As per Clay's request. Comment away, gents.
Printable View
As per Clay's request. Comment away, gents.
For me, the #1 new feature I'd request is an "Almanac" of some sort--an automated yearly output (preferably HTML) of all of the stats, leader boards, etc. of your league. The best I've seen is the CatoBase for OOTP, which looks like this: http://ngbl.exoverge.com/UAL/catobase/index.html
If stats output at the level of catobase could be added to Mogul 2007, and the current feature set refined to work well (FA signing AI tightened up, player personalities making a little more sense, etc.), it would make it worth the price of purchase for me without any other features.
After an almanac, I'd list them in the following order:
1. Enhanced Injury Engine (the ability to play hurt, e.g. "he's at 85%" etc.)--Would greatly help realism. As things stand currently, not nearly enough guys are playing 158-162 games, and one reason is that they can't play hurt.
2. More severe personality effects (e.g. "clubhouse poison") --This, along with a little more logical definition to the personalities (no more guys who are "Serious but silly", for example), would be very nice.
3. Player-of-the-month (week, game) awards--Would add a little more flavor to things.
Also, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, PUT RBI NEXT TO HR ON THE PLAYER CARD, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!! There's virtually nowhere, other than Mogul, that you'll see baseball stats done any other way.
One more...
"Bidding" for free agents against the AI.--Rather than immediately being able to sign a guy, enter your bid, and AI teams enter bids, too
isnt drag and drop included in 2k6?
an auto-sort lock feature is a must.
basically, when somebody gets hurt, i have already put my minor league player in a certain order, then the stupid CPU ruins all my work i did...4 example: like a 80+ player in A ball instead of AAA. I would love to see this feature....
i think that a check box next to the players would be the best...
or even just a major league roster autosort only, and then a minor league autosort button.
Here's the current order:Quote:
Originally posted by SkyDog
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, PUT RBI NEXT TO HR ON THE PLAYER CARD, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!! There's virtually nowhere, other than Mogul, that you'll see baseball stats done any other way.
"Year","G","AB","H","AVG","2B","3B","HR","BB","K", "SB","CS","SH","R","RBI","OBP","SLG"
How about this (virtually identical to ESPN.com):
"Year","G","AB","R","H","2B","3B","HR","RBI","BB","K", "SB","CS","SH","AVG","OBP","SLG"
Clay
Yes!!! That's how virtually every baseball card I had as a boy was laid out (except that OBP and SLG weren't there in those days), and a much more standard way of doing it. I just checked, and that is also pretty much identical to Baseball Reference, too.Quote:
Originally posted by Clay Dreslough
Here's the current order:
"Year","G","AB","H","AVG","2B","3B","HR","BB","K", "SB","CS","SH","R","RBI","OBP","SLG"
How about this (virtually identical to ESPN.com):
"Year","G","AB","R","H","2B","3B","HR","RBI","BB","K", "SB","CS","SH","AVG","OBP","SLG"
Clay
Please add:
Team Stats Output - the ability to display, sort and print a range of team stats ( not just through the standings screen ). Like below.
Code:Tm R/G R G AB H 2B 3B HR BB SO BA OBP SLG SB CS OPS+
+---+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+----+---+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+
STL 5.28 855 162 5555 1544 319 24 214 548 1085 .278 .344 .460 111 47 116
SFG 5.25 850 162 5546 1500 314 33 183 705 874 .270 .357 .438 43 23 109
PHI 5.19 840 162 5643 1505 303 23 215 645 1133 .267 .345 .443 100 27 107
COL 5.14 833 162 5577 1531 331 34 202 568 1181 .275 .345 .455 44 33 96
ATL 4.96 803 162 5570 1503 304 37 178 587 1158 .270 .343 .434 86 32 106
HOU 4.96 803 162 5468 1458 294 36 187 590 999 .267 .342 .436 89 30 106
CHC 4.87 789 162 5628 1508 308 29 235 489 1080 .268 .328 .458 66 28 102
