I hope we have some sort of grind this year
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@ngoetz1108 said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
@Trevor-Story said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
You loved the stat grind? You in a looney bin or somethin?
Lol. As a teacher sometimes I feel like I am! But maybe I didn’t portray my thoughts clear enough. I absolutely think 18 was too much of a grind. In no way am I saying make us get 2,000 saves or anything! That’s mind numbing and not fun. But to get 75 wouldn’t be terrible. It’ll take time but that’s alright!
You're a teacher? Oh man my condolences, I know kids can be a pain in the [censored]. I do agree some sort of stat mission(17 had it perfectly balanced imo) would be great. 18 was nightmare fuel and exhausted the game. Especially for DD players, strikeouts are impossible on 18.
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Unfortunately I never played 17 but it seems everyone loved that game. I agree by the end of 18 it seemed everyone was exhausted!
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The monthly stat grinds in 18 were decent. Mostly stuff that you would get while playing anyway, sometimes it would push you to use players you normally wouldn't.
It was the crazy immortal stat grinds that killed that game.
Moments are no replacement thought they sucked in March and they suck now.
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Hated the stat grinds in MLB 18 and because of that I spent a fraction of the time in that game I had in the others. I think I have spent 10 times more hours into 19 than I did 18.
Part of my problem though was it forced me to bench players that I wanted in my lineup and play with some card I could not care less about and try to reach some particular stat.
In the Team missions I was working towards a completely useless Ozzie Smith and while I reached many stats fairly easily others were ridiculous. I play mostly conquest. I don't usually have a middle reliever earn a hold for me so I was never going to naturally get that stat. Essentially I gave up because three or four of the team stats were going to force me to play the stats instead of the game.
I think they are on a better track with 19 and I hope they continue down that road in 20.
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@ngoetz1108 said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
@omegaminus_sk said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
@Trevor-Story said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
@thinkbluedgr said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
Did you complete all team affinity all teams march to October and all moments? I bet you didn't.
There's your grind OP. Get to it.
Team Affinity innings, like XP and program stars, are uninteresting background tasks.
18's missions at least gave more interesting, challenging objectives I could do organically in the course of a game using my DD team. The overwhelming majority of moment don't involve my DD team and even those that do don't count toward TA and daily mission innings because Moments is not DD. In any case, Moments are isolated, inorganic tasks where you're told to do a thing and there's no point in doing anything else. If I failed a single-game mission in 18, there was at least the ability to get progress in other, longer-term missions.
I understand the requests for stat missions; it's a reaction to the dearth of offline content by asking for the return of what we had before. I don't agree with just bringing back stat grinds - what I want is a new offline DD mode like a Season mode. I want to be able to slot my DD team into the MLB schedule and try to win the World Series. Give rewards based on difficulty level, with a bonus for using Salary Cap mode where my team is built more like a BR team instead of a god squad. Expanding Conquest doesn't appeal to me at all since the maps don't take long to do and have zero replayability, and even with a new map every day it'd still be nothing but three-inning road games.
I agree! I shouldn’t have said bring back stat grinds, instead bring something to be able to grind towards. That’s an interesting idea
would you say the 11 inning program stars for 50 HR with finest players and 50 HR with All Star cards to be similar to what you want? I'm for that, but not for stars. give me cards in a collection for that.
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@redlightningENT said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
@ngoetz1108 said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
@omegaminus_sk said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
@Trevor-Story said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
@thinkbluedgr said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
Did you complete all team affinity all teams march to October and all moments? I bet you didn't.
There's your grind OP. Get to it.
Team Affinity innings, like XP and program stars, are uninteresting background tasks.
18's missions at least gave more interesting, challenging objectives I could do organically in the course of a game using my DD team. The overwhelming majority of moment don't involve my DD team and even those that do don't count toward TA and daily mission innings because Moments is not DD. In any case, Moments are isolated, inorganic tasks where you're told to do a thing and there's no point in doing anything else. If I failed a single-game mission in 18, there was at least the ability to get progress in other, longer-term missions.
I understand the requests for stat missions; it's a reaction to the dearth of offline content by asking for the return of what we had before. I don't agree with just bringing back stat grinds - what I want is a new offline DD mode like a Season mode. I want to be able to slot my DD team into the MLB schedule and try to win the World Series. Give rewards based on difficulty level, with a bonus for using Salary Cap mode where my team is built more like a BR team instead of a god squad. Expanding Conquest doesn't appeal to me at all since the maps don't take long to do and have zero replayability, and even with a new map every day it'd still be nothing but three-inning road games.
I agree! I shouldn’t have said bring back stat grinds, instead bring something to be able to grind towards. That’s an interesting idea
would you say the 11 inning program stars for 50 HR with finest players and 50 HR with All Star cards to be similar to what you want? I'm for that, but not for stars. give me cards in a collection for that.
Yeah exactly. Exactly what I was looking. But instead of stars like you said give a card. That way wether you are an online or offline player you can work towards something
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We all know 18 grind was PATHETIC. But 19 was to easy to get end game cards. I do play conquest, RS, and BR.
IMO we need some kind of grind for cards and we also need it to be harder than 19 to get end gm cards.
Can't remember what they were called but they were the first wave of stats you had to get. They had 1st base, 2nd base, sp etc. That type of grind is gd enough. -
@CHI-TOWN-WONDER said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
We all know 18 grind was PATHETIC. But 19 was to easy to get end game cards. I do play conquest, RS, and BR.
IMO we need some kind of grind for cards and we also need it to be harder than 19 to get end gm cards.
