May 9th, 2012· 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
· 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
April 26th, 2012· 2012 Opening Day major leagues roster set
· Groundbreaking Real Time Simulation mode, watch the action unfold while you browse the game
· Revolutionary Random Debut Historical League mode, relive childhood fantasies!
· Interactive storylines. Do you bench the clubhouse cancer who just insulted you in the media?
· League associations & enhanced custom playoff modes – who is the real Champion of your baseball world?
· Redesigned interface, it’s easier to use and looks simply stunning
· Various AI and core engine improvements, making the most realistic game even more realistic.
· Much more, over 100 new features & improvements
December 7th, 2011· Recoded fielding engine, major league 2011 rosters, and MUCH more
November 17th, 2011· Made some tweaks to historical replays
· Added 'Purge Database' function to database info page
· Several minor bug fixes
October 22nd, 2011· 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
· Improved the database info page
· 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 and a few minor cosmetic bugs
October 7th, 2011· Added an "Offseason Summary" to the Offseason Center which lists players added/lost during the offseason for each team, along with WAR and team leaderboard for WAR added.
· Added a "GM Transactions History" section to the Manager History screen. It lists all major transactions made for the teams you were in charge of. This only applies for transactions happening after using this patch.
· Added a "Preseason Predictions Report", listing projected standings and a top 10 hitters & pitchers list for each sub-league. It gets generated on the first day of Spring Training and is available from both the league menu or the Spring Training screen. For leagues without Spring Training it is available in the league reports screen on Opening Day.
· Added functions to add states and edit state names in the nations editor
· Decreased effect on fan interest of players signing/leaving
· Tweaked formula that determines FA compensation status to make the number of Type A & B FA's more realistic
· Added "FA type" as a possible column to sortable player lists. For this to show up, the user has to delete his \tables folder inside the OOTP 12 user data folder (i.e. My Documents\ OOTP Developments\OOTP 12\)
· First year player draftees no longer change their bonus demand after being drafted unless they are drafted far higher than expected.
· Improved roster AI
· Added the option to disable delayed injury diagnosis
· Fixed several bugs and minor issues
September 9th, 2011· 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.
· 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.
· We changed the behavior of the "Meet Demand" button in contract negotiations. It now takes the player's demands and automatically asks for the player's response to that offer.
· We made the number of international free agents generated a bit less predictable.
· We tweaked teams' spending behavior, resulting in fewer instances where great free agents go unsigned for a long period of time.
· We tweaked default financial numbers in fictional leagues to give teams more money to work with.
· We 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 now automatically be a standard online league.
· In OOOL leagues, the league URL and all other text values can now contain "less than" and "greater than" characters.
· The OOOL league browser contains link to league web sites and info about each league now (move the mouse over the league name to see it).
· 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.
August 11th, 2011· Tweaked salary arbitration contracts
· If using playoff roster rules, players put on the 15-day DL shortly before the playoffs will allow an additional player to be made eligible for the playoff roster
· Tweaked the age of created international free agents because too many young players were created
· Fixed draft bonus issue for AI-controlled teams (too-high ML contract for some players as part of signing bonus)
· Fixed problems with finances for historical expansion teams
· Tweaked top prospect list calculation
· Fixed problems with team import in online leagues on a Mac
· Fixed problems with contract offers in online league mode
· Added several commissioner features for OOOL leagues (co-commissioners, change league owner)
· Added button to reset league file version cache in OOOL leagues, to force a new league file download if needed
· Fixed several other bugs and cosmetic issues
July 26th, 2011· 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
July 15th, 2011· Fixed several bugs
July 2nd, 2011· 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
March 7th, 2011· Fixed bug in Add-Ons dialog
November 1st, 2010· 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
October 21st, 2010· 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
October 11th, 2010· Recoded fielding engine, major league 2010 rosters, and MUCH more.
August 28th, 2010Changes:
· 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
July 21st, 2010· Includes primarily fixes for some FaceGen/player image issues.
July 16th, 2010· Added option for the 10/5 rule (players will accept trades to teams that they like, for example to a contender)
· Added over 600 new entries to the play-by-play database!
· 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 additional tokens to the baseball card customization options
· Significantly tweaked AI logic regarding AI extensions for arbitration-eligible players (fewer cases should go to arbitration, players should not receive pay cuts through 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)
August 7th, 2009· 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.
July 7th, 2009· Fixed problem with disabled list notifications for minor league players.
· Fixed problem with crash when scouting accuracy set to "High".
March 6th, 2009· Fixed a problem with the draft order screen which caused traded draft picks to disappear after viewing the screen on a certain day
· Full setup file now includes the latest historical database including the completed 2008 MLB season.
June 24th, 2008· Fixed L/R split ratings set to same values in imported OOTP 8 leagues
· Fixed crash when clicking on player news stories while playing out a game
· Fixed game getting stuck when DH is ejected
· Toned down suspensions resulting from brawls (duration of suspensions)
· Fixed position selection menu disappearing at times
· Fixed foreigner rule selection in league setup
· Fixed missing list bullets on help pages
· Added "crashed_on_startup" flag to config file to reset graphics to default after a crash
Additionally, there are several fixes to the MLB file:
· Arizona League Padres added
· Issue with retired players resolved
· Several missing prospects added
· Several fixes to Cleveland Indians
· Updated positions for players on numerous teams
· Updated ratings for some players who were missing ratings
· Some managers updated
· Personnel contracts adjusted to prevent them from being signed for 263 years
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