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Joined: 3/17/2005 From: Minnesota Status: offline
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Welcome to the board Sasquatch. I'll have to order an 4X large pair of spiked shoes for you. Soon after Maximum-Football was picked up for distribution by Matrix Games, there was a long debate over having an optional number input. The league I am in had used number input for "hot seat" games using Professional Football Simulation on the Amiga, and it worked well. It kept the "look away" to a minimum, and it allowed quick calls from large playbooks. As I recall, David thought it would take away too much from the designed interface, and it would require new code in both the game and the way plays were saved. This is understandable, but it would be nice to be able to sort large playbooks more quickly. As a wishlist item, I have asked that the run and pass plays be separated in the playbook, as they are in the PDS. The code is already saved with the play, and the interface already asks for a choice between a play or a punt at that point, so it would not require additional mouse clicks to call a play. Here is how it would look if the change was made: David has stated that he would consider improvements of this type for a future release, but he could not say if changes would be made for release 3.5 or a version of Maximum-Football down the road. Note that graphics interface revisions take more time to code than a bug fix, so time is a factor.
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