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I wish the CPU would take over the at-bat so you can enjoy your home run or base hit, and then after that, the game can disconnect. The dashboard is anti-climatic.

@fubar2k7 it probably did make your team worse. 110 contact/125 power>>>125 contact/125 power

Using a contact boost in the moonshot event is likely putting the person using it at a disadvantage since home runs are far more valuable than base hits, so I was all for it staying if the strategy guide is to be believed. Unless people are playing on hof or legend, I think of it as a penalty since the PCI is already huge. I would rather take high exit velocity.

@X-FREEZE-OFF-X

How many people playing the game even know how captains were initially supposed to function? At this point in the game cycle, I’m not sure that can be considered a glitch or exploit. It is just how the game works.

I still think SDS should just put out a statement of how to swap out the captain for the higher overall player so everyone can use it for set 6. 99% of the theme teams still are worse off than a god squad without a captain boost anyway.

The one that drove me insane during events was the immediate pausing for 2 minutes before the first pitch. I still can’t figure out what is taking them so long to start a 3 inning game.

@X-FREEZE-OFF-X

If you wanted to use the 99 version with the captain boost for season 5 using the workaround.

He’s the season 5 Pirates captain, so if you wanted to use him on a Pirates theme team, you are either at risk of getting banned or are out of luck. It’s all so poorly planned or just terrible attention to detail. SDS needs to do better.

@Thelibero
It only works in ranked. But when the slider starts going to the right, press the left d-pad to stop or return it to the start.

Br or events is a crapshoot.

@Thelibero

You should be able to set your slider when finding a match so you will get matched up with people in your skill range.

I wish SDS would just make a post how to do it so everyone can run their favorite theme team. The glitch actually made team captains fun and usable for theme teams especially with set 6 around the corner.

@broken_toy1

Let's chalk it up to a misunderstanding, brother, and keep it moving. I want everyone worldwide to play good games that aren't affected by lag to give me and my opponents the best gaming experience possible.

@broken_toy1_PSN

At no point in my argument did I suggest the quality of the internet in any location. My concern is the distance between me and the connection is increasing lag. I don’t assume location equals lousy internet.

My assumption was teams with unis/usernames of locations far away from me + lag equals the likelihood of the host being a more significant distance from me. When I host the game, the same player will experience lag based on the distance between us.

@lewisnadasurf1

It has nothing to do with Puerto Rico. That’s just an example. It could be any country with anyone who hosts the game from a long distance from you because the game, from my understanding, uses peer-to-peer servers. The home team is the host server, and the further away from your connection, the more lag you can experience, which, from a quick Google search, says is a known weakness of p2p servers. And I’m not criticizing anyone for not living closer to me. I’m happy people from all over the world play this game and enjoy playing them all.

All I would like is a way to tell how well a connection is before I enter a game or SDS to upgrade their servers away from p2p because everyone all over the world would have a better gaming experience.

I’m glad you don’t have any connection issues.

@broken_toy1

I understand this. My point was Saturday morning, I connected with I think 3 teams in a row with Puerto Rico in their team names in a row or jerseys and the connection was subpar. I understand they could all be a mile away from me. But a reasonable person could conclude that we might be on the opposite side of the continent which is why the connection seems laggy and for some reason I kept getting matched with them. That’s all, I don’t assume all people of Puerto Rican descent has dial-up internet.

@broken_toy1

I played a couple of teams yesterday morning events against teams with teams names with “Puerto Rico” or “PR” in their names with the jerseys to match and I assumed they were located in either Puerto Rico or on the east coast because the connections were so bad. I just assumed it was because I’m in California and since I don’t understand how the internet works I thought distance increases lag with connections.

I think that’s what he meant by Puerto Rican team names, not their actually names. Either way lag stinks in a timing game.

If you’re able to square them up consistently you may want to have players with breaking ball hitter and bad ball hitter quirks as well. You’ll get a better pci and velocity on pitches out of the zone (in theory).

@broken_toy1

I’m glad you’re enjoying offline mode. Everyone should play how they want. I played offline 99% time up until October and the 1% had runs ins with a lot of toxicity mostly excessive pausing so I kept away. Since October, I’ve played almost exclusively online and a ton of games. I haven’t encountered anything but good games and good sportsmanship. You might want to hop in now since most of the kids have moved in to other games. You might enjoy it, specifically RS or BR. It is a dramatic difference from earlier in the year.

I would make Seasons tie in with a salary cap system in ranked and as seasons progress the cap is increased. It allows for more strategy. Power attributes/bunters could cost more against the cap than contact hitters and sinker/outlier pitchers cost more than fastball/control pitchers, etc. It would be a way to balance the meta and add diversity to teams that you'd play. Captains that could reduce the penalty against cap for players that are on that captain team.

Then for tribute cards or certain programs they can give a low cap hit or for out of season card a higher cap hit. There are a lot of options they could adjust through the year and seasons could shift the meta throughout the year keeping it fresh.

Then have events as the god squad mode where you can use any player from seasons and keep it more arcade-style.

Events are brutal. Currently,1-2 and the one win I have went 8 innings.

I agree.