One of my biggest gripes with this game is the lack of modes to use my top, hard-earned players. Unless you count conquest which is what, like 24 innings per program, the only place to use our "God Squads" is Ranked Seasons.

I don't always have the time, energy, or stress management levels to play a full game of zeroed-in laser-focus RS, but would love to get some practice or casual at bats in with my top players.

A simple fix seems to be having an "Event" style 3 inning mode with no lineup restrictions. Have rewards like you would each event, and let us get up to 50 wins per inning program for rewards.

That way people can choose if they wanna play the quirky event for the buffed rewards, or the "4th Inning Event" for lesser-ish awards.

This would also make prestiging players more feasible since I'd have to play about 120 more RS games to come close for Biggio....

Not sure how anyone could object to this, people would self-select which mode they want to play without being limited to full 9-inning RS games on certain difficulties.

Maybe they'd have a HOF and All-Star option so you could practice. Sucks that I have to switch between HOF and All-Star cold turkey here and there since I'm in Division Series and hover between the two.

I come from 2K, and their "Triple Threat" mode is similar to events, much shorter, fun to climb the ladder for rewards without the "all-or-nothing" sweatiness that's not always desired.

Edit: found one on Reddit. Wish I had this BEFORE I grinder the Belli lol

Source: @metskid22 on Reddit

Comprehensive Guide to RTTS/DD Ballplayer (CAP) Batter Loadouts/Positions

Ok onto the fun stuff, here is where each path leads:
(Note: I am fairly confident the diamond archetypes are the same position as the Gold ones and are the same name as well, just judging by the few Diamonds I have grinded to get, so you can safely assume each gold one is it's final preferred position)

Sparkplug

Bronze - Sparkplug - 2B

Silver - Slugging Sparkplug LF - Speedy Sparkplug - SS - Slick Sparkplug CF

Slugging Sparkplug leads to Gold - The Tool Shed LF and The Hawk SS

Speedy Sparkplug leads to Gold - Rawhide 2B and The Spoke CF

Slick Sparkplug leads to Gold - The Dewey RF and The Dart CF

Slugger

Bronze - Slugger - 1B

Silver - Sparking Slugger 1B - Speedy Slugger - LF - Slick Slugger 3B

Sparking Slugger leads to Gold - The Duke LF and Crime Dog 3B

Speedy Slugger leads to Gold - El Ambusador LF and El Nino CF

Slick Slugger leads to Gold - Yo Adrian 3B and The Showboat 3B

Speedster

Bronze - Speedster - CF

Silver - Sparking Speedster 2B - Slugging Speedster - LF - Slick Speedster CF

Sparking Speedster leads to Gold - Cool Papa CF and Man of Steel LF

Slugging Speedster leads to Gold - Sheff RF and The Winny LF

Slick Speedster leads to Gold - The Werth LF and The Lark SS

Slick Fielding

Bronze - Slick Fielding - C

Silver - Sparking Slickster SS - Slugging Slickster - 3B - Speedy Slickster CF

Sparking Slickster leads to Gold - The Wizard SS and The Mechanical Man SS

Slugging Slickster leads to Gold - Ironman 3B and El Mago SS

Speedy Slickster leads to Gold - The Belli CF and The Fly Chaser **2B

Below is a cleaned up view of all positions and their Gold/Diamond

Catcher (0) - NONE

First Base (0) - NONE

Second Base (2) - Rawhide/The Fly Chaser

Third Base (4) - Crime Dog/Yo Adrian/The Showboat/Ironman

Shortstop (5) - The Hawk/The Lark/The Wizard/The Mechanical Man/El Mago

Left Field (6) - The Tool Shed/The Duke/El Ambusador/Man of Steel/The Winny/The Werth

Center Field (5) - The Spoke/The Dart/El Nino/Cool Papa/The Belli

Right Field (2) - The Dewey/Sheff

Below are the boosts each archetype gives at GOLD. Diamond will increase the main ones a little bit more.
The below displays boosts in this specific order - Contact/Vision, Power/Arm, Speed/Stealing,

Rawhide - (+38)(+10)(+30)(+20)

The Fly Chaser - (+20)(+10)(+30)(+42)

Crime Dog - (+24)(+36)(+10)(+15)

Yo Adrian - (+15)(+36)(+10)(+25)

The Showboat - (+5)(+36)(+20)(+25)

Ironman - (+15)(+24)(+10)(+42)

The Hawk - (+38)(+20)(+10)(+20)

The Lark - (+20)(+10)(+46)(+30)

The Wizard - (+26)(+10)(+20)(+42)

The Mechanical Man - (+26)(+14)(+10)(+42)

El Mago - (+10)(+24)(+20)(+42)

The Tool Shed - (+38)(+20)(+15)(+10)

The Duke - (+24)(+36)(+20)(+10)

El Ambusador - (+15)(+36)(+30)(+10)

Man of Steel - (+30)(+15)(+49)(+10)

The Winny - (+10)(+24)(+46)(+20)

The Werth - (+10)(+15)(+46)(+32)

The Spoke - (+38)(+15)(+30)(+10)

The Dart - (+38)(+10)(+15)(+26)

El Nino - (+5)(+36)(+30)(+20)

Cool Papa - (+30)(+10)(+46)(+20)

The Belli - (+10)(+18)(+30)(+42)

The Dewey - (+38)(+15)(+10)(+26)

Sheff - (+20)(+26)(+46)(+10)

@themadhatter711 said in SDS did a great job with PXP:

Love how they did this! Last year I was always frustrated during events when you couldn’t use prestigeable cards, but this completely fixes it.

