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BigCity · 07-01-2013, 03:24 PM

I'm sorry Wolf, but it sounds like a "the sky is falling" scenario to me.

I think your assuming the absolute worst possible outcome.

I've watched OOTP merge with another game company twice, unmerge and survive both - watched Markus struggle with two very questionable releases and survive that as well. I don't imagine for a minute that a graphics enhancement that isn't well accepted is going to be anywhere worse than that.

Expecting the entire game to fail as a viable product is over-reaching in my opinion.

Maybe our disagreement is because we're imagining two different things here. I am seeing the same in-game process we see now with an option for ball-flight animation and moving players chasing-throwing the ball, runners moving between bases, and everything else in the game as it is now. You seem to be expecting an "MLB: The Show" type baseball presentation which I highly doubt Markus is considering - much less capable of doing.

OOTP has about 80 field locations currently the ball can go to. I would expect the new "ball flight" coding simply has to display either a fly ball, pop up line drive, or grounder to each of those 80 locations plus a few "special" plays - and coordinate the fielders and runners to move as is already determined in the existing code.

That kind of a change is not earth-shattering nor does it suggest significant risk beyond a couple plays going awry or timing being off - and if those kind of problems DO surface, the graphics option can be turned off until it is fixed.

07-01-2013, 03:24 PM	#88
BigCity All Star Starter Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: South Shore, Great Lakes Posts: 1,386	I'm sorry Wolf, but it sounds like a "the sky is falling" scenario to me. I think your assuming the absolute worst possible outcome. I've watched OOTP merge with another game company twice, unmerge and survive both - watched Markus struggle with two very questionable releases and survive that as well. I don't imagine for a minute that a graphics enhancement that isn't well accepted is going to be anywhere worse than that. Expecting the entire game to fail as a viable product is over-reaching in my opinion. Maybe our disagreement is because we're imagining two different things here. I am seeing the same in-game process we see now with an option for ball-flight animation and moving players chasing-throwing the ball, runners moving between bases, and everything else in the game as it is now. You seem to be expecting an "MLB: The Show" type baseball presentation which I highly doubt Markus is considering - much less capable of doing. OOTP has about 80 field locations currently the ball can go to. I would expect the new "ball flight" coding simply has to display either a fly ball, pop up line drive, or grounder to each of those 80 locations plus a few "special" plays - and coordinate the fielders and runners to move as is already determined in the existing code. That kind of a change is not earth-shattering nor does it suggest significant risk beyond a couple plays going awry or timing being off - and if those kind of problems DO surface, the graphics option can be turned off until it is fixed.