Ticker is gone in franchise

[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by ripwalk

Oh, interesting. I don’t feel I played a game any differently in 2037 than I did when I first played out games in early season. You’re saying maybe it’s just luck of the draw and the game I chose to play was first game of the day so there was nothing to report ? It’s not even that it didn’t work, it just didn’t show up at all. I thought the ticker was like a “as it happens” Type thing.. but it only shows stuff from completed games ?

It is real time, and it isn't. As you probably know you're able to see the games in progress on the ticker during a player-controlled game, but to do that the engine sims all CPU-controlled games on the schedule before you start the on-field game. Then the ticker uses the in-game time of day to reflect what would have already been played out in the simmed games, and from that it's able to show that the games look like they're in progress.

As others said already, this illusion falls apart with multi-team control, as fewer/no games from the day will be simmed prior to starting your game. So there's less/no info to show on the ticker.

So, it's a fake real-time, but a pretty convincing one under normal circumstances. And in a single team franchise it might as well be real time unless you spoil yourself by backing out to the "today's games" schedule after the sim.

Edit: Also, In-game stadium scoreboards operate under the same principle - and have been doing so even before the ticker was introduced into the game.