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@Onyx_Hokie_2 said in Quitters:

From my perspective, the frequency of mid-game quitting is getting ridiculous. Case in point from a few minutes ago:

Important Note - The game in question was within the current Event

Bottom of the 1st, score tied at 0, 2 outs. I hit a deep solo home run with Mike Trout, and before the ball crosses the wall my opponent quits out of the game. WTAF?!

From the point of view of wanting to do well in the Event, I don't mind the easy win. On the other hand, I didn't join the Event for the glory of accumulating wins in said Event. I joined the Event because I want to play baseball online against other human beings and I tend to expect that there will be fewer instances of cry/pout-quits when the teams are even(ish) by default. Previously, most of the quits I have experienced have been perpetrated by opponents who were overmatched at the time of the quit, either via roster differences or after I've gotten a big lead in the game.

But for Pete's sake... bottom of the 1st, after giving up a single run, with even teams?

I believe that SDS should do at least one of the following, ideally all of them:

• 1st instance of quitting mid-game: 30-minute ban from online play

• 2nd instance of quitting mid-game: 2-hour ban from online play

• 3rd instance of quitting mid-game: 8-hour ban from online play

• 4th instance of quitting mid-game: 24-hour ban from online play

• Any further instances of quitting mid-game: 72-hour ban from online play

• Put quitters into a separate pool of players for online play, an area populated solely by players who have quit mid-game within the past week.

• Label player icons with a badge indicating their percentage of games they've quit.

• In online play, after the teams have been set and shown to the players, but before a single pitch is thrown, give opponents the option to avoid playing someone with a quit percentage over a certain value.

The culture that has developed in online play for The Show - a sad exponent of our culture in general at present - enables the immediate rejection of anything which a certain type of person finds to be disappointing, not to their liking, etc. It's bad for the people whose time is wasted and it's bad for the game overall. Something needs to be done about it, in my opinion.

What do you think?

All the best,
Bryan

I got 1/3 of the way through reading this and hit quit

Randy... and the dead bird picture for the card itself.

@ArmyND said in Al Kaline:

@MikeTheSpike23 said in Al Kaline:

@ArmyND said in Al Kaline:

I had to switch to directional to finish his missions so I didn't smash my controller

I’m over here a grown man playing a video game cursing in the loudest whisper possible to not wake my family up...the only thing good that’s came from tonight is being able to test the durability of my gaming chair.... so far it’s withstood the beatings....

My wife calls them man tantrums, she doesn't understand, the struggle is real

What about when they try and have a conversation in a ranked season game? they just don't understand the attention that is required.

@dogslax41 said in Best 3B in the game is a prospect?:

Still not as good as Miggy

true, didnt realize they put miggy at 3B instead of 1B, but either way... overall 95 3B prospect. Why stop there?! Let's get a Blaze Jordan 99 card with 125 power vsR & vsL?

So until you get to Prestige level 25 and can grab 99 JoRam, Alec Bohm... an unproven prospect... is now the best primary 3B card in the game... and one month in. ok. Going to have to make sure. Alec Bohm isnt even a top 20 prospect bat by scouting standards... (reference to MLB pipeline where he is ranked 30 overall) where do they decide this nonsense?

@JustASeal0 said in Blood Diamond Oswalt!:

I'm going to be honest, I haven't spent a cent on the game but I'm pretty sure I have a better squad than this, also there's people who are nms with Mantle so there's that too

Props to not spending money. I got to say, its always a part of the game I have hated and eventually has me leave at an early point in the year. I have seen some pretty great teams by early bronze levels and just have to wonder (especially when they are all purchasable cards and not earned)... SDS's makes more from selling stubs than they ever do from the game purchase

@CaptainQ44 said in Half of prospects now worthless:

@Lie-on-Lion said in Half of prospects now worthless:

@chaseb0528 said in Half of prospects now worthless:

Why are people saying players are worthless? Is this a Stubbs thing or gameplay thing?

stubs thing. because SDS is handing out prospect packs like candy. There are two hidden packs in the second inning conquest alone... not to mention the fire sales they have done twice already. This game is losing its respect and credibility on a daily bases.

Lol because they are handing out prospect diamonds come on

Yes, because:

1. These prospects should not be rated on the same standard as live players (we all know they are not that good in real life), if so, they should be limited in more playing formats like event games often do.
2. It used to be that players that played the game, put in effort, and were good were rewarded with better cards. Now there is little point in really accomplishing anything. its just an arcade game now were everyone has practically the same team and you just choose your top diamonds and I choose mine.

I went Eckersley first. Can never have enough high diamond RP's

I heard there is a 13 year old throwing 103mph in middle school in the Ukraine... I want a 99!

@KierannosaurusK said in How to get Trout in under one week!:

Part time grocery store job is $10 an hour/30 hours a week. This is equal to $300 or, even better 450,000 stubs!

