This would sure be a nice option.Quote:
Originally posted by BigBubba
maybe develope position players into utility players by starting them at a bunch of positions in the minors.
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This would sure be a nice option.Quote:
Originally posted by BigBubba
maybe develope position players into utility players by starting them at a bunch of positions in the minors.
Either one sounds good to me. But you're probably right, highlighting's probably easier.Quote:
Originally posted by SFSteveG
I have gmail and like it too;) Anyway, maybe highlighting would be better. Staring might not be able to put in as graphically easily, especially if the player-lock is added.
I am thinking of two features.
I know one was almost put in already and that is the sale of souvenirs. There is a pic for why not make it avalible.
The other is one that can help boost low attendence, and that is a new slider in the budget area for stadium giveaways i think is the best word for it. Anyway a budget of how much money to put into stuff (bobbleheads, cards, bats, gloves, ect...) to give to the fans and it could be the more money you pump into it can boost your attendence.
I would love to have a player lock...pretty much the auto-sort feature is useless without it. It just messes your roster up.Quote:
Originally posted by SFSteveG
Staring might not be able to put in as graphically easily, especially if the player-lock is added.
Customer support for this game, which has been around for years sucks in my opinionGo ahead flame if you want but they really have to get a better system maybe a more active site administrator I don't know who even does it now. I would have no problem paying 40 or even 50 bucks for this game if it stepped up to the plate but as is well........ never mind.
Frankly I think you get more than your money's worth as it is.
Agreed I feel like I get an excellent deal every year.
I don't think that, in any way, we're saying that we don't get an excellent deal every year for this game. Personally, I'd be willing to pay twice as much as we do for this game! All we're trying to do is help Clay improve this game for the future, because "nothing is perfect." If we didn't think we got a good deal for this game, chances are we may not buy it. I love this game and it's my favorite game of all-time. I've played every version of it since the original in 1998, and I plan on continuing to play it.
One thing I'd like to see, and am surprised hasn't been mentioned, is the ability to offer a signing bonus in contract negotiations.
A signing bonus cant be apart of a contract, if it is, it would be part of the main contract. Only the NFL, and I believe the NBA allow this, but not the MLB.......Quote:
Originally posted by dps
One thing I'd like to see, and am surprised hasn't been mentioned, is the ability to offer a signing bonus in contract negotiations.
Sorry if it's already been mentioned:
When moving players around in the Minor Leagues, I frequently find myself wishing I could edit the criteria used by Auto-Sort. For example, I would like to have the option of Auto-Sorting all newly drafted HS players to Rookie league for a minimum of x number of games or innings.
Auto-Sort Lock combined with editable Auto-Sort criteria could make managing league assignments and player development even more interesting and less of a chore.
Bret
I totally agree with your Bret, and hope this does get implemented, in 2k6 patch, and not wait till 2k7.Quote:
Originally posted by Bret
Sorry if it's already been mentioned:
Auto-Sort Lock combined with editable Auto-Sort criteria could make managing league assignments and player development even more interesting and less of a chore.
Bret
Maybe the occasional player could approach your team wanting to go to the home town like Griffey and Bonds, or want to play for a chance at a ring / go out on a winner?
Or Owner, GM, and Manager options. Buying and selling teams would also be really cool kinda like a tycoon game. You could start out owning any team you want and try to make it to the majors or just play plain old BBM. Railroad Tycoon 2 is a good illustration of how the basics of this could be set up.
I was thinking maybe Team All-Time Records. could be displayed like the Transaction page just a list with the stat catagories and the leaders name with numbers.
That sounds good. I don't think this could be imported from the lahman database but I'm sure it could be implemented for seasons played.Quote:
Originally posted by BigBubba
I was thinking maybe Team All-Time Records. could be displayed like the Transaction page just a list with the stat catagories and the leaders name with numbers.
A manager mode might be fun if interactive play-by-play is added next year. Basically you'd only be the manager and that's it. You wouldn't control any of the finances just the players as an actual manager does. Maybe varying degrees of influence as some managers do in real life.
