Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread

[trackstar121388]

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My flamethrower pitcher just threw a 101 mph fastball!

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[My993C2]

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My RTTS SS is a player created from scratch in MLB 18 and one I have played fast games with where only my fielding, plate and base running appearances are played, is five games away from the All Star break. I likely will play these five games tonight once I get home from work and I am curious to see if he will get promoted and if he is promoted will he be going to the Show or will I be proven wrong and do people actual get promoted to AAA. He's presently sitting at a 67 OVR and ironically he too plays for the Mississippi Braves (not sure what it is but the Braves have drafted three of the four RTTS players I created). This guy has done well at the plate. Approaching the All Star break he is hitting about .330 with 3 home runs and 32 RBIs. He's not bad in the field. But personally I don't think his fielding is where it needs to be playing in the Show.

I want to be wrong. I would love to see him promoted to AAA. He's ready to be in AAA. But if he's not promoted into AAA, believe it or not I would rather see him stay in AA for the rest of the season. He's kind of my BP player for my main RTTS 2B player described earlier. However I don't want him to go to the Show yet. Defensive he's not ready and if he rides the bench for X number of gaming years, he never will get better.

[Robo COP]

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Has anyone had any sort of success being in a closer role? I feel like I haven't heard anyone talk positively about their experience when choosing the closer role yet.

Wanted to make one, but might just go SP if nobody is really having success choosing it.

It could be your sliders or something you can fix by tweaking the sliders. Some slider settings seem to have little effect while others can massively change our game play experiences. I use Armor and Swords slider recommendations with some minor tweaks made to them.

I'm on default sliders, which was my point. Seems to be an issue with the game. (it just happened to me again, which is why I remembered to come back here)

So I've been trying to give this game a second chance and have fun with it but it keeps fighting at every opportunity. Seems like there is a bug that makes every training session give you the same options EVERY TIME, either that or the devs failed to program the system that's so supposed to randomize the options (which I won't rule out considering we're talking about SDS here). My plate discipline has been stuck at 55 for three seasons because it never lets me increase it (I swear it would be 99 by now if it weren't for these stupid soft caps they have). I've pretty much memorized the 9 options I'm actually allowed to train, half of which are just repeats or combinations of attributes that appear multiple times. Really starting to wonder if this game was even released in a finished state. Going to look really odd and immersion-breaking when my Contact, Vision, and Fielding are 99 and everything else is stuck at 55 and lower because I'm apparently banned from training anything else.

As somebody else mentioned, you can save scum it. It does get a little annoying, but it works. Just have to make sure to turn auto save off.

For me if I wanted to stay with the Pirates (the team that drafted me), their only plans were for me was to be their closer for my rookie year at the MLB level and at least for the start of my 2nd year to continue to be their closer. Perhaps at some point during this 2nd year, I might have gotten my wish to be put back as a starter, but I never bothered to find out as I did not want to waste time playing the game to find out if they would or would not change me back. It was bad enough that I played all the games as their closer in my rookie 2017 year only to be told by my agent prior to the start of 2018 to tough it out.

But luckily for me, another scenario was available for when I rejected the 2nd position swap request and that was that the Pirates traded me to the Padres (this exact trade happens at the exact same time in MLB 17 as well as MLB 18, so it was clearly scripted into the game). So yeah I do get to play the position I want to play. I get to be a starting pitcher and I do go get to hit in the game (a huge reason why I wanted to be a starter). Only problem is, is I am doing this all on a last place team. I am however optimistic that the 2018 Padres will be a better team than they were in my 2017 rookie season when they only managed to win 53 games.

I'm in year 2 on the padres and it looks like we may be on pace to contend for a playoff spot. That said, that is also because my player is putting up MVP numbers

[trackstar121388]

Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread

My RTTS SS is a player created from scratch in MLB 18 and one I have played fast games with where only my fielding, plate and base running appearances are played, is five games away from the All Star break. I likely will play these five games tonight once I get home from work and I am curious to see if he will get promoted and if he is promoted will he be going to the Show or will I be proven wrong and do people actual get promoted to AAA. He's presently sitting at a 67 OVR and ironically he too plays for the Mississippi Braves (not sure what it is but the Braves have drafted three of the four RTTS players I created). This guy has done well at the plate. Approaching the All Star break he is hitting about .330 with 3 home runs and 32 RBIs. He's not bad in the field. But personally I don't think his fielding is where it needs to be playing in the Show.

