@minutesmusic said in Felipe Vasquez:

@eatyum said in Felipe Vasquez:

I had him in my bullpen a couple times, but never used him. It's just easy to forget to edit the bullpen when starting a new run. So having him in the bullpen alone doesn't mean anything. Only if you use him.

Many have lately. 3 today alone. Gross.

Just throwing a random number out there but don't be surprised if only 10% of the game's user base is aware of his indiscretion. That leaves 90% who would use that card without being aware that their opponent could object to it and why.

Enjoy the game knowing that you're taking a stand based on principles and respond by getting on base whenever that card is played.

Many ideas, several that can be streamlined in RTTS, Franchise and M2O (and season mode if it returns, and it should) if they all run from the same platform:

1. Promotion/demotion based on performance and other RTTS universe variables, not attributes. If I’m batting below Mendoza for a couple of years straight I shouldn’t expect a spot in the starting lineup or even in the Majors the following year just because my attributes are higher than the AAA guy (bear in mind I have limited knowledge of roster movement rules).

2. IL return through rehab assignments.

3. Make a big thing of spring training and a spring training invitation, especially for a AA and AAA player.

4. More off-field meaningful interactions:

extend the use of relationships and personality. These have a great platform to build from. Make the social media tweets more useful and interesting (and fix up the bugs in the management of them).

Interactions with team Manager, GM and agent should be user-controlled (there used to be an option to speak to your team manager) with the occasional auto one.

When you have a really bad game or a really good game (eg player of the game good) have a media interaction. This can impact upon relationship with GM/Franchise team mates, oppo players and fans.

Other off-field interactions also.

5 Awarding of attribute points to continue the way it is, but after a game ask the player if they would like to allocate the points to the default attributes (current method) or choose themselves to which attributes they are assigned (old method). This meets the needs of those who want to create a god and those who prefer it to be more real.

More to come...

I'm so impressed with what the presentation team has done with implementing Heidi this year, considering it was a brand new feature.

It was smart design to have Heidi visibly speaking for the intro (although not a dealbreaker, I agree adding another 20 or so intros would be great, to give more variety) and then switch to on-field action and stats for the remainder of the piece, so that syncing becomes a non-issue.

The Heidi commentary is featured across multiple modes (Franchise, RTTS and M2O, not sure about others as I don't play others) which again comes down to smart design but more impressively the depth and dynamicness(?) of the commentary is simply staggering, considering it's the first go at it. The commentary content draws from a range of in-game and season stats and I'm still hearing stuff I haven't heard before (caveat: I've only played about 30 franchise games, it was previously six seasons of RTTS and three M2Os).

If the Heidi content was added to for 2020, I hope it's player spotlights, and goes into more depth than the current player spotlights in the line up and defensive commentaries from Dan and Mark. My thoughts are that the dynamic logic behind the Heidi commentary will be the way forward for the rest of the commentary team and the old logic will be phased out. We've started seeing more dynamic commentary over the last couple of years and it's improving year to year. We may even see an all new commentary team in The Show 21 with all new logic.

I'm willing to bet that two or three commentary teams will be in either 22 or 23 also. If the money side of things can be worked out. I don't do audio mixing so I'm no expert but from a programming perspective, the biggest hurdle with implementing commentary that I can perceive is getting it to sound natural when inserting player names into the sound clips.

Sorry if I've hijacked your thread but I was going to create my own with my thoughts on the above but then I saw this one and figured great minds think alike.

Probably will be back, if you enjoy other game modes and you still want to purchase 20 just play the other modes instead. Do you enjoy any others? (Franchyze mode perhaps?)

1. Reintroduce inside the show back into RTTS.

2. Include in all season-based modes a daily text summary that includes milestones and other highlights from the day’s games, something that was previously in Franchise (on a smaller scale) but was removed in 18 for no apparent reason.

3. Reintroduce to all season-based modes the newspaper stories that were in the game up to 10 or 11 The Show and were removed.

I can't contribute to this conversation because I avoid Moments but I do need to point out I am really enjoying your civilised discussion, thank you to you both.

1. Again, all season-based modes, updates (text only is fine) from around the leagues within the pause menu, or even in-game. Such as no hitters in progress, career or season milestones, hit for cycles etc. To do this, other games happening on the same day would need to be simmed throughout the game in progress rather than at the beginning.