The only way I think this would be entertaining though would be if a 40-Man Roster, Pitch-by-pitch interaction, More severe personality effects, Triple Plays, Double Switches, Editable Number of Pitchers Per Team and Roster Sizes, Platoon splits, and Waivers were inserted as well.
Does this seem like something top be used inside the current engine?
Use a Pitcher as a Position Player or Vice Versa
+ Pitcher AND batter predicted stats for every player
my wish list:
1) Everything in there now to work properly. This game has so many logical holes in it now.
2) Roster composition issues..allow you to have 9, 10 or 11 pitchers...set up platoons, etc.
3) Double-switches/reasonable AI managerial and roster moves.
4) a moderation of salary requests, particularly pre-1947 (no tv) and pre-1975 (no free agency) to allow the game to work financially.
5) expansion drafts that work, and that a human can participate in.
6) the ability to expand your park without building a new one
7) no trading of draft picks for one year. This is a MLB rule, and it'd make the game much more difficult.
8) NO fictional rookies in a historical game. There are enough players to make the database, and the fictional players mess it up badly.
9) Better stats to fix the zero home run leagues, or the zero strikeout leagues in the past. Tweaking of the data inside would fix this.
10) Read Bill James again. Use what he teaches in the game. Heck, sign him up if you can afford it :)
Actually, the reason they put the fictional rookies into the historical seasons is because they didnt have enough players for those given years. What I do think should be done though is make all the fictional players added in not very good.Quote:
Originally posted by adam
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8) NO fictional rookies in a historical game. There are enough players to make the database, and the fictional players mess it up badly./B]
Forgot to mention. One feature i would really like to see in here is a realistic hall of fame. To be able to add an average of 2 players a year, and actually have a voting thing. Instead of already saying there inducted when they retire.
Hey, I like not having to wait ten years after retirement to see if my favorite players make it. Other than that, it would be nice to have more realistic Hall of Fame inductions and something like a Veterans Committee as well.
But technically, they don't make the hall of fame, they're just in there before there actual induction, which is kind of dumb. Sure we say that some players are hall of fame bound, but never actually say a sure thing before it actually happens. And sometimes, they never make it
Maybe a list in the "News" section of where the potential HOF candidates are at in the voting. Could a tab be added to the corner of the Headlines page in the same to simulate turning the page to make it easier to peruse the Baseball Mogul Times? I'd like to see the News dropdown utilized more and made faster to use. Possibly tabs on the side of the paper to facilitate switching sections quickly. You know, like a real newspaper make it familiar and VERY convenient to use. Everything centralized and at your fingertips.
I'm diggin' this cause it would kinda help keep realism in the game and allow you to follow your retired players instead of them just retiring and entering.Quote:
Originally posted by robinhoodnik
Maybe a list in the "News" section of where the potential HOF candidates are at in the voting. Could a tab be added to the corner of the Headlines page in the same to simulate turning the page to make it easier to peruse the Baseball Mogul Times? I'd like to see the News dropdown utilized more and made faster to use. Possibly tabs on the side of the paper to facilitate switching sections quickly. You know, like a real newspaper make it familiar and VERY convenient to use. Everything centralized and at your fingertips.
Also pleassssseeeee show which team the HOF bound are most associated with. At least a city name and league designation. Maybe an in game Cooperstown. You could browse all hall of famers here. Make it a bit different than the standard player cards. Maybe something like a real HOF plaque. In the case of a tie similar #'s and years with different teams (259 hr. with team A and 260 hr. with team B) The tie would go to the human controlled team.
Also maybe as a goof, while you are following players to the hall some silly info on what they are doing now like " Carl Yastrzemski is carving religous statues out of jell-o in Vatican City and has 92% of the votes needed this year".:D
That's not goofy at all. And it is quite disrespectful to the Jellosian monks of Bangladesh...
God! Everyone knows the Jellosian monks live on the snowy peaks of the mountians of Thailand. Jeeze!Quote:
Originally posted by hawkeye3200
That's not goofy at all. And it is quite disrespectful to the Jellosian monks of Bangladesh...