I want to be wrong. I would love to see him promoted to AAA. He's ready to be in AAA. But if he's not promoted into AAA, believe it or not I would rather see him stay in AA for the rest of the season. He's kind of my BP player for my main RTTS 2B player described earlier. However I don't want him to go to the Show yet. Defensive he's not ready and if he rides the bench for X number of gaming years, he never will get better.

I think it's interesting that you've been drafted by mostly the same team I have don't think any of my players have been drafted by the same team.

And like I mentioned my SP in for the Mets spent 1/2 a season in AAA

[trackstar121388]

Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread

Has anyone had any sort of success being in a closer role? I feel like I haven't heard anyone talk positively about their experience when choosing the closer role yet.

Wanted to make one, but might just go SP if nobody is really having success choosing it.



I'm on default sliders, which was my point. Seems to be an issue with the game. (it just happened to me again, which is why I remembered to come back here)



As somebody else mentioned, you can save scum it. It does get a little annoying, but it works. Just have to make sure to turn auto save off.



I'm in year 2 on the padres and it looks like we may be on pace to contend for a playoff spot. That said, that is also because my player is putting up MVP numbers

I have a carryover CP that is having success but that doesn't necessarily apply to this year's game.

All my sliders are on default.

[BenBobOmb]

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After the first season the Padres invited my 2B/CF to Spring Training and kept him in their MLB Roster but he only had 5 starts and was used as a Pinch Hitter/Runner for the rest of the first regular season month. In the 5 starts they played him as a Center Fielder and a 2B man alternately.

I guess they didn‘t know where he would fit so they decided to trade him to the Diamondbacks for a low-rated SP. He plays as a starter at 2B. His agent asked him about the trade and he was glad that the badly losing Padres moved him to Arizona.

I wish they would change him back to CF though.

[My993C2]

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Looks like I was wrong. haha ...

My RTTS SS just got promoted to the Braves Gwinnett Stripers AAA squad after the AA All Star Game.

September call ups are next? or Spring Training?

I hope the same thing happens to my main RTTS 2B guy. But I am about a month away from finding out.

[trackstar121388]

Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread

Looks like I was wrong. haha ...

My RTTS SS just got promoted to the Braves Gwinnett Stripers AAA squad after the AA All Star Game.

September call ups are next? or Spring Training?

I hope the same thing happens to my main RTTS 2B guy. But I am about a month away from finding out.

I didn't get moved to the MLB till spring training

[dman08]

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I was wondering if anyone is having trouble turning double playsw their middle infielders in rtts. I'm a ss and i thought it was my fielder rating at first but now i have that at 77 and there's always a hitch before he throws to first. Almost like I'm not preloading the throw but i always preload my throws. Anyone else having this problem

[JoseJoseph9119]

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Anyone having an issue with where they bat in the lineup? My Blue Jays 2nd Baseman is a 92, coming off a season that he hit .315(2nd in the AL) with 31 HRs, 95 RBI, and a league leading 66 steals, but I’m still hitting 8th. Now, our order is stacked(OSFM Vlad Jr., Tellez, and Bichette have all developed, and we signed Bryce Harper, Cespedes, and Lorenzo Cain) but there’s no reason I shouldn’t be anywhere in the top 5 spots regularly. I only get to bat high in the event of injury. It was cool during my second season since it was my first year starting, but we’re in spring training and they haven’t changed it. What do I have to do to get moved up?

[Robo COP]

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I was wondering if anyone is having trouble turning double playsw their middle infielders in rtts. I'm a ss and i thought it was my fielder rating at first but now i have that at 77 and there's always a hitch before he throws to first. Almost like I'm not preloading the throw but i always preload my throws. Anyone else having this problem

I am not. At SS and have no issues

Anyone having an issue with where they bat in the lineup? My Blue Jays 2nd Baseman is a 92, coming off a season that he hit .315(2nd in the AL) with 31 HRs, 95 RBI, and a league leading 66 steals, but I’m still hitting 8th. Now, our order is stacked(OSFM Vlad Jr., Tellez, and Bichette have all developed, and we signed Bryce Harper, Cespedes, and Lorenzo Cain) but there’s no reason I shouldn’t be anywhere in the top 5 spots regularly. I only get to bat high in the event of injury. It was cool during my second season since it was my first year starting, but we’re in spring training and they haven’t changed it. What do I have to do to get moved up?

