Not only do you have to beat the other team but then as a bonus you have to wait and see if your game and stats will even count. It’s about 50/50 odds most days. Sigh...

So thrilled I just finished a game to learn it won’t count because of yet another server exception. Sigh.

@qwesty16_psn said in Who Are Your P5's & What Are They Numbered?:

you play alot against the CPU..doesn't that get boring

I play exclusively offline too. Doesn’t get boring for me. I rotate cards a lot and play a lot on the conquest national map so there is a reward for continuing to play. And when I play vs CPU I play in a lot of different stadiums to keep things fresh too. I enjoy the calm consistency of the computer as opposed to a lot of the maniacs in online play.

@silverbullet3519 said in I know what I’ll do!:

Game update.

Game update launched an hour and forty five minutes ago. No reason for servers to still be down.

This idea has been around for years now and while script probably isn’t the right word it sure seems that the game will do things sometimes to try to push outcomes a certain way. For example in moments and offline play suddenly your great pitcher won’t be able to throw strikes unless it’s right down the middle of the plate which the computer will then promptly mash 500 feet with a 30 power hitter. Or suddenly all of your hits are directly at the defense no matter what you do. They are subtle but if you play enough you will definitely notice patterns.

A JP Crawford mid tier card would be nice for my All Mariners team.

@pscrabro_mlbts said in I know what I’ll do!:

@dbbg1515_mlbts said in I know what I’ll do!:

If they were going to do server maintenance that kept it down for hours maybe they shouldn’t have done it right when the east coast is waking up.

Not sure if some of you guys realize this, but they do it at the lowest traffic time possible. Most normal people don't wake up and go straight to playing video games. People must have pretty sad lives that servers being down is this big of a deal... when they go down the only thing better to do you can think of, is to come here and cry about it. It was scheduled maintenance.... life will go on even if you can't play the Show for 2 hours.

Oh man, some guy just called my life sad for complaining about a patch taking 2 hours and disrupting my morning routine. What will i do now? Maybe I should’ve spent the time posting about how other people are sad instead. Maybe that would’ve made my life less sad.

I’ve always laughed at how SDS props up the numbers of the players they like, but I just noticed one today that made me chuckle. How is Tatis, who leads MLB in errors, and has by a long shot the worst fielding % in MLB at SS, a diamond on defense? JP Crawford won a gold glove last year and may win another this year and he’s only an 80. Kevin Newman on the Pirates who has 1 error for the entire season and leads all SS in fielding % is a 60 fielding…..

@twisted-_-tea-_psn said in July POTM? Any guesses?:

@gilfavor1909 said in July POTM? Any guesses?:

soto. he’s got 5 hr’s in 4 games since his return from the HRD

Was my first thought but I doubt they give him another card. His defense has been pretty bad too so I’m not sure if they’d be able to even get his card to 99.

Actual defense doesn’t matter to SDS when they do their ratings. They still have Tatis as a diamond defense despite league MLB in errors this year. And Judge is somehow a 99 on defense.

@dewrock_psn said in Besides the servers...:

@dbbg1515_mlbts said in Besides the servers...:

Moments. They are just awful. Hated them last year and they are just as bad this year. They aren’t a bad idea in theory but the way they play out is awful.

I don’t think they’ve been that bad this year. What annoys me about them is they seem scripted at times. The super defenders you play against on offense. The pitching ones really annoy me. I’d rather play as the whole team than being player locked as the pitcher. I don’t like depending on the AI defense especially when it’s one where you can’t give up a hit. I was playing the Rodon no hitter one last night. It took me a bunch of tries because the defense just plays idiotic. He has a no hitter going, the batter hits a flair to right field, the fielder charges and then just bails at the last minute to let it drop in front of him. What sense does that make? It’s not so much that he didn’t catch it. But if you have a no hitter going, in real life a fielder is going to go all out and dive for it.

Well for me at least all the same frustrations I had with moments last year are back. Pitchers that throw over to first over and over and over again, useless base runners ahead of your hitter that prevent you from advancing when you need to, pitchers that will only throw junk in the dirt when you need hitable pitches to put the ball in play, and repeating basically the same moments over and over again just with different players.

