SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese
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I always swing away at the stadiums, never thought to bunt cheese. I used to love when Ty Cobb was in the game, every one would think you’d bunt, bring their infield in and I’d crank homers.
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Less stubs in the market could theoretically bring down the live series prices. Here's to hoping it does! Might make epic rewards more valuable to.
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They didn’t need to nerf bunting, They need to fix how the defense responds to bunts.
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Showdowns just got a whole lot more “fun”, didn’t they?
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@capardo_MLBTS Sounds like it’s only on higher difficulty, so it probably won’t affect showdowns.
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Not going to lie. Just got in and tried it. It’s harder but no different than the pop ups it would randomly spit out five or six in a row. Still comes down to timing.
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@Pergo_MLBTS well yes….however when you limit the drop rate of the big dogs and limit stub making abilities it tends to go the opposite way
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@Lord-Oimak_MLBTS I don't know, stub making has been pretty easy this year. I'm sitting on close to a million with little to no effort at all.
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@Pergo_MLBTS I’m sitting on over 3 million and should hit the cap next update. But for people just starting out or grinding for LS players this is a loss, any way you cut it.
Additionally, I beat both stadiums in dq on HOF tonight and pulled 4 standard packs.
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
I submit that perhaps the underlying problem here is trying to turn the game of baseball into a grind fest, where instead of just trying to play and win baseball games, the goal is to earn stubs, points, rewards, perks, etc ...
The further away from the pure honesty of just playing and winning baseball games this title gets, the more trouble SDS finds itself in. Bunting isn't cheating. It's part of the game. And it is matter of opinion whether someone is bunting too much.
Moreover, in real baseball, any time a team perceives a weakness they will exploit it. During World War II Monty Stratton was a minor league pitcher when he shot himself in a hunting accident and endured the amputation of his right leg. After years of pitching using a prosthetic limb, he managed to resume pitching in the lower minor leagues. Teams constantly bunted for base hits because they believed he was slow trying to field them due to his injury.
In short, exploiting a weakness is part of the game of baseball and has been since the inception of the sport. SDS appears chasing ghosts because of complaints lodged by some that there is some perception of weakness in the game code. I think many of these complaints are just players frustrated because they don't win games as often as they feel they should.
Worse, it also seems SDS is motivated by their own belief that earning rewards is too easy and must be made more difficult. Again, that's a purely subjective conclusion, and ends up causing more complaints than it solved.
This was actually a pretty decent five-paragraph essay. Thesis (a bit choppy but understood), supporting material (particularly the historical approach), and a conclusion that almost ties back into the thesis. I enjoyed reading this.
Before I left education after 15 years, I taught high school English. I would have been thrilled had a student of mine written something like that during most of my days. Even if it really isn't an actual 5-paragraph essay, it had the potential to fly with more detail.
Now I just farm. And play this game when time allows.
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Im very glad they did this. I've been grinding out the entire dq maps to get all the packs. This will make the epic cards more valuable which will earn me more subs.
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Hot take: this will in essence have no affect on anything big picture.
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Imo a good decision … bunting is an art … but it is not a 95% basehit art. That is what has been fixed (‚on higher difficulties). Yes, it affects the low-skilled-DQ-grinders (I admit, I earned some playing like this on goat, bc I am not capable) but it also affects ppl who do it online.
Wann have proof? Go and look at one of the last youtube-videos from frostie … That is not how baseball is meant to be played (and never has been).
And to me: This has been adressed. Does it also affect the DQ-grind? Yes, but I‘d rather have the game play like a good baseball game than not
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@Pergo_MLBTS said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
@Lord-Oimak_MLBTS I don't know, stub making has been pretty easy this year. I'm sitting on close to a million with little to no effort at all.
How? Do you buy stubs? I grind more than anyone and I only have about 600K. I do have most cards I want, but other years I would have almost all the cards, ones I wanted and even a bunch I didn't even care about.
SDS has done everything they can to squash all possible ways of making stubs.
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@GoldenGamingKM_PSN said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
I submit that perhaps the underlying problem here is trying to turn the game of baseball into a grind fest, where instead of just trying to play and win baseball games, the goal is to earn stubs, points, rewards, perks, etc ...
The further away from the pure honesty of just playing and winning baseball games this title gets, the more trouble SDS finds itself in. Bunting isn't cheating. It's part of the game. And it is matter of opinion whether someone is bunting too much.
Moreover, in real baseball, any time a team perceives a weakness they will exploit it. During World War II Monty Stratton was a minor league pitcher when he shot himself in a hunting accident and endured the amputation of his right leg. After years of pitching using a prosthetic limb, he managed to resume pitching in the lower minor leagues. Teams constantly bunted for base hits because they believed he was slow trying to field them due to his injury.
In short, exploiting a weakness is part of the game of baseball and has been since the inception of the sport. SDS appears chasing ghosts because of complaints lodged by some that there is some perception of weakness in the game code. I think many of these complaints are just players frustrated because they don't win games as often as they feel they should.
Worse, it also seems SDS is motivated by their own belief that earning rewards is too easy and must be made more difficult. Again, that's a purely subjective conclusion, and ends up causing more complaints than it solved.
