Another great video and answered my question from the other video post about what you change from the default.

You're definetely better at the game than me and I've been playing on the hardest trade difficulty and have found it really easy. Mostly just because it's so easy to fleece certain quality players off the AI though, so if you can limit yourself from clearly undervalued players (I cannot) it would probably be fine

Always my go to for settings on a new release. Thanks for showing GM over ride option. Did not see that.

One thing I switched to for injuries a couple years ago (probably around when they split into Short- and Long-Term settings) is to keep Normal for Long-Term but use High Realistic Modern Day for Short-Term. I find its a nice mix of testing the depth of the roster with minor injuries at a realistic pace without quite as many major injuries that can sideline a season (or career!).

Yessss the OOTP tutorial king is back!

At some point when I have inclination, encouragement, and my voice (which I've lost to a cold), I should do a tutorial on making changes to the game world and league structures as well as the settings. I've just finished the inclusions to the world_default.xml and schools.xml files; the next part is to generate the players that populate my fictional world. There's often a Thanos-style finger snap at that point, as the game usually generates too many players...

A "use hard mode for trading" tale. I started a Rockies save with that turned on. If you do the Rockies then you know you have zilch in money and a pretty nasty roster. I had shopped some players early with no real results but by June we were sitting at 22-27 so I decided to trade CJ Cron. The Yankees offered Oswaldo Cabrera so I decided to make the move, decent player for budget room. Submitted the trade. Yankee replied Almost. I check the list of players they would consider and resubmit. Almost! To shorten the story, this went on for 9 emails and eventually lead to a 9 for 2 trade. I continued as an experiment. The AI in the end started asking for Veen/Romo. So, that feature is pretty much not workable IMHO.

Yes I was waiting for your thoughts on settings before starting! From what I've read most people seem to be playing with trade frequency on low or very low, but very low in the off season. Also read people playing with favour rating instead of stats, with rating at around 60. It looked like some crazy trades were happening without this. The last thing is trade difficulty and favour prospects, I'm not sure about, keen to see what others think is best. Currently torn between starting with: Cubs - favourite team, know the org etc. Angels - get Trout a ring. Mariners - first WS. Any thoughts!

For the Options section under League Settings there’s a category for Milestones. I noticed that quite a few of them are wrong for the Career Milestones. - Hits is set at 2,000 instead of 3,000 - HR’s is at 300 instead of 500 - K’s is 2,000 and not 3,000 - Wins is set to 200 not 300 Do you often leave them alone? Or do you change them and just forgot to mention it? I wasn’t sure if it would mess with any of the gameplay or records players may have reached or are close to reaching. Thanks! Awesome video btw! Love the channel! You have a new subscriber…

I set the Generate International Free Agents number to "Few" since the international leagues are no longer an option. I still get some really good players but most of them are average to well below-average.

Only other thing I add is roster limits in MILN. AAA and AAA 28 players and no pro limit, A+ and Single A 30 players and 5 years max pro service limit and Rookie and DSL 35 players and 4 years max pro limit.

middle setting is much too easy on trading difficulty. I have landed on 2 clicks off far right for when I start my longer playthrough plus/minus 1. The reputation system is flat out broke right now from my initial playthrough to test 24. Even if you just "reject" a trade from another GM your rep goes down which is ridiculous. I like your suggestions on batter/pitching aging/development and think I will try that out too

Free agent suits isn't new, love that one! Trade logic is not good IMO, def worse than 23. Also needs to be turned down. Foolish Bailey has a funny/sad video of it simming out. Curious what your opinion is now. Reputation is also implemented poorly per your explanation. I definitely got a lot of value from your suggestion to move the draft in the past.

Thanks so much for this !

What game can you play with others