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Originally Posted by StyxNCa
I've seen so many pbp bugs. An outfielder chasing a ball in the gap with another outfielder also in chase, and one outfielder calls himself off the play then makes the play.
I've seen 3rd basemen catching line drives over 1st base.
I've seen players named as making a play in the field that weren't even in the game.
The pbp is pretty shabby. I do get a few laughs out of it. My guess is beta testers just sim everything because there is no way on earth all these pbp errors would have gotten thru if any actually played out games. This is my argument for public betas.
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I'd consider that a slap in the face if I were one of the guys that worked to write all that text. There are over 700 pages of xml code for news and pbp, there's bound to be mistakes somewhere in there.
I spent a week reading through every line and finding any and all errors that I possibly could (and I'm sure there are ones I missed). You need to update to the new xml file too, because all those hard coded players (Drysdale for pitchers and Davis for fielders) were caught... unless they missed one I reported, or have since added something new that ended up with the problem again.
Currently, there are two (myself included) people constantly reporting pbp errors in the thread for doing so still trying to work out any problems.
Also, not all of it is the xml files fault. Players calling themselves off, misreporting a second fielder (first fielder throws to a second) is the game itself sending bad info to the call. The xml text object may say (second baseman) throws to (fielder 2), where fielder 2 should be the guy at first catching the ball, the game sends the wrong info and you get an out at first by the second baseman throwing to the left fielder.
So bash the writers, and us who've volunteered our time trying to make the pbp better for you guys if you want to... just know a lot of people have put (and continue to put) a lot of time into making it, and editing it and TRYING to fix any and all problems that exist.
I can't speak for the writers, or the other guy trying to find errors, but I'm always happy to know my work on it is appreciated.