Question for OOTP experts..

[tinpanalley]

I need to know whether it's in any way possible to turn off ALL management options so that all I do or see every day is the standings, schedule, league stats, and the next game to play. I don't want anything else. Just the most basic type of season like older baseball video games that just tracked one season for you, no franchise management stuff.
Is that doable in OOTP?

[thehef]

That's a little vague but I don't see why there'd be any problem with setting up a game to where OOTP controls all teams, and then if you just restrict yourself to viewing only standings, schedule, league stats, and the next game to play, you should be fine.

[tinpanalley]

Originally Posted by thehef

That's a little vague but I don't see why there'd be any problem with setting up a game to where OOTP controls all teams, and then if you just restrict yourself to viewing only standings, schedule, league stats, and the next game to play, you should be fine.

Well, let me see if I can be more precise...
About 20 years ago, pretty much all sports games had only one option other than "play now": Season. Franchise didn't really exist and neither did micromanagement of team and league elements. So you picked your team or as many as you wanted and the game would track a season for you, track all stats, give you league leaders, and at the end of the season would set up a playoff for you and that was that. You'd start again or play another game. I think EA started adding things like All-Star games, end of season awards, etc. Then, around 2000, selling games meant including multi-year franchise modes.
Gameplay, the actual mechanics of playing OOTP, I absolutely love. In fact it shocks me being a simulation video game person is how much fun this text based game is. What I'd like, is that earlier form of Season play I was describing above. I don't want the other stuff going on anyway and me not worrying about it by leaving the CPU to do that stuff. I don't want it as part of the game. I want only what I described above. So I need to know if those things can be turned off in any way. Or disabled, or hidden in such a way that the game play a purely mathematical simulation of the game. No injuries, no trades, no player you sign goes on a promotional tour and gets laryngitis, none of that fantasy stuff. Just the 2018 MLB season with the option to play some classic teams as well for "what if" type simulations.

[Reed]

If your the general manager of a team, you can go in and assign some or all the tasks to the assistant GM. You can have as much control as you want to as little to no control. You can act as a commissioner and sim 1 day or a week or a year or more at a time.

[tinpanalley]

Originally Posted by Reed

If your the general manager of a team, you can go in and assign some or all the tasks to the assistant GM. You can have as much control as you want to as little to no control. You can act as a commissioner and sim 1 day or a week or a year or more at a time.

But, as I said, that's just me assigning those things to the CPU but them still happening anyway. This isn't about control, I don't want those things happening. Period. Like, as I described, an old game's regular season mode.

[thehef]

Originally Posted by tinpanalley

But, as I said, that's just me assigning those things to the CPU but them still happening anyway. This isn't about control, I don't want those things happening. Period. Like, as I described, an old game's regular season mode.

Can you be specific as to the things you don't want to happen? Maybe list five good examples.

[tinpanalley]

Originally Posted by thehef

Can you be specific as to the things you don't want to happen? Maybe list five good examples.

I'm not sure how I can be more specific than what I said. I only want a regular, non franchise management, single season mode.
Ok, 5 things I don't want:
- Transactions anywhere in the league unless I initiate them
- Injuries
- Any extraneous events not related to play on the field
- Drafting, scouting or any minor league elements

All I'm asking is whether these things can be eliminated, I'm not criticising them for people who like them. Just because this is bound to get picked up by someone who hasn't read the whole thread and then says, "then why bother playing OOTP?". I'm just asking whether these things can be turned off.

[thehef]

Based upon your examples, I think you can do this:

Originally Posted by tinpanalley

I'm not sure how I can be more specific than what I said. I only want a regular, non franchise management, single season mode.
Ok, 5 things I don't want:
- Transactions anywhere in the league unless I initiate them Do not enable historical transaction and do not enable trading.
- Injuries Do not enable injuries.
- Any extraneous events not related to play on the field Do not enable storylines or financials. There are probably other settings to disable for what you want. You are probably going to get news articles no matter what, and some other stuff that has no bearing on results but is supposed to add flavor, but it can certainly be ignored.
- Drafting, scouting or any minor league elements Simply do not enable or choose any of these.

All I'm asking is whether these things can be eliminated, I'm not criticising them for people who like them. Just because this is bound to get picked up by someone who hasn't read the whole thread and then says, "then why bother playing OOTP?". I'm just asking whether these things can be turned off. Nothing wrong with wanting to play this way.

In addition, at the setup of your league you will want to choose the option for Historical Replay, and not Career mode (I forget exactly how those choices are phrased, but you get the idea).

