To MArkus: Stuff that Needs Fixing or Stuff I want Done.....

Questdog · 08-12-2009, 07:14 PM

In no particular order, here are some things I have jotted down over the past few weeks:

1) Could I see hitting and fielding stats by position on the team stat screens similar to the way Starting and Relief Pitching is broken down on the Team Pitching Stat screen?...

2) Which leads to...Could I see the Starting and Relief breakdown for individuals instead of just teams on their BNN player page?

3) Could you make the Menus a little easier to navigate? Many times my mouse slips off when transferring from one drop down menu to the next drop down menu; if the second drop down menu was positioned where the top of that menu was ABOVE my mouse pointer, rather than at the same level, I think it would alleviate this issue.....small, but annoying...

4) There are several places in the game where making a selection resets the screen (the manager set up options is one: when you click on "exit auto-play if player is injured")...this is annoying.

In the same vein, the Lineup screens reset, forgetting the filters you've set for viewing stats, whenever you make a change. Please fix...

5) As I mentioned in another post, Intentional walks are not being given often enough to the #8 hitter batting in front of the pitcher.

6) Could I please copy and paste PCM's and LTM's from one league to another? This would save a ton of my limited lifespan......I spent literally 9+ hours setting a league up only to have it crash as I was adjusting the last minor league that needed to be created....

7) In the same vein, since my leagues take me forever to set up, I tried using World Templates to save partial progress. Unfortunately, I found out this does not work.....league creation hangs every time during logo creation for some reason...

8) I want to play with managers who make strategic decisions, but do not want to play with coaching ability influencing player development. Either allow me to play with manager's only, or (Even better) let me set all coaches to 'average'.....(I like having coaches; I just don't want them to DO anything...

)......also drop the bench coach stuff, I just want a manager to make decisions....

9) I want to see GIDP's on the Team Batting Statistics page....

10) Big one....I want to be able to use the nifty feature you've included for re-importing the names and ethnicity databases. Unfortunately, it does not work properly. I've listed this in the Tech Forum, so I won't elaborate here...

11) The game should default to creating leagues where the Short Season and Rookie Leagues begin AFTER the draft. Currently, created leagues have all their minors start at the beginning of the Major league season.

12) I would like to edit the beginning and ending date of seasons (not schedules), so as to co-ordinate leagues and avoid a lot of the silly player movement that I believe is caused by leagues beginning and ending asynchronously. Another solution would be to have all leagues follow the Event schedule of their parent leagues, but I'd rather be able to set them to what I want. Might think of a reason to set it at another date....

13) I want to be able to set the maximum contract length offer. Being able to set this at one, would make it easier to use Independent leagues as feeders without having them tie up talent with multi-year contracts. Back before the free agency era began, it was very rare for anyone to have a contract for more than the current season, including major leaguers.....

14) Way back in OOTP 6, I talked you into lowering roster limits down to 12, but now they are up to 15 minimum. Why is this? 12 is all teams really had in the 1870's and when historically simming there just aren't enough players to fill 15 slots....

15) Also, in a related vein, I would like to be able to set the roster composition league-wide. Sort of make a template that teams need to follow: so many starting pitchers, relievers, catchers, etc. Would really help with historical simming....

16) I would like 7 tiers of minors, please. Or even better, I would like unlimited minor league levels by being able to set a league strength value.
I read a post where you seem to state that we have that now, but the computer GM's do not seem to distinguish leagues by the modifiers, but by the labels. I tested this by changing a AAA league's levels to be equal to the Rookie league and vice verse. The computer didn't seem to notice the changes I made and continued to use the Rookie League as it's lowest minor league level and the AAA team as its highest.

That's enough for now......

Just so I don't seem like I am complaining: if you do not follow through on any of my suggestions, you still have made the best baseball game I have ever played and I thank you for the hours I have lost fiddling around with it.......

Questdog · 08-12-2009, 07:22 PM

Guess, that wasn't enough....I forgot one.....

Could I have an LTM for Intentional Walks?......

Afino · 08-12-2009, 07:37 PM

Really? #7 is a problem for you?

Weird - I've done that several times (saving World Templates to mark partial progress) at several different points per league with zero issues.

Afino · 08-12-2009, 07:41 PM

Agreed on
2,
4 (do you also get the bug where if you try to promote/demote/DL someone on the Transactions screen, it switches back to the home page?)
6
9
10
13 (might as well add max contract value too, either as a hard value or a % of a salary cap)
and especially 15.

