Broken Bat - Suggestions: Player image on Play Action

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Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function

#23590	09/05/2015 11:28:25 am
motko Joined: 09/06/2014 Posts: 358 Nauvoo The Great Horned Owl IV.6	Me i would enjoy it if there would be both the pitcher and the batter images on the screen on 'play action' game event. It would give more character for the players. And visual presentation of the match. You would get to see the uniforms also.

#23591	09/05/2015 12:00:26 pm
Benchwarmer Joined: 01/06/2015 Posts: 445 Inactive	This is not a bad idea. Might be nice to see, but there are other priorities that I think need to be worked on first before this gets any thought.

#23592	09/05/2015 1:41:20 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9603 Haverhill Halflings III.1	Good idea +1

#30442	02/10/2016 12:30:59 am
motko Joined: 09/06/2014 Posts: 358 Nauvoo The Great Horned Owl IV.6	Eyeglasses on a player image? and maybe a mullet?

#30446	02/10/2016 3:43:13 am
Holmes Joined: 11/07/2013 Posts: 1175 Inactive	Sounds nice, but I guess that would generate a ton of traffic consisting of nothing but Caseys. Besides, the server seems to have a problem handling all those player images already. Without quantitative proof, I would say about one in three Caseys I get displayed are wrong.

#30449	02/10/2016 5:50:47 am
Endrju Joined: 05/28/2015 Posts: 577 Inactive	Without quantitative proof, I would say about one in three Caseys I get displayed are wrong. Happens all the time when opening different players in multiple tabs. Starting from ca. 5th tab all players look the same. I got used to it, I'm not browsing them to choose the prettiest one anyway. While the suggested change would be great (as all changes to live action, including dynamic scoreboard with R H E, stats from today's game, more color commentary etc.), I can understand for now these are all way down the to-do list.

#30489	02/11/2016 9:17:28 am
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Yes, there are some issues with the web server providing multiple, unique images. I've worked on it a bit, but haven't found a solid fix yet. It's hard because it's not something I can replicate locally on my PC server. Ultimately, this is something I'd like to do...but there are some things to overcome first. Steve Updated Thursday, February 11 2016 @ 9:17:57 am PST

#30491	02/11/2016 10:01:01 am
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	I really wish other game developers were as transparent about the problems as you are Steve.

#30494	02/11/2016 2:00:36 pm
Seca Joined: 05/05/2014 Posts: 5201 Waterloo Dinosaurs Legends	Think the OP is a neat idea.

#30503	02/11/2016 3:35:57 pm
Frankebasta Joined: 09/15/2013 Posts: 885 Kodiak Mules III.3	I'd like to have FIXED images fort each player. maybe it would solve the problem of repetition

#30509	02/11/2016 7:41:29 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9603 Haverhill Halflings III.1	Unfortunately that would require a considerable amount of additional storage requirements. Graphics take up a lot of space. With procedurally generated graphics storage is minute. EDIT: BTW, I've never seen Casey display wrong from the roster page, but he does on all the other displays. I wonder what is different on the roster page? Updated Thursday, February 11 2016 @ 7:43:43 pm PST

#30514	02/11/2016 9:39:31 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	I'd like to have FIXED images fort each player. maybe it would solve the problem of repetition Okay...I think I have implemented a compromise. Not every player has a fixed image. But there should be sufficient uniqueness in each of the dynamically created images to avoid 99.9% of the issues. Steve

#30524	02/12/2016 3:35:12 am
Frankebasta Joined: 09/15/2013 Posts: 885 Kodiak Mules III.3	I feel I've been misunderstood: I'm not looking for a unique image for each player. Couldn't care less if there's 100 players sharing the same pic. I'd be happy to see THE SAME image for the same player every time. Like on a picture, or a trading card, the features of a player are always the same. OTOH, in Broken Bat, sometime he looks blonde, sometimes afroamerican, or Asian. it's a bit unsettling for me. (I assume it would require just a single string of storage space, or one single variable) Once more, thanks for your effort and time, Steve!

#30525	02/12/2016 4:39:26 am
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2790 Novi Doubledays III.4	I'm guessing it's a server-side thing that causes the wrong Casey to display. It likely serves up cached images instead of fetching fresh ones each time you load a player card. Try hitting Ctrl + F5 and see if the correct Casey comes up.

#30536	02/12/2016 6:06:38 am
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9603 Haverhill Halflings III.1	I'm pretty sure your right Haselrig. I'm just curious why it doesn't happen on the roster page.

#30540	02/12/2016 6:24:43 am
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	Yeah, I have to say while I still had Bentley I was opening his player page fairly often and it seemed like he switched ethnicity quite often. He went from Asian to black to Latino to white on a daily basis. It did feel rather odd. If that can be fixed so a player sticks even to one ethnicity I could care less if his facial hair changes or the color of his hair. Other players do this as well, though some seem more consistent for some reason.

#30542	02/12/2016 6:30:10 am
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9603 Haverhill Halflings III.1	I'd prefer not to lose the graphics. Unique looking players makes the game more fun, and I already know what my players look like. If they changed on me it would feel weird.

#30545	02/12/2016 6:40:46 am
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	Who said anything about losing the graphics? All I said was I agreed with Frank that it is disconcerting to have your player switch ethnicity on a daily basis. In other words it would be nice if the image that came up looked at least somewhat like how the guy looked the last time I opened the page. Updated Friday, February 12 2016 @ 6:41:21 am PST

#30551	02/12/2016 8:57:24 am
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Okay...let's not argue about this. The graphic is not going away, but it's unlikely we can support a unique image for each player. Rather than just have one dynamically created player image (which potentially could be loaded to the wrong page), we'll have a large number of dynamically created player images (100-1000) which should eliminate this issue except in very, very rare cases (hopefully). So let me know if this is an improvement... Thanks, Steve

#30557	02/12/2016 11:08:34 am
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9603 Haverhill Halflings III.1	I don't like it. All my guys look the same now. Some of the players look different now (unfortunately a lot of quadruplets on my team now), but it does seem to be more consistent so far. I haven't seen faces change. At least Tabasco Sauce kept his stash. My pitchers did ok, mostly just my batters that became a legion of bland. Updated Friday, February 12 2016 @ 11:44:40 am PST

#30577	02/12/2016 3:07:24 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	I have tried to add some diversity to the player images...I'm just not much of an artist. Was working on backgrounds a while back, but proved to be more difficult that I thought. Steve

#30590	02/12/2016 5:07:03 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9603 Haverhill Halflings III.1	I think what you've added is good. I'm just cranky because some of my guys lost their character when you applied this fix. Good news is that it seems to be working so far.