ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

[Flaxseed Oil]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

I'd like to see drafted players available to play as soon as you get them signed, not have to wait a year. I've drafted some guys that were ready for the bigs right away, but i had to wait until the next season to plug them in.

Also, I'd like to see a way to turn injuries off in the minors only.

[baseball66]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

The problem with that is handling minor leaguers who come up? Where do they fit in that logic? Take a big AAA power hitter who is promoted. If you designate a place in the order for him in AAA, what happens when he's in the MLs?

SCEA has known for some time about the problem with certain ML players who are leading off when they shouldn't be, etc. There aren't that many, but the have known about this.

Well i'm not really concerned about the minor leagues. If i'm using scea's roster give me the option to designate the batting orders if i'm controlling all 30 teams and i'll let the cpu worry about the minor league orders, if that's the way it has to be. Then if and when i call up a minor league player i'll then designate him his ML batting order placement.

[Knight165]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

Well i'm not really concerned about the minor leagues. If i'm using scea's roster give me the option to designate the batting orders if i'm controlling all 30 teams and i'll let the cpu worry about the minor league orders, if that's the way it has to be. Then if and when i call up a minor league player i'll then designate him his ML batting order placement.

He doesn't mean the minor league batting orders.
He means...what if a NON CPU controlled team calls up thier #4 hitter tagged with that spot in his batting order spot.

But I'm working on a routine that I'm going to present to SCEA for batting order logic.
We'll see.

With the CPU control on....I'm pretty sure they are going to get that fixed so the lineups stay with what the manage roster lineup screen is set for.

M.K.
Knight165

[x1Blumpkin1x]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

They need to do a bunch of things. I am a huge franchise guy (and I know there are bunch more of you). A lot of things bugged me. Why do I have a to hit X on every guy to see if they are on my 40-man roster? Sometimes I have 41 guys on there, and then the computer won't let me proceed until I fix it (which is good) but sometimes I don't want to find the guy to take off and I have them auto fix it, and all of a sudden I have some guys in triple-A, and my lineups are all messed up. They could keep the same roster page and put an asterisk next to guys on the 40-man, or make a whole new page for the 40-man.

That is all....................................for now!!

The manage roster screen has a column that states whether a player is on the 40-man roster or not.

On the topic of stats and roster management, I would like to see more stats and a better interface for stats. We are going into 2010 and HD displays, we can fit more data on the screen with smaller print. As someone mentioned an MLB.com like syle would be great. Let me set filters and things like that. Trying to sort out what I want from the one stats screen is annoying. I would also like to be able to get stats collected for a range of dates.

[jim416]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

He doesn't mean the minor league batting orders.
He means...what if a NON CPU controlled team calls up thier #4 hitter tagged with that spot in his batting order spot.

Yep, that's what I said.

The problem with that is handling minor leaguers who come up?

[TN - BRAVES FAN]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

Use the same lineup screen that's under roster control in franchise mode, and use it for the pre-game lineup screen too. It's annoying not knowing the batting averages before the game so I can make a lineup change if someone's not doing well at the moment. If I wanna know averages then I have to go back to the roster control lineup screen. Yes, I know I could look at the lineup in franchise, then write down the lineup from there, and adjust it in pre-game lineup...but that's not the point.

[Bat]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

Bus transportation.

[BatsareBugs]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

Less A-potential prospects being traded to a team's best rated middle reliever (Mike Moustakas for Dennys Reyes, really?). That's not exactly a playoff push move.

Teams in he playoff push should play off more on teams that are rebuilding. In my franchise I had almost always seen the Astros rebuilding and they have Carlos Lee, Lance Berkman, someone else, and Roy Oswalt on the block. One of the players is who the A-potential prospect should be swug to, not some reliever.

I hope they can get the CPU to do unbalanced trades for blockbuster deadline moves, such as the White Sox trading four pitchers for Peavy.

[Artman22]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

According to what you might mean....but there may or may not be a lineup glitch.
If you mean that with CPU roster control on...the lineups are changing from the set lineup screens(that you set on the roster control screen) are to what the CPU sees fit in game....they are working on that.

However...if you mean actual lineup logic...with CPU Roster Control OFF....the lineup logic takes over and quite frankly, it usually makes sense.
SCEA looks at it like this......if you simmed 10 years into the future and knew none of the players names....how would you want to see the CPU pick it's lineups?...would you want to see a player with Alofonso Soriano's attributes leading off? Hell no.
Now...that being said.....is it awesome....unbelievable.....never will miss? Certainly not...and hopefully they tweak the logic year after year adding/subtracting the way the CPU looks at it and decides on the lineups.