Also pxp encourages lineup diversity. It’s a win all the way around.

It’s definitely the best thing they’ve incorporated. Conquest doesn’t feel like a waste of time since I can just load up the players I wanna parallel.

They also found a nice balance with making it doable, but not super easy either. You can get to level 3 pretty quick but IV and V are longer, makig it feel like a real accomplishment. I’m about 200 points away from V trout.

This game is the most pathetic excuse for an online game. I’d rather play back yard baseball

The worst part is that he’s absolutely terrible online. He gives out free Homeruns on the event.

How ironic.

Played my first game in about a week and it went scripture to how it’s described by others on this forum.

Only runs scored are homers.

Hal pitched a complete game against me of course. Perfect perfect fly ball with Mickey Mantle dies at the track...

I’m genuinely curious for those that play RS as their main mode: HOW?

Do you just get used to the BS, the pitchers duels and Homeruns only?

Now that I have collections done and a lot of the offline stuff done I just want to enjoy my team, but I can’t do RS if it’s like this.

I have a nearly all 99 team, get perfect / perfect or good / good contact and they’re outs.

How do y’all get past this and enjoy it cuz I’m gonba be done w this game before quarantine ends at this rate.

Let me start by saying I know the man power / money put towards created stadium wouldn't have necessarily been reallocated to gameplay.....BUT

IF SDS delayed created stadiums another year and decided to put more effort and $ into gameplay, servers and bugs, would you take that trade? I WOULD

Full disclosure, I'm on PS4 so I don't have stadium creator but honestly I wouldn't have touched it more than once even if I had a PS5.

Ppl were creaming themselves over this thing and the first week and it was fun seeing what the YouTubers made. But who in the blue heII cares about your Jurassic Park when the gameplay only made a slight improvement from last year.

So my main point is IF you could trade in your access to stadium creator for gameplay where "user stick stills DO reign supreme", would you? My answer in 100% yes, I think SC is GOOFY and so unnecessary.

Let's get the gameplay IN BETWEEN THE FOUL LINES polished before we get into gimmicks and dinosaurs in the outfield SDS.

@Onyx_Hokie_2 said in Quitters:

From my perspective, the frequency of mid-game quitting is getting ridiculous. Case in point from a few minutes ago:

Important Note - The game in question was within the current Event

Bottom of the 1st, score tied at 0, 2 outs. I hit a deep solo home run with Mike Trout, and before the ball crosses the wall my opponent quits out of the game. WTAF?!

From the point of view of wanting to do well in the Event, I don't mind the easy win. On the other hand, I didn't join the Event for the glory of accumulating wins in said Event. I joined the Event because I want to play baseball online against other human beings and I tend to expect that there will be fewer instances of cry/pout-quits when the teams are even(ish) by default. Previously, most of the quits I have experienced have been perpetrated by opponents who were overmatched at the time of the quit, either via roster differences or after I've gotten a big lead in the game.

But for Pete's sake... bottom of the 1st, after giving up a single run, with even teams?

I believe that SDS should do at least one of the following, ideally all of them:

• 1st instance of quitting mid-game: 30-minute ban from online play

• 2nd instance of quitting mid-game: 2-hour ban from online play

• 3rd instance of quitting mid-game: 8-hour ban from online play

• 4th instance of quitting mid-game: 24-hour ban from online play

• Any further instances of quitting mid-game: 72-hour ban from online play

• Put quitters into a separate pool of players for online play, an area populated solely by players who have quit mid-game within the past week.

• Label player icons with a badge indicating their percentage of games they've quit.

• In online play, after the teams have been set and shown to the players, but before a single pitch is thrown, give opponents the option to avoid playing someone with a quit percentage over a certain value.

The culture that has developed in online play for The Show - a sad exponent of our culture in general at present - enables the immediate rejection of anything which a certain type of person finds to be disappointing, not to their liking, etc. It's bad for the people whose time is wasted and it's bad for the game overall. Something needs to be done about it, in my opinion.

What do you think?

