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Who told you I want everything to be handled to me without playing the game?
I don't mind playing to get packs. That is mostly what I do EVERY day for 2 or 3 hours.
What I would like (not want, I feel the need to precise), is to get a bit of diversity in rewards.
Sorry if I would like to open a Deluxe Choice knowing there is a chance that I could pull a card I actually need instead of another Julio Rodriguez AS or a Dustin May New Thread.
That is all.
@sbchamps17_NSW With all due respect, these stubs are not free. You have to work to get them.
Amen!
@TheGoaler_PSN I am an Expos fan myself and still mad about 1994...
I am the unluckiest sports fan ever.
In 1994, the strike cost my beloved Expos a World series title. It hurt.
In 1995, my beloved Quebec Nordiques moved to Denver to become the Colorado Avalanche. It hurt. A lot.
In 1996, the Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup. I did not care. It was not my Nordiques. But it hurt.
In 2001, the Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup. I did not care. It was not my Nordiques. But it hurt.
In 2004, my Expos moved to Washington, DC. It hurt. A lot.
So, no, I do not wish for the Toronto Blue Jays to win it all this year.
The New York Yankees are my favorite team! Long live to the Yankees 
Thanks for your answer!
As for your indecision, I have benn playing with Beltran for more than a month now and I can garantee you that he is much more better than Reynolds.
A switch hitter who can hit with power and steal base very easily? It is the perfect card.
Can I ask wich one you bought? There seems to be two different types of Chase packs avalaible for this flash sale.
I little bit of me is sad that Pedro and Vlad are not in an Expos uniform. But I perfectly understand why this is.
Be assure that I will dress them in an Expos jersey on my still quite small Expos squad!
At the moment, I have Larry Walker, Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, Gary Carter, Pedro, Vlad, Randy Johnson and Lee Smith.
I need to get a Tony Perez.
Did I miss anyone, to your knowledge?
I cross my fingers that SDS could add the Alou family next year (Matty, Felipe, Jesus and Moises). It would be AWESOME!
Hi guys,
I am playing The Show since June. I am new to the franchise. I am making progress in different collections. But now I need some help with pack odd and contains.
I have Rolen. The LS is complete. And now I want to unlock Williams.
I am almost there. I need about 25 cards, most of wich I can buy for less than 10 K each.
The problem is, I need Schwarber Pipeline Past (around 125 K) and at least one Moonshot costing more than 100 K. These two cards alone would cost me way more than half of what I have in stubs.
But before spending my stubs, I have about 100 packs to open.
In the past weeks, my strategy have been to only choose AS and New Thread 2.0 in Choice Packs, keep the cards I don't have and sell the rest at 5K each.
But... here come my questions:
I have 18 unopened Deluxe Choice Packs. From my experience, there is no chance in hell that I could pull a Schwarber or a rare Moonshot in there. All I get are commons. But is there a mathematical chance for me pull a 100 K card in these packs? Should I choose Moonshot packs hoping to pull a Bichette, a Mullins or a Candelario or there is no chance at all?
I still miss 8 Pipeline Past cards to unlock Seager - beside Schwarber and Guerrero. I am tempted to convert most of my Deluxe Choice into Pipleline Past packs to pull common cards I need like Pearson, Vaughn or Anthony. Thing is: if I pull card I already have, I will have to sell it for 2 or 3K while I can choose a 2005 AS pack and sell my double for 5K. To put thing in other words: If I choose Pipeline Past instead of AS or New Thread 2.0, will I end up losing stubs?
I have two unonpened Premier Choice Packs. Is there a single chance for me to pull a Schwarber, a Guerrero, a Bichette, a Mullins or a Candelario in these packs (or even a rare Home Run Derby cards), or, in your experience, it only contains common too (but instead of getting one common, you get five).
Please help me with this guys. I want Williams. I just don't want to unnecessarily burn stubs while chasing it.
All them are at or near QS prices.
Hi! Thanks for your reply. I think I understrand what you mean, but what is QS price?
Considering I never played The Show (or any baseball game since Griffey in 1994) before June, I think a am doing quite well.
I finish the LS a couple of weeks ago, as long as Rolen. I only need 20 ish cards to get Williams (but at least two of these cards would cost me 100 K or more).
I have Wagner and I am very close to get Allen.
I still need 85 cards to unlock Bautista. Not sure if I will ever get there. Or want to.
I finish the Neon collection yesterday, wich was fun. I am also quite proud that I unlocked Judge AS.
The only place I could really do better is Spotlight. I have all the monthly "bosses", but I have not finish a single retro collection yet. Not that it is a goal. But I am hoping that past Spotlight packs will be awarded in future program, so I can finish this collection.
I spent the last three evenings using players of the same team in the new mini-season. The rewards (packs) are raining! Normally, within three 3-innings game, you should get the Neon player of one team (except for the Rockies, who took me five...). It took me a season and a half to unlock Reynolds.
Now, I am grinding with a team composed of Neon player, again in the new mini-season, trying to reach 500 PXP with each. The goal is to get the 50 000 PXP boost on the TA program of each team.
Hope that help!
The catcher that can't throw is playing for the Lima Lemurs.
