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Originally Posted by nyysfan
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.
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Absolutely correct. If Markus has not already put DMB through its paces, he or someone on the team should do so, because in this area at least DMB has no peer. It is not perfect. Every game there are three or four "great leaping catch at the wall" plays, sometimes more. And there are a few other play descriptions that happen too frequently. But all in all there is a great balance of mostly routine plays and a few exciting ones, and there is an elegance to the style that avoids too much hype.
OOTP brings many, many features that I wish DMB would strive for, but in PbP it is less like Vin Scully and more like Rick Rizzs.
edited to add: Cork55, I see you beat me to the suggestion about DMB