OOTP 22 Wishlist

[La La La Linoleum]

This is my wish list for OOTP 22, it has some realistic desires and some that are less likely. Everything is categorized and within each category items are sorted by how important they are to me. I have posted this as a new thread so I can have a clean slate with formatting from now on I will post updates in the comments and edit the top of this thread. Blue text indicates that an item was added or amended the last time the list was updated.

Quality of Life Improvements

• The ability to sort and filter shop a player results the same way you can the all players page and the ability to filter so only shortlisted players appear when shopping a player.
  
• The ability to shop/shop for draft picks (toggleable to not overwhelm the results every time, and only showing top pick a team would be willing to trade)
  
• A page that lists all players in world, like the all players in league page
  
• The ability to retire your manager/gm “character” and continue as a new one in the same save
  
• When parent teams are promoted/relegated the game should try to promote and relegate minor league affiliates to the appropriate minor league (if it exists)
  
• Saving information on team promotion/relegation in a cleaner way: In the league history all teams are listed as having been a part of the league since its creation even if they were promoted or relegated into the league sometime afterwards. There are other small discrepancies like this for teams that have been promoted or relegated.
  
• The ability to start a new save with the same league set-up (including teams, stadiums, league settings, etc.) but set to a different start year. So that all the settings I’ve tweaked since the league was founded can be preserved when starting with a clean slate.
  
• A page like the available personnel page that lists all personnel in the world regardless of employment status or league.
  
• Email notifications when shortlisted personnel win awards, retire, and most importantly become available.
  
• Ability to edit coach’s player development skill in the editor when playing in commissioner mode
  
• A simple but powerful schedule creation wizard for custom leagues in the game
  

Statistics and Ratings That I Would Like to See (I understand that due to how hits are calculated in OOTP some of these may not make sense)

• xFIP
  
• xWOBA
  
• A rating indicating mental fortitude that increases accuracy as scout sees more games where the player is used in high leverage situations. This would help choose which pitchers to use in high leverage situations and which to use only when up big
  
• UZR and UZR+
  
• More Prominent display of STATCAST data including exit velo
  

Uniforms

• At least one alternate uniform slot with editable rules on when to use it
  
• Formattable Jersey numbers and names
  
• Editable Socks and Pants
  
• Randomize which uniform gets used for FaceGen pictures on a player’s profile
  
• Pitchers Jackets
  

Fields

• Be able to edit foul territory walls and depths in 3D ballpark construction kit with customizable values and calculated impact on flyouts in foul territory and ballpark factors
  
• Domes, retractable roofs, weather, and AstroTurf should have an impact on ballpark factors when clicking recalculate. (This is probably how it is supposed to work now but ballpark factors don’t change when I hit recalculate)
  
• Outfield hills and obstacles a la Tal’s Hill with associated fielding difficulties and ballpark factors
  
• The ability to choose to have bullpens in play a la Oakland and Tampa Bay
  
• In 3D construction kit the elements can be hidden by higher walls so the ability to raise or lower elements would be interesting to try
  

Graphical Changes

• More ability to mod, edit, and customize game skins
  
• Logos for each sub-league

  In Games

• Pitchers warm-up in bullpen graphically
  
• Objects (like the homerun apple in Citi Field) react to homeruns and the ability for modders to create parks with similar features
  

Baseball Cards

• Token or Variant for Rookie cards
  
• Randomized 1-2 sentence writeup of interesting info or random factoids about players that can be inserted as a token for the back of cards.
  
• More stats tokens (missing stats I’ve wanted to match real cards: win%, total chances, put outs, assists, fielding percentage)
  
• The Error [SEASON_E] token has given me grief, if it does work I am doing something wrong
  
• Action shots (This one is probably a FaceGen limitation)
  
• Award name tokens
  
• The ability to display text vertically
  
• The ability to curve text (This may be an XML limitation)
  
• Other advanced text formatting options
  
• Horizontal rule tag implementation
  
• More customizable random number generator
  
• The ability to use the same random number more than once
  
• The ability to have a text color chosen from a preset list based on a random number
  
• Previous years functionality for [%TEAM_NAME], [%TEAM_NICK], and [%LEAGUE_NAME] tokens
  
• More contextual editing options, including the ability to randomly, or based on tokens, insert one of a number of created strings, perhaps from a text document stored in a sub-folder of bb_cards/templates
  

(a little bit) Out of Left Field

• Occasional interviews with minor impact on fans, owner, and team or player morale, interest and expectations similar to Football Manager
  
• Have large markets and their associated media have impacts on some player’s performance and on whether players choose to stay come contract year.
  
• Introduce a rivalry system with some impact on player performance, fan interest, ticket sales, etc.
  
• I really liked the idea of having more relationships between players that impact where they want to play as in this thread "Additional family connections in OOTP" by siobhan
  
• A beautiful backend database editor to powerfully tweak every last detail of our saves

[brotherblues]

64 BIT

Just please.

