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Originally Posted by Fyrestorm3
And you do a fantastic job. However, I would tend to agree with one thing that's been brought up here: the PbP messages for errors tend to be fairly vague. It's usually something like, "[player] is over to field it... but he botched it! That'll be an error." There's one specific one that I tend to see, where a player "throws the ball into the outfield!" on a throw to second base, and it sometimes results in an extra base for the runner, and sometimes just has him safe at second.
I rationalize it in my head based on the outcome: if the runners don't advance, it pulled the guy off the bag, or the center fielder was right there to back it up. Stuff like that. It's not a huge deal to me, but it is an area of the PbP that I feel could use some work.
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'Dog has it right. On errors, the PbP has to be generic. The "X throws the ball into the outfield" is hardcoded. Again, it has to fit multiple scenarios. However, Markus did add a couple of variations to this particular piece of hardcoded PbP. So, at least, it's not ALWAYS the same line!