OOTP 11

[Gyrodork]

3 Comments already posted with which I am in complete agreement:

1) The exciting new tweaks in OOTP 11 sound pretty.."unexciting".
2) Development needs to be moved to a 2-yr cycle. I'd even pay a little more.
3) I wish Markus would make certain AI improvements a priority. The MR utilization and goofy substitutions that Linty mentioned are very annoying.

If they surprise us and publish a final version worthy of our attention, I'm in. But at the moment I have no interest in updating.

[Delandis]

Have we decided if we are going to upgrade or skip 11? The on sale preorder price is $30 bucks.


I'd rather pay $30 than $40 for it.

[Carlos]

I'm likely to upgrade and maybe start that solo league I haven't started since OOTP 6.5 killed my league that started in OOTP 4. Memories.

One feature that I wish we had in this league from the get-go is:

A new record book feature introducing single-game records broken up by game type ("Who hit the most doubles in an extra-inning playoff game in your league?")

Unfortunately, any league implementing that will only get those statistics from the date it was installed. It'd be like everything before was the dark ages of stat keeping.

[Lintyfresh85]

Have we decided if we are going to upgrade or skip 11? The on sale preorder price is $30 bucks.


I'd rather pay $30 than $40 for it.

I thought we decided to skip 11. Don't quote me though!

[Andrew]

We haven't made a decision. I typically prefer to upgrade because it makes it very difficult to find new owners if you stick with a previous version. It depends on the timing though of when it's released, when we're ready for an upgrade, etc.

I am buying it either way.

[Andrew]

Anybody pre-order and get a chance to try out 11 yet? I didn't participate in the beta this year so curious to see how it is.

[umd]

Mine is downloading now - I'll let you know, but I'm not the best perspective for you guys since I'll miss the little things having never played the series...

[liquidcrash]

Anyone other than me have this?

[spot]

I got it. I did beta again this year but I felt a bit out of sorts because I wasn't part of the online team.

I'm just getting around to playing it now. There is a guy in one of the fastplay leagues that is starting a league. It's 3 sims per week, 10 days per sim.

Check it out here.

Just tell him I sent you.

[umd]

Anyone other than me have this?

I have it. It's awesome. Been playing like 4 hours a night on SP.

[Ryan]

So what are the new features? Anything special?

[Lintyfresh85]

I heard they re-did the fielding enginge... and added some Saber Metric stuff... but I don't have the game... so can't really tell you of the differences.

[Andrew]

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/joom...w-in-ootp.html

[Andrew]

These are the features I like that are at least somewhat relevant to the BLB:

• The ability to mass-select players, making it easy to perform mass transactions like demoting several players simultaneously
• A new Manager Notes section, featuring editable text notes and custom reminders
• A Player Comparison screen, in which you can compare two players side-by-side
• A new record book feature introducing single-game records broken up by game type ("Who hit the most doubles in an extra-inning playoff game in your league?")
• Recoded fielding engine, making defense more realistic while introducing new fielding stats like Zone Rating, Individual Fielding Efficiency, and Team Defense Efficiency.
• More advanced statistics like wOBA (weighted on-base average), OPS+, ERA+ and FIP (fielding independent pitching)
• A totally re-coded amateur draft with optional signing bonuses, player demands, a slotting system, post-draft contract & bonus negotiations, and compensation picks for unsigned picks (who will re-enter the draft a year later). Also, when feeder leagues are used, undrafted/unsigned high school players may go to college and continue playing!
• Re-coded player development system, resulting in even more realistic career curves, and also supporting two-way players and pitcher batting (pitchers no longer start out with fully developed hitting ratings)
• Improved immersion factor, including better modeled player personalities and a brand new "storyline engine" - imagine unfolding stories which can influence your players in a variety of ways and which drawn you further into your virtual baseball universe! The stories are completely customizable via XML.
• Improved contract negotiations, including counter-offers from players.
• More varied news stories

Also I didn't see it on the list but I think they added the ability to clone players which should make it much easier for tournaments like the WBC

[Clay]

What does this mean:

Improved immersion factor, including better modeled player personalities and a brand new "storyline engine" - imagine unfolding stories which can influence your players in a variety of ways and which drawn you further into your virtual baseball universe! The stories are completely customizable via XML.