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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.

Just beat the orioles on all star, which is all I had left to get Eric Davis. But of course that’s not what happened. Instead as soon as I exited the game screen I got a pop up screen that said there is no game history and something about it being a friendly quit. I was playing the CPU. How do you gets friendly quit against the CPU? To make it even more bizarre I went and checked and all of my player stats still counted for the game, but no game appears on my game history. So of course I have to do it again. Wtf?!

Oh and for the icing on the cake I sent SDS a report on it and got back a response saying it would take 5 days to get back to me because of the high volume of bug reports. Sighhh... such a dumpster fire.

@kkonicke_psn said in Servers down:

Looks like it's psn again, not sds

PSN says their servers are fine. This is SDS yet again.

@untchable704_psn said in Today’s daily moment:

3 inning games gotta go

Agreed. They are really trying to stretch what a moment is this year. There have been a few of these play a 3 inning game. That’s a game not a moment. And the last topps now group involved pitching 3 or 4 almost full games as a moment. Pitching 7 scoreless innings or whatever it is is not a moment.

Maybe it’s just me but that took me way more attempts than any daily moment should. As others have mentioned, daily moments should be a relatively easy thing to just keep you checking in everyday. Not winning 3 inning games or getting 8TBs.

I completed the live series collection very early. I got lucky and packed Trout and Cole so it cost me a heck of a lot less than 2.1M. The Soriano card has been great for me. I don’t love Chipper like a lot of others do but the card is pretty legit. I also enjoyed using a lot of the division and team rewards cards for a while as well. Now that there are better cards I use them less but they were great for the first month or two.

@hoboadam_psn said in 3rd inning player program - Dave Parker:

@dbarmonstar_psn said in 3rd inning player program - Dave Parker:

Does Parker Deserve to be in the HOF?

Unfortunately no. He's at the top of the list of the Hall of Really really good. That's still ahead of Baines.

I agree with this 100%.

I know his numbers aren’t the best but Rutschman has been a machine for me this year.

So a guy not even in the top 20 in MLB prospects now has two cards when some guys in the top 10 don’t have any yet. Makes sense to me.

If they were going to double up on a switch hitting prospect it should’ve been Rutschman who is now the #1 prospect with Franco having been called up.

No there is no consistency about when they do that. Last year Trey Mancini stayed on the Orioles team for the whole season despite being out with cancer. There have been several other bigger name players that are hurt for long periods that SDS never removed from their team.

It was actually the last week of July the last couple of years. I’ve been waiting on it but figured with the all star collection they just had they might push it back a bit.