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- It has always driven me nuts that skills aren't listed in the same order on different pages - for instance, on the draft center listens, the "bunt" column is after "speed," but on the waiver wire, it's right on the end. On a lineup page, health and mentor are the last skills, but on the WW, they come right after age. Draftees and player cards list arm, then range; lineups list range, then arm. Minor annoyance, perhaps, but a needless one - any table showing rows of players and columns of skills should have them in the same order so the manager doesn't have to re-orient himself.
- Depth charts and lineups show every position at which a player has a decent rating; WW just shows primary. If you're looking for a 4th OF or reserve IF (and that's a main use of WW, I've found), those are things you want to know.
Of course, there are a bunch of things on IdeaScale that I wish you'd tackle, such as [url=http://simdynasty.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Sortable-retiree-and-Hall-of-Fame-stats/109424-3581]Sortable retiree and HoF stats[/url], or [url=http://simdynasty.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Variable-health-detractions-for-under-OS-27-pitcher-abuse/9548-3581]Variable health detractions for under OS 27 pitcher abuse[/url], among others, but I realize those will take more work. The stuff above should be fairly low-hanging fruit.
Interface updates
January 23, 2015 at 09:24PM View BBCode
On [url=http://www.simdynasty.com/oldforum-viewthread.jsp?tid=380878&page=2]another thread[/url]:Originally posted by AdminHere are a couple of interface suggestions, less to do with modernizing (which is what you seemed to be talking about in the news thread) than with consistency:
I've been in maintenance mode for a bit on the baseball side, dealing with mergers, bug fixes, etc. I know that baseball has been stagnant for a while, though, and for 2015 I want to make a push forward to get more regular updates for both baseball and football.
The core of the baseball engine is fairly mature, but the interface needs work....
- It has always driven me nuts that skills aren't listed in the same order on different pages - for instance, on the draft center listens, the "bunt" column is after "speed," but on the waiver wire, it's right on the end. On a lineup page, health and mentor are the last skills, but on the WW, they come right after age. Draftees and player cards list arm, then range; lineups list range, then arm. Minor annoyance, perhaps, but a needless one - any table showing rows of players and columns of skills should have them in the same order so the manager doesn't have to re-orient himself.
- Depth charts and lineups show every position at which a player has a decent rating; WW just shows primary. If you're looking for a 4th OF or reserve IF (and that's a main use of WW, I've found), those are things you want to know.
Of course, there are a bunch of things on IdeaScale that I wish you'd tackle, such as [url=http://simdynasty.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Sortable-retiree-and-Hall-of-Fame-stats/109424-3581]Sortable retiree and HoF stats[/url], or [url=http://simdynasty.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Variable-health-detractions-for-under-OS-27-pitcher-abuse/9548-3581]Variable health detractions for under OS 27 pitcher abuse[/url], among others, but I realize those will take more work. The stuff above should be fairly low-hanging fruit.
WillyD
January 24, 2015 at 01:28AM View BBCode
Very good points and suggestions. I wholeheartedly agree.
ballmark
January 24, 2015 at 06:58AM View BBCode
The Arm/Range issue is particularly annoying when tracking improvements. Good stuff, Train.Pages: 1