Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

[ksig24]

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Hey Mike,

Not too sure if you caught my questions or not in this thread, but if you overlooked them do you think you could shed a little light?

Thanks as always brother! Oh I got some pretty good news for you too!

[TheHammer19]

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Could you please go in-depth of what goes into signing free agents?

Thanks!

[EnigmaNemesis]

Yes it did. Post these in graphics tread next time.

Thanks.

[steelersfan77]

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Have there been any hints yet on what franchise has added or improved upon?

I asked a few questions earlier in the thread but overall haven't seen any new info. Hasn't community day ended?

Looking forward to seeing what this game has improved upon in all aspects.

[h2oPr00f]

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I apologize if this was asked already, but will season stats be split when you complete a trade between AL/NL. It's a stupid thing, but i hate when the stats do not reset after that lol

[tabarnes19_SDS]

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Hey Mike and crew! I am on my game right now and I notice that when in Roster Control while looking at Free Agents that there is nowhere to find out their potential. I would like to see this fixed because I am trying to find a fictional player on the FA list to re-create Nestor Molina, a potential B prospect.

Thanks guys!

Good news for this...you can access the player card anywhere that you can highlight it...including the free agent list.

[tabarnes19_SDS]

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Knight can you please check to make sure that:

1. Cpu v cpu is still in the game

2. We can still play any game from any side's schedule during franchise mode.

Thanks guys.
Enjoy

Yep to both.

[Geolink]

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Can we PLEASE, PLEASE finally be able to fire coaches in the middle of the season.

Also, do we have the ability to get fired by the higher ups of the team if the team is under-performing? and do we have the ability to re-sign and sign with another interested team that's looking for a new G.M.?

[tabarnes19_SDS]

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when a player is injured in the playoffs, we should be able to add him to the playoff roster (it says we can but the mechanics aren't appar

Good news...knight and I tested this and it seems to be working now.

[bigdaddykraven]

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I didn't see if it was answered for me already...sorry. I'm sure this is one of those "it'll be in next year" things since they'll be redoing Franchise then but have they increased/improved record books in any way?

Added more records, team records, allow us to see an "all-time" list or anything like that? If not, before you guys leave do you think you can point them to OOTP and All-Star Baseball 2005 for some direction there?

[PsychoBulk]

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tabarnes...how did your long range franchise testing go?

i.e. did you get to run some tests 5/10/20 years into a franchise and check all was as it should be regarding no more big name free agents being left to rot etc, not too much salary being given to average players and eating up all a teams $?

Any info you could provide on what you found would be great

[antilowpe]

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Hi guys.
These are my questions about the Show :

I've wroten this in April but still what I think about franchise mode

Franchise Mode
In your opinion what needs to be changed, added, or tweaked to make this portion of the game better? Along with that what would you like to see more of?

*** Give us the ability to modify divisions (ie put the Brewers back in the AL Central)
OCTOBER EDIT : or put the Astros in the AL WEST

*** Create-a-team which replaces another one (location, name, uniforms)

*** Create-a-team which would be add to a division which means 31 teams I know (so maybe 1 more team to create 2 conferences with 16 franchises)

*** Create-a-stadium if we create-a-team / Create-a-stadium during our franchise.
This feature should allow us to determine :
#1: the field's dimension (left field, left center field, centerfield, right center field, right field but also foul territory with the ability to "draw" it, the depth behind the plate) and its form (is the outfield is straight (as progressive field) or "curve" (as US Cellular field))
#2: the height of the wall (with different height for different zones of the stadium) (as Citi field) and even the possibility to add high wall like the Green Monster
#3: grass or turf / roof or not
#4: obviously the number of rows/seats (which would be related to budget)
#5: positions of the benches / pen / ...
#6: Decoration (like the fountains in KC)

*** Extend players/coaches' contracts during the season

*** Firing coaches/scout/staff during the season

*** More stats (players & teams) & more splits stats (batter vs pitcher, performance of a player vs a team, in a particular stadium, month by month,...)

*** If possible each player vs player stats during the franchise (which tells us if we perform with a specific player vs a specific player or not)

*** Contracts offered, free agent's type (A/B/ nothing) based also on performance and not only related to ratings

*** Rename our franchise save data (if you play like me with a lot of save you certainly keep some save @ some moment of the season like AS break end of each month,...)

