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Originally Posted by Russ
I agree.
For a long time now I've had trouble playing out my games. The immersion factor just wasn't there. Through playing my games out I got to know my players and the players around the league. Yet I still found myself simming a month at a time and not getting really into my leagues.
I finally put my finger on it. It was the pbp. The pbp now is better than in 6.5 and probably better than DMB as far as actual play description (except for park-specific stuff, which I never thought even possible with OOTP due to all the customization). But where it's not grabbing me is where all the extra info used to go before everyone's initial at-bats in v6 and 6.5.
The pbp should be one of the top priorities when it comes to text sims, IMO.
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Good observations.
OOTPB seems to favor the simmers over the gamers who play out games.
The last poll I saw showed that simmers compose 60% of the gamers and about 40% play out games.
IMO Markus doesn't spend enough time on the PBP, which as you say, should be one of his top priorities in a TEXT game.
I have been on the last three Betas and PBP is the last thing addressed. It might be because that is necessary for the coding, but I sense that it not that important to Markus. Otherwise we would have had all of the basic plays of baseball a long time ago. It is now OOTP9 and we are still missing basic, everyday plays.
WHY?