Weren't you the one who, last year, complained about the game all year long and swore that you were not buying the game this year?

I still can't believe they accumulated all of the data in beta and probably spent months tweaking hitting and coming up with Perfect/Perfect and then decided to throw out all that work and tweak hitting only a few days after release.

Before Launch:
"We here at SDS worked hard all this offseason to come up with a new hitting dynamic. We even had a beta period to test it and receive feedback from players. We used that telemetry and feedback to make further tweaks in order to make things even better for our release"

2 days after official launch:
"We are going to take a few days worth of telemetry, when everyone is playing on the easiest difficulties, mix that in with some player complaints and abandon all the telemetry we gathered and work we did prior to launch."

Here is where I stand as an offline player as of last night

• Completed Starter Conquest
• Complete list 1st Inning Conquest
• Completed US Conquest
• Completed Starter Showdown
• Made Several failed attempts at the 1st inning Showdown
• Did all of the Welcome Moments
• Did all of the first inning Moments (Granderson and Woods)
• Did the Eckersly Evolution moments.
• Did a MTO run up to the World series(have not played the world series as it would be a waste of affinity points)
• Earned the FOTF from my favorite team.
• Played the nine inning CPU games against Cubs and Yankees. (Woods and Granderson)

I am sitting at 205 program points.

There are only a few options open to me to get the final 95 points. Showdown, which I have failed badly at in every attempt so far, and that costs 500 stubs each attempt. Collections, which also cost stubs, but in this case both collections together are more expensive than just buying the three bosses outright. Mindlessly grinding for another 30 hours or so in the last 9 days of the 1st Inning Program.

Basically the goal of 300 stars still seems so far away and the options to get there seem so unappealing (and just not fun) that it has killed a bit of my desire to keep playing.

@skepple15 said in Showdown is a carnival game:

@mike_ph said in Showdown is a carnival game:

@skepple15 said in Showdown is a carnival game:

https://ibb.co/6vhK9Gy

Supes hard and rigged...

Like what is the point of this? Does everyone on here have to be a massive piece of [censored] person constantly? I also beat the NL east showdown, should I be a massive asshole towards people who havent too? [censored] dorks.

Every day

Showdown is rigged
Showdown is impossible
Showdown is the worst thing this franchise has ever done
Everything I hit in showdown is a line out
SDS doesn’t want me to get X player

There are better ways of dealing with other players frustrations than by simply throwing your successes in their face. That just makes the situation worse.

@PhillyRunt44 said in First year playing DD now I'm hooked....:

@D_e_m_I_s_E said in First year playing DD now I'm hooked....:

You didn't luck into pulling those diamonds. It is a way to get first year players hooked. People that get a lot of diamond pulls tend to be:
Streamers - So the players watching can see the packs are "lit" and go out and by themselves. Also gives the streamers the best chance of being successful.

1st time players - To get them hooked. If you have a decent record, let me know how this plays out the next few years.

Bad players - To give them better players to try to help them out.

Now, you could not be in any of these and get diamonds but I think it is really rare. These are all marketing ploys which are intended to increase sales.

You are probably correct. My first thought was wow this is pretty cool. But now, just starting out and trying to advance through playing games having to play against teams that their lineups are entire diamond rated it kinda sucks. I will still continue to play, it just makes it less fun trying to do it the right way no money spent and having to face lineups like that.

Don't listen to him. He never has anything good to say about the game. He is in a abusive relationship with the game but he can't seem to walk away.

Enjoy your team and have fun with the game. That is what matters the most.

@D_e_m_I_s_E said in First RS game in a while. Every pitch down the middle. What a joke. Quit the game.:

I would rather watch paint dry.

And yet, you still play every day, start new complaint threads daily and have invested over 120 hours in something you have complained about daily for almost a month.

I can't imaging what mental state I would be in if I forced myself to spend an average of 4 1/2 hours a day doing something that I hated.

