MLB 14 The Show Blog - Online Franchise

[HustlinOwl]

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Looking at MLB 13 online stats might help as those who were into online in the past will likely be interested in online this year.

I honestly don't really think online franchise will be the thing that gets people to dive head first into online (PVP). Sure some may be enticed into trying online franchise who didn't play online in the past, but I don't think the numbers will show a huge jump of new online players this year. We might see some extra new people because of people switching to PS4 since there's no guarantee those people owned a PS3 and played The Show on it.

Also with the PS+ requirement, you might actually lose some players that do not want to pay for PS+. Not everyone sees the value in PS+ and see it more as a requirement for online and not a subscription to free games and other benefits.

then they won't be in online franchise???

[MrOldboy]

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then they won't be in online franchise???

I'm responding mostly to this statement.

with an influx of new players to online and online franchise

I don't see there being an influx of new players to online. An increase, sure, but I don't see it being a huge amount of new people.

[HustlinOwl]

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Generated Pitch Counts in Online franchise, this feature can be turned on or off prior to game and is not an actual league setting correct?

From TSN, guess pro and con "quick counts" cant coexist

a Commish/Admin has the power of turning it On or Off during creation that automatically rules out any other member from activating/deactivating this feature

[mmorg]

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So once you start an online Franchise you can't toggle the quick counts option on or off? Or is that just conjecture?

[HustlinOwl]

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So once you start an online Franchise you can't toggle the quick counts option on or off? Or is that just conjecture?

Hopefully similar to fastplay/broadcast commish can turn on/off as needed

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[ahuffman]

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Ugh, I hate feeling left out as an offline player. It seems like more and more the offline players get the shaft. I hope that these omissions were due to lack of time and will be added next year. Just so frustrating for me. A single team online franchise is not a good option for me either as I like to control all the teams. Still looking forward to the game regardless.

[HustlinOwl]

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Ugh, I hate feeling left out as an offline player. It seems like more and more the offline players get the shaft. I hope that these omissions were due to lack of time and will be added next year. Just so frustrating for me. A single team online franchise is not a good option for me either as I like to control all the teams. Still looking forward to the game regardless.

Can control all 30 with online franchise, however no word yet on if online franchise files are transferable to MLB15 MLB16 etc

[TGov]

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Can control all 30 with online franchise, however no word yet on if online franchise files are transferable to MLB15 MLB16 etc

My only problem with that is what if you dont have a strong internet connection or one at all? And even if you do, wouldnt the usual problems still exist like it being laggy???
Or is it at all possible to control all 30 teams online but actually play offline as there wouldnt be a need to be online in the first place? (Hope that wasnt confusing)

[mmorg]

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My only problem with that is what if you dont have a strong internet connection or one at all? And even if you do, wouldnt the usual problems still exist like it being laggy???
Or is it at all possible to control all 30 teams online but actually play offline as there wouldnt be a need to be online in the first place? (Hope that wasnt confusing)

If you're playing the CPU it's the exact same as playing an offline franchise. The only problems you would encounter with a laggy internet connect is lag in between menus and when information is being downloaded or uploaded.

[TGov]

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Wouldn't it be the same as playing online like in last years game with the lag DURING the games??? or was there only lag during the games because of the connection between you and your opponent?

Because if theres only lag (if any) during menus or so, that wouldnt be a big deal to me as long as it doesnt screw up my gameplay experience... but I guess time will tell once we play.

[bcruise]

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Wouldn't it be the same as playing online like in last years game with the lag DURING the games??? or was there only lag during the games because of the connection between you and your opponent?

Because if theres only lag (if any) during menus or so, that wouldnt be a big deal to me as long as it doesnt screw up my gameplay experience... but I guess time will tell once we play.

Ask yourself if you ever noticed any in-game lag in Challenge of the Week and you'll have your answer to that. Because that'll be essentially the same as playing against the CPU in online franchise.

For me, CotW was completely lag-free. For that matter, I played games vs. the CPU in Diamond Dynasty, and they were also lag-free. It's the same idea.

[twinsfan34]

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Ask yourself if you ever noticed any in-game lag in Challenge of the Week and you'll have your answer to that. Because that'll be essentially the same as playing against the CPU in online franchise.

For me, CotW was completely lag-free. For that matter, I played games vs. the CPU in Diamond Dynasty, and they were also lag-free. It's the same idea.

Solid points!

So it could be alright for the "offliners"...might take a little more time with loads/saves...but gameplay...in this case...shouldn't lag.

That's the hope...they sort of have a code to execute to load...and when the games over...to 'update' to the server. If that's the case...should'nt be a problem.

The multi-player, obviously, real-time...has more dependent factors.

[ahuffman]

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Can control all 30 with online franchise, however no word yet on if online franchise files are transferable to MLB15 MLB16 etc

Excellent, thanks man! In that case, nevermind what I said, lol.

[HustlinOwl]

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Excellent, thanks man! In that case, nevermind what I said, lol.

Even more awesome your franchise will be online and stat tracking etc via web

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[TGov]

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I know there's the fact sheet out there as well as some info for Online Franchise but someone should put together a pros and cons of online and offline franchises so itll be easy to compare... that someone not being me lol :wink: ... just kidding...

So far what I get from this is...
Offline:
Will be the usual dependability and excellence we come to expect year after year... with the following improvements provided by Russell...

• Hire and fire coaches during season
• Edit Player Potentials
• CPU draft logic improvements
• Simulator stat improvements
• Refined player generation logic
• Improved player Overall formula
• Player regression has been improved (slowed)
• Player salary logic improvements
• Budget logic changes
• Player Search screen
• Player Lock feature availability
• New Notification system

Online:
Will have MOST of offline plus more customizing and... (provided on the fact sheet...)

• Refined player generation
• New contract decision logic
• New lineup logic
• Refined trade logic
• Retired players stored for every season
• More player stats stored
• And on TheShowNation.com you have user management, and the ability to manage trades, resolve and simulate games and manage games... (But not like MoM, these will be mostly for people who have more than 1 human player in their franchise)

The only thing we don't really know is what is in the Offline Franchise that ISN'T in the Online Franchise...
I know they aren't a copy of each other and they have different coding, I just mean what are the main feature differences...