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@SakAttack87_PSN said in TA Neon Cards:

@Dolenz_PSN said in TA Neon Cards:

@SakAttack87_PSN said in TA Neon Cards:

I really hope they use this drop to add some rewards/packs/etc. to the main TA path. The gap between the Finest voucher and "#1 Fan" icon is like 1,000,000 PXP and there is currently nothing in-between to grind for. Just a long, empty road.

They won't add anything to the main path.

Now while we may get a boost like we did in color storm the majority of your progress past finest is coming from the three Clubhouse leaders missions. So if you complete those you get 350K each and when you finish the third one you are at the end. It's not like we are inching our way along the path like we do in the inning programs.

The other reason is that it would just not be fair. Some team's clubhouse leader missions are so much lower than others. For the Cardinals I would need double the amount of hits that the Mets fans need for their team in order to get the same reward.

If there are no additional rewards or packs added to the regular TA path, I can see them offering a very generous amount of PXP for collecting the new Neon card for each team. The boost for unlocking the Color Storm cards was like 150,000 so it's possible they bump that amount up to help accelerate the progress. It is nearly September after all.

I understand it's there as a longshot token, but doubt many players are incentivized to grind towards the "#1 Fan" icon and will simply abandon TA once they reach the Finest voucher.

From the beginning of the year stream, when they first unveiled the TA paths they pretty much said that they only anticipate the most hardcore fans getting that Icon at the end so I think they kind of expect that most of us will never reach it.

I do expect a new mission added like we had for Colorstorm but that is to help people get to as many finest cards as possible not to get us to the end.

@yankblan_PSN said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:

@Dolenz_PSN pretty sure Isbel is a CF, not a catcher. Autocorrect?

You are correct. It was a mistake on my part. Can't even blame autocorrect.

I am not sure I would call it lazy. Poor planning maybe but I think that it probably takes more effort to not have both hitting and pitching captains for every team. Because now they have to keep track of who has what and maintain two different sets of boosts based on whether a team has both captains.

@SakAttack87_PSN said in TA Neon Cards:

I really hope they use this drop to add some rewards/packs/etc. to the main TA path. The gap between the Finest voucher and "#1 Fan" icon is like 1,000,000 PXP and there is currently nothing in-between to grind for. Just a long, empty road.

They won't add anything to the main path.

Now while we may get a boost like we did in color storm the majority of your progress past finest is coming from the three Clubhouse leaders missions. So if you complete those you get 350K each and when you finish the third one you are at the end. It's not like we are inching our way along the path like we do in the inning programs.

The other reason is that it would just not be fair. Some team's clubhouse leader missions are so much lower than others. For the Cardinals I would need double the amount of hits that the Mets fans need for their team in order to get the same reward.

@LukeTheDuke1515_MLBTS said in SDS, EACH TEAM NEEDS 2 CAPTAINS!!!:

It’s not absurd at all if you had an ounce of common sense to look at the boosts and the impacts. +8 PWR is a huge boost. The captains on teams with no pitching captains do not have a real boost over captains on teams with 2 captains. If you have a captain giving +5 to all power you are missing out on a pitching captain giving +5 to all contact and vision which is huge.

It's not that simple.

If you want power then yeah, you are kind of at a disadvantage.
If you want contact then you are at an advantage (at least for the Cardinals).

Just at a quick glance teams with no pitchers have double the captain boosts on their hitter cards. Some people may feel like they would rather have +12 to contact vs R & L over +6 to all power and contact attributes. It still comes out to +24 points overall so it is a matter of distribution.

That said, I do think it was a bit of poor planning.

@Pat_SDS_PSN said in 500 Error in Listings API:

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I'll keep it to this topic.

Does the Captains API contain no data?

It shows it in the Documentation
https://mlb25.theshow.com/apis/docs/captains

It works in MLB24
https://mlb24.theshow.com/apis/captains.json?page=1

But not in 25
https://mlb25.theshow.com/apis/captains.json?page=1

the first page loads but there is no data.

Okay, all of this talk made me decide to try and pull Captain info into my App so I can report on it as well. It could be tricky because it is a separate API

EDIT: I guess I won't do that as the Captains API is not showing any data

@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:

I am underwhelmed by these choices, although perhaps these are filling in theme team gaps? I doubt SDS considers that though. Idf they do, incoming 99 McNeil for the Mets.

