If You Could Have One New Feature . . . Part I

[texasmame]

Originally Posted by pstrickert

With all due respect, I think that's a false premise: that it has to be either/or, not both/and. Markus has always worked to refine the game engine and fix bugs. At the same time, he's always tried to implement new features in the game. It's never been an issue of either/or. (If that were the case, we'd have to lobby against EVERY feature request using the same argument. Where would that get us?)

In recent versions of the game, Markus chose not to include sound in the game. He considered other features more important. I (and others, I'm sure) respected his decision. Now that Markus has satisfied others by adding some of their favorite features to OOTP, he can devote time to adding sound to the next version. (During beta testing, in fact, Markus promised that sound would return in 2008.) Believe it or not, many people want sound as an option. Other, lesser games include basic audio. Why not OOTP? Again, it's not a matter of either/or, but both/and.

I saw the thread with him taking some time off and such. . .

So, is he THE GUY? There is no coding team or whatnot - he does all the programming??

[injury log]

More realism in international scouting would be great- it's a brilliant feature, but doesn't match up with real baseball very well. I'd suggest an international signing period like in real baseball, a financial cost to signing international prospects, and a change to the ages and skill levels of hidden players (most international signs in MLB are 16-18 years old and very raw, and I think only four were major-league ready this year- Matsuzaka, Iwamura, Okajima and Igawa). I don't think other teams do any international scouting in the game at the moment, and they should, especially those in rebuild mode. Obviously, if these things were customizable, then even better.

And if I can bend the rules a bit, and make one other request:

I tried creating real prospects to add to a Lahman import, but it takes ages. Would be great if players could be created more quickly, with the computer filling in most of the numbers; if I'm making Dellin Betances, well I really have no idea what his exact movement potential is, and I don't think anyone else does either at this point! So, for a pitching prospect, I might input his name, age, current minor league level or ability, his overall potential out of 5 stars, a 'makeup' rating out of 5, and the type of player he is projected to be- strikeout pitcher, finesse pitcher, etc; the computer then could randomly assign appropriate current and potential ratings. After all, I don't even want to know his exact potential- I'm going to be playing with him, and where's the fun if I know everyone's exact ratings in advance?

Brilliant game, thanks to all who worked on it!

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by pstrickert

In recent versions of the game, Markus chose not to include sound in the game. He considered other features more important.

True. And I have to agree with him. In fact, I can't think of any feature that I would not consider more important than including sound.

[jbmagic]

No more feature is needed for now.

Just work more on the AI from now on.

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by texasmame

I saw the thread with him taking some time off and such. . .

So, is he THE GUY? There is no coding team or whatnot - he does all the programming??

It is a two man shop.

Markus designs the baseball stuff. Andreas Raht does alot of the non-baseball plumbing, like the FTP uploads for the online leagues, FaceGen, and HTML. Occasionally they will get someone like Aurelio Barrios to do some graphics, like the 3d trophy graphic. On occasion, they will have someone from SI like Graeme Kelly work on Mac support or code optimization.

When Markus stops, development stops.

[Cras]

Originally Posted by AD31

Sorry if this has been mentioned. The ability to set a cap on number of years in a contract. I.E, if you have a independant league with low financials, they cannot offer contracts that are longer than one year.

I would love this feature.

[Brewer77]

To echo the same request as other. I think it would be interesting if the college leagues "seniors" weren't all in the draft pool by default with the exception being your big time prospects, and you could choose to draft any player on any college roster while taking a chance that he doesn't want to sign until his eligibility runs out.

[Dxgarnett]

The ability to jump into commish mode from a players profile(ala the action panel) just in case you want to edit something on a certain player without exiting out of the player, go to manager options, turning on commish mode, finding the player again, editing, and then getting out of commish mode.

It would be nice to switch commish mode from off to on in more ways than currently.

[SandMan]

I would like a feature to set the nationality of a team. This way I could have an European League with players from their own country playing in it. Ideally I would like to be able to set up a league and have all players drafted by a team be from that teams home nation. Also to have the game set to no foreigners or no trades so that only players from the nation can play for that national team. This would also work for States as a nation type leagues.

