robbieryan
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I can't imagine that they reincarnate players because they haven't thought of generating new ones - as you say, to implement that shouldn't be a problem.
I can only imagine that it's to add some kind of fun factor to the game, some way of not losing superstars and getting bored with a load of generic names and faces after 10 seasons. Konami put in way too many of these little touches for it to be a coincidence.
In the same way that you can disable "classic players" from appearing in the ML (because apparently some people find it fun to do that), you should be able to disable reincarnation.
This is where the problem lies, I think this is 100% the case where Konami don't want to waste all the effort they have put into stats and likenesses just for it to disappear after a season or two of Master League. However i bet if we asked and got an 'official' answer we'd be told it's for 'licensing purposes' or something along those lines.
From my point of view I can half understand it and would be happy to keep the regenerated players as it is currently as 'reincarnations', I know some people get annoyed at having a 16 year old luca toni with the face of the 40 year old but personally it doesn't bother me.
I feel like there are several options they have to improve the situation and I don't think any of them would be that hard to implement. The first and most simple one would be just to lower the OPR that these players start with as a 16 year old. surely nobody wants to see a 16 year old totti rated 79 knowing that in 2 seasons he'll be an OPR 90+ monster?
Further to that, a name randomizer. all retired players are given 2 components. 'Name and Face' and 'Everything else' (Physique, stats, position etc), when the players regenerate a random name is assigned to a random 'everything else' So a 16 year old 'Rooney' could appear in a south american team as a 16 year old left back who's max development OPR is 75 and the next statistical Rooney could be called and look like... i dunno, Pedro Mendes or some shit. This to me is just as good and less complicated to implement than a FM style regen system with random new appearance and stats.