I assume this is when they finally give Peterson his long overdue card for his 2024-2025 performance

That got me curious - It is only an upgrade to the theme team in 4 of the 9 teams revealed so far

Blue Jays - Shawn Green - RF

• 99 George Springer
• 99 Jose Bautista

Yankees - Derek Jeter - SS

• 99 Anthony Volpe

Red Sox - Marcelo Mayer - 3B

• 99 Wade Boggs

Rays - Chandler Simpson - CF

• 96 Brendan Summerhill

Guardians - Travis Bazzana - 2B

• 99 Jason Kipnis

Royals - Jac Caglianone - RF

• 97 Randal Grichuk

Twins - Walker Jenkins - CF

• 99 Torii Hunter
• 98 Byron Buxton

Tigers - Kevin McGonigle - SS

• 93 Willi Castro

White Sox - Kyle Teel - C

• 91 Kyle Teel

Toronto's Biggest need was a LF to replace 89 Santander
Yankees don't really have a weakness.
Red Sox theme team still has 87 Kristian Campbell as their 2B
Rays have an 83 Catcher and a 86 LF
Guardians still have 88 Manzardo at 1B
Royals still have 76 live series Kyle Isbel at CF
Twins have 91 Bader in LF
Tigers have a 84 Dingler at C
White sox has 83 Braden Montgomery in RF

Added the AL Central to the first post.

Surprised to see it is all prospects.

So, I have no idea if it there is any kind of theme to this. Will the cardinals get an updated version of one of their legends or an updated version of JJ Weatherholt (who is excelling in AAA)?

Oh, and not a single pitcher yet.

@jonblaze2424_MLBTS said in TA Neon Cards:

Do we think this is going to require significant progress in the prior TA/MyJourney and Color Storm to be completed? TA is probably the one grind i have NOT touched in DD....don't think I am higher than 2% in any of MyJourney and haven't completed a single Color Storm.

I think it will be a standalone program like color storm. The a mission for the new card may be added to each teams main TA Path

@SaveFarris_PSN said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:

My guess: Tomoyuki Sugano is the Oriole's Neon

Doubtful, unless they are purposefully misleading with the card art. That definitely looks more like a hitter with a more modern batting helmet.

Which from what I have seen means they are not necessarily trying to give teams with only hitting captains a Pitching Captain. That means that I could be wrong about the Cardinals getting Gibson.

Oops, I I started a new thread for TA reveals before I saw this. Here is the picture though

First Division shown on socials. I guess it won't be only legends like I thought.

@lolSooner_PSN said in Double Agent Program:

@Dolenz_PSN how do i strike out 4 batters in one inning?

Sub in a poor fielding non-catcher for your regular catcher. Then for the third strike throw a breaking ball down. There is a better than average chance it will get past him.

@dewrock_PSN said in Double Agent Extreme Moment 2:

@TheGoaler_PSN

Yeah this moment is BS. I got Ohtani on. Stole second. Sac fly and got him to third. Sac fly and got him home. It didn’t count it for me. I guess they only count sac flies to home, which is stupid.

Advancing a runner from 2nd to 3rd is not a sacrifice fly by MLBs rules. The runner advancing has to score

I am not sure why it would not work

1st batter gets on and steals 2 bases - 1 AB
2nd batter sac fly - 2 AB

Then just repeat for the 3rd and 4th AB.

It's not the only way to do it but it is the plan I would use

@chuckoakland_PSN said in Double Agent Extreme Moment 2:

Oh hell, i've never made a lineup change in a moment before. I didn't even consider that. Thanks

Yeah, I think several of these will require it. Two Sacrifice flies in four at bats will undoubtedly require a couple of 99 Spd, 99 Steal baserunners. Get the first guy on, Steal 2b and 3b and have the next batter hit a Sac Fly then repeat the process. You could put the speed guys on the bench and just sub them in for whoever you get on base.

Put a very poor fielder in at catcher out of position.

Took me a few tries but I got it done.

Not a fan of the Extreme moments. Not necessarily the moments themselves but the fact that you have to finish one in order to unlock the next one.

I need to get 10 more points to get Edmonds so I think I may just buy an Awards pitcher and get those stat missions done. I don't care about Gaylord Perry.

Here are the cards. As usual it could be beefier but I actually like that a 99 Jim Edmonds Angel excludes him from having a 99 Cardinal and Vice Versa

Here's hoping that they keep it up.