SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?
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I think it was 17 (maybe 18) you needed to beat the CPU 3 times to complete TA (Rook, Vet and All-Star) That right there is whopping 90 full games against the CPU.
You're right when you say the game isn't meaningless in the sense that the stats matter, but the game itself is meaningless for a lot of stat grinds. Winning the game isn't always important, it's getting the hits, K's, HR, etc. that are important. That means that those games feel meaningless and when said objective is complete you end up quitting or bunting out if the game has to be completed.
If we really want to make offline DD something to actually do, there has to be something driving it more than an accumulation of stats. That's why I'm saying, add some sort of single season or playoff bracket where you're picking other people's DD team to go up against, but CPU controls them and plays to their style like extra innings does.
I'm an in between player. I like the competitiveness of playing people, but I don't care for DD. I'd rather play in online leagues. Those DD style leagues offer a pretty good option for people wanting to avoid the "toxic" or "cheesing" DD players. Heck, I saw a guy post in here the other day about a league that people use classic pitching and directional hitting to make it more catered to players ratings instead of user's abilities. This is a perfect type of solution for people that may want to jump into the online a bit, but avoid the garbage play style.
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@ItsaCanesthing said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@theu715 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
You could always start an offline franchise and use the legends and flashbacks on rosters. Set all the rosters the way you'd like and then start a franchise. The only thing you'd be missing is the juiced stats going over 99. That's an option. If that isn't something that seems fun, what exactly are you hoping to do with your team or what do you feel like you're missing from DD vs CPU that isn't available in offline franchise? If it's the ability to use your created uniform, then that is a problem. Just trying to help out.
That is not the point. He wants to build a team the same way you do, through playing the game.
Would you be interested in DD if on Day 1 you were to have a full 99 squad and nothing left to grind for?
No.
The answer is not fire up franchise mode, the answer is to give people that chose not to play online more to do with the actual squad they have put together.If online players could play with whatever team we wanted whenever we wanted....we would never even enter DD. You think I care about check marks and experience points? I want to use players I like, and if I didn’t have to wait 8 months and grind out 1,000,000 stubs, I honestly can’t think of one reason I would choose to actively do that like offline players do.
Online franchise was actually taken away and redesigned so we can’t do the exact thing you said nobody has interest in. Obviously SDS noticed some people had interest in using whoever, whenever online or offline without spending money or grinding.
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I always love when this kind of stuff is brought up that people are always so quick to make it an offline vs online debate. I get it, you have to be connected to the internet to play this mode but that does not make it an online mode in the sense of having to play online games. I would be willing to bet there is a lot more offline only players than people believe there is.
I brought up the squad battles a few times and think it would be a great way to use your dd team in a meaningful way. I like the SB in NHL because of how trash that game plays online and how pathetic the people are that play the win at all costs way there. I would love it with baseball even if you dont get much in the way of a reward for it. In HUT I think it's been packs and coins. Not sure they couldnt do that in baseball at all. I personally think it would be a huge addition.
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Those of you that are saying you rarely run into a toxic player - Awesome. Good for you. Unfortunately they make up 1/3 of my games online. I honestly think 1/3 of my games are against toxic players...Another 1/3 are against guys that are ridiculously better than me where nomatter what I throw or where it’s - homerun, homerun, homerun. And the other 1/3 are good, competitive games.....So 66% of the time I’m not having fun playing against people online. That is crazy. And that is why I just want to be able to play offline & for SDS to make it fun with something like solo battles.
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@dingers4days14 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@nflman2033 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
Every year i agree with your notion of hating the toxic players online. Honestly other than the occasional dashboard its not been horrible. However the lag this year is unbearable. Everyone loads up on 102mph guys because the connection is so bad it looks like 125. Yeah i can hit it, if i sell out and pray. 102 vs CPU on legend isnt as bad as ot is online on AS.
I want more solo stuff and nothing special like Prestige for online only. Then you will never see me again. I rarely if at all played online for 18 and was happy about it. But would love more to do offline, and dont give me that Showdown [censored], that isnt my DD cards.
I don't have any lag problems online. I think its just your internet.
Same internet provider i had in 27 and faster now, plus no kids or wife on it taking bandwidth. So nice try. Plus like i said its not every time. And not to mention i am not the only one who sees this. So unless you need the fastest internet out there to play the game to get a good game, then it sounds like an SDS problem. Not to mention people like Demise who claim fast internet is actually a bad thing for the show.
