the product could incorporate this AI into their particular game, whether it be arcade style or long term sim style, and market their particular baseball sim as "Includes RealAI."
Then, maybe the cost of an endeavor might more likely provide returns as its able to make back money on more than one line of baseball games.
Ahh, dreamt it a long time, and I'm sure its not gonna happen.