· Improved font rendering
· Improved add-ons dialog
· Commish email after sim -> improved error messages (sometimes it crashed when showing error message)
· Fixed a few minor bugs
· The historical player import dialog (league transactions screen) can now import multiple historical players via a text file.
· Any non-affiliated league can now optionally feed into the amateur draft pool of another league (based on age-restriction settings).
· Added a scout task list for scouting players, which can be found and edited in the scout's profile screen. This allows you to mark several players to be scouted and the scout will work through the task list, filing reports automatically.
· Fixed several bugs
· The historical player import dialog (league transactions screen) can now import multiple historical players via a text file.
· Any non-affiliated league can now optionally feed into the amateur draft pool of another league (based on age-restriction settings).
· Added a scout task list for scouting players, which can be found and edited in the scout’s profile screen. This allows you to mark several players to be scouted and the scout will work through the task list, filing reports automatically.
· Fixed several bugs
· Added an option to the in-game options to set the play-by-play font size
· Added a "Quick play to RISP" button to the in-game screen, it quick-sims the game until there are runners in scoring position or the half-inning is over
· The control settings (i.e. offense, pitching, defense etc.) of the in-game screen is now saved and restored when restarting OOTP
· Added an option to the league standing screen to select a date for the displayed standings, enabling users to examine past standings
· Added a "Delete all available personnel" function to the league transaction screen (must be in commish mode)
· Teams no longer sign foreign coaches when the league prohibits foreign players
· Added WAR and ZR to the stats displayed in the team history year page
· Improved the RTS broadcast report in online leagues
· Fixed several bugs
· Added a feature that enables online leagues to broadcast the real-time simulation screen to the league website as a real-time report, so league members can watch the league being simulated live
· Added a "Check teams for roster violations" function to the commissioner home screen
· Added the ability to edit "Projected Budget"; if set, all future budgets of a team can remain constant
· Added a "GM only” mode (in manager options) that prevents the human GM from winning the manager of the year award or appearing in the manager-related history reports
· Added the ability to add leagues to and remove them from existing associations
· Added a "Reset all Injuries & DL status" function to the league setup screen
· Added a "Reset Player Fatigue" function to the league setup screen
· Added a "Reset Player Morale" function to the league setup screen
· Added a "Reset Compensation Type of all Free Agents" function to the league setup screen
· Added an option in the league setup screen to disable automatic Hall of Fame inductions
· Added two new player split stat categories, "As Starter" and "As Reliever / Substitution"; these only work for the current season, though
· Added coach pictures to the team personnel screen
· Added player pictures to the in-game player profile screen
· The payroll between the start of the offseason and the date of free agent filings is now a projection rather than the salaries from the just finished season, resulting in more accurate projected budgets and funds available
· Shortlisted players are now highlighted by having their name displayed in upper case in player lists
· Players discovered through international scouting will now accept minor league contracts if they are very young and years away from reaching the majors
· Improved various aspects of the in-game and roster AI
· Fixed several bugs
· Added the option to place the toolbar at the bottom of the screen (found in the preferences dialog)
· Added "Auto-play to your next game" to the Play menu if the game is in the future
· You can now pick a color directly from the team logo / league logo in the team color / league color dialogs.
· Added optional latitude & longitude fields to ballpark data, along with the function to show the ballpark in Google Earth (if installed and proper coordinates are set)
· Added the option to disable the automatic season prediction creation (found in game options / reports settings)
· Added the option to import historical rookies as free agents when the first-year player draft is disabled in historical leagues (found in league setup / historical tab)
· Tweaked contract evaluation AI, so players no longer react to an offer and sign with a different team on the same day
· Improved minor league roster AI when incomplete minors (ghost players) are enabled
· Tweaked development of injury history rating, so short-term injuries have less effect now
· Improved major league roster set (need to start new game for changes to take effect)
· Fixed several bugs & glitches
· Fixed memory leak in the simulation screen which caused long-term simulations to slow down
· Tweaked default number of protected players in historical league expansion drafts
· On the day of a fantasy draft player's morale no longer reacts to promotions / demotions
· Added back manual All-Star voting to the league menu 30 days prior to the All-Star game
· Fixed manual ballpark import function
· Fixed problems with owners disappearing
· Fixed some minor bugs
· Fixed an issue where the winner of the playoffs was not properly highlighted in the league history
· Fixed an issue which caused the owner to take away (or add) cash to the team budget despite the 'owner controls budget' being turned off
· Fixed rare crash when adding a new manager in online leagues
· When negotiating with free agents, the negotiation screen now displays your previous offer
· Players on waivers can no longer be offered contract extensions
· Players who were just released cannot be signed by their former team
· When setting the scouting / development budget, cash on hand can be used if the projected balance is negative
· Improved the database info page
· Added direct mySQL data dump support on the Mac
· Fixed a few minor cosmetic bugs
· Fixed rare OOTP 11 league importing crash
· Fixed rare crash bugs when simulating
· Fixed crash bug when offering certain player minor league contracts
· Fixed other rare crash bugs
· Fixed several problems with database exports (MySQL dumps)
· Added feature to write data dumps directly into a MySQL database
· Added support for use of "extended INSERT" when creating data dumps for MySQL
· We added a new internal player rating: 3B/2B ratio. When this rating is set in the editor, it will be used for determining the triples rate of an extra-base hit (instead of the player speed rating). This rating is automatically set for all historical players upon import, improving statistical accuracy. Fictional players occasionally get a rating applied as well.
