![]() ![]() The problem here is that the America major league had virtually no foreign or Hispanic players throughout its early history. The game generates fictional names based on modern America, with a large percentage of foreign and Hispanic names. One problem I have with the game is that it generates unrealistic names when you play an historical league. I suspect that Stratomatic or PureSim are more accurate when it comes to strict statistical replay. It is not always accurate with statistical replication of actual players, which is a problem most of the baseball games have. It also does a superb job with modern fictional leagues, if you let the game generate fictional players and fill the league with those players. OOTP does an excellent job replicating the major leagues of the last few years. The game also claims that pitcher creation and development is more realistic and historical simulations are more accurate (I have not tested those propositions). The AI is a more challenging trading partner. I’ve played a number of seasons with OOTP 13 now, and if you set trading to average or hard, it’s tougher to rip off the AI than it used to be. The game engine has been redesigned, so that trades are more realistic. Once all seasons are completed in the associated leagues, the winners may meet in extra playoffs, determining the ultimate champion of your OOTP game.” Eventually I plan on using the association feature to establish a Caribbean World Series, where leagues from several Caribbean nations play a tournament to determine the champion. Associated leagues may share certain rules, free agents, and/or draft pools. “The game now supports associations with multiple leagues. Again, a description from the game’s website: Do you fine him to set an example, with the possibility he could become even more upset and see his morale decline? Do you ignore the incident and risk losing the respect of other team members? Do you take the drastic step of labeling the player a cancer and releasing him or arranging a hasty trade?” I’ve seen a number of other storylines, including one in which a player gets injured trying to escape from an angry husband.Īnother interesting feature, which I haven’t tried, is League Associations. “Your team is mired in a bad slump, and your star player takes his grievances to the media. Here’s a description from the game’s website: Interactive storylines are an interesting feature that makes the game more immersive. The next year’s rookie draft might include Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Barry Bonds, Mariano Rivera, or Tim Lincecum. So you can start a season in 1920 and Bob Gibson, Cy Young, and Matt Kemp may be playing. As you move forward, year to year, the game fills the draft pools with random historical players from their debut age. You begin a game at any year in major league history, and the game fills the rosters with players randomly picked from the database. The game now offers a random debut historical mode. It’s a nice feature that increases the game’s immersion factor. The major changes include a real-time simulation mode, which simulates the day in baseball in the background, providing scores and highlights, while you look for free agents, make trades, and promote or demote minor leaguers. OOTP 13 offers a new interface that contains large, graphically pleasing icons and fonts. It contains new divisional alignments as Houston moves to the AL West in 2013, and adds a 2nd wild card team. It has the 2012 major league rosters, as well a new rules for free agency, drafts, and financials. The new version contains a number of new features. The game is as absorbing as any I’ve spent time on. I always preferred the stat-based games to playing or watching actual baseball. It actually appears to be perfect for me right now. OOTP allows you to play the general manager of a baseball team, and would have been perfect for me when I was a teenager. As I pointed out in a recent posting, since I discovered this game a year ago, it has absorbed an inordinate amount of my time, reducing my writing productivity and returning me to my childhood when I spent a lot of time playing games like Stratomatic, Pursue the Pennant, and APBA. A couple of months ago the 13th edition of OOTP was released. ![]()
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