Can't remember what they were called but they were the first wave of stats you had to get. They had 1st base, 2nd base, sp etc. That type of grind is gd enough.Agree completely man. I wasn’t really a fan having such high overall cards available so quickly. Doing that seemed to really rush the life cycle of the game.
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@redlightningENT said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
Ranked Seasons on AS is a grind...the end.
Yeah grinding to get out of AS Hell
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@ngoetz1108 said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
@CHI-TOWN-WONDER said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
We all know 18 grind was PATHETIC. But 19 was to easy to get end game cards. I do play conquest, RS, and BR.
IMO we need some kind of grind for cards and we also need it to be harder than 19 to get end gm cards.
Can't remember what they were called but they were the first wave of stats you had to get. They had 1st base, 2nd base, sp etc. That type of grind is gd enough.Agree completely man. I wasn’t really a fan having such high overall cards available so quickly. Doing that seemed to really rush the life cycle of the game.
My counter to your statement would be 19 had so much content that if they slowed it down we would be missing more cards then what we already are. I think the happy medium would be what they had in 17 with my career missions along with 19s innings program.
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My mind is telling me No!!!
But my controller....
my controllers are telling me Yes!!!I don’t see nothing wrong with a little gaming grind
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The 18 grind was insane. Very few want that again.
I do, however, want some stat grinding back. I like it. It gives me something to shoot for, and makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something every game. Please give us some stat grinds again, but not to 18's extremes. -
@STI1489 said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
@ngoetz1108 said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
@CHI-TOWN-WONDER said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
We all know 18 grind was PATHETIC. But 19 was to easy to get end game cards. I do play conquest, RS, and BR.
IMO we need some kind of grind for cards and we also need it to be harder than 19 to get end gm cards.
Can't remember what they were called but they were the first wave of stats you had to get. They had 1st base, 2nd base, sp etc. That type of grind is gd enough.Agree completely man. I wasn’t really a fan having such high overall cards available so quickly. Doing that seemed to really rush the life cycle of the game.
My counter to your statement would be 19 had so much content that if they slowed it down we would be missing more cards then what we already are. I think the happy medium would be what they had in 17 with my career missions along with 19s innings program.
Yeah that’s a good point. I don’t necessarily think every person needed a signature series though. But then again, they brought a lot of diversity so I don’t know!
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@taterracing said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
The 18 grind was insane. Very few want that again.
I do, however, want some stat grinding back. I like it. It gives me something to shoot for, and makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something every game. Please give us some stat grinds again, but not to 18's extremes.Yeah I liked having something to grind for. I liked being able to play a few games after my wife fell asleep and before I went to bed. Nothing to serious or competitive but just something to play while unwinding
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@ngoetz1108 said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
Yeah that’s a good point. I don’t necessarily think every person needed a signature series though. But then again, they brought a lot of diversity so I don’t know!
Why not?
Last year, I realized that I had no chance of acquiring any end game cards. I basically quit the game in May with only 50 hours played. This year I have over 500 hours played and I am still playing in January, which is the latest I have continued to play the game by a LARGE margin. Why am I still playing? Because I have two teams full of Signature players that I enjoy using.
For many people, like those who only play offline or those who are not very good at online play, 300 program points every inning was a grind. Early innings especially did not give enough points so grinding extra games for points was a thing.
I'd be fine of they brought back the My Career type missions but I don't ever again want to be forced to replace a player that I want in my lineup with some bronze or silver card I could not care less about simple to grind some stat.
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This year also had "grinding" to get better players. The difference is that most people would consider this year's grinding far more enjoyable, because you just played games to do it. The grinds didn't involve playing vs. CPU games on rookie because I need to hit 575,000 HR's with Ken Griffey Jr. As a result, I pretty much never got sick of this year's game.
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@hegone44 said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
This year also had "grinding" to get better players. The difference is that most people would consider this year's grinding far more enjoyable, because you just played games to do it. The grinds didn't involve playing vs. CPU games on rookie because I need to hit 575,000 HR's with Ken Griffey Jr. As a result, I pretty much never got sick of this year's game.
Most people who have been asking for grinds are offline-only players, and the list of things you can do in offline is terrible. Moving the grind to the background was a great idea, but we need better game modes in which to do it.
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@Dolenz said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
@ngoetz1108 said in I hope we have some sort of grind this year:
Yeah that’s a good point. I don’t necessarily think every person needed a signature series though. But then again, they brought a lot of diversity so I don’t know!
Why not?
Last year, I realized that I had no chance of acquiring any end game cards. I basically quit the game in May with only 50 hours played. This year I have over 500 hours played and I am still playing in January, which is the latest I have continued to play the game by a LARGE margin. Why am I still playing? Because I have two teams full of Signature players that I enjoy using.
For many people, like those who only play offline or those who are not very good at online play, 300 program points every inning was a grind. Early innings especially did not give enough points so grinding extra games for points was a thing.
I'd be fine of they brought back the My Career type missions but I don't ever again want to be forced to replace a player that I want in my lineup with some bronze or silver card I could not care less about simple to grind some stat.
I see your point and it’s a good one. Like I said I could see both sides. I just feel that they made sooooo many SS cards and they were all really good that no one really felt special. Obviously the players I loved growing up felt special but that’s just to me. It’s tough to appease everyone. Some want tons and tons of high rated cards. Some are willing to put in more time for cards while others aren’t. I totally get that and every one should get the chance to play how they want. This year compared to last our play numbers are Pretty opposite lol. I played way more in 18.
Fingers crossed they find a happy medium!
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