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Originally Posted by TheLooseCannon |
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I've been playing The Show for 15 years now and I still don't seem to understand what the "correct" way to warm up and bring in a reliever in is. This doesn't happen 100% of the time, but it happens often enough that I can't seem to figure out why it does. What I do when I want to bring in a reliever is I first do Stretch & Toss, then when they hit 50% ready on the meter I start them throwing, and then if I'm still batting I set them to Schedule To Put In Game for the next inning I pitch.
All while doing this they show 100% energy on the warm-up menu, but when they do actually come into the game it's an absolute crap shoot whether they enter the game at 100%$ energy and normal confidence or they enter the game with 20% of their overall energy missing and their confidence tanked down to about 25-30% of the meter (basically a single walk away from losing accurate control at that point).
I've tried setting pitchers to Ready & Waiting, no difference. I've brought them in at 50% ready from Stretch & Toss with zero penalty to energy or confidence. I've seen this happen on Opening Day when a reliever shouldn't conceivable be tired from pitching a prior day. I've given relievers extra days rest, no difference, still a crap shoot whether they come in less-than-normal or not. I've tried doing mound visits before bringing in the reliever, no difference, still a crap shoot whether they come in messed up or not.
I'm pretty much at my wit's end now since for over a decade I've never figured out what about my play style causes this bizarre behavior with relievers. So, why are my relievers being penalized like this? Is there a Franchise option that controls this (am I supposed to turn off Warm Up Pitchers in my Franchise options to get around this)? Is this just a weird intended behavior with relievers in The Show where it's always a gamble no matter what situation and when you bring in a reliever that this is supposed to simulate that they "just don't have it that day"? Is this just a bug with the Bullpen Quick Menu that's been in the game over the past decade and the workaround is to never, ever use the Bullpen Quick Menu?
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You're probably going to hate hearing this, but that's exactly what it is. What you're seeing is basically the "cold" penalty being applied to the pitcher entering the game when it shouldn't be. From my experience the quick menu can be hit or miss with that bug, and the schedule to pitch option nearly always triggers it. The only way I've seen to ensure that it doesn't happen (going back many years in this series) is to always change pitchers from the regular bullpen screen.
There's no doubt in my mind that it's a bug and not by design because of A) the two ways it is triggered (as well as the one where it is not) and B) the fact that it often results in an instant yellow bar (and the penalties associated with that) for relievers with full energy in shortened 3-inning games, such as those in Diamond Dynasty. There's no way that's the intended behavior.