I think that batting order is largely based on ratings but I may be wrong. So even though you’re hitting really well the CPU may be interpreting your hitting attributes as worse?

I’m only in year 2 and usually bat somewhere in the top 5 (padres though), so I’m not really sure what else it could be

[My993C2]

Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread

Anyone having an issue with where they bat in the lineup? My Blue Jays 2nd Baseman is a 92, coming off a season that he hit .315(2nd in the AL) with 31 HRs, 95 RBI, and a league leading 66 steals, but I’m still hitting 8th. Now, our order is stacked(OSFM Vlad Jr., Tellez, and Bichette have all developed, and we signed Bryce Harper, Cespedes, and Lorenzo Cain) but there’s no reason I shouldn’t be anywhere in the top 5 spots regularly. I only get to bat high in the event of injury. It was cool during my second season since it was my first year starting, but we’re in spring training and they haven’t changed it. What do I have to do to get moved up?

If you were on a NL team, I could make an argument for why it would be good to put a good hitter in the 8 spot especially when the rest of the squad has talent at the plate as well. But on an AL team, my argument would make no sense.

[My993C2]

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Just an observation on simmed games versus played games. Not sure how many people here are simming games thinking they don't have the time to play the games and thinking simming will get them to the MLB faster. Oh and let me preface this by saying when I say "played games", I am NOT talking about playing full games where everyone bats and fields every pitch in the game. No I am simply talking about the basics of playing your fielding, batting and base running appearances.

Anyway there are a number of YouTubers out there playing their RTTS series and I have been watching some of the videos as an insight as to what may happen to my RTTS players when I get to the same stage of my RTTS careers. Many of these YouTubers sim their games ahead on the schedule thinking that it will help them get to the majors faster. But this does not appear to be the case. I won't name his name, but one of the YouTubers who sims games on the schedule made it to then end of his first season and his player was still in AA at an OVR of 69. Contrast that to my RTTS SS where I have played every game and in the middle of June, my player is an OVR of 68 and just got promoted to the AAA squad. As long as you play well in your games where you are progressing more than regressing, we earn progression points much faster when we play the games versus simming them and expect the game to give us free progressions. In other words it appears that we need to put a certain amount of time into the game and are you really saving time by simming because it will take you players longer to get to the Show and you still need to go through all the training progression cut scenes regardless if you are simming or playing the games.

So if you are someone who sims games, please I am not telling you to not sim. It's your time, it's your game. You can play it anyway you want. It's just an observation that simming does not actually appear to save you much time.

[Robo COP]

Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread

Just an observation on simmed games versus played games. Not sure how many people here are simming games thinking they don't have the time to play the games and thinking simming will get them to the MLB faster. Oh and let me preface this by saying when I say "played games", I am NOT talking about playing full games where everyone bats and fields every pitch in the game. No I am simply talking about the basics of playing your fielding, batting and base running appearances.

Anyway there are a number of YouTubers out there playing their RTTS series and I have been watching some of the videos as an insight as to what may happen to my RTTS players when I get to the same stage of my RTTS careers. Many of these YouTubers sim their games ahead on the schedule thinking that it will help them get to the majors faster. But this does not appear to be the case. I won't name his name, but one of the YouTubers who sims games on the schedule made it to then end of his first season and his player was still in AA at an OVR of 69. Contrast that to my RTTS SS where I have played every game and in the middle of June, my player is an OVR of 68 and just got promoted to the AAA squad. As long as you play well in your games where you are progressing more than regressing, we earn progression points much faster when we play the games versus simming them and expect the game to give us free progressions. In other words it appears that we need to put a certain amount of time into the game and are you really saving time by simming because it will take you players longer to get to the Show and you still need to go through all the training progression cut scenes regardless if you are simming or playing the games.

So if you are someone who sims games, please I am not telling you to not sim. It's your time, it's your game. You can play it anyway you want. It's just an observation that simming does not actually appear to save you much time.

Very much this. I think you forgo in game progression if you sim so you're only getting training opportunities to progress. People got too used to years past where you would get training points for your stats in simmed games

[ingey1968]

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you still get credit, just not nearly as much as playing, not even close however just using the training will advance you pretty well. I myself like to play, use in game progression the first year and use training for nothing but caps in year 1. allows me to spend a couple years in minors . when i used training for building my player in year one, i was a 67 over cf on the tigers and couldn't hit to save my life.