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Originally Posted by BigRed75
OBSL, I do have a programming background. And while I haven't looked at the OOTP source code, of course, I still can't fathom why the expansion process would have been coded to make the new teams' farm systems so bottom-heavy. Perhaps there is a good reason, but like I said, I can't work it out. To me, it seems like a decision that wasn't well-thought-out but hasn't been fixed because not enough people care to ask for a fix. I certainly feel like I'm in the minority in doing so.
I don't know, maybe you've looked at the code and you can tell us.
Yes, you *can* change things around manually (and goodness knows I have). But does that mean you *should* have to? It would be nice to not have to re-build the minor league systems manually, but I'm willing to do that work-around anyway in order to be happy. But it's not going to stop me from asking for a fix.
Besides, minor league expansion is so jacked up anyway (i.e. putting new International League teams in California, etc.) that I feel there will always need to be some part of manual changes required.
Anyway folks, a pleasure as always.
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I agree it's still a little jacked up but, as complex a piece of software as this game is, it's not absurd that it still has bugs or features that don't work as well as they should. Every game that comes out now needs a patch or two in the first few weeks after release before it works near as it's intended to. It's the nature of the business now, I suppose. I have never looked at OOTP's code, especially since I don't have the necessary programming background to do so. I did learn machine language and C+ back in the day, but I never built upon those skills. However, I do know that, with so many features dependent upon each other to build such a complex game and to keep those features working as best as they can, sometimes the code has to be piled upon in the fastest way possible and then gone back over after beta testing and release to find and take care of the bugs. And, of course, that invariably causes something else to skew a little off. Maybe it's because there are too many subroutines and not enough predicates to thread them all correctly. I'm just spitballing, basically, but my point is, the responses by CrescentMoonie were out of line and felt troll-ish to me. He has four posts and all of them are complaining about this one thing. He bought OOTP 17 a couple weeks ago but he's an expert on the proper procedures for programming this game. I don't mind if someone has some constructive criticism about the game and actually posts some suggestions. But, someone who just complains and says certain things are"inexcusable" and "absurd" needs to be called out on his/her hyperbolic nonsense. Those aren't merely opinions anymore, they're deliberate efforts to undermine the programmers' integrity and the game's good name.