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Originally Posted by pstrickert
ActionPC Baseball features head-to-head play (according to the description on their website):
Action! PC sports games have long been the leaders in internet play. Our baseball game is no exception! In a few simple steps, you can connect for a single game or an entire series against any other Action! PC Baseball game owner—no third party software is needed! After a game, click one button to send the game headline and box score to every member of your league. Click another button to send the game’s data file to the league statistician. You can even create a league address book and league website with just a few mouse-clicks!
If ActionPC Baseball can do it, how hard can it be? ;o)
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Originally Posted by The Wolf
Come on, who plays ActionPC Baseball?
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I play Action PC Baseball. I am in a H2H league and with 16 to 24 good owners who are responsible, playing online is effortless and fun. You get the week's schedule from the "commissioner" who in our case is great and responsible (a big shout out to Marc here) and then you contact your opponent for a date to play on. Connecting to each other more than 90% of the time is effortless and the online play is stable. Occasionally the game crashes but you can go right back in and continue from where you crashed.
I commished online OOTP leagues in years gone by, and even though some of them were long-running, it was still difficult to find a slate of dependable owners. I don't know why we have more responsible owners over at Action, maybe it's the age factor or maybe it's the fact that it is online. If someone is a jerk or irresponsible they are easily found out and even terminated. I'm in about my 5th season and I've only seen one person terminated for his abusive behaviour.
Action is a totally different game than OOTP (season replay vs. career replay or what-if) so I'm not comparing them. I'm just saying H2H would be a great option and could be quite immersive for a group of people interested in forming a league.
As for how hard it is to do, I don't know. I think comments like "If ActionPC Baseball can do it, how hard can it be?" and "Come on, who plays ActionPC Baseball?" are misleading and insulting. All I know is that lots of people play Action and it's been around for years and years and has it's loyal followers (as all games do), and it does offer H2H which regardless of how hard it is to do, it's something they have done quite successfully.
I haven't seen H2H sports games offered by anyone else but Action (they do football, basketball, and hockey H2H as well as baseball), so I think it's okay to tip your cap to the "competition" (which I don't think they are), when they do something well.