Posts made by darkblue1876_PSN

@brainfreeze442 said in May as well play every hexagon:

@chuckclc_MLBTS said in May as well play every hexagon:

I will say this map has been a lot tougher than that easy ole Kraken map. A lot of those games can be played on Vet. So far only All Star available on Central map. Now I only play on All Star when I play conquest, but still. I noticed this for sure. Mainly how hard to sim it is.

Did you have a hard time with the Eastern map?
I am speaking about the CPU’s ability to win simulations, even if it is clearly in your favor.

I usually play very conservatively. I probably could finish much quicker, but I played a ton of risk on the PS2 and got used to the AI taking out 20 troops with just 3 troops, so I generally don't sim unless I have a minimum of 15 more fans than the spot I am attacking.

Sometimes if I am getting a lot more fans than the team I am about to start fighting for space over I might actually not attack at all for one turn to ensure my perimeter is strong enough to handle an extremely aggressive AI.

That's the one thing about conquest I like the most. I don't have to race across the board. If I ever get good enough to beat all star more consistently I will consider moving more quickly, but I am trying to teach myself to do less since I am so awful at hitting.

@c_lawson3_PSN said in SDS - Nothing like proving your own incompetence:

@Redd666ish_PSN said in SDS - Nothing like proving your own incompetence:

If you quit and lose the game what’s the big deal anyways do you pay your rent or put food in your mouth with your RS ranking?

So, just keep rewarding the people that do this? Why even have a point system at that rate?

While I understand your point, if you think the show is bad at dealing with toxic players you should check out Gran Turismo. Holy cow. It's part of the reason I have started to tone down my complaints about this game.

Sadly, SDS doesn't care about how bad the game play is, and even less about you getting jobbed by a cheeser/freezer. You already both already bought the game, and as far as they are concerned that's all they wanted.

SDS is basically becoming EA Sports, Part 2. So I am trying to deal with the trash and play the game as it is, but not rewarding them with future purchases, and I promise you they will not even notice my tiny lack of purchasing power compared to the mountain of money they made on the people that will take what they are given.

You can either wait them out or take the L and move on.

I am not having that problem nearly as much as it seems like 90% of anything I hit goes directly to a fielder. Ground out, pop up, line drive, fly ball, doesn't matter what hit type, the fielder has to move at most 1 or 2 steps and I am out. That's bad when you hit as weakly as I do.

@CookieMonster64_NSW said in CPU Gameplay:

@PAinPA_PSN said in CPU Gameplay:

@CookieMonster64_NSW said in CPU Gameplay:

The only thing that I get mad at is, legitimately every single time I try to steal a base, they 1) attempt to pick me off at first, or 2) pitch out and nail me at second. It is so annoying.

against the cpu, steal on 2 ball counts the cpu never does a pitch out and rarely slide steps. this is imperative with a catcher that has pop time.

Thanks, I've had enough of Jt Realmuto getting the ball to second base by the time im halfway there.

I am playing on the 20 season, and Wagner, speed 99 did exactly like you said, and he got a great jump, and exactly 2 steps into his attempted steal began running in super slow motion while the catcher continued in normal time and he was out by such a large margin it was laughable.

Yet I then ran on a different pitch count with 83 speed Sandberg and he was already 3/4 of the way there before the throw passed the pitchers mound.

Think I will keep doing it my way. Not griping at all, but I don't run a lot because I am such a weak hitter and can't afford to throw away outs on the base paths.

Slumps are forced in the game. Also note that the other team's results are basically simmed out and you are only seeing the game until your turn to do something comes up. You can try doing things a little differently and that can sometimes shorten the slump, and if you get frustrated and tinker too much lengthen them out.

As someone who gets frustrated very easily and vents a little too much on these forums all you can do is play your game as best as you can.

@saintleo14_MLBTS said in May as well play every hexagon:

I always think of it as a group of guys attacking a smaller group. When those crazy runs happen I just know I’m going against John Wick. I stand no chance.

So, say you have a three way battle between John Wick, Chuck Norris and the Honey badger, who wins?

Well, I won' get into a debate about if I am exaggerating or not, and I am only playing online because for the show 20 I still have a ton of cards to get that require me to play online. Unfortunately, because I am a weak hitter, and on those rare occasions where I get the lead the other guy quits it will take me 3 times longer than a normal player to complete everything.

@BIG_PAPIx34_PSN said in Yes Alex; I'll take MLB The Show Moments for $500:

@Kovz88_MLBTS said in Yes Alex; I'll take MLB The Show Moments for $500:

False sir, while that is frustrating the real answer is hitting gappers with a man on first who refuses to go to third

Lol

I disagree. It is putting Frank Thomas in left field and Kyle Lewis at second base on the same team and having them both have multiple gold glove moments in a game.

OK, I like that idea, but I don't know how to do that. Is it the share button, or something else?

