Sad I’ll Never Get Ted Williams
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@sbchamps17_NSW Thanks Dad!
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@TripleH-4481_PSN If getting every card were relatively easy for even the casual players. Then everyone would have every card and there would be no reason to play. You have to be rewarded if you’re good at the game. You also have to be rewarded for grinding the game. This game would be dead if everything were easy.
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I'm a casual player with a life outside this game and a busy schedule and I don't feel like it's difficult to get the vast majority of the cards in the game. You just have to be strategic about it, but for the most part it's easy to do.
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@Pergo_MLBTS said in Sad I’ll Never Get Ted Williams:
I'm a casual player with a life outside this game and a busy schedule and I don't feel like it's difficult to get the vast majority of the cards in the game. You just have to be strategic about it, but for the most part it's easy to do.
Who gets to define casual?
Is casual based on hours spent? Is it based on the difficulty we play on. Is the modes we play? Is it the difference between playing with you preferred theme teams vs constantly optimizing your squad to most efficiently knock out the programs?
My profile shows 100 less hours than you. Does that make me super casual.
Of course, in my case I don't come in expecting to get every card. Last year was the first time I have ever even finished the live collection and that was only accomplished in like December.
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@Pergo_MLBTS you also have to be accepting that the day a card comes out you're not going to be able to get it. I have a FT job, 3 kids 2 in baseball, a very crazy schedule. It took me a while to complete Rolen, and the LS collection but i did it. Players have to be realistic about how they play and what will be available to them and when. I have issues with SDS, this is not one of them. Sorry to the OP about your medical condition. I hope and pray it clears itself up. Dont worry about Ted Williams play the game and you'll get him. Maybe not today maybe not til July but you'll get him.
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@AxiomEnigma_XBL I unlocked Ted Williams yesterday.
You have to grind DQ over & over. Its the way to do it.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Sad I’ll Never Get Ted Williams:
@Pergo_MLBTS said in Sad I’ll Never Get Ted Williams:
I'm a casual player with a life outside this game and a busy schedule and I don't feel like it's difficult to get the vast majority of the cards in the game. You just have to be strategic about it, but for the most part it's easy to do.
Who gets to define casual?
Is casual based on hours spent? Is it based on the difficulty we play on. Is the modes we play? Is it the difference between playing with you preferred theme teams vs constantly optimizing your squad to most efficiently knock out the programs?
My profile shows 100 less hours than you. Does that make me super casual.
Of course, in my case I don't come in expecting to get every card. Last year was the first time I have ever even finished the live collection and that was only accomplished in like December.
That's a fair question. It's all relative I guess. I was basing it on earlier comments in this thread saying that the game caters to whales, elite players, or people without busy schedules. I'm none of those things and can still complete everything, get most of the cards and make plenty of stubs, so in that regard I think the game is still fine for "casuals".
Also, on another note, I'm always kind of skeptical of the hours played number on profiles. Mine seems higher then it should be. I wonder if just leaving the game on and being signed in to DD but not actively playing still counts towards that. Because I tend to leave mine on and walk away for a couple hours to do stuff around the house or run an errand and then come back to it later.
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Two things to accept about this collection, number one if you’re on this forum, you’re not a casual player, you might not have the time always, but you’re not someone who plays casually. Two, Ted will easily be attainable by July or August, if you just play, the collections get easier as time goes on and whenever you do get him he’s still a 99, he may not be a 5 tool switch hitting meta player, but if he’s your favorite player, he’s on your team.
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@jcassaro44_PSN He’s similar to Ruth’s card last year which played all year.
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@Pergo_MLBTS said in Sad I’ll Never Get Ted Williams:
@Dolenz_PSN said in Sad I’ll Never Get Ted Williams:
@Pergo_MLBTS said in Sad I’ll Never Get Ted Williams:
I'm a casual player with a life outside this game and a busy schedule and I don't feel like it's difficult to get the vast majority of the cards in the game. You just have to be strategic about it, but for the most part it's easy to do.
Who gets to define casual?
Is casual based on hours spent? Is it based on the difficulty we play on. Is the modes we play? Is it the difference between playing with you preferred theme teams vs constantly optimizing your squad to most efficiently knock out the programs?
My profile shows 100 less hours than you. Does that make me super casual.
Of course, in my case I don't come in expecting to get every card. Last year was the first time I have ever even finished the live collection and that was only accomplished in like December.
That's a fair question. It's all relative I guess. I was basing it on earlier comments in this thread saying that the game caters to whales, elite players, or people without busy schedules. I'm none of those things and can still complete everything, get most of the cards and make plenty of stubs, so in that regard I think the game is still fine for "casuals".