Honorable_Pawn · 08-12-2009, 07:43 PM

Most important!!!!!

15) Also, in a related vein, I would like to be able to set the roster composition league-wide. Sort of make a template that teams need to follow: so many starting pitchers, relievers, catchers, etc. Would really help with historical simming....

Honorable_Pawn · 08-12-2009, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Honorable_Pawn

Most important!!!!!

15) Also, in a related vein, I would like to be able to set the roster composition league-wide. Sort of make a template that teams need to follow: so many starting pitchers, relievers, catchers, etc. Would really help with historical simming....

Would really help with rookie and short A teams from having 39 catchers and 1 pitcher on a 40 man roster.

Honorable_Pawn · 08-12-2009, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Honorable_Pawn

Most important!!!!!

15) Also, in a related vein, I would like to be able to set the roster composition league-wide. Sort of make a template that teams need to follow: so many starting pitchers, relievers, catchers, etc. Would really help with historical simming....

This is still the most important. Can I hear the votes of yea from the floor?

Questdog · 08-12-2009, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Afino

Really? #7 is a problem for you?

Weird - I've done that several times (saving World Templates to mark partial progress) at several different points per league with zero issues.

If that's the case, then I'd love to know why I can't...it's not fair....

Questdog · 08-12-2009, 10:37 PM

One more thing I forgot that would make my life simpler....

I mass edit player ratings a lot and it would be nice if, when I do a roster export, the Rookie Draft Pool was exported so I could edit them BEFORE the draft.....

As it is, me and computer GM's are drafting even more in the blind than usual, since we are looking at unedited ratings that will soon be different than what we see.....

Wish I could draft with my editing already done....

Bishop · 08-12-2009, 11:19 PM

17) Mass select ability.

ashantewarrier · 08-13-2009, 12:45 AM

Please.....can we have a mass select and mass edit function? Please????

brewdog · 08-13-2009, 12:49 AM

I asked myself this question after read Quest's original post: "Russ if you had one OOTP wish for a patch what would it be?" At first I thought ohh theres so many but my final answer was this: When selecting the nationality on certain screen all I have is a small down arrow on the bottom so getting from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe takes me longer than if I simply had a scroll bar on the side that I could quickly pull to the bottom. So thats all I really want is a scroll bar like the one you see over there ------->

Questdog · 08-13-2009, 12:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brewdog

I asked myself this question after read Quest's original post: "Russ if you had one OOTP wish for a patch what would it be?" At first I thought ohh theres so many but my final answer was this: When selecting the nationality on certain screen all I have is a small down arrow on the bottom so getting from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe takes me longer than if I simply had a scroll bar on the side that I could quickly pull to the bottom. So thats all I really want is a scroll bar like the one you see over there ------->

Uh....I have a scroll bar on the explore nations screen....are you on a Mac or something?......

I do wish the scroll bar would stay where I put it when I enter a nation to edit............

Tom the Fish · 08-13-2009, 03:12 AM

I'd like it so you were told when the computer makes a substitute for the runner, batter, fielder or pitcher you were told in the play-by-play. Also, being told about rain delays 100% of the time instead of wondering why your pitcher is exhausted at 50 pitches would be swell.

Tom

Afino · 08-13-2009, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom the Fish

I'd like it so you were told when the computer makes a substitute for the runner, batter, fielder or pitcher you were told in the play-by-play. Also, being told about rain delays 100% of the time instead of wondering why your pitcher is exhausted at 50 pitches would be swell.

Tom

The only time you're not told of the former is when a wild pitch, stolen base attempt, passed ball, or balk happens.

And yes, the latter is one of my biggest pet peeves. I get about a 1 out of 3 hit rate on PBP rain delays.

BMW · 08-13-2009, 08:23 AM

18) Suggestions should be posted in the Suggestions forum.

Tom the Fish · 08-13-2009, 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Afino

The only time you're not told of the former is when a wild pitch, stolen base attempt, passed ball, or balk happens.

Is there some ingame setting I'm missing, because this is not true for me.

Tom

brewdog · 08-13-2009, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Questdog

Uh....I have a scroll bar on the explore nations screen....are you on a Mac or something?......

I do wish the scroll bar would stay where I put it when I enter a nation to edit............

