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True. But, it took SDS three updates over the course of a six week period to finally get just one set of stand props correct! Given the public difficulty over something so relatively simple, one starts to wonder if SDS lacks ability to make changes to the basic composition of the field of play, regardless of how widely it is wanted.

Pappy Van Winkle custom map in the vault is a pretty solid one. It's not going to prevent massive bombs but it flows well enough that it doesn't make you want to sell back your game for $1.76 to GameStop.

Sadly, there is a quite serious and overall ugly result from this latest update. SDS changed the code for the entire series of Future City stand props such that at night the stands turn a pure white color. The only variance are the seats themselves that will carry on with whatever color was assigned to them, as well as the colors of the fans sitting in those seats.

There is no other way to describe this except to call it professional incompetence. That's harsh, but sadly deserved. SDS is either failing to conduct alpha testing of their updates prior to releasing them to the paying customers, or their alpha team is incompetent.

Either cause is a very ugly look for SDS.

The "glitch" is one that allows you to group a batters eye prop with a regular prop, and then be able to move that grouped prop anywhere on the field, including on the field of play. You can also then copy that grouped prop, and by then ungrouping the combined prop, have multiple copies of the batters eye prop. What it basically does is turn the batters eye props into normal props.

A great many designers have taken this option to make some really nice stadiums, designed to nicely replicate actual stadiums, or to produce some visually spectacular stadiums.

Personally, I opted not to use it because I figured SDS would soon disable the glitch and I didn't want my stadiums suddenly rendered unusable. In hindsight, I wish now I had leveraged the option. But, now it appears that SDS has decided to retain it.

Is this a sign that SDS is starting to listen? I don't know, but I sure hope so! Lord knows SDS has received a ton of very well considered and constructive feedback that if accepted would make Stadium Creator vastly better and more capable than it currently is.

Last point: to leverage this option, you have to first download from the vault one of the Batters Eye Glitch stadiums, as those are the only ones with the code "glitch" that allows you to do this special stuff.

@JoeSelser I think we get none of it. I also endorse the template with the bullpens off the field of play, as well as the option to isolate and move the wall hinge points on the baseline walls from the foul poles to a point near the far reach of the dugouts.

However, I'm really trying to give SDS a low cost (quick) option to do something that would make a lot of customers happy. And, they are refusing to do it.

I think the reason for this stubbornness is SDS doesn't really want customers to design stadiums that rival their own work.

It is indeed not merely a sad day, but entirely indicative of how badly SDS is plodding along via their vision for this game vice fairly accounting for the clear desires of their paying customers. SDS is a very tone deaf company, whose leadership is lacking the judgement to avoid angering their customer base.

We don't want more kiddie props for Stadium Creator. We want simple, and yet individually powerful and creative prop options that allow us to create realistic and vibrant stadiums suitable for MLB, MiLB, and collegiate ballparks.

You released an entire set of props a few weeks back, which was rendered in such a questionable manner that when you lay out the field level props, the straight props don't even match the forward placement of the curved props. There is no other word but inept that can be used to describe such a shoddy condition. This should have been caught on initial inspection and fixed before ever released. This bug was alerted to you the day the set was first released and two weeks later you release Update #8 that said it would fix the bugs in the Future City props.

Yet, this most glaring of bugs was not addressed. You seem fine with such poor results.

Worse, dozens of designers have expressed the same desires, almost entirely ignored, over the course of the last three years. Most of these desires could be rendered in one work day, and are therefore entirely doable.

Small seat stand props to allow us to create dugout level seating, or to fill in gaps that appear in your walls. A single straight seat prop five by five seats set on a concourse stairstepped base. Another curved that is five seats across at the front and seven seats at the rear likewise on a curved concourse base. Tight alignment with the snap points to create multiple grouped props to fill in areas as large or small as needed.

Bare concrete stairstepped props matching the size of the aforementioned seat props, that can be used to create aisleways. Again, with tight borders to allow snug fit with other props.

Raillings of short distance, one straight across and the other inclined to match the slope of your stand props. Again, with tight snap points to allow them to be grouped to form expanded perimeter fencing or aisleway railings.

Add to the existing wall props a new option for display of outfield wall distance to home plate.

New letter props, and numbers added to all existing and new letter props. For God's sake! How hard can this be! You've been asked to do this for three years now! These new letter props need to be smaller than the current group so we can use them more effectively to replicate signage.

Break apart your existing MiLB stand props. Remove the overhead suites and instead make the actual stand props bare in the rear concourse. Render the overhead suites as new MiLB stand alone props that can be added or left out, but if added, can be done in more creative ways.

The longer you ignore these more than reasonable desires from your customer, the more clear you reveal to us that you desire to see Stadium Creator deliberately sabotaged so that we are unable to create first class stadiums. It's as if your employees don't want the competition of thousands of people creating stadiums that might be just as good as your team creates. Well, what's more important to you -- your employees' egos, or your paying customers' legitimate desires?

@DavethaGr81

See I def have the series x/s installed but still don’t have the stadium vault