Please turn off online only stat missions from inning programs. People who play offline only need something to achieve and adding a few more stat grinds can help us enjoy this game a little further. I don't see how it can benefit online players as they probably completed them all or their roster wouldn't be improved by gaining any players these lead to.
I would like to see the same for Prestige players as well but I can understand that online players could benefit from it at this point.
100% agree. I realize they wanted to lure people into playing online, but at this point if you’re not playing online already those missions are not going to convince you to.
@Vipersneak said in Turn Off Online Only:
100% agree. I realize they wanted to lure people into playing online, but at this point if you’re not playing online already those missions are not going to convince you to.
Exactly, Like i will play another game if you want me to but I rather grind some more MLB the show so cmon
@maurice91932 said in Turn Off Online Only:
Eliminate moments and you got yourself a deal.
I’m for this too, but that isn’t going to happen this year. They are too invested in moments for everything in the game.
I used to be offline only, but now I actually hate playing offline. If you play online for stats, missions and Prestige, and don't care about winning, it is addictive. There are ways to only playing bad players online and as you get better, you don't need to use tricks anymore.
@Lornee56 said in Turn Off Online Only:
I used to be offline only, but now I actually hate playing offline. If you play online for stats, missions and Prestige, and don't care about winning, it is addictive. There are ways to only playing bad players online and as you get better, you don't need to use tricks anymore.
I play both. I like going back and forth. When I get tired or frustrated with one I jump on the other. Love it. First year playing DD and I have a winning record online woot woot
@blakev03 said in Turn Off Online Only:
id love an offline prestige program for cards, even if it meant double the stats needed
easy tiger lets not give them ideas lol
I am a .245 online hitter and below .500 and I have 31 prestiged players. My one piece of advice online is only use hitters you are good with. Some of my best offline hitters are my worst online hitters. I am hitting .145 with Mantle online and .384 with Yelich online.
@blakev03 said in Turn Off Online Only:
id love an offline prestige program for cards, even if it meant double the stats needed
I think this would be good too, look at what's going on right now with the events and the limited number of players to be used. If I want to continue on teh prestige path I have to play RS, I'm trying to get to WS so I'm not playing constant RS games so trying to prestige Trout or Gehrig is impossible right now when playing against high level competition.
The events are really the big place to get prestige done, and I actually really like this event, since it went to 3 innings I knocked out the wins quick and locked up the Goose. Now, I'll probably play more RS but I really like being able to play shorter games with my team.
As an offline player, give me all the conquests while jamming these moments straight up someone's [censored]. The Brian Anderson moment has single handedly has ruined any (which wasn't much) enjoyment I had for moments.
@bsmith4263 said in Turn Off Online Only:
Please turn off online only stat missions from inning programs. People who play offline only need something to achieve and adding a few more stat grinds can help us enjoy this game a little further. I don't see how it can benefit online players as they probably completed them all or their roster wouldn't be improved by gaining any players these lead to.
I would like to see the same for Prestige players as well but I can understand that online players could benefit from it at this point.
They almost make it mandatory to get online to excel the most..,, I got to a point now I don’t even do the only daily missions just do the 2 offline ones
@nymets1987 said in Turn Off Online Only:
@bsmith4263 said in Turn Off Online Only:
Please turn off online only stat missions from inning programs. People who play offline only need something to achieve and adding a few more stat grinds can help us enjoy this game a little further. I don't see how it can benefit online players as they probably completed them all or their roster wouldn't be improved by gaining any players these lead to.
I would like to see the same for Prestige players as well but I can understand that online players could benefit from it at this point.
They almost make it mandatory to get online to excel the most..,, I got to a point now I don’t even do the only daily missions just do the 2 offline ones
Same! I stopped doing them awhile ago. Just do the offline ones and exchange one
Totally agree with this...I HATE, And I mean HATE playing event games against the scum of humanity. I would much prefer a Babe Ruth program type grind. Playing people online has turned me into someone who prays for an asteroid to hit the Earth and end everything.
I disagree and here is why
DD is a 2 tier game mode of offline and online modes. To turn off online mission or requirements then you are taking away from one of the aspects of the mode.
