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Anyone notice the AI has improved and rng has gone to [censored]? From last season to the beginning of this one I used mini-seasons to grind hitting stats. Now AI pitchers slider-spam, hardly ever miss in the zone, and good contact with 100+ power hitters fade at the warning tracks. This was the one mode a casual/bad hand eye coord player like me actually enjoyed playing (since they moved Conquest games to "simulation" style). I get the need for nerfing/balancing in the name of fair play for online games, but I mean mini-seasons is an offline mode why nerf it?

The RNG is really wacky this season even for the offline modes. I can take a team in mini-seasons and get 4 HR / 10 hit games against a team of 90+ players, but I play against the White Sox in Conquest using the same exact team and I am lucky to get a win with 2 sac flies in the 4th. I don't know why they made the bat a wet noodle for Conquest games, this started last year I used to love Conquest.

So I'm in spring training after getting called up in my 2nd year in Aug. Led the team in BA and OPS by the end of the season. So in my 4th spring training game in the following year the announcers introduce me as the American League Rookie of the Year. I was? My coach never said anything. My agent never said anything. The game didn't even say anything!

You'd think there would be something in the game for this...your agent, your coach, some training tokens, a package, a little pop-up with fireworks saying congrats, Mike Trout saying we bros...something.

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@k9_21owl_MLBTS said in Official Egg Hunt Thread:

How do you Get Blue? I can't figure it out lol

Common Courtesy program...which requires a lot of different failures.

Since the DD content seems pretty much over, my thoughts/frustrations for the year.

FIrst what I thought was great:
Mini-seasons! I loved having so many types. Rewards felt worth it as well, maybe a little more "repeatable" ones (to be fair the last one has very good repeatables).

Team Affinity. I loved the content mix of short term/long term grinding goals. I bit too sporadic, and it would have been nice to have more tie-ins with other programs or mini-seasons instead of "500exp" for every player.

The bad:
Conquest mode. Number of maps was great, the mode itself played like dog excrement. I know the tryhards out there would say Conquest games are easy, but you guys have your Veteran and over difficulties for that. Rookie games were just stupid grindy. WAY too many "Line drive-Caught" or "No problem here" after solid hits. Too many hard hit balls dying at the warning track. Lower the RNG for Rookie games or introduce a lower difficulty like you have for other modes. And get rid of the pitching where its constant nibbling. Just rage-quit inducing when it seems like every 2 out of 3 games comes down to the 4th inning hoping for 2 sac flies to win it. If the hitting was like Mini-seasons it would be so much better. I can take the same team that had to 4th Sac fly fest to win against a 96 OVR Mini-season team and get multiple HRs.

The Ugly - March to October. Get a few packs if you play it, yay! It was my favorite mode last few seasons, I didn't even touch it this year. Please tie it back into Team Affinity.

Is Atl and SD on the conquest timed? I'm confused what "before the leaderboard resets" means.

Edit: Well I did it in 3 turns and it counted. I guess it's just flavor text and not really a requirement?

@KnightRaider574_XBL honestly feel like Conquest got nerfed a year or two ago. It seems to me like it is set to Simulation mode (or whatever it's called) and you rarely seem to get rewarded for good hits. Mini-seasons however seems to be set on Casual mode, so you can really get in some hitting streaks in a 3 inning game. The Left Hander and the newest Mini Season pretty much feel like Home Run derby. For grinding stats I recommend Mini-Seasons...yeah the games get lopsided quick but it makes grinding more time efficient. Conquest games are good for a realistic to nerfy feel, yeah you might get some 8+ hit games but usually you are winning by one or going into the 4th trying to get two Sac flies. I'll do Conquest games when working on pitching stats or SB numbers, or for the rewards, but for stat grinds I really think Mini-Seasons is the way to go.