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Michael Westbay
(aka westbaystars)
Founder
For those of you with more experience on the PawaPuro games, I ran into something for the first time and wanted to find out if this is normal or strange.
I'm working on a season in Pennant Mode, and in May of that season the CPU BayStars and the CPU Hawks made a trade which sent Matsunaka to Yokohama for two players including Kitagawa. However, having made this trade, the BayStars have not changed their lineup at all even though team stats show Matsunaka to be their top hitter by far... he's now riding pine with the occasional pinch hit or (even more amazingly) coming in as a defensive replacement after somebody *else* pinch hits.
Has anyone noticed if this is what the CPU teams in Pennant Mode do? Do all traded guys not involved with your team end up with this fate, or do the traded guys eventually get back into the starting lineup? Playing a season with Matsunaka being unused like that seems somewhat ridiculous... is it better just to turn CPU trades off or something?
Speaking of options, for the general Pennant Mode options to start a season, the first four options are for the different difficulties... can anyone give me the order of those difficulty settings? In other words, which is for batting/pitching/etc.?
Thanks for your help!
- Steve