BTS

[Kobeck]

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...l-discussions/

customizable league structure from people who know a thing or two about stat based text games.

Im excited

[Matt]

FOF is the only text sim i've ever played. found it by accident after a few friends were doing a madden "GM" career mode tournament.

next thing I know, a friend of mine says how he bought madden GM online. I was confused and he sent me a link to EA Sports FOF2001. I've been hooked ever since.

[SteveBsFan]

haha just received the e-mail for it today. Sadly it won't be available until 2015, but I can guarantee updates will come quicker and more often than FoF. Jim should be worried...

Here are the highlights from the e-mail:

• A realistic modern day American football experience with all current rules and regulations.
• All 32 real American football teams with their real players and current rosters.
• A realistic 2D game engine that represents all the action on the field, with the ability to call plays and watch them unfold, complete with the roar of the crowd and other sound effects.
• You dictate the action on the field: Set depth charts and develop strategies around your preferred style of play.
• FaceGen support allows realistic images of all players.
• A complete box score for every game played in the league during its history, so you can always look back on thrilling victories and agonizing defeats.
• The ability to sim decades into the future and watch teams' fortunes rise and fall as dynasties emerge, crumble, and eventually renew themselves.
• You call the shots from the front office: Participate in the draft for your team every spring; trade players; and negotiate contracts with draft picks and free agents.
• All of the (non-playable) Division I colleges as well as many more, with real players, so you can draft the next crop of superstars every year.
• A living, breathing world full of news articles from around the league and a message system that lets you field offers from other GMs and hear what your players have to say.
• Complete histories, including stats, transactions, injuries, and contracts, for all players who have participated in a training camp during the past decade.
• Nearly 50 tracked stats, allowing you to go beyond the usual numbers and dig deep into players' performance.
• Each player features a Health Scan that lets you quickly assess their current situation by showing you which areas of their body are hurt, which areas are okay, and which ones are worn.
• Customization options, including the ability to change team names, the number of teams, the league structure, the league's country, and a variety of settings.
• Many benefits from utilizing the OOTP code base, like the user-friendly interface, online league support, HTML output, customizable text database and much more!

[BOSS]

This game is gonna be nice. Pretty sure I will be all done with FOF after this comes out.

[Beeznik]

This game is gonna be nice. Pretty sure I will be all done with FOF after this comes out.

Ditto. I had one of their baseball games and played around with it for a bit. While I didn't get too into it because I don't like baseball, the interface was great. Graphics kill FOF.

[Kobeck]

the more I read the less enamored I am

its a physics based, best I can tell, not stat based system

seems a step backwards, but what do I know

[DakotaGeorge]

Oh I see we have a post going here.

This makes me wonder if pushing FOF 7 out so fast was a cash grab because Jim knew that OOTP was working on their own game that was probably going to put him out of business.