What do you suspect will B changed in '11?

[bdhill78]

Re: What do you suspect will B changed in '11?

Hi from a newbie. I've been playing this game since 2008, and the constant improvements they've made have made me confident that the 2011 edition will be really good. MLB 10 was almost there, but two things are keeping it from realizing its full potential:

1. The 2013 problem, and its a big one. I hope and pray that the free agent and trade logic gets revised.
If they don't have three-way trades, fine. But there's got to be something that can be done to keep teams from being stupid, or give away established players for free. Being able to edit potential ratings would help a lot. Another thing I've thought of is that each team can have so many "face of the franchise" players. For example, the Mets would have Jose Reyes, David Wright, Johan Santana, and probably even Ike Davis marked that way. These kinds of players couldn't be traded by the CPU. Dealing with 30 teams is pain in the keester.

2. This is a minor issue, so if its not solved, then I don't care, but the padding on catcher's facemasks (the old style) are not tan anymore. They're the team's primary color (i.e. navy blue for the Yankees or the Twins).

3. A set up so that you can get a scouting report on the team for your next game. Who's hot, injuries, details on the pitcher, etc.

4. Ability to fire managers/coaches before your franchise starts, or pre-season. I would've loved to fire Jerry Manuel and Dan Warthen before my franchise even started!

5. Finally, even if they can't put the full career stats on the player's cards, can we at least have the teams added? It would be a very nice addition.

A bit of ethnic pride here, but more common Polish names! Polish-Americans have had a huge role in MLB (Al Simmons, Stan the Man, Yaz, etc...)

Another idea (sorry for sounding like a wishlist here) is to add player personalities. Clubhouse culture does play a part in the game, and having players labeled as a leader or as lazy or something would add to the realism of the game.


Cheers!

[Scooter3]

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A bit of ethnic pride here, but more common Polish names! Polish-Americans have had a huge role in MLB (Al Simmons, Stan the Man, Yaz, etc...)

I would be happy if the last names Luzinski and Kazanski and the first names Stan, Kirby and Sandy were included in the 2011 game.



scooter...

[travis72]

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I would like to see them get the minors league player correct. I knoe they cant use there names but if they could do what I have heard 2k does with putting the player hieght,throwing arm and side he bats from plus hwere he was born at in. that would go along way to making roster making easier. I also heard that if he is from say Japan he will have a name that resembles that of a Jappaneese descent.

[BravesBoy]

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Really would love to see Create a Franchise mode. Where you can choose the city, stadium, mangers, player from the expansion draft pool, set goals to achieve during the franchises career and etc...This would put the game over the top imo, it gives you your own created team and build your franchise using the players you start with, and build into a super power!

[CuseGirl]

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Both pitching interfaces fail at giving a good balance between user skill and pitcher attributes; the meter is based too much on user skill (I can pinpoint fastballs no matter the control ratings), and classic fails because it's completely determined by pitcher attributes.

I feel like the game is exact opposite of that. I'm not gonna lie, I'm not a hardcore baseball gamer, I wanna challenge but I don't want too much thinking and I dont like feeling demoralized after 2 innings of play. So it's a little frustrating when I'm working with a Sabathia or other ace leve pitcher and I hit the yellow bar in the meter and my best pitch becomes a meatball for some bum on the Royals lineup. So I fiddle with the sliders a bit, I win some, I lose some, but my successes equal my failures, less controller banging.

My main gripe is the goal system. I'm sorry, if you're a 7 or 8 year veteran, especially one who has no competition for their spot in the lineup, you shouldnt have to work on the drag bunting to satisfy the manager and worry about being benched for missing a few hit-n-run signs. I'm sure Manny Ramirez missed every hit-n-run given to him because he swung at pitches in the zone that he felt he could put a charge into.

Also, the amount of talent needs to limited in franchise and RTTS. That way, when free agency comes, big time players get bigtime contracts in the offseason. I signed 4 straight one-year deals with the Chicago White Sox because I wanted to be a Yankee once I became a free agent. I got one deal from Chicago, a 5 year lowball deal and no other offers. Had to sign with the Yanks in spring training. Now, obviously, it's not real but I was really looking forward to picking thru contract offers from the high payroll teams, maybe even rebuffing my favorite team for the Dodgers or Phils. No dice. No 22 million for the best player in the league.

