Minor League Pitchers Still Throwing Too Many Strikes (RTTS)

[Stolm]

Kinda bummed this is still an issue after so many years.

Every year I have the exact same experience at the AA and AAA levels in RTTS. Pitchers will pound the strike zone, I almost never see back to back balls, and most strikes are high in the zone or right down the middle.

I would expect more wild pitches, trouble finding the strike zone, hit batters, just a general lack of command in comparison the the Majors. But no, these minor leaguers seem to have incredible control, throwing strike after strike.

It's not until I actually get called up to The Show, where I actually start walking regularly, and the game actually starts to feel like real baseball.

I expect this is some kind of weird "difficulty control" implemented in AA and AAA to increase the amount of hits the player has a chance to get in the minors.

All it actually does is make the minors incredibly boring.

I'm not interested in fiddling with sliders constantly as I get called up, I just wish they would fix the control issues.

[bcruise]

Re: Minor League Pitchers Still Throwing Too Many Strikes (RTTS)

Kinda bummed this is still an issue after so many years.

Every year I have the exact same experience at the AA and AAA levels in RTTS. Pitchers will pound the strike zone, I almost never see back to back balls, and most strikes are high in the zone or right down the middle.

I would expect more wild pitches, trouble finding the strike zone, hit batters, just a general lack of command in comparison the the Majors. But no, these minor leaguers seem to have incredible control, throwing strike after strike.

It's not until I actually get called up to The Show, where I actually start walking regularly, and the game actually starts to feel like real baseball.

I expect this is some kind of weird "difficulty control" implemented in AA and AAA to increase the amount of hits the player has a chance to get in the minors.

All it actually does is make the minors incredibly boring.

I'm not interested in fiddling with sliders constantly as I get called up, I just wish they would fix the control issues.

What difficulty are you playing? I may have something else to say depending on that answer - it's not some kind of idle question.

Also, I know you mentioned both AA and AAA, but which level are you noticing it on right now, that prompted you to create this thread?

[Stolm]

Re: Minor League Pitchers Still Throwing Too Many Strikes (RTTS)

Currently I am in AA on All-Star.

[bcruise]

Re: Minor League Pitchers Still Throwing Too Many Strikes (RTTS)

Currently I am in AA on All-Star.

That's kinda what I figured.

Basically, if you're playing RTTS on the normal All-Star setting, you're actually on the equivalent of Veteran while you're in AA, and everything that comes with it including the CPU's tendency to pound the strike zone a little harder. if you move the difficulty up a notch to HOF you'll be playing on the true All-Star level and should see the CPU be a little more cautious with its pitching. Once you promote to AAA, lower it back to AS - that will keep you on the actual All-Star level. And on MLB level lower it again to Veteran, for the same reason.

If that doesn't help enough, try lowering strike frequency a click or two - that's helped some people to play on Vet in their regular franchise games. It won't lower the frequency of balls where it really counts - the late counts - but it will help set up a few more late hitter's counts and hopefully induce walks.

Good luck!

[duc748s]

Re: Minor League Pitchers Still Throwing Too Many Strikes (RTTS)

Definitely give what Bcruise said a try and see if it helps out. I think he gave this advice before and I tried it and it helped a lot with the game play.

[orion523]

Re: Minor League Pitchers Still Throwing Too Many Strikes (RTTS)

Play on Dynamic Difficulty. By doing that you get a true "difficulty level" as opposed to the staggered difficulty that is defaulted in RTTS. By the time I was 20 games in I was up to All-Star+ and then the mashing stopped. Now every single AB is a chess match, I love it.