[Russ]

The ability to automatically re-sign personnel. Nothing is more tedious for me than finding a head scout for my short season A ball team.

[snarl_jones]

Originally Posted by Curtis

Vote for ability to mass select!

A third.

[snarl_jones]

Originally Posted by jmolony3

It would be nice if we could view the scouting reports as a compilation. this way the the most recent scouting report on a player would be shown no matter which scout in the organization performed the report. Maybe add the scout initials or position to the screen. i.e. HS ML1, ML2 etc.

a related request would be to filter out old scouting reports. The older the report is the less its value.

Along similar lines, I'd like to see average scout ratings (not just SISA, Head Scout, Scout #1, etc.), perhaps with a choice to limit ythe aveearge by a time period (last two years, for example) or by the number of reports (eg. last three reports), or even by weightings (head scout counts more that scout #5).

Each time I scout a draft class, I really wish I had this feature. I know the averages are there, I just want to see all averages on one page.

Maybe I just need to hire an intern . . .

[AD31]

Originally Posted by Russ

The ability to automatically re-sign personnel. Nothing is more tedious for me than finding a head scout for my short season A ball team.

Scouting, in general is tedious. I always play with it on, I like the uncertainty.

I wish the game would just operate under the assumption that I am sending my scouts out to do their work. The you could bring up a player and get scouting reports based on some general timeperiod. Like say, your scouting department updates players in your division once every X amount of days/weeks or whatever. It updates all major leagers every x time period. It keeps an updated report on top players in the minors and free agent list.

The process could be a little less cumbersome.

[Cras]

Originally Posted by Dxgarnett

The ability to jump into commish mode from a players profile(ala the action panel) just in case you want to edit something on a certain player without exiting out of the player, go to manager options, turning on commish mode, finding the player again, editing, and then getting out of commish mode.

It would be nice to switch commish mode from off to on in more ways than currently.

You can always set a shortkey to go to your manager options page. From there you can just click on the back arrow to go back to where you came from.

I would like it if it was like you said though. Would make things much simpler and quicker.

[AD31]

Originally Posted by battists

I call this "Part I," because if I get a handful of popular contenders, I may post Part II, which would be a poll.

So any idea if we will see a part II to this?

[BoydOfSummer]

Originally Posted by mattkma

How about 2007 rosters? That'd be the best feature bar none. It has been disappointing this year with OOTP 2007 because they game is amazing. I however just cannot connect with the fictional aspect of the game. This is not a knock on the roster creators - you guys are doing what you can. I just feel sad to have this great game on my computer and not playing it. I know - some will say go buy Mogul, but thats not the point. Its a major catch 22! SI cannot do the real roster thing and the creation of rosters is such a painstaking task that many find it impossible. I am grateful to no end to Erich and the community he has working on the set and when it is finally released I suppose the game will take on a new life for me. I guess this is my Sunday morning rant. I saw the icon on my desktop and felt bad about it. Please don't flame this post - it's just my opinion.
If you think about it, the fact that SI cannot do the rosters (mainly $$$ wise) shows how bad professional sports has gone greedy

Amen, brudda!

[edm]

If I can add one more request.. can the game add with some sort of time limit, so it automatically closes after 2-3 hours of use a day

Seriously, I am too addicted to this game. I really need to get out of my chair and do something else. I am starting to get worried.

Ok, enough talk, back to my league...

[Articula]

The ability to have different revenue streams you can control pricing on.

Concessions (Beer, Hot Dogs, Soda, Merchandise)

Parking

Lux Box Tix

Also the ability to expand your stadium to attract new revenues. As you do it comes the risk of mortgages from financing hurting your future funds availability.

[daveyk39]

I'd like the ability to filter for Work Ethic and Intelligence. I have no proof that this is useful, but intuitively I tend to draft for these qualities late in the draft.

That said, in a more general sense, if there's a rating in the game that is exposed to the user, I ought to be able to filter on it.

[Earl "The Snake" White]

I would like to see the Negro Leagues added, along with the options to have them play exhibitions against Major League squads during barnstorming tours, like they did in real life.