This was actually a pretty decent five-paragraph essay. Thesis (a bit choppy but understood), supporting material (particularly the historical approach), and a conclusion that almost ties back into the thesis. I enjoyed reading this.
Before I left education after 15 years, I taught high school English. I would have been thrilled had a student of mine written something like that during most of my days. Even if it really isn't an actual 5-paragraph essay, it had the potential to fly with more detail.
Now I just farm. And play this game when time allows.
Ha I used to teach five paragraph essays to 6th graders. There was a wide variety in quality.
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@dbub_PSN said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
@Pergo_MLBTS said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
@Lord-Oimak_MLBTS I don't know, stub making has been pretty easy this year. I'm sitting on close to a million with little to no effort at all.
How? Do you buy stubs? I grind more than anyone and I only have about 600K. I do have most cards I want, but other years I would have almost all the cards, ones I wanted and even a bunch I didn't even care about.
SDS has done everything they can to squash all possible ways of making stubs.
Stubs is going to be variable for everyone
- A few lucky pulls can set you up.
- You probably could not pay me to risk my stubs on investing in hope of future upgrades but some people love that.
- Others flip cards daily. That personally sounds tedious and boring to me but people make stubs that way.
So when someone says making stubs is easy and that they have millions of stubs I almost always assume they are spending time flipping or investing. Most of us can't be bothered to play the market that diligently.
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@Dolenz_PSN This is by far the most difficult year to make stubs. They are clearly trying to prevent it in every way. Having said that, I do have every card and a few million, but like you said, it’s tedious and I’ve probably spent more time doing that than playing. I like to make as much as possible early, so I don’t have to do it for the rest of the year.
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@dbub_PSN said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
@Pergo_MLBTS said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
@Lord-Oimak_MLBTS I don't know, stub making has been pretty easy this year. I'm sitting on close to a million with little to no effort at all.
How? Do you buy stubs? I grind more than anyone and I only have about 600K. I do have most cards I want, but other years I would have almost all the cards, ones I wanted and even a bunch I didn't even care about.
SDS has done everything they can to squash all possible ways of making stubs.
Just roster investments. I don't buy stubs or flip at all. I agree with others that flipping probably takes time and is tedious, but investments really don't take much time at all. Maybe like 10-15 minutes to buy up the cards you want in bulk. For example last update I had hundreds of Bubic and Erceg cards and both went up so that was a ton of stubs right there. I don't get why people think it takes some huge time commitment, its pretty quick to just buy a lot of a few different cards.
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@dbub_PSN said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
@GoldenGamingKM_PSN said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
I submit that perhaps the underlying problem here is trying to turn the game of baseball into a grind fest, where instead of just trying to play and win baseball games, the goal is to earn stubs, points, rewards, perks, etc ...
The further away from the pure honesty of just playing and winning baseball games this title gets, the more trouble SDS finds itself in. Bunting isn't cheating. It's part of the game. And it is matter of opinion whether someone is bunting too much.
Moreover, in real baseball, any time a team perceives a weakness they will exploit it. During World War II Monty Stratton was a minor league pitcher when he shot himself in a hunting accident and endured the amputation of his right leg. After years of pitching using a prosthetic limb, he managed to resume pitching in the lower minor leagues. Teams constantly bunted for base hits because they believed he was slow trying to field them due to his injury.
In short, exploiting a weakness is part of the game of baseball and has been since the inception of the sport. SDS appears chasing ghosts because of complaints lodged by some that there is some perception of weakness in the game code. I think many of these complaints are just players frustrated because they don't win games as often as they feel they should.
Worse, it also seems SDS is motivated by their own belief that earning rewards is too easy and must be made more difficult. Again, that's a purely subjective conclusion, and ends up causing more complaints than it solved.
This was actually a pretty decent five-paragraph essay. Thesis (a bit choppy but understood), supporting material (particularly the historical approach), and a conclusion that almost ties back into the thesis. I enjoyed reading this.
Before I left education after 15 years, I taught high school English. I would have been thrilled had a student of mine written something like that during most of my days. Even if it really isn't an actual 5-paragraph essay, it had the potential to fly with more detail.
Now I just farm. And play this game when time allows.
Ha I used to teach five paragraph essays to 6th graders. There was a wide variety in quality.
Hell, I couldn't get a lot of my sophomores to even write a cohesive sentence.
One of the most horrendous things that occured in our district (and still does) is the extreme dumbing down of curriculum and the lack of accountability for simply pushing kids through. When, clearly, they come up to us without the necessary skill sets. Wasn't the case with all of them of course, but I'd say at least 60-70% of my high schoolers struggled mightily with critical reading and writing skills.
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I've done no roster investments, no flipping, and haven't bought stubs. I also have not pulled Shohei.
I pulled Judge twice but both were back when he was only like 240K.I currently have LS collection done. Also the Carlos Santana one and I literally just finished the Rolen collection. I now have about 550K leftover in stubs.
So personally, I'm doing fine. It just really bothers me a ton when I see corporations blatantly taking advantage of people.
