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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.

Appreciate the response.

I am so confused. Nick Madrigal already has the prospect card, which as an 85-plus is already a generous ranking. Why give another card of prospects? I understand trying to think outside the box and give us more content since we're all sitting at home, but I don't get this. There's going to be 1 per team but this is a headliner? An 95 Madrigal is the same overall rating as the current Mike Trout. Are you saying you project that Nick Madrigal will one day be as good as Trout now? What in the world? This is all so weird.

Anyone else tired of the “a pitcher isn’t good without a sinker” and the “lets give everybody a sinker? I hate that the sinker is a crutch for people who can’t pitch. The high sinker, especially.

Something struck me after reading the thread about pitchouts and playing another game of Conquest with repeated pitchouts. It's like the game in total is just kind of overproduced.

Are there pitchouts IRL? Of course there are, but not to the degree you see in this game. Are routine groundballs sometimes booted? Yes, but not to the degree you see in this game. Do pitchers miss locations and hang pitches? Again, yes but not this much. Do double plays happen? Of course, but not every single time a runner is at first. Do people throw 102? Yes, but not all game.

Do umpires miss calls on the edges of the strike zone? Do they miss safe/out calls at the bags? Are there throwing errors from good infielders? Are there throwing errors from the catcher when he has to throw to first after a dropped third strike? Are homers hit on bad contact? Are good contact hits sometimes hit right at fielders? Do some players make decent contact on pitches way out of the zone? Do pitchers get hit by batted balls? Do pitchers sometimes make good fielding plays on balls up the middle? Do bunts sometimes go past the mound to where the second baseman might need to field it? Do starters sometimes come on in relief?

All of these are a yes, but the balance is way off in this game. Is it cool to have a fully immersive game with these things happening? Yes, but they need to occur a lot less frequently (however that gets programmed). In all, I feel like the game is just a bit overproduced.

MLB The You-Must-Wait-To-Swing-Until-It’s-3-and-2-Show 20

I’ve been bummed about Chipper and Mays (not so much the other $1 mill guys) are locked behind such a long wait list. But I felt the need to say kudos for the way SDS handled content and stubs this year. I think it’s really cool that you can basically afford any card in the game if you really want it.

Locked behind the wait list is a different story, but they made it so there’s enough stubs to afford any card and I think that’s really cool. I could have got Mays or Chipper if I acted quick enough. That’s my own fault. Not an issue of stubs, which is a good thing, in my opinion. And this without me doing any investing, haven’t flipped at all since probably May and never bought extra stubs.

I’d bring in a starter in relief, but I heard that’s illegal.

Holy carp. I won a showdown...and then another.

Man, it was crazy. Like others here, I had no success on it at all for a while. I've mentioned before that I'm an average player, I'd say. I play a lot, online and offline, and I'd say I'm an average player (although I haven't had much success online this year). I was able to do moments the past two years but not showdown.

Anyway, I sat down today to try it again and said I was going to lock in. I started with the first inning showdown. I had a crappy draft, too many pitchers, etc. I just tried to play it through to get my entry stubs back. So, I'm playing through and I make it to the second mini boss (Didn't want to risk the loss). I skip him and go straight to the final and I get matched up with German Marquez in Coors and I'm down 15-5. Haniger walks it off with a two-run HR with two outs left. I yelled so hard, I surprised my son. I'm beyond thrilled. So, I try the AL West and get through, doing pretty well. I make it to Verlander at the end down 15-10 and I win without ever making an out. Like, what? How in the world? My son was watching me and I keep telling him how hard it is (he doesn't play the show) and then when I win, he's like, "that's not hard." I did have a [censored] good lineup by the time I faced Verlander.

It was a sweaty grind. I was locked in and super focused. Putting pressure on myself. I am happy I finally won one, but I can't say it was necessarily fun. I admit, I did switch to directional to win. I am willing to bet that's the only reason I won. I was hitting on directional and often pushing up to influence fly balls. Double plays kill you in showdown.

Anyway, no one else in my house would understand. So, I just wanted to share here because it feels good to finally conquer it.

I just wish simmed games went faster

@Victor_SDS can you just clarify one thing: does this affect the way we hit or is it just a change in the feedback we see?