OOTP 19 Feature List!

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by actionjackson

Is this going to be problematic given that the historical facegen files are in a firstname (+initial if necessary)_lastname format, and do not use the BBRef-Minor-ID? This is particularly relevant for those of us that play random debut historicals because the MiLB database is not used in random debut historical games.

No, it just searches for the B-Ref minor id first, but it still searches for the named files the same as before.

[Lolos]

Can we play in the WBC?

[DMN]

The list of new enhancements is amazing! I say again this will be the best version of OOTP EVER!!!

[CrescentMoonie]

So...still no fix for the horrid way the minor leagues are set up for expansion teams in modern leagues? I'll pass on yet another nothing update for way too much money.

You'll get my money again when expansion teams are set up with at least the 4 full season levels (AAA, AA, A+, A), without the usual 2-3 teams in the same Rookie/Short A league, and with the minor league expansion teams in a city that isn't 1,000 miles from everyone else in the league.

I'll pay even more money if you set it up for us to be GM and have the expansion team start drafting and populating its minor league system a year before taking the field.

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by CrescentMoonie

So...still no fix for the horrid way the minor leagues are set up for expansion teams in modern leagues? I'll pass on yet another nothing update for way too much money.

You'll get my money again when expansion teams are set up with at least the 4 full season levels (AAA, AA, A+, A), without the usual 2-3 teams in the same Rookie/Short A league, and with the minor league expansion teams in a city that isn't 1,000 miles from everyone else in the league.

I'll pay even more money if you set it up for us to be GM and have the expansion team start drafting and populating its minor league system a year before taking the field.

Turn off automatic league evolution or simply expand your league manually, or move expansion minor league teams around manually if you do not like the way thew game handles it. Problem solved.

And "on yet another nothing update for way too much money" made me laugh out loud, seriously.

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by Lolos

Can we play in the WBC?

Yes!

[TwinsTHunter]

Originally Posted by CrescentMoonie

So...still no fix for the horrid way the minor leagues are set up for expansion teams in modern leagues? I'll pass on yet another nothing update for way too much money.

You'll get my money again when expansion teams are set up with at least the 4 full season levels (AAA, AA, A+, A), without the usual 2-3 teams in the same Rookie/Short A league, and with the minor league expansion teams in a city that isn't 1,000 miles from everyone else in the league.

I'll pay even more money if you set it up for us to be GM and have the expansion team start drafting and populating its minor league system a year before taking the field.

I really don't mean for this to sound defensive, and you are certainly free to spend your money how you please, but these issues can be fixed manually (as I'm sure you know)

Obviously that's less than ideal, but do you expand your leagues that often that it makes a huge difference? Changing the 2 or 4 expansion teams 4 minor league cities to ones you're pleased with, and potentially moving a team or two to a new level, and then simply regenerating the schedules for each level might be a bit inconvenient, but shouldn't take long (~20 minutes, and even that seems high) anyway.

For all the amazing positives I'm a bit surprised an issue that can be manually fixed by the user as needed would draw such a negative reaction, but hopefully you can find a game that gives you what you want. If you think OOTP19 is a "nothing update" I truly feel sorry for you. "For way too much money..." modern video games are $59.99 at a minimum on consoles. OOTP is $36 at the moment and so much more enjoyable! What a joke.

[rjl518]

Originally Posted by DMN

The list of new enhancements is amazing! I say again this will be the best version of OOTP EVER!!!

We say that every year.
Then Markus always proves us wrong with the next version, because its even better!
I have a question, Markus.
When you sleep. do you dream about ways to make this game better?

[wallewalls]

One thing I would really love to see in the future is the addition of player agents and relationships.

For example a super agent like Boras would have negative relationships and it would be harder to sign his players as free agents to small market teams like Tampa Bay and Oakland, and he would have positive relationships with teams like the Nationals, Red Sox, Dodgers, Yankees, etc., but as a GM you can work on your relationships by "overpaying" for his clients or something.

