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Don't throw sliders... They will hit them or pop them up. Sinker spam low for 2 strike count then blow it away with high corner heat. Took me 3 tries.

Mini Seasons if you can win on Legend easier grind then Conquest.

20 Wins on Legend gives you = 24 Program points. 30 strikeouts on Legend = 6 program points. 60 Total bases on All star or higher = 2 pts

Playoffs can be done on any difficulty so 6 games on Rookie gives you =12 Pts. Total works out to 44 Points for a first Run.

If you just did ALL star Run you would get 12pts for playoffs and then 2pts for 15 All star wins and 2 pts for 60 total bases. = 16pts.

Summary
Legend Run = 44pts If you can play on Legend much easier GRIND then Conquest.
HOF Run = 26pts 1 mission of 10 Runs on HOF is 2pts so you may or may not get that.
All Star Run = 16pts.

@Ericulous1_PSN said in Extreme mini season takeaways:

@Oreo-Thomas_XBL said in Extreme mini season takeaways:

@Oreo-Thomas_XBL said in Extreme mini season takeaways:

@go4stros25_PSN said in Extreme mini season takeaways:

John donaldson... guy is a nightmare, but facing him on legend has proven to be impossible. I'm almost done with these legend missions, but I haven't gotten a single hit off him yet.

Also for the 30 strikeouts on legend you gotta use players with really slow offspeed pitches or sidearm deliveries. The cpu turns on 103 fastball like nothing on legend.

And I don't know if it's been said here yet, but the mystery missions are "hit 3 homruns on legend" and "record a save on legend"

This extreme mini season is awesome! Hats off to sds for this one.

My experience has been pretty positive. . I think I am 11-1 on legend so far and only faced Donaldson in tie first game but somehow hit 3 homers off him in the first inning. ( that was it. won the game 3-0).

Scoring on average is pretty tough as most games I score 1-3 runs and strike outs are prevalent ( I didn’t think of using Dee Gordon or bunting but might put him on the bench for the close game emergency )…key for me has been I have only given up about 4 runs total. Stay out of the middle of the plate and haven’t had any issues. I have averaged 3 - 4 Ks with my pitchers per game to easily get the 30k challenge and vouchers done.

The rewards for playing on legend are great. I have earned about 16 vouchers so far with anll the missions and should earn that many more as I finish the season. Kudos to SDS for the incentive to play on the higher difficulties.

Before I get anyone thinking I am bragging, I have failed the showdown 5x….struggling there.

Teach me man haha.

I know you well enough on here to know it’s not bragging. You were super helpful when I was a newbie and I’ve seen you do the same for many others. Glad you’re enjoying this program. I’m sure you’ll get the showdown soon enough.

Can you get vouchers on Mini Seasons playing on lower difficulties? I haven’t been able to look at it much.

Yes this is a summary based on difficulty you play on.

Summary
Legend Run = 44pts If you can play on Legend much easier GRIND then Conquest.
HOF Run = 26pts 1 mission of 10 Runs on HOF is 2pts so you may or may not get that.
All Star Run = 16pts

If you play on All Star. You will get 2 pts for 60 Total bases and 2pts for every 15 wins. Then you get 12pts for playoffs.

15 wins should get you playoffs then 6 games in playoffs you can do any difficulty.

Here’s an analogy for you. Counterfeiting the $20 bill suddenly becomes very tempting due to ease. Many people counterfeit as a result. The government decides not to punish the counterfeiters despite easily obtainable evidence because they pay taxes. Because no one was punished, next week the same thing happens with the $100 bill. Inflation increases significantly and those that followed the law are most negatively effected.

Its not that Deep imo. This is more along the lines where you went to ATM and instead of $100 that you requested from ATM it dispersed you $500. You did not steal or counterfeit anything instead you were given an extra $400 due to ATM's dispersing glitch. Banks eventually finds the error and your account gets debited the difference.

This happened with FIFA numerous times over the years everything just gets reverted back no one gets banned. Difference with SDS they don't have the budget or the manpower that EA has to handle something like this. Meaning most likely scenario they just fix the glitch and we move on.

@CHOMBONDO_PSN said in Sds is worse that EA:

EA doesn't lie about absolutely everything they do.

Lol have you ever played FIFA? I used to be a comp player in FIFA all the way up to 2018. EA has made FIFA the most pay to win franchise in all of sports gaming. Top Players like Ronaldo (R9) Gullit Ronaldinho or Team of the year Mbappe are impossible to attain unless you spend 2k+ on a game. At one point around 2014-16 you could flip in the market and get those players. In today's game its nearly impossible and was done on purpose. Kids that spend 2-4k on a game will have a team that will carry them in FIFA compared to someone who is NMS.

