The core purpose of the mode is to enjoy the season experience without having to play a full season or worry about the complexity of managing a franchise. It’s ‘season lite’ if you will. Some people enjoy it for that.

It’s not irrelevant to them at all.

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...

Just feel like sharing something positive, I just PB’ed my local 5km parkrun track, smashed my previous best (at which I had hit a plateau) by 44 seconds! Last August when I started I was over 31 minutes now I’m down to 21:13.

I can’t wait for parkrun to start up again, it is an awesome thing to be a part of. Feels great and it’s all free! Joining, when it’s back up and running in your area, is highly recommended!

@MadderBumgarner said in SDS Dev "Brian SCEA" comments on hitting:

This pattern they get into ever year with comparing changes they make to real baseball is so frustrating. Remember that stream they did showing clips of real baseball?!?

This is a game that is meant to be fun! Why not measure changes needed based on feedback from YOUR COMMUNITY instead of "user stats data analysis" feedback?

Was it fun? Yes. Is it fun now? No. Well that's all the feedback you need Brian.

The quantitative telemetry data is 100% accurate and unbiased and represents 100% of the player base. Qualitative feedback (from forum posts here and OS etc) has a high risk of bias and represents less than 1% of the players (on this forum it’s probably less than 0.1%).

@pogibana said in We need Something New!!:

Yea Yea Yea just what we need. Add more garbage when the stuff we have now is only half done. How about instead complete the stuff added already first. Like being able to call your agent instead of waiting for him, social media that actually works, and a personality thing that that makes sense

Three of his four ideas revolve around current content in RTTS being improved to make them more worthwhile.

I’m all for all of the above except the online play idea. I can see multiple RTTS worlds colliding somehow in the future, but not quite like that.

New post on my blog. Don't know how to embed so I'm just duplicating it here.

https://redtedisback.blogspot.com/20...e-players.html

I never played Online Franchise mode in MLB The Show

I must preface this post by saying I wasn't fortunate enough to play Online Franchise mode in any of The Shows before 17. The cumbersome and slow interface was a massive turnoff (I did try) but more importantly with my terrible internet connection at the time, I was a liability.

So yes, I'm Standing On The Outside looking in. If I were to claim that the former Online Franchise mode was a load of carp, my opinion would be irrelevant and worthless and you would be 100% right in calling me out.

Online Franchise players, you need to play Custom Leagues

Call me what you will, but this is my rational explanation of why I believe that if you want to play Online Franchise mode in future versions of MLB The Show, you're going to have to play Custom Leagues.

I understand the disappointment that Custom Leagues is not OFM. Not yet. It will eventually evolve into something that will be a suitable and superior replacement to the former mode (preparation for this is obvious - multiple seasons), but it's going to take time (eg there WILL be a draft in The Show 21 or 22, the platform is in place already). Trying to squeeze too much into a release is inviting all sorts of problems (too much code to test, not enough time to test it).

The mode needed to appeal to more than just those who previously played OFM. If not, then it wouldn't have been resourced, simple as that. The sum of the combined user bases for the online and offline Franchise modes together did not compare to that of the DD user base. So it had to start with something that would appeal to all heavy users.

If you played Online Franchise mode previously, you are in the best position to steer the Custom Leagues mode in the direction it needs to go. You have all the experience of what worked in the former mode and what didn't. And you are leagues ahead of the players who have never played a league-based baseball game.

Custom Leagues feedback and telemetry data

Does a chef value more the diner who tried the meal and took the time to give honest feedback? Or the person who turned up their nose at the restaurant and kept walking?

Whose opinions and suggestions will the developers take on board to improve the game?

Those players who refuse to play the mode and therefore have no experience in what works in Custom Leagues and what doesn't?

Or those who have taken the time to play the mode, provide the devs with their quantitative gameplay data and can provide qualitative feedback based on their experience with the mode?

My prediction is that a good proportion of Custom Leagues users will come from the DD user base. If that is the majority of the feedback then that's where the majority of changes to the mode will originate. If you want Franchise features in Custom Leagues, you're going to have to play the mode.

If you don't, you'll be Standing On The Outside looking in.

Juan Lagares too, he’s awesome.

@DrIuigi said in 1.09 Patch Discussion:

@aaronjw76 said in 1.09 Patch Discussion:

@REDSMAN09 said in 1.09 Patch Discussion:

Just had a ball hit off my CF chest in what should have been a routine fly out

How about some video captures of these events? Video evidence helps a lot more than talk.

