I realized I haven't copied my notes over to this thread in a while so here's a bunch split into 2 posts!
Add "Primary Pitch Improvement" to the Dev Lab - You can improve your secondary pitch, but not your primary pitch? Why not?
Trigger "Improve Pitch Arsenal" for More Pitchers - This offseason this option only triggered for 1 of the pitchers on my roster and I don't know why. I could kind of see it if it should only trigger for pitchers who had enough pitches to say they had an arsenal (3+?), but that's not it. It mentions improving one of their "bad offspeed pitches", but it's not like this was the only player with an offspeed pitch. Is it only for pitchers with "bad" offspeed pitches? What's a bad one? This pitcher's only offspeed pitch was a 50/80 slider. Is that bad? I had pitchers with far worse offspeed pitches. And why should it only be about offspeed pitches anyway? Is it assumed that improving velocity is about fast fastballs only?
Customizable Menus - I wish we had the ability to customize the menus. I use the bookmarks a lot, but I just wish I could rearrange the menus, adding links to screens I often use and getting rid of links to screens I never visit.
Larger Bookmarks Button - I find it somewhat difficult to click on the bookmarks button. I wish it was bigger or at least wider and that the menu that popped down was bigger. Being right-handed and thereby naturally having my cursor on the right-side of my screen, I also find it awkward that the Bookmarks shortcut is on the left-side of the screen and that I contantly have to move my cursor across the screen to it. Why can't we move it to the right-side and move the stuff we're less often going to click on to the left?
Customizable Toolbar - I wish we could customize the toolbar. I do often use it to quickly go to my Office and Inbox and I only recently realized that the topmost icon allows you to advance a single day, which is great, but I don't find any of the other shortcuts all that useful. If I could instead create shortcuts to the screens I do use a lot, that'd be better.
Add a Player News Toggle - We need a toggle to tell the AI we're not interested in certain players. I keep getting mail telling me of the negotiation updates of players I'm not interested in. I wish I could just tell my GM to stop trying to sign these players or to at least tell them, "fine, sign them if you want to, just stop annoying me with updates". I still want to updated on players I do want my GM to sign, just not of all of them, especially not replacement level depth players that I really don't need.
Skin Documentation - I wish the skins were documented. There are a handful of us who know how to skin the game, but even those of us who have made skins I don't think know how to skin everything and we either learn from each other or by trial and error. Even just seemingly simple stuff like explaining what different keywords mean like dialogs, panels, tables would help as otherwise the only way we can learn is by changing something and then going around the game trying to see what chaned.
Skin Rating Bar Images - We used to be able to plop in rating bar images and the game would use them, but it doesn't look like that's possible anymore. I know how to change the colours they use now (OOTP25), but the images were far better as they were not only really easy to plop in and use instead of hunting and editing several files, but you could have a lot more variation in the colour categories (20 vs 6). That is, if you say wanted a colour solely for the very top rating, you could.
Skin a 7th Colour Category - I like that OOTP25 added a 6th colour category, but I really wish they added a 7th for the very top ratings. I just think an 80/80 for example should be very clearly distinguishable from all the 7#/80 ratings. I'm good with how the others are separated, we could just really do with a different colour for max ratings.
Skin Background % Opacity Setting - I like that the game has the "semi-transparent background" setting, but I wish it wasn't just a yes or no, but a % instead. This is maybe not as noticeable a problem if you use one of the skins that come with the game, but if you try to create one it's much more noticeable, you get either a really dark or a really bright background.
Scouting Department - I wish a team's scouting wasn't so dependent on whether you had a good scouting director or not and I think a way to do that would be to have Scouting Department ratings. The Scouting Director would still have his own ratings like they do now, but the more important ratings would be the department's ratings and they would depend on not only the director's ratings, but also on how much money you put into each aspect of scouting, plus some small random factor. That way you wouldn't have such a large advantage or disadvantage based on your director and you could also noticeably influence your ratings by spending more money on scouting.
Top Scout - I've mentioned before how I wish a team's scouting didn't matter so much on whether you (or worse, the AI) had a good scouting director or not and I think one way to balance that would be by having a top scout. Now sure, some teams might end up with good (or bad) for both their director and top scout, but it'd be less likely that a team would end up with great or terrible for both. And a top scout through experience could also eventually be hired as a scouting director.
More Stats On / Scrollable Leaderboards - My leaderboards (on either side of the standings) only show 7 stats (on each side) when there's room for at least 8. Why not allow 8? Better yet, allow us to make them scrollable and have even more!
More Players On Leaderboards - Why can't we customize the leaderboards to have more than 3 players for each stat? I'd like 5 and my screen has the space for it.
Add More Stats to Leaderboards - SIERA is in the game, why not add it to the leaderboards? xFIP isn't in the game yet, but it should be, and an option for the leaderboards as well.
New Settings Shouldn't Default to an Extreme and You Should Get a Notification About Them - I imported my league and for months my all-glove starting catcher sucked and I couldn't understand why until very late in my season I saw a post on the boards about the new Catcher Framing Impact setting, I checked it and it was set to 1! Not cool. I chalked it up to my catcher just having an unexpected terrible year, but that shouldn't have happened. You should probably even get a popup notification of all the new settings that you should check out when you import your league, not just hope the user notices on their own.
Larger Difference Between Overall Ratings For Comparison - Much of the screen before you play out a game compares the starters of both teams and in the middle is a column of logos showing which team is better at that position/slot. I like this, but I don't like how all it takes is a 1 point difference in overall rating for the game to declare a win for that team. A 1 point difference is a clear virtual tie in my mind. I wish the difference was greater, like say it took a 5 point difference (on a 80 point scale) for it to declare a win. Every time I look at this I want to re-judge who wins each one when I'd just like to take a glance at it.
Get Rid of Minors Data in In-Game Widgets - When playing out a game and you hover over a player's name, a widget appears with some data on them. If they played in the minors that year a row of their minors data will show up. I like to look at these widgets, especially for opposition teams, and everytime I look at it I have to check that the data isn't for their time in the minors. Could we please do away with showing their minors data if they're in the majors? I really don't care about minors stats and it's frustrating that I have to check to make sure it's not minors data everytime when really, the bottom row should just be their majors data this year.
Ability to Change Display Order of Teams - The team ID # determines the display order of the teams on some screens, including the standings screen in the pre-season. Some people, including myself, would love it if we could set the display order ourselves[
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