How to adjust sliders to lower my home runs but get xbhs?

[crpav]

I am playing a franchise with the White Sox and last game I hit 8 home runs. 6 games in and I have too many home runs. Sure, may be fun for someone looking for over the top stats and an arcade style but I want to have some challenge. I am playing on the default difficulty using analog batting , guess pitch and no feedback(I think). I do have the power and contact all the way up because I started not being able to hit or score at all but now I score too much and mostly by home runs. I know the easy answer is to lower the power but problem is I can't seem to hit anything but home runs. My question is what sliders should I change to lower the home runs but at the same time be able to at least get hits. It seems doubles and triples are at a premium and nothing gets into the gaps much. Most of my extra base hits come from balls I hit off the wall rather than hits in the gaps. In fact it seems I either hit a home run or hard right at someone(in between the pop ups and occasional single).

[jr86]

Re: How to adjust sliders to lower my home runs but get xbhs?

Keep your timing/contact sliders above default to keep the hits coming and yes lower the power slider to default and your solid hits to 3 or 4.

[crpav]

Re: How to adjust sliders to lower my home runs but get xbhs?

Thanks for the reply. I will adjust the sliders and play and adjust as needed. I was/am just not sure what sliders affect what outcomes. I am 6-0 so far and had some close games where I didn't hit anything well but I can tell that as I am getting better, home runs are just too many to be fun for me. I should have known the slider was too high and I was better when I hit a 438 foot bomb with Osvaldo Martinez.

[jr86]

Re: How to adjust sliders to lower my home runs but get xbhs?

Pick a slider set from around here and adjust one click at a time to fit your needs.There are plenty of good ones.
As you will see from most of the sets the hitting sliders are in and around default so go from there.

[Bobhead]

Re: How to adjust sliders to lower my home runs but get xbhs?

If you have contact maxed out and are playing on a low difficulty, you will not see anything but home runs, because your ginormous PCI will prevent you from taking any line drive swings. Bring Contact back down to earth, and increase Solid Hits a few notches instead, then work your way back down with it as you get better.

Also consider lowering Fielder Run Speed, Fielder Reaction, and Arm Strength, the amount of time it takes the defense to get to a ball and return the ball to the infield has a big effect on your balance between doubles/triples and overall hits. You can start with 3, 3, and 4, respectively.

(I don't know what "default difficulty" means... there is no default, you pick one the very first time you start the game, so I'm assuming you are on Veteran or All-Star).

[jr86]

Re: How to adjust sliders to lower my home runs but get xbhs?

If you have contact maxed out and are playing on a low difficulty, you will not see anything but home runs, because your ginormous PCI will prevent you from taking any line drive swings. Bring Contact back down to earth, and increase Solid Hits a few notches instead, then work your way back down with it as you get better.

Also consider lowering Fielder Run Speed, Fielder Reaction, and Arm Strength, the amount of time it takes the defense to get to a ball and return the ball to the infield has a big effect on your balance between doubles/triples and overall hits. You can start with 3, 3, and 4, respectively.

(I don't know what "default difficulty" means... there is no default, you pick one the very first time you start the game, so I'm assuming you are on Veteran or All-Star).

I will respectfully disagree with the idea of moving your solid hit slider above default.
You seem to be the only slider maker around here who has this set so high, everyone else has settled on it being at 4 or lower...

[Bobhead]

Re: How to adjust sliders to lower my home runs but get xbhs?

I will respectfully disagree with the idea of moving your solid hit slider above default.
You seem to be the only slider maker around here who has this set so high, everyone else has settled on it being at 4 or lower...

So... do you have any actual reasoning or argument to make? Or are you just going with "that must be wrong because the majority isn't doing it?"

Anyway increasing Solid Hits isn't really important, the bigger thing is that he lower Contact back down. The bigger the PCI, the lower your Line drive %, because you are making more bad-quality contact instead of just missing completely. You can see this if you take a few cuts on each difficulty level. You might have problems hitting on Hall of Fame, but technically you'll be hitting line drives when you make contact.

[jr86]

Re: How to adjust sliders to lower my home runs but get xbhs?

So... do you have any actual reasoning or argument to make? Or are you just going with "that must be wrong because the majority isn't doing it?"

Anyway increasing Solid Hits isn't really important, the bigger thing is that he lower Contact back down. The bigger the PCI, the lower your Line drive %, because you are making more bad-quality contact instead of just missing completely. You can see this if you take a few cuts on each difficulty level. You might have problems hitting on Hall of Fame, but technically you'll be hitting line drives when you make contact.

Nope. I'm going with this:
With solid hits set so high all hits are absolute rockets off the bat and the chance for choppers or bloop hits is practically non existant.

[Bobhead]

Re: How to adjust sliders to lower my home runs but get xbhs?

Nope. I'm going with this:
With solid hits set so high all hits are absolute rockets off the bat and the chance for choppers or bloop hits is practically non existant.

What on earth does that have to do with this thread? Aren't we talking about extra base hits? If you are looking to discuss my sliders you can PM me, but my sliders and choppers have nothing to do with the OP. I never mentioned my sliders, and I'm not sure why you felt compelled to bring them up.

I work in a few minutes. Apologies for being curt but that's all I have time to do.

[jr86]

Re: How to adjust sliders to lower my home runs but get xbhs?

What on earth does that have to do with this thread? Aren't we talking about extra base hits? If you are looking to discuss my sliders you can PM me, but my sliders and choppers have nothing to do with the OP. I never mentioned my sliders, and I'm not sure why you felt compelled to bring them up.

I work in a few minutes. Apologies for being curt but that's all I have time to do.

No it's all good.
I am not picking on your sliders per se i just think that there are better ways to increase xbh's but increasing solid hits leads to other problems as i mentioned above.
But yes we have sidetracked...sorry OP.
For me raising contact and timing a couple of clicks coupled with fielder run speed/reaction down to 2 or 3 should do the trick.

[crpav]

Re: How to adjust sliders to lower my home runs but get xbhs?

Didn't intend to get an argument started...lol. By default I mean what the game starts at when, let's say, you play your first game without adjusting anything and play your first exhibition game. I have only adjusted the sliders and not the difficulty setting. I will check tonight if and when I play to see what it is exactly. For sliders I will just play with them as I like to adjust my own as needed. My only concern is that lowering the fielders speed, reaction and arm strength will negatively affect my fielding.

[ravellron]

Re: How to adjust sliders to lower my home runs but get xbhs?

i'm using power at 6 both cpu and hum, contact at 6 hum only and solid at 2 both... i never scored more than 2 homers in one match..