I’ve crunched then numbers for a few hours and that’s enough stubs for michael trout. You may even have a couple thousand left over

Also grocery store people are the real goats during the coronavirus

Post of the week award winner right here.

DD Starters

Loving my team now. Show me someone with a better squad that didn't pay for stubs. SDS please keep high diamonds as "earn only" and don't flood the market with 99's every week just to get people to open their wallets. #mlbtheshow19 #shame #makethemearnit

@the_dragon1912 said in Hitting kluber at HoF and legend:

@LankyRyan said in Hitting kluber at HoF and legend:

@Lie-on-Lion said in Hitting kluber at HoF and legend:

@the_dragon1912 said in Hitting kluber at HoF and legend:

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@CanucksNoCups said in Hitting kluber at HoF and legend:

@Lie-on-Lion said in Hitting kluber at HoF and legend:

@THE_Tomdawg69er said in Hitting kluber at HoF and legend:

So, I have seen kluber a ton. I started off using strike zone this year, and that made kluber look like the best pitcher to ever step foot in the league. So, I switched to strike zone high. Now, kluber and almost every other pitcher feels super hittable. I’m not saying you’re going to put up 15 a game off of him, but you’re gonna figure him out a lot quicker. The first game I saw him after switching I forced 75 pitches through 3 innings and put up 10 runs in the game. I’m not sure how many people hit in strike zone, but strike zone high definitely helps, especially with the speed change on sinkers and change ups and the low slurves and cutters. Just don’t let people get to Rollie fingers. He’s so much better than he was last year.

Kluber 99 is a tease. Velo and HR/9 are too low, so you get plenty of time to square up and when you do... boom every time. I grabbed Fingers instead.

HR/9 has no effect in online. It's only for simulations like franchise.

I have asked this of SDS forever and no response. do you have somewhere you can cite that confirms this? or is this just your belief?

Well considering there was a patch last year specifically removing HR/9 from online play after first adding it in 19(they talked about adding it in a pre-19 stream), and they again made a point in a pre-release stream this year that HR/9 is simulation only, i’m guessing HR/9 is simulation only

Thats interesting... Did they ever actually say what attibributes are included in the outcome algorithm for online play?

If I remember right, it's a balance of the following, but I don't know how heavily certain attributes are weighed in the algorithm:

Vision
Contact
Power
H/9
K/9

Might be forgetting one if someone knows more and can add or correct

Stamina has an effect on gameplay, but that is fairly obvious so I can see why you forgot to mention it. Discipline I believe has an effect on how effective you are at check swinging, even though check swings have been broken. The only unknown is clutch. No one has ever had proof that it does or doesn't have an effect on the game

Its hard to prove too. I can say it does from my experience, but that may just be coincidence. My highest clutch is my pinch hitter and after a 100 AB sample, he is the highest OPS on my team because I only bring him in in "clutch" situations (runners on base, down runs, late innings). So I tend to believe its factored in, but who knows if its just because he is also one of my best hitters. I wish they would just come out and say what are all factored in and what are not.

@superfly2789 said in Blood Diamond Oswalt!:

Your team isn’t even good bro

Well I like it and didn't have to pay for it. So I am proud of that. Don't know how a 90 rating isn't "good" but maybe you can elaborate for me.

doesnt it seem like market price for most diamond cards are plummeting now because everyone is buying these and selling? let everyone buy the packs and save your stubs to buy the player you really want tomorrow on the market when they lose 35% value overnight. Im glad I sold Pearson when I did for 78K. This flash sale is killing him.

Blood Diamond Levels!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/q3SZkzQJuuYVSmZN7

plan on facing the same 9-12 players for the next few weeks here.

Klubes
Hal
Period Diamond - Oswalt
Future Star - price is Wright
FOTF - Ohtanani

Prospect - Pearson and Future Star Howard probably #6-7

All live series owned but benched.

36 hours 55 minutes. he quit. after threatening to go weeks while "playing his other PS4" hahahaha.

choose one, buy the other two! got to get those blood diamonds!

@THE_Tomdawg69er said in Hitting kluber at HoF and legend:

So, I have seen kluber a ton. I started off using strike zone this year, and that made kluber look like the best pitcher to ever step foot in the league. So, I switched to strike zone high. Now, kluber and almost every other pitcher feels super hittable. I’m not saying you’re going to put up 15 a game off of him, but you’re gonna figure him out a lot quicker. The first game I saw him after switching I forced 75 pitches through 3 innings and put up 10 runs in the game. I’m not sure how many people hit in strike zone, but strike zone high definitely helps, especially with the speed change on sinkers and change ups and the low slurves and cutters. Just don’t let people get to Rollie fingers. He’s so much better than he was last year.

Kluber 99 is a tease. Velo and HR/9 are too low, so you get plenty of time to square up and when you do... boom every time. I grabbed Fingers instead.