What is the point of rainy games

[Red_Ted_is_back]

Re: What is the point of rainy games

This is one of the reasons I roll my 20-sided die before games.



1-4 and 11-14: Clear skies.

5-7 and 15-17: Partly cloudy.

8-9 and 18-19: Overcast.

10 and 20: Rain.



And even then, there are exceptions. Whenever I play in Arizona, I ALWAYS ignore the weather and close the roof. Place be hot, man!

Just check the weather for that day at that venue for a previous year and go with that

Probably a little more work though.


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[bronxbombers21325]

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This is one of the reasons I roll my 20-sided die before games.

1-4 and 11-14: Clear skies.
5-7 and 15-17: Partly cloudy.
8-9 and 18-19: Overcast.
10 and 20: Rain.

And even then, there are exceptions. Whenever I play in Arizona, I ALWAYS ignore the weather and close the roof. Place be hot, man!

I usually roll with whatever weather the AI picks. If I’m playing in Houston, Arlington, Arizona etc. I close the roof if it’s between May 15th and September 15th. Anything before or after that I let the AI select u less it’s overcast, and then I close it. Somewhere like Milwaukee or Toronto I let the AI pick regardless of the time of year unless, again it’s overcast. For the playoffs roofs are always closed.

[Karle]

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It would be better if games could also be postponed by rain resulting in later season doubleheaders.

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[lemarflacco]

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I don't understand the reason it's in the game. I understand that it rains during games, but if they can't have rainiouts or delays in game there is no point of it being in game. If it would rain for a inning or two then stop and maybe start back up toward end of game it would be realsitic, otherwise there is no way a mlb game would be played in nine straight innings of rain. I know I can change it but it's pointless.

Because if it weren't there , people would be complaining about how it wasn't.

[gr18]

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I guess the biggest consequence would be that you have a delay and generally pull your pitcher.It would be amusing if they locked your game for that time frame until you could continue playing.

[baconbits11]

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I usually roll with whatever weather the AI picks. If I’m playing in Houston, Arlington, Arizona etc. I close the roof if it’s between May 15th and September 15th. Anything before or after that I let the AI select u less it’s overcast, and then I close it. Somewhere like Milwaukee or Toronto I let the AI pick regardless of the time of year unless, again it’s overcast. For the playoffs roofs are always closed.

I think I would close the roofs in MIL and TOR for early April also

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[bronxbombers21325]

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I think I would close the roofs in MIL and TOR for early April also

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The roof in Toronto is normally always closed on its own in April if I remember right. I use the Yanks so I don’t play a lot in Milwaukee, so I’m not sure about that one.

[gr18]

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The roof in Toronto is normally always closed on its own in April if I remember right. I use the Yanks so I don’t play a lot in Milwaukee, so I’m not sure about that one.

Same,typically closed for Milwaukee because April is more Winter than Spring until late in the month.This year has been very mild for March though.

[THESHAMISASHAME]

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Yeah I don't get a lot usually.I have four different franchises going on and in one of them I am in my second season and I am getting two or three a weak. I think I may start playing them instead of changing weather to see about subtle differences.

But it does matter because many times it makes you chose to switch pitchers after delays so there is a strategy, just saying as I think it's a nice touch from someone who enjoys intangibles like weather in games .

[TarHeelPhenom]

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It's better to have it than not have it basically for the same reason we wanted night games to be added to custom ballparks. Both things occur IRL and that's what we want. I do understand the desire for it to have an affect on the game as well.

[AUTiger1]

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Seems like I remember The Show having rain delays? Maybe I'm misremembering.

[bronxbombers21325]

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Seems like I remember The Show having rain delays? Maybe I'm misremembering.

They do have delays, but not rain outs.

[Detroit Tigers]

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If the game had a real dynamic lighting and weather system, said dynamic changes would in fact be “the point.” See how incredible this kind of stuff is in GT7 (or Project Cars for that matter), it changes the entire aesthetic & atmosphere when done right. (Honestly, watching the lighting and weather changes in GT7 is half the fun in some of these longer races.)

A game that starts sunny but then rain clouds move in, it gets dark and grey, youre not sure if it’ll rain or not, but then yes it does, and hard, there’s a delay and when the game resumes the field is wet and the sun is out and the grass glistens with sparkles of ray-traced sun for a while before drying.

That would be cash af.

Unfortunately the best thing this game does is give us the different lighting for the different times of year (which is AWESOME), but it really doesn’t go any further than that yet.

Rain games haven’t been looked at in ages, it’s been the same too-dark-with-constant-thunder aesthetic for like 15 years.