All the best,
Bryan

This might be the dumbest idea I’ve read on this thread. And I’ve read A lot of dumb [censored]

@KommanderNKeef9 said in Scary Feeling:

Idk about anyone else, but there is something extremely sweaty about having a close lead going into the last inning on All Star. ESPECIALLY when your opponent hasn’t touched the ball all game. Unreal

100%. I need at least a 4 run lead going into the 9th to feel comfortable.

Countless times I've had an opponent not be able to touch anything, then in the 9th its HR derby metal bat time.

Effing RNG cruddy SdSuck

Trying to bring some positivity to the forum lol. I feel like there’s no good place to get legitimate card reviews so let’s start here.

Here’s some of the team collection rewards cards I’ve used and their reviews:

Angels - 95 Frank Tanana

Reminds me of the Hal Newhouser from last year. Relies on a 100Mph fastball and a sweeping curve to get K’s. At this stage of the game he’s been a beast for me and will be especially good against newer players who can’t lay off the sweeping curve.

Against better users I’m not sure how long he’ll hold up as they can just sit fastball and lay off both curveballs. Either way I think it’s very nice to have a lefty with upper 90’s break and velocity in my rotation.

Yankees - 90 Jorge Posada

Best catcher in the game IMO, love the switch hitting and his swing is great. Poor defense so I have 88 42 Series Salvy Perez on my bench. Haven’t used the Piazza but did not like Mike’s swing last year. Anyone who used Posasa last year and liked him surely will again this year.

I finished the whole AL East, but wouldn’t recommend using any of the other team rewards.

AL EAST - 95 Goose Gossage

Beast so far. Can get up to 101mph on fastball and has a slurve which is one of my favorite pitches. They’re saving outlier for his 99 card in assuming.

Please drop the team or division collection rewards you have and their reviews. I’d love to have some insight as incomplete collections !!

Git good

@cincyplaya5150_psn said in Vulgar logos are annoying:

@hoboadam_psn said in Vulgar logos are annoying:

@cincyplaya5150_psn said in Vulgar logos are annoying:

Losing games to contact swing hrs is annoying. Some kid who needs attention with his logo, not so much.

Have your 10 year old son play against one of these and get back to me on it.

Bet he has seen worse while you're watching the evening news

I saw a logo that looked like two pink melons with little tan grapes on each one.

(.)(.)

It looked funny and was worried my parents would wash my eyes with soap if they knew the b00bies I saw.

@kdclemson_psn said in Vulgar logos are annoying:

Played about 10 event games and have seen the same one about 4 times. It's not really fun unless you're like 12 years old and I'd be much more impressed to see a well-made logo with a creative and well-thought out team name. SDS says their doing something, but it really doesn't seem so.

I saw a logo that looked like two pink melons with little tan grapes on each one.

(.)(.)

It looked funny and was worried my parents would wash my eyes with soap if they knew the b00bies I saw.

@ibonafidescrub_ said in [censored] Polo Grounds:

Who came up with this stupid idea?

I like it, I've been clapping cheeks in this event. Gonna sell Jasson for Stubbies.

@pscrabro_psn said in Created Stadiums - Were they Worth it After All?:

we can create a stadium with whatever specs and effects we want, but we cant use a normal MLB stadium in online mode because there is a 50% chance the lag will be unbearable. my answer is YES... always fix current and ongoing issues before putting time into to creating new things that will likely be glitched and broken anyways.

Yes!!! I agree.

No more spaceships and aliens in the stands. Just fix gameplay.

The Red Sox…

…own sole possession of the AL’s best record (49-31, .613).

…have won their last 5 games.

…own a 2.0-game lead in the AL East.

…are 14-7 in 1-run games.

…are 25-17 at home.

…lead MLB with 27 comeback wins.

…have not lost more than 3 consecutive games.

@mjfc_363_psn said in C’mon SDS!!! Enough already!:

@thebeev718_psn said in C’mon SDS!!! Enough already!:

@theblindrhino said in C’mon SDS!!! Enough already!:

How do we know that your opponent wasn't trying to design a rocket lifting off? Don't be so quick to jump to conclusions.

Here's a pic of the field with his logo on it. You be the judge...does this look like a rocket ship??? LMAO!

https://imgur.com/GugBxUG

Best rocket ship ever!

I saw a logo that looked like two pink melons with little tan grapes on each one.

(.)(.)

It looked funny and was worried my parents would wash my eyes with soap if they knew the b00bies I saw

@duke0021520_xbl said in C’mon SDS!!! Enough already!:

Whenever I play online I get scared that my parents will see an innapropiate name or picture and ban me from playing online again.

I saw a logo that looked like two pink melons with little tan grapes on each one.

(.)(.)

It looked funny and was worried my parents would wash my eyes with soap if they knew the b00bies I saw

@orexwhitefire_xbl said in Simming RTTS gone?:

@bjd10048842_psn said in Simming RTTS gone?:

Can you still gain stats and plate appearances progress by simming RTTS or do you have to play each at bat to advance archetypes???

This was patched a week or so ago. So yes you have to play every game now.

Oohhh lord