Also, on another note, I'm always kind of skeptical of the hours played number on profiles. Mine seems higher then it should be. I wonder if just leaving the game on and being signed in to DD but not actively playing still counts towards that. Because I tend to leave mine on and walk away for a couple hours to do stuff around the house or run an errand and then come back to it later.
I am one who believes that the pendulum swung from being a little too casual friendly last year to catering to those who have more time or skill this year.
Look at diamond quest as a perfect example of needing either more skill or more time. Here are the default starting % for the difficulties
Rookie: 2%
Veteran: 4%
All Star: 6%
Hall of Fame: 14%
Legend: 28%
G.O.A.T.: 70%There are roughly 40 squares on the board lets say 20 of those have challenges that add 3% if you are successful. That brings the potential numbers up to
Rookie: 62%
Veteran: 64%
All Star: 66%
Hall of Fame: 74%
Legend: 88%
G.O.A.T.: 100%But those of us who play at all star and below are, most likely, going to have a higher failure rate in the challenges than those who play Hall of Fame or above so the odds for those lower difficulties will probably be far less.
So not only do the base odds favor better players (I understand that) but then add in the fact that lesser players will fail more challenges and have more of a chance to miss the rewards based on RNG. The only way then to overcome those poorer odds is with more time invested playing through the map multiple times until the RNG smiles upon you.
To me that is catering to those with more skill or more time.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Sad I’ll Never Get Ted Williams:
@Pergo_MLBTS said in Sad I’ll Never Get Ted Williams:
@Dolenz_PSN said in Sad I’ll Never Get Ted Williams:
@Pergo_MLBTS said in Sad I’ll Never Get Ted Williams:
I'm a casual player with a life outside this game and a busy schedule and I don't feel like it's difficult to get the vast majority of the cards in the game. You just have to be strategic about it, but for the most part it's easy to do.
Who gets to define casual?
Is casual based on hours spent? Is it based on the difficulty we play on. Is the modes we play? Is it the difference between playing with you preferred theme teams vs constantly optimizing your squad to most efficiently knock out the programs?
My profile shows 100 less hours than you. Does that make me super casual.
Of course, in my case I don't come in expecting to get every card. Last year was the first time I have ever even finished the live collection and that was only accomplished in like December.
That's a fair question. It's all relative I guess. I was basing it on earlier comments in this thread saying that the game caters to whales, elite players, or people without busy schedules. I'm none of those things and can still complete everything, get most of the cards and make plenty of stubs, so in that regard I think the game is still fine for "casuals".
Also, on another note, I'm always kind of skeptical of the hours played number on profiles. Mine seems higher then it should be. I wonder if just leaving the game on and being signed in to DD but not actively playing still counts towards that. Because I tend to leave mine on and walk away for a couple hours to do stuff around the house or run an errand and then come back to it later.
I am one who believes that the pendulum swung from being a little too casual friendly last year to catering to those who have more time or skill this year.
Look at diamond quest as a perfect example of needing either more skill or more time. Here are the default starting % for the difficulties
Rookie: 2%
Veteran: 4%
All Star: 6%
Hall of Fame: 14%
Legend: 28%
G.O.A.T.: 70%There are roughly 40 squares on the board lets say 20 of those have challenges that add 3% if you are successful. That brings the potential numbers up to
Rookie: 62%
Veteran: 64%
All Star: 66%
Hall of Fame: 74%
Legend: 88%
G.O.A.T.: 100%But those of us who play at all star and below are, most likely, going to have a higher failure rate in the challenges than those who play Hall of Fame or above so the odds for those lower difficulties will probably be far less.
So not only do the base odds favor better players (I understand that) but then add in the fact that lesser players will fail more challenges and have more of a chance to miss the rewards based on RNG. The only way then to overcome those poorer odds is with more time invested playing through the map multiple times until the RNG smiles upon you.
To me that is catering to those with more skill or more time.
Yeah, that's fair, I can understand that perspective on DQ. Personally I always play the stadiums on All-Star and I've gotten the rewards most of the time, but obviously its not guaranteed. I can only remember having to replay two of them without getting the rewards the first time I think, and then I did get them the second time. On the plus side the rewards are relatively cheap to just buy on the market if you don't want to take your chances at winning them.
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Just too many cards behind pay walls now. Collecting used to be fun in the game. Just another thing ruined.
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@LIONED-33_XBL this is how i feel. i'm sitting at 160 hours into this game. I dont know if that makes me a casual. I dont have ted williams cause i'm addicted to playing ranked. If i spent...
- day 1 bought ohtani or witt
- spent more time grinding
maybe i would have them. And yet, it's ok that i dont. I enjoy playing ranked, the chess of it all, but i probably should play less as i'm a petulant child when i lose (unfortunately).
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@ANF_GOLD99_PSN LOL, thats great. I get it. just enjoy it. pleanty of other things in this world that can ruin your day