· Added the real 2011 draft class to the MLB quickstart. You need to start a new game for them to appear, though.
· Trades now work even when a team has a negative projected balance, as long as the balance improves or stays the same through the trade.
· Several problems with contract negotiations have been fixed.
· Players now react faster to minor league contract offers.
· During the offseason, lesser talented free agents demand minor league contracts more often.
· Changed the behavior of the "Meet Demand" button in contract negotiations. It now takes the player demands and automatically asks for the player's response to that offer.
· Made the number of international free agents generated a bit less predictable.
· Tweaked teams spending behavior, resulting in less instances when great free agents go unsigned for a long period of time.
· Tweaked default financial numbers in fictional leagues to give teams more money to work with.
· Tweaked OOTP 11 league importing for more stable financials.
· The diagnosis for a 'delayed' injury now appears sooner sometimes, the typical delay is 1-4 days.
· After deactivating an OOOL league, it will automatically be a standard online league now.
· In OOOL leagues, the league URL and all other text values can contain "less than" and "greater than" characters now.
· OOOL league browser contains link to league web sites and info about each league now (move mouse over league name).
· Fixed a bug that made downloading an online league file fail.
· Fixed the problems with the "clear league file cache" feature.
· Fixed several small bugs.
· We added a new internal player rating: 3B/2B ratio. When this rating is set in the editor, it will be used for determining the triples rate of an extra-base hit (instead of the player speed rating). This rating is automatically set for all historical players upon import, improving statistical accuracy. Fictional players occasionally get a rating applied as well.
· Added the real 2011 draft class to the MLB quickstart. You need to start a new game for them to appear, though.
· Trades now work even when a team has a negative projected balance, as long as the balance improves or stays the same through the trade.
· Several problems with contract negotiations have been fixed.
· Players now react faster to minor league contract offers.
· During the offseason, lesser talented free agents demand minor league contracts more often.
· Changed the behavior of the "Meet Demand" button in contract negotiations. It now takes the player demands and automatically asks for the player's response to that offer.
· Made the number of international free agents generated a bit less predictable.
· Tweaked teams spending behavior, resulting in less instances when great free agents go unsigned for a long period of time.
· Tweaked default financial numbers in fictional leagues to give teams more money to work with.
· Tweaked OOTP 11 league importing for more stable financials.
· The diagnosis for a 'delayed' injury now appears sooner sometimes, the typical delay is 1-4 days.
· After deactivating an OOOL league, it will automatically be a standard online league now.
· In OOOL leagues, the league URL and all other text values can contain "less than" and "greater than" characters now.
· OOOL league browser contains link to league web sites and info about each league now (move mouse over league name).
· Fixed a bug that made downloading an online league file fail.
· Fixed the problems with the "clear league file cache" feature.
· Fixed several small bugs.
· This patch only fixes issues with online leagues and is only necessary for commishes/users whose online league use the scouting system!
· Tweaked budget & player contract demand calculation
· Added new baseball card templates
· Added search filter function to city list in nation editor
· Added a function to export the world data to XML
· Added an option to correctly display potential ratings that are lower than the actual ratings, instead of adjusting them to match the actual ratings. This is useful only for leagues without scouting enabled.
· Fixed first-year player draft major league contract demands
· Fixed arbitration-related contract issues
· Improved roster & trading AI
· Fixed several other bugs and cosmetic issues
· Fixed player demands in the offseason (again, these were too low in the major league set)
· Fixed player contract negotiation text (player said terrible offer despite it being OK.)
· Fixes to the major league set (scouting budgets, Adrian Gonzales extension, fixed Colorado Rockies + Minnesota Twins weather & home town) ... these only apply when starting a new game.
