Full changelist between 2006 and 2007

[Marc Duffy]

The press release is out and you've read the headline features and improvements.

Here is a full list of everything (we believe) that has been changed since 2006 1.0.3

General Features
- Added new trading system with a shop player function, 'make this work now' function, trade block and player trade ability setting
- Added fictional pictures for players, coaches, scouts and managers, with aging and multiple options
- Added player popularity ratings, affecting fan interest when signing/losing players
- Added a player morale system, which is optional
- Added 2 new leagues levels: College & High School (Per Markus, "The game does NOT try to model HS or college leagues. The names for the feeder leagues are more cosmetic, as apart from the age min & max, there are no additional rules that make then resemble real life college or HS leagues.")
- Added an option to define feeder leagues for a major league (college or HS level), which feed the draft pool if players reach age X
- Added the option to display overall & potential rating as stars, a value between 20 and 80, or none at all
- Added a rating scale setting for other player ratings, like speed, defense or bunting
- Added players demanding trades
- Added players complaining about their role on the team
- Added players announcing their upcoming retirement during the season
- Added players asking for contract extensions if they are happy
- Added a weather system
- Added the option to re-import the weather database into an existing league
- Added projected batting & pitching stats to player profile
- Added projected batting & pitching leader boards
- Added a custom award
- Added the ability to manually choose the end of season awards
- Added the ability to manually choose the allstar teams
- Added the ability to edit the player history in the player profile
- Added the ability to write game recaps manually. These recaps will appear in the boxscores & league news, the recap headline also appears on the schedule screen and HTML scores page.
- Added the ability to edit & add league news articles
- Added the ability to set the window size when not playing in fullscreen mode

Team Management Features
- Added 7-day line-ups
- Added the ability to waive & DFA a player in one step
- Added team focus (win now, rebuild, neutral) affecting trades, roster AI and free agent signings
- Added the ability to set up a scouting task list, and define a task that is done when idle
- Added the ability to have a scout file a report on upcoming opponents at the start of the series
- Added the ability to negotiate contract extensions with certain players not in their last contract year
- Added the ability to remove players from the DL if their DL time is up even if they are still injured
- Added messages for minor league managers about players leaving/joining the team
- Added the ability for minor league managers to be promoted within the own organization
- Merged the team line-up & depth chart screen
- Added a copy & paste lineup function
- Human owners can now set the ticket price of their team
- Added the ability to withdraw a contract offer in the pending offers sub-tab within the free agents screen
- When waiving a player, there is now an option to automatically remove the player from waivers if claimed by a team
- Human Managers now receive job offers via message when unemployed
- Human minor league managers can now be promoted through the system if successful
- Added the ability to withdraw a contract offer
- Added a "meet demand" function to the contract negotiation screen which sets your offer to exactly what the player is asking for

League-Related Features
- Added the feature to run an expansion wizard, including protection lists & scheduling of expansion draft
- Added the ability to save any game as a template at any time
- Added the ability to add leagues/templates to existing universes
- Added the ability to remove leagues from an existing universe
- Added the ability to add and remove sub leagues from a league
- Added a fielding percentage modifier to the league totals modifiers
- Added the options to have incomplete minors (ghost players)
- Added an option to not store career L/R splits, fielding stats and postseason stats, or only store for major leagues
- Added the functions to clear the history of an entire league
- Added the option to assign random park factors in the ballpark editor screen
- Added the option to assign neutral park factors to all parks in the ballpark editor screen
- Added customizable almanac features for monthly or yearly dumps and yearly almanac auto-save options
- Added settings editor to include/exclude each single file from data dumps, supporting multiple profiles
- Added settings editor to include/exclude almost each single report from report generation, supporting multiple profiles
- Added the option to define minimum and maximum age limits for leagues
- Added the option to define age ranges for newly created players
- Added the ability to set the team foreigner limit to "no foreigners allowed"
- Added the ability to set the time of the amateur draft pool announcement
- Added the ability to set a visitor team's share of the gate revenue
- Added the ability to manually add playoff games in the schedule editor
- Added the ability to set a roster limit in minor leagues

Historical League Features
- Added option for automatic expansions in historical leagues
- Automatic expansion also each year automatically updates league alignment changes, team name & nickname changes, ballpark names & park factors
- Added a "import complete history" option to historical leagues, which builds the entire league history up to the point of the importing year
- Added the ability to view complete real career stats of imported players
- Added the option to recalculate player ratings based on real life stats before each new season
- Added the option to automatically adjust league strategy settings in historical leagues
- Added the option to automatically import proper financial settings in historical leagues after each season
- Added the option to block fictional players to reaching the majors in historical leagues
- When importing historical players (league creation & rookie import), the game tries to find matching player photos in the \data\photos folder and automatically uses them
- Added the ability to import historical teams in the league structure editor
- Greatly improved accuracy of historical seasons