M.K.
Knight165

There is a line up glitch. I like to have injuries because I want a season/Franchise to feel authentic. Now because I play with injuries on I had to use a second ps3 controller in order to fix the CPU rosters before every game. I had to go online everytime to find team line ups and put them in the game I was playing. The process was VERY annoying and I hope to God they fix it. I know you have a set of rosters that fixes this problem with the expense of lowering player attributes which I wasn't too thrilled about. I appreciate all your efforts which are great, but I hope SCEA can fix this problem for 10. It would be nice to Allow cpu roster control with injuries and I'll be happy..

[Jgainsey]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

Use the same lineup screen that's under roster control in franchise mode, and use it for the pre-game lineup screen too. It's annoying not knowing the batting averages before the game so I can make a lineup change if someone's not doing well at the moment. If I wanna know averages then I have to go back to the roster control lineup screen. Yes, I know I could look at the lineup in franchise, then write down the lineup from there, and adjust it in pre-game lineup...but that's not the point.

Can't you just press triangle to bring up the player card at the pre-game lineup screen? I'm not 100% on this since I haven't played the game in a little while, but I think that's what I did in my franchise.

[x1Blumpkin1x]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

Also, I would like to see attributes moved from the bar to a numeric display. And is it possible to get a way to do side-by-side comparisons of players and their attributes? I would like to see something like that before I get involved in trades.

[broncaholic#27]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

Progression.

Progression.

Progression.

Progression.

Thats number 1 for me.

2 would be trade logic and maybe they could do something a little different with the pitching to switch it up but overall im so super stoked for mlb 10 the show

[Knight165]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

Also, I would like to see attributes moved from the bar to a numeric display. And is it possible to get a way to do side-by-side comparisons of players and their attributes? I would like to see something like that before I get involved in trades.

x1;

I'm sorry to say...I'm TOTALLY in disagreement with number displays.
1. I think it cheapens the draft and trade aspect of the game. It comes down to just clicking columns to see who is the "better" contact hitter...the "better" runner etc. Blech. Totally takes out the aspect of looking at the player on a whole and really cheapens the scouting aspect of the game which I think needs to be more enhance and leaned on.(as it is in real life). I actually asked SCEA if they would add an option to hide even the bars once a franchise is started. You'd have to rely on watching players performance and your scouting department. It would be much better if we depended on the SCOUTS numbers put on players(the better the scout, the more accurate the info).
2. I know this is a game and life is life....but if you can show me the number over Pujols head showing his contact/power ratings....I'm with you! We can't scream for realism on one hand and then have things like you asked for on the other IMO.
(don't hate me....it's just two opinions! )

Art1;
Again....if you mean with roster control on...yes there is a glitch.
But if you mean without it.....it's the roster logic and I don't think that's changing....agree or disagree. SCEA knows about the lineup screen to in game glitch with CPU roster control on. They are working on that.

M.K.
Knight165

[CubFan23]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

UGGGHHH, please get rid of the whole transportation thing. Also I would like to see better trade logic when it comes to buyers and sellers at the deadline

[x1Blumpkin1x]

Re: ONE thing that bugged you about FRANCHISE mode that needs to be fixed(NOT ADDED)

x1;

I'm sorry to say...I'm TOTALLY in disagreement with number displays.
1. I think it cheapens the draft and trade aspect of the game. It comes down to just clicking columns to see who is the "better" contact hitter...the "better" runner etc. Blech. Totally takes out the aspect of looking at the player on a whole and really cheapens the scouting aspect of the game which I think needs to be more enhance and leaned on.(as it is in real life). I actually asked SCEA if they would add an option to hide even the bars once a franchise is started. You'd have to rely on watching players performance and your scouting department. It would be much better if we depended on the SCOUTS numbers put on players(the better the scout, the more accurate the info).
2. I know this is a game and life is life....but if you can show me the number over Pujols head showing his contact/power ratings....I'm with you! We can't scream for realism on one hand and then have things like you asked for on the other IMO.
(don't hate me....it's just two opinions! )

I was referring to the fact that if you are going to have a display where you show the attributes (contact, power, etc.) for a player and their values, just show me numbers and not bars. It makes it too hard to compare two players. The bar just represents a number. The difference is purely aesthetic and nothing to do with the system.

I agree with you that relying on stats and scout values would be the best, and that they should vary based on the scout's skills. I love OOTP and they have some of that in the scouting/rating system. I was actaully just playing that game today.