Also relationships between other AI GM's. The older NHL GM Modes had this feature and I thought it was really cool. It was almost impossible to trade with rivals unless you really overpaid, but if you made more deals with the same GM you had a positive relationship with them and it was easier to make trades with them. In OOTP, this could be done similarly but it could also be cumulative, meaning that if the GM for the Rockies, for example had a bad relationship with the GM for the Cubs for whatever reason, if he switched teams he would still have a bad relationship with the Cubs GM, but the Cubs GM would have a neutral relationship with whomever was taking over for. I want this feature because it seems like my Yankees always make trades with the same teams (Pirates, DBacks and Tigers) and would be cool if they had something similar in OOTP.

I know these features would be difficult to implement, but I think it would be really cool and would be more immersive. I would be more interested to read news stories about who the AI is hiring as their next GM and what that might mean for me acquiring talent in trades.

[drksd4848]

Will you be able play with "End of Season" rosters for historical replay seasons (obviously with no historical transactions), or is it just with historical exhibition games?

[pstrickert]

Just with historical exhibition games.

[drksd4848]

Originally Posted by pstrickert

Just with historical exhibition games.

Roster limits are available on all historical modes - even with played transactions, correct?

So with the AI managing, that player who started the year on the disabled list in real life, doesn't come in to pinch hit in April because he is on the roster - even though he's injured.

Like when I replayed the '75 Red Sox and the AI had Carlton Fisk coming in to pinch hit in April.

[pstrickert]

The transaction file does not (yet) include injuries. (Someone is working on it, though, so this may change in the future.) Whomever is on the roster, though not in the starting lineup, is available to pinch hit.

[Eugene Church]

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[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by CrescentMoonie

So...still no fix for the horrid way the minor leagues are set up for expansion teams in modern leagues? I'll pass on yet another nothing update for way too much money.

You'll get my money again when expansion teams are set up with at least the 4 full season levels (AAA, AA, A+, A), without the usual 2-3 teams in the same Rookie/Short A league, and with the minor league expansion teams in a city that isn't 1,000 miles from everyone else in the league.

I'll pay even more money if you set it up for us to be GM and have the expansion team start drafting and populating its minor league system a year before taking the field.

CrescentMoonie, you have a right to your opinions and you have the right to spend your money the way you like... my comments are just mine and are not meant to demean yours.

"So be patient, Grasshopper"
(line from the old David Carradine TV series, "Kung Fu")

So here goes... the OOTPB Gospel from EC:

OOTPB is not a perfect game... it still has a lot of imperfections for all of us... but in my opinion, Markus has designed MY "Perfect Dream Baseball Game".

OOTP18 was outstanding despite the fact that I couldn't do my Southern Association Dynasty replay the way I wanted to do it... and it could be that it could be done, but I am pretty limited in computer skills and had to do it the old-fashioned manual way to make sure rosters were accurate for the 1948 season.

Also, though the game recaps could have been designed and written better... and with more variations... they repeat the same recap over and over and over....... that's why I write all of my recaps manually... problem solved.

Also the PBP has too many web gems and is not realistic IMHO... but you know I could probably edit the PBP to my liking if I had the computer skills to do it... perhaps that would solve my problem.

And the Graphics and Sound don't come close to my required perfectionism... so I just don't use them until the day comes when Markus and the crew "perfect" them... and they will one day.

But you know what I do... I accept the game's minor imperfections because OVERALL it is truly a magnificent achievement... and one day when the graphics and sound are more realistic... IT WILL BE THE BEST BASEBALL GAME OF ALL-TIME.

I have played OOTPB since version 3... and I would have gladly paid $100 each year for the pleasure that I get from the game.

Currently it costs me 10 CENTS A DAY for one of the greatest enjoyment of my life... at $100 a year that would only be .2749726 CENTS A DAY... and still a HUGE BARGAIN.

I still buy OOTPB each year... even if I didn't use it for some reason... which usually was caused by my own lack of computer knowledge... and not a shortcoming of the game itself.

The game has gotten better to some extent every single, solitary year.

And I will continue to buy OOTPB each year at the FULL PRICE, not at a discount... just to help Markus and the crew out a little bitty bit more.

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

CrescentMoonie, you have a right to your opinions and you have the right to spend your money the way you like... my comments are just mine and are not meant to demean yours.

"So be patient, Grasshopper"
(line from the old David Carradine TV series, "Kung Fu")

So here goes... the OOTPB Gospel from EC:

OOTPB is not a perfect game... it still has a lot of imperfections for all of us... but in my opinion, Markus has designed MY "Perfect Dream Baseball Game".

