OOTP 9 quickstart-building the history

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

By default, the league ought to start in 1961 with no prehistory. The whole point of the quickstart is to allow people to jump in and play. A quickstart that makes them wait half an hour is not really a quickstart. If you do want to sim 10 seasons, sim them before you release the game and include the save.

I agree. Good idea.

[Go Tribe]

glad to see that 1961 was chosen

ootp really going after the 60 and older crowd of new customers

oh and the .01% of the general public that's not over 60 that cares about baseball history but still hasn't found out about ootp yet

you need a marketing person to do your marketing, not your current fan base

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by Go Tribe

glad to see that 1961 was chosen

ootp really going after the 60 and older crowd of new customers

oh and the .01% of the general public that's not over 60 that cares about baseball history but still hasn't found out about ootp yet

you need a marketing person to do your marketing, not your current fan base

This is not constructive.

[Go Tribe]

sorry, but i really want ootp's fan base to grow as well - and to do that, you're going to have to go after the crowd that wants to see if they can manage their current favorite team better than their team's current gm...

i wish they'd at least consider a 2008 quickstart to go along with a historical one

it's too late but i think a 1994 one would have been cool - trying to see how baseball would have finished without the strike

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by Go Tribe

i wish they'd at least consider a 2008 quickstart to go along with a historical one

Um, one is included.

[Caporegime]

Wow! I was going to ask the same question that 84Hammy asked, but the prospect of turning OOTP into a multiple gigabyte download is about as appealing to me as french-kissing a garlic-breathed Margot Kidder without her dentures. Blah!

Nevermind

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by Caporegime

Wow! I was going to ask the same question that 84Hammy asked, but the prospect of turning OOTP into a multiple gigabyte download is about as appealing to me as french-kissing a garlic-breathed Margot Kidder without her dentures. Blah!

Nevermind

Um, when zipped, it is less than 20 megabytes.

[Go Tribe]

Originally Posted by Raidergoo

Um, one is included.

oh

[Caporegime]

Originally Posted by Raidergoo

That's 1.21 gigabytes of data!

Originally Posted by Raidergoo

Um, when zipped, it is less than 20 megabytes.

Okay, so if WinZip or WinRAR can miraculously compress 1.21 GB of data down to a mere 20 megs, then why not simulate and include a complete league history from 1901-1961?

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by Caporegime

Okay, so if WinZip or WinRAR can miraculously compress 1.21 GB of data down to a mere 20 megs, then why not simulate and include a complete league history from 1901-1961?

I use 7-zip. The 1.21 gigabytes was a pun, taken from Back to the Future, where 1.21 gigawatts of electricity blasts Marty back to the future. The actual size is closer to 150 megabytes uncompressed.

I heartily endorse 7-zip.