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View Poll Results: What will be Jim's next game? | |||
Front Office Football 5 |
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2 | 1.71% |
The College Years 2 |
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7 | 5.98% |
Front Office Baseball |
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41 | 35.04% |
Front Office Basketball |
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22 | 18.80% |
Front Office Hockey |
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21 | 17.95% |
Front Office Curling |
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5 | 4.27% |
Front Office Auto Racing |
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7 | 5.98% |
Front Office Horse Racing |
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0 | 0% |
Front Office Politics |
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6 | 5.13% |
Other |
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6 | 5.13% |
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#1 | ||
Dynasty Boy
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Michigan
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Solecismic's next masterpiece?
Not counting any patches or upgrades.
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Well, Jim has already stated that TCY is on hold for at least another year, the new sim will not be curling and it will be a new sport. So there goes 4 out of 9 options right off the bat.
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College Starter
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: A negative place
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I vote for Tennis (too bad it's not an option).
Didn't Jim say he had played some competitive tennis? And he could build a nice financial engine around it (earn money in tournaments, decide how much to spend on travel to tourneys, training, etc.). Ok, so it's a longshot, but it hasn't been done yet ... to my knowledge anyways. |
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Does anyone else think that it would be, to some extent, arrogant of Jim to jump into the main sports that are already being well covered by great developers without knowing a little about the currently available sims?
During the chat he said that he hasn't played any other sim since Baseball Mogul back in the day. It would make sense for him to check out what the popular functions and such are that are being eaten up by the text sim fans. Without knowing anything about OOTP or Puresim could Jim reasonably make a better baseball sim? The same would apply to the Basketball, Hockey and Soccer sims. Either he isn't letting on to the whole truth about his experiences with these other sims or he is going in with only his own concepts once again. OR he is truly working on a sport that no one else has covered as of yet. Just some thoughts. |
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College Starter
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: A negative place
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I'm not sure about 'arrogant' but naive perhaps.
I think soccer would be suicide trying to go up against CM ... unless he did a really good MLS version and even then I don't think it'd be a good idea. Same w/ Hockey now that EHM has access to the CM libraries. Baseball has several sims that he might be able to impove on, but he's several builds behind - and I agree he would have to learn from them. I thought college basketball would have been a perfect match, but now I'm thinking he would have a hard time competing with TDCB. Seems to me the biggest hole in the big 5 (hockey, soccer, football, basketball, baseball) sports would still be basketball though. |
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Fairfax, VA
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Everyone seems to think EHM is going to be CM on ice, but is that realistic? It took CM a long time to get to where it is, can EHM do it in what amounts to 1 year?
I'm sure it will be an awesome game (I thought EHM was pretty good), but is it unassailable? I think we'll have to wait and see, but it does gain a big advantage with having SIGames behind it. |
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Strategy Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: North Carolina
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I would be willing to bet money that it's Baseball. Just look at all the factual statements he has made.
to me it's a slam dunk. Or should I say "home run." We'll be playing FOF Baseball in late 2003/early 2004 |
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I would venture to guess that College Basketball is out of the equation considering he wants to focus heavily on the financials. I know that there are budgets and all in every sport at every level but to make the financial aspect such a large focal point would pretty much mean to go beyond just simple budgets.
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College Starter
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: A negative place
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Well, I agree w/ CThomer that his next game will most likely be baseball ... just not sure there is a big desire for another baseball sim unless he takes it to another level.
Hopefully (fingers crossed) he manages to do just that. |
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Dynasty Boy
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Michigan
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And very good thoughts. What I interpreted his words to mean is that he hasn't "played" these sims for pleasure, but as he develops his next game, he might "play" them for research. I agree, if his next game is baseball, he really needs to check out the latest versions of OOTP, Mogul, and Puresim at a minimum. He might also be wise to check out the non-career simulators as well (SOM & DM), as a check on statistical accuracy. |
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Awaiting Further Instructions...
