Just had another injury happen and have an anecdote to add.

The guy is an 18 year old rookie and it is an elbow surgery injury where he is out for 208 days. There are 61 days left in the season and 41 days allocated to the playoffs. If you add that to the 110 days that takes place during the roll that is 212 days. This means he misses his opportunity to be placed on the DL next season and possibly fully recover. Even if the World Series ended in four games this season, that would be exactly 208 days and he would just miss his opportunity to fully recover. If he got injured four days later, he would have a chance to fully recover from injury. Injury recovery should not depend on the time he got injured. It should depend on the team's medical/training staff budget, the player's makeup rating and the player's health rating.

Posted by tlowster on 1/12/2021 3:37:00 PM (view original):
Just had another injury happen and have an anecdote to add.

The guy is an 18 year old rookie and it is an elbow surgery injury where he is out for 208 days. There are 61 days left in the season and 41 days allocated to the playoffs. If you add that to the 110 days that takes place during the roll that is 212 days. This means he misses his opportunity to be placed on the DL next season and possibly fully recover. Even if the World Series ended in four games this season, that would be exactly 208 days and he would just miss his opportunity to fully recover. If he got injured four days later, he would have a chance to fully recover from injury. Injury recovery should not depend on the time he got injured. It should depend on the team's medical/training staff budget, the player's makeup rating and the player's health rating.

Just another reason why I am out. The change to injury recoveries in the season has made me not enjoy the game.

Quality of life fix? Make it so people who have no active teams can't post on the forums.

tlowster,

Slight nitpick, but it says that Harry Espinosa is out for 289 days.

I am fine with any and all suggestions in here. Just going to take time.

HBD is one of the hardest games to adjust because, one.... its massive.. and two it shares a game engine, so anything game related probably can't be done until we separate the engine from SLB. I am probably going to comb for some small to medium things we can do to help in the short term. We should have a patch tomorrow if a few tiny things for HBD that were on seble's list and I am going to crowd source some more from you all.

Thank you for thing awesome thread.

-Adam

adlorenz, thanks for having an ear. Nice to have you here man!

Thanks! I just combed the page and I have 51 features varying in sizes from tiny to pretty large. I don't know the timeline a lot of thing but I promise we will try to make changes to help the playability of the game.

-Adam

Posted by McGirkTheJer on 1/13/2021 4:25:00 PM (view original):
tlowster,

Slight nitpick, but it says that Harry Espinosa is out for 289 days.

I learned a while back that guys you post on the bulletin board have inaccurate injury days shown to owners who don't participate in the World. Anybody that clicks on him that isn't in Cooperstown World, will see a different amount of injury days.

Posted by adlorenz on 1/13/2021 4:33:00 PM (view original):
I am fine with any and all suggestions in here. Just going to take time.

HBD is one of the hardest games to adjust because, one.... its massive.. and two it shares a game engine, so anything game related probably can't be done until we separate the engine from SLB. I am probably going to comb for some small to medium things we can do to help in the short term. We should have a patch tomorrow if a few tiny things for HBD that were on seble's list and I am going to crowd source some more from you all.

Thank you for thing awesome thread.

-Adam

Thanks, man.

When a patch rolls through, does it delay the game cycles? Also, will we see patch notes (Diablo3 style)?

In the case that we are throwing the poopie at the proverbial wall, any chance the game can add defensive shifts? I know it would not be a quick fix or quality of life change, but it would be cool to mess around with it.

I would really like to see what shifts add to the game. Would there be overlapping positional defense where the fielding abilities of multiple players are calculated into the outcome? Or would it just be the one fielders ratings (the player who ultimately ended up fielding the ball)? If so, if the shift is on due to a leftie pull hitter and the hitter hits the ball to the SS position where the 3b has shifted over to, would the 3b have a higher probability to commit an error or negative play because he has 3b ratings, but he is technically fielding the play from the SS position?

Posted by adlorenz on 1/13/2021 5:36:00 PM (view original):
Thanks! I just combed the page and I have 51 features varying in sizes from tiny to pretty large. I don't know the timeline a lot of thing but I promise we will try to make changes to help the playability of the game.

-Adam

Thanks Adam. Nice to have our voices being heard.

If you're still taking suggestions here, I think it would be a cool fix to allow worlds to check a box that sets up Universal DH. This would give a little more variation across the worlds and allow worlds a little more flexibility in how they're run.

Posted by bripat42 on 1/14/2021 11:15:00 AM (view original):

Posted by adlorenz on 1/13/2021 5:36:00 PM (view original):
Thanks! I just combed the page and I have 51 features varying in sizes from tiny to pretty large. I don't know the timeline a lot of thing but I promise we will try to make changes to help the playability of the game.

-Adam

Adam,

I greatly appreciate the improved communication, and today's patch is great both in terms of game improvement and the patch-update announcement so we know what is happening.

However, I am concerned about "51 features varying in sizes from tiny to pretty large." First, I obviously don't know the exact numbers, but I think it's safe to assume the users posting in this thread (and on the forums in general) represent a significantly small percentage of overall users. Second, many suggestions in this thread are, for lack of a better term, controversial.

This is a great game as is. I hope today's update, as welcome as it is, is not a step toward turning HBD into something entirely different from what it already is through multiple major changes.

Again, thank you for your effort and the improved communication.

bripat42, I can assure you I have no plans to make massive changes to HBD and how it is played. The 51 features are sourced directly from this thread and they are a launch point for ideas, not promises of things we will change or fix, but there are a lot of good ones.

The budget change today I understand is impactful, but its your team's money and to keep transfers from happening because you have $1,999,999 and not $2 million is tough to look at and justify, you still will pay the penalty for transferring budget, but you won't have "dead" money.

One thing I will say is that we have to make the game much more consumable for newer players. So what I will say, and I know this is going to ruffle some senior players feathers there needs to be a couple adjustments on what the attribute titles are. One that stands out to me which is horribly misleading is "contact". In just about every other game contact means something completely different. So I am not going to change how contact functions in game engine, but make it so a casual players can jump in and know what the terms actually mean. Rather than have to have a senior player explain to them what it really means like I had to have done.

I hope that reassures you a little bit, thanks again!

Adam

-Revamp coach hiring. No one enjoys doing it and it is easy to 'game' which makes life harder for others. Coaching should just be a set budget amount (you don't actually have to hire anyone) from something like $1M-$10M, maybe $1M-$15M ($20M would be too drastic a shift IMO and shouldn't be on par with the amount you can put into prospects.

-Would love to have more stats / views of statistics available. Adding something like wRC+ would be phenomenal and not that difficult because it's just a formula using already available data.

There is a glitch where it doesn't recognize me logging into my team. I mainly play from a desktop on Chrome. I make lineup changes and everything else and it doesn't recognize me as logging in to my team so it will set to computer mgt here and there.