Actually I was referring to the nation drop-down when select a nation for a team (which I do alot) and in the player editor screen where I would change a player's nationality.
If you know a way to do this.... teach away please.

and no I'm using the windows version of the game although I'm using Linux now.

Carplos · 08-13-2009, 01:47 PM

If you press the first letter of the nation you're trying to get to, it will scroll down to the start of that letter. Not always exact, but easier than scrolling down some 200 nations each time.

CBL-Commish · 08-13-2009, 03:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Questdog

14) Way back in OOTP 6, I talked you into lowering roster limits down to 12, but now they are up to 15 minimum. Why is this? 12 is all teams really had in the 1870's and when historically simming there just aren't enough players to fill 15 slots....

On a related issue, I loved the idea of limiting reserve roster size that was incorporated into OOTPX. But I'd assumed that the limit was going to be anything I wanted, down to zero. It's not, the minimum is 15. As far as I'm concerned that's the same as not having a limit at all. I've got little indy leagues in my universe operating on shoestring budgets, paying players a couple $thousand a year, and they have 15 man rosters plus 15 man reserve rosters.

So we're still stuck with a situation that indy teams have to have 30+ players under contract. This doesn't model a real team having to beat the bushes for a fill in when their LFer breaks his leg, and it means you will have players who sign 4-year deals and never play a single game.

08-12-2009, 07:14 PM	#1
Questdog Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: In a dark, damp cave where I'm training slugs to run the bases...... Posts: 16,142	To MArkus: Stuff that Needs Fixing or Stuff I want Done..... In no particular order, here are some things I have jotted down over the past few weeks: 1) Could I see hitting and fielding stats by position on the team stat screens similar to the way Starting and Relief Pitching is broken down on the Team Pitching Stat screen?... 2) Which leads to...Could I see the Starting and Relief breakdown for individuals instead of just teams on their BNN player page? 3) Could you make the Menus a little easier to navigate? Many times my mouse slips off when transferring from one drop down menu to the next drop down menu; if the second drop down menu was positioned where the top of that menu was ABOVE my mouse pointer, rather than at the same level, I think it would alleviate this issue.....small, but annoying... 4) There are several places in the game where making a selection resets the screen (the manager set up options is one: when you click on "exit auto-play if player is injured")...this is annoying. In the same vein, the Lineup screens reset, forgetting the filters you've set for viewing stats, whenever you make a change. Please fix... 5) As I mentioned in another post, Intentional walks are not being given often enough to the #8 hitter batting in front of the pitcher. 6) Could I please copy and paste PCM's and LTM's from one league to another? This would save a ton of my limited lifespan......I spent literally 9+ hours setting a league up only to have it crash as I was adjusting the last minor league that needed to be created.... 7) In the same vein, since my leagues take me forever to set up, I tried using World Templates to save partial progress. Unfortunately, I found out this does not work.....league creation hangs every time during logo creation for some reason... 8) I want to play with managers who make strategic decisions, but do not want to play with coaching ability influencing player development. Either allow me to play with manager's only, or (Even better) let me set all coaches to 'average'.....(I like having coaches; I just don't want them to DO anything...)......also drop the bench coach stuff, I just want a manager to make decisions.... 9) I want to see GIDP's on the Team Batting Statistics page.... 10) Big one....I want to be able to use the nifty feature you've included for re-importing the names and ethnicity databases. Unfortunately, it does not work properly. I've listed this in the Tech Forum, so I won't elaborate here... 11) The game should default to creating leagues where the Short Season and Rookie Leagues begin AFTER the draft. Currently, created leagues have all their minors start at the beginning of the Major league season. 12) I would like to edit the beginning and ending date of seasons (not schedules), so as to co-ordinate leagues and avoid a lot of the silly player movement that I believe is caused by leagues beginning and ending asynchronously. Another solution would be to have all leagues follow the Event schedule of their parent leagues, but I'd rather be able to set them to what I want. Might think of a reason to set it at another date.... 13) I want to be able to set the maximum contract length offer. Being able to set this at one, would make it easier to use Independent leagues as feeders without having them tie up talent with multi-year contracts. Back before the free agency era began, it was very rare for anyone to have a contract for more than the current season, including major leaguers..... 14) Way back in OOTP 6, I talked you into lowering roster limits down to 12, but now they are up to 15 minimum. Why is this? 12 is all teams really had in the 1870's and when historically simming there just aren't enough players to fill 15 slots.... 15) Also, in a related vein, I would like to be able to set the roster composition league-wide. Sort of make a template that teams need to follow: so many starting pitchers, relievers, catchers, etc. Would really help with historical simming.... 16) I would like 7 tiers of minors, please. Or even better, I would like unlimited minor league levels by being able to set a league strength value. I read a post where you seem to state that we have that now, but the computer GM's do not seem to distinguish leagues by the modifiers, but by the labels. I tested this by changing a AAA league's levels to be equal to the Rookie league and vice verse. The computer didn't seem to notice the changes I made and continued to use the Rookie League as it's lowest minor league level and the AAA team as its highest. That's enough for now...... Just so I don't seem like I am complaining: if you do not follow through on any of my suggestions, you still have made the best baseball game I have ever played and I thank you for the hours I have lost fiddling around with it.......

