10 minutes absolutely sounds like enough time to determine a card's viability.

And no one in my house cares. So, I bought the beach ball pack on the first day and pulled rare round. Nolan was selling for the most, so I just sold him because I didn’t necessarily want/need any of them at the time. I didn’t buy another because I didn’t want to push my luck. Went ahead and bought Gagne in the market.

Fast forward a couple days and I decide I want Hornsby. Keep getting outbid. I decide, screw it. I cancel the buy order and decide to try my luck at the second beach ball pack. I mean, what’s 20k stubs at this point if I miss and just have to sell the base round. Then I see those 3 rare beauties come up. Hornsby is mine for almost 60k less than I was going to buy him. I was pumped. It’s the little victories in life.

Anyway, wanted to tell someone and know you all would actually understand the excitement.

If you’re doing it every pitch, that’s an issue

For the sanity of your customer base, please make it so we don’t have to go out to the menu in multi-game moments. Please, please, please. I am begging. I’ll even buy some stubs if you want. Make this happen.

It happens in RTTS, so it is possible. Please do this in moments. Please. It is such a colossal waste of time to go back to the menu each time. It’s a no-brainer.

Please pass it on @Pat_SDS @SDS_Jax and whoever else I’m forgetting.

1. Servers make it tough, at times, to get on and stay on while playing DD.

2. Loadouts aren’t working properly and some progress is not tracking in RTTS

3. Downloading rosters is an issue to starting a franchise mode?

4. Servers dropping might invalidate your MTO run, making it a risky mode to play (if you want rewards).

5. If you play HRD, you start losing the chance to gain XP.

6. If you make it into DD and try showdown, the servers could possibly drop invalidating your run.

Oh, and it’s double XP time, but the double XP doesn’t actually get credited to your account.

Is this right?

I have one small request for showdown. If we only need to accomplish hitting stats (like the first one against Oswalt), don’t make us have to mindlessly pitch the innings too. Adds to the time if you’re just failing anyway.

As cool as Trout is, I won’t be chasing

I thought of one today. Let us filter when making event lineups. Say, I want to put in as many Brewers pitchers as I can. Let me filter for Brewers. Really, there are so many QOL things I can think of that would make a big difference in how I felt about the game.:

The ones mentioned above are good. Now that we can’t quicksell collected cards, it would be wonderful if there was an easier way to deal with duplicates. So many more things I could mention.

Here are the MLB prospect rankings for these future stars, guys getting 92-and-up juiced cards. (Correct me if I got the wrong guy or missed someone):

Diamondbacks: Alek Thomas, the team's No. 2 overall prospect and No. 49 overall in the top-100 prospects in the game (not bad, comparatively).

Orioles: Ryan Mountcastle, the team's No. 4 prospect and No. 94 in the top-100 (But this one didn't surprise me).

Cubs: Nico Hoerner, the team's top prospect and No. 51 overall (again, not bad comparatively, but still juiced).

White Sox: Nick Madrigal, team No. 4 and 40th overall. Dane Dunning, team No. 6 and not in top-100.

Astros: Jose Urquidy, team No. 2 and not in top 100.

Angels: Brandon Marsh, team No. 2 and No. 79 overall.

Mets: Andres Giminez, team No. 3 and No. 84 overall.

Yankees: Clarke Schmidt, team No. 2 and No. 88 overall.

Phillies: Alec Bohm, team's No. 1 and No. 30 overall. Adonis Medina, team's No. 5 (!) and not in top 100.

Padres: Taylor Trammell, team's No. 5 and No. 57 overall (good farm system).

Mariners: Evan White, team's No. 4 and No. 56 overall.

Cardinals: Nolan Gorman, team's No. 2 and No. 47 overall.

Blue Jays: Kevan Smith, team's No. 23 (!!!!) and not in top 100.

So, needless to say, I'm not sure how you justify these guys getting 90-plus cards. Again, it seems like the prospect rankings, while maybe a little generous, seemed pretty good. These future stars are just so out of whack.

On most of the team's, it seemed like they tried to go with guys that are closer to high minors and maybe appearing in MLB. Except guys like Gorman and Thomas were Single-A advanced players and a couple were Double-A.

I've often thought about this MLB Players league. That's a ton of free advertising for them. And then to see the players complain about issues is quite a sight.

So many more filters needed. This one specifically. Also, can get a filter in the mini seasons roster screen?

There's nothing SDS should take away from 2K.

There shouldn't be 8 win or go home showdowns in a single set-up.

@LIONED-33_XBL said in LS Collection Strategy:

It’s also important to get the golds out of the way. If a diamond goes to a good yay save some stubs. But a gold to a diamond can kinda be harsh

This is not as bad since they changed the QS values. I don’t think it’s much of a change to be honest.

I have 520k saved and waiting. Trying to decide if I want to knock out the Angels or do like 20 teams.

So many good ideas.

Same. Just more annoying having to look them up than anything

The only place for most of these prices to go is down. SDS, credit to them, eventually make you able to acquire anything and everything and as more and more are out there, the prices go down. The only time it's backfired on me is maybe when a gold goes diamond or some other upgrades. But it doesn't happen that often. I sell and then decide where I want to prioritize my buying.

I sell pretty much everything I can. I try to have a decent lineup and then sell the rest. When I go do collections, I buy the card at a lower price. Most often, I'm trying to buy them (the live series when possible) at the quick sell value.

I am excited to see this all. But after playing 2K the past month, it does kind of remind me of that. There are so many different card series...and card boosts and duos, etc.

It's a slippery slope I hope SDS can manage. Because 2K is kind of annoying/confusing/distracting with all the different stuff they've got going on.