And if it's possible, they need some type of gameface mechanism, so I can put my mug in there or a friends mug.

[Skyboxer]

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I just hope they aren't putting all of their hopes in the "3-D" basket, because I can care less, and I'm not alone.

Some do care..and they aren't alone either...
Bottom line:More options the better.

[EnigmaNemesis]

Re: What do you suspect will B changed in '11?

Some do care..and they aren't alone either...
Bottom line:More options the better.

Yeah, and I would not worry about it either. Ramone made a post saying that 3D was done early on and has been done. It does not effect the development process in other areas at all.

[Goose158]

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I have been asking for this for years and I know some might feel it is not important, but I would love to have the ability to upload player photo's for the minor league players and created players. I just prefer the players real face to a computer generated or roster makers one ( Not taking anything away from the unbelievable work of Knight & co.). I would also like to see high profile names be included such as Ackley, Hosmer etc. Alot of the standout minor league players last names are not available in the database.

[Spider Tre]

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the last name "Griffey" to be added in the audio database. they left it out for create a player in '10 for some reason :\

oh and fix the Gold Glove award canidates. either an Oriole or a Brave wins the gold glove awards!

[Scooter3]

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I would like to see the last name Strawberry and first name Kirby added to their name database..

Wish they would combined all names first and last to one database that we could use for either first or last names.
Some names cross over.

Plus add all the legendary names that SCEA offers to the name database.

scooter...

[dgrfan]

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Better swing follow throughs and more organic feel to hitting. i wanna see some kind of load mechanism where you gotta get back. I think it will help the feel of hitting and it will really make you think twice about the off speed stuff. 10 was just too robotic. I mean, when you think of the greats, a beautiful swing is what you remember. Griffey, Ted Williams, these majestic swings. Now, the homerun swings look pretty good, but if replay just any hit , the guys arms look funky and they roll over to soon and theyre too upright. then, they follow through with their bodies leaning forward. Not good. To me, this is fundamental to a great baseball game. If the feel of hitting is there and the swings look perfect, it would go a long way.

[Maxflier]

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One thing they absolutely HAVE to address is the stupid stuff that happens during fielding that costs the human player runs.
Two of these stupid occurences just happened to me in a playoff game, one of which was the first time I have even seen it (and I played an entire 162 game season). The first thing was the CPU gets a couple runners on with one out and I get the batter to hit a routine DP grounder to my short stop but all of a sudden as the ball is about halfway to him, my short stop (who it shows I have control of) turns his back and runs toward the OF letting the ball go right by and of course scoring a crucial run when I should have been out of the inning.
The other time the CPU hits a grounder that my first baseman fields and he just stands there and waits for the pitcher to come cover, cannot throw or make him run to the base. I just have to sit there and watch the runner make it safely to first when I could have easily run over to the bag for the out.
So those type of things along with the outfielders going into slow motion, or doing weird unnecessary stuff (like making love to the OF wall before they turn and throw) absolutely NEED to be fixed. I hope they don't just keep that crap the same for next year and actually take the time to fix those issues.
***Edit*** Oh, and one other thing I forgot that happens on occasion. A pitch will get by the catcher so I start jamming L1 to send my runner from 2nd to 3rd, he takes off but when he is about halfway he will take it upon himself to pause for a brief moment, giving the catcher just enough time to throw him out at 3rd.

[Pared]

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Are you using any sort of assisted fielding?

[Maxflier]

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The only things I change out of the box are to turn off guess pitch and switch baserunning to the lesser of two evils (classic), everything else is default.

[antilowpe]

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Ok so please re-do the whole confidence system.

This is THE thing that bothers me a LOT.
It seems the confidence is different if I am the pitcher or if it is the CPU.

I make 10 outs in a row (5 K's) and my confidence is not maxxed out.
The SP comes here, records 2 K"s on the first 3 batters and you have Cy Young on the mound, each count will start 0-2 or 1-2 and every call is for him.

Please change that.