SDP 4.74 768 162 5573 1521 304 32 139 566 910 .273 .342 .414 52 25 108
LAD 4.70 761 162 5542 1450 226 30 203 536 1092 .262 .332 .423 102 41 104
CIN 4.63 750 162 5518 1380 287 28 194 599 1335 .250 .331 .418 77 25 106
FLA 4.43 718 162 5486 1447 275 32 148 499 968 .264 .329 .406 96 43 99
NYM 4.22 684 162 5532 1376 289 20 185 512 1159 .249 .317 .409 107 23 92
PIT 4.22 680 161 5483 1428 267 39 142 415 1066 .260 .321 .401 63 40 94
MIL 3.94 634 161 5483 1358 295 32 135 540 1312 .248 .321 .387 138 40 92
MON 3.92 635 162 5474 1361 276 27 151 496 925 .249 .313 .392 109 38 90
ARI 3.80 615 162 5544 1401 295 38 135 441 1022 .253 .310 .393 53 32 84
+---+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+----+---+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+
Tot 4.64 12018 2590 88622 23271 4687 494 2846 8736 17299 .263 .329 .423 1336 527
Tm R/G RA G ERA IP H H/G BB BB/G HR SO CG SHO SV ERA+
+---+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---+---+---+
ATL 4.12 668 162 3.74 1450 1475 9.1 523 3.2 154 1025 4 13 48 115
STL 4.07 659 162 3.75 1453 1378 8.5 440 2.7 169 1041 4 12 57 112
CHC 4.10 665 162 3.81 1465 1363 8.4 545 3.4 169 1346 3 6 42 118
LAD 4.22 684 162 4.01 1453 1386 8.6 521 3.2 178 1066 2 6 51 103
SDP 4.35 705 162 4.03 1441 1460 9.0 422 2.6 184 1079 3 8 44 100
HOU 4.31 698 162 4.05 1443 1416 8.7 525 3.2 174 1282 2 13 47 106
NYM 4.51 731 162 4.09 1449 1452 9.0 592 3.7 156 977 2 6 31 104
FLA 4.32 700 162 4.10 1439 1395 8.6 513 3.2 166 1116 6 14 53 100
MIL 4.70 757 161 4.24 1442 1440 8.9 476 3.0 164 1098 6 10 42 97
PIT 4.62 744 161 4.29 1428 1451 9.0 576 3.6 149 1079 3 8 46 96
SFG 4.75 770 162 4.29 1457 1481 9.1 548 3.4 161 1020 8 8 46 102
MON 4.75 769 162 4.33 1447 1477 9.1 582 3.6 191 1032 11 11 31 96
PHI 4.82 781 162 4.45 1462 1488 9.2 502 3.1 214 1070 4 5 43 98
ARI 5.55 899 162 4.98 1436 1480 9.1 668 4.1 197 1153 5 6 33 89
CIN 5.60 907 162 5.19 1443 1595 9.8 572 3.5 236 992 5 8 47 77
COL 5.70 923 162 5.54 1435 1634 10.1 697 4.3 198 947 3 2 36 91
+---+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---+---+---+
TOT 4.64 12060 2590 4.30 23146 23371 9.0 8702 3.4 2860 17323 71 136 697
Clay, could you make the RBI move an option on the player's cards? I'm used to it being where it is in Mogul.
Editable Vital Stats - I seriously want to make all of the players vital stats editable too. It bugs me seeing all these rookies in 2005 with the same random information.
Advanced Hall Of Fame (induct players from before your game started) - This is a MUST! The game should be able to pick hall of famers from earlier years other then never being put in. (players in 2005 like Wade Boggs, Roger Maris, David Cone, Rickey Henderson etc.)
The Lahman Id as Picture Id - Change the picture files from the first 10 letters of their name to their lahman id number, so the Mark Mclemores, Luis Gonzalez's etc. have different pictures
Advanced Expansion - Have the power to control when teams expand or move or make it random. This means making your or expansions. Also being able to play with the team.
Possible 4 Divisions - this would be nice, but not necessary.
More awards/milestones - Beat so and so in the top ten homerun hitters, 1st game, last game, Silver Slugger, Triple Crown, #1 hitting catcher ever to present, perhaps even the Roberto Clemente and Hutch awards too.
General Manager Scouting Report - How cool would it be to have your manegering skills scouted? Also same with the computer GMs.
MOST IMPORTANT
Waivers System - we BADLY need a waivers system. Computer controlled teams constantly put 80+ overall players in the minor league. There perfectly good players and could be used greatly by smaller teams.
Rule 5 Draft So we don't have the problem of these 27 year old rookies staying in the same minor league system for 10 years!
40 Man Roster - So we don't have to bring up these guys in Single - A who are some of our best prospects whenever someone gets injured, just put someone in the 40 man on the team.
The waivers system and rule V draft are necessary.
