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Some politicians will scream for all sports to be shut down again, They don't want anyone to enjoy life so that we can blame all our misery on Trump resulting in his defeat in November. However, mass protests and rioting are encouraged.

Come on MLB players and owners - show as much courage as your local barber or grocery store employee. Military personnel, law enforcement, doctors, nurses, bankers and most of the people on this forum are working or soon returning.

MLB players are already covered from head to toe in protective gear - would adding a face mask really diminish the sport? Stadiums could be allowed to fill to a quarter capacity and the fans would face less risk than buying a gallon of milk.

At a time that the nation could really use the diversion of sports, the guys are acting like a league of Pelosi's - isolating in their mansions, hording gourmet ice cream.

Perhaps the games will resume in July but that is probably too late - June 1st should be the target for opening day and is easily done with some improvisation. MLB players will face less risk than the kids and their families already returning to the ball fields for friendly games and practices.

SDS should let us pay stubs to reenter with the progress where we failed rather than repeating the entire grind. When we lose a Conquest game, we don't have to restart the entire map - just replay that game.

Here are a few suggestions for SDS going forward.

Starting on the positive, the content is outstanding and for the most part the regular game engine (vs CPU) works well. The main fix should be to baserunning - often the baserunning logic is illogical (e.g. runners freezing on hit balls where there are two outs).

I would like the game options made more concise.

1. Scrap Moments.

2. Showdown is a great concept but poorly executed - mainly due to being based in the Moments game engine rather than the regular engine that we play against in Conquest.

Make Showdown a solo effort similar to online BR. Draft a team and play a 3 inning game vs various opponents using the same game engine as Conquest. The opponents can increase in quality allowing for drafts after wins. Play until finished or 2 losses.

Other player teams (streamers and MLB players) can be included in the rotation that the user must beat.

3. Have more programs like the one used to obtain Ruth.

4. Do more with Extra Innings. For example, incorporate Extra Innings games into obtaining and improving cards. The user can pick his or her difficulty vs the CPU and advancement is tied to the difficulty chosen (e.g. Veteran vs Legend). Player prestige stats can be obtained when playing on Legend for offline games.

5. Give a quick count option in games vs CPU.

6. Include the ability to conquer multiple blocks at one time in Conquest vs taking each one individually.

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The OP makes an excellent suggestion. All professional sports create tiered leagues to keep things competitive. You don't see NBA teams playing G-league teams as part of the season schedule. Or MLB team playing minor league teams during the season.

SDS should consider a English soccer structure - Premier league for the best, and a lower level or two for the rest. Promotions can be made from lower levels to higher. SDS could also add open tournaments for anyone to qualify similar to the FA Cup.

Nice work and thanks for posting this. I hope to start looking for the initial break to improve timing between fastball and off speed. Just wondering if you are reading 2-seam the same as 4-seam?

I am stuck on the same two Kaline moments. Have tried the 2 XBH many times and lucky to see even one. I was able to glide through Granderson, but the Kaline reward is probably not worth the continued effort given the way he hits.

It is called "Impossible" and only applies to the Final Showdown. I understand that the majority of you have no issues here. In my case, I cruise into Final Showdown with 10-12 runs and the perfect perks (e.g. diamond heart attack and the 2-strike focus).

I am patient, working the count only to see pitches that dot the lower corners with a sliver of the strike zone for a strike call. Diving catches are the norm and perfect-perfect contact turns into routine line outs and solidly hit double plays.

I do really like the Showdown concept but we need an option to replay the final with our current progress intact. Oh well, SDS does have a sense of humor.

No one is answering the basic point of the OP - developers promised everything would be available through offline play but obviously that is not the case. It would be interesting to hear the reasoning from SDS.

I'm pretty sure that stubs and content are not transferable between versions.

If you enjoy 0-0 games going into the 10th inning, this event is for you. At least you won't have to watch your opponent's HR replay.

The ending to Game 4 was the most entertaining I have seen. From watching the MLB the Show players league earlier in the year, Phillips seems like a truly good guy.

This past season Dahl went from leadoff to the bench. Sorry to see him go since he has plenty of potential.

Maybe there is a middle ground between paying stubs and free. For example, a Showdown that costs 1,000 stubs the first time to enter only cost 1/2 (500 stubs) the second time around and 250 the third time. This helps out repeat offenders who get bounced.

Or more simply pay the first time for each Showdown, but it is free after that. But if a Showdown is successfully completed, there are no rewards for subsequent attempts.

I would also like to see a Showdown option that works like BR where both the user and CPU draft squads and then play 3-inning games until one is eliminated after a set number of losses. You can choose the difficulty for the reward tier.

I have runners on first and second, no outs. The batter hits an easy foul pop behind the plate and the base runners freeze off the bag.

The AI knows to throw to second and then to first for a triple play. I should have manually retreated the runners but didn't.

