An idea to make DD a little better.

[Cincyez]

By now, most teams have pretty much top everything. I played 3 games this morning and I faced Seaver, Ryan, I forgot the 3rd. I'm not complaining, I won 2 of 3 but it's kinda boring. Part of the fun of just playing regular exhibition games is forcing you to use the a teams whole rotation. I like the challenge of using low 80s, high 70s players. I know I could just challenge myself but why when most others wouldn't. This is why I would implement a Tier system where each starting pitcher has to be separated by 3. So if your top pitcher is 95, your 5th starter would have to be 83 or below. Your number 1 would be your highest overall and so on and you would use the pitchers in a rotation like in online exhibition games. So you throw each pitcher every 5th game.

Am I crazy? Good idea? Missing something?

[baseballsim]

Re: An idea to make DD a little better.

How about if they just implement a salary cap. If you want a rotation full of aces you'd need to compensate somewhere else on your roster like maybe you'll use some cheap middle infielders.

You could also build your team with only a few top tier pitchers but the 5th starter might be a cheap option. This would enable you to strengthen another area on your team.

I know Diamond Dynasty is based on building the best team possible but change is good.

Also, I don't like the idea of having separate (salary cap/no cap) leagues because this could hurt the ability to find matches quickly.

[Caucasianator]

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Invites, matchmaking, whatever you would like to call it. Don't need to make different salary cap/no cap leagues. Provide an invite system and we can manage the rest. Create leagues between OS users with salary cap restrictions, or anything else.

[BentleyA]

Re: An idea to make DD a little better.

How about if they just implement a salary cap. If you want a rotation full of aces you'd need to compensate somewhere else on your roster like maybe you'll use some cheap middle infielders.

You could also build your team with only a few top tier pitchers but the 5th starter might be a cheap option. This would enable you to strengthen another area on your team.

I know Diamond Dynasty is based on building the best team possible but change is good.

Also, I don't like the idea of having separate (salary cap/no cap) leagues because this could hurt the ability to find matches quickly.

I started a thread with this exact idea about a week ago, so I am going to piggyback off of what you are saying.

A salary cap is REALLY needed in this mode. They could have a simple two leagues. One with a cap, one with not. If they wanted to make some extra money they could even do it so you start by picking if you want to be in a salary cap or no salary cap league to start and then if you want your second team then it will cost you stubs. This would generate more revenue for them while still allowing people like me who are not going to spend any stubs to begin with on cards to enjoy the mode.
Its really annoying and lame playing people with all aces and an all MLB roster while my lineup is filled with silvers and bronzes (now have a gold Frazier). Plus it would be so much more fun having a salary cap and add never ending strategy to the mode. This would also mean NO CREATED PLAYERS in the salary cap league. I understand some people like that, but I am not a fan of them so again it would be able to cater to both types of players.

They could do the cap as simple as total points based on ratings, or they could assign like a money value and you would have to build your lineup like a fantasy lineup. They could even get Draft Kings or something as a sponsor, so there is another possibility for added revenue for SCEA. I really do understand that decisions for game improvements should be made with the thought process of "how could this generate more money" in mind, which is why I include how it could be used to generate more money for the hard working guys over there at SCEA.

[takki]

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Yeah, I've been saying this since the game released. There needs to be team restrictions in ranked mode (salary caps or limited diamond/golds) to promote strategic team building. You should have to make a sacrifice somewhere on your roster to use diamond players.

I'm fine with people being allowed to create a super team in unranked mode. But a salary cap would make the ranked road to the world series much more enjoyable.

[Smokinjoe056]

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I don't know why people complain so much about facing all legends or really good players this year. If you played the last couple years you would know it was actually worse. Everyone had 99 overall created pitchers up and down the rotation. And 99 overall hitters up and down the order. This year is actually better in that aspect.

Having said that. I do like the idea of a salary cap. Make it a little more interesting.

[HeavySaucer]

Re: An idea to make DD a little better.

