@Red_Ted_is_back said in It blows my mind SDS cant fix these bugs. Loosing ALOT of players.:
@ComebackLogic said in It blows my mind SDS cant fix these bugs. Loosing ALOT of players.:
@Red_Ted_is_back And this is why I get so frustrated. The whole concept of DD is obtaining cards to build your squad. The sideshow carnival game modes such as Battle Royale, Showdown and events are all additional means - outside of buying card packs or buying stubs and simply purchasing players from the marketplace - to this end. So the whole concept of building a team and collecting card sets is the focus, but we buy this game to play baseball, right? Well, the only mode where you can use your acquired cards to build a team of your choosing and play a nine inning game of baseball for any competitive reason is RS. That’s it. If you’re not playing RS, you may as well not play DD at all. There is literally no other reason to collect a single card in the game or spend a dime outside of building a team to solely play RS games. So, since they only offer one solitary mode that represents an actual baseball game, you’d expect it to be the flagship mode, no? The entire focus of DD.
Sadly, ‘17 was the last game where RS was a balanced competitive environment where user input was the main factor in determining the outcome. The RNG aspects that began to impact RS in ‘18 have never gone away and I’m not even sure what SDS are aiming for with the mode any more. We have BR and events where the 3 inning format negates pitching and makes it an unrealistic slugfest with reduced stamina and so on. No need to destroy what was the only actual H2H baseball experience left available to us.
Of course you can play friendly games, custom leagues and 9 inning games vs Cpu, but they’re all missing the vital aspect of progression. In RS, I’m trying to progress to the next division or earn that next card I need to improve my team. I don’t feel as though there’s as much incentive when I’m not working towards a goal, such as playing infinite online friendlies or mindlessly grinding innings for team affinity against the computer (shades of ‘18 right there, lol). I want to compete against other players, in a nine inning game, because baseball IS a nine inning game and I want to feel like there’s a reason for playing. Like I am working towards something, not just playing for the sake of it. So only RS allows for that. It’s more than a little unfortunate that it doesn’t play well, given that it’s the only mode you can use the cards you’ve collected to play a competitive nine inning game online against another human with rewards on the line.This greatly helps me understand why one might play Ranked Seasons, thank you. Are you in any Custom Leagues? To me that looks to provide the potential fun of online competition without the mixed difficulty and anonymity problems that RS brings to the table. I have set up a custom league for Australia / New Zealand players but sadly only three humans, with five CPU players to fill it (May see more interest in a couple of months).
Ah, sadly being in England, I’m at the exact opposite end of the time scale to you lol.