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The only constraint is I will probably limit it to folks that pre-order the game.

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ORIGINAL: rich12545

My two cents.

The extra minors isn't something that makes a difference to me. I'd never use it. But everything else I really like.

Couple suggestions. A graphics improvement for watching and managing the games would be nice. Not like an arcade game but watching where the ball goes, if it's a 6-3 groundout then watch the ball go to the ss, have him pick it up and throw to first. If it's a fly ball, have the outfielder run to its location, catch the ball and watch him throw it to the cutoff guy, etc. And if it's a strikeout or whatever, say so on the screen like it does for a fly ball or ground out.

Also make it easier to set up the graphics for the association. Like set up all those places the ball goes only once and then have all the other stadiums do it automatically. Currently it needs to be done with each park and that can get to be a pain.

Also, an option to just play one team against another in different years for only one game would be nice.

And lastly, make it a real windows game. So if the desktop res is set higher it will cover the whole screen at that resolution.

I wouldn't be good at beta testing so I'll leave that to others. But so far this looks really great.

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4 Not every few years. I might just feel like playing the 63 Dodgers against the 56 Yankees. One game. I think it would be nice to have that option without setting up a whole association.

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ORIGINAL: Amaroq

2 and 5 suffer from the same technical restriction - basically, the game is an Internet Explorer window, serving HTML files to the user.

Upside: it made it quick and easy for Shaun to make everything feel like a 'link'... because it actually is.

Downside: He doesn't have a graphical context with which to do things like the animations you describe in (2), and would need to provide HTML set up for each size you ask for in (5), as HTML doesn't do the 'shrink/expand to fit' layout management that you might get from a full GUI SDK (graphical user interface software development kit).

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Just add a window for things like strikeouts, walks, etc to the screen when watching or managing a game. This would be similar to the window that says ground out or fly out. When I'm looking at the field and something like that comes up I miss it because I'm looking for the line, the next batter comes up and I'm trying to figure out what happened in the previous at bat. This hopefully shouldn't be difficult to implement. Thanks.

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I actually already have implemented that. It makes it much more seamless to watch a game. If there is a BB or a K then the info window denoting so is presented on the field at home plate.