This year in MLB i have spent $0 and just through casual investing I have every card in the game that I want and over 3 mill in stubs sitting.

Don't wait to pick him up. Cal Ripken got hyped on durability boost and got up over 100k + pretty fast once the word spread and content creators made videos. I spent 1.5 mill at 17k and bought 80 of him and sitting currently at 50k on about 3.5 mill in profit but he is going higher. Also since he is the first CORE captain that will add value as well.

I don't get these rants. MLB is literally the easiest game of all Sports games to go no money spent and have absolutely every card.

@lewisnadasurf1_PSN said in Ohtani BR relief pitcher glitch:

@lightshow_PSN said in Ohtani BR relief pitcher glitch:

@lckdb_XBL said in Ohtani BR relief pitcher glitch:

I haven’t played this Event much but I used Ohtani for every 2nd and 3rd inning.

It’s the same in ranked. You can start a reliever and then throw Shohei, Donaldson, etc basically all game every game.

Yep its literally every other game. Opener with Reliever and then either Ohtani or Donaldson comes in .

I played a guy who started with Randy

Then I had Donaldson for 6 innings

Then Shohei for 1.1

Lol that's brutal.

@BJDUBBYAH_PSN said in This Game is Dying:

@NR7LES_XBL said in This Game is Dying:

@The_Canuckler said in This Game is Dying:

@NR7LES_XBL said in This Game is Dying:

@The_Canuckler said in This Game is Dying:

@maurice91932_PSN said in This Game is Dying:

I’ll converse with you without disrespecting. This is my opinion:

The game is simply too hard. Years ago the casual player could turn on a fastball, check swing on a breaking ball, and score some runs. But back then this forum was awash with people complaining about how their opponent scored a run when they shouldn’t have. “Skills don't matter” was the most common refrain.

Now you almost have to be a machine to hit well consistently, especially on HoF and Legend, but even AS is too hard for the casuals.

Back when it was easier, people wouldn’t admit when the easier gameplay allowed them to score—oh no. That was all skill. But when “Little Billy” scored because he checked his swing three times then hit a homer with less than perfect timing, the world was ending.

Say what you will about all that, but the game was more fun to play back then.

I don’t think they can go back now, though. The diehards have trained themselves to be better hitters. If they make it as easy to hit as it was in, say, 2016, everyone would seem like a goon, and the real goons would score 50 runs/game.

My view: SDS bowed to the hardcore crowd and sent the casual and somewhat dedicated MBLTS gamers to the showers. I don’t think it’s the all 99s that have turned people away. It’s having a lineup full of 99s and losing 1-0 that’s doing it.

Sorry that the game is too difficult for you now, maybe everything should be on rookie so everyone gets a reward. I’m in the midst of my worse season hitting like .250 you know what I’ve never thought during this? The game should be easier. It’s baseball, baseball is difficult.

You're exactly what the problem is in this community.

Because I want the game on the highest levels to be difficult? Why do you want everything handed to you?

No one wants the game to be easier, are you struggling with reading comprehension? My post mentioned absolutely nothing about how difficult the game is. One person replied giving their thoughts on why CASUAL GAMERS might be leaving the game because it can be too much of a learning curve/difficult. Do you get it now? My lord.

I don't think you've got a realistic understanding of the player base. So let's break down the numbers of the current Ranked Season

World Series - 2400 players
Championship Series - 5700 players
Division Series - 15975 players
Wild Card - 37155 players
Pennant Race - 53805 players
All Star - 103080 players
Regular Season - 130185 players
Spring Training - 72120 players, and It's safe to assume none of them have played more than one ranked game.

So out of over 420,000 players, 2400 have made World Series in two weeks. That's your "competitive base" 2400 players, and sure let's add in the 5700 that are in Championship Series too. Why not?

It does not change the fact that the overwhelming majority of the player base of this game is, as you say "casual"

Exactly Nice breakdown. Even if you take the active player base from Pennant+ which works out to about 110k players. The amount of players who make WS works out to 2% of the active player base.

So a suggestion that WS player is average is kind of silly when you break it down over the whole player database.

Finally can play some RS again.. Got tired of facing Donaldson and Ohtani every game basically.

