Game Menu
This is the approved revision of this page, as well as being the most recent.
There are several options available in the Game menu once you have a world loaded:
- World Home: Takes you to the World Home Page, where you can see the upcoming events, top teams, and league leaders for every league in your world. Other Tabs on the World Home Page are as follows:
- Explore World: Takes you to a list of every nation in your world, including the abbreviation, the national flag, the population, how many leagues, teams, and players are in it, and the overall baseball quality. Want to see all of the Manx (i.e. hailing from the Isle of Man) players in your save? Click here and you're just a couple more clicks away from seeing this.
- World News: Displays all the big news events throughout your world. Sometimes you'll never get wind of these unless you check this page, so look out! In my world, the Japanese League's top HR hitter just broke the 300 mark.
- Schools Page: Takes you to a page that lists all the schools in the database and allows you to find the school ID to add to any created players.
- Regions Page: Takes you to a page where you can delete and add new regions to your game.
- History: Just another way that will take you to the history index.
- World Scores: As the name suggests, this shows a scoreboard for all of the leagues throughout your save. Hey, looks like the Northwest League Seattle Rainiers are in Lewiston, Idaho to take on the Broncos tonight!
- World Schedule: Displays the upcoming schedule for your entire world. During the regular season, this is really similar to the World Scores page, except a lot more truncated. It's also easy to get a quick look-see at some of the teams in your save at a glance by mousing over them.
- History Index: Pretty much the history screen for your highest league but for every league in the game. Want to know who the all-time Mexican League leader in hits is? You're only a couple clicks away (by the way, in my save it's Carlos Sandoval with 2,342).
- Almanac: This leads to a flyout menu that gives you some options to set up a league almanac. These are really useful for online leagues but can also be used if you just want to peruse your league outside of the game.
- Create League Association: Allows you to create a new league association, in which you can share rules, draft pools, and match up teams in association playoffs.
- Ballpark Construction Kit:: Although the game ships with all the current ballparks in the major leagues and there are lots and lots of parks available to download via the OOTP Developments website, sometimes you want to make your very own park. This handy wizard will help you to do that.
- Game Settings: Oh boy, this one's a whole ball of wax in and of itself. One of OOTP's greatest strengths is the amount of customizability you get. For the most part you don't even have to exit out of the game and use a tune file to access most of these. This is one (of several) places where you can go in and start tinkering.