OOTP 19 Feature List!

[zappa1]

Wow. I like so many of the improvements that I can't say which one(s) I like the best. So I like them all.

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by Orioles1966

Will we see the ability to schedule regular season games between teams from different leagues(and the stats from that game goes to the corresponding leagues)?

You can already do this manually IIRC.

[Déjà Bru]

For these things alone I would be willing to pay much more than I did for OOTPB 19:

• New scouting report text & player development graphs
• Added the option to choose between six different interface font
• Manager home page now has customizable sized widgets
• Fixed bug which caused interactive storylines to not trigger
• The cursor keys up / down now let you scroll through player lists while viewing a player profile
• Added accurate single game records to historical database and default MLB games.

Oh, did I say that out loud? Never mind. Please disregard.

[BBGiovanni]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

- Tournaments may optionally take teams that already play in other leagues

Hooray! I think. So one can have a tourney among AL, NL, and *** teams, for instance? This is a major aspect of my favorite fictional universe that I could never simulate in-game before!!

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

- Added the option to choose between six different interface fonts

Not something I really cared about but on reading it I can't wait to mess with it!

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

- Added the Pacific Association independent league

WOOOOOO go Stompers!

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

- Improved draft pick trading AI

I bet that was easy Looking forward to actually trading for a draft pick someday!

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

- Injured players no longer need to be immediately replaced in-game

From reading the explanations here I don't think this impacted any of my games before but I guess I was lucky. What a nasty bug, thanks for killing it!

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

- Added playoff history to league history page

A good example of "one man's minor is another man's major", now I don't have to keep track in my J. Henry Waugh notebook!!

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

- Can now skip player creation when adding a league to a world already in progress

Again, minor=major; every time I build a world I have to delete all the players and regenerate them once I fix the parameters.

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

- Added filter in coach lists for available jobs

If this means we can sift the lists to find only pitching coaches who will take a job in Rk-Kingsport or the DSL... woot! I can turn coaches on again!

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

- Added arm angle rating for pitchers. This is used for platoon splits. Historical DB contains arm angles for historical pitchers

/screechinghalt... where was this information found?

Thanks for posting these, it's nice to have a list of features to look for when starting a new version for the first time!

[spleen1015]

Lots of things on this list that I like. There are many of the minor features that sound good to me!

Thanks team!

[cavebutter]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

- Can now skip player creation when adding a league to a world already in progress

This is major. This is really, really, big for those of us who like to grow our worlds.

[dtizzle]

I agree with you...Major... having a league come in trolling for free agents vs. being populated or having some kind of initial draft is money.

[Orioles1966]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

You can already do this manually IIRC.

Do the stats still all go to the home team's league?

[rjl518]

how about the ability to "clear player strategy" with just a click of a button instead of going through every player and changing his strategy manually?

[hjrrockies]

Originally Posted by rjl518

how about the ability to "clear player strategy" with just a click of a button instead of going through every player and changing his strategy manually?

amen

[MrBojangles]

March 19th.... March 19th.... March 19th....

Kind of like waiting for Christmas as a kid.

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by rjl518

how about the ability to "clear player strategy" with just a click of a button instead of going through every player and changing his strategy manually?

Oh yeah, that's in too. Forgot it on the list

[Orioles1966]

Schedule editor-ability to schedule neutral site games?

There is a lot of empty space on the schedule editor so space shouldn't be a problem.

[drksd4848]

You guys ever think of adding a feature to "save event replay/highlight/box score"? You set the parameters as to what event is saved.

For example, you set it for this: a pitcher sets the league strikeout record, the game automatically saves the recap, replay, highlights, or box score, according to what you'd like. It could also make a season ending highlight reel for a league or a team. All saved for posterity!

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by actionjackson

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this. Now, can you possibly add the option to lock league strategy settings to a particular year as well, or would that be too difficult? I like to play random debut and I lock my league totals and league strategy settings to 1984 settings in my random debut historicals because it means if Mariano Rivera (or any other really good closer) enters my league in 1901, he will get used more than a handful of times. 1901 strategy settings generally make starters go all the way in most games, which makes having a really good closer kind of pointless. Locking the league totals keeps offensive output somewhere between the deadball era and the steroid era, which is my comfort zone.

I know this is quite a niche request, but in case you missed it I'll repeat it here. I just figured since adding the ability to lock league stats totals to a particular year appeared to be added relatively easily (don't know if it actually was, it just appeared that way), that this could also be a possibility for league strategy settings. If it's more difficult than my computer simpleton brain thinks it should be, feel free to disregard this. It just appeared to be quite easy to add the other one.

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by actionjackson

I know this is quite a niche request, but in case you missed it I'll repeat it here. I just figured since adding the ability to lock league stats totals to a particular year appeared to be added relatively easily (don't know if it actually was, it just appeared that way), that this could also be a possibility for league strategy settings. If it's more difficult than my computer simpleton brain thinks it should be, feel free to disregard this. It just appeared to be quite easy to add the other one.

Currently the strategy settings are altered in the code that also handles the auto-expansion / team changes and the other rule changes. I could move that to its own function, but I am not sure I have enough time prior to release, as this is not trivial.

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by drksd4848

You guys ever think of adding a feature to "save event replay/highlight/box score"? You set the parameters as to what event is saved.

For example, you set it for this: a pitcher sets the league strikeout record, the game automatically saves the recap, replay, highlights, or box score, according to what you'd like. It could also make a season ending highlight reel for a league or a team. All saved for posterity!

That'S actually a very good idea... hmmm. I'll write it down.

[Andy]

I know we can do it manually, but I think it would be nice if a condensed MLB quickstart is included in the game. You would only have 4 or 5 levels of minors. You could just release the lowest rated prospects in the free agent pool or delete them all together.

Also, I would like to be able to filter by the year a player was born. I know we can do by age, but when I do that I notice that some of the players ages have rolled over and I end up with someone born in the 1800s, but their age only shows at like 55 in 2017. Even though I am fan of the history of baseball I only like players that I grew up on (i'm almost 35) to show up in the record books so I usually delete anyone over the age of 60 out of the retired players.

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Currently the strategy settings are altered in the code that also handles the auto-expansion / team changes and the other rule changes. I could move that to its own function, but I am not sure I have enough time prior to release, as this is not trivial.

Thanks for your response. Don't worry about it. Sounds a bit hairy.

[sprague]

Originally Posted by Andy

I know we can do it manually, but I think it would be nice if a condensed MLB quickstart is included in the game. You would only have 4 or 5 levels of minors. You could just release the lowest rated prospects in the free agent pool or delete them all together.

Also, I would like to be able to filter by the year a player was born. I know we can do by age, but when I do that I notice that some of the players ages have rolled over and I end up with someone born in the 1800s, but their age only shows at like 55 in 2017. Even though I am fan of the history of baseball I only like players that I grew up on (i'm almost 35) to show up in the record books so I usually delete anyone over the age of 60 out of the retired players.

First thing i do once the game is out