State of DD

[BigOscar]

Re: State of DD

If Cox's lower division games were on lower difficulty, then better players wouldn't want to play in them as the skill gap is much smaller at the lower difficulty levels, as the PCI is huge and the pitch speed is slow. Better players wouldn't want to drop below AS at the very least, probably wanting to play at least HoF if they genuinely were any good, otherwise their skill would be negated anyway

[brunopuntzjones]

Re: State of DD

I would really love to see them find a way to distinguish between dashboarding and legitimate loss of connections or mitigating the problems dashboarding causes for the player it happens against (loss of stats, etc). One way they might be able to avoid this is making friendly quits count, so that people have more incentive to accept them. (As is a friendly quit offer after runs are on the board is a major dick move.)



Quitting or dashboarding should have more serious consequences if you're doing it a competitive game. It's a massive problem with this game's community.


Qutting/dashboarding an event or BR game should immediately end your entry. A certain number of quits/dashboards and you are banned from entering for the rest of that event/BR cycle.


Quitting/dashboarding could also drop you down a full rewards level in RS every time, with a similar stipulation that a certain number of quits/dashboards locks you out of the remainder of the season (and puts you back in Spring Training for the next). A skilled player who deliberately drops down to feast on inferior competition might be less likely to do it if they're risking their future rewards.


Also, they need to make it so you can drop all the way to 0 if you keep losing. Being stuck in the regular season kind of sucks! If I can't hang I would rather fall back to the beginning levels to get myself back on track, rather than being a doormat for people on their way to higher levels of play.

[BigOscar]

Re: State of DD

I would really love to see them find a way to distinguish between dashboarding and legitimate loss of connections or mitigating the problems dashboarding causes for the player it happens against (loss of stats, etc). One way they might be able to avoid this is making friendly quits count, so that people have more incentive to accept them. (As is a friendly quit offer after runs are on the board is a major dick move.)



Quitting or dashboarding should have more serious consequences if you're doing it a competitive game. It's a massive problem with this game's community.


Qutting/dashboarding an event or BR game should immediately end your entry. A certain number of quits/dashboards and you are banned from entering for the rest of that event/BR cycle.


Quitting/dashboarding could also drop you down a full rewards level in RS every time, with a similar stipulation that a certain number of quits/dashboards locks you out of the remainder of the season (and puts you back in Spring Training for the next). A skilled player who deliberately drops down to feast on inferior competition might be less likely to do it if they're risking their future rewards.


Also, they need to make it so you can drop all the way to 0 if you keep losing. Being stuck in the regular season kind of sucks! If I can't hang I would rather fall back to the beginning levels to get myself back on track, rather than being a doormat for people on their way to higher levels of play.

THe problem they have always had with that, is that their servers have always been terrible, so it's tough to harshly punish players disconnecting. It's not really possible to differentiate between different ways of quiting/disconnecting either unfortunately (even if you managed to figure out dashboarding, people would instead just turn off the console, or yank out the internet/power etc)

[Kenzojoe]

Re: State of DD

DUUDDDEEEE!!! YESSS!! SOO ANNOYING!!

It's not the timing window per se. SDS seems to have tightened the speed offset between fastballs and other pitches. I'm fairly sure they mentioned this change on-stream pre-launch, but am not 100%. But in practice, I DO see a difference compared to '19; far too often on default settings, I'd be sitting FB, swing early on a realistic speed CH (i.e. one that is 6-7 mph below FB speed) and still be right in front of it for a hard hit pull swing.

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[hyacinth1]

Re: State of DD

Ive not played in a week and it's been fine. I am still checking the news and see they've added a new conquest so as an offline player thats a positive. when i get the urge to play again , at least there should be enough offline dd content for me available.

haven't given up on THE SHOW game this early in a while.

[nymets2020]

Re: State of DD

Ive not played in a week and it's been fine. I am still checking the news and see they've added a new conquest so as an offline player thats a positive. when i get the urge to play again , at least there should be enough offline dd content for me available.

haven't given up on THE SHOW game this early in a while.

I just don’t get why u have to be an online player to build great team. Why can’t I build a great team to use offline like in madden?

[NDAlum]

Re: State of DD

I just don’t get why u have to be an online player to build great team. Why can’t I build a great team to use offline like in madden?

What? I am not currently enjoying the state of DD...but goodness this is highly inaccurate.

[papadell]

Re: State of DD

Yeah I'm not sure exactly what Madden does but you can definitely build a good team in The Show. You get so many free packs that even with bad luck you can sell off everything and buy into certain players you might want. They give out endgame cards just for playing in XP rewards and even though I feel like a lot of the moments are complete bull**** and not worth the time, if you're really trying to grind offline then you can fill out your roster with low level diamonds for free.

I think The Show is a bad game. I think SDS is a bad developer. But I think they have a great cache of cards for offline players to build teams with on top of the free packs you accumulate.

[BigOscar]

Re: State of DD

Yeah cards and their availability aren't the problem with this game, it's that the developers seem to put them above everything else. No substance, just lots of cards and packs thrown at you