Holy moly

[jpeters1734]

Originally Posted by Bluenoser

I explained how the distances in OOTP work, and pointed out how they were cosmetic.

Your reply was that they are cosmetic irl and OOTP.

I then provided a link to "explain" (there's your explanation) the difference between cosmetic and real.

Sorry, but irl distances are not cosmetic, they are real and so is the distance the ball travels.

In OOTP, they are cosmetic, (not real).


I explained this because it's good information for new people to the game, and long time players too. Most people like to know these things, I guess you don't. Fine, that's your prerogative.

When people on these forums offer help and explain things, they aren't being rude.

I've been playing this game since version one and helping people with it for just about as long.

You're not interested in that info or help, fine, I'll respect that and move along.

Some people just like to argue. I'm sure he gets your point. But if not, maybe I can explain it a different way.

Yes in real life, a home run is a home run. The distance does not matter. But that's not what he's trying to say. If a hitter hits a ball 400 feet, it will go 400 feet. whether or not it's a home run is dictated by the hor far away the fence is.

In OOTP, when a player hits a ball, it is already predetermined what the result will be. A home run will be a home run. If your fence is set to 400 feet, it will give you a 400+ ft HR. If your fence is 1000 ft, then you will get a 1000+ ft HR. It's cosmetic because It isn't based on anything other than your field dimensions.

[harrumph]

I understood that from the start.

Look: somebody had something cool happen in his game. He came to the forums to share it. The first two responses to his thread were people raining on his parade, explaining that his cool accomplishment was meaningless (and tacitly accusing him of having cheated to get it).

It's a computer game—none of the numbers are real. You may suspect that somebody tinkered with his settings to get a 515-foot homer or a 200-RBI season, but you know what? If you can't something nice, don't say anything at all.

[BIG17EASY]

Home run distance in OOTP is still relative to what the fences are set at, so unless he had fences set to 514 feet (which he says a couple posts in that he has them at real-life distances), then the home run in the OP was coded by the game to be a mammoth bomb. If he had his fences set at 500 feet, then the game would've spit out a home run of something like 670 (give or take).

So while the distance is cosmetic in many ways, it's still possible to differentiate between a wall-scraper and an absolute bomb regardless of what distance the fences are set to.

[jpeters1734]

Originally Posted by harrumph

I understood that from the start.

Look: somebody had something cool happen in his game. He came to the forums to share it. The first two responses to his thread were people raining on his parade, explaining that his cool accomplishment was meaningless (and tacitly accusing him of having cheated to get it).

It's a computer game—none of the numbers are real. You may suspect that somebody tinkered with his settings to get a 515-foot homer or a 200-RBI season, but you know what? If you can't something nice, don't say anything at all.

Oh you're that guy. The one that tries to find a hidden agenda in everyone's words.

You are looking far too deep into my initial post.

[Cryomaniac]

I would be interested to see what the longest home run relative to park dimensions OOTP can produce is (i/e if the fence is 350 feet, can it produce a 600 foot HR? 550?)

[BIG17EASY]

Originally Posted by Cryomaniac

I would be interested to see what the longest home run relative to park dimensions OOTP can produce is (i/e if the fence is 350 feet, can it produce a 600 foot HR? 550?)

Very good question. Also, is the coding specific enough so that only guys like Stanton could do this, or is it possible that Ruben Tejada or Dee Gordon could hit one 515 in a standard park?

[jpeters1734]

That is an interesting question. The OP's HR is probably the longest I've seen with a regular park.

[Ike348]

Originally Posted by BIG17EASY

Very good question. Also, is the coding specific enough so that only guys like Stanton could do this, or is it possible that Ruben Tejada or Dee Gordon could hit one 515 in a standard park?

Don't forget Ben Revere! Two career home runs, both of which just barely made it over the fence.

[BIG17EASY]

Originally Posted by Ike348

Don't forget Ben Revere! Two career home runs, both of which just barely made it over the fence.

Revere is the guy I thought of in the other thread where the OP posted about a guy hitting .320 in August being released. Revere has to be the least valuable .300 hitter in modern MLB history. He's hitting .306 with a whopping 12 walks in 576 plate appearances, and he's a poor defender in CF to boot.

But here's the thing that amazes me about him. He has 23 RBIs this season, and it includes a three-RBI game on opening day, a five-RBI game in the combined no-hitter a few weeks ago, and a three-RBI game four days later. In those three games, he had 11 RBIs. In the other 137 he has played, he has 12. I know RBIs are largely the result of opportunity, and leadoff hitters usually get the least opportunities (especially NL leadoff hitters), but that's just a bizarre breakdown of his RBIs.

I'm not a stats nerd, but if someone had the proper formula to calculate the odds of him having a five-RBI game based on his four full seasons in the majors, I bet that was less likely than a no-hitter in that game against the Braves.

[Ike348]

Haha he's my favorite player just for those reasons above. He hits .306 and essentially stinks. I'm still rooting for him to sneak a batting title so he could be the worst batting champ of all time...