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[Turd]

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[ryno]

Tried my best to pitch to contact.  Cubs seem pretty good.

An Aramis Ramirez 3 run homer was the difference.

[ryno]

also, Zambrano threw a CG.  He was gassed in the 7th, 8th, and 9th.

[RBIKING]

I just finished my game, the game played very well.   Great work!   I found it harder to take an extra base off the computer.   I pretty much stayed on the outside part of the plate when I was pitching and would curve slightly so when they did take a pitch it would catch the corner for a strike. 

One thing that I like about he game is that it's realistic.  Vernon wells is also a stiff in the game!

[RBIKING]

sorry about the huge screen shot

[ryno]

just do f9 and go to the snaps folder for the smaller picture.

[Re-Peat]

GREAT rom!  This is so much better than playing against a normal computer opponent.

The only reason St Louis was in this one (which went to the 11th) was that Ludwick had a lucky HR (a wallzie) and Pujols went long twice...  and with authority.  Just fkn jacked the shit out of the ball.

So yeah, very realistic!

[Not Gantry]

If this continues to play well, it'll be more inspiration for me to write my season tracker application.  We shall see...

that would be awesome.

[Turd]

great feedback everyone. Glad ya'll like it...looks like we found the sweet spot...

[TβG]

hey tecmoturd,

check out this old thread if you're interested in an avatar ("aviator") for use on dee-nee:

http://forums.dee-nee.com/index.php?topic=14424.msg287155#msg287155

[TβG]

i finally hit a triple.  howie kendrick hit a bleeder inside of second base and the second baseman, then it rolled all the way to the wall.  there was still a little of the AI confusion, but the fielders reacted much faster and ran quicker to the ball, of course.

[ryno]

I'd play a full fkn season if it had stat tracking, play offs, etc. . . how cool is that?

[TβG]

i would suggest toning down the CPU defense running spead with the ball.   i had figgins get run down trying to stretch a single into a double, but he turned around in enough time to make it back and got run down easily.  maybe try somewhere in between that speed and the normal speed?  just a thought.   

although, if it is a juiced rom and you expect to never be able to make a baserunning mistake against the comp, i guess i can see it that way too.

[Turd]

Yeah, I thought about that...I went back and forth for the exact reason you said...I wanted it to be a challenge, so it forces you to find your threshold before you can turn back without being caught.

Toning that down would also lower infield running speed, since that isn't separate from base running speed, and I think that speed is what helps them pick up those grounders they so easily missed when they are peeing clean.

I'll leave it for now unless others have a huge issue with it...it makes you play smart, right

[Turd]

hey tecmoturd,

check out this old thread if you're interested in an avatar ("aviator") for use on dee-nee:

http://forums.dee-nee.com/index.php?topic=14424.msg287155#msg287155

Awesome idea...sent you a PM.

[TβG]

got your pm, i'll be working on it.

after playing 5 games, i don't see the CPU offense being that great.  did you juice anything ofensively?  may think about that.

[Turd]

As far as offense goes, there's not a really good way to juice that as is...what I've done in the past was to create a juicer that would inflate the batting/running speed for all the teams except for a team that you specify.  This way if you wanted to play a season with the Brew Crew, you'd pick the brewers, and then all teams except for the brewers would have inflated hitting stats.  I wrote a php script to do it, and I'd be glad to post it up on my website if people wanted it.  I don't like it cause it's sort of a hack, but it works quite well if you want the CPU to have inflated attributes.  If we went that route, pitching speed could be juiced too, making it harder to hit.

The way I look at it, it was more important to have juiced fielder to make up for some of the dumb stuff...that way the batters can still play as the ROM was rated, as the batters don't make as many dumb mistakes as the fielders did.  Still, I see your point, as it does make for an added challenge, and it was fun that way.

The other reason why I didn't like it as much is because of the season tracker and simming games.  The way I had it in my head, my app would load up two teams, collecting their attributes.  Then it would cycle through each batter and pitting him against a pitcher, generating whether it was a strikeout, homerun, base hit, etc based on their attributes and probability.  It'd stop at 3 outs and go the appropriate number of innings as you'd expect.  With a ROM where all the batters were juiced, you'd have some over inflated stats, so in that case you'd have to provide the original version along with the juiced one so that the simulator would match up stats correctly.  

With the fielders only juice, you don't need to do this because it gets applied to their speed attributes which don't affect hitting the ball or anything like that.

Does that make sense?

This is all just daydreams in my head at this point, but I want to get this done before our second kid comes in January, where I'll cease to exist in the online world for a while

[TβG]

pick up your new aviator here:

http://forums.dee-nee.com/index.php?topic=14424.msg578769#msg578769

[Turd]

Thanks man...I suppose the black bat didn't work with the black gloves?

[TβG]

check that thread again, i posted a black bat version a few miunutes after.