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True that, but I also add that given Nike (and their subsidiary Jump Man) props are the only ones like this, I conclude it is due to a contract limitation SDS signed with Nike. Nike doesn't want their equipment in the game to appear in the marketplace. There is no other rational explanation.

Think of it like this, SDS revises the SC code so that the backstop, baseline, and outfield walls act like guillotines, slicing off any section of any prop that intrudes. This includes the dugout, which currently allows props to intrude.

Except, unlike the current code, this code is written so that the cuts are precise. If the wall forms an acute angle, then the slices match that acute angle.

It is so straightforward it's silly, and yet would be profound. Want dugout level seating? You have it now! Just take any existing field level stand prop and move it forward until just the last rear most seat rows are visible. Anything that intruded into the dugouts and past the walls is cut off. Then, place any other field level prop on top where the existing concourse divide is located and voila -- dugout level seating!

Turn all batter's eye props into normal props and suddenly you can populate them with standing fans, combine with other props, and seam up the seats on either side as desired. Or, put other types of props on either side or behind, or even in front between the batter's eye prop and the outfield wall.

My only concern about custom stadiums in versus CPU DD games is that you know some of those DD players will moan and groan how so-and-so is stacking up points in versus CPU games using strange stadium designs.

I just noticed that days after I created this OP, that the forum censored "Richard" Allen's real first name.

Seriously!

Consider that MLB The Show goes all the way back over 20 years. For well over half the title's history, the game was all about playing the CPU in baseball games, either individual exhibition style games or replicating a season as a specific team.

Then, along came innovations like RTTS where you would create a player and let it serve as an avatar for you as the player. Other modes started to morph allowing you to replicate the role of the GM (Franchise). These modes served the title well.

Later on, the online options started to expand into competition modes, and unfortunately they combined with a money-making intent to get people to compete for or pay for stubs. This caused 90% of the game's code changes to focus on online play.

The game needs to get back to its roots -- exhibition, RTTS, and Franchise. And while online competition is fine, it cannot become the prime focus. Doing so causes frustration. These have set in with the advent of seasonal card rosters and the requirement to rebuild all or most of your team throughout the year.

Get the pay to play aspect out of the title once and for all. You pay once and upfront and then you play for as long as you desire to. RTTS should be based on your avatar earning promotion and recognition strictly by quality of your on-the-field play, not some paid for (stubs or cash) method via equipment-based attributes. The idea that minor league players today are unable to get outfitted with the latest equipment is utterly ridiculous. The teams at all levels today provide this stuff.

Beyond this, one of the ways to keep the game original is via custom created stadiums, and despite this, Stadium Creator has been almost totally stagnant since it's inception with MLB 21. Those who have used it extensively have repeatedly advocated good changes to the basic code operation to make that mode far better at building realistic looking stadiums from all periods of baseball. It is way past time for SDS to listen to those details and implement them.

@beatlesnews_PSN said in Ideas for 2025:

• being able to DELETE stadiums from our vaults

Can't we do this already?

No, you can delete from your local console directory of 30 stadiums. But, once a stadium is uploaded to the vault, it remains unless SDS removes it from some reason they decide. In fact, this goes so far as to retain copies of a given stadium each and every time it is uploaded to the vault.

Dozens of us have been asking for this type of option for years. Given the many sincere inputs provided, the optimal method of improved creativity simply involves these three basic changes to the game code:

1. Allow the same code as used to isolate and move outfield wall hinge points, to apply to the baselline wall segments outbound the dugouts. Only difference is no intrusion into fair territory.

2. Code the stands so that any portion of the stand that would intrude into the field of play is scissored off, in the exact same way that the stands current scissor off any section that is buried into the ground. In effect, the baseline, backstop, and outfield walls become a guillotine that slices off any portion of any prop that would intrude past it.

3. Code the stands so that any portion of a stand that overlays onto a portion of a previously laid stand prop is also scissored off.

In making just these three basic changes to prop code for the stands, it would unlock thousands of different design options that would allow designers to faithfully replicate modern baseball stadiums.

Now, to take it one additional step, change the code for the batters eye props so that they behave exactly like ordinary props, including the ability to delete and omit any batters eye. This opens up the world to enjoy batters eyes that appear integrated into the overall design of the stadium, including the ability to better mesh it with surrounding stands, add standing fans onto it, and tightly adhere to the outfield walls.

Now, one may ask, why are not these things already in the Stadium Creator code? The answer is to appease those who play the online games who constantly complained about how created stadiums would contain "cheating elements" that would provide the "home" team competitive advantages. Whether true or not, these complaints led SDS to implement a series of code adjustments that would try to prevent this "cheating."

My solution therefore is to prohibit the use of created stadiums in online competition games. In this way, the stadium creators themselves can do pretty much what they wish to achieve their design objectives and folks can play or not play the stadium as desired.