Interface Features
- Added a league creation wizard
- Added a league function center
- Added a new manager home page, acting as a portal to the most commonly used functions
- Added a screen where you can see your current offers to free agents
- Added a "pending trades" sub-tab to the trading screen
- Added the ability to sort any table in the internal HTML reports
- Implemented page history system that applies to both the in-game browser and game pages
- The history saves the browser scrollbar position now
- Improved the "Select File" dialog

In-Game Features
- Added a one-pitch mode when playing out games
- Added an instant PbP mode
- Added an option to display a shorter version of the PbP
- Added an option to display the PbP in a bigger box
- Added a bullpen warm-up rule option when playing out games
- Added the ability to move player positions via drag & drop in the ballpark editor & in-game screen
- Added the option to hide player photos in the broadcast view
- Added the option to hide the field header in the broadcast view

Online League Features
- Added the ability for online league commishes to send league news as personal messages to all owners (i.e. newsletter)
- Team exports now include the message status of manager messages (read, deleted etc)
- Team exports now include team transaction news
- Contract & extension offers to personnel are now included in the team exports
- Owners can now submit another bid to a free agent even when they are already the highest bidder
- Added a commish portal which features the most common functions and information, DFA list and teams export report
- Improved FTP support
- Decreased online league file size

AI and Engine Features
- Added stats-driven AI throughout the game, allowing modifying of stats percentages
- Modified hitting ratings (Contact is now a result of a hidden BABIP rating and the avoid K's rating) and game engine

New Reports
- Added trading block & waiver wire report
- Added top players league report
- Added manager history & manager pages to league history
- Added team minor league system report
- Added team positional strength reports

Tweaks & Improvements
- Free agents are aware of the current market and adjust their demands properly (i.e. when there is loads of $$ available from the teams, they demand more and vice-versa)
- Improved depth-chart selection AI
- Improved trading AI
- Improved in-game AI
- Improved player development & aging
- Improved the player HTML report
- Improved salary arbitration, players can no longer get a pay-cut of more than 20% of the previous contract
- The retired players are now stored in a separate file
- Added command line support, parameter "continue_current_league"
- Improved memory management

OOTP 2006 and OOTP 6/6.5 save-games can be imported into OOTP 2007!

[Marc Duffy]

I'll be updating this thread regularly between now and release

[LeiterFanatic]

great thread... exactly what I was interested in....

[Mr.Opinion]

Can't wait to see how that weather system works out.

[akw4572]

Any word on if manager records will be tracked in the almanac?? I see manager pages and history, is that what that means?? I hope so!

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by akw4572

Any word on if manager records will be tracked in the almanac??

Yes:

"- Added manager history & manager pages to league history"

Human and AI managers now have a complete set of history...

[LeiterFanatic]

Pls Post Pix, Thx

[akw4572]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Yes:

"- Added manager history & manager pages to league history"

Human and AI managers now have a complete set of history...

Cool, thanks.

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by LeiterFanatic

Pls Post Pix, Thx

www.ootpbaseball.net

[CHCfan]

what about changes to GM mode, like is receiving job offers more realistic?

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by CHCfan

what about changes to GM mode, like is receiving job offers more realistic?

Yes!

[CHCfan]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Yes!

excellent! care to elaborate or is it a Markus Secret?

[f.montoya]

Originally Posted by CHCfan

excellent! care to elaborate or is it a Markus Secret?

Well, what would be more realistic to you?

It works like that.

[ctorg]

I'm psyched!

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by CHCfan

excellent! care to elaborate or is it a Markus Secret?

Well, you'll get emails offering you a job from teams who have no manager/GM. Of course, when you were just fired as a Gulf Coast manager, you won't get an offer from the Yankees

[legendsport]

As a huge historical play freak and at the risk of sounding like Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, after reading the list I have to say: "Awesome! Totally Awesome!"

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by Mr.Opinion

Can't wait to see how that weather system works out.

It's a monster. . .

[theasfl]

Originally Posted by Marc Duffy

I'll be updating this thread regularly between now and release

am I correct in assuming this isnt the final list then?

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by theasfl

am I correct in assuming this isnt the final list then?

We'll still add more reports, and some tiny features, but nothing huge...

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by legendsport

As a huge historical play freak and at the risk of sounding like Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, after reading the list I have to say: "Awesome! Totally Awesome!"

Understatement.