2. Give access to sliders for trade frequency, injury frequency etc.

A system that gives option for both old and new ways to suit players who like either would be best.

@eatyum said in Moments in 20:

It would make the 25% upset, because they want a challenge. If you make moments that all the 75% can do, it's not a challenge.

Well everybody should have the opportunity to complete them, it's just that some might need weeks (like me from the sounds of it) and some others hours (the 25% being referred to).

It puts too much stress on the servers and does not supply them with a great amount of revenue. It isn't good for business. It was the least played mode in 17.

According to the devs in the pre-The Show 18 streams, Online Franchise did put stress on the servers, and a contributing factor to why it was consistently played only by a small percentage of users would have been that it was so cumbersome and slow (because the server-side wasn't built with OF in mind). Other factors include the market moving towards a more casual approach to gaming, the rise of card-based team building, the online experience in the Show being pretty ordinary and laggy... others...

But they overhauled the server side of things for 18. It is probable that a more efficient way of managing OF was built into the new system (using the word system because I don't know what the right word is - engine perhaps?), or at least the door left open for it to be added. That is smart planning.

It will return, and in a tighter, leaner, more user-friendly form. Maybe not in 20, but definitely in the next-gen.

That's my guess, anyway.

Cue retaliation.

@eatyum said in Letdown:

@Spitfirex007 said in Letdown:

@mtcantwe said in Letdown:

I agree it’s a step forward. And I’m all about using classic fields if they add the Kingdome, Tigers Park, or hopefully Ebbets field. But when it comes to new ballparks. Don’t make the same mistake as Madden. Make different stadiums for different cities. Part of the cool thing about baseball stadiums, is the personality and uniqueness of stadiums. Build upon that

There is way too many cities to have a design for each. But they could do pre build stadiums for every region. Then a few that would fit just about anywhere. Or they could just put their time and resources into a [censored] create a stadium. Then we can create it to fit the area we want. Take a year off DD (like they do with Franchise every year) and get the mode in the game. Or at least something close it. I don't want to hear it's not possible on this hardware, when it was done in what 04?

"Take a year off the mode that makes them money year-round. Right.... that's a smart business strategy. Why don't we talk about something a little more realistic?

I literally just finished a blog entry about this very same dilemma a few minutes ago, then read today's posts to this thread.

My thoughts: https://redtedisback.blogspot.com/2020/02/mlb-show-21-create-stadium-prediction.html

I also posted it to TSN under General Discussion.

The following is the first of what will be many blog posts on redtedisback.blogspot.com related to MLB The Show and its future.

Background
We now know that (as predicted) MLB The Show 20's rebranding feature will incorporate the Diamond Dynasty team branding features.

Leveraging the DD team branding assets in Franchise mode is a simple first-step solution to a feature long-requested by its player base. It’s also step in the (right) direction of blurring the lines between the game’s two segregated platforms (DD and non-DD).

Despite being a mostly Franchise and strictly non-DD player, I’ve never supported the idea of a stadium creator in MLB The Show, or for that matter, the idea of rebranding/relocating a Franchise. I’ve always considered it a lot of effort for not a lot of gain. Personally I would prefer that Franchise resources be allocated to adding depth to some of the content already there to improve the immersion in what’s going on around the league.

However, now that franchise mode has rebranding v1 in The Show 20, my prediction is that rebranding v2 in The Show 21 will see the birth of a fairly simple ‘create a stadium’ in Franchise mode.

A realistic and possible 'create a stadium' feature
It’s half prediction, half suggestion, but to keep the idea in the realm of ‘realistic and possible’, the created stadiums could have the following features/restrictions:

• One generic stadium with set locations to add the customised team logo and name (eg top of dugouts or a billboard in the outfield).
• Outfield fences chosen from a set of three or four options.
• Fixed outfield depths.
• Fixed backstop and foul area depths.
• Non-editable grandstands everywhere except the outfield.
• Some stock standard assets available to choose from to place beyond the outfield fences (eg billboards, stands, some kind of water feature, scoreboards, big screen).

This way the actual playing area will always be the same (with the exception of the outfield fence heights) and therefore there will be less chance of something going wrong in-game such as players or balls disappearing through walls etc because the playing area will have been heavily tested.