The whole point of this game mode is to build an awesome fantasy team. Having a salary cap and limitations on lineups and pitching rotations completely defeats the purpose of the whole DD mode.

There are other game modes if you don't want to play against super teams. Personally, I love playing against stacked teams because of the challenge, and it's fun for me to play with against guys I grew up watching.

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[Orange Krush]

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I think that introducing a salary cap would kill this mode. The whole point is to build the best fantasy team you can, and that is what attracts most of us to this mode. A salary cap would probably drive most people away from the mode and it would just die out.

[BentleyA]

Re: An idea to make DD a little better.

I don't want to sound rude to HeavySaucer and Orange Krush, but I don't think you guys actually read our posts about salary caps. Nowhere did we say to get rid of the aspect of building the ultimate team. We said that a salary cap should be added as an option for those of us who are not interested in that sort of thing. In fact, in my post I specifically pointed out that I understand there are people who enjoy building the ultimate team rated 99 everywhere. I get that and I get where people like that.
There are then other people like me and several others where that sort of thing is not for us and we think that the mode could be much more fun with an added level of strategy and interest if there was a salary cap option. I personally think that would take the mode to the next level, so why not add it on without getting rid of the option of just building the team rated all 99? That way both kinds of people get something they enjoy and SCEA can rake in even more money through the ways I suggested or something similar.

[Orange Krush]

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I just don't think having 2 different versions of DD would be very plausible to do. You would need to have 2 different leaderboards, which I don't think would be that hard to do, but you would also need 2 different online game servers/lobbies. That is where the game would suffer I think. It'd be harder to get games because you would have less people playin on each side.

[HeavySaucer]

Re: An idea to make DD a little better.

I don't want to sound rude to HeavySaucer and Orange Krush, but I don't think you guys actually read our posts about salary caps. Nowhere did we say to get rid of the aspect of building the ultimate team. We said that a salary cap should be added as an option for those of us who are not interested in that sort of thing. In fact, in my post I specifically pointed out that I understand there are people who enjoy building the ultimate team rated 99 everywhere. I get that and I get where people like that.
There are then other people like me and several others where that sort of thing is not for us and we think that the mode could be much more fun with an added level of strategy and interest if there was a salary cap option. I personally think that would take the mode to the next level, so why not add it on without getting rid of the option of just building the team rated all 99? That way both kinds of people get something they enjoy and SCEA can rake in even more money through the ways I suggested or something similar.

No offense taken, and I fully read and understood your posts. To me, diamond dynasty is all about freedom to make your team however you want to make it. If they did make a salary cap mode, then it wouldn't be diamond dynasty anymore, it would be something else entirely.

So the devs would make a new game mode like that, once which lessens the online player pool for every other game mode. They would do more work to make less money (because people building super teams are the ones who put the most money into this game) and it would take longer to find a game.

That's my personal opinion, and I'm not saying your idea is a bad one. It just may not be a viable option.

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[Rasco11]

Re: An idea to make DD a little better.

What's the point of having tiered player status? What purpose does that serve?

To say this mode would suffer from added variety is somewhat puzzling to me.

[Orange Krush]

Re: An idea to make DD a little better.

What's the point of having tiered player status? What purpose does that serve?

To say this mode would suffer from added variety is somewhat puzzling to me.

If you have a mode with a salary cap and one without, then you would need 2 separate servers for online games, which would cut the player pool in half for each, which would make finding games harder.

[Rasco11]

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Couldnt you just have lobbies or head to head options for different lineup requirements within DD to add variety? I'm sure the logistics are over my head, if it's a nightmare I get it.

[Rasco11]

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I should state, I love the idea of salary cap, but I'm more in favor of bronze, silver, gold, etc., lineup restrictions. I don't get the point of having tiered cards if they are essentially meaningless! I just hate to see the majority of the player pool rendered useless (aside from collections or create-a-player feeders. I'll shut up now, just had to clarify my viewpoint. Love the mode more than i thought i would! Love that they're updating and changing ratings! Sure it will be even better next year!