Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding
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@get-peened said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@royalslover said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
An exploit is taking advantage of a FLAW. They programmed 25 per HR. Where is the flaw? They just didn't want someone to gain XP too fast for their liking. There was no exploit. Just something they didn't want us to do even though they made it that way on purpose. Get off your high horse. You are Superior to no one.
Nowhere in my post did I say that HRD was an exploit. Read again.
It wasn't toward you.
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@nflman2033 said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
Not happy about losing double points on MTO. They all but acknowledged that S1 Showdowns are bull [censored]. It was the only [censored] way to get points for teams in the East, those two Showdowns are bitches.
I’m just floored that your post has [censored] censored, but they missed both [censored] and bitches...
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@royalslover said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@get-peened said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@royalslover said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
An exploit is taking advantage of a FLAW. They programmed 25 per HR. Where is the flaw? They just didn't want someone to gain XP too fast for their liking. There was no exploit. Just something they didn't want us to do even though they made it that way on purpose. Get off your high horse. You are Superior to no one.
Nowhere in my post did I say that HRD was an exploit. Read again.
It wasn't toward you.
Okay, my bad. You hadn’t quoted anyone, sorry about that
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@roguedrizzt said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@nflman2033 said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
Not happy about losing double points on MTO. They all but acknowledged that S1 Showdowns are bull [censored]. It was the only [censored] way to get points for teams in the East, those two Showdowns are bitches.
I’m just floored that your post has [censored] censored, but they missed both [censored] and bitches...
Haha. I know funny isn't it.
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@radinskyFTG said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@the_dragon1912 said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@radinskyFTG said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@DrewshBag420 said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@radinskyFTG said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
HR derby was not an exploit. you received 25xp per HR hit. exactly how it was programmed by SDS. shame on them for nerfing that.
and it sets the example that they will restrict rewards in this game whenever it fits their needs, not the player base. it's greed, pure and simple.
Swing and a miss...but pathetic attempt at a point
how am i wrong? there was no exploit. you played a mode that gave you 25xp per HR. it's that simple. they reduced the amount per HR. what are you missing here?
Playing a casual mode for the sole purpose of gaining rewards in a completely unrelated different mode is exploiting. It doesn’t matter if it was 25xp per HR in years past. There was no issue with HRD grinding for XP in previous years. None. Blame the losers who had to have the prestige rewards in April instead of getting them over time like you were supposed to. Other people cheating the system and SDS fixing it is not anyones fault but the people that were cheating
lol playing a casual mode in the way it was designed by SDS is exploiting?
who are you or SDS to dictate how a game should be played, especially when its being played within the way it was programmed?
my god the SDS sheep have reached a new level!
Who is SDS? Only the makers of the game. If they want to dictate how the game is played, then that's their right. If you find you can't handle that, there's no one forcing you to continue to play.
When you've got people who prestiged out when they did, then there's a problem. That problem has been resolved.
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@vox_pestis said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@get-peened said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
First of all, the game really isn’t bad. I haven’t had any horrible experiences with fielding since the last patch. Yeah, hitting may need some tweaking, but overall it’s not bad. Sure, the pitching is hard to control but how would it feel if every single player you faced could dot sinkers on the corner every pitch? Hanging pitches happens, get over it.
The only thing I really don’t like is the loss of double points on MTO, which kills any motivation to play the mode. For me, the 6 hours minimum for around 50 team affinity points is just not enjoyable. It really doesn’t compete with showdown.
I already know that a lot of people will complain about homerun derby xp getting reduced. I don’t even know anyone that was willing to sit on homerun derby for 5+ hours a day just for xp. Although it takes no skill, I would like to congratulate those who have sat through some mind numbing hr derby sessions.
They also reduced the xp in retro mode, who knows by how much yet, because you could simply afk it as the computer walks you and get 15 levels overnight. This was definitely being exploited as some of the rosters in the vault had over 1000 downloads. I’m happy this is getting fixed.
Overall, I’m actually excited to see how many people will sit here and complain about how it’s gonna be iMpoSsIbLe tO gEt xP. The xp reward path wasn’t made to be completed in 2 months. If you want xp, play the game regularly or play showdown like the rest of us. If retro mode didn’t get patched, it would’ve been so interesting to see what teams would look like in the future. Eric Thames, J-Ram and prestige Sandberg everywhere!
I agree with most of this, I appreciate the rational approach. This game is incredibly addictive to baseball lovers, and even though it has a few gameplay flaws I’m glad it exists.
Have to disagree with your position on hangers, or at least clarify what my problem with them is. Hangers are part of baseball... they have to exist in game. In past years, they worked pretty much the way they do in real life, you aim at something, screw up, and miss your target. Sometimes you get crazy break that you didn’t expect. Sometimes you just have a bad grip, the thing pops off your hand and floats in. But what DOES NOT happen is that when you make an execution mistake a gravity vortex opens up and magnetizes the ball to middle/middle. The entire game is an illusion. We are not playing baseball, we are moving dots through x/y axi and timing button presses. The art comes in tricking us into feeling like it’s baseball in some visceral way. It’s extremely artificial and shatters the illusion that you are throwing a ball... and that diminishes enjoyability.