Must be having more technical issues. Sigh..

@dolenz_psn said in Who Are Your P5's & What Are They Numbered?:

I have to limit myself to avoid burnout. Like today I did the last two Moments for the Ford Evolution, then played a 9 inning game on rookie with him pitching so that I could get both the strikeouts and complete games missions done. Finally played a 9 inning game on All-Star to complete the Trammel program.

That was a lot for me. I doubt that I play anymore today. Shoot unless they drop more content between now and the next inning I may just take a break until then.

Yeah I’m done until the 5th inning comes out with the exception of the daily moments.

@twisted-_-tea-_psn said in July POTM? Any guesses?:

@gilfavor1909 said in July POTM? Any guesses?:

soto. he’s got 5 hr’s in 4 games since his return from the HRD

Was my first thought but I doubt they give him another card. His defense has been pretty bad too so I’m not sure if they’d be able to even get his card to 99.

Actual defense doesn’t matter to SDS when they do their ratings. They still have Tatis as a diamond defense despite league MLB in errors this year. And Judge is somehow a 99 on defense.

@dap1234567890 said in Who Are Your P5's & What Are They Numbered?:

@qwesty16_psn said in Who Are Your P5's & What Are They Numbered?:

you play alot against the CPU..doesn't that get boring

A lot of people rather play vs CPU than deal with the nonsense that goes on in RS!

This!!! I like the consistency of the computer versus so many of the maniacs online.

@qwesty16_psn said in Who Are Your P5's & What Are They Numbered?:

you play alot against the CPU..doesn't that get boring

I play exclusively offline too. Doesn’t get boring for me. I rotate cards a lot and play a lot on the conquest national map so there is a reward for continuing to play. And when I play vs CPU I play in a lot of different stadiums to keep things fresh too. I enjoy the calm consistency of the computer as opposed to a lot of the maniacs in online play.

I like to mix it up so I only have Jackie and a Edgar Martinez as P4. But I have at least P1 on every diamond released so far.

@lucalderic_psn said in daily moment:

im at 28 as of today after clemente am i caught up

I have 30 and I think I have them all so far.

@matt1117_psn said in A homer in Forbes with Clemente? Pound salt.:

After about 30 tries, finally roped one into the left center gap and two hopped the wall. Relay throw came in from the shortstop that pulled the catcher away from the plate, at which time he took two steps and dove to tag me out before scoring on the inside the parker. Shut it down after that.

I feel your pain. I got a diving catcher tag to the foot as I slid into home on one of the earlier tries. A lot of swear words came out of my mouth on that one.

@dap1234567890 said in A homer in Forbes with Clemente? Pound salt.:

@dbbg1515_mlbts said in A homer in Forbes with Clemente? Pound salt.:

Yeah this was 100% designed to frustrate people into not finishing it. I assume to limit the number of people that get the gold watch. I just kept mashing buttons while watching Netflix on another tv. I got an inside the park HR eventually over the CF’s head but it took probably 20 minutes to get it.

Last month they went two over the amount for the gold watch, so people can skip this and still get the gold watch this month. Also, you only need to get the gold watch once!

Yes but I’m guessing most people haven’t bothered to get it and they want to keep it that way. It’s one of the items you can use towards the goat equipment so I assume they want to keep it rare. There are only 6 days left in the month and 7 points left to get to the gold watch so I guess it would depend on how many double point days they do as to how many a person can miss. And based on the comments yesterday I think a lot of people skipped the 14Ks with Bieber moment already.

@yankblan_psn said in Tatis Jr fielding:

Cover athlete; same with Baez last year; they kept him 85 all year and he started gold this year. Expect Tatis’ defense to be around silver/gold next year.

Yeah defense has always been the thing they most clearly manipulate to get a player at the overall level the want. I remember last year when Luis Robert was hitting like .160 they had his defense up at like a 96 to keep him a gold overall. Judge is another one. They gave him a 99 fielding even though advanced metrics show him to be a below average fielder.