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After reading Gambo's comments on this issue, I think graphical improvement should first focus on things like generating custom uniforms. At present the cap logo is the team logo but no jersey logo is created. It could be as simple as creating a logo with the team nickname or city with different fonts available. Ballparks would be nice. Right now the game only ships with one park that defaults to every team. Personally that is not a huge issue to me but it could be the determining factor for a person who has never played and has no knowledge of the huge modding community. I know when I bought Hearts of Iron from paradox it was a good game but I am not sure I would have bought HOI2 or HOI3 if I had not known about the large amounts of mods.
Personally, I think the ease of modification and the available mods are often ignored in reviews or under played at least. So allowing the game to create unique cap and jersey logos at start would be an easy step to improve graphics significantly. IIRC, it was Gambo who said the graphics in the review looked nothing like his game. I think this hurts for potential buyers better game graphics in the current system, eg. computer generated cap and jersey logos, more ballparks, and maybe improvements on the baseball cards may be a quick and easy improvement that would catch potential buyers' eyes. OOTP has gone the way of Paradox of incorporating mods by users into newer versions. Perhaps some of the modded fictional jerseys and caps could be incorporated into the game. I realize OOTP can not legally sell the game with MLB logos and uniforms without paying some kind of fee which is probably big but they can provide more fictional uniforms above the 2 logos the games ships with.
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