[rburgh]

• Radical change to the AH - have a bid queue and an offer queue for each card, and in the AH only show the high bid and low offer. Bids automatically cancelled when you run short of funds, offers when the card sells. And you can cancel a bid or offer at any time. This will drastically reduce the number of pages necessary to page through the auction house and also eliminate the collusive sales where a random iron gets sold for 15,000 PP's to transfer funds to another team. Also, quickselling cards would return the current high bid to the seller rather than the arbitrarily low prices currently. This would improve the viability of the packs only strategy.
• Permanent reduction in the prices of Diamond and Historical packs, probably to gold packs too. Packs only should be a viable strategy, it's probably the most fun way to play the game but at the current pack prices it's almost impossible to field a competitive team. And don't worry, if there are "too many" of a particular card for sale in the AH, my change to the AH rules will lower the sale prices to make sure that it's not profitable to just keep buying packs and selling the cards off.
• Packs should guarantee a certain minimum total of OVR points - say, Standard 330, Gold 375, Historical 390, Diamond 425. And should there be Silver packs? Say 360 minimum and a guaranteed silver?
• The PT universe should be segregated into 4 quadrants.
  • Quadrant 1 - FTP - no teams allowed that have spent any cash on PP's.
  • Quadrant 2 - FTP and "theme" teams - Single franchise entries, entries linking 3-5 franchises, etc. Good for "fun teams" for the guys running one team with cash, or tourneys, or a challenge mode theme.
  • Quadrant 3 - $100 per team limit - Once you spend more than $100 on PP's you get bumped to Quadrant 4.
  • Quadrant 4 - anyone can volunteer, but once you go in, yo can never leave. And if you spend over $100, you're in for good.

[n8n]

Originally Posted by rburgh

• Radical change to the AH - have a bid queue and an offer queue for each card, and in the AH only show the high bid and low offer. Bids automatically cancelled when you run short of funds, offers when the card sells. And you can cancel a bid or offer at any time. This will drastically reduce the number of pages necessary to page through the auction house and also eliminate the collusive sales where a random iron gets sold for 15,000 PP's to transfer funds to another team. Also, quickselling cards would return the current high bid to the seller rather than the arbitrarily low prices currently. This would improve the viability of the packs only strategy.
• Permanent reduction in the prices of Diamond and Historical packs, probably to gold packs too. Packs only should be a viable strategy, it's probably the most fun way to play the game but at the current pack prices it's almost impossible to field a competitive team. And don't worry, if there are "too many" of a particular card for sale in the AH, my change to the AH rules will lower the sale prices to make sure that it's not profitable to just keep buying packs and selling the cards off.
• Packs should guarantee a certain minimum total of OVR points - say, Standard 330, Gold 375, Historical 390, Diamond 425. And should there be Silver packs? Say 360 minimum and a guaranteed silver?
• The PT universe should be segregated into 4 quadrants.
  • Quadrant 1 - FTP - no teams allowed that have spent any cash on PP's.
  • Quadrant 2 - FTP and "theme" teams - Single franchise entries, entries linking 3-5 franchises, etc. Good for "fun teams" for the guys running one team with cash, or tourneys, or a challenge mode theme.
  • Quadrant 3 - $100 per team limit - Once you spend more than $100 on PP's you get bumped to Quadrant 4.
  • Quadrant 4 - anyone can volunteer, but once you go in, yo can never leave. And if you spend over $100, you're in for good.

lol they'd never do the 4 quadrant thing, once you put those who spend money into their own little zone you remove any incentive to spend money

[treymancini]

Can I add one other quality of life thing?

Being able to use arrow keys to scroll through coach pages like you can for players.

Also team history of managers/gms would be amazing.

[ojoe]

Originally Posted by treymancini

Can I add one other quality of life thing?

Being able to use arrow keys to scroll through coach pages like you can for players.

Also team history of managers/gms would be amazing.

I think we can do that now, at least on the Available Personnel page. It may require a settings change, but I have it my head that I can do this now.

But, as a primarily historical player, I would like the ability to select multiple managers/coaches at a time so as to get rid of fictional managers.

And seconded on managers/GMs being included in team histories. That would be fantastic.

[RchW]

