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live offseason
Suggestion
If it is possible, for online leagues, some way to sim part of the offseason "live", meaning reactions from FAs happen imediately once an owner exports (though time does not pass), and other owners can come back to the game and update to see if any FAs have contacted them. It would be like the commissioner activates an offseason mode and this will start happening, the commissioner can then trigger a time lapse of however much time he wants every night or as often as his league says it should be. After each specific league's desired length of time in this offseason mode, the commissioner resumes normal simming and life goes on as normal. I would call it the winter mode, rather, in reference to the Winter Meetings.
Reason
I think that, in online leagues, signing free agents is very different than in offline leagues or in real life, because negotiations don't happen as thoroughly as they should, because of the in-game days within sims, during which we are "frozen". You often have to place almost a blind bid because another team may offer more than your first bid, but not more than you are ultimately willing to offer, and subsequently sign the player before you have a chance to react. This does not ever happen in real life.
Generally, in online leagues, I don't think there is much interest in the in-game time during the offseason, that I would even say the old round-based offseason model from OOTP6.5 is more practical. So an upgraded alternative would be something in connection to the real world time, leaving in-game time in the background for a moment.
However, I don't know if it's possible to have exports make changes to the league file immediately like this. If that is not possible, then obviously my suggestion is irrelevant.
Priority
low
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