I'm surprised after play strat-0-matic and OOTP for many years how little I miss choosing when to change pitchers or to call for the hit and run. I don't miss the left vs righty matchups at all. However, after having played a few seasons now, there is one thing that just has to be added in BM2007. It is so dissappointing to have my favorite player retire and then his screen disappear off the face of the earth. The only evidence that he ever existed was if he shows up on the all-time leader board and you can see his name if he happened to be in the top 10 in one of the categories. But then you cannot click on him and bring up his report, for it has been erased. Imagine not being able to look back and see what Willie Mays' batting average was in 1962, or how many homeruns Babe Ruth hit in 1929. Baseball is all about being able to look back and see the stats for any player in any year. I don't know if these records are deleted to save space on our hard drives or not, but to me I don't care.
I really think it would be a nice option to be able to save all retiered players scouting reports. Something less like saving the reports for leaders like HR, save, .avg, .ect.Quote:
Originally posted by bauerpower
I'm surprised after play strat-0-matic and OOTP for many years how little I miss choosing when to change pitchers or to call for the hit and run. I don't miss the left vs righty matchups at all. However, after having played a few seasons now, there is one thing that just has to be added in BM2007. It is so dissappointing to have my favorite player retire and then his screen disappear off the face of the earth. The only evidence that he ever existed was if he shows up on the all-time leader board and you can see his name if he happened to be in the top 10 in one of the categories. But then you cannot click on him and bring up his report, for it has been erased. Imagine not being able to look back and see what Willie Mays' batting average was in 1962, or how many homeruns Babe Ruth hit in 1929. Baseball is all about being able to look back and see the stats for any player in any year. I don't know if these records are deleted to save space on our hard drives or not, but to me I don't care.
I would like exact contract expiration dates. I hate signing a one year extension in July that is only a pay raise for the rest of the current year. Two year contracts are often more expensive than the one year variety and not a good idea in this game with a 40 year old.
The trick here is to not do that. Of course they'll take the pay raise this year.Quote:
Originally posted by robinhoodnik
I would like exact contract expiration dates. I hate signing a one year extension in July that is only a pay raise for the rest of the current year. Two year contracts are often more expensive than the one year variety and not a good idea in this game with a 40 year old.
What I mean is if I sign a player for 1 year in July I would like it to be a 1 year extension not just a pay raise. If a guy is having an off year I'd like to try and take advantage of that with a real 1 year extension not a 3 month pay cut or raise.
Inflation would be VERY easy to do. All we need is the inflation rate/CPI stuff, plus maybe baseball salaries changing themselves outside of inflation
After seeing it in another sim game, I would like to have the interactive play-by-play feature, it's better than I thought it would be. Please make sure it works right before releasing it though if it takes an extra version or two so be it.
I think that there are a few too many things to put in/fix to put interactive play-by-play in the game anytime soon. If 2k7 was more of a bug fix and improvement oriented version I'd be more than happy.Quote:
Originally posted by robinhoodnik
After seeing it in another sim game, I would like to have the interactive play-by-play feature, it's better than I thought it would be. Please make sure it works right before releasing it though if it takes an extra version or two so be it.
2 or 3 years sounds like a good timetable for this but there are better things for Mogul specifically to offer to attract a unique community instead of try to draw from one in wich it is already far behind in.
Yeah, lots of good ideas. I hope that Clay can tighten bbm up too before adding anything too radical. 2006 is quite a jump ahead in itself.
This is obviously something that to me would be a little add-on that wouldn't crush me by any means if it weren't there, but it would be cool... how about the potential of rain delays/rain outs? Could effect stuff like how far a pitcher could go in a game if he was all warmed up, pitched 2 innings, and then there was an hour rain delay. Also, the potential for a game to be rained out, and then have a double header later. Nothing I'd die without, but thought I'd toss it out there.
More ideas:
I think that you should talk to retiring players... they should announce whether they plan to retire and perhaps a good year will change their minds, maybe as the owner you can keep them around if you get them starting...
Plus, an ability to select what HOF are looking for. I think it needs more relievers. I had a guy with 650 saves or so and about 3 Cy Youngs, he didn't make it...
I want real HOF voting
plus random events such as bannings or porn/playbots shoots found out by the media