Originally Posted by rburgh

• Radical change to the AH - have a bid queue and an offer queue for each card, and in the AH only show the high bid and low offer. Bids automatically cancelled when you run short of funds, offers when the card sells. And you can cancel a bid or offer at any time. This will drastically reduce the number of pages necessary to page through the auction house and also eliminate the collusive sales where a random iron gets sold for 15,000 PP's to transfer funds to another team. Also, quickselling cards would return the current high bid to the seller rather than the arbitrarily low prices currently. This would improve the viability of the packs only strategy.
• Permanent reduction in the prices of Diamond and Historical packs, probably to gold packs too. Packs only should be a viable strategy, it's probably the most fun way to play the game but at the current pack prices it's almost impossible to field a competitive team. And don't worry, if there are "too many" of a particular card for sale in the AH, my change to the AH rules will lower the sale prices to make sure that it's not profitable to just keep buying packs and selling the cards off.
• Packs should guarantee a certain minimum total of OVR points - say, Standard 330, Gold 375, Historical 390, Diamond 425. And should there be Silver packs? Say 360 minimum and a guaranteed silver?
• The PT universe should be segregated into 4 quadrants.
  • Quadrant 1 - FTP - no teams allowed that have spent any cash on PP's.
  • Quadrant 2 - FTP and "theme" teams - Single franchise entries, entries linking 3-5 franchises, etc. Good for "fun teams" for the guys running one team with cash, or tourneys, or a challenge mode theme.
  • Quadrant 3 - $100 per team limit - Once you spend more than $100 on PP's you get bumped to Quadrant 4.
  • Quadrant 4 - anyone can volunteer, but once you go in, yo can never leave. And if you spend over $100, you're in for good.

Shouldn't this be in the PT forum?

[jpeters1734]

Originally Posted by rburgh

• Radical change to the AH - have a bid queue and an offer queue for each card, and in the AH only show the high bid and low offer. Bids automatically cancelled when you run short of funds, offers when the card sells. And you can cancel a bid or offer at any time. This will drastically reduce the number of pages necessary to page through the auction house and also eliminate the collusive sales where a random iron gets sold for 15,000 PP's to transfer funds to another team. Also, quickselling cards would return the current high bid to the seller rather than the arbitrarily low prices currently. This would improve the viability of the packs only strategy.
• Permanent reduction in the prices of Diamond and Historical packs, probably to gold packs too. Packs only should be a viable strategy, it's probably the most fun way to play the game but at the current pack prices it's almost impossible to field a competitive team. And don't worry, if there are "too many" of a particular card for sale in the AH, my change to the AH rules will lower the sale prices to make sure that it's not profitable to just keep buying packs and selling the cards off.
• Packs should guarantee a certain minimum total of OVR points - say, Standard 330, Gold 375, Historical 390, Diamond 425. And should there be Silver packs? Say 360 minimum and a guaranteed silver?
• The PT universe should be segregated into 4 quadrants.
  • Quadrant 1 - FTP - no teams allowed that have spent any cash on PP's.
  • Quadrant 2 - FTP and "theme" teams - Single franchise entries, entries linking 3-5 franchises, etc. Good for "fun teams" for the guys running one team with cash, or tourneys, or a challenge mode theme.
  • Quadrant 3 - $100 per team limit - Once you spend more than $100 on PP's you get bumped to Quadrant 4.
  • Quadrant 4 - anyone can volunteer, but once you go in, yo can never leave. And if you spend over $100, you're in for good.

This post is exactly the reason why I hate perfect team. nothing against you, I just hate the fact that it's a thing

[Thrasybulus]

If the awards data export is going to have the top 3 places for ROY, etc. then it ought to show that ranking in the database output. Currently, there's no way to know who was the winner, and who was in 2nd or 3rd place just from the db output.

[nebben]

Originally Posted by ojoe

But, as a primarily historical player, I would like the ability to select multiple managers/coaches at a time so as to get rid of fictional managers.

And seconded on managers/GMs being included in team histories. That would be fantastic.

Yes to both

[RchW]

Originally Posted by jpeters1734

This post is exactly the reason why I hate perfect team. nothing against you, I just hate the fact that it's a thing

Besides the fact that this is not a PT thread.

[strzepeksc]

head to head play like Dave Koch Sports Game provides

[OutS|der]

Originally Posted by jpeters1734

This post is exactly the reason why I hate perfect team. nothing against you, I just hate the fact that it's a thing

Same. PT is the worst thing they’ve ever added to the game. Sadly the new owners will likely make it the priority if not the main focus.

[Shoeless' Socks]

Originally Posted by OutS|der

Same. PT is the worst thing they’ve ever added to the game. Sadly the new owners will likely make it the priority if not the main focus.

Yep.

[murp0560]

Definitely agree that PT will be the focus, but let me say this money talks. Without the PT Money, OOTP doesn’t get acquired and OOTP never gets the OOTP go that we’ve been promised for years. So ultimately is PT the highlight that gets all the attention? YES. But are there some benefits for us hardcore users as a result of the extra money and attention AlSO YES.

[jpeters1734]

Originally Posted by murp0560

Definitely agree that PT will be the focus, but let me say this money talks. Without the PT Money, OOTP doesn’t get acquired and OOTP never gets the OOTP go that we’ve been promised for years. So ultimately is PT the highlight that gets all the attention? YES. But are there some benefits for us hardcore users as a result of the extra money and attention AlSO YES.

What do you think ootp go is? It will simply be another method to feed us PT cards

[falcon4e]

When you shop a player, I would like the ability for it to be sorted out by what the AI thinks is the best offer.

[Guanyuzhizi]

Only thing I want is real-time multiplayer leagues (Football Manager style)