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For the last couple weeks, it seems like every single individual game I play in RTTS starts with a Boss Challenge — either the first batter I face if I'm the SP, or my first at-bat if I'm a position player. Usually it's a "Fierce Rival" situation, even if there is no rivalry whatsoever between us, according to my player's relationships. Once in a while I could understand, especially if I'm playing against another team in my division, but this is every single game, against every single team. What gives?

Really? I get Nike equipment a lot — and then i can't get rid of them! Seriously, selling Nike stuff is not even an option. I think I've got something like 9 sets of the same catcher's leg guards, and that's just one example.

I picked up one or two from packages in RTTS '25, but I think '24 never got them for some reason (even though there's a spot for them under "Equipment")

Three times now — THREE separate times — one of my pitchers has got a ground ball hit right back to them, so the natural thing to do is throw it to first base for the out, right? Right? WRONG. No matter how many times I press the button, the pitcher can never throw the ball. Pitcher makes a throwing motion each time, so I know the button is working, but the ball NEVER LEAVES HER HAND, so the runner makes it safely to first and the pitcher is credited with an error. WTF is going on here?

Dang, my female 2-way player (sp/rf) can't get through a single game without being lifted by the manager at some point. I wonder if the "watch full game, no simming" thing has anything to do with it — I'm on impact plays only, I believe.

Where are you Per/9 stats? I haven't tried a closer yet, but for my starting pitchers ramping up that category gets me a promotion very quickly.

@PriorFir4383355_XBL "What's the purpose of the game?"
To have fun. The purpose of the game is to have fun. For some people, grinding and leveling up the hard way is fun, and that's fine. For others, already playing at a high level without having to go through the grind is fun, and you know what? That's just as fine. There's nothing wrong with allowing for both styles of play.

Lucky. Best I've got so far was first round second pick...

That one happens to me all the time. The challenge is just plain broken.

Another one is "End inning without allowing a run, and no more baserunners". I can fulfill those requirements and yet the challenge will remain active for inning after inning until I do allow another baserunner, in which case I fail — or worse, since I'm playing a two-way player, until I GROUND OUT IN MY NEXT AT-BAT, which has NOTHING WHATEVER to do with the #$&?*!% challenge!!

Be nice if they could drop a few into '24 at some point for those of us who still play it, just sayin'...

Yeah, the tokens let you level up like a proper RPG. Makes it a challenge to do a 2-way player, though, as you need SO MANY TOKENS to improve as both a pitcher and a position player!

An interesting change I've noticed is that when I'm pitching, I no longer have an indication of where the catcher wants me to place the pitch. I can tell what pitch he wants by looking at the number of fingers, but I don't know how to read any sign of where the ball should go so I'm just having to wing it. I've no idea if this is something I can adjust in settings somewhere, but I'm kinda digging it for right now.

Right? I want to try that "Absolute Unit Burger" that is recommended against by 4 out of 5 cardiologists

Common package is silver-level equipment; gold is, well, gold-level.

Also, if you play well in college you have a good chance of getting drafted higher the second time around. My player was drafted in the 4th or 5th round after the Combine, but she went to Cal State Fullerton instead and got picked in the 2nd round for her career.

@sbchamps17_NSW Pity. Ah well. Thanks for clearing that up.

This may be a commonly known thing, but I'm new still fairly new to the game and I can't find any info on this.

I've got some 450k stubs saved up in The Show '24 that I'm unlikely ever to use there; can those be brought into The Show '25 somehow, or do I have to start from nothing again? (I typically use the stubs to buy equipment for RTTS, so that would set me up with a lot of top-level gear) Thanks!

SECONDED. I am so sick to death of opposing teams getting 6, 8, even 9 runs in an inning just to be sure my team loses.
Just today, I was going up against a division rival, so I dropped the difficulty level down to Beginner to have a little fun...and my team still lost 2 games out of 3. WTF is even the point.

For the love of Godzilla let me create more than 10 players. 25 minimum please!!

Your Mia made it up, huh? Good for her!
(I've got seven female players going, and only one Mia has reached the major leagues. Two or three of them seem to have disappeared entirely.)

Dang. Sounds to me like you're seriously unlucky.
I honestly don't know how the CPU chooses how a team will do, but it can vary to both extremes. For instance: I've got two players who got drafted by the Cubs. The first player is stuck on a Cubs team that is dead last in the NL Central every year. The second finished their rookie season by helping the Cubs win the Pennant. (The Cubs would go on to win the Worlds Series, but my player was optioned back to Triple-A before the series began.) So...yeah. Total luck of the draw. Hope yours improves.

Is this for batting? That happened to me for a while too. The CPU eventually caught on and raised the difficulty...a season after my player had broken just about every batting record of note.

If you're impatient, you can always go to settings and raise the difficulty manually.