Why hasnt this annoying and wellknown bug been patched??

[bababui]

I started a 1901 game early this evening and have been playing it until I was hit with the pitcher gets injured on the 3rd out in the ninth bug and the game wont advance. I tried everything including weird double switches but nothing works.

Why cant Markus make a quick patch for this? Could it really take more than an hour? Just dont allow the game to end on an injury..a meaningless switch could be made and the game completed.

[bababui]

And the only way to exit the game is to end the task in the task manager.

[Ambermonk]

This has happened to many of us (myself included), but I thought I read somewhere on the forum that the issue had been addressed. If not - it definitely needs to be resolved for the upcoming release.

[Simmo13]

I had an instance recently where my pitcher was injured before the third out and the game froze. I'd assumed until then that the bug only manifested itself at the end of an inning. Anybody else seen this?

[Markus Heinsohn]

Ups, I thought I fixed that in OOTP 8... well, looks like this is not the case. Sorry OOTP 9 fixes this though.

[bababui]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Ups, I thought I fixed that in OOTP 8... well, looks like this is not the case. Sorry OOTP 9 fixes this though.

[ctorg]

I sympathize: Frustrating!

Glad to see it's on Markus's radar now.

[1998 Yankees]

Fine. Maybe he can start tracking this on his radar too:

Left/Right Spits in fictional league

I dunno. Maybe I should use more frownie faces.

[David Watts]

UPS, I thought this was fixed in OOTP8--oh well, it is fixed in OOTP9...??????????? Wow, nice. I know I will be first in line to pre-order the new version.

Sir, you say you were hit from behind and your Pinto exploded, killing your wife and child----ups, we thought we fixed that problem---Oh well, it is fixed in this years model.

Same time next year------Sir, you mean your new Pinto blew up just like your earlier one?? Well, look at this way, at least this time you had no passengers. Did I mention that we are taking pre-orders on the upcoming Pinto? Tons of new features and several new colors. What other car maker offers sooo many features.

[Gerry58]

Originally Posted by David Watts

Sir, you say you were hit from behind and your Pinto exploded, killing your wife and child----ups, we thought we fixed that problem---Oh well, it is fixed in this years model.

Same time next year------Sir, you mean your new Pinto blew up just like your earlier one?? Well, look at this way, at least this time you had no passengers. Did I mention that we are taking pre-orders on the upcoming Pinto? Tons of new features and several new colors. What other car maker offers sooo many features.

Wow, if this is sort of a joke, well, it is really bad.

[zekester91]

isn't it that you just hit the end game button, it is a little anoying that it takes you to that screen and doesn't let you do anything, but the normal end game button is still down in the corner for you to hit. The original poster didn't post that section of the screen but I know the few times I've run into this bug after trying a few things I found the button and was able to move on with the game.

[bababui]

Originally Posted by 1998 Yankees

Fine. Maybe he can start tracking this on his radar too:

Left/Right Spits in fictional league

I dunno. Maybe I should use more frownie faces.

Or drop the Yankees reference in your handle.

[bababui]

Originally Posted by zekester91

isn't it that you just hit the end game button, it is a little anoying that it takes you to that screen and doesn't let you do anything, but the normal end game button is still down in the corner for you to hit. The original poster didn't post that section of the screen but I know the few times I've run into this bug after trying a few things I found the button and was able to move on with the game.

Of course I tried that...I tried to trick the game by moving to the other teams lineup screen and exit..I tried going to the gamelog screen and the boxscore screen. The game wouldnt let me leave my lineup screen with an incomplete lineup.

[zekester91]

Originally Posted by bababui

Of course I tried that...I tried to trick the game by moving to the other teams lineup screen and exit..I tried going to the gamelog screen and the boxscore screen. The game wouldnt let me leave my lineup screen with an incomplete lineup.

Are you sure your fully patched, I know I've had this bug twice and both times I've been able to hit the end game button and I'm only using the 2007 version.

[bababui]

Originally Posted by zekester91

Are you sure your fully patched, I know I've had this bug twice and both times I've been able to hit the end game button and I'm only using the 2007 version.

2008 and both patches.

[eborix]

The one time it has happened to me I just hit the end game button and it took me right out

[hefalumps]

If it happens to me on the last out, I can hit the "LEAVE GAME" button at the bottom left. If you don't see it, you might want to try increasing your screen res for future games.

What is still getting me is that if it happens anywhere else in the middle of the game, it crashes to desktop about 95% of the time when trying to put in a sub for the injured pitcher.

So if Markus claims that this bug is fixed in OOTP9, I hope it includes the crash to desktop pitcher injury sub bug as well. At least a few others have run into this and we've already posted several threads on it. Only time will tell if it survived into OOTP9.

[OldFatGuy]

Originally Posted by bababui

I started a 1901 game early this evening and have been playing it until I was hit with the pitcher gets injured on the 3rd out in the ninth bug and the game wont advance. I tried everything including weird double switches but nothing works.

Why cant Markus make a quick patch for this? Could it really take more than an hour? Just dont allow the game to end on an injury..a meaningless switch could be made and the game completed.

I'm wondering if the year has anything to do with it. My game, also in 1901, crashes EVERYTIME my pitcher gets injured. I play out all of my games, one-pitch mode, and therefore will never have to suffer pitcher injuries. However, to try and find commonalities and reproduce the problem, I started a new fictional league, bumped up all pitcher injuries to 200 in commish mode, adjusted league options to injury frequency at its highest, and started playing out games. I've had several injuries since and each time it lets me change the pitcher no problem. The only difference I've found is that in this new fictional test league I began in 2007.

Also, I live in an area that has frequent power outages, and I know that it happened at least once earlier while playing my real game. So, before I left the house (no internet at home, I'm at library), I deliberately unplugged the computer while in my test league to simulate a power outage. I will try playing out games again later to see if that is a possible contributor, but so far only the date is different between the league that locks up EVERYTIME a pitcher is injured and the league that DOESN'T everytime a pitcher is injured. However, too small a sample size to be sure. Anyone else have any input??

I'm very interested in getting this fixed or figuring out a work around, becasue as far as I'm concerned this makes the game unplayable for me as I want to play out all of my games. Any further input appreciated.

[Syd Thrift]

I swear I've seen this "bug" resolved, in fact during beta of OOTP2008. IIRC everything looked like you say but there was a button on the lower left-hand corner of the screen that said "End Game". It took me a couple minutes to find it since I wasn't looking for it but there it was.

As to the last poster's problem, I certainly have not had the game crash every time a pitcher gets hurt and I Eugene Church every game (meaning I sim it until the 7th and play it out from that point forward). Methinks your game got corrupted by one of those power outages.

[BusterKing]

In all due respect Markus, if this bug is still in OOTP8 then it should be fixed because it is a GAME STOPPER!

Never happened to me and I also bought OOTP9 but it's the principal of it. Markus, if you know the fix then you should really have it in a patch for OOTP8 to be fair to your customers.


Just my opinion.