First Candidate For MLB 13 The Show Cover is Bryce Harper, More Details Revealed

[Russell_SCEA]

Re: First Candidate For MLB 13 The Show Cover is Bryce Harper, More Details Revealed

Probably a little too early to ask this, but, will we finally be able to change potential as an option when editing players ? It's quite tedious having to copy/create a new player just to change potential.

Also *fingers crossed* it sounds like maybe we got a more true to real life dynamic potential/progression feature in.

No on changing potential as it would unbalance the game and cause some budget issues.

The game tries to keep the same number of A/B/C/D potential players in the league every year. So when a couple of A potential players retire it will generate new ones in the next draft and vice versa.

If we allowed users to change potentials there would be more than a few nasty side effects right now. The most important one is player contracts are largely determined by a players overall and if you started editing guys and making some extra A rated players 5 years down the line there will be some problems with budgets and highly rated players not being signed by teams.

[seanjeezy]

Re: First Candidate For MLB 13 The Show Cover is Bryce Harper, More Details Revealed

No on changing potential as it would unbalance the game and cause some budget issues.

The game tries to keep the same number of A/B/C/D potential players in the league every year. So when a couple of A potential players retire it will generate new ones in the next draft and vice versa.

If we allowed users to change potentials there would be more than a few nasty side effects right now. The most important one is player contracts are largely determined by a players overall and if you started editing guys and making some extra A rated players 5 years down the line there will be some problems with budgets and highly rated players not being signed by teams.

Damn, so the draft is still tied to retirements and contracts are still overall based... Not really what I was hoping to hear but oh well, I'm really excited about what has potentially changed about player progression/regression, hopefully its something along the lines of incorporating a proper age curve and making potential independent of overall... There needs to be a way to create high ceiling, low floor prospects!

[kennyacid]

or just kidding around.

M.K.
Knight165

Or just.... I've got nothing lol

[nomo17k]

Re: First Candidate For MLB 13 The Show Cover is Bryce Harper, More Details Revealed

Russell said hitting timing will be adjusted slightly in MLB 13 The Show to give batters a more satisfying payoff on solid contact. "You're going to see more offense like you do in real life," he said, addressing criticisms that The Show's rigorous contact physics last year made the game a station-to-station game of base hits for most novices. "If you square up on a fastball, it's going to be hit harder than it was before," Russell added. "People are going to be very surprised."

I hope this won't end up making the game overall easier though. (I'm one of those masochistic player who enjoys failing 70% of my at bats.)

Nothing against making it more approachable for beginners and I do think the Show should've been doing much more in that regard... something like PYS does introducing all the game controls with intro practice modes.

I feel the higher difficulty levels (All-star and above) are mostly well balanced the way they are.

[Bobhead]

Re: First Candidate For MLB 13 The Show Cover is Bryce Harper, More Details Revealed

There definitely was room for improvement last year though. Hopefully 2.0 fixes the line drive percentages and whatnot.

And I agree with the timing window being expanded. The timing was just too minute when it came to intentionally swinging early or late to pull or slap balls, respectively.

I hope the scouting stuff is also simplified a little for those of us who play franchise for the short-term (eg play more games and sim fewer)? I just didn't have the time to stay on top of it, and always ended up forgetting to update scouts and everything, so I found it better to just leave the AI to handle all of that stuff.

[pirates1fan]

Well, now I can't play MLB 12 at all now, I just tried, and it just wasn't the same! Lol, no big deal, worth hearing the details. Thanks Russell! I hope McCutchen is a candidate! Would you guys vote for him if he was?

[pirates1fan]

And I am really new to Operation Sports, just joined, about 15 minutes ago. Just trying to figure everything out. Didn't know you could do as much as you can.

[Blzer]

Re: First Candidate For MLB 13 The Show Cover is Bryce Harper, More Details Revealed

And I am really new to Operation Sports, just joined, about 15 minutes ago. Just trying to figure everything out. Didn't know you could do as much as you can.

Aaaaand moooorrrreeee........

