RTTS career progression too fast

[Aviator87AC]

Is anyone else finding RTTS career progression too easy? I was a modest draft in the 7th round with little to no future in the majors. I did well enough my first year at 3B and SS to be noticed and was promptly promoted to AAA. I did good, but not that good. After the first year I was roughly a 67 overall and then without a word began the next spring training season in MLB. Coincidentally, the Nationals (my team) had traded their MLB 3B so I was the starting man out of the gate as a rookie in my 2nd year.

Normally I wouldn't complain, but the problem is I wasn't good enough to be at that level, so I slumped hard and performed poorly. There was no option to ask for an option into the minors so I just kept playing so bad they were forced to move me down. To be honest, this is pretty immersion breaking for me - there really needs to be a more realistic progression and instead of being forced to move up to MLB, you should be given the choice, at least at first.

Thoughts? Similar stories?

[Jr.]

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It isn't realistic being asked when you want to be called up to the majors.

[Stolm]

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RTTS has been on a downward spiral for the last few years if you are looking for an immersive, realistic experience.

I don't agree that you should have a choice about how the team uses you though. If I could just go up or down whenever I wanted, that would be more immersion breaking then being brought up too soon.

[Davee926]

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Drafted in first round by rockies, starting pitcher. 7 starts in AA and got called up to majors. Lost interest, haha.


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[rollerpig79]

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Got drafted by the Astros as a 1B. Boy, was I ever lucky there. Great team and they could use a good 1B. After 22 AB I got promoted to AAA. After 10 games there I started using a 20 game XP booster because it was so frustrating to play for a team that was so bad. On June 2 I got called up to The Show and I've been raking it ever since. In hindsight I probably should've skipped the XP booster because even if we sucked it was a lot of fun. Not that I'm not having a good time now but it was different. A lot of games with runs in the double digits. I remember one game that ended with a 17-15 win. You don't see many of those in The Show.


So yeah, I agree. In retrospect.

[dalger21]

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I think a lot of that is the result of not being able to start off in places like Rookie A ball, Single A, etc. It would take a lot longer if those leagues where in the game.

[aarondmsu]

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I've also seen people complain that it is taking too long for their player to progress. I think this is one of those "damned if they, damned if they don'ts." They'll never be able to please everybody on this one. Maybe they could implement a progression slider of sorts so as to let you have some degree of control over how hard or easy you want progression to be.

[Aviator87AC]

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I think a progression slider definitely needs to happen. Few things I should have mentioned in my OP - I play with no perks, no showtime on all-star everything. I built my player as a fielder first, batter second - which means my contact hitting was pretty benign in the beginning making for a gritty baseball experience. This is realistic, yet I still got called up my second year.

I'm on my first option down to the minors so we'll see how long they keep me here. My overall has gone up to a 77 adjusted and I'm killing it in AAA - feels good to be "good" again

To the guy saying it's not realistic to ask when to be promoted to the MLB, it is entirely UNrealistic to be called up to the MLB so soon. This is a conversation you'd typically have with your coaches and organization. My assumption is that nobody would turn down the opportunity to play prime time if they had a choice, if for no other reason than the pay grade increase, so instead of providing dialogue options, SCE just made it automatic. It would just be nice if there was a little more you had to do to get there.

[the_future420]

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I kinda feel the opposite. My guy is now a 89 overall, been hitting .375+ in AAA all year while the starting 2B for the A's is only a 72 overall. Seems like I shoulda been called up 3 months ago. Right now, my RTTS player is the highest rated in the whole organization and still sitting in AAA. What makes things worse is that the A's are only 4 games out of the wild card so my player could be in the majors helping the team push for the final playoff spot but instead I'm toiling away in the minors while hitting like Ted Williams.

[orion523]

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I think a progression slider definitely needs to happen. Few things I should have mentioned in my OP - I play with no perks, no showtime on all-star everything. I built my player as a fielder first, batter second - which means my contact hitting was pretty benign in the beginning making for a gritty baseball experience. This is realistic, yet I still got called up my second year.

