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Additionally, the coaching portion of franchise is absolutely out dated and complete garbage. With over 50% of the hirable coaches and managers focusing on bunting…
They could do so much with this. I am also 90% sure the coach +/- attributes do not do anything. So even if it is just cosmetic, I wish they would at least give me coach attributes that real organizations care about.
Anyone else tired of the fact that they took away the batters eye for the Jeter Storyline?
Now I can’t see the ball or track the ball until much later than normal and that’s with most pitchers.
I know I could change my camera angle but I shouldn’t have to do that…. Especially when Fenway has had the batters eye in previous versions of The Show and has the seats blacked out irl.
This cannot be a difficult change considering that this is just a stadium we had last year. I also cannot believe no one else has brought this up
Franchise is a mode where focusing on the offseason would be most important. The offseason in franchise has been about the same for years. Recently we got to see a complete rework of the offseason in “March to October”… but during the stream they mentioned it wasn’t in franchise due to the complexity of reworking the Franchise code.
I would love to see so much added to so many different areas to include the draft (international included), offseason, contracts, trades, budgets and even some more fun and complex ways of building a team.
For example, imagine being able to pick your core group of players or a core player you want to build around? There are so many possibilities to work from that and it would be at the core of franchise. It would bring life and more fun outlook to this game mode. I bet if they re-worked it, they could get a lot more people playing franchise and could even make a lot of money with micro transactions even in offline modes.
I am at the point now where I wouldn’t care if they added micro transactions to Franchise if it meant that the mode would get a completely new look.
Please fix this
Let’s start a conversation about how SDS Franchise team needs to fix and incorporate player development
There is absolutely nothing in the game that truly develops a player. From a young prospect to a veteran… we are stuck with training them but seeing absolutely no legitimate benefit from it.
Also when does an MLB player only train on one thing?
This is also one of the biggest things irl for a successful or failing MLB franchise. This would give us the opportunity to control how a player develops instead of random stats going up slowly over time.
I have a lot of ideas but I wanna see what everyone else has to say about it.
I just lost a conquest game…
I was pitching… threw a sinker low and away… the batter fouled it off which caused the ball to ricochet to the backstop BUT they called it a drop third strike. He ended up safe at first because my catcher didn’t go get it…. Then I was perfect pitch timing on the next batter and my pitcher threw it down the middle, double in the gap after the glitch and I lost the game.
Also I have seen a lot on reddit with people hitting HR over the fence with the HR distance graphic popping up (online play)… then the batter slides in at first base safe for a single even though the ball went over the fence lol
I have never seen so many glitches in a MLB TS series game before
I agree with you 100%. RTTS is finally fixed in regard to that topic… but in franchise, I would love to develop players legitimately without editing them.
Currently I edit them myself but that doesn’t feel immersive. I would love to actually build a program by hiring coaches and staff like strength coaches. That way I can specialize on specific attributes like power and speed. Maybe you want to go a different route and beef up your staff to prevent injuries by developing player durability… which may also help your pitchers stamina to go up or be able to have relief pitchers to pitch more often.
That way your franchise can go the direction you want it to. I will 100% edit a player right now… but that is only because the development is flawed. Also the aging system is kinda random and flawed as well. I would love to even develop veterans where I can prioritize what attributes I want to maintain, while I know they will lose points in other categories.
Think of the five tools… you get to choose two of the five (with the right coaches and staff) to develop and maintain player attributes.