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@AppleLemon560_MLBTS they dont pause their game to stop script when you bring in Darren O'Day

One of the most rewarding and addicting parts of DD is working on building your team. It's like working on the muscle car in the garage - every day you make it a little bit better, a little cooler and newer...you make gradual progress as you acquire new parts.

Unfortunately, that part of the game was pretty much blown to bits in July. Suddenly, your team was fully stocked with maxed-out players. Any change that you made to most positions felt like a lateral move, at best. Every once in a while, a "giant mega shiny toy" would come out (Chipper or someone) and you'd get that if you could swing it...but it's not the same reward as slowly working on improving the team.

Even though I adore all of the content that this game provides, this is the one aspect that I don't like. The abandonment of power creep plus "switch hitting meta" has made team building moot.

If they're going to go this route, we need a mode where we can build other teams. It misses the whole point if everything gets tricked out so quick - the fun part is building it at the beginning.

Something we can all agree on - stop giving individual show packs as rewards in the inning path. Those should be egg hunt or Jackie packs or something - one show pack is silly, thanks for the nickel grandma

Online is so toxic right now - especially in events. Its Hader or its constant pausing and trying to quick pitch....like, I feel like its all 12-year olds. I usually win those games, but its awful. Getting a normal player who knows how to play the game feels like a miracle.

Hot take - SDS gave up on Team Affinity and the power creep to please casual players who have now left. We should just now be getting the 99s.

Ill agree wholeheartedly on the web gems - cpu is insane defensively. Defense is too easy in the game, in general - there should be more errors and bad plays, but then everyone would cry "rng made me lose!"

I will agree that Rookie is way harder in this game than any other sports game. But, the reason is that batting is very difficult - i feel like there are 1000 people in the world who know how to hit in this game (and Im not one of them).

Im so surprised to see folks like V-Mart, Jim Johnson, Bobby Doerr - hats off to them for throwing in these new legend surprises. Even had to learn who Rick Ferrell is.

I criticize a lot about this game, but this was really a nice touch

Man, Storylines needs more promoting - expand it to cover more baseball history too - such a cool mode

This thread is bonkers. There are reasons to dislike online play (lag, cheese, cheating, meta is OP, and it often feels like a slow slog) and there are reasons to get bored with offline play (the CPU isn't a great baseball mind - its an easily abused AI script and theres not much challenge).

You dont really need to get deeper than that. Both of the issues above could be improved to better both experiences.

I agree with the post. There's not much good reason to do stuff in the game right now. If you know how to turn on your Playstation and you don't choose to play NCAA, you can basically have a team of 99s. They badly need a Team Building or Salary Cap mode where you get rewarded for having collected all these other cards...so that you have a place to actually use the cards they give you. Also, yeah, why the heck would you just basically stop Team Affinity and end the rewards in that path at the all star game?

Why is there no reward between Finest and #1 Fan Badge. Thats some very time consuming work to get those points - and you get nothing but a token badge for it? I don't understand that. Its not like it's a conspiracy or something - it would be a super easy fix. I just don't get it.

Anyone who has played Jim Rice or Gary Carter for more than an inning should get a prize mailed to their home. They are the true heroes.

Whatever you might hate about this game...it gives you lots of content. It always amazes me when people want more content - how many hours per day you playin? Lol

So, Im legitimately not trying to be mean....but, if you can't beat Rookie, how do you beat anything else in this game? Like, everything else is tougher.

Lol, offline can be boring, and online can be maddening. So, you switch between the two and stay fairly happy.

It would be fun to get to challenge...but the box would have to disappear

It doesn't help that any offline content that comes out is super quick and easy to do. Its like its supposed to take you 20 minutes...and then, you're just supposed to go back to online gaming.

I'd prefer if offline content were both longer and more challenging. Otherwise, its really just presented as "that thing you do for half hour before moving back to online play"

The Events are great content that I really enjoy. But yeah, the offline pickings are slim.

This is why there's no long-term grinds anymore. Nobody understands the idea of not getting stuff on day one. Noone understands the idea of steady progress.

It would be great if it was a new TA-style program with a lot to grind on. But, I'm really not trusting SDS to do something that ambitious