I'd like to see Japanese players pop up in the FA pool from time to time. With Japanese stats too. I'd also like to see players go to the Japanese leagues and come back or undrafted players go there and show up later instead of dissapearing
Almost forgot; how about 2 A ball clubs. Most MLB teams have 3 and it's often the level where a guy either makes it or not. The ability to not put all of your hope into one guy at the A level would be great. This would probably work well with the Auto-sort minors function.
Something I'd like to see is to have the Team>History window display a team's entire history, instead of just the years that you've played. It'd make it seem more like your team is part of the franchise's history, instead of being isolated from the past.
1 Separate the major and minor auto sort
2 I'd love stadium improvements Building a new Fenway just to boost revenue kills me.
3 Three way trades while I hadn't thought of it before, would be lots of fun.
4 Manager signings is a really good one. Season Ticket Baseball had it, it seemed like a good idea. (I found that game too difficult to monkey with to be worth the trouble to play.)
5 Revenue sharing yes. Salary cap only as an option.
6 Computer controlled commish as an option.
7 Computer Owner as an option.
8 Free agent bidding as an option.With some sort of market indicator, if you get in a bidding war it'd be useful to be able to see what other players have signed for.
9 Other #1 How 'bout September call ups?
10 Other #2 More space for stats on the leaderboard. I hate only being able to see two to four stats at a time. I'd like at least Wins, K's, ERA, Saves, and AVG.,HR,RBI,AND Hits, to be on the screen at the same time.
Other #3 Luxury tax would be good and could be used as a way to prevent star stacking.
i like the old way too....Quote:
Originally posted by LankfordFanClub
Clay, could you make the RBI move an option on the player's cards? I'm used to it being where it is in Mogul.
I totally got used to the old way and it's really difficult now. I prefer the way it's been done on Mogul to the actual way anyway.
Me too, I prefer it the old way.Quote:
Originally posted by SFSteveG
I totally got used to the old way and it's really difficult now. I prefer the way it's been done on Mogul to the actual way anyway.
One thing I'm like top see added to the Hall of Fame: "caps"...have the game specify which team's cap a player wears to the HOF, and list that next to their name.
Here are some of the things Doom would like to see in 2K7 listed in no particular order.
Interactive Play-By-Play (e.g. choose when to pinch hit, sacrifice, steal, bring in relievers etc.)
-I would love to be able to manage important games via play-by-play. I also think that the addition of play-by-play would increase the Baseball Mogul audience.
Platoon splits (lefty/righty stats and lefty/righty lineups)
-I just want the ability to set the lineups more than anything. I know that some might think setting two lineups is a hassle but quite honestly, since Baseball Mogul now takes platoon differentials into consideration, I would rather set two lineups a few times than one lineup many times.
Separate majors/minors Auto-Sort buttons
-A definite must have for 2K7.
Player Hot Streaks. More Morale Depth + More severe personality effects (e.g. "clubhouse poison")
-One of my favorite new features in 2K6 is the players’ personality traits. I think they bring something unique to Baseball Mogul over other baseball text simulations and I feel that improving or enhancing the personality traits can only be a good thing.
Computer-controlled commissioner (vetoes cash-only trades, disallows team movement, etc.)
-Could be used to prevent players from taking advantage of holes in the AI as far as trades are concerned.
"Almanac" (automated yearly HTML output of all of stats, standings and leaders)
-An almanac like SkyDog described would be an awesome edition to Baseball Mogul. The CatoBase is one of the things that I admire about OOTP.
Other (Improved AI)
-The AI in Baseball Mogul is still weak in my opinion. The addition of player personalities and team chemistry have made it a little more challenging for me but I think that’s only because I take them seriously. I still think the problem with the AI lies in its predictability and, therefore, I don’t think that building a perfect AI that never makes mistakes or putting a handicap on the human controlled team is the solution. I wouldn’t mind seeing something like GM personalities assigned to each computer controlled team where they all have their own unique strategy to building the perfect team. To keep things interesting and unpredictable, you could also have the GM personalities change from time to time to simulate GM hiring’s and firing’s.
I like this a lot. It would be nice to see a GM who prefers a running team give up good HR hitting prospects for a base stealer or a GM who prefers power pitchers.Quote:
Originally posted by DrDoom
Other (Improved AI)
-The AI in Baseball Mogul is still weak in my opinion. The addition of player personalities and team chemistry have made it a little more challenging for me but I think that’s only because I take them seriously. I still think the problem with the AI lies in its predictability and, therefore, I don’t think that building a perfect AI that never makes mistakes or putting a handicap on the human controlled team is the solution. I wouldn’t mind seeing something like GM personalities assigned to each computer controlled team where they all have their own unique strategy to building the perfect team. To keep things interesting and unpredictable, you could also have the GM personalities change from time to time to simulate GM hiring’s and firing’s.