[Richie12]

No on changing potential as it would unbalance the game and cause some budget issues.

The game tries to keep the same number of A/B/C/D potential players in the league every year. So when a couple of A potential players retire it will generate new ones in the next draft and vice versa.

If we allowed users to change potentials there would be more than a few nasty side effects right now. The most important one is player contracts are largely determined by a players overall and if you started editing guys and making some extra A rated players 5 years down the line there will be some problems with budgets and highly rated players not being signed by teams.

I understand all the constraints in the gaming engine, numbers of A-B-C-D and numbers of Pitchers and Position players etc, but a solution would be to let roster making do whatever they want and do the validation of the roster before saving or even using it in Franchise mode. Or maybe having a feature where roster makers can save a working copy with no validation but where you can only upload it once it's validated for numbers A-B-C-Ds and position wise.

That way both sides would be happy I think ( except the dev who'll have to code it :-)

[dalger21]

Re: First Candidate For MLB 13 The Show Cover is Bryce Harper, More Details Revealed

I like how we went from talking about Bryce Harper (whom I think should not be on the cover) to the new features and such. I'm excited about RttS. Perhaps now I won't be just biding my time til my player reaches FA.

[Unit303]

Re: First Candidate For MLB 13 The Show Cover is Bryce Harper, More Details Revealed

Great to hear that on the timing window as modes above all star were getting ludicrous.

I'll just take it grass is for PS4 but if you guys could somehow squeeze in some color matching at least for stadiums like Toronto I would probably do whatever you wanted.

[zippy2212]

Re: First Candidate For MLB 13 The Show Cover is Bryce Harper, More Details Revealed

The promotion aspect of Franchise mode was removed in favor in a complete re-design of scouting, player progression/regression, and incentive based budget increases/decreases.

Previously in the show you would set all those prices for hot dogs, bobble heads, etc... have 100 million in funds that you couldn't spend on player personnel decisions. It was kind of pointless and we needed the memory for the core a.i. rewrites that were done this year for the season modes.

I've been wanting something like this for years. I just want to run my baseball team, I always hired the AI to be my business operations manager.

This is awesome news!!

[Knight165]

Re: First Candidate For MLB 13 The Show Cover is Bryce Harper, More Details Revealed

Just from seeing how SCEA operates....I can tell you that the franchise mode "overhaul" will be in stages.

First....there was no way they would rip everything apart and go whole hog in one fell swoop.
This is a good thing though IMO. It allows us more input from year to year to recommend and request features to help shape the franchise mode. AaronSCEA and LuisSCEA(and NickSCEA, who has some really great ideas as well) have an excellent vision for how they would like franchise mode to run.

Secondly....even this first phase of changes .....is open for fine tuning from what I gather from the devs....which I think is because it's not all done at once and it gives a better chance for the team to see what works and what needs adjusting a little easier.(rather than having to deal with EVERYTHING at once).

Finally.....It's good to see the passion that the community has for the game and thankfully, the dev team sees it to and listens to us!

M.K.
Knight165

[ARoid1313]

Will players still retire mid contract?

[HustlinOwl]

Re: First Candidate For MLB 13 The Show Cover is Bryce Harper, More Details Revealed

Just from seeing how SCEA operates....I can tell you that the franchise mode "overhaul" will be in stages.

First....there was no way they would rip everything apart and go whole hog in one fell swoop.
This is a good thing though IMO. It allows us more input from year to year to recommend and request features to help shape the franchise mode. AaronSCEA and LuisSCEA(and NickSCEA, who has some really great ideas as well) have an excellent vision for how they would like franchise mode to run.

Secondly....even this first phase of changes .....is open for fine tuning from what I gather from the devs....which I think is because it's not all done at once and it gives a better chance for the team to see what works and what needs adjusting a little easier.(rather than having to deal with EVERYTHING at once).

Finally.....It's good to see the passion that the community has for the game and thankfully, the dev team sees it to and listens to us!

M.K.
Knight165

thats good and all, but waiting for a true online franchise ala NCAA online dynasty 2007