Best Baseball Text Sim?

[GlennN]

Hey, any of you hardcore guys try OOTP, Puresim and Baseball Mogul? If so, what are the pros and cons? How do they stack up? I played Baseball Mogul years ago and generally liked it, and tried Puresim last year and really liked that (even better). I like realistic range of stats, and no micromanagement required (I love options to turn things on or off auto). Thanks for any help!

[Matt Diesel]

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I personally like OOTP, but all the games have their merits. BM has been a bit better with real leagues (MLB) in the past. Not sure if that has changed with the new releases of both. But for fictional or historical leagues work very well with OOTP.

With BM you can just dive into it and get going. OOTP you need to fiddle around with stuf a bit more to see how everything works. However, you can have the AI do almost everything in OOTP as well. Or you can handle only GM duties or just handle Manager duties.

OOTP is a little more dense in terms of what you can do. I suggest giving the demo a spin. Its last years but you'll get the idea. OS just reviewed OOTP so you may want to read that too. A very good review.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...11-review.html

[swaldo]

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With OOTP I like to wait a couple months before purchase to let them sort out the bugs. They have a very dedicated but anal community on the forums, so stuffy in fact I just couldn't tolerate it. These people will find the problems and patches will follow. It's a good game but does have a learning curve. If you have alot of time on your hands you can't go wrong.

I'm more into simple text games lately, Roogames football being a favorite and I think they recently came out with baseball. Come to think of it I'll have to try it this year. I think it was based on a board game which had a cult following. The Roo devs are awesome! Go to their forum, ask a question and if you don't get an acceptable response from the community the devs will give you more info than you asked for - and usually within 24 hours.

[PadresFan104]

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I'm more into simple text games lately, Roogames football being a favorite and I think they recently came out with baseball. Come to think of it I'll have to try it this year. I think it was based on a board game which had a cult following. The Roo devs are awesome! Go to their forum, ask a question and if you don't get an acceptable response from the community the devs will give you more info than you asked for - and usually within 24 hours.

You're referring of course to PC Replay Baseball, and it's a great game, although if the OP is looking for a career sim, it won't meet his requirements. It is a Season Replay game like Strat-O-Matic, APBA, Diamond Mind, etc. Still, it plays a GREAT game of baseball!! Also, it's published by Replay Games, not RooGames, although the developer (Richard Hanna of RooGames) did the board to PC translation.

You can find out more here: http://www.replaybb.com/PCBBPages/PCBBGame.htm

[bubba22plus]

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With OOTP I like to wait a couple months before purchase to let them sort out the bugs. They have a very dedicated but anal community on the forums, so stuffy in fact I just couldn't tolerate it. These people will find the problems and patches will follow. It's a good game but does have a learning curve. If you have alot of time on your hands you can't go wrong.

I'm more into simple text games lately, Roogames football being a favorite and I think they recently came out with baseball. Come to think of it I'll have to try it this year. I think it was based on a board game which had a cult following. The Roo devs are awesome! Go to their forum, ask a question and if you don't get an acceptable response from the community the devs will give you more info than you asked for - and usually within 24 hours.

You don't even want to go near the Off Topic Section.

[bluewave]

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OOTP is the only baseball text sim I've played, but it is worthwhile. You can demo OOTP or download the full version of OOTP 8 which is free.

[GlennN]

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Thanks for the feedback guys!

[Molarmite]

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You don't even want to go near the Off Topic Section.

Hey now, no bashing on the Off-Topic section.

You pretty much can't go wrong with OOTP unless you feel it's too complicated but it's worth the 30 minute learning curve. I would pretty much just echo Matt Diesel's post.

[Yasko]

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Hey now, no bashing on the Off-Topic section.

You pretty much can't go wrong with OOTP unless you feel it's too complicated but it's worth the 30 minute learning curve. I would pretty much just echo Matt Diesel's post.

Only 30 minute learning curve? I will install my copy today. I thought it would be longer than that to figure out.

[Yasko]

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With OOTP I like to wait a couple months before purchase to let them sort out the bugs. They have a very dedicated but anal community on the forums, so stuffy in fact I just couldn't tolerate it. These people will find the problems and patches will follow. It's a good game but does have a learning curve. If you have alot of time on your hands you can't go wrong.

I'm more into simple text games lately, Roogames football being a favorite and I think they recently came out with baseball. Come to think of it I'll have to try it this year. I think it was based on a board game which had a cult following. The Roo devs are awesome! Go to their forum, ask a question and if you don't get an acceptable response from the community the devs will give you more info than you asked for - and usually within 24 hours.

Thanks for the heads up on Roogames football. That looks like a nice game. I'll have to check it out.

[dp68]

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Puresim is an excellent game. As dedicated as its developer (Shaun Sullivan) is, he seems to give up on the game ever year or so. Meanwhile Markus and OOTP keep moving forward with improvements to their game. Sullivan has a family, real life job, etc, so it seems Puresim is a part time passion. I love Puresim and OOTP. Both have their merits. For total options and accuracy, OOTP is superior. For simplicity, and in some cases even fun factor, Puresim is superior.

Unfortunately Sullivan has announced on the Wolverine Studios forum that he has sold the rights and code for Puresim to Wolverine and Gary Gorski. We can only hope that Wolverine can put a full time effort into Puresim and elevate its status as a worthy challenger to OOTP. If they add a simple graphical depiction (like the old microleague baseball), I think they will open up their market considerably.

[sadajaaliza]

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[Isura]

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Out of the park baseball for sure sim. Game is amazing

[Sportsforever]

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Dynasty League Baseball just opened up a public beta of it's server based game last night. It can be found at www.dynastyleaguebaseball.com and is top notch. Sign ups and playing are free right now.

[gtm]

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Dynasty League Baseball just opened up a public beta of it's server based game last night. It can be found at www.dynastyleaguebaseball.com and is top notch. Sign ups and playing are free right now.

I didn't see this in the Q&A section. Would this game play on Windows 7? Also, does the computer version roll dice. Thanks.