MLB 15 The Show Screenshots (High Resolution)

[A_Quiet_Pro]

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This sounds like a job for....

Spoiler

B Ma

HAHA, I was initially thinking him, but he's AI not rosters... IDK if he's the right person to ask or explain...

[DKTF]

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Yes the new seasonal sun and shadows is all based on real satellite data for sun position per stadium.

While we are on that subject a new feature was added into the game this weekend. You can now choose the month and start time for games in exhibition mode.

Cool can you do crazy times that don't really happen like a midnight start lol.

[Russell_SCEA]

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Cool can you do crazy times that don't really happen like a midnight start lol.

Negative ghost rider

[kehlis]

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I hope one day Ramone just likes a post to mess with people.

April 1st might be too late.

[Russell_SCEA]

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I think what we need is to have Russell or a roster dev through Russell explain how that happens and lay down the law.

Your save file has markers lets say these markers contain info. Some info we keep from the save file some we don't and it's replaced with new info. That's pretty much the extinct I can explain it without giving away the secret sauce.

Besides that I couldn't explain it if my life depended upon it, I don't speak programmer. I just nod my head and act like I have the slightest clue what they are talking about.

[nomo17k]

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They could program it to save over a given player's name but that would be really tricky for 2+ guys with the same name (Chris Young, ahem). I am sure that each SCEA player has a unique identifier so I am also not sure how the game would pick up CAP Tanaka and replace him with SCEA Tanaka. That I don't understand it doesn't mean it can't happen though.

This is not a CD-informed guy talking but more a random lurker talking (especially because I'm not sure if I can talk about year-to-year save feature at all yet), but my guess is that those MLB players are internally tagged as such, since you cannot edit them on MLB 14. Also, MLB players cannot be exported from roster, so the game must know they have real-life counterparts. Therefore when they carry over to MLB 15 such players should be identified easily by the game by the tags and some sort of player identifiers.

Now, I just checked on MLB 14 and I think Tanaka is one of those players added to rosters via the CAPS, in which case he may not be tagged as someone who has a real-life counterpart in the game... so you may be out of luck and the game might not replace him with real photo and such.

(However, given that Tanaka may be one of few bright spots for the 2015 Yankees, it's not impossible to imagine that the devs might go extra mile to make an exception for him... you never know. Since I am no Yankee fan, it is no big deal either way, so long as Bartolo Colon on the Mets remains fat in the game. )

[A_Quiet_Pro]

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Also, MLB players cannot be exported from roster, so the game must know they have real-life counterparts. Therefore when they carry over to MLB 15 such players should be identified easily by the game by the tags and some sort of player identifiers.

Hence, my theory on the "digital thumbprint" the game reads to know who is who and who is created and not.

[LastActionHero]

MLB 15 The Show Screenshots (High Resolution)

Cool can you do crazy times that don't really happen like a midnight start lol.

Negative ghost rider

So could you elaborate on the times we can choose from or is nothing final yet?

I would say every hour ranging from 12 tot 7pm...

[Sip_16]

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So could you elaborate on the times we can choose from or is nothing final yet?

I would say every hour ranging from 12 tot 7pm...

I would assume its times that normal games would start at. You get the odd outlier but mostly it would be 1, 4, 7 pm. Maybe 8pm.

[LastActionHero]

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I would assume its times that normal games would start at. You get the odd outlier but mostly it would be 1, 4, 7 pm. Maybe 8pm.

Then choosing the month would be the most determing factor (shadows wise) because now we basically allready have 1 and 7pm (day and night) for exhibition games.

What really would be cool is if when you select a particular month and time you see the shadows in the stadium screenshot as a preview how far they would have creeped in at that time.

But considering this option was put in last minute see this as a request for next year

[HypoLuxa13]

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Besides that I couldn't explain it if my life depended upon it, I don't speak programmer. I just nod my head and act like I have the slightest clue what they are talking about.

If it makes you feel any better, I am a programmer (albeit in a completely different industry than gaming - banking), and in about half of my meetings I just nod my head and pretend also.

[Joey]

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The funny thing is the whole digital thumbprint conversation started with someone being concerned that the transfer process could cause a duplicate player, then they said what if they had already created 17 Tanakas in their file, how would it know which one to replace. Kind of ironic, no?

[nemesis04]

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The funny thing is the whole digital thumbprint conversation started with someone being concerned that the transfer process could cause a duplicate player, then they said what if they had already created 17 Tanakas in their file, how would it know which one to replace. Kind of ironic, no?

We had over 30 Jeters last year during the roster updates we can handle a few Tanaka's!

[nomo17k]

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Hence, my theory on the "digital thumbprint" the game reads to know who is who and who is created and not.

Typically, any entity that exists in a game (or software in general) is attached a unique identifier (like just a number) so that database can uniquely identify the entity. So it doesn't have to be something fancy like thumbprint. It just needs to be a unique identifier (number, string, etc.). So it's not just theory but the game is definitely doing a sort of thing like that... so the question is how.

I think some ambiguity remains with a case like Tanaka last year, because he was a CAPS player, but if the game somehow internally keeps track of his MLB identity (as in using a string "troutmi01" for Mike Trout that's a unique identifier used in database like Baseball References and Lahman), then it's possible that the game can still identify Tanaka as an MLB player for whom to use the real photo. But such an ID has not been exposed to us, so it's not clear it works that way.

[seanjeezy]

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Just a minor detail that would be simple and add a little more realism. It would be cool to see the times be :05, as in 7:05, 12:05, 1:05, etc. Most games start a little after the hour to allow for TV stations to lead into it.

Again, just a random, very minor detail I thought of just now.

To add on to this, Mariners start times are 7:10, 1:10 (Sunday afternoons), 6:10 (Saturday nights), and 12:40 (Wednesday afternoons)

Don't think any other team has the same start times, the random scheduling in franchise made the unique times moot