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Qeltar · 05-13-2018, 12:41 PM

There are a lot of things that happen in games that I don't understand. Some are just boneheaded plays that do happen in real baseball from time to time. Others seem to be weakness in the gameplay engine.

Example of the latter off the top of my head is how on a ball hit to the outfield with a hit-and-run active, the outfielder always (IME) tries to throw to first. Even when it's a high, deep fly ball to left and there is 0% chance of any runner being doubled off. In real baseball this would always get cut off to avoid the chance of an error letting the runner advance, but in OOTP I see a rainbow every time.

There isn't a lot of this stuff but there are definitely some head-scratchers here and there.

I like when the game prompts you to ask if you want to send a runner, and wish it would happen more often. It's quite frustrating when you're down by 1 in the ninth and a guy on first is held on a double with 2 outs and your worst hitter coming up. Sometimes you just need to roll the dice.

CriticalMass, maybe if you set the base stealing slider to "Never" on the guy that would have helped?

05-13-2018, 12:41 PM	#4
Qeltar Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 382	There are a lot of things that happen in games that I don't understand. Some are just boneheaded plays that do happen in real baseball from time to time. Others seem to be weakness in the gameplay engine. Example of the latter off the top of my head is how on a ball hit to the outfield with a hit-and-run active, the outfielder always (IME) tries to throw to first. Even when it's a high, deep fly ball to left and there is 0% chance of any runner being doubled off. In real baseball this would always get cut off to avoid the chance of an error letting the runner advance, but in OOTP I see a rainbow every time. There isn't a lot of this stuff but there are definitely some head-scratchers here and there. I like when the game prompts you to ask if you want to send a runner, and wish it would happen more often. It's quite frustrating when you're down by 1 in the ninth and a guy on first is held on a double with 2 outs and your worst hitter coming up. Sometimes you just need to roll the dice. CriticalMass, maybe if you set the base stealing slider to "Never" on the guy that would have helped? Last edited by Qeltar; 05-13-2018 at 12:44 PM.