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@MarioMendoza935_XBL said:

If I pull him, I'll probably quick-sell him by mistake.

Congratulations!

I pulled him a week or so ago out of a Show pack. I can't express how slowly I pushed the controller buttons to avoid the quick sell.

There's a lot of conversation on this in another topic. Looks like they implemented a cool down period to place bulk orders. You can only place around 11 in rapid succession then you get the message. Wait 30-60 seconds and you can place more.

The verbiage on the message is terrible and makes it sound like it's a ban or something. It's actually not that bad in practice and if it is effective against bots, it's worth it.

SDS communication would have been nice but at least they're trying something.

@Ledfoot_19_PSN I'm basically an offline player. I completed most of the other event programs but I'm out on this one. The cards are still available to me. I just have to buy them. For my own sanity, I'm viewing the in the same light as Harper, Leiter and even some Spotlight pack players. I have now way of attaining every one unless I use stubs on them. But I at least have that option.

Getting every mini season player is a pain in the [censored]. Getting XBH with player X to get player Y, etc. That does suck for a player who doesn't enjoy playing offline and that player shouldn't be forced that direction. SDS should allow people to play in a manner that is enjoyable to the customer without gatekeeping rewards. Just my opinion.

Baseball Stars was probably my most enjoyable video game experience of all time. Going back all the way to Commodore 64 and Atari 2600. It really was an amazing game at the time. Earning currency and leveling up players was a brand new experience.

I am not good and play a mix of Rookie and All Star depending on what I'm trying to accomplish so it wasn't a big deal to get him. But I figured I'd never even try for the 5 HRs.

The first nine inning game in New Threads, he went 5-5 including 3 HRs and double off the top of the wall. He's been my 2nd most consistent HR hitter behind Lowe.

I'm starting to feel the same way. I'm just not enjoying any type of game play anymore. Last year I enjoyed offline and played exclusively. Got every card you could purchase.

Lately, it just isn't fun anymore. I'm doing well on the collections. I completed the Live series and am in pretty good shape with the new collections. The gameplay just sucks now. I'm terrible online. I can admit that and enjoy the offline play if SDS would just allow that.

@Pergo_MLBTS
I am not a good online player but turning off crossplay has made a world of difference. I went from probably bottom 1% to only below average. I highly recommend it.

I'm on Xbox. Against other platforms, I would literally go entire games without putting the ball in play. I completed 1st inning multi player, all the events and almost done with 2nd inning without crossplay. I have zero chance of going 5-1 in BR so hopefully, they'll add another way to finish 2nd inning.

I still lose most games but can at least barrel up a few balls on occasion now.

All that being said, I wholeheartedly agree that I shouldn't be forced to play online to keep up PXP wise.

@JDHalfrack_PSN I had no idea. That could be very useful. Thanks for the PSA.

As a mainly offline player, this is a dumb, ill timed program. I've play both but 90% offline. I completed the multi player programs 1-3 and will shortly complete season 4. I generally complete all the offline event programs. I'm not "afraid" or any of the other BS people are spewing. I don't play online because it isn't fun to me, plain and simple. Partly because I play this game to relax not to compete. I play passively as I do other things. I compete elsewhere. But I'm kind of a completionist and like to finish every program and collect all cards. I don't even care about having to buy the rewards. I just hate being coerced into doing something that I don't feel like doing.

Event matchmaking is broken. If SDS is forcing people that direction, they will only alienate the casual players even more. I'm not good online. I admit that. But there are a lot of people close to my skill set that I could be matched up with instead of higher end players.

Also, I do feel bad for the online players that are forced to play offline if they want to round out all cards. You do have it worse than us because we can buy the online rewards. We aren't exactly forced to play if we choose not to. And the mini season rewards can be a huge grind. I'd be pissed if I was an online only player. With that being said, the condescending tone by some of you does not lead to sympathy.

It really is crazy. I just went to inventory, sorted by unowned and opened cards to try to fill out my cards. I opened cards, looked at where they were selling, closed and went to the next one.

Eventually I tried to place a 25 stub order on a bronze card and got the restricted message. I literally couldn't place a single 25 stub order.

Can't we agree this was a failed experiment?

Chone Figgins for me. Only one I've noticed. He's a P5 from all the stolen bases and runs scored.

The app just required another update. The reason stated under "What's New" was "Increased Market Integrity " Wonder if there's a crackdown.

@Sarge1387_PSN said:

Interesting enough, on every card this morning that had good flipping margins...within 10 minutes of good action a "random" sell bid comes along and absolutely nukes the margin by listing it barely above the buy bids. It's happened on four separate items this morning so far

If you mean the current buy price is barely above the sell price and it crushes the margin? I just buy it and list for a profit. It has never hurt me and you'd be surprised how often it immediately sells at a win.

SDS went way overboard on the restrictions right now. I placed 4 orders on one card and now can't even look at another card.

Severely limiting your player bases ability to engage in the game is an interesting strategy.

I was hopeful when they introduced the market throttle that it might help. That was when I was restricted after making 11 orders then had to wait 30ish seconds. That was reasonable.

It's unusable now. I go to my orders, open and check a few without even submitting or canceling an order. All of a sudden I'm restricted again without placing or canceling an order. It's insane.

@unliveablechris_PSN It's almost like they are considering opening a card up and closing it as a transaction. It's wild.

Maybe it's just me. I've done a ton of flipping this year so I might be in a bot type bucket.

All I know is I don't have the desire to engage in the game anymore. I didn't even complete the programs released yesterday. I played a couple games and turned it off to watch TV. Haven't played today and don't really care if I play tomorrow.

Serious question. How else can we earn the millions of stubs needed to complete collections and such? I don't know of any way other than the market.

I give SDS credit for trying something to combat the bots but it went to far. Now they're literally forcing their players to stop engaging on their content after a few seconds. It's just dumb. I used to spend too much free time on this game. Now I only open the app to test how fast I get restricted.

Unless their end goal is to remove the only consistent way NMS players can fill out collections.

@Dolenz_PSN I think you're one of the most reasonable posters on this board and I generally agree with you. But you also have said in the past that you don't work the market at all. You save up indefinitely to get a single Cardinal card. You're not really in a position to understand what I'm saying.

We just invest our time in the game differently. I try to collect literally every card. Before yesterday, I had every player card (not counting the gold [censored]). I have almost every piece of equipment and unlockable already.

Curiel is going to be good. He won't hit a ton of HRs but he is great at everything else. Plus speed, great defender. First step on defense is borderline seeing the future. HIs vision is elite at the plate. His swing a miss rate was lowest in the country at one point late in the season. Had a 40+ game on base streak as a true freshman.

Baseball IQ is unparralled. You can find it online but there was a play where the runner ahead of him might not have touched home. He slowed enough to call Serna back to touch the plate before he did. It was against Oklahoma. Just a great player overall. Seems like a genuinely good dude as well.