OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - Trade AI Discussion Master Thread (trying to gather everything in one place)

anpham · 04-22-2003, 05:06 PM

If you're someone who is going to edit a player or one who doesn't immediately lock the Ratings System on the first day of your first season then you're a player who loves the fact that you can steal prospects off certain teams. Editing players is way worse in my mind but it's really besides the point. The point I'm trying to get at is picture yourself as the programmer. You can spend countless hours, sleep 4 hours a day, programming. You see how your program has developed gradually and you're trying to find the most optimal way to make something that will satisfy as many people as possible. You're also testing your work as you go along and seeing the results of the code you just wrote. So if you're programming something and you start testing it don't you think he would have noticed that you could occassionally get a 4.5-5 star prospect (even a SP) for a 2 star veteran outfielder? Right when you select a player and select a team to trade with it automatically lists all the players this team would trade. If this was a bug then why would he release it this way because I'm pretty sure he would have noticed it. It's pretty hard to miss. Maybe he released it this way to see how you guys would react to a situation like this. To see whether or not you guys would accept it or react strongly against it. Some people are for it others are against it. It's just one of those things that wouldn't just slip on by and in my mind was a conscience decision to let it happen. No good programmer doesn't just write code indiscriminately without out giving it a thorough run through before releasing it to the public, especially when its something people are paying for. So if you see that trading from OOTP4 to OOTP5 has gotten looser and easier with the new trading screen then that was probably his intention. Because if you're not completely satisfied with something then you don't include it your update or patch. You continue to work on it until it's ready and then you release it. Obviously he felt that it was right in his own view and put it in there. A typo here and there obviously is accidental but with something like the trade AI that could be thousands of lines of code I doubt would be accidental.

04-22-2003, 05:06 PM	#51
anpham Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 10	If you're someone who is going to edit a player or one who doesn't immediately lock the Ratings System on the first day of your first season then you're a player who loves the fact that you can steal prospects off certain teams. Editing players is way worse in my mind but it's really besides the point. The point I'm trying to get at is picture yourself as the programmer. You can spend countless hours, sleep 4 hours a day, programming. You see how your program has developed gradually and you're trying to find the most optimal way to make something that will satisfy as many people as possible. You're also testing your work as you go along and seeing the results of the code you just wrote. So if you're programming something and you start testing it don't you think he would have noticed that you could occassionally get a 4.5-5 star prospect (even a SP) for a 2 star veteran outfielder? Right when you select a player and select a team to trade with it automatically lists all the players this team would trade. If this was a bug then why would he release it this way because I'm pretty sure he would have noticed it. It's pretty hard to miss. Maybe he released it this way to see how you guys would react to a situation like this. To see whether or not you guys would accept it or react strongly against it. Some people are for it others are against it. It's just one of those things that wouldn't just slip on by and in my mind was a conscience decision to let it happen. No good programmer doesn't just write code indiscriminately without out giving it a thorough run through before releasing it to the public, especially when its something people are paying for. So if you see that trading from OOTP4 to OOTP5 has gotten looser and easier with the new trading screen then that was probably his intention. Because if you're not completely satisfied with something then you don't include it your update or patch. You continue to work on it until it's ready and then you release it. Obviously he felt that it was right in his own view and put it in there. A typo here and there obviously is accidental but with something like the trade AI that could be thousands of lines of code I doubt would be accidental.