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Macungie, PA
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cthomer5000 makes a very convincing argument. Nice piecing together of the clues. However, I think he will try and find a less crowded field.
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Two pieces of recent evidence keep sticking in my craw.
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Jim has never ruled out working with EA again. Here, there is almost an implication that he has an ongoing relationship with EA. Sure, that could be construed as whatever royalties he may be receiving from their versions of FOF. He doesn't want to offend the NFLPA because that would offend EA. Why worry about offending EA unless you're working with EA? Combine this with SkyDog's recent notice that EA has extended its ownership of frontofficebasketball.com, I think there may be some smoke there. Basketball is a much "smaller" game, which would enable Jim to get more in the financials he has discussed. That being said, baseball is the smart choice based on the evidence homer cited above. I just don't think it's slam dunk, so to speak. ![]() |
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Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Greensboro, NC
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Yeah, at this point in my mind I've narrowed it down to either basketball or baseball. I've said it before, and will say it again, there is still MUCH room for improvement in the baseball market for the type of game Jim makes (and the type of game I like.) The ONLY thing that makes me even consider that he might be doing basketball is the domain name thing.
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Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Greensboro, NC
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Dola--Shaun Sullivan is here right now. So what do you think, Shaun???
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Strategy Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: North Carolina
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For my sake, I actually hope so. I really have no interest in playing a baseball game. I'm just pretty damn certain that's what it's going to be. I was right about the last project being football, so let's see if I can go 2-for-2. I hope I can't! ![]() |
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Dynasty Boy
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Michigan
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Sorry it took me so long to reply to this. Anyway, I only had 10 options available to me for this poll, and I had to pick the best ones. The closest to the game you described is, I think, Tennis Elbow. There you can earn money (but not spend it), decide which tournament to head to, and spend points, RPG-style, on training. It was an interesting game for awhile, as I tried to show in this dynasty, but it moves pretty slowly and I eventually gave up on it. I agree that someone should try again. |
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College Starter
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: A negative place
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I think something along these lines would be very interesting. You could have a very basic 'match engine' w/ an element of smg/rpg. The whole sports text sims combined with RPG could be used in alot of single player sports (tennis, track & field, golf, bowling ... well, maybe not bowling). |
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#20 |
Bonafide Seminole Fan
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Miami
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Jims going to sign with Sigames
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#21 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: ...down the gravity well
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Curling, curling!!!
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Avondale, AZ, USA, Planet Earth, Milky Way Galaxy
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I've got this funny feeling it might be hockey...there's little competition relative to baseball, and we know that Jim's biggest passions outside of football are baseball and hockey.
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#23 |
Banned
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Apparently Jim had the voters "hook, line, and sinker".
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Strategy Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: North Carolina
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Double or nothing? Baseball is up next. |
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#25 |
Go Reds
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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Shows how much we know.
I probably picked FOF5, because I would have had no interest in Jim making a baseball sim with OOTP out there and keeping me satisfied. |
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#26 |
FOF2 Guy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Paris, France
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From Jim's website :
"Welcome to Solecismic Software, an entertainment software company dedicated to producing cutting-edge career football simulations" My take is Jim's next game will be TCY2
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#27 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Did we ever find out what the first project he was working on was?
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: New York
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Is this a vote for Front Office Fishing??? How about women's lacross? |
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#29 |
Mascot
Join Date: Jul 2003
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College Volleyball
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Iowa City, IA
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Front Office Cheerleading!
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Head Coach
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Whittier
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FOF Pimping
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Avondale, AZ, USA, Planet Earth, Milky Way Galaxy
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Hoo boy, were we off the mark. I'd love to know who the two people were who got FOF5 right off the poll all those months ago.
My guess is he does TCY2 next year. The original was a very popular game, there's a lot of room for making the next version better (playcalling, more flexible scheduling, a lot of the FOF4/5 improvements could be brought over, maybe even be able to customize conferences).
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Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Greensboro, NC
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