[The Wolf]

From the 12 forum:

Originally Posted by highandoutside

First, let me say how happy I am with OOTP 12. I'm a solo, fictional, pitch-by-pitch user. The GM AI seems a bit more sophisticated, the in-game crowd sounds are 100% better and the new features are pretty neat. There are still a few wonky managerial tactical decisions that need to be dealt with, but we've talked about them on this board a thousand times. Anyways, overall a nice little upgrade and I'm looking forward to Lucky 13.

Now, about warming up relievers. I think this is an important feature for us managerial types. I don't care if the CPU doesn't have to do it, because I want nothing getting in the way of the AI making good decisions. But, for us humans, it adds an important layer of realism and challenge to the experience.

I play Diamond Mind Baseball a lot, as well as OOTP. I think DMB has an almost perfect system for warming up pitchers, and I think OOTP should think about incorporating some of them. First, in DMB relief pitchers can only be warmed up a certain number of times in a ballgame. If you go over that threshold, I think it is four, but I feel it should be three, then that pitcher is automatically tired when he enters the game. Second, relief pitchers automatically sit down after of warming up for a certain period of time, thus preventing the warming up of a pitcher for the whole game. I think they sit down after that half inning when you warm them up when you are on defense, and they stay up for a full inning when you start warming them on offense. Finally, a reliever is automatically WARM if he is warmed up between inning breaks and, in general warms up much more quickly than in OOTP. In my opinion, it takes far too longer for a reliever to warm up in OOTP.

Anyways, I think this feature is important and could be improved with a few tweaks. Maybe some of you feel the same.