Created stadiums in online play
My next prediction is a bit of a stretch for 21, but we may see it in 22. If created the right way, this create a stadium feature will also pave the way for use of the feature in online modes as well. By limiting the assets used behind the outfield walls, it translates to a few dozen possible combinations of assets that can be indexed in the game itself so that the stadium you build is actually combination #5 or #20 or #52 with the home team logo simply added to the set locations (and if the feature is built so that it can be easily expanded upon in later versions, a few hundred possible combinations would be doable). This would mean that everybody would already have every stadium actually installed on their machines, and they don’t have to be loaded each game. I don’t know how much storage space a stadium takes up, but if it’s only a few MB then this is possibly the most efficient way to do it.

Resource justification
Perhaps including this in 21 isn’t ambitious - by incorporating it into DD at the same time and not classing the feature as a ‘Franchise’ feature, the devs can justify allocating resources to it and the Franchise resources could be freed up for improving the mode in other ways. It’s one way us Franchise players can look at DD in a positive way rather than complaining that DD gets all the attention.

@Spitfirex007 said in Horrible presentation of franchise:

I'm really close to doing the same. I've bought every MLB The Show for at least the last 6-7 years. But this year, I might just skip it. I'm waiting to see what was done to March to October. That mode showed promised last year. But it needs to blow me away before I even consider buying the new one. This mean's full roster control, being able to start with any roster I want. (updated) being able to do multiple seasons, better presentation etc.

Those are some good ideas to make M2O more engaging for those of us that don't care for the card rewards.

Let's hope they've done the roster control - in order to do that the rewards would need to be based on time spent playing and not winning the World Series which would be fine. Already it looks like they are rewarding team affinity points along the way which is an excellent start.

The multiple seasons is a great idea as well, it would need to sacrifice the opening video clip each subsequent year though, which is also fine.

@Rabid55Wolverine said in Always called up way too early:

@mitchhammond24 said in Always called up way too early:

They should make the difficulty of getting called up a slider you can change

This is the best way to fix this issue.

100% agreed. A slider that determines how much on-field performance impacts progression.

https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2020/02/12/mlb-the-show-20-shares-five-updates-coming-to-this-years-road-to-the-show-game-mode/

@Ikasnu said in Question about Show 17:

17 should be safe. Rumor is that 16 is getting shut down this year though.

16’s servers are shutting down in July, confirmed on TSN:

https://news.theshownation.com/articles/mlb-the-show-16-server-decommissioning/

17’s will probably be shut down next year, they will be watching closely how the online leagues are received by online franchise players in 20 and how it will be expanded upon in 21.

@SchnauzerFace said in New Rule changes coming 2020...do we see them in DD?:

I don't even see why this would be up for debate. If it's a new rule, there's almost no reason for it NOT to be in MLB:TS 20. The only exception would be the 3-batter rule for BR, but other than that ... what reason could SDS have for not incorporating new rules into the game?

If it is not a priority relative to the other things being implemented this year then it might be held off until there has been a season under the new rule just to iron out the real-life creases and any issues the rule might create for the game.

If it is incorporated, hopefully it’s a toggle in Franchise, M2O and RTTS, and that the toggle impacts both played and simmed games.

I’d be interested to know how it works in simmed games - whether it has been incorporated into the logic in those or not.

Biggest complication would be if you disable purchaseable packs you deny purchase of packs with earned stubs as well as purchased stubs. That would have to be sacrificed.

@eatyum said in Is this the END of Diamond Dynasty?!:

@Red_Ted_is_back said in Is this the END of Diamond Dynasty?!:

@eatyum said in Is this the END of Diamond Dynasty?!:

Not the U.S. market of course, and baseball obviously isn't as popular in Europe, they would just have to make a different version if they wanted to sell there depending on what happens.

Would they need to make a different version or could they simply not sell stubs in the EU PS store? Therefore removing the relationship between cash and packs.

I'm honestly not quite sure exactly the form it would take, as these are all based on proposed ideas from European lawmakers, nothing has really been set in stone yet. I'd imagine it'd be more along the lines of they can't sell the packs, people could still buy stubs and buy players directly from the market.

Good point... removing stubs from the store would stop that from happening. Didn’t think of that (I don’t buy stubs!). I guess it wouldn’t be too hard code-wise to disable purchasable packs in the game based on the user’s region. Obviously there would be other considerations like the possible market impact. Quite an interesting situation really.

Great post!