I agree with razorshines about the HOF. I'd like to see which team a player was most associated with during thier career.
1. doubleheaders
2. voted for "waivers", but only because people have said it would stop the AI signing people who belong in the majors and sticking them in the minors. other ways of stopping that are fine with me.
3. can i vote for "move the pitcher's slot in the batting order" twice?
The game has been able to load pictures with the Lahman ID since Lahman was added in 2K4. The apparent problem with 2K6 is that it will also look for similar IDs.Quote:
Originally posted by liveandletdie
The Lahman Id as Picture Id - Change the picture files from the first 10 letters of their name to their lahman id number, so the Mark Mclemores, Luis Gonzalez's etc. have different pictures
In other words, if you only have a picture for one Luis Gonzalez and it has his Lahman ID, it will also display for the one without a picture but there would be no problem if you had a picture for both.
I'd like to see the addition of DH/Non-DH lineups before we get L/R lineups.Quote:
Originally posted by DrDoom
Platoon splits (lefty/righty stats and lefty/righty lineups)
-I just want the ability to set the lineups more than anything. I know that some might think setting two lineups is a hassle but quite honestly, since Baseball Mogul now takes platoon differentials into consideration, I would rather set two lineups a few times than one lineup many times.
I like setting both a L/R for DH and non-DH. You could always just auto-sort.
Be sure to vote for waiver wire! It was put in late, so some people didn't get a chance to vote for it! We DESPERATELY need this!
Re: Player Hot Streaks, it'd be nice if you could add "Last Month", "Last Week", and "Last Half-Season" to the drop-down dealy in the Lineup window that says "This Year", "Last Year", "AAA" and so on. So we could see how players have performed recently...
Maybe even add "Playoffs" and "Spring Training" to make for fast, easy decisions about who should bat where.
I like most of these ideas, but the one thing is that I would like to see these as "options" one of the things I like about BBM2k6 is that it isnt OOTP and I can get into quickly. I like Dooms idea of Managerial stratagies, how cool would it be to tweak lineups and whatnot to play against the next team, or to have rivalries where even players that arent to happy on your team pick it up because they want to crush the guys on the other team,
See my comments about play by play in this thread: http://forum.sportsmogul.com/showthr...012#post360012.
Waiver wire please.
The only things that matter to me in this game anymore is the Rule V Draft, the waiver wire, and the 40 man roster...maybe the platoon lefty righties too...sure..i'll join the bandwagon.
everything live said and manager hire/firing and a way to manager games through play by play and I would pay 100 dollars for 2k7!Quote:
Originally posted by liveandletdie
The only things that matter to me in this game anymore is the Rule V Draft, the waiver wire, and the 40 man roster...maybe the platoon lefty righties too...sure..i'll join the bandwagon.
Just for the **** of it............ Winter ball in beautiful Mexico. Send your top few prospects for a fee and see how they do.
Why does the poll list of questions keep on growing after people have already voted? Seems like an odd way to a poll.
2ndQuote:
Originally posted by robinhoodnik
Waiver wire please.
It is odd, but I want to make sure as many suggestions get added now without removing votes of those that already voted.Quote:
Originally posted by robinhoodnik
Why does the poll list of questions keep on growing after people have already voted? Seems like an odd way to a poll.
By the time we finalize the list, there should be over 100 votes, so the most popular features should bubble up either way.
Clay
How 'bout you just add everything in the poll to 2K7? :D
How about seeing this simply as a player option. They just take it if they want and there's some sort of prompt telling you. Also, How about an Arizona Fall League. It's kinda like an All-Star league that teams send their best AAA and AA players to to get more experience. They play about 40 games in October and NovemberQuote:
Originally posted by robinhoodnik
Just for the **** of it............ Winter ball in beautiful Mexico. Send your top few prospects for a fee and see how they do.
This league should be kinda like 4A I think because of the nature of it and should really help the development of good prospects.
I will say 40-man roster, waiver system, rule V draft are very important for game balance, also offer arbitration to free agent to-bes.
It's also preferrable to add another single A level. Could be like AAA, AA, HA, LA, R...
I usually play as the Red Sox so the waiver wire really doesn't affect me too much but I often rebuild teams like the Browns or the Expos (I've never been able to get a world series appearance out of the Milwaukee Brewers though.). It is frustrating to see players in AAA that shouldn't be when you need 'em.