Actually andy, the reason I didn't report Baseball V4, was simply that when I wrote this post V3 was the newest version, simple as that. As the two versions came out so close together though, it doesn't seem worht another post, so I'll just edit this one appropriately.

I can't comment on any of the rule wanglings, as I know even less about pro baseball than I do about most sports, ----- I did at least play crickit and football (of the English variety), in school at one point.

In fact, I think the reason Jim included the baseball rules file was becausse I, ---- and probably some other people not from the Us, mentioned we found the game a bit confusing.

As for team profiles, I'm not quite sure what you mean there Jayde, but I do enjoy editing the player names, ----- at the moment I've got Dumbledoor's army up against the Death eaters, with all appropriate player names, ----- I've even had Draco malfoy got out by dobby, which was amusing.

I can see this being good for fans of the actual game, ----- but wouldn't he have to change it each season to keep up with new player sign ups, transfers etc? This might be quite a task if each team has 40 players, ----- though I don't know how often player line ups change in baseball, ----- in football everything seems to switch around each new season, and sometimes mid season as well I believe.

I personally prefer to play as custome created teams though myself, sinse I know neither the players nor the real life teams, and thus playing as them just wouldn't mean much to me.

I believe your right about baseball and rounders, it's just that I was forced into playing crickit far more at school than rounders, and at one school I went two, all the lads were crickit mad.

then again, being as about all I've had to do with sport is occasionally avoiding rampaging mobs of England or Newcastle united football supporters, that's not saying mucch.

As a computer game though, Win Baseball is moderately fun, though you do need to read the rules to get the knack of the terminology.

Personally, I stil prefer Jim's golf game when I want to play something vaguely sports orientated, but that's me.

For all those sorts of games, and that goes for the spoonbill ones as well, I'd say multiplayer support would be great! I'd particularly like to be able to pla hearts against other humans, sinse the computer Ai in Bg hearts is rather predictable.

I've occasionally played monopoly and game of life against various friends of mine, and they don't actually mind not having the visuals too much, though I agree it'd be rather nice to have them.

the main trouble I find in Jim's monopoly though (and the reason i don't play it too much), is that the single computer opponent is an idiot! it buys up everything in site to the point that it has to morgage properties, where as i tend to prefer concentrating on a few properties and making them as upgraded as possible.

sinse (unlike in the rules of monopoly I'm used to), a morgaged property is stil owned by the person who morgaged it, the game usually devolves into the computer owning most of the board, but unable to collect any wrent, and me waiting for it to land on the three or four highly developed properties I own, ----- this can get rather dull.

Imho Jim really needs to add the option for morgaged properties to be up for sale again.

I also stil think that the custome boards should come with custome pieces and money. Being used to the traditional English version of the game set in London, using dollars instead of pounds on that board seems a bit strange. Also, it'd be great to have Creddits on the Starwars board, Latinum on the startrek board, gallians for Harry potter etc.

Hi:

I think a long time ago Jim was interviewed on Main Menu and he was asked if he would make any games that had on line play and jim said he didn't exactlu know how to but anyways, I like his games a lot especially monopoly.

Hi, I can't seem to download the Winbase4.exe file. Every time I do it, either by saving or running it, my computer says: "Error. Winbase4.exe is not a valid win32 application. Can somebody give me advice on how to handle this problem?