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Originally Posted by Bluenoser
How is it cosmetic irl? The distance in Cincy is a "real" 328 ft.
In OOTP the "328" ft. isn't real. That's why if you change it 800 ft, you'll still have HR's to LF, but they'll show as having travelled 800 ft plus.
If you go to CIncy (irl) and move the LF fence back to 800 ft, well, that will be real and you won't be seeing anymore HR's to LF ever again in Cincy.
That's what I mean by "cosmetic".
IRL - distances are real with a real effect.
In OOTP, they aren't real, nor is that effect.
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It doesn't matter whether it barely scrapes over the fence or flies 600 feet—a homer is a homer. That's what I mean when I say that distance is cosmetic. It's fun to see a guy hit one 515 feet because it's really rare, and it's rare both in the game and in real life.
Nothing in OOTP is real—all the career records, all the amazing plays, they're just the products of a bunch of scripts and algorithms crunching numbers. That doesn't stop it from being fun. The fact that you could get 800-foot homers by moving the fences back doesn't make a 515-foot shot in a ballpark with real dimensions any less impressive, just like knowing that you could cook the settings and have a guy get 100 homers in a season doesn't make having one of your players hit 60 fair and square any less satisfying.