Future Stars
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Welp, looks like I’m finally going to have to carve out some time for Showdown! The stage one players beat up on my squad enough. I’ve got some catch up to do!!!
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@ItsaCanesthing said in Future Stars:
Every year I expect a "movie" event where they drop cards of fictional cards like Wild Thing, Serrano and Jack Elliot (Mr. Baseball).
Nothing would surprise nowMajor League is a Paramount feature. And before you ask, Field of Dreams is Universal.
If we get anyone, it'd be Roy Hobbs and Jimmy Dugan. Surprised Wonderbat isn't a bat skin already.
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I actually expected this, team affinity looks like it will have a stage for every category of card along the way. We’ve received gold prospects and low diamonds for FOTF, now we should expect Future Stars, Rookies, Breakouts, All Stars (obviously in summer), Veterans and Postseason cards toward the end of the year, if they’re being even vaguely chronological about it.
Future Stars isn’t necessarily an L, some of those cards were pretty juiced. If they decide to drop Classic versions of the future stars cards (As someone pointed out the prospects could be deemed as future stars) the problem is a few have been used as FOTF picks already. Thinking back though we have had enough to go around since they were introduced in ‘17. -
So these future stars are going to be better than the faces of the franchise? Seems a little backwards to me, if gleyber is a 89 then who’s going to be the 93? Devi Garcia ? We just did prospects endlessly, was hoping for someone more proven. I’ll take a juiced Gardner over an unproven “future star”
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The Future Stars cards don’t have to be better than the FOTF cards if they take less affinity stars to acquire. The tier 1 prospect cards were awarded at 25 stars and FOTF at 50 stars. The FS cards could be awarded between the 50 star FOTF and whatever the second tier of FOTF cards will be. The FS cards aren’t necessarily the peak stage 2 reward
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@ilvmyjeep said in Future Stars:
The Future Stars cards don’t have to be better than the FOTF cards if they take less affinity stars to acquire. The tier 1 prospect cards were awarded at 25 stars and FOTF at 50 stars. The FS cards could be awarded between the 50 star FOTF and whatever the second tier of FOTF cards will be. The FS cards aren’t necessarily the peak stage 2 reward
Oh this would be crazy if they put out worse cards than you can currently get... it won’t happen brother.
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All I know is that Wander Franco card mashes. If we get anything like him I’ll be all over that. I have many players ranked better than Wander but he’s one of my best hitters
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@Dolenz said in Future Stars:
@DriveByTrucker17 said in Future Stars:
Big fat stinking L.
Curious what you would want it to be?
I will go on record as saying that I have never been a fan of these type of fake cards where SDS uses some arbitrary voodoo method to project some players ratings.
But that ship has sailed unfortunately.
I would prefer more single season flashbacks. Obviously we’ll probably get some in the last two stages, but there’s undoubtedly enough options that SDS could use for every stage.
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@DriveByTrucker17 said in Future Stars:
@Dolenz said in Future Stars:
@DriveByTrucker17 said in Future Stars:
Big fat stinking L.
Curious what you would want it to be?
I will go on record as saying that I have never been a fan of these type of fake cards where SDS uses some arbitrary voodoo method to project some players ratings.
But that ship has sailed unfortunately.
I would prefer more single season flashbacks. Obviously we’ll probably get some in the last two stages, but there’s undoubtedly enough options that SDS could use for every stage.
I second that
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Wouldn't surprise me if every team has a gold future stars card and then another diamond at 120 points or whatever.
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Mets have some interesting prospects, Mauricio, Alvarez, Baty, Allan and Gimenez, but no one that fits in the FS set. We had Tomas Nido last year... lol.
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@ilvmyjeep said in Future Stars:
The Future Stars cards don’t have to be better than the FOTF cards if they take less affinity stars to acquire. The tier 1 prospect cards were awarded at 25 stars and FOTF at 50 stars. The FS cards could be awarded between the 50 star FOTF and whatever the second tier of FOTF cards will be. The FS cards aren’t necessarily the peak stage 2 reward
Yes, they are. Any card reward has a blue highlight around the box (See the previous TA Rewards, 2nd Inning, Player Program, Events, Evolution, POTM, etc), and the final Stage 2 SPRING reward at 120 points has the blue highlight.
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@Jeviduty said in Future Stars:
Can't wait for that juicy Oscar Mercado card for my Tribe...fingers crossed
You know it’s gonna be Zimmer or luplow.
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@SaveFarris said in Future Stars:
@ilvmyjeep said in Future Stars:
The Future Stars cards don’t have to be better than the FOTF cards if they take less affinity stars to acquire. The tier 1 prospect cards were awarded at 25 stars and FOTF at 50 stars. The FS cards could be awarded between the 50 star FOTF and whatever the second tier of FOTF cards will be. The FS cards aren’t necessarily the peak stage 2 reward
Yes, they are. Any card reward has a blue highlight around the box (See the previous TA Rewards, 2nd Inning, Player Program, Events, Evolution, POTM, etc), and the final Stage 2 SPRING reward at 120 points has the blue highlight.
Ah, I was curious about that but I wasn’t on my console to check. I was wondering if the FS cards were awarded at 95 stars or something and the stage 2 peak reward was at 120 stars. Thanks for verifying
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Lets have another even better Ohtani please and thank you maybe give him a sinker and outlier he clearly isn't good enough oh and give him 100+ hitting attributes against left and right.
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This Future Stars Michael Chavis better have 90+ power lol
And this is probably where that Dustin May card will pop up that they teased during their pre release streams....
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I expected this too. I'm actually pumped for a better Bo Bickette card! BoFlows bring it!
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I was hoping for some flashbacks, like postseason, allstar, etc. Some future stars is good too but not all but that's just my opinion. I dont really care for prospects. It's cool what we have now but I like playing with the known live players and throwback players.
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The SDS content team had their work cut out for them on this round. Some teams have one obvious choice for FS (ex: Eloy for the White Sox), other teams have multiple good options to choose from (Bo & Vlad, or Lux & May), but I would say most teams don’t have anyone who would fit nicely between “Prospect” and “current” star. And then there’s the issue of guys like Alonso, whose first year was so good that he’s already a diamond so calling him a “Future Star” card is almost an insult.
Oh well. The SDS content team is the only part of that company that I still have a lot of faith in, so I’m sure they’ll put together something cool.
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@ilvmyjeep said in Future Stars:
The Future Stars cards don’t have to be better than the FOTF cards if they take less affinity stars to acquire. The tier 1 prospect cards were awarded at 25 stars and FOTF at 50 stars. The FS cards could be awarded between the 50 star FOTF and whatever the second tier of FOTF cards will be. The FS cards aren’t necessarily the peak stage 2 reward
Also very much this ^
