Save button improvement

realstar · 10-31-2015, 02:12 PM

I thought of this a long time ago, but held back mentioning it until now.

Why on earth do we have to go to a drop down menu for saving the game?

I have thousands of hours registered playing various versions of OOTP & consequently have saved the game as many times. How many times did I accidentally miss on the drop down for saving & activate a nearby button? Probably in the dozens.

Drop downs are a stress maker. When we are making tons of decisions & clicking hundreds of thousands of times, we don't need unnecessary drop downs.

Game makers should be encouraging saving.

So please give SAVE its own button at the top. Where we can easily find it from every page.

Bluenoser · 10-31-2015, 05:50 PM

If you want the game to save more often, then set it to save daily, or weekly, or monthly in league setup.

We don't need a big save button on every page. It's available in the menu from anywhere in OOTP

realstar · 11-06-2015, 08:28 PM

Maybe Mr Bluenoser (a Hall of Famer, no less) & the three who thank him should consider removing their weak posts from my thread since Bluenoser's statement here doesn't address the issue at all.

OPEN QUESTIONS:
Are you the kind of OOTP gamer who usually plays entire seasons at once?

Or are you the kind of OOTP gamer who likes to get into manually managing each team and plays slowly (more realistically)?

Shouldn't the people who take time to actually play the game in detail be given some consideration?

Why this assumption that nobody does any editing work (player managing the team)?

If you edit a lot before moving to the next day/week, you may want to save a few times before hitting PLAY.

Again, drop downs are a stress maker.

I play by the day when I'm alone playing the A.I. and I save by the week because that's usually the law for OOTP online leagues. Consequently a lot of manual editing goes down (managing teams) especially if I'm running 7-8 minor league teams in addition to my MLB team: the standard play on OOTP. With so much editing, sometimes I save a couple dozen times before hitting PLAY (or hitting "Export file" for online leagues).

It would be easier to find SAVE if it was its own button. Instead of having to go to the FILE button and then find "Save Game" in between "Load Game" & "Quickstart Games" every time we want to save the game. Which is always much more often than these other commands ----> when we are the kind of player that often saves our games manually.

I manually save often because I do a lot of work before going to the next day (or exporting to online commish). I don't want to lose all that work in case the power goes off or the game crashes for some reason. It's always best to play it safe and save the game often.

There are many OOTP gamers who play this game in an earnest way, including all online leagues. Where a lot of manual editing occurs (manually managing the teams by the player). As opposed to players who let A.I. do most of the managing work, because they're not really playing the game, but only running the A.I. through large spans of time as if it was a fantasy league. If I'm correct, OOTP is called a Computer Baseball Simulation. Not a fantasy baseball game.

10-31-2015, 02:12 PM	#1
realstar Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 81	Save button improvement I thought of this a long time ago, but held back mentioning it until now. Why on earth do we have to go to a drop down menu for saving the game? I have thousands of hours registered playing various versions of OOTP & consequently have saved the game as many times. How many times did I accidentally miss on the drop down for saving & activate a nearby button? Probably in the dozens. Drop downs are a stress maker. When we are making tons of decisions & clicking hundreds of thousands of times, we don't need unnecessary drop downs. Game makers should be encouraging saving. So please give SAVE its own button at the top. Where we can easily find it from every page. __________________ "The use of defensive shifts has exploded in Major League Baseball -- a 440-percent increase just since 2010, according to Baseball Info Solutions. So increasingly, defenses are judged not just by their personnel but how that personnel is specifically deployed, pitch by pitch." --Anthony Castrovince, Sports on Earth Last edited by realstar; 11-14-2015 at 08:13 PM.

10-31-2015, 05:50 PM	#2
Bluenoser Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In The Moment Posts: 14,138	If you want the game to save more often, then set it to save daily, or weekly, or monthly in league setup. We don't need a big save button on every page. It's available in the menu from anywhere in OOTP Last edited by Bluenoser; 10-31-2015 at 08:59 PM.

11-06-2015, 08:28 PM	#3
realstar Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 81	Maybe Mr Bluenoser (a Hall of Famer, no less) & the three who thank him should consider removing their weak posts from my thread since Bluenoser's statement here doesn't address the issue at all. OPEN QUESTIONS: Are you the kind of OOTP gamer who usually plays entire seasons at once? Or are you the kind of OOTP gamer who likes to get into manually managing each team and plays slowly (more realistically)? Shouldn't the people who take time to actually play the game in detail be given some consideration? Why this assumption that nobody does any editing work (player managing the team)? If you edit a lot before moving to the next day/week, you may want to save a few times before hitting PLAY. Again, *drop downs are a stress maker. I play by the day when I'm alone playing the A.I. and I save by the week because that's usually the law for OOTP online leagues. Consequently a lot of manual editing goes down (managing teams) especially if I'm running 7-8 minor league teams in addition to my MLB team: the standard play on OOTP. With so much editing, sometimes I save a couple dozen times before hitting PLAY* (or hitting "Export file" for online leagues). It would be easier to find SAVE if it was its own button. Instead of having to go to the FILE button and then find "Save Game" in between "Load Game" & "Quickstart Games" every time we want to save the game. Which is always much more often than these other commands ----> when we are the kind of player that often saves our games manually. I manually save often because I do a lot of work before going to the next day (or exporting to online commish). I don't want to lose all that work in case the power goes off or the game crashes for some reason. It's always best to play it safe and save the game often. There are many OOTP gamers who play this game in an earnest way, including all online leagues. Where a lot of manual editing occurs (manually managing the teams by the player). As opposed to players who let A.I. do most of the managing work, because they're not really playing the game, but only running the A.I. through large spans of time as if it was a fantasy league. If I'm correct, OOTP is called a Computer Baseball Simulation. Not a fantasy baseball game. __________________ "The use of defensive shifts has exploded in Major League Baseball -- a 440-percent increase just since 2010, according to Baseball Info Solutions. So increasingly, defenses are judged not just by their personnel but how that personnel is specifically deployed, pitch by pitch." --Anthony Castrovince, Sports on Earth Last edited by realstar; 11-28-2015 at 09:29 AM.