[pauwoo]

There are a few performance issues in Strangeverse - some aesthetic (I sometimes lose immersion into the universe due to my MLB team name and logo set - I’ve toyed with the idea of rebranding, but it takes a while) and some that materially affect gameplay - namely all the errors, and more pointedly the disproportionate errors committed by third basemen. Let’s just say, when I took a gander at the settings as they stood, my high league-wide error totals came into focus... as did a few other things, like the fact that the player creation engine doesn’t produce a lot of good fielders and is pitcher heavy and produces far too many Closers with maxed out potential.

As a result, I’ve updated the player creation & performance modifiers - matched them to the default settings that OOTP uses for the ***, though I dialed back the bunting - they leg out too many bunts in the ***... Side note: I created a verse where I brought Kruk over to the Nippon-Ham Fighters - plugged the 1991 break out, 1st time All-Star Kruk in and watched him wreak havoc for a season. I planned on reporting on it - it was tentatively titled Kruk-zilla... ultimately it was so fun that I hammered through it in a few days. He led the league in average and finished 3rd or 4th in HR’s - the Fighters finished 5th. But, I digress - I was just going to say that I chose those settings because *** games are a lot of fun to watch in OOTP - small ball at its finest and most disruptive.

I’m also adding 4 new clubs to the MLB for the 2076 tricentennial season... and have 3 new unaffiliated colleges in the mail for the NCAA feeder... but, I’m just getting ahead of myself now.