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Originally Posted by fredbeene
I think this is fabulous!!!! Greatly appreciated. I wish there was guidance and how we could have several people merge there ideas that woudn't break with upgrades! " )
Do you see a way you can incorporate regional news and information?
ie
milwaukee can have lots of references to beer
sweltering houston heat
perhaps incoproate historical news....ie replay 1966 and be able to pull in news for that day.
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hiya,
theres no way to incorporate that stuff into the play by play, if thats what you mean. if would love to have a stadium/park condition in the game so one could have park specific reference in the game (green monster, mel allen's ballantine blasts in yankee stadium in the 50s etc). that opens a whole other dimension.
right now, ive focused strictly on the pbp. it took a bit of time to get my head wrapped around how to write it well enough and i think i have a flow down to add new things relatively quickly. i spent the weekend testing and troubleshooting the ones i did add, so those are working much better. i have about another 1000-ish new ones to add that are just on paper so i want to get crackin on those.
regional news and info is a neat idea. ive used the year minimum/maximum conditions in the play by play to drop the occasional random cultural reference. i think what youre describing may be very well suited for the storylines aspect, especially incorporating references from a specific time period. thats sort of an open-world playground there. ive only had a superficial look at that aspect but its really interesting to me. once i get a few more of the pbp updates done, ill see how the storylines work.
as far as adding that kind of information into the regular game recaps, there is a team localpaper token but my guess is that it just takes the name of the team's city and appends 'Daily' to it (eg, the Milwaukee Daily). the game doesnt know what the "Midwest" is for example. it seems like it would be hard to write decade/team/park specific items for a category like recaps.