- New - TRU-Life Transaction Mode. Think you can do better than your favorite manager? Try Tru-Life Transactions mode, where player transactions happen just as they did in real life! All seasons from 1946-2009 are supported. You'll have to manage with the cards you are dealt.
- New - Manager Tendencies Editor. On each team's menu there is now an option to edit manager tendencies based on the situation, such as inning score etc. Over 200 tendencies can be editd.
- New - All MLB Managers since 1900 have been modeled and automatically import onto the correct teams as your association seasons unfold.
- New - 2 unique career modes available when doing historical replays:
- TRU-Life - Super accurate modeling of player performance based on real world stats.
The most accurate career replay simulation on the market. In fact, it is very similar to
the accuracy achieved in games that require expensive individual season disks. 1900-2009
is included "in the box."
- Organic - Upon import, real players are assigned ratings and career trajectory models
based on their real world performance, but from there things are 100% ratings based and organic.
Interesting mode if you'd like to have a more varied range of possibilities.
- New - New resolution support PureSim now supports 2 display modes:
- Scaled - Window can be sized as large as 1320x1010 and the content
is scaled to fit. Nice for guys like me in my 40's on a 1920x1200 monitor :)
Note, this mode requires a fairly modern video card to perform acceptably.
- Native - Works exactly like things always have. Performs the best.
- There are 2 handy hot keys for this as well:
CTRL-F9 - Automatically select the best Windowed resolution for the current
======= Windows desktop and task bar configuration.
CTRL-F10 - Automatically switch to the native non-scaled resolution.
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- New - New - Auto logo import. When using real teams, PureSim will automatically assign a team logo if an appropriate one is found in the mods\logos sub folder of your PureSim installation. See the _LogoReadme.txt file in that folder for information on the naming convention used.
- For the logo feature, PS will also check to see if an updated era-appropriate logo is available after each season is completed.
- AI - Totally re-built GM AI engine.
- AI - Brand new trade AI rebuilt from the ground up!
- AI - Improved roster composition AI
- AI - Improved lineup generation and platooning AI
- AI - Manager AI does a better job of pulling off Double Switches in specific game situations.
- New - New Home Screen UI. Now cleaner and more consistent with the other screens. Moved "Home" button to left side of bottom menu bar. Removed old home screen with the colored windows and auto-changing stats, wood grain header etc.
- New - In Sandbox Mode, Real Rookies Only can now be imported each season at Amateur Draft time and made available for the upcoming draft. Before starting the draft, click Players|Import Real Players. Choose the year in which you want to import rookies from and click Import Players. Only rookies from that season will import. After import, you can then view these rookies from the Draft Report on the home page. In addition, once the draft is complete you will be given the option of league expansion (if you have Expansion option turned ON). After the draft(s) are complete, you can import more players if you choose and these imported players can be assigned to existing teams or dropped into FA pool as would normally be the case.
- New - Button to Force HOF induction added to players' Edit Bio screen.
- New - Target Field - home of the 2010 Minnesota Twins.
- New - Default Fictional Schedule for 24 teams, 4 Div, re-worked to mirror retrosheet schedule of 1970.
- New - PSPN Highlights - Now includes special pitcher performances.
- New - Regions - 26 global cities/nations added to the Regions table. Will take effect for newly created assn's. This applies to Fictional Players Only - not real players.
- New - Fictional 16 team (2Div), 18 team (2Div, 10, 8), and 20 team (2Div) schedules have been re-made in same likeness of MLB-type (retrosheet) schedules.
- New - Improved endurance modeling.
- New - For history buffs.... With real players, on the player card, there is now a link to search for information about them on Google. I wasted an hour reading about players after testing the feature :)
- Tweak - Now noting players whose skills are in steep decline on the potential field of the player card (as opposed to stopping at "Past Peak"). So we have the following phases of a player's career arc reflected on the card:
1. Developing
2. At Peak
3. Past Peak
4. In Steep Decline
- New - New - Super smooth, DirectX-powered ball flight graphics. Way more frames and works just as well in scaled mode as it does in native.
- New - Blast from the past - Brought back firework display when the home team hits a home run.
- New - Aging / Potential / Career Arc Model:
More tweaks here. Also improved clarity of the potential rating:
1. The potential rating *only* matters until a player is "At Peak"
2. Once he reaches peak his potential immediately drops to 1
3. During peak, internal attributes will change very Little with SPEED and
RANGE being an exception since they take age into account
regardless of where a player is on his career arc.
- New standings display design allows for more teams to fit on screen without having to scroll. Up to 30 teams can fit now.
- Tweak - Added team AVG and ERA to standings display.
- New - New licensed background graphics.
- New - New display options allow user to adjust background image prominence (opacity and gray scale)
- New - Modability, PureSim will now auto-shuffle the background image on all standard main screens, in addition any images the user puts in html\images that meet begin with "bg_" and and end in ".png" will be added to the rotation.
