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[jim416]

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I know this isn't a questions thread, but since you've talked so much about lighting it got to me thinking: What about the lighting in domes (Metrodome, Tropicana, etc.)?

Is there a difference there?

Hmm, I can't answer this directly and I looked at both those stadiums. I can just say they really improved everything. Dolphin Stadium even looks great.

[Trax]

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Jim,

What else can you tell me about our ability to manipulate rosters in season mode?

Will we be able to put folks on the DL?

Just wanted to know if you tinkered with it at all...

Thanks!

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[rudyjuly2]

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Thanks for all the impressions guys! And thanks to the guys thanking me for compiling stuff. I just added all of Jim's latest comments to #3 and that is huge now. I will do a 4th one later on after everyone else pipes in too. My car blew up so I have to go car shopping. Donations anyone? :wink:

Anyway, my sig is updated.

Also Jim (or anyone else), did the cpu chase more pitches out of the zone on default? I always felt that they had too good of an eye in the past but they took the slider away for plate discipline so it concerns me a little. I love reading about how it's easier to turn on a pitch this year. I'm intrigued at the new pitch release and movements you guys are talking about.

[BostonCollegeFan]

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Might've been already answered, but it's a big thread. Anyways, how up to date were the Rosters in this playable build?

[AUTiger1]

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If they post the one screen I took, it was in Milwaukee, there are shadows all over the field because of those high walls that aren't solid. Because of the structure of this particular stadium it is heavily influenced by shadows. Pitcher will be standing half in light, half out. It's there.

That reminds me of a game a few years year in 2004. The Braves were playing a Sunday afternoon game there against Ben Sheets. Well Sheets only had 18 strikeouts in a complete game shutout.

The very next game for the Braves was the Randy Johnson Perfect Game.

For sure. Not saying I wouldn't love to have him in Cincinnati. I just don't like looking at him.

There's only two players in baseball that routinely annoy me. Kevin, and Nomar. That odd, wacky, pre-pitch routine Nomar does with his hands is the strangest thing I have ever seen.

I like watching Nomar do his thing.

[Rod_Carew29]

@ Rob_NYY

correction....

I was asked to attend right from the start..but my vacation and my other schedules caused a conflict. I talked to one of the programmers (cannot divulge which) and asked for and was told there'll be a raincheck for next year

Now if I was there, I would be right onto the deliveries and stances---no doubt.

Are some of you people even reading the thread? Jim isn't a big batting stance guy, in fact there are only 2 guys among the community leaders that really care about batting stances and motions like some of us do, ericjwn and Carew, and neither of them were chosen to attend.

[jim416]

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Jim,

What else can you tell me about our ability to manipulate rosters in season mode?

Will we be able to put folks on the DL?

Just wanted to know if you tinkered with it at all...



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Oh, yeah. It was completely different because of the 40 man roster and all the teams players being on ONE page, not three. It was a little cumbersome for me as I just wasn't used to it.

Trax, you're like me, right? If a player gets injured you send him down and bring up his actual replacement (real time, daily)???? If so, no you can't MANUALLY put him on the DL.
You have to do it the same way as last year, put him in the minors, but you go to the CPU Team Control page to do this.

You can do the same manipulation that we roster accuracy nuts did last year, the only problem is my work around didn't work as they had to change the code/programming, etc., however the roster lineup AUTO FIX works really well. I must have tested six teams and was happy with how it adjusted the rosters. You can still manually change all the team rosters if you want if you're unhappy with what the CPU did.

Did that answer it?

[templeusox]

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I'm sorry if this has been discussed before, but was BSG asked to tone down his stances from what we see on the videos he puts up? I'm still very dubious about using him.

[jim416]

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Might've been already answered, but it's a big thread. Anyways, how up to date were the Rosters in this playable build?

The rosters were pretty accurate. But, I with a lot of the teams just to check things out and they looked good. I noticed Ronny Cedeno still on the Cubs. As they were listening to some of the things we were telling them, I'm gonna bet they will be update to the date that the game is FINISHED and ready to ship off for approval by Sony/MLB, etc.

[The Bimmer]

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Jim, I am one that dosent like messing around with the sliders. Do you feel like picking a difficulty level and playing on default sliders will work this year?

[jim416]

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Jim, I am one that dosent like messing around with the sliders. Do you feel like picking a difficulty level and playing on default sliders will work this year?

Nemesis and I both felt that, out of the box, there's a heck of a lot of less use for the sliders. Remember, the sliders were used last year to try to correct the doubles down the line that weren't, the balls in the gaps that seemed to be always caught/cut off, etc. and these issues are absolutely fixed this year. It's still going to be an individual gamer thing to tweak the game, but yes.

I'm sure when the game is out somebody will be posting "It's too easy to hit on LEGEND", lol.

I'm going to exaggerate a little here, but the breaking balls can cause your knees to buckle and you just have a controller in your hand. That's the kind of stuff that impressed us most.

[Rob_NYY]

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Jim, I can't thank you enough for all you've shared with us! You are without a doubt the MVP of this whole thing.

[The Bimmer]

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Nemesis and I both felt that, out of the box, there's a heck of a lot of less use for the sliders. Remember, the sliders were used last year to try to correct the doubles down the line that weren't, the balls in the gaps that seemed to be always caught/cut off, etc. and these issues are absolutely fixed this year. It's still going to be an individual gamer thing to tweak the game, but yes.

I'm sure when the game is out somebody will be posting "It's too easy to hit on LEGEND", lol.

I'm going to exaggerate a little here, but the breaking balls can cause your knees to buckle and you just have a controller in your hand. That's the kind of stuff that impressed us most.

Well last year i thought the game got to easy hitting after 80 games or so, but most people felt the same way. I am looking forward to Default sliders, Legend mode this year. Thanks

Oh, one last thing. Can you elaborate on batting practice mode?

[jim416]

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This was an interesting coding/programing explanation (this is for you guys who say "how hard can it be.....how come they don't add this or that).

You remember the problem where the outfielder would stop and the catcher would run out to RF and pick up the ball? What was happening is lthat there was, I'll try to explain this as best I can, one teensy-weensy spot in the outfield that triggered the field to do a turn around. You wouldn't see it, but the catcher was actually running towards the backstop (in the coding) and trying to pick up the ball. We saw him running to the OF, but that's not what he was doing when the programmers looked at it. He was running towards the backstop after the ball.

They had to do hours trying to find this one little pin point spot in the field that was causing this. Every centimeter of the game has some kind of coding that effects other stuff. It was amazing to watch one programmer sitting in front of 5 monitors with 2 controllers reconstruct things.

Thought I'd pass that along.

[Sheamazin]

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Jim, You said that in the franchise mode there were MLB legends in the free agent pool. Do the CPU controlled teams pickup any of these legends through out the season or in the off season?