Alright Boyz, Here We Go!!!! (OOTP9 First Impressions...)
 

Ok. Use this to actually discuss the game. :p

Ha!

Less crickets...more discussing, damnit!!

What if crickets are the only thing to be had?

Then I guess I'm glad I didn't pay for the game.

Just got it all installed and licensed up.. I am thinking I am going to start with the real world type league, but if anyone has any quick things they want me to look at just throw it out there.

I haven't started dorking around with a default MLB league setup. I'm gonna create some feeders and maybe add two expansion teams next year. Custom playoffs have me REALLY excited and I'm hoping to get it setup so I can make sure to have foreign kids feeding my team pretty early on.

Nike won't like you stealing their employees.

Nike's employees are far too young to be playing professional baseball.

There's another OOTP?

Order of the Phoenix. If you google OOTP, you get a lot of Harry Potter junk.

What are you talking about, though?

This version you speak of is a mystery to me and my people.

Though I did manage to trade for a pitcher who was Good/Good/Average/Brilliant/Brilliant

I was working on trying to change the national baseball values in OOTP and decided to create a relatively comprehensive list of the top baseball playing nations in the world. I have no idea why, but...alas, I will be.

I'm not sure I can handle this pressure, I don't know what type of league to start with......


edit: I thought I would like the Quick Start option of the ABA when I saw it the other day. 16 team league, very nice. I hope I can expand it. Anyone know?

You should be able to expand any league once it's started.

This is awesome. I'm finding it much easier to navigate everything.

not to be a whiner, but as I don't frequent the OOTP boards - anyone have any sort of rough eta on a graphics patch (logos+ player pictures)?

http://web.mac.com/sixwilsons/OOTPMods/Main.html

Enjoy :)

also a random note - I notice many pitchers (in a real-MLB universe) having what appears to be a "default 3" pitches - fastball, slider, changeup -- even when they should have more -- someone like Dice-K comes to mind. Or Wakefield not having a knuckleball.

So the default-MLB roster isn't quite fit entirely for long-term play at the moment, but it'll do to get accustomed to the game.

oh you lovely lovely man. even if you are a jets fan. :D

I need some help importing my v.8 league to v.9

I'm getting a "not responding" every time I import the world.dat. Any thoughts?

fyi - the "add on central" feature within the game also has this guys, so you can just DL and install from within the game.

Pitches don't actually matter in the game, itself. That's probably why they didn't bother with it. They're just cosmetic, fwiw.

I had this problem too. Just move the entire .lg folder from your OOTP 8 saved games folder to OOTP 9 and you should be able to load it up fine.

*nods* but stilllllllllllllllllllllllll *whines*

Sweet! Haven't found it yet but will look when I finish up this game.

Cool - thanks. Trying it now :banghead:

it's right in the "game" menu, you just have to click "reload server list" or whatever that button is, and it all pops up. hella handy!

Found it! This is cool!

Top 50 countries in the world ranking.

Well, I think the in game add-on didn't add logos, but did add pictures.

Just checked...it added logos but they have a huge line of random text after the City_Team format.

Trola

Hmm. Even downloading from PadreFan's site gives me the long ass file names. Anyone getting the same thing?

Knuckleballs provide a small bump in something (BABIP maybe?), but other than that, pitch types are indeed cosmetic.

I dunno jets...it added everything to me. I had to quit and restart (and honestly I restarted with a new league) and I see logos and pics

If it's anything like 2007's logos, those numbers at the end are hex codes to define the team colors.

So I tried changing my skin and it constantly went through the loading process of it. I couldn't do anything and I waited about 5 minutes. Could be a bug or something on my part?

Maybe, maybe not. The UI framework that has been used since 2006 always seems to take forever to load a new skin.

Damn.. I do all the work and he gets all the love! :D

This is normal, these are the color codes that tell OOTP what the teams colors are for various pages. It's a feature, not a bug... :)

If you are having trouble with any of these files, please follow the instructions here:

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...od-thread.html

It takes a while for it to change. I tried yesterday and I'll never do it again. It took forever and finally switched. But it kept cycling through for a long while.

well I didn't make the connection that it was you!! :bowdown:

yeah I just went up for dinner after like 10 minutes of it trying to change and it finally had changed after I ate

wish-list: that if you clicked on your inbox you could scroll through the messages with the arrow keys (like you can in FM) otherwise it's a click-fest in there and I ignore most of it

On the player profile page the 'quick' past 3 year stats are out of order.. It goes 2006, 2005, 2007.

Doesn't seem to be for every player though..

I'm not seeing this.

One thing out from the start that I see is that the UI is ultra fast compared to the OOTP8 UI that seemed a little sluggish at times.

And just an FYI I have a high powered PC.
Quad Core
4 Gigs of Ram
etc.

Firing up a new MLB league and gonna see how it works out for me, without creating feeders and scouts on. Blazing new territory and seeing if I don't have to spend 100 years setting up before I play. Because I always do.

Huh? I go to "quick start" from the main screen and click on the "ABA" league and when I click the create button I get an error message which says "error: could not create league folder."

When I go and do this from a different screen, though, everything works and the league "begins" normally. When I go to set up a new manager, the "years" cap at 1951. Do these sorts of things get fixed with patches in the future?

Already found my first bug.

DH League: Designated Hitter Gets thrown out of the game for arguing with an umpire. Game asks for a substitute. However, you cannot chose DH as the replacement's position. When the inning ends, it will try to fill the gap, but since you have a player with no position (and the game won't accept PH or PR as their position), you're screwed.