Post by mickaleenne on Sept 6, 2017 13:26:05 GMT -5
Shaun
There are many of us who really enjoy your baseball game and are very appreciative of what you have done for us by designing it and making it available to us! To emphasize what it means to me, I will tell you that I was in Jr High when Strat-o-matic came out with their first season board game for baseball. I played it for decades and when they came out with their first computer game, I purchased it and started converting my cards into players that the computer game could play. The first and best benefit of that computer game was that I did not have to keep manual statistical records for the teams and players, I could concentrate all my effort on playing games and converting players' cards to play in the system. I never had the money later on to purchase any future computer versions due to a very long illness so my baseball interests withered and Strat-o-matic got put in the closet.
However when I found your free version 6.11 game on line, I decided to try it. I have been in baseball 7th heaven since that day doing a variety of things that involve your game, finding logos & stadiums - adjusting them, team color decisions, stadium dimensions and ball flight set-ups, associations creation, new game schedules, etc. While doing all these things and enjoying your game's multitude of intricacies that involve me in set-up and its playing; I have wondered if there is a way some of us could help you beyond just suggestions? Part of the problem from my (our?) end is that I (we?) do not understand exactly how the game plays out the individual at-bats and decides what happens between batter, pitcher and defensive player fielding the ball. I (we?) are making suggestions like throwing darts blindfolded in a darken music hall trying to hit a small round target.
As you know the original Strat-o-matic baseball game was very simple, 3 dice made the decision of what happened in an at-bat and their first computer game was setup the same way. Its simplicity provided no visual treats or intricacies like your game does which can show different stadiums, team colors, logos, line-ups etc.; and its game play did not have any variables that decided what happened in an at-bat other than the dice throw. So much was left to the imagination in the card game and the 1st computer one.
Getting back to "can we help?
", you may have noticed some of my suggestions about ball flight, outfield wall distance (17 points instead of 9) and height, more variety of the hit description that involves commentary that includes wall height?!? I made these suggestions completely in the dark, not knowing if wall height, wall distance and arc of the ball flight have any influence over whether a hit is an out, single, double, triple or homerun. Some of the people viewing my questions and suggestions have said quite surely that these variables do influence the determination of what a flyball is - an out, single, double, triple or homerun? Since I (we?) do not know how you have the games software weigh each at-bats variables to decide the outcome for that batter, I (we?) are just making unqualified assumptions about how your game does function; so many of the suggestions you receive may not be of any value to consider for your game design.
I have thought about setting up an association with only 4 teams so that I can check how wall height and distance affect the games play - 1st teams stadium with fairly standard distance, 2nd teams stadium wall distance at 300 ft across the outfield arc, 3rd one with the wall at 200 ft and the last team with the wall at 100 ft distance from home with wall heights for each of the stadiums varying along the arc so an idea can be garnered if the height does influence play results. This should clarify for me if wall distance and height do influence the outcome of a flyball?!? But do I really want to actually do this?
What I really would like is to know the basics of how your game decides if a batter strikes out, walks, hits a grounder or a flyball and its direction. What determines whether either of the last two are an out or a hit? Does wall height and distance really affect that outcome? What decides that the hit is a single, double, triple or homerun? If I knew these basics, then my suggestions and questions would be of more value to you (and your playing members).
I would like to help you in any way possible to keep your game viable and there are probably other members who feel the same as I do!!! Please help us to help you in some way, (i.e. writing out hit descriptions that involve outfield wall even if the wall has no actual influence on the type of hit).
Thank you again
There are many of us who really enjoy your baseball game and are very appreciative of what you have done for us by designing it and making it available to us! To emphasize what it means to me, I will tell you that I was in Jr High when Strat-o-matic came out with their first season board game for baseball. I played it for decades and when they came out with their first computer game, I purchased it and started converting my cards into players that the computer game could play. The first and best benefit of that computer game was that I did not have to keep manual statistical records for the teams and players, I could concentrate all my effort on playing games and converting players' cards to play in the system. I never had the money later on to purchase any future computer versions due to a very long illness so my baseball interests withered and Strat-o-matic got put in the closet.
However when I found your free version 6.11 game on line, I decided to try it. I have been in baseball 7th heaven since that day doing a variety of things that involve your game, finding logos & stadiums - adjusting them, team color decisions, stadium dimensions and ball flight set-ups, associations creation, new game schedules, etc. While doing all these things and enjoying your game's multitude of intricacies that involve me in set-up and its playing; I have wondered if there is a way some of us could help you beyond just suggestions? Part of the problem from my (our?) end is that I (we?) do not understand exactly how the game plays out the individual at-bats and decides what happens between batter, pitcher and defensive player fielding the ball. I (we?) are making suggestions like throwing darts blindfolded in a darken music hall trying to hit a small round target.
As you know the original Strat-o-matic baseball game was very simple, 3 dice made the decision of what happened in an at-bat and their first computer game was setup the same way. Its simplicity provided no visual treats or intricacies like your game does which can show different stadiums, team colors, logos, line-ups etc.; and its game play did not have any variables that decided what happened in an at-bat other than the dice throw. So much was left to the imagination in the card game and the 1st computer one.
Getting back to "can we help?
", you may have noticed some of my suggestions about ball flight, outfield wall distance (17 points instead of 9) and height, more variety of the hit description that involves commentary that includes wall height?!? I made these suggestions completely in the dark, not knowing if wall height, wall distance and arc of the ball flight have any influence over whether a hit is an out, single, double, triple or homerun. Some of the people viewing my questions and suggestions have said quite surely that these variables do influence the determination of what a flyball is - an out, single, double, triple or homerun? Since I (we?) do not know how you have the games software weigh each at-bats variables to decide the outcome for that batter, I (we?) are just making unqualified assumptions about how your game does function; so many of the suggestions you receive may not be of any value to consider for your game design.I have thought about setting up an association with only 4 teams so that I can check how wall height and distance affect the games play - 1st teams stadium with fairly standard distance, 2nd teams stadium wall distance at 300 ft across the outfield arc, 3rd one with the wall at 200 ft and the last team with the wall at 100 ft distance from home with wall heights for each of the stadiums varying along the arc so an idea can be garnered if the height does influence play results. This should clarify for me if wall distance and height do influence the outcome of a flyball?!? But do I really want to actually do this?
What I really would like is to know the basics of how your game decides if a batter strikes out, walks, hits a grounder or a flyball and its direction. What determines whether either of the last two are an out or a hit? Does wall height and distance really affect that outcome? What decides that the hit is a single, double, triple or homerun? If I knew these basics, then my suggestions and questions would be of more value to you (and your playing members).
I would like to help you in any way possible to keep your game viable and there are probably other members who feel the same as I do!!! Please help us to help you in some way, (i.e. writing out hit descriptions that involve outfield wall even if the wall has no actual influence on the type of hit).
Thank you again
