Team Affinity, best practices?

[Fiddy]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

Just won the world series with the Rangers, got Gallo. Hmm, who to snag next.

[hyacinth1]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

You can do either. It takes less innings online it takes 250 for play vs cpu

problem is im terrible online. it'll be like 10-0 and the game will end. i see what you're saying as im 115/150 for online innings w/ wsox players.

I created a new DD team w/ all WSox. all 25 men on the roster. I'm at 125/250 for the offline portion. so it should be 81 points for me every game I play vs cpu if i understand this correctly.

[hyacinth1]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

Just won the world series with the Rangers, got Gallo. Hmm, who to snag next.

did you do on vet or all star?

[papadell]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

problem is im terrible online. it'll be like 10-0 and the game will end. i see what you're saying as im 115/150 for online innings w/ wsox players.

I created a new DD team w/ all WSox. all 25 men on the roster. I'm at 125/250 for the offline portion. so it should be 81 points for me every game I play vs cpu if i understand this correctly.

Yes 81 innings a game if all players used are the team. Just make sure you let pitchers go the whole inning. If you sub a pitcher out in the middle of an inning it doesn't seem to count the innings for some reason. Usually takes about 3 games to hit 250.

[Fiddy]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

Almost got the Rangers Team Affinity 6 pack, lets see if this will be a waste as well. LOL

[Fiddy]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

Almost got the Rangers Team Affinity 6 pack, lets see if this will be a waste as well. LOL

Update. Got nothing. One gold again!

[hyacinth1]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

Update. Got nothing. One gold again!

i got the affinity pack somewhere too and same w/ me, nothing.

[Fiddy]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

i got the affinity pack somewhere too and same w/ me, nothing.

I had been reading somewhere people were having great pulls on those 6 packs and of course I open three of those 6 packs and get nothing. Lol.

[hyacinth1]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

Does Affinity not count for casual online? I just did a casual online game w/ all wsox players and got no innings for online or the repeatable 250.

[JoshC1977]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

Does Affinity not count for casual online? I just did a casual online game w/ all wsox players and got no innings for online or the repeatable 250.

No, just "regular" online games, games vs CPU, and Conquest. Casual online or games vs friends could theoretically be exploited (i.e. colluding to make the game go quicker/longer to rack up the innings).

On a semi-related note, I actually filed a report with SDS requesting that team affinity innings be able to be collected from games played via "Extended Innings". You can't really exploit that and given the paucity of content this year, that might be something needed.

[LastActionHero]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

I opened a bunch from the conquest map and bought a couple random ones in between games and didn't pull anything of note. I think a couple cheap golds

Well you at least got some golds, I have not gotten anything better than silver player [emoji19]

[buziii]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

Which is preferred for spamming team innings for TA, RS or Play vs CPU? Pardon the acronyms!

I usually load up players from the team or teams I'm working on and play RS. I don't mind losing about 2/3 of my games, it still seems fun and the games are usually close unless I play one of the aliens. I haven't played much vs CPU because it seems boring. I assume you get more XP and Program Stars with RS, but I haven't paid attention.

[Fiddy]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

I go to extended play vs CPU and play a game on rookie.

I put pitch control on classic.

I score a few runs in the first inning.

Then bunt for outs the rest of the game.

9 innings takes like 20 minutes to snag you 81 overall innings.

[papadell]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

Which is preferred for spamming team innings for TA, RS or Play vs CPU? Pardon the acronyms!



I usually load up players from the team or teams I'm working on and play RS. I don't mind losing about 2/3 of my games, it still seems fun and the games are usually close unless I play one of the aliens. I haven't played much vs CPU because it seems boring. I assume you get more XP and Program Stars with RS, but I haven't paid attention.

I think you get more XP from RS as well as contributing to the online bonus for innings. So you're basically working towards close to double points on innings in RS.

Personally I still prefer PvCPU for innings grind because they're way quicker. If I'm literally just spamming innings then I can get a quick lead and just bunt through the game to make them even faster. And even when I want to play a straight game it still goes way faster than playing RS.

So I would say it's dependant on your personal time vs efficiency balance. For me, I want the inning grinds to be quicker if I'm working on something specific. You still get a decent amount of XP if you put up big innings and I use it to practice my pitch sequencing and meter with specific pitchers. So it's not a complete waste.

Ranked you will earn more but it will probably take longer.

[buziii]

Re: Team Affinity, best practices?

Thanks for the ideas.

The PvsCPU idea is a good one, if you just want to spam innings quickly. I enjoy playing the games, but it does take a while on RS. And according to a kid I just played, I contribute to that by not swinging at everything! He sent me a message after about 4 innings, with me leading 1-0. He told me to swing the f'n bat or "we wilbhere 4 an hour". I simply responded "Throw it in the zone". I'm guessing he was a kid that has never played real baseball, or isn't even old enough! I won 1-0 BTW.

I guess I'll try your idea occasionally to speed up the process.