u/RayFowler
It's a nice summer day for baseball and the Rangers are playing the Angels. By the end of the afternoon, the fans have witnessed 9 innings of the most incredible pitching battle in history.
Both pitchers threw perfect games.
One team won, and the other lost. Which team won the game?
edit: I posted the solution in this comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/11s3o5m/puzzle_the_battle_of_perfect_games/jcd74d1/
I have recently moved to a new address but, because of issues out of my control, it's taken a lot longer to get internet set up than I expected (I am posting this from an area where I have connectivity).
I'll get to the meat... for all intents and purposes, ROTP 2 development is effectively shelved. There are multiple reasons for this but the primary one is that ROTP was never a single-person project and if other people involved move onto to other things, then that pretty much stalls everything.
Another issue is just straight up the lack of a purpose.. ROTP was never intended to be a commercial product. It was something I did because I felt that there needed to be a modernized version of
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gofund.meI have done a lot of historical sims and have pretty much confirmed that, given an identical starting point, repeated replays can see any given team's wins vary by up to 15 from their average win total over all of the replays.
This RNG is deep in the sim engine, occurring even after reducing variation by disabling options like player development, injuries, personality, coaching and trading.
So keep in mind to not be too fooled by unexpected performances below or above the mean... the error bars are really wide in this game. I have seen pitchers win 20 games or lose 20 games from the same starting point because their ERA can be 2.50 some replays and 5.00 in others.
Release 1.04 is now available at: https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors
As a reminder, ROTP will always be free to download and play, but if you really like the game and would like to contribute to the project then please do so by leaving a donation on the download page or signing up to the Patreon (ROTP with benefits!) at https://www.patreon.com/rayfowler as this is the only way I can continue to support the game and work on future releases. If you can't, that's ok too!
What is changed since version 1.03
**Translation support
Release 1.03 is now available at: https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors
As a reminder, ROTP will always be free to download and play, but if you really like the game and would like to contribute to the project then please do so by leaving a donation on the download page or signing up to the Patreon (ROTP with benefits!) at https://www.patreon.com/rayfowler as this is the only way I can continue to support the game and work on future releases. If you can't, that's ok too!
What is changed since version 1.02
**Translation support
I'm probably not going to give an update every month since ROTP 1 is essentially in maintenance mode, but I'd like to do one here.
Version 1.03 will be coming soon with some bug fixes and a French translation. I was sort of hoping an additional translation would be ready as well but I'm not going to wait much longer. I'm also going to finish adding code for custom numeric characters to support a Bengali translation and then push it out.
I have been experimenting with some changes to spying and trade routes to fix large-map exploits but ultimately decided against adding those into ROTP 1.x. The primary reason is that they are basically outside of the original design scope of the game and we