I have had this happen a couple of times this week. One time against a cheeser, but I also had it happen against a normal player.

Runner takes a massive lead; I mean at least 3 steps. I throw to first and the runner instantly takes off for the next base, but for some reason he is literally 3/4 of the way to the next base before the ball even reaches the fielder.

Is this yet another glitch that can be exploited by cheesers? If it is I might not be as eager to throw over on the overly aggressive lead, because I have gotten very good at picking runners off. I even had a guy quit after I got him twice in 3 innings.

@chuckclc_MLBTS said in Why are calls on the black never accurate?:

@Chrono_Omega_PSN said in Why are calls on the black never accurate?:

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in Why are calls on the black never accurate?:

@Chrono_Omega_PSN said in Why are calls on the black never accurate?:

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in Why are calls on the black never accurate?:

Why are you taking the black, Jon Snow?

Only Snow I know is AL. He had a funny gimmick when he wrestled.

Jon Snow was a character in Game of Thrones. He took an oath to guard a giant wall from northern invaders. In the GoT world, they referred to pledging that oath as “taking the black.”

I have to say, I feel like this was an incredible pun. Taking pitches on the black? Taking the black? Maybe I’m only amusing myself but I really feel like this was a good joke.

Yeah I just like wrestling man.

I'd say. Al Snow? lol I remember him, cannot imagine most do though.

I agree. It was a funny gig for a while, but he was never going to be more than a mid card performer at best.

@Chrono_Omega_PSN said in Why are calls on the black never accurate?:

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in Why are calls on the black never accurate?:

Why are you taking the black, Jon Snow?

Only Snow I know is AL. He had a funny gimmick when he wrestled.

What does everybody WANT?

I can confirm you can ignore it. Sometimes I have trouble picking up the pitchers delivery and usually after the first pitch they don't ask you to go a second time unless they are really wanting to avoid a double play.

Use whichever you think will be successful against that particular pitcher.

I have never understood why they have you get contract offers since you literally don't do anything with the money, and even after you have been in the show for a decade you are still in the same generic room you had as a rookie. There seems to be no relation to what your contract means in any way. Also, since you have bare minimum interaction with anyone else, including your own agent, it is basically like playing a string of single games instead of a career.

I almost feel like they want to drop the whole RTTS program and incorporate your CAP into DD or franchise mode.

Personally, I would like to see SDS put all the cheesers, freezers and dashboarders in their own little division where they can play bunt ball all day long and quit once someone actually swings and hits a homer. Makes for better match ups for the rest of us while letting them suffer the same way they do all of us.

@OreoRockstar_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@darkblue1876_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@OreoRockstar_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@darkblue1876_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@OreoRockstar_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@darkblue1876_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@OreoRockstar_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@darkblue1876_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

Why would they do that? SDS openly rewards cheesers and freezers. These are the chumps that spend real world money on digital cards. SDS may as well change their name to EA sports part 2.

How are correlating people who spend money on stubs with people who dashboard?

Because they are usually not good enough to grind for the big cards, so they just go the short route and buy them.

All the streamers buy stubs, most are very good, , so this statement makes no sense like most things you post.

Now how do you correlate not being good at the game and dashboarding? In my experience more guys with very good records dashboard against me than vice versa.

Looking

So, the fact that I have faced many players who are just as bad as I am at hitting, but somehow have all the meta cards?

Of course, the streamers have them, because they are streaming, and nobody wants to watch someone play with an all bronze lineup. I was specifically stating that that lots of the cheesers and freezers who are worse than me have to buy the cards because they cannot grind them out because they are lazy and would rather cheat than try to get better.

At least I am honest about my hitting, which while it is getting better is still significantly worse than many. But of course you have to have an attitude and throw in the personal attack.

First, show me where I made a personal
Attack. I simply asked you to backup your statement saying the people that dashboard are the same people who buy stubs ( which you are shaming), and both these people do this because they are lousy at the game.

Second, @Ericulous1_PSN , one of the coolest
Guys here stated he is not good at hitting or the game but has basically every card…so you are inferring he must be spending money, cheating , freezing, and dashboarding. I can promise he does none of those things. So you are the one being disrespectful to the community with your wide spread assumptions and insults.

And again you take what I said and completely ignore everything I said and said that I said EVERYONE does it. Yet again, I will say it for you. I said that the cheesers and freezers. Not all the bad hitters. There is a difference.

As for the personal attack reference:

"so this statement makes no sense like most things you post."

Just because you don't agree with what I say doesn't make you automatically right and me automatically wrong. If you don't like what I am saying, then so be it.

And again, you are showing your arrogance by assuming I am insulting the community with my comments. Let those who I am supposedly insulting speak for themselves and stop assuming how they feel. They are capable of stating their own opinions.

