April monthly awards
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You can get 30 of the required... 25.... points needed without playing an online game. Stop whining.
20 points are online only. What are you even lobbying for? All 50?
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I like the way it's set up, enough pts for online players to complete without exchanges or offline, and enough pts for offline players to complete without exchanges or online.
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Are you able to go past Zimm at 25 to unlock more or are we capped at 25 for now?
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@TubaTim90 said in April monthly awards:
Give it a rest. You don’t see “online players” complaining about the mission “beat the nationals on all star or higher”.
You mean we have to play against the CPU?!?! This game sucks!!You don't have to. You can still get your stuff without doing the mode you want. Offline players have to play all the offline modes (moments, vs CPU, etc.). Online just have to set their events Roster to be 1B and Nats players. So if, for example, I'm an offline player who doesn't like moments, too bad. I can't just get RBIs with Nats and beat them on All Star. I can't even just do that and exchanges. No, I must do moments. Meanwhile, online players can just load up their events roster with 1B and Nats players and get 15 hits and 10 RBI with Nats, 5 XBH with 1B and boom, you have a Zimmerman. Heck if you have FoF Soto in your RS/events lineup, you can accidentally get Zimmerman without even trying, literally.
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@TubaTim90 said in April monthly awards:
You can get 30 of the required... 25.... points needed without playing an online game. Stop whining.
20 points are online only. What are you even lobbying for? All 50?
Yes, every stat grind should be online or offline.
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Tfw DD is designed to be pvp so you'll never get the offline online experience you crave so badly
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@anychawk said in April monthly awards:
@TubaTim90 said in April monthly awards:
Give it a rest. You don’t see “online players” complaining about the mission “beat the nationals on all star or higher”.
You mean we have to play against the CPU?!?! This game sucks!!When there were player programs a few years ago, online players abosultely lost their [censored] on here that they had to do offline missions.
And back then they didn't have to do it offline, they chose to.
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@JustASeal0 said in April monthly awards:
Tfw DD is designed to be pvp so you'll never get the offline online experience you crave so badly
Show me one place where SDS says DD is designed to be PvP.
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@ag1982 said in April monthly awards:
@JustASeal0 said in April monthly awards:
Tfw DD is designed to be pvp so you'll never get the offline online experience you crave so badly
Show me one place where SDS says DD is designed to be PvP.
In the place where half of its game modes (RS, BR, Events) are all pvp, last time I checked offline people got franchise, rtts, MTO, and homerun derby
If they were aiming for offline players to be playing DD over anything else then almost everything would be do-able offline
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@lucalderic said in April monthly awards:
That's all I read about is online people crying about the game. Why is it so hard to make program even for everyone. I'm not asking for prestige. Or br rewards. Those are separate. If there is a program then the missions should be the same for any style of play
What are you talking about ? There are three options for each. 15 Xbh with Washington cards and beat cpu on all star ( exchange is the 3rd for each) how is that online only?
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@ag1982 said in April monthly awards:
@TubaTim90 said in April monthly awards:
You can get 30 of the required... 25.... points needed without playing an online game. Stop whining.
20 points are online only. What are you even lobbying for? All 50?
Yes, every stat grind should be online or offline.
So you want to go back to 50 saves per team , 500 abs, 150 hits, 75 hr or whatever it was? Hell no. I play offline mostly but enjoy ranked season when I’ve caught up on the TA grind and these missions are perfect. Both sides win. You don’t even have to play online to get Zimmerman, maybe you just can’t win on all star and want some easy “ 5 at bats with national players” vs the cpu on rookie type missions.
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@Crimson_Monk said in April monthly awards:
@ag1982 said in April monthly awards:
@TubaTim90 said in April monthly awards:
You can get 30 of the required... 25.... points needed without playing an online game. Stop whining.
20 points are online only. What are you even lobbying for? All 50?
Yes, every stat grind should be online or offline.
So you want to go back to 50 saves per team , 500 abs, 150 hits, 75 hr or whatever it was? Hell no. I play offline mostly but enjoy ranked season when I’ve caught up on the TA grind and these missions are perfect. Both sides win. You don’t even have to play online to get Zimmerman, maybe you just can’t win on all star and want some easy “ 5 at bats with national players” vs the cpu on rookie type missions.
Who said anything about changing the quantity? If online players can get 10 points by getting 10 hits with Nats, offline players should be able to get 10 points by getting 10 hits with Nats. It's that simple. And they should be for fully completed games, not people who "hit and quit."