- New - New Calendar Interface on the scores and schedules screen.
- New - Brand new box store, and game log storage engine.
- New - In Game Box Scores
- New - View real time Game Log from in game (via the "View Game Log" button on the in game box screen).
- New - "Search Log" button to the view game log screen. It invokes the standard highlighted search of all the log contents.
- New - Box scores and logs are saved for all seasons and are no longer reset, they are saved for eternity.
- New - New Box score screen with tons more info.
- New - Tweaks - Multiple Fatigue/recovery model improvements.
- New - Improved Base runner AI.
- New - Tru-Life Transactions mode: mandated 25 man roster limit re-implemented.
- Tweak - Stolen Base Attempts - runner at 1st and 2 outs base chance lowered.
- Tweak - Tru-Life Transactions - Trade button and Short List disabled on Team screen.
- Tweak - Misc UI cleanup on the association creation screens.
- New - Stolen Bases - Improved success/failure determination algorithms.
- New - pitchers hold adjustment value depending on what base the lead-runner is at; in effect, reducing SB attempts.
- New - Stats|Sabermetric Reports Pack|Park Factor - added Team Name to the stadium display to help identify which team plays in the park. May not be an issue with Historical Stadiums, but with fictional associations using fictional stadiums it was impossible to tell which park belonged to which team.
- Tweak - SB Logic, SB attempts now impacted by left handed pitcher holding runner more often. Result of a SB attempt now scaled to runners speed in algorithm resulting in faster runners being more successful over course of a season.
- Tweak - Durability ratings - tweaked so that 99% of the players in an association no longer have 100 durability rating. Hopefully this will in turn keep the number of players who play in 162 games per season to a bare minimum. This will likely need further tweaking if the # games played is not impacted.
- Tweak - Fatigue/Injury modeling - scaled back the injury severity since the durability rating also affects injuries.
- Tweak - Tweaked pitch count limits for very early 1900's
- Tweak - Vastly improved Complete Game totals by time period.
- Tweak - PlayerAger model - Good fictional players (22yrs+) promoted early no longer penalized based solely on their age-to-play level basis.
- Tweak - Schedule Calendar - Today's date highlighted in 'red' for clarity.
- Tweak - Injury - Improved the correlation on how fast a player heals and his durability rating.
- Tweak - Closer - Tweaks to force Closer in 9th inning in Save situations or Close_And_Late situations.
- Tweak - Injury screens - Formatted and cleaned up.
- Tweak - Real Player Retirements - When using the TRU-Life player development engine, there is a much higher chance players retire same year they did in real life. (With Auto Transactions turned ON, it is guaranteed they retire as they did in real life).
- Tweak - Historical Assn Name - Can now be named anything you wish - 50 character max (May change implementation a bit)
- Tweak - Draft Manager - AI tweaked to consider drafting pitchers more frequently as long as they have not maxed out on # pitchers given the era they are playing in.
- Tweak - Injury - Tweak to the internal healing formula formula, improving realism.
- Tweak - TeamEvals Addin - re-worked this addin to provide separate roster numbers for majors, minors and total roster size. Not only helpful for development, but for users who want to quickly see roster numbers without having to go through each and every team screen in the game.
- Tweak - Hall of Fame - added ROY Winner as a calculation criteria. Further tightening of the Pitchers calculation. Separate criteria for SP, RP and CL's added.
- Tweak - Hall of Fame - Finalized Hall of Fame calculations for RP's.
- Tweak - Minor Leaguers - Potential to qualify for secondary position *if* they compile 1200+ Minor League PA's *and*: have high enough defensive prowess at another position, age 22-26, already have good range/arm/hands, have not played at major league level, currently at minor league level during Spring Training once aforementioned criteria met. None of this is a guarantee they will qualify.
- Tweak - Hands & Speed - Tweaked development/aging model for theses attributes.
- Tweak - Pitchers - tweaked an AI check for pitcher condition during the dead ball era.
- Tweak - 2nd to 3rd Tag Up - Chances he tags up reduced.
- Tweak - Team Transactions and Stats list set to cut off at 1000 entries.
- Tweak - Check boxes in player filter criteria box now unchecked by default.
- Tweak - SB succ % refined.
- Tweak - Tightening the HOF criteria for batters.
- Tweak - Tightened the SACBunt logic.
- Tweak - Contract Status Report via Team Page|Team Reports link now gives accurate Stats/PlayLevel no matter what state assn is in.
- Tweak - Modified tag up and throwout attempts in relation to hitdepth.
- Tweak - Injury info added to "Put a pitcher in the game" notification box.
- Tweak - HR distances were reduced by the environment variables making the distance less than the fence distance. This has been corrected.
- Tweak - Environment variables were increasing the fly ball out distance beyond the fence distance. This has been corrected.
- Tweak - Stadium name added to Park View in-game.
- Tweak - Dolphin Stadium name change to Sun Life Stadium.
- Tweak - Manager name included on Team Info Screen.
