Sports Mogul's Next Game

[medieval]

1. I want to control my bench and bullpen better. I want to use my key closer from inning 6 to completion to get the save cause hes that good.

Or I want a hitter to go in often cause he can hit the ball wall or a stealer to go in to ensure a run will score on a ground ball.

After playing and replaying several season I find it difficult to control the bench and get my closer in. when its a close game and my staff can keep it close I want them in their, dont want to have to redo the same game till it does as I want. even if he has been in 100 straight relief apperances its been done before.

[medieval]

Ok I forgot, I want to develop a player in the majors, his AAA or AA A season is done and I have brought him up. I want him in at the end of the game or when its a blow out to give him experience. and prevent injuries of my stars.

An option to be protective or develop the bench would be cool. Or Iron man to never take a guy out so he has every chance possible.

[Clay Dreslough]

1. I want to control my bench and bullpen better.

This is the reason we're adding fully interactive Play-By-Play this year. So you can watch the game and make these choices. You can even choose what pitches to throw and where.

This is a lot of work, but it's probably less than trying to make a computer program know as much about baseball strategy as a major league manager.

Clay

[medieval]

If you simulate a lot of seasons will there be a team strategy that will allow you a chance to challenge the records. Such that you play your starting rotation on short rest and have a high pitch count, to challenge the complete game records? or to have lower pitch counts to get your relief in to make records?

Just wondering if this part can be revamped a bit to give those that play 300 years of baseball a chance to compete against certain records.

[vijnana]

I would like some genius to make a game that will allow me to manage a city or a country over a long period of time. the best I have seen so far is TROPICO, which allows the player to start in 1950 with an island like Cuba; what a superb economic and political model. But make it so that player can be mayor of NYC, or Prez of USA or some smaller country (which could be generated each game to have different resources available)

[Xen_Antares]

I voted for improving BBM. However what is not in the poll but would be fun is NASCAR Mogul. A team owner has to build a good pit crew, purchase a good car, engines, etc, hire a good driver, and crew chief while trying to secure a sponsor. It would be fun!

[waltwa]

PLLLLEASSSEE!!! this company is getting back on track with bm and bmo. the last thing they need is to water down their efforts with another game. check out football mogul if you think they are ready to put out another game

[rollsroyce11991]

I voted for improving BBM. However what is not in the poll but would be fun is NASCAR Mogul. A team owner has to build a good pit crew, purchase a good car, engines, etc, hire a good driver, and crew chief while trying to secure a sponsor. It would be fun!

Interesting concept... are their any games like that out there?

[Clay Dreslough]

FYI, Infogrames/Atari actually signed us up to make "Stock Car Mogul" (not licensed by "NASCAR"). But they bailed on the project halfway through. So we have some old "Stock Car Mogul" code lying around.

Clay

[jhow]

for a basketball sim, i would love to see a NCAA basketball sim..not an NBA. I would love to be the coach, and recruit players, and try to win NCAA tour.....also, the more you win, the more money you get....and the more happy your school admins are....In a NCAA sim, It would have to be a mix between a coach and Adminastrater.

(pardon my spelling )

HUGE fan of BBK06...what is the highest Mogul Rating out there...post screen shots. I want to see how I do compared to others. Also~ if any branching out is to be done...I agree with the above. NCAA Mogul would be very cool. Love the product....

*************Will Manny report today?************************

[dolfanar]

PRO WRESTLING MOGUL... nuff said

[dolfanar]

Okay well having read through I agree with Leafs, hockey mogul would sell well especially if done similar to baseball mogul and with some good added in things... I've looked at EHM and just don't like it... too **** much that is the nice thing about Mogul... easy to use and good to go right from the start... always a selling feature. There is such a thing as too much. It's like BM vs OOTP....

Now the other notion much like basketball is the lack of a database...

Your Hockey Database sir...

http://www.hockeydb.com

And I do believe they license. More complete than Lahman in terms of minor league content even... Though the data is not as well organised.

If Mogul could work their magic with hockey, including a statistically based sim and historical play/drafts, I would SOOOO abbandon EHM and it's massive poorly researched opinion based DB...

[mooseman74]

I agree...and EHM takes forever to play....takes 5 hours to do a whole season if not more! I love the depth of it, but crave the speed and simplicity that mogul would bring to it. I would pay just as much for hockey mogul (provided it had drafting and the minor leagues setup) as EHM...in a second.

[Casey59]

Boxing Mogul!!

The OOTP game does not have a true management/role play aspect . . .even though they've promised it for like five years.

[mgsports]

NHL Eastside Hockey Manager needs Fast Mode to make the game go faster!
Basketball Mogul because SI isn't going to be making a Basketball game and Total Pro Basketball only has the NBA as a league and no ther Licenses,doesn't allow you to sim 365 days a year so you have the full Offseason,you can't Control Developement league team,you have to be in Commissiner Mode in Offseason meaning computer control teams can't make any trades and so on! But you can move teams to other cities in a flash!
World Basketball Manager might have it allow but don't know if it's made anymore!
NBALIVE doesn't count! It does has live play by play that's the only good thing about it!