Playing Mini Seasons on Legend has improved my hitting by a good amount you struggle at first but start to get better the more you do it. Couple years ago I would go 4-2 5-2 in BR over and over. Once I started practicing on Legend offline I consistently get up to 7-9 win BR runs. My warm up each day is to play 1 or 2 Legend Mini Seasons's games before going online. Works really good during TA's as I get progress towards vouchers and get my warm up done at the same time.

@TheGoaler_PSN said in Where are you on F1 Racing:

I love F1. '23 will be out soon!
I dug the recent Miami track race with all the celebs there.
I started playing the games in '16.
My favorite track is Azerbaijan.

Same love BAKU.... Always chaos there.

Easily best card in the game.. Even when I miss with him he somehow gets on base.

@X-FREEZE-OFF-X_PSN said in Turn created stadiums off?:

Now that I have my PS5, even though I don't want to use a created stadiums online, I'd like to use one for my offline PXP grind, but can't seem to find where to make one or where to download one that is already made.

Also, are there any suggestions for ones that are already made?

Search vault for @clutchsilver his stadiums are insane. I believe he made one for Koogs recently.

This year is really simple.. I have LS done and have nearly 3.5 mill free + I have Tatis JR charisma , Mantle, Trout, Crawford, Roki, etc...

Buy on Friday afternoon about 4-5 hours after the content is dropped. Then sell on Monday-Wednesday. To maximize your return concentrate on players 20k or less and are usable that are not at discard prices coming into Friday. Ex Devin Williams WBC was 17.5-18k yesterday and by M-W he will creep up to 23-24k range that's easy Hands off 3-4k profit per card. On Friday's when we get Player updates or stub sales these drops are bigger and you can capture bigger returns. Then just rinse and repeat.

What rotation is everyone rocking and who has been a surprise for you.

Mine

1. Roki
2. Bob
3. Paxton - Loving him so far.
4. Seaver - Consistent..
5. Kershaw

Want to try new Sale.

@IrishFist412_XBL said in What is everyone's Top 5 SP right now?:

@lightshow_PSN said in What is everyone's Top 5 SP right now?:

is Maddux that good?

Maddux is AWESOME…So comfortable to pitch with. All his pitches are pinpoint accurate. What I think also helps is that alot of people don’t use him because he doesn’t throw gas so alot of people rarely face him online & it’s like his slower speeds mess with the muscle memory people have from facing 102mph all day & he rarely gets touched up.

This is great feedback! I really did not expect to see this many people enjoy using Maddux. Giving him a run this week for sure....

For me its 9 innings... Would be awesome if we had Ranked with 3 inning games. Personally too many distractions going on for me to sit through 9 innings consistently. Essentially you have to allocate 25-30 min for a full 9 inning game.. While Events and BR I can knock out a game take a break knock out 2 games take a break. If Events and BR were also 9 inning games I don't think I would play online that much. That's just me..

@Dolenz_PSN said in Still no Twitch drops?:

Have you double checked you account on this website to make sure that your accounts are still connected? I had to re-connect mine at some point. It made me create an actual account on this site which I had never had before.

That said SDS's implementation of drops seems far more flakey and messed up than others. And my packs showed up in games like 12-24 hours after I earned them.

Good Shout! I had to create mlb the show account and link and then had to re-link Twitch account and all the packs got dropped at the same time. When you click on your profile twitch needs to say connected along with Sony/MLb the show account. Even though I was getting drops and claiming the packs on twitch since on my profile page of SDS twitch was not connected I was not receiving the packs. All good now. Hope it helps some of you who haven't gotten your drops yet.

@DRUMREIGN93_XBL said in Developers need to FIX THIS! Game is way too hard for beginners!:

@theBlindRhino said in Developers need to FIX THIS! Game is way too hard for beginners!:

I believe on rookie the CPU pitchers have worse control. Therefore a majority of the pitches are going to be out of the strikezone. Baseball is a game of patience and maybe the others you mentioned aren't so much. Why not try out other difficulties and see if your luck changes.

Thanks for the advice. I suppose I’ll give it a shot .

I will agree with you on this fact. Between NHL, FIFA, Madden and NBA2k. MLB the show the easiest difficulty in this case Rookie is the hardest of all sports games. Example in FIFA if i am playing on Rookie I am winning 30-0+ playing Squad battles in Fifa Ultimate team. Some of these games on Rookie in MLB in conquest i win 2-0, 3-0 with perfect lineouts galore.

SDS does need to take a closer look into their Rookie difficulty especially for people that just picking up the game.