MLB '12 The Show- FRANCHISE-MANAGE ONLY MODE-EDITOR suggestions/improvements

[Marino]

Coaches:

-Allow us to fire them mid season.

Players/Trading Logic:

-Assign Player Roles/Player Personality. That way a top prospect won't be traded 3 times in a season (Bryce Harper in my game went from Washington to Oakland, to Chicago to Detroit).

Other than that, I guess just tune things up. In my 250-300 games I have played, I have not noticed much other than the dreadful trade logic.

Maybe add some league news around the league similar to how MLB 2k11 does. Add more immersion and make it feel more like I am following my baseball all year, instead of just playing my team's games and having no idea what else is going on in the league.

[MGM_BLUE]

Just one suggestion....

- Ability to trade players for PTBNL or for Cash Considerations.

Many times this happens in real life. In order to copy it in Franchise, you either have to trade a no name player or do multiple trades.

Unless Im missing something, this is not an option in MLB11. (???)

[UNDERTAKER1215]

While I agree with everything above, these also should be added...

Trading:

• Able to make 3 team team trades
• Able to trade more than 3 players at a time
• Trade finder

Free Agents:

• More realistic contract requests/offers
• Minor league contracts
• Give opt-out clauses to minor leaguers
• Get draft picks for players that sign with other teams that would qualify as type A or B
• Have buyouts
• Have actual options that you can exercise, and able to have multiple options

Draft:

• More rounds
• More players
• Better scouting report, with made up college/high school stats
• Better contract negotiations with draft picks
• Able to give major league deals to draft picks

Other:

• In-season contract negotiations
• Able to fire manager/coaches and general manager, and hire new ones
• Able to take batting and fielding practice

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA

FYI guys these threads need to be about 90% fixes, re-balancing and tweaks to existing features. When the game visits us our feature set will be locked, so this isn't a team for "wishlist" types of ideas. We recorded all that info around May.

Yes...sorry, I should have made this more clear. The table is mostly set already.
I just figured that something not in the game now, may have been added and something someone suggests in this thread may overlap onto something new or changed.

M.K.
Knight165

[sydrogerdavid]

The game has some pretty good options for pant styles in the game, but I think that we should have some more options.


- First picture. We need this pant style. The pants are loose fitting, but they do not go past the top of the shoe.

- Second picture. I would like to see low, 4' stirrups. This would probably require an option for low top shoes.

- Even if more pant/socks options are not added, the Cardinals stripes need to be fixed. They need to be higher, toward or on the calf. Not under it.

- I would also love to see the Rays and Giants stripped socks in the game as well. The MLB obviously doesn't really care if teams follow the style guide in accordance with socks. Otherwise the Giants would be more consistent with stripes or non stripes.

[sydrogerdavid]

Let's make Paul Lukas proud and add the Rays and Giants stripes.

- More authentic throwbacks would also be nice. The Cards '82 home white and road blues and the 1944 uni's would be cool.

[authentic]

Coaching:

Fire coaches mid season/interim managers/hire managers
Create coaches- probably too late....

Presentation:

More ESPN looking ticker, show transactions and call ups
Add new commentary...Doesn't have to be a ton, just freshen it up a bit
New intros- maybe too late, but we've had the same intro music and animations for a long time now
Team intros- make special intros for stadiums. Places like Wrigley or Fenway would be more historical while newer stadiums would be focused mainly on the stadium itself and not the surrounding area like the historical ones.

Franchise mode specific:
Tighten up the call ups for prospects. If a team is struggling they should actually rebuild and use young players if their a small market team
Trade logic- too many times I saw Bryce Harper get traded in June.
3 way team trades
Player to be named later in trade and cash considerations
Reserves for minor league teams
Larger Class A system so we can have pretty close to every player in the game
Better minor league roster management


That's all I can think of right now, there's a ton of little things though. Some of these aren't possible but I just thought I'd throw them out there so I had at least a little bit more than nothing. ha

[PitholeCreek]

I've reported this bug (post #183) the last two years and I'd like to see it fixed (I don't think it was addressed in any of the patches this year). Basically when you start a franchise with a fantasy draft, AI teams have a ridiculous amount of cash available post-draft, while your team has a more normal amount. It gives AI teams an unfair advantage.