My problem with hangers is that if you miss your spot to hangers tend to end up in the same spot which is directly down the middle not hanging up not hanging in. It's just a big fat meatball and that's not really baseball that's just the computer punishing you for bad input with the worst possible outcome
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@radinskyFTG said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@the_dragon1912 said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@radinskyFTG said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@DrewshBag420 said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@radinskyFTG said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
HR derby was not an exploit. you received 25xp per HR hit. exactly how it was programmed by SDS. shame on them for nerfing that.
and it sets the example that they will restrict rewards in this game whenever it fits their needs, not the player base. it's greed, pure and simple.
Swing and a miss...but pathetic attempt at a point
how am i wrong? there was no exploit. you played a mode that gave you 25xp per HR. it's that simple. they reduced the amount per HR. what are you missing here?
Playing a casual mode for the sole purpose of gaining rewards in a completely unrelated different mode is exploiting. It doesn’t matter if it was 25xp per HR in years past. There was no issue with HRD grinding for XP in previous years. None. Blame the losers who had to have the prestige rewards in April instead of getting them over time like you were supposed to. Other people cheating the system and SDS fixing it is not anyones fault but the people that were cheating
lol playing a casual mode in the way it was designed by SDS is exploiting?
who are you or SDS to dictate how a game should be played, especially when its being played within the way it was programmed?
my god the SDS sheep have reached a new level!
Who is SDS to dictate how the game is played? Uh, they are the people who made the game.
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@the_dragon1912 said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@radinskyFTG said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@DrewshBag420 said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@radinskyFTG said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
HR derby was not an exploit. you received 25xp per HR hit. exactly how it was programmed by SDS. shame on them for nerfing that.
and it sets the example that they will restrict rewards in this game whenever it fits their needs, not the player base. it's greed, pure and simple.
Swing and a miss...but pathetic attempt at a point
how am i wrong? there was no exploit. you played a mode that gave you 25xp per HR. it's that simple. they reduced the amount per HR. what are you missing here?
Playing a casual mode for the sole purpose of gaining rewards in a completely unrelated different mode is exploiting. It doesn’t matter if it was 25xp per HR in years past. There was no issue with HRD grinding for XP in previous years. None. Blame the losers who had to have the prestige rewards in April instead of getting them over time like you were supposed to. Other people cheating the system and SDS fixing it is not anyones fault but the people that were cheating
If you’re in Showdown up 2-0 in the bottom 3rd against the CPU and still need that extra base hit to pass the level, do you give up 2 runs to keep playing?
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I’m still confused about the retro XP. What was going on there? Wasn’t even aware of it. I tried the HR derby thing once but found it boring and never went back. The double MTO points was nice, especially for someone like me who was way behind on affinities. I had two FOTF cards. I got one more season in with double MTO points, the Padres. That’s still all I’ve done. After three MTO runs, I kind of felt bored with the mode. (Though I did hurry up that final Padres run the night before when I heard they were getting rid of the double points). Even with the double points (playing on veteran), I still don’t have the Padres future star.
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@bhall09 said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
I’m still confused about the retro XP. What was going on there? Wasn’t even aware of it. I tried the HR derby thing once but found it boring and never went back. The double MTO points was nice, especially for someone like me who was way behind on affinities. I had two FOTF cards. I got one more season in with double MTO points, the Padres. That’s still all I’ve done. After three MTO runs, I kind of felt bored with the mode. (Though I did hurry up that final Padres run the night before when I heard they were getting rid of the double points). Even with the double points (playing on veteran), I still don’t have the Padres future star.
The key to the retro xp was that you could leave the game on and walk away from it while the cpu continued to walk batter after batter earning you XP.
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@dcmo3 said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@radinskyFTG said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@the_dragon1912 said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@radinskyFTG said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@DrewshBag420 said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
@radinskyFTG said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:
HR derby was not an exploit. you received 25xp per HR hit. exactly how it was programmed by SDS. shame on them for nerfing that.
and it sets the example that they will restrict rewards in this game whenever it fits their needs, not the player base. it's greed, pure and simple.
Swing and a miss...but pathetic attempt at a point
how am i wrong? there was no exploit. you played a mode that gave you 25xp per HR. it's that simple. they reduced the amount per HR. what are you missing here?
Playing a casual mode for the sole purpose of gaining rewards in a completely unrelated different mode is exploiting. It doesn’t matter if it was 25xp per HR in years past. There was no issue with HRD grinding for XP in previous years. None. Blame the losers who had to have the prestige rewards in April instead of getting them over time like you were supposed to. Other people cheating the system and SDS fixing it is not anyones fault but the people that were cheating
lol playing a casual mode in the way it was designed by SDS is exploiting?
who are you or SDS to dictate how a game should be played, especially when its being played within the way it was programmed?
my god the SDS sheep have reached a new level!
Who is SDS? Only the makers of the game. If they want to dictate how the game is played, then that's their right. If you find you can't handle that, there's no one forcing you to continue to play.
When you've got people who prestiged out when they did, then there's a problem. That problem has been resolved.
Problem resolved? Uhh, those people are still prestige lol.
If they wanted to stop people from exploiting the AFK XP farming, simply ban or punish people with 250+ single game run records, pretty simple to see who did it.
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