leopards changing spots

Stealcompany · 03-05-2012, 10:13 PM

One very minor improvement i would like to see is that when a player retires and then comes back as a coach or manager that they retain their ethnicity.
I've noticed this from time to time and while it's annoying it's not the most important change.

Mostly I wonder how they explain things to their families when they get home.
"Honey I got a job coaching in A ball but I had to agree to becoming a pasty, middle-aged white guy to get it."

Markus Heinsohn · 03-06-2012, 04:17 AM

*lol*

Seriously though, I just checked the code, and both ethnicity and facegen data is properly 'inherited' when a player turns into a coach, so I have no clue what happened in your league

RMc · 03-06-2012, 08:45 AM

It sure was weird watching Babe Ruth come back as a short Chinese woman...

neojonas · 03-06-2012, 03:23 PM

I've seen this a bunch as well. When looking at one of my coaches, I pull up their player profile and it looks like a different ethnicity. I manually change their photo until they are closer together. Some of the ethnicities have quite a variance of skin tones so maybe they are the same ethnicity, but different sides of the skin color spectrum.

eriqjaffe · 03-06-2012, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Stealcompany

"Honey I got a job coaching in A ball but I had to agree to becoming a pasty, middle-aged white guy to get it."

That's like Sammy Sosa, except for the coaching part.

cephasjames · 03-06-2012, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by neojonas

I've seen this a bunch as well. When looking at one of my coaches, I pull up their player profile and it looks like a different ethnicity. I manually change their photo until they are closer together. Some of the ethnicities have quite a variance of skin tones so maybe they are the same ethnicity, but different sides of the skin color spectrum.

I've seen it too. I would think that the exact same picture should transfer though.

Biggio509 · 03-07-2012, 12:46 PM

I noticed it is a weird bug in facegen. Every once and a while when the game generates "same picture" for a guy with a new uni the ethnicity changes. I have clicked on same picture to update a uni and a guy went from Caucasian to AA! Not common but it has happened.

awick · 03-07-2012, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Biggio509

I noticed it is a weird bug in facegen. Every once and a while when the game generates "same picture" for a guy with a new uni the ethnicity changes. I have clicked on same picture to update a uni and a guy went from Caucasian to AA! Not common but it has happened.

I've seen this too, many times. It seems to be pretty common to me.

hfield007 · 03-08-2012, 02:45 PM

I used to see this all the time... before ootp 12 that is. I thought they finally got this right?

I haven;t seen it reproduced in any of my 12 leagues.

mikestack · 03-08-2012, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

*lol*

Seriously though, I just checked the code, and both ethnicity and facegen data is properly 'inherited' when a player turns into a coach, so I have no clue what happened in your league

So if you hit select the "Same Picture" option, it seems to fix the issue. I tried this when I saw uniforms weren't updating consistently and noted that despite the "Same Picture", I sometimes got a new one, often with an ethnicity change.

03-05-2012, 10:13 PM	#1
Stealcompany Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 291	leopards changing spots One very minor improvement i would like to see is that when a player retires and then comes back as a coach or manager that they retain their ethnicity. I've noticed this from time to time and while it's annoying it's not the most important change. Mostly I wonder how they explain things to their families when they get home. "Honey I got a job coaching in A ball but I had to agree to becoming a pasty, middle-aged white guy to get it."

03-06-2012, 04:17 AM	#2
Markus Heinsohn Developer OOTP Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 24,805	lol Seriously though, I just checked the code, and both ethnicity and facegen data is properly 'inherited' when a player turns into a coach, so I have no clue what happened in your league __________________ Buy Out of the Park Baseball 25 now! Download OOTP Go 25 for iOS Download OOTP Go 25 for Android

03-06-2012, 08:45 AM	#3
RMc All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,684	It sure was weird watching Babe Ruth come back as a short Chinese woman... __________________ "We're all behind our baseball team..."

03-06-2012, 03:23 PM	#4
neojonas All Star Starter Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,078	I've seen this a bunch as well. When looking at one of my coaches, I pull up their player profile and it looks like a different ethnicity. I manually change their photo until they are closer together. Some of the ethnicities have quite a variance of skin tones so maybe they are the same ethnicity, but different sides of the skin color spectrum.

03-07-2012, 12:46 PM	#7
Biggio509 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 2,027	I noticed it is a weird bug in facegen. Every once and a while when the game generates "same picture" for a guy with a new uni the ethnicity changes. I have clicked on same picture to update a uni and a guy went from Caucasian to AA! Not common but it has happened.

03-08-2012, 02:45 PM	#9
hfield007 All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,725	I used to see this all the time... before ootp 12 that is. I thought they finally got this right? I haven;t seen it reproduced in any of my 12 leagues.