I am speaking for myself. Your post lumped me into this group you are admonishing. I buy stubs at start of every game cycle to get things rolling. Yet I don’t dashboard, I have made WS multiple times, I don’t cheat/freeze, or play toxic.

And I stand by my statement that your posts do not make sense based on this one, and the only other one I have seen where you said MLB eliminating the shift won’t help increase batting averages.

Ah, now I see where the hostility is coming from. Again, I specifically said cheesers and freezers. I am well aware that many don't cheese and freeze and still buy stubs and don't fall into this category. I wish people were not offended so easily, but if it's an apology you want, then fine. I am sorry if you felt I was attacking you.

However, I do stand by my comment about shifts not affecting batting averages. I feel that many players are now just too lazy and want to hit nothing but homers. Forcing the shift to be eliminated won't change the all or nothing approach to the plate.

Obviously, we won't know for a couple of years, but the fact that you don't agree does not automatically make you right and me wrong. The reverse also applies. I am not automatically right either.

Also, I appreciate it that you don't dashboard. Unfortunately, I didn't get the same from another player who dashboarded what would have been my first homer since putting Trout in the lineup because I need to get hits from Angels players for my program and lost that.

@OreoRockstar_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@darkblue1876_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@OreoRockstar_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@darkblue1876_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@OreoRockstar_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@darkblue1876_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

Why would they do that? SDS openly rewards cheesers and freezers. These are the chumps that spend real world money on digital cards. SDS may as well change their name to EA sports part 2.

How are correlating people who spend money on stubs with people who dashboard?

Because they are usually not good enough to grind for the big cards, so they just go the short route and buy them.

All the streamers buy stubs, most are very good, , so this statement makes no sense like most things you post.

Now how do you correlate not being good at the game and dashboarding? In my experience more guys with very good records dashboard against me than vice versa.

Looking

So, the fact that I have faced many players who are just as bad as I am at hitting, but somehow have all the meta cards?

Of course, the streamers have them, because they are streaming, and nobody wants to watch someone play with an all bronze lineup. I was specifically stating that that lots of the cheesers and freezers who are worse than me have to buy the cards because they cannot grind them out because they are lazy and would rather cheat than try to get better.

At least I am honest about my hitting, which while it is getting better is still significantly worse than many. But of course you have to have an attitude and throw in the personal attack.

First, show me where I made a personal
Attack. I simply asked you to backup your statement saying the people that dashboard are the same people who buy stubs ( which you are shaming), and both these people do this because they are lousy at the game.

Second, @Ericulous1_PSN , one of the coolest
Guys here stated he is not good at hitting or the game but has basically every card…so you are inferring he must be spending money, cheating , freezing, and dashboarding. I can promise he does none of those things. So you are the one being disrespectful to the community with your wide spread assumptions and insults.

And again you take what I said and completely ignore everything I said and said that I said EVERYONE does it. Yet again, I will say it for you. I said that the cheesers and freezers. Not all the bad hitters. There is a difference.

As for the personal attack reference:

"so this statement makes no sense like most things you post."

Just because you don't agree with what I say doesn't make you automatically right and me automatically wrong. If you don't like what I am saying, then so be it.

And again, you are showing your arrogance by assuming I am insulting the community with my comments. Let those who I am supposedly insulting speak for themselves and stop assuming how they feel. They are capable of stating their own opinions.

@OreoRockstar_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@darkblue1876_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@OreoRockstar_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@darkblue1876_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

Why would they do that? SDS openly rewards cheesers and freezers. These are the chumps that spend real world money on digital cards. SDS may as well change their name to EA sports part 2.

How are correlating people who spend money on stubs with people who dashboard?

Because they are usually not good enough to grind for the big cards, so they just go the short route and buy them.

All the streamers buy stubs, most are very good, , so this statement makes no sense like most things you post.

Now how do you correlate not being good at the game and dashboarding? In my experience more guys with very good records dashboard against me than vice versa.

Looking

So, the fact that I have faced many players who are just as bad as I am at hitting, but somehow have all the meta cards?

Of course, the streamers have them, because they are streaming, and nobody wants to watch someone play with an all bronze lineup. I was specifically stating that that lots of the cheesers and freezers who are worse than me have to buy the cards because they cannot grind them out because they are lazy and would rather cheat than try to get better.

At least I am honest about my hitting, which while it is getting better is still significantly worse than many. But of course you have to have an attitude and throw in the personal attack.

@Dolenz_PSN said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

@theBlindRhino said in Easy Fix for Dashboarding, SDS -- DO IT!!!:

I think there should be a one hour ban from online play for dashboarding.

So if somebody's power glitches in a storm or the internet drops briefly because of a provider issue they should be punished.

I realize that the overwhelming majority are people quitting but there is no way for SDS to know for sure.

OK, as someone who has had that happen what 3 times in the last year? Besides, you can tell it isn't a power loss when it is done as OP described. I have had that happen 2 times this week alone, and I am not very good.