I've always loved this about SDS... "please provide us video" for [censored] that is easily reproducible

Too many variables for each unique situation; which players in which positions, how early/late the was ball hit, what exit velo, launch angle, what type of pitch, what direction the fielding player was running from, what fielding interface was used, which park, where in the park, what route efficiency, did the user switch fielders, how far was the fielder from where they fielded the ball when the ball was hit, what was the ‘first step’ reaction of the player like, how quickly did the user react...

Its either provide all of this information and more so they can ‘easily’ reproduce the scenario, or provide a video.

Also insisting on video evidence weeds out the trolls (not referring to anybody specifically) who just make up [censored] just to be [censored]s.

@MikeTrout__ said in 1.09 Patch Discussion:

@Pringle_Nation said in 1.09 Patch Discussion:

Here is my post patch experience so far.

Disclaimer: ALL these clips were taken post patch in the past couple of days!

https://youtu.be/OAy33X7XjRA

@Collin_SDS watch these clips and inform your patch team. Nobody wants to pay big bucks to complete collections and make progress with this game if our cards can’t lock on to a fly ball in the year 2020. You guys are a joke man especially with all the other GLARING issues like sinker timing windows and pitchers throwing the ball nowhere close the where you spotted it. most of us will be done with this game by June... MANY MANY MANY issues this game has. If you guys need a gameplay tester I’d be more than willing to jump onto the team and test the game before releasing this broken garbage every year. Sony fire these guys!

Pitching broken
Fielding broken
Sinker timing windows broken

Unusual way to gain employment with them, let us know how you go.

@zickefoose said in HUD layout during game:

@Red_Ted_is_back said in HUD layout during game:

It’s the MLB the Show presentation mode, not the MLB Network one. Depending on game Mode you can choose it before you start a game (when you choose weather and time of day).

I swear it randomly appears for either option. I thought the same thing but it doesn't always come up for me regardless of the option chosen. You're saying for you, it will be there when you choose the Show option? The box even says mlb. Com in it.

As I play RTTS mostly I don’t choose which presentation mode. Which game mode are you playing? Is it just the batter stats that don’t show up or the whole scorebug (score, innings, outs, pitches etc)?

The logic is that it would have been a lot more development time and work to accommodate the DD side of things. First rule of software development is to start small and don’t try and do too much too soon.

No doubt there will be some more features in Custom Leagues 2.0.

Similar experience here. I find that the more confident I get after multiple hits, the earlier in the count I will swing, which means I’m doing the complete opposite to what got me on a roll in the first place.

Yes I believe so, save it to the cloud on your PS3 and then retrieve from the cloud on your PS4. Must be same year of game though (ie 16->16).

Think I figured out the reason.

It appears that the bug is caused by the game recording every game in a series (regardless of whether the RTTS player played in that game) as a game with/against, and adding the actual games the RTTS player participated in. So if the RTTS player played in two games of a best of three series, the games with/against would increase by five instead of two.

Not sure if this happens only for catchers or any other position players. I am fairly certain it did not happen with my pitcher who I played through until 2029.

It’s the MLB the Show presentation mode, not the MLB Network one. Depending on game Mode you can choose it before you start a game (when you choose weather and time of day).

https://youtu.be/0pZZabB5bPU

Definitely been a problem since at least TS19. I logged a bug report last year. It’s simply because the CPU teammates are shifted but there’s nothing coded in to take it into account for the RTTS player, either all of the time or under certain circumstances such as when a lefty is batting or for the SS only or combination of circumstances.

Possibly deactivate your primary PS4 online on the Sony website, then set it up as primary using your PS4. Look into it first though to see if there are any risks in doing so.

In The Show 20, started an RTTS catcher after playing until 2029 season with a pitcher.

Noticed that the relationship progress bars are increasing much faster than they did with my pitcher, so much so that almost all teammates were friends after around 50 games in AA.

Progress for my pitcher, as well as a CF I played in The Show 19 was much slower than this.

At first I thought it may have been because it was a catcher and simply because of his role, however I noticed games with teammates are way higher than they should be. For example, saying I’ve played 143 games with some teammates when we’re only 82 games into the season.

See below clip as evidence:

https://youtu.be/5RujZtnpfBQ

Not featured in the clip are games against players on other teams are also way higher than they should be.

Anybody else experiencing something similar with any RTTS player?

That’s hilarious, check your player’s year to year history (can’t remember what it’s called) in the menus - the one that shows your first hit, first HR etc and which teams you’ve played for... what does it say there? Anything about a trade?