[Eugene Church]

Thanks to MidKnight and Simmo13.

Appreciate the info.

I am going to play out 20 games and see what shows up. All of the events I listed should show up over that many games...except for the steal of home.

The others are just basic, everyday plays.

Hope they are there.

I know Markus' heart is in the right place and he and SI are working very hard, day and night to get the game right. I just hope they can understand my viewpoint.

I have been asking for these since OOTP3...and have been waiting since OOTP3.

I get my hopes built up with each new version and then am disappointed.

I really expected this version to be the "baseball game of all baseball games".

Markus even posted that all the basic plays would be in V2006.

He has always been good on his word.

But it looks like we are back at OOTP1 again with the new rewrite. Play-by-play doesn't seem to have a high priority with him. OOTPB seems to be for the stats freaks and simmers, not the guys that play out games. This despite polls that show about 40% play out their games wholly or partially.

There is much improvement in PBP-text and News in V2006. However, new stories don't seem to have much priority either. In 6.5 "pitcher quiets Cards" was used every 5 shutouts. They get stale in a hurry. I realize you have to repeat stories in a text game and that you can never have enough, but some effort should be made to get a reasonable number of items in each category. 5 options is certainly not enough. At last count there were only 12 shutout announcements in V2006. I think there are about 253 shutouts a year in MLB. And 200 would not be enough in V2006 when it is possible to have 25 leagues. But at least 200 would be a start.

There is no coverage of playoffs or postseason.

My patience has run out. I don't want to wait until OOTPB2012 to get basic plays and more variety in PBP and New Stories. They should have been in OOTP1...OOTP3...and definitely in V2006, "the baseball game of all baseball games".