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[adembroski]

Mike, is there any chance you have a more-than-vague understanding of what the difficulty level does independent of the sliders? Like, just it make the CPU just smarter, rubber band AI, or something like that?

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Quote: Originally Posted by adembroski

Mike, is there any chance you have a more-than-vague understanding of what the difficulty level does independent of the sliders? Like, just it make the CPU just smarter, rubber band AI, or something like that?

These are just guesses, but:

1) I don't think the AI is any smarter on higher difficulty levels. In fact, it's still quite dumb on Legend, if we're being nitpicky (always using hit and run, for example).

2) The biggest and most noticeable difference is the forgiveness with user control, so things like the size of the PCI, the speed at which the pitching meter moves.

2.b) We can take this a bit further and say the size of the sweet spot on the pitching meter, the forgiveness of the pitching mechanics (meter, pulse, pinpoint) the forgiveness of the PCI, meaning that a Perfect Perfect on Rookie will almost always result in an XBH if not a HR, while on Legend it's a hard out 50% of the time (rough number as an example).

So I think the difficultly leveling in this game is far *less* complex than we collectively may be thinking. It's things that can easily make the game harder or easier, not some under the hood retooling of the code.

Again, these are just my best guesses and assumptions having played the game for a decade or more and being cognizant of how much easier that would be to program than a truly complex difficulty scale.

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Update to v1.3. Look for changes in parentheses.

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Also just added CPU Timing down 1 to 4.

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One more small change this weekend:

Human Pitch Control 3 (-1)

I left the parentheticals from Friday's update since these were so close in date to one another.

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[adembroski]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mike Lowe

These are just guesses, but: 1) I don't think the AI is any smarter on higher difficulty levels. In fact, it's still quite dumb on Legend, if we're being nitpicky (always using hit and run, for example). 2) The biggest and most noticeable difference is the forgiveness with user control, so things like the size of the PCI, the speed at which the pitching meter moves. 2.b) We can take this a bit further and say the size of the sweet spot on the pitching meter, the forgiveness of the pitching mechanics (meter, pulse, pinpoint) the forgiveness of the PCI, meaning that a Perfect Perfect on Rookie will almost always result in an XBH if not a HR, while on Legend it's a hard out 50% of the time (rough number as an example). So I think the difficultly leveling in this game is far *less* complex than we collectively may be thinking. It's things that can easily make the game harder or easier, not some under the hood retooling of the code. Again, these are just my best guesses and assumptions having played the game for a decade or more and being cognizant of how much easier that would be to program than a truly complex difficulty scale.

So I played with this. Every other setting staying the same, alternating games between Legend and Veteran, and I can't say anything's been super obvious except this: Veteran pitchers will just serve up meat on a pretty regular basis on Veteran. Not that they NEVER hang a curve or groove a fastball on Legend, but it just happens is unnecessary spots on Veteran a lot more. 2-0 count fastball down the pipe, things like that.

Outside of that, very little has stood out to me, except that a vague feeling that the game is more varied and more organic at Legend.

[netsler]

Injury frequency is 6, I think it will be fine

It's a pity that there are few pitcher injuries

Injury frequency 7 is likely to be dangerous

I passed the all-star break

Four of the team's hitters are on the injured list

60 days for 2

The two of them will be back soon

The pirates' depth is hard to hold on to

But that's the fun of baseball