I would suggest starting a test league with these parameters, and then blazing through it to determine what you are getting or what is happening that you do not want, and then figuring out what you can do about those things. I'm guessing you can get really close to what you want, with a little trial and error & tweaking.

[Spritze]

Originally Posted by tinpanalley

Ok, 5 things I don't want:
- Transactions anywhere in the league unless I initiate them - You can turn off Trading and lock down the rosters so they do not change

- Injuries You can turn off injuries and suspensions

- Any extraneous events not related to play on the field

- Drafting, scouting or any minor league elements You can turn off minor leagues, drafting and scouting

That is a start. I do not know what extraneous specifically refers to.

[tinpanalley]

Originally Posted by Spritze

That is a start. I do not know what extraneous specifically refers to.

Well, I saw an interview with the CMO of OOTP and they were talking about a player in the game, mid-season, being arrested for a fight in a bar. By extraneous I mean I don't want emulated real life playing out during my season. That may be fun for some people, but to me that's silly. I just want two teams go on the field. They pitch, they swing, they hit, they catch. Let me play it out as flatly and mathematically as possible. For a more hands on experience I have my simulation games on PC and console. So, here, I don't want guys getting blisters, getting stomach flu, asking for more money because their twitter account just gained 5000 more followers. Is that more clear?

[tinpanalley]

Originally Posted by thehef

Based upon your examples, I think you can do this...In addition, at the setup of your league you will want to choose the option for Historical Replay, and not Career mode (I forget exactly how those choices are phrased, but you get the idea).

I will do exactly this as a test. Sounds good. I jumped in and played and didn't see any options like this. Maybe I was in the wrong mode. The concept of having to "build" a league is confusing to me. It's not like, click here for a MLB 2017 season so I'm sort of lost.
Is it reasonable to think someone might put out a 2018 roster file for next year?

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by tinpanalley

I will do exactly this as a test. Sounds good. I jumped in and played and didn't see any options like this. Maybe I was in the wrong mode. The concept of having to "build" a league is confusing to me. It's not like, click here for a MLB 2017 season so I'm sort of lost.
Is it reasonable to think someone might put out a 2018 roster file for next year?

There are reams and reams of screens to setup and configure. Start with Game > Game Settings > Global Settings and go from there. There are also tabs called "Players & FaceGen", "AI Settings", "Almanac" (not really necessary unless you want to set up the almanac feature), then you can skip to League Settings, which contains the tabs "Functions", "League & Teams", "Rules", "Financials", "Options", "Players", "Historical", and "Stats & AI". It is important to check out each of these tabs, and disable the things you want disabled, which sounds like a lot of things. Best for you to rummage around in there and figure out your perfect setup for your way to play. Don't worry about getting something "wrong". That's part of the process, which can be frustrating at first, but is well worth it once you get it.

[tinpanalley]

Thank you everyone. It looks like with injuries, suspensions, scouting, storyline, player personality stuff all off, it should be what I want. I haven't found transactions on/off yet, but if I control every team, then nobody should be moving at all.
Questions:
1. I still don't understand, does the OOTP community not do updated rosters? In other baseball games, people will do updates, just to keep the game current with rosters updated to, say, January 1st. Just so people can play with new acquisitions for fun. Does that just not happen in the OOTP community? Someone must have asked about this but I can't find anything.
2. The ultimate thing would be for my friend and I to be able to play exhibition games together online. Is that possible at all with OOTP? I don't even see the option to play exhibition games at all. I suppose if we could both run a league together, him with his Yanks and me with my Jays that would be ok too. Does any of this exist?

Thanks again!

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by tinpanalley

Thank you everyone. It looks like with injuries, suspensions, scouting, storyline, player personality stuff all off, it should be what I want. I haven't found transactions on/off yet, but if I control every team, then nobody should be moving at all.
Questions:
1. I still don't understand, does the OOTP community not do updated rosters? In other baseball games, people will do updates, just to keep the game current with rosters updated to, say, January 1st. Just so people can play with new acquisitions for fun. Does that just not happen in the OOTP community? Someone must have asked about this but I can't find anything.
2. The ultimate thing would be for my friend and I to be able to play exhibition games together online. Is that possible at all with OOTP? I don't even see the option to play exhibition games at all. I suppose if we could both run a league together, him with his Yanks and me with my Jays that would be ok too. Does any of this exist?

Thanks again!