· Fixed: Normal GMs gain access to commish account each time a league file is downloaded in game (non-OOOL download)
· Fixed: Mac ootp12 clients can not ftp anything
· Fixed: Check Team exports button in commish portal does not work for OOOL leagues
· Fixed: In Non-OOOL leagues, OOTP incorrectly tells you that you must first sign in to online server
· Fixed: Non-OOOL league online league file is incomplete
· Fixed: Incorrect error when downloading new league file but no new file is on server
· Fixed player demands in the offseason (again, these were too low in the major league set)
· Fixed player contract negotiation text (player said terrible offer despite it being OK.)
· Fixes to the major league set (scouting budgets, Adrian Gonzales extension, fixed Colorado Rockies + Minnesota Twins weather & home town) ... these only apply when starting a new game.
· Fixed: Normal GMs gain access to commish account each time a league file is downloaded in game (non-OOOL download)
· Fixed: Mac ootp12 clients can not ftp anything
· Fixed: Check Team exports button in commish portal does not work for OOOL leagues
· Fixed: In Non-OOOL leagues, OOTP incorrectly tells you that you must first sign in to online server
· Fixed: Non-OOOL league online league file is incomplete
· Fixed: Incorrect error when downloading new league file but no new file is on server
Changes:
· The message panel and the league news article reports should show Facebook and Twitter buttons now! Please try to post news articles to your Facebook and Twitter accounts!
· Added several baseball card features
· Ongoing stories will now be saved in world.dat instead of an extra file
Fixes:
· Fixed issues with awards not going to deserving players when they are not on a team
· Fixed projected payroll calculation when extension offers exist
· Fixed rare crashes when enabling the DH prior to a game
· Fixed some PbP issues
· Fixed issue that resulted in duplicated players when manually activating minor league players from the DL and asking for AI minor setup afterwards
· Fixed rare instances when players have no demands listed in the free agent list but asked for a major league contract in the offer screen
· Fixed a bug which caused bad fielding ratings when importing a historical league with custom CSV files and neutralized stats enabled
· Fixed a bug which causes bad injury ratings in non-recalc historical leagues for imported rookies
· Fixed a bug during expansion draft which caused drafted players to cause expenses on the old team
· Improved trade AI
· Fixed problem where story line messages did not contain person names
· File version of english.xml file displayed on database info page
· Fixed multiple small bugs, mainly cosmetic ones
Changes:
· Enhanced selection dropdown for free agency minimum service years to 25 years
· Introduced user confirmation before resetting history text files to current game date when loading a database, i.e. after a crash
· GMs in online leagues can now create baseball cards for persons with pictures
· The "import photo file" feature is now available even if Facegen is disabled
Fixes:
· Fixed/improved several hardcoded PbP entries
· Fixed several issues with the scoring engine for earned/unearned runs
· Entries in history files being deleted when older league file loaded
· Quick start always defaults to New Game
· Ghost players unavailable in fictional leagues
· Problem importing historical players into a draft pool
· Legacy bug involving fielding substitutions
· Problems with using master.csv instead of odb file
· Career Stats on Baseball Card for HOFer include minor league stats
· Baseball Cards in online league can only be made by commish
· Inning ends on a Single
· ER scoring issue involving error on OF throw to 3B
· Crash upon importing online league
· run incorrectly scored as earned
· Unusual box score error involving a hit batter
· College players who aren't signed get assigned to new colleges
· CI not reported as an error in Game Log inning summary
· Typo in a news report object
· League strategy options in 2010 game aren't sticking from season to season
· Bottom of Box-score text has an error concerning a player's affiliation
· League Evolution log has [new team city] [new team name] move to [new team city].
· ER scoring error
· User reports ER scoring error
· Ball Animation option can be re-enabled after selecting "Big" PbP Box
· Post Season Changes in Rotation Size
· small change request: PbP token
· Possible problem with the player ratings editor
· Earned run scoring error #21346
· Choosing a high number of divisions makes it impossible to change teams in a division
· Write/Edit News field is shortened
· Another possible ER scoring error
· Appeal play missing information
· Throws Column for Spot Starter is not aligned correctly
· In imported leagues, expansion teams don't get owners
· Defect in a specific player-of-the-week news object
· Make fictional player contracts doesn't clear extensions
· Added league did not get owners created
· Too many infielder leaps in PbP
· SB/CS: no crowd reaction
· Text object error in Personality
· Problem with starting in-game from calendar ribbon at top of screen
· Historical Newts are missing the Fielding Part
· Arbitration awarded even though no offer submitted
· Defensive Efficiency is .000 in Pre-Game Stats Screen
· Nicknames are nicknames, but.....
