[rasnell]

As you get beyond the learning curve and begin to develop your own style of play, here are some key items that I think immensely improved the interface from OOTP 2006 to 2007:

Manager home page. You can find all of the most frequently accessed pages here.

The icons at the bottom of the screen that allow you to jump to all the key places as manager, league and team.

Setting bookmarks and seeing that the game automatically assigns a shortcut key to those view really allows you to jump to exactly the places you want to be.

I love to progress through the team schedule page because I can quickly sim a day, a week, etc. and immediately look at the box scores.

However, despite my love of all the improvements, I continue to be just as unhappy with the interface, especially within the solo play game screen. It's a royal pain to make PH or bullpen changes and re-setting the stat views to your liking time and time again.

It won't lock to a preferred view, forcing you always to see the broadcast view rather than webcast if that's your most frequent way of playing.

We really, really need some shortcut keys where entering "P" in the game immediately takes you to the pitcher view and with stats the way that you want them.

With all the great stats kept by the game and all the great views, why don't we have any options to filter the stats and views within game play itself. I don't want to see playoff numbers. I want to see season stats and have the option to toggle this.

OOTP 2007 has done a tremendous job of fixing the game engine, player development, historical stats and the guts of the game that really matter.

I'm hoping that OOTP 2008 will be devoted to simplicity, ease of use, user friendliness, more shortcuts, more control to customize the in-game screen. I want to be able to drag and drop boxes and re-size them to my liking so that the ballpark can fill the entire monitor if I wish and I can open lineup boxes for both teams and display stats the way that I choose.

In my opinion, the single greatest mess, most confusing, most complicated part of the game is everything having to do with front office finances. There are so many variables where historic era files, team editing and the game itself are in conflict and override each other.

We also need much greater ability to set our own modifiers for many other gameplay issues currently found in the config file rather than league modifiers.