Sorry, not well versed in the ins and outs that pertain to your two questions, however I can tell you that you can indeed make sure that no team makes a move. You have to do it though. You can't just be in commish mode. Stay in commish mode, but go to Game Settings > League Settings > Functions > Roster Functions > Set all teams to NOT allow AI roster changes. This will prevent all roster changes by AI-controlled teams when activated. You definitely need to activate it in addition to being in commish mode in order to achieve what I think you want.

[tinpanalley]

Can someone please explain to me why I can't post anything without a warning about not having enough characters?

EDIT: I've reached out to moderators about this. For some reason Firefox doesn't let me edit my posts on this site. Now using Edge.

[tinpanalley]

Originally Posted by actionjackson

Stay in commish mode, but go to Game Settings > League Settings > Functions > Roster Functions > Set all teams to NOT allow AI roster changes...

Ok, I had already found that, cool.
I keep getting a note saying different people are off the DL which I had never put them on to begin with. What is that all about? Are players on the DL when you begin with the stock rosters?

I guess my question about having community created rosters is because while I understand people don't play exhibition games (weird to me that the only way to play this game is to commit to a season, but ok, it is what it is) clearly I can physically begin a season whenever I want. But why can't I make changes to the default rosters that a season is played with? So, EVERYthing has to happen within the construct of a baseball season? Is there no way to make a bunch of trades that have happened so far in the offseason, save that roster file, and let others use it?

[NoOne]

with that box checked, nothing will be done.. you must do everything for any team with that checked.

reserve rule? turn off free agency and such. up # of controlled years etc... you can stop players from moving around and still let the AI do the mundane stuff like move players to or from the DL.

finite space to look over. League Settings - Financials, rules, options, global settings, players and face gen, then your manager offices. if you can read it you can do it. GUIs are wonderful like that.

[Izz]

Originally Posted by tinpanalley

Ok, I had already found that, cool.
I keep getting a note saying different people are off the DL which I had never put them on to begin with. What is that all about? Are players on the DL when you begin with the stock rosters?

I guess my question about having community created rosters is because while I understand people don't play exhibition games (weird to me that the only way to play this game is to commit to a season, but ok, it is what it is) clearly I can physically begin a season whenever I want. But why can't I make changes to the default rosters that a season is played with? So, EVERYthing has to happen within the construct of a baseball season? Is there no way to make a bunch of trades that have happened so far in the offseason, save that roster file, and let others use it?

Here's a roster set that should be accurate as of 20th December 2017: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=283822

You'll need to follow philthepat's instructions plus start a new game using the quickstart to access the changes.

This is the sub-forum for updated roster sets, photos, and quickstart games.

You can play exhibition games but, as you mentioned, you need to start a season game to access that functionality. Once you've started a season in whichever year you want to play, click Play (top right) and at the bottom of the menu there should be an option to 'Play Exhibition Game.'

[tinpanalley]

Originally Posted by Izz

Here's a roster set that should be accurate as of 20th December 2017...

Thank you!

Originally Posted by Izz

You can play exhibition games but, as you mentioned, you need to start a season game to access that functionality. Once you've started a season in whichever year you want to play, click Play (top right) and at the bottom of the menu there should be an option to 'Play Exhibition Game.'

Ok, this is what I was trying to understand. I'm not trying to be annoying to anyone here, and perhaps it's my never having played a text-based sports game before but I just didn't understand the idea of not being able to do a quick "play now". That's fine if it's inside a season mode.

Also, I'm really struggling to understand (again, probably from only being a regular simulation sports game player) how it works with respect to updating rosters. Do people who play OOTP really just only play that year while they're playing the game and then buy a completely new game the next year? Just for rosters? I can understand in a conventional video game where there are various graphical, animation, and gameplay changes but unless I'm wrong, OOTP is purely mathematical. I just don't see why the community doesn't just update rosters themselves. So all I can think is that the game either doesn't allow it or people really just ONLY ever start playing in April or at other times but always with start of season rosters, which to me is bizarre especially if you want to start, say, now in winter. Why would you even want April rosters from last year? Is it that people only play along in real time and the game only updates your rosters automatically in real time?

What am I not getting about how this game is meant to be played? I feel like I'm looking at some card game I've never heard of.

[Spritze]

Originally Posted by tinpanalley

Also, I'm really struggling to understand (again, probably from only being a regular simulation sports game player) how it works with respect to updating rosters. Do people who play OOTP really just only play that year while they're playing the game and then buy a completely new game the next year? Just for rosters? Not just for rosters but for graphical, animation, and gameplay changes but unless I'm wrong You are , OOTP is purely mathematical.

Just try to clear your head of preconceived expectations and embrace the game on its terms. Odds are you will enjoy the heck out of it.