ball locations

bleachercreature · 09-27-2013, 12:12 PM

can we please do something about the ball locations? Editing all of these for every stadium is an impossibility.

This again, may be much-a-do about nothing. I think I read soemewhere that they don't really matter? If that's the case than why are they there.

My belief (and again I may be wrong) is having these in improper places affects game play by affecting ball movement. For example, if a wall location is in the wrong place a ball that should be a homerun may not be and vise versa.

Fyrestorm3 · 09-27-2013, 02:18 PM

It's not that ball locations don't matter, per se, it's that they are purely cosmetic. They do not affect the PbP or the game engine in any way; the only thing they change is the little ball icon when you're playing out a game. If you set the left field wall to be on second base, each time a player hits a home run to left, you will see the ball move to second base. That's all they do.

That said, one of the things I am heavily campaigning for in OOTP15 is a simpler method of setting up ball locations. Doing it for one stadium is a minor pain, but doing it for a league of 30 or so teams is unbelievably tedious. My suggestion:

A system where all we have to do is designate specific points on the stadium picture, and have the ball locations filled in for us. I would think we would have to select the Pitcher's Mound, Home Plate, L/R Foul Poles, the Wall in L/LC/C/RC/R, and First, Second, and Third Base. And possibly the start of the Outfield Grass in Left, Center, and Right. With those 15 locations (which are much more user-friendly than the semi-obscure Retrosheet locations that OOTP currently uses), I feel like the game could be set up to reasonably place the rest of the ball locations. And, naturally, we'd be able to move them around afterwards to fix any errors.

09-27-2013, 12:12 PM	#1
bleachercreature Major Leagues Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: New Jersey Posts: 403	ball locations can we please do something about the ball locations? Editing all of these for every stadium is an impossibility. This again, may be much-a-do about nothing. I think I read soemewhere that they don't really matter? If that's the case than why are they there. My belief (and again I may be wrong) is having these in improper places affects game play by affecting ball movement. For example, if a wall location is in the wrong place a ball that should be a homerun may not be and vise versa.

09-27-2013, 02:18 PM	#2
Fyrestorm3 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Tampa Bay, Massachusetts Posts: 2,928	It's not that ball locations don't matter, per se, it's that they are purely cosmetic. They do not affect the PbP or the game engine in any way; the only thing they change is the little ball icon when you're playing out a game. If you set the left field wall to be on second base, each time a player hits a home run to left, you will see the ball move to second base. That's all they do. That said, one of the things I am heavily campaigning for in OOTP15 is a simpler method of setting up ball locations. Doing it for one stadium is a minor pain, but doing it for a league of 30 or so teams is unbelievably tedious. My suggestion: A system where all we have to do is designate specific points on the stadium picture, and have the ball locations filled in for us. I would think we would have to select the Pitcher's Mound, Home Plate, L/R Foul Poles, the Wall in L/LC/C/RC/R, and First, Second, and Third Base. And possibly the start of the Outfield Grass in Left, Center, and Right. With those 15 locations (which are much more user-friendly than the semi-obscure Retrosheet locations that OOTP currently uses), I feel like the game could be set up to reasonably place the rest of the ball locations. And, naturally, we'd be able to move them around afterwards to fix any errors.