Is it fair to say that if SDS can program AI logic to make the defensive play with runners off base there should also be simple AI logic that returns players to the bag on foul balls?

Base running has always been the achilles heel of this game and again SDS is too lazy to fix the problem. They constantly try to fine tune the game and consistently ignore major problems in the core gameplay.

If I read this correctly, games played against other player teams through the Extra Innings mode do count toward team affinity but only the 9 innings of a typical game. Is this correct as I am just starting to think about team affinity points?

For the most part pitching moments are fine - except Corbin which I substituted online stats for the moments. Hitting moments are so variable. Granderson and Zimmerman were fun since their cards hit great. Kaline and now Dawson seem hopeless since their hitting is inconsistent.

SDS must think people have unlimited time and patience to repeat Moments and go through the Showdown cycle one more time. Perhaps they are hoping that we buy packs to offset our failures.

Since Perfect-Perfect outcomes were introduced it seems that Good swings have been leveled down to mediocre results in many cases. In the majority of cases good contact with a ball right over the plate and the correct swing placement results in popouts and choppers for an easy out. This game used to be fun but the inconsistency is ruining it.

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I look at it like this:

No one is entitled to have every card in the game.

You say you hate playing online (meaning H2H). There are many others who hate playing the CPU; they hate conquest and they hate moments.

Think of how many cards are tied to Conquest and Moments? If the guys that hate playing the CPU want those cards, they have to suck it up and play the CPU.

The flip side of that is, if you want Prestige Diamonds, you have to suck it up and play H2H.

Of course, you could forgo those Prestige Diamonds, and just enjoy the game modes you prefer.

I say this with all due respect. I’m not trying to be a [censored] about it at all. I’m one of the people that hate playing the CPU, and I would complain about having to do so.

But I finally accepted that there are cards that I just won’t get, because I don’t like Moments. It’s simple as that for me.

I hope you find peace and enjoyment with the game, bro.

There's a big difference between offline only and online only content. The online only content is usually some of the best in the game (think Ruth last year for example). And, I'm ok with this as that is where their core players (and money) come from. I just don't think it's a 1-1 comparison like you're making it out to be.

Also, for offline only players, it's not just a matter of "sucking it up" for some of us. Between my DSL connection (I live in the sticks and don't have access to cable), and my aging eyes/reflexes, I can't hit online. Yes, I do avoid it because of the morons, but I also avoid it because I tend to strike out or get weak contact every AB.

I'm not too disappointed with not being able to do prestige. I just hope that I will have a chance to get this year's Ruth.

I hear you. But maybe you can help me understand something. Serious question(s) here:

If someone doesn’t like playing other people, and prefers to just play against the CPU, why play Diamond Dynasty at all?

All the cards available in DD can be used in Franchise Mode. You can literally put any player you want on your team. You can even edit their attributes and “prestige” them in a matter of seconds.

You can choose difficulty level, you can adjust sliders; in short, you can customize every aspect of the game to make it the most enjoyable for yourself. So if someone likes playing the CPU, why go through all the trouble of DD at all?

I get you are asking a serious question here, but man does this seriously discount nearly everything about the mode that is attractive about the mode. Yes, playing the game is fun, but to me, collecting cards, completing programs, collections, working the market to name a few of the things that provide a sense of accomplishment is why cpu people play.

I have said before, I would personally be fine if they had two sets of cards if you wanted to play pvp or cpu only. Understand that will never happen tho.

So it’s the collecting part that people enjoy. It isn’t that the card you earn will improve your team, it’s that collecting a card provides a sense of accomplishment. Ok. I can understand that.

What I don’t understand is, you feel less accomplished if you don’t get every card?

I don’t know, bro. That kind of sounds like a personal hang up. I’m not discounting the way you or anyone else feels about it. I’m just saying that at some point, we have to accept that we aren’t going to get every card.

That is the downside of them releasing more and more cards and more and more game modes and more and more content every year. It makes it near impossible to accomplish everything. And people with the 100% completion, OCD type of thing when it comes to gaming are going to be disappointed when they can’t get everything.

You are hitting on two things at the same time. 1. There isn’t a mode vs cpu where you need a god squad to beat it with your own team, which we have been asking for (ala turn on ranked seasons to cpu controlled dd teams like they used to have, or event type of mode). 2. It isn’t that I would want to prestige EVERYONE for a completionist thing, but like as a Braves fan, would love the option to do chipper.

Ultimately now is miles above other years and SDS won’t please all, so just mild complaints

Try playing Extra Innings against other user teams at the highest difficulty levels and you will want the best available. While these games add nothing to DD progress they are the most challenging way to play - probably even more than online.

If SDS would start to creatively include the Extra Innings games into DD progress it would open up a ton of offline options.

Probably won't happen as we are playing repetitive Moments where base runners magically appear when the pitch count is at zero. Not much of an effort by SDS.