· Perplexing problem related to expansion draft in 1997
· Historical Teams Running Out Of Players
· Minor change to hardcoded PBP: unable to turn DP
· Online League update failed
· PBP Not reporting rain delay
· Duplicity of Players in Historical Leagues
· Minor hardcoded PBP change: batter reaches second with double
· Fictional FaceGen pictures created even when fictional pictures are turned off
· Fixed the bug where the same picture was used for multiple players
· Fixed issues related to FaceGen/player photos
Additions:
· Added option to hide the injury history rating
· Added an (editable) league evolution log to the league history screen
· Added the option to disable recalculation of player potential ratings in historical leagues, resulting in improved AI for career leagues using ratings recalc (each time players get imported, their talents will get locked to the option you chose upon initial import (career totals, remaining years, etc.)
· Added option for the 10/5 rule (players will accept trades to teams that they like, for example to a contender)
· Added over 750 new lines to the play-by-play database
· Added option in online leagues to remove managers from teams in the "Human Manager Status" screen (OOTP Menu >> Human Manager Status), available if current manager is the commish
· Revamped picture action menu
· Added additional tokens to the baseball card customization options (Baseball cards can now show season stats for current season plus each of the previous 9 seasons, and change colors of images)
· Moved player picture specific settings from the database info screen to the game options screen
· Improved AI logic regarding AI extensions for arbitration-eligible players (fewer cases should go to arbitration, arbitration-eligible players should not accept contracts with salaries less than their current salary, 1-year contracts should be close to arbitration estimates, contracts should feature non-linear escalation)
· Tweaked pitcher creation for feeder leagues (reduced the number of 2-pitch pitchers, and increased the number of viable starting pitchers)
· Tweaked draft bonus negotiations (major league contract offers are now factored into the bonus demand, and no longer on top of the bonus, etc.)
· Improved roster management AI when roster limits are applied in the lower minor leagues, preventing good prospects from being released
Fixes:
· Fixed some players becoming super 2 eligible during the offseason
· Fixed manually released players qualifying for FA compensation
· Fixed calculation for projected final balance on the team front office screen
· Fixed bug which caused some historical pitchers to import with only one pitch
· Fixed bug which caused the "Picture search mode" setting not to be saved correctly
· Fixed bug where player pictures were not updating correctly
· If the user manually selects a picture, it will no longer be auto-updated when loading the league
· Fixed some small issues in the PbP text
· Fixed issue where AI releases top-rated prospects
· Fixed issue where pitching stats were reversed
· Fixed issue with too many 100 mph pitchers being generated
· Fixed rare issue where runtime errors occurred during auto-save
· Fixed issue with historical paths when importing games from prior versions
· Fixed issue with crowd response to a base on balls
· Fixed issue where players were not being released by feeder teams correctly
· Fixed issue with confusing information when draftees request MLB contracts
· Fixed issue with players losing draft compensation status during spring training
· Fixed issue where non-commish doesn't see manage colors button
· Fixed issue with column formatting on "streaks" screen
· Fixed issue with Historical FaceGens not being picked up if added after league creation if player photo already exists
· Fixed issue with released players becoming draft compensation-eligible
· Fixed issue where changing team jerseys does not trigger an update to FaceGen pictures
· Fixed issue with AI not performing double-switches
· Fixed issue where right-clicking out of a player page leads to blank page
· Fixed issue where team logo was appearing instead of either facegen or photo
· Fixed issue where too many players with excessive demands were coming out of feeder leagues
· Fixed issue where passive FTP was not working correctly
· Fixed issue where users could lock themselves out of online leagues
· Fixed issue where individual budgets could not be assigned in an inaugural draft
· Fixed issue with calculation of Remaining Expenses of Front Office page
· Fixed rare crash issues in 2011 ML quickstarts
· Fixed rare crashes in online leagues after importing team exports and then saving
· Improved 2011 ML quickstart
· Minor league roster moves are now allowed when controlling a major league team which is in the playoffs
· Players who go to college after being unsigned/undrafted now get a fictional college assigned in the player profile if there are no feeder leagues
· The game no longer copies real player pictures from the photo folder upon league creation, resulting in proper use of FG models if they exist
· After changing colors, graphics or settings in the team color dialog, all players and personal of that team will get the pictures updated on next usage
· Database settings on database info page moved to a more visible place
· Added option to deactivate baseball cards
· Fixed bug where imported PhotoFit/Facegen files disappeared after a trade or when clicking on "Same Picture"
· Fixed historical fielding ratings import for players with no fielding stats in a certain time span
· Fixed scheduling issues in historical leagues
· Fixed predefined draft values in the historical database
· Fixed bug where custom saved game path did not work as expected
· Fixed "historical data path not found" bug which occured on Linux
· Fixed bug where the almanac index could not be opened on Mac
· Fixed various small bugs
· 10.2.18 contains just one fix, that will help the Mac/Linux licensing system to stop reporting license failures when portable modems are added to / removed from the computer.
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