OOTP 9 release date & 2 new features revealed! - Page 6

battists · 06-05-2008, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Metsvir2

Will all my 2007/8 Info be uploaded to OOTP 9 smoothly? I have 2 great scout s and a great dynasty i want to continue

Info should be uploaded smoothly, but your scouts might not end up as you want.

In OOTP 9, scouting has changed so that you no longer have a team of many scouts, but rather a single scouting director.

professor ape · 06-05-2008, 11:00 PM

This should be my 200th post. I think that it is appropriate to use it to thank Markus for the great surprises!

LOVE THE BALL FLIGHT ANIMATION!!!

Giants44 · 06-05-2008, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by 1998 Yankees

I'm hoping that the Action button that you see in the lower right of that screen will have an option to "Assign batted ball locations to all parks" like you can do with player coordinates now. That works well if you have a series of similarly-dimensioned ballpark pictures like the Bogart collection that I use.

yes, this would be very useful

myasu · 06-05-2008, 11:31 PM

Wow, over hundred posts over one night (to me, it's over night

)
Can't wait for the release!
I assume it's June 18th ET, not Japan time.

Syd Thrift · 06-06-2008, 12:11 AM

With the ability to move ball locations around, Markus has unwittingly taken us a step close to full Blernsball compatibility!

Can't Get Enough Futurama: Blernsball

Shaun Sullivan · 06-06-2008, 08:15 AM

Wow, someone has been playing PureSim lately I guess.

Markus Heinsohn · 06-06-2008, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Shaun Sullivan

Wow, someone has been playing PureSim lately I guess.

Well, Mogul and PureSim had animated balls for some time now... heck, other games had it 20 years ago

Shaun Sullivan · 06-06-2008, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Well, Mogul and PureSim had animated balls for some time now... heck, other games had it 20 years ago

Yea I didn't mean the ball flight. The park designer... BTW, you know I am kidding around, Baseball is Baseball, so it's not like there is really any such thing as copying a feature. The real interesting thing is that we both built engines that use retrosheet ball flight locations. Some day we'll meet and I bet it will be scary how similar we approached many things.

PureSim 2005:

OOTP 9:

Markus Heinsohn · 06-06-2008, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Shaun Sullivan

Yea I didn't mean the ball flight. The park designer... BTW, you know I am kidding around, Baseball is Baseball, so it's not like there is really any such thing as copying a feature. The real interesting thing is that we both built engines that use retrosheet ball flight locations. Some day we'll meet and I bet it will be scary how similar we approached many things.

Cool, I did not even know Puresim uses Retrosheet PbP data... but well, this makes sense I guess since it's the best source to get the engine straight

Edit: And you added the 2F location too, which is not part of retrosheet. That's indeed scary!

But you haven't broken up the center field locations, these are used in the retrosheet PbP data but are not to be found on their hit location diagram. Anyway, funny stuff!!

Edit2: Where's that ballpark designer in PS 2007? I fired up my copy (yes I own it of course

) but could not find it

Shaun Sullivan · 06-06-2008, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Cool, I did not even know Puresim uses Retrosheet PbP data... but well, this makes sense I guess since it's the best source to get the engine straight

Edit: And you added the 2F location too, which is not part of retrosheet. That's indeed scary!

But you haven't broken up the center field locations, these are used in the retrosheet PbP data but are not to be found on their hit location diagram. Anyway, funny stuff!!

Edit2: Where's that ballpark designer in PS 2007? I fired up my copy (yes I own it of course

) but could not find it

Click on "Ballpark" from the team screen, then click modify Ballpark, then there is a button that says "Configure for PSPNCast..."

I guess I need some work on discoverability of features!

BTW, you are doing a pretty convincing job pretending you never saw it

Markus Heinsohn · 06-06-2008, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Shaun Sullivan

BTW, you are doing a pretty convincing job pretending you never saw it

Well, I never did see it, so no need to pretend anything

Also it just took 30 minutes to code, it's not like this was a complicated thing that needed a lot of 'thinking', after all OOTP uses retrosheet ball locations since I started coding OOTP 2006 in April 2004...

Edit: I found it in PS 2007... really looks/works similar.

JWay · 06-06-2008, 10:00 AM

So is it two weeks from now yet?

ctorg · 06-06-2008, 10:00 AM

Developer fight!

Markus Heinsohn · 06-06-2008, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by ctorg

Developer fight!

Naa, just a friendly conversation! Shaun is one of the good guys!

Shaun Sullivan · 06-06-2008, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by ctorg

Developer fight!

No no, we are teasing each other. He didn't copy anything, it's from Retrosheet.

Great minds think alike. Markus, maybe we should work together some day.

1998 Yankees · 06-06-2008, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by ctorg

Developer fight!

Nah.

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Originally Posted by Shaun Sullivan

Some day we'll meet and I bet it will be scary how similar we approached many things.

This could be interesting for other reasons.

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Originally Posted by Shaun Sullivan

Great minds think alike. Markus, maybe we should work together some day.

Woof. Scary - it's like I'm getting the ability to predict the future these days. Now, if I could only do that at the racetrack . . .

Andy · 06-06-2008, 10:10 AM

Well, you guys are no fun!

Markus Heinsohn · 06-06-2008, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Shaun Sullivan

No no, we are teasing each other. He didn't copy anything, it's from Retrosheet.

Great minds think alike. Markus, maybe we should work together some day.

Why not! I wish you all the best for DDSB, but should it not work out the way you hope then I'm open for ideas

But that chance is pretty slim I guess, Gary handles his company in a great manner as far as I know!

1998 Yankees · 06-06-2008, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Andy

Well, you guys are no fun!

Well, one of them will be . . . on JUNE 18!

holley · 06-06-2008, 10:17 AM

Markus and Shaun, for what it's worth. . .

Cool to see you two talk shop.

Cheers.

M.

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professor ape All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The belly of the beast Posts: 1,498	This should be my 200th post. I think that it is appropriate to use it to thank Markus for the great surprises! LOVE THE BALL FLIGHT ANIMATION!!!

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holley Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 27	Markus and Shaun, for what it's worth. . . Cool to see you two talk shop. Cheers. M.