OOTP18 was outstanding despite the fact that I couldn't do my Southern Association Dynasty replay the way I wanted to do it... and it could be that it could be done, but I am pretty limited in computer skills and had to do it the old-fashioned manual way to make sure rosters were accurate for the 1948 season.

Also, though the game recaps could have been designed and written better... and with more variations... they repeat the same recap over and over and over....... that's why I write all of my recaps manually... problem solved.

Also the PBP has too many web gems and is not realistic IMHO... but you know I could probably edit the PBP to my liking if I had the computer skills to do it... perhaps that would solve my problem.

And the Graphics and Sound don't come close to my required perfectionism... so I just don't use them until the day comes when Markus and the crew "perfect" them... and they will one day.

But you know what I do... I accept the game's minor imperfections because OVERALL it is truly a magnificent achievement... and one day when the graphics and sound are more realistic... IT WILL BE THE BEST BASEBALL GAME OF ALL-TIME.

I have played OOTPB since version 3... and I would have gladly paid $100 each year for the pleasure that I get from the game.

Currently it costs me 10 CENTS A DAY for one of the greatest enjoyment of my life... at $100 a year that would only be .2749726 CENTS A DAY... and still a HUGE BARGAIN.

I still buy OOTPB each year... even if I didn't use it for some reason... which usually was caused by my own lack of computer knowledge... and not a shortcoming of the game itself.

The game has gotten better to some extent every single, solitary year.

And I will continue to buy OOTPB each year at the FULL PRICE, not at a discount... just to help Markus and the crew out a little bitty bit more.

Hear, hear! If something doesn't work the way you want it to, find a way to make it work, or copy someone else who has made it work, or adjust the way you play a little bit. All of us have probably had to bend the way we play a little bit due to the limitations of the game. What makes you so special that you don't have to?

It's so easy to sit back and fire critical potshots at a very good (but not perfect, because no game is) game. By all means offer up constructive criticism for Markus and the team to tackle and perhaps get right one day, but sitting back and saying "this game sucks...you're not getting my money Pffft!" is kind of lame if you ask me.

In historical games, expansion teams get a seat at the draft table the year before they play their inaugural games. So if you play from before 1960, when the draft roles around in the offseason of 1960-1961, you'll find the Angels and the Senators with the first two overall picks in the 1960 draft. You might play fictional or standard though. I'm just saying part of what you're asking for is already available in historical games.

[kjb023]

Originally Posted by CrescentMoonie

So...still no fix for the horrid way the minor leagues are set up for expansion teams in modern leagues? I'll pass on yet another nothing update for way too much money.

You'll get my money again when expansion teams are set up with at least the 4 full season levels (AAA, AA, A+, A), without the usual 2-3 teams in the same Rookie/Short A league, and with the minor league expansion teams in a city that isn't 1,000 miles from everyone else in the league.

I'll pay even more money if you set it up for us to be GM and have the expansion team start drafting and populating its minor league system a year before taking the field.

The whole "nothing update for way too much money" is so ridiculous that I'll assume you're just trolling. But for what it's worth, on your point about minor league teams being too far away, you can go into the league settings and set a region for each league before you expand your league. Then when you start an expansion team, the new minor league teams will be in an appropriate region.

[NoOne]

omg, the draft might not be predictable anymore... that's somethign i rely on to utterly destroy the AI, lol.

maybe the fantasy draft won't be such a joke now, also.. and i say that affectionately. if you don't come out of that with a mega stocked mil and a ~110win team, with health, you just aren't doing it right.. that could all change with this improvement!

(heck, if you immediately start turning over your massive # of good-great prospects you'll have 120wins in the first year for sure... i like to wait for the fictionally created players. they tend to have better high-end power hitters than current mlb players. so i roll the older ones over fora 1-2 years before dishing them out in earnest.)

[tgreitsma]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Update:

- Unsigned high school draft picks now either go to college and re-enter the draft 3 years later or junior college and re-enter the draft the next year.

I assume this is referring to leagues with no feeders? If so, this is huge. Can't wait until Monday!!

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by tgreitsma

I assume this is referring to leagues with no feeders? If so, this is huge. Can't wait until Monday!!

Yeah, correct, that's for leagues with no feeders.