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injury log · 07-05-2007, 10:30 PM

Suggestion

Greater flexibility with off-field injuries. In particular, the severity boolean should be changed (it should at least be possible to make off-field injuries automatically severe). It should also be possible to determine the frequency of individual off-field injuries; it is impossible to make an off-field injury common now, for example.

Reason

Off-field injuries offer a great opportunity to recreate real-life situations, but the implementation is too inflexible. To take just one example, it is impossible for me to customize the injury database to recreate the minor league steroid suspensions of 2005, because it is impossible to force off-field injuries to be severe, and impossible to force certain injuries to occur frequently enough. If the severity boolean was changed to a 2-bit value (0=light/day-to-day, 1= light/day-to-day or mild, 2= mild or severe, 3= automatically severe) that would help, although an injury time implementation as in injuries.txt would be preferable. A frequency value would also be very useful for a variety of customization purposes.

Priority

High.

EDIT- it would also be useful to be able to attach a specific diagnosis to an off-field injury; at the moment a diagnosis is chosen at random from among all on-field injuries that might fall in a similar category.

07-05-2007, 10:30 PM	#11 (permalink)
injury log Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: London Posts: 2,302	Suggestion Greater flexibility with off-field injuries. In particular, the severity boolean should be changed (it should at least be possible to make off-field injuries automatically severe). It should also be possible to determine the frequency of individual off-field injuries; it is impossible to make an off-field injury common now, for example. Reason Off-field injuries offer a great opportunity to recreate real-life situations, but the implementation is too inflexible. To take just one example, it is impossible for me to customize the injury database to recreate the minor league steroid suspensions of 2005, because it is impossible to force off-field injuries to be severe, and impossible to force certain injuries to occur frequently enough. If the severity boolean was changed to a 2-bit value (0=light/day-to-day, 1= light/day-to-day or mild, 2= mild or severe, 3= automatically severe) that would help, although an injury time implementation as in injuries.txt would be preferable. A frequency value would also be very useful for a variety of customization purposes. Priority High. EDIT- it would also be useful to be able to attach a specific diagnosis to an off-field injury; at the moment a diagnosis is chosen at random from among all on-field injuries that might fall in a similar category. Last edited by injury log : 07-05-2007 at 10:41 PM.