*** Promotion (cal up/send down) based on performances for each level (AA/AAA/MLB)

*** Add the possibility to convert players to another position (rather than just editing him)

*** Learn a pitch for a pitcher (rather than just editing him)

*** Add a personnality to players (like Madden 10 did) which influences their choices (for instance, what are they looking for first ? Money ? a ring ? coming back to their birthplace ? neglects small market teams ! never play for a rival or a specific team (do you see A-Rod in a BoSox uniform?) / rival players in the future club / clubhouse cancer like Manny ...)

*** Add a personnality to managers (type of line up : pitching, speed & defense, power, small ball,...)

*** Add a personnality to GM's too. This means going further than just the rebuilding/normal/playoff profile (what do they want ? Obviously if you ask a GM he wants to win so how could he do it ? First making money and then being a contender ? if so, how? marketing, being aggresive on FA to draw a lot of people to the stadium, ...)

*** View stats/awards/winner/standings of the past years.

*** Maybe the overlay of the stats could be like baseball-reference


Thx for reading

EDIT :
*** Each stadium created should be shared between players. This allows people to create old stadiums as some did by creating classic rosters.

*** Give the possibility to discuss the retirement of a player, try to convince him to play one more season. If we fail, we should offer him a job in the organisation.

*** I like the TWIB idea. And maybe we could see some higlights of the games we've simulated during the game we are playing (like "live look-in" on MLB)

*** Give the possibility to edit contract players and salary mass. The custom guys for OSFM rosters could this way change the salaries of each players. (A-Rod is making 30 millions not 14 or 15, ...)

*** Re-do the catcher animations when he has to tag a runner sent home. Too often the catcher enters in slow-mode-animation resulting in run scored whereas he had plenty of time to tag him. Same thoughts on bunts, my guys field it too relax.

*** Maybe involve us on flyball by pressing a button to make the catch. The window should be smaller when a poor fielder try to catch the ball.
On routinee flyball you don't see huge differences because even for bad fielders you can make big windows but on line drive you have a smaller window and catching it would be a reward for each of us playing the game. We could have the feeling of saving a run.

*** Of course, with the news we heard today, yesterday (depends on which part of the world you are ) we'll want the 2 more wild cards and the one game play-off game (I don't like it but that's not the point) ; and if Houston change of conference during the 2013 season in the franchise I'll be happy (though the schedule would be unvealed only next September - maybe SCEA could choose a type of schedule)

[ClarkWGrizwold]

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Can we resign players at any point in the season and give contract extensions to players already signed ie Matt Moore's extension

[jkra0512]

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Can we resign players at any point in the season and give contract extensions to players already signed ie Matt Moore's extension

I would love to see this as well. I play as the Yankees and they don't do this as an organization, but I'd like to see other teams do it and have it show up on the transactions page.

[Knight165]

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I'll be getting to the answers soon(tonight I would say)....but I think most of you know as I've posted earlier, the focus was on fixing and tweaking EXISTING features of franchise mode and not adding new ones this year. I just want to get that out of the way.
There were a few new nice "little" additions, some that spill over into everything in the game, but I would also like to get something else out of the way right up front.....and this has nothing to do with a$$ kissing as anyone who really knows me knows that I am nothing like that. Maybe more the opposite as I'm kind of a little cold in some regards and am not afraid to tell people what I think(not to the point of being rude for nothing, but if you deserve it!!!).
I'm not a REPORT post guy, but I'm not putting up with any nonsense like shooting barbs at the devs ...even in a veiled way. They have been breaking their a$$es(yes, that's their job, I know)....but in the week that we were there and able to sim-test and then point out specific things that we THOUGHT would help franchise mode, these guys went WAY more than above and beyond. Brent and Aaron, Lorne and Brian(all devs) deserve better than having arrows slung at them.(they can take it....it just bothers me more knowing how much they care about the game and how hard they worked to get our suggestions in the game/fixes)

When leaving....it was still a work in progress on some minor fronts, but the FA "bug"(it's not really a bug, I think that would have made it easier to fix actually!) looks to be gone. I simmed into 2025 and didn't see anyone on the FA list that would make me say "WTF"...and while budgets would fluctuate from tight....to "in the red"....and then "back to black" for some teams(teams that went years without winning in the sims), no top rated young player would sit in the FA market.(there was a couple of older(37-38) players that would sit out and then possibly get a new contract(1 year) the following year or even get signed mid season(if a team with bucks AND in the hunt) needed a player.
The team would love to have another month or two, but I'm happy with what I saw on that front.

Tabarnes also did a great job of hunting down, pointing out and expressing what some of the lingering problems in franchise were and suggesting possible solutions.(in the end, it's all design needs that dictate what gets done)....

Thanks guys and "see" you later!

M.K.
Knight165