GammaLogic

Ah. I saw this line in the readme to your datafile: **Also eliminates the repetitive hecklers comments. Incorrectly thinking this referred to the heckling of the announcers. I suppose this is the crowd then.

Gordo I've decided to compile my own datafile, a frankenstein of tweaks I find and my own perusing the spreadsheet. I'd like to cut back on the negative comments, and I see that's one of the changes you implemented. Which category and values handle announcer "bad swing" comments, do you recall? Fiebre Thanks I'll check it out for sure.

@Yankee What a great find! This kind of addition to the ambiance of play is great. Downloaded, commented, and installed. Thanks man. I wish there was a list of these little gems somewhere.

@Gordo Much obliged. I'll see if I can track down your roster documents. The mod you linked is well described and appears to be in line with what I'm after, in fact I played a few exhibitions earlier and my thoughts were "Well how can I get rid of the GUI elements?" I like the "broadcast" feel to the presentation of the game, don't get me wrong, but the pitching / hitting aids are intrusive. As the strike zone / hot cold stuff are on toggles, I figured it ended there as I couldn't toggle the pitching meter. I plan to download it and compare it to a few other tweaks I've already had in mind. The rather short time the CPU takes between pitches is bothering me. The average time between pitches in MLB games falls somewhere between 12 and 20 seconds (rough estimate based on watching many games). Hopefully I can find that line in the datafile and tweak it without too much trouble. @Yankee4Life You raise some good points, partner. I agree with everything you're saying, which is why I started the thread in the first place: to get a smattering of opinions about what's hot and what's not.

So I've been slogging through the mod database, which is quite expansive! Good work contributors. Unfortunately, most of them have no actual comments in the reviews--simply star ratings. It's hard for me to discern what's good, what's buggy, and what's in between. I began sorting by most downloaded, which I think is a good starting point. What I'm looking for is a good combination to enhance the vanilla game. What do I mean by that? 1. Overhauled rosters. Note: That doesn't mean updating the rosters to a certain year, or season. It simply means fixing any balancing / stat issues noticed by veterans of the game. 2. Overhauled textures / models. Again, I'm not looking to update anything forward in time, but any improvements on the originals (such as higher resolution) are welcome. 3. Overhauled gameplay mechanics. Mods that rebalance, or strive for that ever-elusive "realism" or "immersion" factor hardcore gamers chase. What I've found so far: Various slider adjustments (#3) Jim825's Combo Data file. (seems to address #3) True's MLB Ball replacement (#2) Compmaniac's hi-res base mod (#2) Real Crowd Ver 3 (#2). This seems to require another program to get it installed. Hoping the community can point me in the right direction, either comments on why these are (or are not) good choices, and any additions you'd recommend. Thanks!

Thanks Jim, Yes, it makes perfect sense. There were similar issues when modding Bethesda's games (notably Oblivion), where the engine would crash if it couldn't find a resource called from the script. Many of the smaller mods depended on functions from larger mods. So I suppose this is the same situation here with MVP.

Hi folks, New to this game, and modding it. How exciting is that? Anyway, I'm a Linux guy (and a technical one at that) so we'll skip the usual newbie questions. I can answer those myself. On point: Looking through the mods, I'll see something like this "MVP 12 Walk-Up Music" I see "MVP 12" and similar designations in other mods, under the Downloads > MVP Baseball > MVP Baseball 2005 subdirectory. What does it mean? Are these ripped from another version of the game? Another mod? Do they require another mod to work (such as a TC mod)?