I have said this before numerous time that if you are only going to play half the mode you only will get half of the experience. Now before we all get into a debate about well that's not fair and this and that. Let's look at the one example where SDS themselves did all offline mission MLB 18. It didnt work because those who wanted to play online where not reward or where put at a disadvantage because it was easier to just bring on Rookie for the best cards it create a notice unbalanced approach to rewards and play style. As well MLB 18 is consider the worst version in the series and yet we still have calls to go back to a format like that
DD is and will always be online and offline if you are choosing to only play 1 way then you are limiting your options and what you are eligible to either complete or obtain.
@CDNMoneyMaker93 said in Turn Off Online Only:
As well MLB 18 is consider the worst version in the series and yet we still have calls to go back to a format like that
The reason we see those calls is because there's so little to do in singleplayer with our DD card collections.
Especially, there's no meaningful nine-inning DD games (as opposed to moments) that we can actually get things like TA innings in. The only things that count for DD are conquest (3-inning road games) and play vs. CPU (meaningless). MLB 18 at least had plenty of entertaining, non-trivial objectives that could be done in play vs. CPU - innings are a mindless background task and there isn't near enough to do to make those innings entertaining.
An option to play conquest with nine-inning games and randomized home/away would go so, so far.
No offense.. but offline play is brainless and boring AF.. why don’t you just go enjoy a good coloring book 
@omegaminus_sk said in Turn Off Online Only:
@CDNMoneyMaker93 said in Turn Off Online Only:
As well MLB 18 is consider the worst version in the series and yet we still have calls to go back to a format like that
The reason we see those calls is because there's so little to do in singleplayer with our DD card collections.
Especially, there's no meaningful nine-inning DD games (as opposed to moments) that we can actually get things like TA innings in. The only things that count for DD are conquest (3-inning road games) and play vs. CPU (meaningless). MLB 18 at least had plenty of entertaining, non-trivial objectives that could be done in play vs. CPU - innings are a mindless background task and there isn't near enough to do to make those innings entertaining.
An option to play conquest with nine-inning games and randomized home/away would go so, so far.
I'm sorry but MLB 18 stat mission were the most mind numbing thing ever, VS CPU 9 inning games on rookie so I could get 500 hits with X position was beyond trivial.
I love playing offline but that was the worst and in 18 there was no reason what so ever to use the cards that you acquired anymore then in 19 or 20.
MLB 17 had a bit of reason to use cards from different series in there programs but almost to the same level that MLB 20 requires for missions.
The only time you where required to use cards from different series for tangle progress was the finest program from 17 where you needed to do stat mission for each card series.
As previously mentioned in a past discussion about this. I don’t think there would be a harm in allowing an optional offline stat grind, with the caveat that it be vs HOF difficulty and higher. Or maybe even x2 the stats but on AS or higher difficulty might make more sense. No mind numbing Rookie Grinding. And it’d take at least a lick of skill that way. Then the people who want to earn it online are able to as well, without feeling like others are obtaining these cards faster.
And the boosters can still do their thing because that’s not going away either, which is a bigger problem than offline grinding anyways, imo
For what it’s worth, I just wish they’d get rid of the whole Prestige thing because it’s a headache
Wouldn’t it be awesome if they had two routes, offline or online, and you would be able to choose which path you would take to get the job done?
They don't need to eliminate online grinds - they just need to provide the option for offline. As someone that WANTS to play this game online non-stop, I just haven't gotten to the point where I accept how poor it plays and grinds it anyway. So I'll shift back to offline and then there's only so much to do. Moments are awful, Showdown is the most annoying game mode I've played and neither uses our DD team or count for innings/stats.
I don't think it would affect anything negatively to have the option for both. The way it is this year, the online missions are quicker to finish than offline. I don't think that's unfair since online would typically he more difficult, but a better balance between on and offline would surely land in the right spot.
One of the things SDS really nails is the XP Reward Path. You get rewarded for doing literally anything in the game. They can use this template for the stat based missions to reward online and offline. For those that will play online no matter what nothing changes. For those that don't want to play online or don't do it as often, they aren't being forced to do something they don't want and potentially being burned out or pushed away.
I agree they should allow people to prestige players while playing offline from this point forward. This is usually the time of the year when people stop playing by the bunches and it's gonna get worse when the WS is over. Also we're heading into November, new games and new generation consoles are coming very soon. Give people something to grind en enjoy doing without forcing them to play in the tedious online environment IF they don't want to.