Yeah, I am not doing it for the Snell card as I won't do the collection. The idea of buying cards that I don't want or won't use in order to get a pitcher with a questionable BB/9 skill is not a wise investment of my stubs or time.

So I have been slowly picking up Cardinal players but out of the more expensive ones I had only picked up Flaherty and Goldschmidt, passing on Miller because over 3,000 stubs for a low gold reliever, even a lefty seemed a bit too much.

Today, I earned my first pack for 9 logins (thanks double dailies) and low and behold the last card is a gold card. I flip that sucker and sure enough, it is Miller! Score.

I slot him in to my lineup and go play a stronghold game in conquest against the White Sox on veteren difficulty, beating them 7-0. I get to the post screen reward and I am shocked to see a diamond card listed there. It is only the second time in my years of playing that I remember seeing that. I decide to remove the cards one at a time to see how long the game was going to tease me but when I get down to 2 cards the diamond is still there. I remove the last card and I am shocked that I earned the diamond.

Welcome to the team Ronald Acuna Jr

I expect my luck is done for the year.

@GradektheBard said in New Showdowns:

@louieepthree said in New Showdowns:

Either they nerfed showdowns cuz people complained they couldn't beat them.. orr they nerfed them cuz we complained about Future Stars as TA2 and wanted us to actually get them done... hmmmmm

Or, they nerfed them because the data showed the success rate was awful.

Ah, a voice of reason!

I am sure they have tons of data on the first batch of showdowns (at least I hope).

• How many people started
• How Many people completed
• How far the average user advanced
• How many attempts people made
• How many people started it, failed and never went back to try again

They are not basing decisions on complaints alone. Especially around here because people complain about everything.

If you only adding fictional characters then Jim Morris needs to be removed. If that is not the case then you have to start discussing the actual greats that have appeared in films. Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, and Shoeless Joe Jackson,

@Rabid55Wolverine said in Class Action Lawsuit:

Haha class action lawsuit. It always amazes me when people bring that up.

Me too, but it goes back a long way in gaming.

A close second mention that makes me chuckle every time is a change.org petition.

I failed miserably on my first attempt. Went through the early missions fairly easily. Crapped out on the missions in the second half and then could not buy a hit off Kershaw. I'll try it again. It may have been an off day.

This makes me sad. I was actually in the stands the day Lou Brock broke the single season stolen base record.

I mainly play offline on veteran. I finished all of the All-star moments but am struggling to hit with on HOF.
When your not a good hitter then it can be a struggle.

I'm not sure I have enough speed guys to make a lineup with.

Nope. I probably won't hit 300. I only did about 220 last inning.
I mainly just want the 150 point Carpenter card for my Cardinals Squad

I have not been on the forum for a while. I did not realize that they were special occurrence sorry if the question was previously asked

I was just looking at the Show Nation Site under inventory for the Cardinals and found these two players

Austin Dean (99 Diamond)
https://theshownation.com/mlb20/items/c0e52e8868a002b463ebdd2864690629

Edmundo Sosa (99 Diamond)
https://theshownation.com/mlb20/items/a995795c7192b460ec822e04cf90c03e

They are not in the game yet but are these two new upcoming rewards in Team Affinity or something?

I just checked the Cubs and they also look like they have two 99 prospects as well.

@DoIHearBossMusic said in SDS where are the Cardinals big bosses?:

They got Covid too???

We just had Stan!!

We were spoiled last year. This year has not been bad either.

Stan Musial (99)
Rogers Hornsby (99)
Lou Brock (98)
Ozzie Smith (95)
Yadi (98)
Dylan Carlson (97)
Nolan Gorman (95)
Jim Edmonds (91)

Been hit and miss for me. Won the MLB, AL and NL games and then came up to the NL West and Dustin May just owned me.

Decided to switch to individual teams for an easier evening and proceeded to have a 10 inning game against the Braves that I finally walked off. I just could not get anything to drop.

And I have to admit that I have been thinking about Directional. I have been very patient and working the count in my favor so direction might help.