Stadium creator — foul territory

[ThatwasaStrike.]

We’ve had create a stadium for a few years now, and it’s great to at least give yourself a way to create a field with dimensions you like, especially if you enjoy replacing a few teams with college teams in franchise mode. The problem is foul territory.

It could be improved GREATLY by letting us pull in points of the walls to lessen the amount of foul territory. I like bigger ballparks and without being able to pull the stands towards the foul lines you end up with crazy amounts of foul territory, so anything hit down the lines cause your outfielder to have to have cover unrealistic amounts of ground. You should have the option of having a bigger park but still having small amounts of foul ground in the outfield especially.

I find myself putting two points right at each foul pole, making the point at the foul pole super short, like 280’ sometimes then the second point like 345’ only a foot over from the foul line and making that section of the wall 40’ tall to prevent home runs from curling around the pole.

[breakfastcat]

If giving us the ability to fully customize foul territory to the extent we can with the outfield wall is completely out of the question, I think a decent compromise would be that they could give us like 10-20 "lower bowl" presets based on realistic parks and seating arrangements. That way we can have some variation with the foul territory while also giving the field level seats more realistic placement where they are angled to the infield instead of being parallel to the foul line.

I'm not sure what that would do to bullpen placement but maybe they can give us placeable bullpens but honestly since the new UI just has a bullpen menu with no camera I'd be fine with them just doing without bullpens if we had to for something like this.

To be honest I don't expect any new functionality with the stadium creator going forward. It's very on brand for SDS to introduce an awesome new feature that is like 80% perfect and then just never iterate on it. I mean how long have we been using the same uniform and logo editors without a single feature enhancement? Sure they'll give us more props which is nice, like when they gave us new fonts and art pieces (although more often than not they are tacky and unrealistic). But at this point what we have in the SC is probably what it's going to be forever. Which is sad because for something I've always wanted in this game, I've begun to lose interest in it, dealing with the same limitations every year.

[tessl]

Based upon the problems with created stadiums not transferring and the statement from SDS that the team is looking at it I suspect whoever built stadium creator is no longer at the company.

I'd prefer the ability to adjust foul territory but I'm glad to have what I have.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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Quote: Originally Posted by tessl

Based upon the problems with created stadiums not transferring and the statement from SDS that the team is looking at it I suspect whoever built stadium creator is no longer at the company.

IMO That should be irrelevant. If it is relevant, then there's zero excuse for it being so.

[thescoop]

The fact that outside of a few new "assets" each year, they've left Create a Stadium untouched since year two makes me fear it is just a copy and paste into the next edition feature. We still can't move bullpens. Still no domes. We can't put team branding on the stadium. No ads on the outfield wall. And as you mentioned, can't custom our foul territory.

And then you factor in the as to this date still unresolved issues with the vault for this year's game and it doesn't produce the warm and fuzzy feelings that Create a stadium did when it was first introduced. Is it still the best create a stadium in all of sports gaming? Without a doubt. But we're in year five and there has been no true upgrades since year two. Fans are asking for more. It is hard to not feel like the mode is being ignored with that alone but it becomes reinforced due to the issues in 25.

Hopefully, they get this resolved and start to upgrade the mode in the coming years. But I get why folks aren't optimistic anymore. I feel my own optimism fading as well.

[tessl]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ghost Of The Year

Spoiler IMO That should be irrelevant. If it is relevant, then there's zero excuse for it being so.

If true I'd say it is quite relevant. The tool kit is fantastic. Things like snap to prop and group. It took a fantastic developer to make that. It could be these developers simply don't know the code and are trying to figure it out.