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Originally Posted by tkirch
Nomar,
How is your set coming along. I am really interested in something like this, I am just having such a hard time finding the time to set up a set like this and looking forward to one.
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Actually, guys- I am getting close...Just didn't think anyone was interested so I haven't been posting in here. I was trying to get a hold of 8 Ball and see if he could provide me his college logos with the color codes. I have all the logos for all the Majors, minors and College in place- but am going through and setting the correct team colors and unis. I think about half of the college teams have real unis. I'd really like to get some fictional unis and logos for the HS feeder teams- but that's going to be time consuming, and I won't start that before the 1st release.
What I have been focusing on:
I have gone through the MLB set included with the game and updated/corrected most of each teams top prospects according the 2008 Baseball Prospectus. I also went through to ensure that almost every player is rated- though I know I may have missed a few. I have done minor editing on some MLB players- but I think Erich did a good job on these guys for the most part- but there were some obvious errors. This will also include real MLB contracts as provided by AirmenSmith's set.
I have edited market size and some of the financials to help keep the AI from doing peculiar things in the 2008 off-season due to large profit/loss. I am only going to keep those that didn't apparently break something else.
Feeder leagues: I am very pleased with these- after working with them extensively last year, things went a little quicker this year. As I mentioned in my earlier post- one neat thing is being able to manipualte the roster composition in the College and HS feeder's such that there are only 1 or 2 MR's per team- and very few available on draft day. For example, in the first year's draft- there were only a handful or so MR's on the board TOTAL. I hated in years past how it seemed a third of the top prospects were MR's. There won't be many at all in this set. So failed or infereior starters get converted to the pen in the minors- just like in real life. I am not sure if everyone is aware- but Markus has tied pitcher endurance to starter effectiveness in OOTP 2009- and I am trying to take advantage of that. This is much improved from last year.
Whats left:
I am tweaking league totals for the minors and college/hs just to try and make the statistical output as close to real life as possible....There is so much that's worth doing that I am not going to get to- like real ballparks for the feeder teams and things like that- but maybe if someone wants to tackle that- it would be a cool addition. I'd also like to integrate the Japanese leagues- I know someone is working on those. I look forward to playing with the Japanese PCM's to dovetail the talent realistically with MLB. I am going to stay away from the Cuban and other international leagues this year as it really bogs the game down a bit- but those that want to can certainly feel free to add them. It's a pretty easy process once you get the hang of it.
Finishing up the College Team's colors and unis...This is almost done- maybe an hour or two of work here at the most. Hopefully, at the least this will be helpful in setting up feeders and establishing league sizes and PCM's for the players.
I will shoot for this weekend...and one note- this will again be a pretty big download- similar to last year- because it will have everything included: uniforms, logos, correct team colors and League Logos.