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@dingers4days14 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@ItsaCanesthing said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@theu715 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@ItsaCanesthing said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@theu715 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
You could always start an offline franchise and use the legends and flashbacks on rosters. Set all the rosters the way you'd like and then start a franchise. The only thing you'd be missing is the juiced stats going over 99. That's an option. If that isn't something that seems fun, what exactly are you hoping to do with your team or what do you feel like you're missing from DD vs CPU that isn't available in offline franchise? If it's the ability to use your created uniform, then that is a problem. Just trying to help out.
That is not the point. He wants to build a team the same way you do, through playing the game.
Would you be interested in DD if on Day 1 you were to have a full 99 squad and nothing left to grind for?
No.
The answer is not fire up franchise mode, the answer is to give people that chose not to play online more to do with the actual squad they have put together.Thanks for the response. I was actually trying to be helpful and come up with a solution or figure out more what he was hoping to do. I was by no means be snarky, sarcastic, or condescending in any way.
I did not take it that way at all.
But whenever an offline player posts something about being able to utilize their team more, you will 100% get the "go play franchise" response.
Without the offline community we would not have a game to play.
It is time SDS gives them something more to do with their DD team other than Conquest.
Bring back stat grinds for TA, Bring back Vs CPU games for Team Affinity.
There used to be more things to do in years past for the offline player to do with their DD team.Yeah except the majority of the community doesn't want long grinds offline. We play an ONLINE game mode to PLAY ONLINE. The majority of the people who play DD don't want the best players to be locked behind the walls of hours of CPU grinding. If they were to do something like solo Battles and just give packs, prices drop a good amount, nothing drastic, but prices are honestly pretty normal rn, except for all of the mike trout inflation on lower cards. But I know the MAJORITY( I emphasize majority so you guys don't complain I said all) of people don't want hours of grinding for good cards that are only attainable through playing the CPU.
Oh you are one of those its an online game guys, yeah i believe i will just block you. Not everyone wants to play online, and they shouldn't have to deal with people telling them how they should be playing a game they paid for.
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@nflman2033 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@dingers4days14 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@nflman2033 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
Every year i agree with your notion of hating the toxic players online. Honestly other than the occasional dashboard its not been horrible. However the lag this year is unbearable. Everyone loads up on 102mph guys because the connection is so bad it looks like 125. Yeah i can hit it, if i sell out and pray. 102 vs CPU on legend isnt as bad as ot is online on AS.
I want more solo stuff and nothing special like Prestige for online only. Then you will never see me again. I rarely if at all played online for 18 and was happy about it. But would love more to do offline, and dont give me that Showdown [censored], that isnt my DD cards.
I don't have any lag problems online. I think its just your internet.
Same internet provider i had in 27 and faster now, plus no kids or wife on it taking bandwidth. So nice try. Plus like i said its not every time. And not to mention i am not the only one who sees this. So unless you need the fastest internet out there to play the game to get a good game, then it sounds like an SDS problem. Not to mention people like Demise who claim fast internet is actually a bad thing for the show.
Sorry you expect me to know your whole life story and who's using the internet in your house lmao. Well, if you're using wireless internet, it is more inconsistent than wired, and I found that at different times the connection would be weaker at certain times due to a high amount of people using the internet in your neighborhood. To clarify buddy, this doesn't mean that people are using your internet, but if your neighbors all start streaming a movie or playing video games, it will cause all of your internet connections to be weaker. I have had wired internet for about half of this year, and for the first half my connection was fine. I had no problems with it, even though I would have connection problems in madden and 2k, which both require much better internet connection than this game.
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@nflman2033 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@dingers4days14 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@ItsaCanesthing said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@theu715 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@ItsaCanesthing said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@theu715 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
You could always start an offline franchise and use the legends and flashbacks on rosters. Set all the rosters the way you'd like and then start a franchise. The only thing you'd be missing is the juiced stats going over 99. That's an option. If that isn't something that seems fun, what exactly are you hoping to do with your team or what do you feel like you're missing from DD vs CPU that isn't available in offline franchise? If it's the ability to use your created uniform, then that is a problem. Just trying to help out.
That is not the point. He wants to build a team the same way you do, through playing the game.
Would you be interested in DD if on Day 1 you were to have a full 99 squad and nothing left to grind for?
No.
