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nyysfan · 09-23-2006, 03:53 AM

Totally agree with OP.

I don't know or care how it's generated, but Diamond Mind's PbP is pretty near perfect. Right amount of great plays. Same starting text can end up a couple different ways depending on weather or fielders etc.

I like OOTP for the career aspect which DMB doesn't have at all. And lots of other things make it a nice game. But I can't stomach playing out games batter by batter because the PbP text is so atrocious.

Also I strongly dislike having to hit a button once to sim a plate appearance, then again to clear the PbP area, then again to sim the next plate appearance, then again to clear the PbP area etc. Should be able to hit a button only once per batter. Actually DMB does a nice job here too. They have a tab on the PbP text area to Replay the text of the last play. So you hit a button to sim a plate appearance and the PbP text area clears and you hit a button to sim the next PA etc. If you want to see the PbP text of the last play you simply click the Replay tab...

Again, there's lots of reasons I like OOTP over DMB - but DMB happens to do these 2 things very well and OOTP does them very poorly.

09-23-2006, 03:53 AM	#3 (permalink)
nyysfan Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 25	Agree and compare with DMB Totally agree with OP. I don't know or care how it's generated, but Diamond Mind's PbP is pretty near perfect. Right amount of great plays. Same starting text can end up a couple different ways depending on weather or fielders etc. I like OOTP for the career aspect which DMB doesn't have at all. And lots of other things make it a nice game. But I can't stomach playing out games batter by batter because the PbP text is so atrocious. Also I strongly dislike having to hit a button once to sim a plate appearance, then again to clear the PbP area, then again to sim the next plate appearance, then again to clear the PbP area etc. Should be able to hit a button only once per batter. Actually DMB does a nice job here too. They have a tab on the PbP text area to Replay the text of the last play. So you hit a button to sim a plate appearance and the PbP text area clears and you hit a button to sim the next PA etc. If you want to see the PbP text of the last play you simply click the Replay tab... Again, there's lots of reasons I like OOTP over DMB - but DMB happens to do these 2 things very well and OOTP does them very poorly.