There does appear to be something in the game code that diminishes the skill of your teammates in RTTS relative to your own performance as an individual avatar player. On my RTTS team, and one of the big reasons why I grew dissatisfied with RTTS overall, is that no one on my team batted over .200 with runners in scoring position. Many times I would hit a leadoff triple and remained at third as each of the next two batters stuck out and if the third batter didn't do same, he flied out or grounded out.

I found that game play in Franchise ended up being far more balanced.

The problem I think is that RTTS got so ingrained with challenge that it forgot to replicate realistic baseball. This plus the ridiculous nonsense in the way that RTTS awards plus and minus points on plays. If you chase a liner to the wall and throw it to the cutoff man 250 feet or more away and he has to take a single step to his right or left, you get a point or two deducted for arm accuracy! Like holy cow! Beed to a real ballgame lately! A perfect throw to the cutoff man is when he can receive the catch with his feet pointed to the next base to throw to, not whether or not the place he initially stood had to be changed a foot or two.

Add in the lunacy of the announcers saying "great jump" on a successful steal attempt, only to have the game deduct a stealing attribute point because it thinks you made a late jump!

I don't normally participate on this sub-forum because I have no interest in the online game modes. That said, this board's overall participation has reduced substantially. That cannot be denied.

The predominate reason is likely that interest has declined in the game itself, and that is something that SDS needs to pay attention to.

Sadly, SDS being owned by Sony is only going to be funded so long as it not merely makes a profit, but makes a profit above a minimum acceptable margin. Corporations today are in a money chase and they are run by people who constantly analyze avenues for profit. Their measure of the options ranks those avenues best able to make the most money.

If you are invested in, you make the minimum required profit, or you are divested, and your assets either sold off, terminated, or reassigned to other avenues. To spark new interest, SDS has to reinvigorate the game, but to do so requires a revamping of the code and that carries risk and costs money.

The overall lack of innovation in video games today is due to the risk/reward competing against the minimum acceptable profit margin evaluation. If interest in this game dwindles and is calculated to remain that way, the game title will be ended. If the suits in charge deem that the price to rekindle interest puts the profit below the minimum acceptable level, then the game dies long before it ever would have on a purely classic business model of reasonable rate of return.

Yes, but also the screen capture from him as shown in the game play.

This is a real world MLB topic. The list of candidates for the Classic Era hall of fame induction was released. These are the players:

[censored] Allen
Ken Boyer
John Donaldson
Steve Garvey
Vic Harris
Tommy John
Dave Parker
Luis Tiant

For my money, there is only one player on this list worthy of induction and that is Tommy John. John earned 288 wins with an ERA of 3.34. He pitched in an era during the 1960's to 1981 known for offense. So, these two numbers rank very high for his era pitched. However, he was also a workhorse starter, recording 700 starts (good for eighth all time) with 4,710.1 innings pitched.

Of course it's just a video game, but whoever worked up the face image for Eddie Mathews needs to go back and review period photos taken of this player. The face graphics for the game's representation looks nothing like the real man did when he played in Milwaukee.

@jaychvz_XBL said in Is it possible to be the number 1 draft pick?:

@PriorFir4383355_XBL just went checked the other day and I got drafted in the 10th round not 10 overall. Lol.

Got it, and yeah, that matches the repeated outcomes that I have seen.

Thanks for the clarification.

Cheers!

I seriously doubt it. The game code essentially wants to slot you as a mid-level prospect starting in AA. In fact, I'm surprised you even got drafted in the first round.

@dbub_PSN said in If the world series ended today:

@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in If the world series ended today:

What the hell makes you think I'm a Yankees fan?

Because somehow you made the "Big Story" of the WS the umpiring, which I haven't heard anyone else say.

Then clearly you haven't been paying attention to the real games! LOL!!

The poor umpiring in this WS has been a repeated topic of focus and attention. At least Carlson had the wisdom to call the batter out when those two Yankees fans literally ripped the ball out of Betts' glove after he caught it at the right field baseline. So, he got that call entirely correct.

What the hell makes you think I'm a Yankees fan?

The big story of this World Series is how MLB created a self-inflicted wound through their continued stubborn refusal to tie regular season umpire performance to postseason selection. Consequently, MLB ended up with an umpire working game three behind the plate whose performance in the regular season placed him in the bottom third of all umpires.

No surprise then that he made a dozen very bad ball/strike calls. He made about the same number of bad call for each team, but with that many clear mistakes it did impact the outcome of the game.

Ponce de Leon Park -- from 1922 until 1955 widely considered the best minor league ballpark in the nation.

Well, simple truth is that the combine exists for looks only. It has zero influence on your draft position.

In short, it's pure eye candy.

No, it is a direct reflection that Pete Rose is on lifetime suspension and that does not end after his death. This is why there is no honorifics for Eddie Cicotte or Joe Jackson.

Folks, like it or not, we all have to accept that Pete Rose did more than shame himself. He burned all bridges with MLB and he did it to himself despite all his friends urging him to pursue a different action.

Seems MLB has weighed in on this situation, saying they want to ensure that whatever temporary stadium the Rays use next season will be located in the Tampa Bay area.