@SaveFarris_PSN I am new. I did not know that. I prefer 5 LS packs, then.
"XP Boost: Triple XP (3x XP) is active until the end of the current inning path, making it the best time to earn bosses and wheel spins."
Earn Wheel Spins...
Because we all know that there is nothing more rewarding than 5 LS packs with 65 stubs value in each when you just grinded for 30 000 XP...
Woooh! 325 stubs! I can finally buy that bronze cards I have been eying since May! (it is sarcasm...)
@SaveFarris_PSN Thanks for the heads-up and the great idea!!
I decided to keep playing. I will just grind at whatever the game is pitching me, with a priority wich each new Spotlight program. I will then try to finish the Neon collection. Not sure of what I will do with my 200 k in stubs, though...
I thought about something else: the catchers.
I think it had been adressed in the past week, but there was a time my catcher would drop (or not catch) the ball three of four time each game. Every time, the CPU will get a free base.
Now, it is about one time every two games.
But I NEVER saw a CPU catcher drop a ball. I NEVER got a free base on a wild pitch. Wich is, again, frustrating.
Some of the CPU pitchers have better reflexes than NHL goalies.
The NHL goalies work a lifetime to always be in perfect position to block a 100 MPH slap shot coming from a 90 feet distance. Most of the time, the puck hit them, no the contrary. There are about 60 human beings that can do that regularly in the whole world.
MLB The Show pitchers can catch, sometime behind their back, a ball coming at 100 + MPH from a 50 feet distance. All of this while being in improper position (after their release) and after the ball made a bounce on an irregular surface like grass or sand. While their super talent is THROWING the ball, not catching it!
As for defense as a whole, as a grinder, I played a lot against the Rockies, at Veteran difficulty. Let's just say that the MLB The Show Rockies are much much better defensively than the actual Rockies.
It is just very frustrating.
Hi guys,
I am new to the game and the franchise. I am 48 and been playing since June. I became quite obsess with the Diamond Dynasty mode. I spent almost all of my free time playing it - 2 to 3 hours every day.
But now, for the first time in three months, I hit a wall.
At first, I thought there would be no way I will unlock Rolen 99. I did last month. Then, I thought there was no way I will finish the Live Series. I did last week.
I thought there was no way I would unlock Ted Williams 99. This is what I have been working on these past few days. But the motivation is not much there.
I mean, I can unlock Williams, but what would I do with it? It would not be on my God Squad because he is not fast enough. I won't need it to grind into the Red Sox TA program because I have all the rewards beside the absolutely useless last one.
I have the same problem with Bautista. I have a load of 99 outfielders. Why should I grind and grind and grind (I still need 94 cards) for a guy I would not use because he is slow as molasse?
Furthermore, the market is killing me right now. I understand that a lot of people get richer this week-end by completing the Shark Conquest and the Neon Programs. I am one of those. But I am really richer?
Last week, I needed 63 cards to unlock Williams, cards that would cost me (at the time) 500 K. Seven days later, I now need 31 cards. That would cost me... 487 K. What the hell???
For the first time in three months yesterday, I had no desire to play the game. I end up finishing the Rangers Neon Program. I did it in one game. I then plan on doing the Braves Neon Program. I built my squad and... close the game instead and watch a movie on Netflix.
I am not sure what to grind for anymore. I have 99 players at all positions on my God Squad. None of them are buffer waiting to be replace by a new shinny thing. All these players have a special place in my baseball fan heart and I love playing with them. I also have all the former Expos (the team of my childhood) players available in the game. I have done all the Programs beside one.
I could grind to buy the cards that would unlock Griffey Jr 99 (wich I absolutely love as a teen). But is he better than Beltran? And even if he is, would it REALLY make my team a lot better? Does it justified spending thousand and thousand of stubs (that I don't have yet) on it?
Everything that I still need to do (some lame Conquest, two or three Diamond Quests and one Mini-Season) will get me nothing I need to upgrade my team. Even the Neon program is of no use to me (I already unlock the dozen of cards I like, wich are all former stars).
I might like to unlock Gehrig Neon because I have a soft spot for Yankees Legends. But again, we are talking about - I think - another slow player that I won't put on my God Squad.
I have no intention of playing offline (my abilities are far from being there yet). Not sure I would like to play Road to the Show (it seems very frustrating) or March to October (many seems to find it lame).
I ear you: I could play the game to only play the game, but... I did it so much these last months and got rewarded for it with new cards to improve my team. Now, playing without a valid reward seems a lot less appealing. Call me Pavlov's dog...
Do I miss something? Is there more to the game than building the 99 squad of your dream? And what do you do when you get there?
(Sorry for the long read and the childlike vocabulary, english is my second language)
I have been using Beltran for a week. It is getting better now. I think I hit with .325.
But, what do I know. I can't hit with Vladdy. With Judge 99. With Soto. With Ohtani 99. With Sandberg 99.
But give me a Luke Keaschall 84 or a Spencer Steer 86 and I play like a king. Sort of.
This week-end, I decide to grind with the Blue Jays. I had no options at 3B. I end up using a 66 common card. I hit a single and a double with it. But 0 in 4 with Vladdy, Springer and Santander. Go figures...