OOTP 9 release date & 2 new features revealed!

[southside_hitmen]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

What exactly do you mean? There is already manager history in the game.

I think he means the ability to import it lahman style. When u import a historical league manager histories don't import along with player histories

[Rain Delay]

Not one new feature made me think "meh.. I don't really care about that".

I can't wait.

[Bonedwarf]

Not buying OOTP9 as I've barely used OOTP8 since I got it (still setting my league up!) but that's some nice new toys.

[gbmoore121]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

That's exactly what this is meant for

Some things to think about for the replay option down the road:

• Set save criteria. (No hitters, milestones, etc)
  
• Have the replays linked in players histories for different achievements.

[jbmagic]

Sim replays are cool.

Just be sure it doesn"t mess up the stats by adding to it everytime you replay it.

[Jaset7]

Markus you are amazing. OOTP is the best text based sports sim of all time.

[eriqjaffe]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

It took me just three minutes to set these locations up for this park, so it is no big deal at all, and more precise than triangulation if using lines.

But 3 minutes * 30 ballparks...that's an hour and a half right there.

Clicking on 5 or 6 points on the image would probably only take...oh, 5 or 6 seconds per park.

[texasmame]

I didn't see either of these coming for OOTP9. The replay feature is pretty cool and never even thought of it.

I gotta ask - did you have the mild animation idea or did we give it to you? Or, if you did have it but were unsure, did my little poll push you over the edge on it?

Either way, I just marked the release date on my calander!

Looks REAL GOOD, Marcus!!!

[damonrusst]

Originally Posted by eriqjaffe

While this is really cool, judging by this:



It's gonna be kind of a nightmare to configure these, especially if your parks aren't all identically photographed.

I suggest that, in future, all one should need to do is identify home plate and then "draw lines" to the outfield wall? Or, at the least, identify home plate, the left field corner, left center, etc. and then have the game auto-fill the other positions? It should be fairly simple math for the game to calculate those locations based on a few key ones.

I think the system as it appears in the screenshot looks great. I would cast a strong vote against the "draw lines" method. Mogul had something like this in its last version and if you didn't have a pic with home centered at bottom of screen and both foul poles pictured, you got some really wacky ball paths.

Gets very problematic with older parks where it's hard to find photos with both foul poles in them.

How does OOTP9's system deal with park photos (like Cleveland's League park photo in one of the mods) that don't picture the entire field? Or show it from a strange angle? I'm assuming it works better than mogul's but how do you show a home run curving around the foul pole if you've got no foul pole in your shot?

[Qrusher14242]

will setting up the ball locations also set up the fielders? or do we have to do both now.

[Antonin]

Added a 'cannot be fired' option to the manager options

Thank you Markus. Thank you. I can't wait for June 18!

[ootp3to6]

Originally Posted by MizzouRah

Simple ball flights! I like it!!

Like the replays as well.. for a solo player that likes to sim sometimes.. would be great to go back to say.. a no-hitter and relive that day!

Me too!

[ootp3to6]

Originally Posted by satchel

This is a dream come true for me.

I like this.

[ootp3to6]

Originally Posted by Raidergoo

They are different.

Great news that fictional quickstart comes with different fictional stadiums and park factors.

[Metsvir2]

Will all my 2007/8 Info be uploaded to OOTP 9 smoothly? I have 2 great scout s and a great dynasty i want to continue

[Kelric]

Originally Posted by Metsvir2

Will all my 2007/8 Info be uploaded to OOTP 9 smoothly? I have 2 great scout s and a great dynasty i want to continue

In theory, yes.

[mgom27]

I hope in first Patch maybe
I have said these before here but no anwser for Marcus yet.
Unsigned Prospects and Team Report Pages
Home Run Derby
Futures Games
Teams put up for sale
Expansion by the Computer Comissiner
Minor League Rehab
Minor League Team Contracts with a Pro Team
Non Rosters People,Split Squad Games,Spring Training Stadiums,Minor League Camp,teams senting their Opening Day Rosters before Spring Training is over and so on.
The ability to have Inter League Play all year round and the DH/Pitcher in the same Linuep.
Just waiting for the Game to come out.
Replay a Inning is nice.

[Russ]

Great ideas, mgom! Hopefully these make it in future versions.

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by eriqjaffe

But 3 minutes * 30 ballparks...that's an hour and a half right there.

I'm hoping that the Action button that you see in the lower right of that screen will have an option to "Assign batted ball locations to all parks" like you can do with player coordinates now. That works well if you have a series of similarly-dimensioned ballpark pictures like the Bogart collection that I use.

[Bobbuttons]

Originally Posted by mgom27

Unsigned Prospects and Team Organation Pages

What do their organs have to do with anything?


Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!, by the way.