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Franchise is a poor substitute for DD. With DD I enjoy the process of acquiring and building my team via programs and such whereas being a GM holds no appeal to me. Besides which, let's say someone took your advice weeks ago, started a Yankees franchise, and loaded his team with Yankee legends in the game. He's halfway through the first season with it now, and just recently SDS added Tino Martinez to the game. How does he add his favorite player growing up to his existing franchise? He can't.
If it's meant for online only, they can come out and explicitly say that it's not for singleplayer enjoyment. Until then, I'll keep asking for things I can do with my team.
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@JustASeal0 said in April monthly awards:
@ag1982 said in April monthly awards:
@JustASeal0 said in April monthly awards:
Tfw DD is designed to be pvp so you'll never get the offline online experience you crave so badly
Show me one place where SDS says DD is designed to be PvP.
In the place where half of its game modes (RS, BR, Events) are all pvp, last time I checked offline people got franchise, rtts, MTO, and homerun derby
If they were aiming for offline players to be playing DD over anything else then almost everything would be do-able offline
That must be why Conquest is 30 stars and gives you free packs and they just came out with a brand new offline mode this year (Showdown).
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Y’all acting like bitter old ladies
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I fall in the group that plays both offline and online.
I will admit I do play mostly offline. I haven't touched events this year b/c I do not care for the rewards in this event.
I played enough ranked seasons to get 10 wins for the program stars and I stopped there. I am competitive but not to the levels of most of the online enthusiasts. I enjoy the online content and I also recognize that I am not an elite player and that is OK. Heck, I am painfully average and there is nothing wrong with that.Now on to this Zimmerman issue:
I got 25 "Zimm Points" playing strictly offline. No exchanges, just playing.
I did the 5 moments for 15 pts. They were fun and a few were challenging, The 11 hits/4 XBH in 7 games was particularly fun.
I then loaded up a team with all Nats players (I used LS Soto, not the FOTF card). I then played a couple of conquest games to get the 10 RBIs plus 5 Zimm points and I knocked out my daily pitching mission for more program stars.
Finally, I played the Nats on All Star for the last 5 Zimm points.
I got the Zimm card without playing online or exchanging a card by doing what 99% of offline players do everyday.
I have no problem with online stat missions being "easier" since online stats are much harder to come by.
SDS did this by making offline players get 10 RBIs instead of hits with Nats players for online players.This mode can be enjoyed both online and offline. We should focus our energy more on getting SDS to fix the game we all love, instead of fighting amongst ourselves on who DD is catered to.
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@ItsaCanesthing said in April monthly awards:
This mode can be enjoyed both online and offline. We should focus our energy more on getting SDS to fix the game we all love, instead of fighting amongst ourselves on who DD is catered to.
I don't have a problem with the Zimmerman program at all. What I do have a problem with is that once I've obtained the Zimmerman card, what exactly am I supposed to do with it?
The only meaningful singleplayer mode that uses our DD collections is Conquest. For those who like Conquest, that's fine. But they shouldn't expect everyone to be happy with three-inning road games. DD is a mode where we're very strongly encouraged to customize our team to our heart's content, including uniforms, but in Conquest I will never see my home uniforms. I will never use my stadium cards. I will never get the thrill of a walk-off victory.
I also dislike the only way to get Team Affinity points with our card collections, which is the innings grind. First of all, an innings grind is a background task where there's very little to do for foreground tasks. Without things to get those innings done in the course of, it's just mindless. Second, to get the 50 points needed for the primary reward, I need do something that falls on a spectrum from "play 30+ 9-inning games with a team loaded with cards other than the ones I actually want to use" and "play 2500 innings with one card from that team". No point on that spectrum is acceptable, especially when the card I get as a reward for all that will only get in the way of obtaining team affinity for other teams. I floated an idea I'd like to see here:
I've also advocated for an offline season mode, which I tweeted to SDS in early April of last year. Custom leagues is close, yet so far away - a Custom Leagues variant that doesn't require a using a loophole to be played singleplayer and counts as DD for mission purposes (with fixed sliders so it's not exploitable) would be almost exactly what I want, but that's not something we would see in the framework of MLB 20. What could be added in MLB 20 would have to be some sort of repeatable mission set, most likely.
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@Speedy44 said in April monthly awards:
You can earn enough stars to get Zimmerman with out online play and your still complaining
Yes I did it in under an hour without playing anything online. Not that I don’t play online but I was to drunk last night so stuck with offline stuff
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I think that the way they set it up was really good. You can get the player card without venturing into online play. Kudos to SDS for a comprise.
Although, if they made an online stat requirement, why couldn't they make an offline stat that was twice as much? It wouldnt affect the online players at all, and the offline players dont want to play online anyway, so it's not like it would have a negative effect on any online players.