I'm on my first option down to the minors so we'll see how long they keep me here. My overall has gone up to a 77 adjusted and I'm killing it in AAA - feels good to be "good" again

To the guy saying it's not realistic to ask when to be promoted to the MLB, it is entirely UNrealistic to be called up to the MLB so soon. This is a conversation you'd typically have with your coaches and organization. My assumption is that nobody would turn down the opportunity to play prime time if they had a choice, if for no other reason than the pay grade increase, so instead of providing dialogue options, SCE just made it automatic. It would just be nice if there was a little more you had to do to get there.

RTTS has a "progressive difficulty" system, where if you have the game set to "All-Star" you're actually playing on Veteran in AA, All-Star in AAA, and Hall Of Fame in the Majors. Another way to stay in the minors longer is the manually "Cap" your progression: To do that simply go through each club's AA roster and make a note of the highest rated players, use that as a guide for your "cap"
Triple A same thing. Doing this should give you at least a couple of seasons in the minors, maybe more. A good challenging set of sliders helps as well. One more thing, equipment: use only bronze and silver while in the minors, this also stops you from progressing unreasonably.

[jgthedon]

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I kinda feel the opposite. My guy is now a 89 overall, been hitting .375+ in AAA all year while the starting 2B for the A's is only a 72 overall. Seems like I shoulda been called up 3 months ago. Right now, my RTTS player is the highest rated in the whole organization and still sitting in AAA. What makes things worse is that the A's are only 4 games out of the wild card so my player could be in the majors helping the team push for the final playoff spot but instead I'm toiling away in the minors while hitting like Ted Williams.

What difficulty r u playing on?

[Aviator87AC]

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RTTS has a "progressive difficulty" system, where if you have the game set to "All-Star" you're actually playing on Veteran in AA, All-Star in AAA, and Hall Of Fame in the Majors. Another way to stay in the minors longer is the manually "Cap" your progression: To do that simply go through each club's AA roster and make a note of the highest rated players, use that as a guide for your "cap"
Triple A same thing. Doing this should give you at least a couple of seasons in the minors, maybe more. A good challenging set of sliders helps as well. One more thing, equipment: use only bronze and silver while in the minors, this also stops you from progressing unreasonably.

Great info! I like the idea of manually capping yourself and stashing points. You could then dump them in when you start getting close to the "cap" from mandatory point progressions. You could even allow skill regressions in order to extend your minor league career.

I kinda feel the opposite. My guy is now a 89 overall, been hitting .375+ in AAA all year while the starting 2B for the A's is only a 72 overall. Seems like I shoulda been called up 3 months ago. Right now, my RTTS player is the highest rated in the whole organization and still sitting in AAA. What makes things worse is that the A's are only 4 games out of the wild card so my player could be in the majors helping the team push for the final playoff spot but instead I'm toiling away in the minors while hitting like Ted Williams.

That's a crazy experience and not at all mine. Have you been waived or optioned too many times? I wonder if you cannot be called up now due to too many roster moves.

[the_future420]

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That's a crazy experience and not at all mine. Have you been waived or optioned too many times? I wonder if you cannot be called up now due to too many roster moves.

Its definitely weird and I don't understand it.

I've only been optioned once, and that was by another team earlier in the season. Since then, i was trade twice. What makes it even weirder is that the A's made changes to clear out 2B for me. Once they traded for me, they then immediate traded Lowrie so 2B was wide open for me to take. They basically remade the roster for me ( i was traded for Sonny Gray) only for them to leave me down in the minors while they have the worst starting 2B in the majors.

[Limadawg]

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My starting pitcher was drafted in the 3rd round by the Cubs. After 6 starts and a 2-1 record I get called up to the majors. In that little of time I haven't had a chance to build up my players attributes so I stink. But they keep me in the starting rotation for that year and the next year before moving me to middle reliever.

After 5 years I get traded to the Angels but as a middle reliever. Finish season with them then get released and put on free agent market. So I sign with the Dodgers. Started out as a middle reliever but have worked my way into the rotation. Crazy but fun.