Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

[EnigmaNemesis]

Yo, that's because people who play manage mode don't go online and because what we call manage mode is simply managing the game in franchise mode.

I would love to see your competitor incorporate release a deep franchise and manage mode with good graphics and watch how fast SCEA goes running to fix the game.

I repeat, you have no idea how many people are playing the game in manage mode.

Oh but they have no such mode. Shows how important it is even to the competition.

Every year sacrifices have to be made. And the least played mode will have to be again not put on the forefront. That is not to say tweaks and bug fixes are not made every year.

[CMH]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

As SCEA has finally admitted, they just don't care.

All right, all right. Relax, please.

You have access to people that work for SCEA. They are kindly answering your questions and telling you why they don't think the mode is used by many gamers.

I understand that you disagree - that's fine. But, avoid the little shots at the company. You can try to sell it like you're just telling the truth, but I'm not blind. I can read between the lines here. Relax with the comments.

If you really want SCEA to improve the mode then show them why it would make a difference. The only thing I've seen is you saying: "You don't know how many people use MoM."

Well, do you? Because if you do, why are you keeping this information silent?

[WAZ]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

PLAYER EDITOR:

Will it be possible for them to add FIRST NAMES to the selectable list of Last Names for audio?

The commentators already refer to players by Last Name, even if you don't select a first name. That's great, except for many players their first name is the only thing available in the commentary so we never hear our name. The names are already in there, and the game is already programmed to use the list of last names for PBP.

So by adding first names to the list of last names, I could set my LAST name in the commentary to "Chris" -- which would be a nice change of pace from Vasgersian calling me "Fatty".

Alright Chubby, I'll check.

M.K.
Knight165

Sorry to hijack if this was already answered... I scrolled through a few jillion pages of replies and didn't happen to see it. Any chance this was addressed? Thanks!

[Knight165]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

Sorry to hijack if this was already answered... I scrolled through a few jillion pages of replies and didn't happen to see it. Any chance this was addressed? Thanks!

No interchange of the audio bases.....
Sorry.
Perhaps we can persuade them to allow first and last names(databases) to be available for either in the future.

M.K.
Knight165

[Qb]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

Knight, did you ever hear back from SCEA regarding the CPU not putting their manually injured players on the DL? I was reminded of it when playing around in my single-team Bucs franchise last night. Saw Wainright still sitting in the "Injured" section, but not on the DL, with the major elbow injury I gave him.

Thanks

[Knight165]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

Knight, did you ever hear back from SCEA regarding the CPU not putting their manually injured players on the DL? I was reminded of it when playing around in my single-team Bucs franchise last night. Saw Wainright still sitting in the "Injured" section, but not on the DL, with the major elbow injury I gave him.

Thanks

I didn't(I did send them an e-mail).
If it's not fixed on the initial release...hopefully this is something they could patch.
With the fixes I saw to the other aspects of franchise mode....I think I might go with a single team franchise myself(as well as a 30 man.....because I just can't help myself in "fixing" things !!)....

M.K.
Knight165

[Qb]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

That's encouraging. As much as using 30-team control to mirror real MLB happenings within my Pirates franchise sounds like an engaging way to play, it has to be a lot of grunt work. <strike>Maybe if I ditch the wife & kid</strike> And there's something to be said for the immersion factor of single-team and making your own decisions along the way.

If I may ask, what specifically has you leaning towards single-team control? I think I have a good idea based on what we've already heard, but I'm hoping you might slip up and give us some new insight.

[Knight165]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

That's encouraging. As much as using 30-team control to mirror real MLB happenings within my Pirates franchise sounds like an engaging way to play, it has to be a lot of grunt work. <strike>Maybe if I ditch the wife & kid</strike> And there's something to be said for the immersion factor of single-team and making your own decisions along the way.

If I may ask, what specifically has you leaning towards single-team control? I think I have a good idea based on what we've already heard, but I'm hoping you might slip up and give us some new insight.

Honestly, it's just from playing the game and seeing the teams now handling their young players properly(signing them!!! ).
It will depend on how you feel about trades and lineups as to whether you will go with this or not. Me...I just let it be....doesn't bother me no matter what I see!

M.K.
Knight165

[Qb]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

For the most part, I'm at that point as well. Lineups in past years never really bothered me, although if they are more typical of MLB strategy in '12 that's a plus. I'm fine with player movement as well, with a slight exception for the Pirates. But I'm getting better about just playing the game for what it is as the grey hairs appear.

[nomo17k]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

I imagine there are always people who want to reflect whatever happens in real life (I'm not one of them), so for those guys there perhaps should be an option to somehow fix or lock certain lineups (although needless to say there must be ways for CPU to handle injuries and auto fix), or even change it manually for each game...

While AI improvements are always welcome, I personally feel the effort now should be directed more toward implementing managerial tendencies (which include lineup tendencies) than trying to perfect one and only one AI.

Not everyone agrees with what a manager does even in real life, so the benefit of allowing manager tendencies is that, whatever weirdness that you feel about lineup is going to be because of manager tendency. And you cannot blame a manager for having a unique thought! As long as there will be reasonable variations and differences, it will actually be more fun seeing different lineups.

[greenngoldbaseball]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

I imagine there are always people who want to reflect whatever happens in real life (I'm not one of them), so for those guys there perhaps should be an option to somehow fix or lock certain lineups (although needless to say there must be ways for CPU to handle injuries and auto fix), or even change it manually for each game...

While AI improvements are always welcome, I personally feel the effort now should be directed more toward implementing managerial tendencies (which include lineup tendencies) than trying to perfect one and only one AI.

Not everyone agrees with what a manager does even in real life, so the benefit of allowing manager tendencies is that, whatever weirdness that you feel about lineup is going to be because of manager tendency. And you cannot blame a manager for having a unique thought! As long as there will be reasonable variations and differences, it will actually be more fun seeing different lineups.

I would love that. I feel like now it doesn't really matter who manages the team, save for a slight rating bump. I would love to face a team like the Red Sox that have a long ball strategy one year, and then face them with a different manager that prefers more hit and run style. Or a myriad of other play styles based upon the manager. That could also affect free agent signings and player morale. Uh oh. Did I get a little ahead of myself?

After that, maybe even owner tendencies (I think it was OOTP that had this) in which the budgets are defined by the owners. New owners would change budgetary demands. I will stop now before I go too overboard

[h2oPr00f]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

I apologize if this was asked already

is the franchise mode restricted to 162 games? or is it finally adjustable?

Thanks again!

[Knight165]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

I apologize if this was asked already

is the franchise mode restricted to 162 games? or is it finally adjustable?

Thanks again!

Just like real life.

M.K.
Knight165

[h2oPr00f]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

lol thanks!

was hoping i can do a "lockout" length due my time constraints these days. oh well, guess i'll sim a bunch of games!

looking forward to this Vita connectivity..damn you Sony..damn you..

[Knight165]

Re: Community Day....FRANCHISE and EDITOR

lol thanks!

was hoping i can do a "lockout" length due my time constraints these days. oh well, guess i'll sim a bunch of games!

looking forward to this Vita connectivity..damn you Sony..damn you..

Haha....

Maybe that can add that as an option one day!

Owner lockout...this season will only be 112 games!
Or maybe like the split season and have the Nationals banned from the playoffs no matter how many games they won in each half!

M.K.
Knight165