The answer is not fire up franchise mode, the answer is to give people that chose not to play online more to do with the actual squad they have put together.Thanks for the response. I was actually trying to be helpful and come up with a solution or figure out more what he was hoping to do. I was by no means be snarky, sarcastic, or condescending in any way.
I did not take it that way at all.
But whenever an offline player posts something about being able to utilize their team more, you will 100% get the "go play franchise" response.
Without the offline community we would not have a game to play.
It is time SDS gives them something more to do with their DD team other than Conquest.
Bring back stat grinds for TA, Bring back Vs CPU games for Team Affinity.
There used to be more things to do in years past for the offline player to do with their DD team.Yeah except the majority of the community doesn't want long grinds offline. We play an ONLINE game mode to PLAY ONLINE. The majority of the people who play DD don't want the best players to be locked behind the walls of hours of CPU grinding. If they were to do something like solo Battles and just give packs, prices drop a good amount, nothing drastic, but prices are honestly pretty normal rn, except for all of the mike trout inflation on lower cards. But I know the MAJORITY( I emphasize majority so you guys don't complain I said all) of people don't want hours of grinding for good cards that are only attainable through playing the CPU.
Oh you are one of those its an online game guys, yeah i believe i will just block you. Not everyone wants to play online, and they shouldn't have to deal with people telling them how they should be playing a game they paid for.
And one could say that SDS shouldn't have to deal with people telling them how they should make a game that they made lmao. I also literally, specifically said majority not all, for this exact reason where you start being petty and saying "Oh, not everyone plays online" I never said everyone plays online. I said the MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN DD PLAY ONLINE. Quit bitching about everything man. Grow up and stop complaining about everything. If you read the rest of what I said, I said the MAJORITY, NOT ALL of people that play DD are online players. What I was trying to say in which you didn't get is that players shouldn't have to play long hours against the CPU for cards that are locked behind the walls of multiple hour grinds. That is my point if you read all of my statement.
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@nflman2033 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@dingers4days14 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@ItsaCanesthing said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@theu715 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@ItsaCanesthing said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
@theu715 said in SDS - Can we get Solo Battles in 21?:
You could always start an offline franchise and use the legends and flashbacks on rosters. Set all the rosters the way you'd like and then start a franchise. The only thing you'd be missing is the juiced stats going over 99. That's an option. If that isn't something that seems fun, what exactly are you hoping to do with your team or what do you feel like you're missing from DD vs CPU that isn't available in offline franchise? If it's the ability to use your created uniform, then that is a problem. Just trying to help out.
That is not the point. He wants to build a team the same way you do, through playing the game.
Would you be interested in DD if on Day 1 you were to have a full 99 squad and nothing left to grind for?
No.
The answer is not fire up franchise mode, the answer is to give people that chose not to play online more to do with the actual squad they have put together.Thanks for the response. I was actually trying to be helpful and come up with a solution or figure out more what he was hoping to do. I was by no means be snarky, sarcastic, or condescending in any way.
I did not take it that way at all.
But whenever an offline player posts something about being able to utilize their team more, you will 100% get the "go play franchise" response.
Without the offline community we would not have a game to play.
It is time SDS gives them something more to do with their DD team other than Conquest.
Bring back stat grinds for TA, Bring back Vs CPU games for Team Affinity.
There used to be more things to do in years past for the offline player to do with their DD team.Yeah except the majority of the community doesn't want long grinds offline. We play an ONLINE game mode to PLAY ONLINE. The majority of the people who play DD don't want the best players to be locked behind the walls of hours of CPU grinding. If they were to do something like solo Battles and just give packs, prices drop a good amount, nothing drastic, but prices are honestly pretty normal rn, except for all of the mike trout inflation on lower cards. But I know the MAJORITY( I emphasize majority so you guys don't complain I said all) of people don't want hours of grinding for good cards that are only attainable through playing the CPU.
Oh you are one of those its an online game guys, yeah i believe i will just block you. Not everyone wants to play online, and they shouldn't have to deal with people telling them how they should be playing a game they paid for.
One more thing I never said anything about how you should play the game..... Perhaps reading a whole message might do you some good instead of assuming....
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If playing FIFA as long as I have taught me anything, its that there are waaaaay more strictly offline players than you think. They dont go on the forums, or social media very much, so you dont know that they're in such large numbers.
I've seen offline only players drop as much as $5k on packs, and they never even play against another person online.
These are the silent majority. The ones that drop money each week and play when they can. This forum and Reddit/Twitter are the minority of players, but much more vocal.
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