08-12-2009, 07:37 PM	#3
Afino Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 3,828	Really? #7 is a problem for you? Weird - I've done that several times (saving World Templates to mark partial progress) at several different points per league with zero issues. __________________ GUBA: Moscow Enforcers

08-12-2009, 07:41 PM	#4
Afino Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 3,828	Agreed on 2, 4 (do you also get the bug where if you try to promote/demote/DL someone on the Transactions screen, it switches back to the home page?) 6 9 10 13 (might as well add max contract value too, either as a hard value or a % of a salary cap) and especially 15. __________________ GUBA: Moscow Enforcers

08-13-2009, 12:45 AM	#11
ashantewarrier Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Somerset, NJ via Brooklyn, NY Posts: 2,308	Please.....can we have a mass select and mass edit function? Please???? __________________ "I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." -Jackie Robinson, #42 Brooklyn Dodgers *"Hitting is better than sex."* - Reggie Jackson

08-13-2009, 12:49 AM	#12
brewdog Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Harrison, Michigan Posts: 213	I asked myself this question after read Quest's original post: "Russ if you had one OOTP wish for a patch what would it be?" At first I thought ohh theres so many but my final answer was this: When selecting the nationality on certain screen all I have is a small down arrow on the bottom so getting from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe takes me longer than if I simply had a scroll bar on the side that I could quickly pull to the bottom. So thats all I really want is a scroll bar like the one you see over there -------> __________________ “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.” - Albert Einstein

08-12-2009, 07:22 PM	#2
Questdog Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: In a dark, damp cave where I'm training slugs to run the bases...... Posts: 16,142	Guess, that wasn't enough....I forgot one..... Could I have an LTM for Intentional Walks?......

08-12-2009, 07:43 PM	#5
Honorable_Pawn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tampa Bay Posts: 6,407	*Most important!!!!!* 15) Also, in a related vein, I would like to be able to set the roster composition league-wide. Sort of make a template that teams need to follow: so many starting pitchers, relievers, catchers, etc. Would really help with historical simming....

08-12-2009, 10:37 PM	#9
Questdog Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: In a dark, damp cave where I'm training slugs to run the bases...... Posts: 16,142	One more thing I forgot that would make my life simpler.... I mass edit player ratings a lot and it would be nice if, when I do a roster export, the Rookie Draft Pool was exported so I could edit them BEFORE the draft..... As it is, me and computer GM's are drafting even more in the blind than usual, since we are looking at unedited ratings that will soon be different than what we see..... Wish I could draft with my editing already done....

08-12-2009, 11:19 PM	#10
Bishop All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Tejas Posts: 709	17) Mass select ability.

08-13-2009, 03:12 AM	#14
Tom the Fish All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Jingu Stadium Posts: 510	I'd like it so you were told when the computer makes a substitute for the runner, batter, fielder or pitcher you were told in the play-by-play. Also, being told about rain delays 100% of the time instead of wondering why your pitcher is exhausted at 50 pitches would be swell. Tom __________________ "Any talk of rebelliousness has to begin with one's profound appreciation and understanding of tradition." - Lu Shoukun

08-13-2009, 08:23 AM	#16
BMW Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 2,030	18) Suggestions should be posted in the Suggestions forum.

08-13-2009, 01:47 PM	#19
Carplos Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Idaho Posts: 2,876 Infractions: 1/0 (0)	If you press the first letter of the nation you're trying to get to, it will scroll down to the start of that letter. Not always exact, but easier than scrolling down some 200 nations each time.