MLB The Show 17 Twitch Stream - Franchise Mode, HDR Confirmed (Archive Available)

[Bullit]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dolenz

Every single year after the franchise stream I find myself wondering why some of these people are not playing Out of The Park baseball.

Maybe some us play both. They are both wonderful and great games and I play each one to scratch a different itch.

That being said. I don't think there is anything wrong with wanting a deeper franchise mode in The Show or for that matter better 3D presentation in OOTP.

But it is all about expectations, respect and common courtesy on how you go about asking for these things from a developer.

[knich]

Quote: Originally Posted by thaSLAB

As stated before, what a guy does in real life in 2017, shouldn't have any influence on what he's doing in your Franchise in 2025. I agree, it should be in Play Now games. Not season mode though, because season works the same as far as being its own unique universe too. Sent from my htc 10 using Tapatalk

I agree with you about 2017 stats influencing franchise in 2025. I am not an expert on 2k so not sure how IE is implemented. But I don't think there were complaints in that regard about IE. IE is just one aspect of it. 2k franchise play provides mounds of on screen data that is not, I don't think, tied to IE. For instance, if you have a rookie player, for which there is no IE data, after the rookie has 10 at bats, the OSD will start to give statistical data on that player. So if it is not IE per se, then the engine that generates the statistical data should be revealed in OSD much much more frequently. It is done beautifully in 2k without the broadcasters even discussing it.

[Margelofskya]

Quote: Originally Posted by underdog13

Hasn't the mlb schedules been done by the same couple every year for about over a decade now? Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk

They used to, but I believe they went computerized about 10 years ago. I know for certain the schedule is computer generated now


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[Speedy]

Quote: Originally Posted by KGHerm

You guys have to remember that Interleague play isn't just randomly scheduled in real life, there is a lot that goes into it. Sure, they could randomize, but I feel that if they are going to do it, they'll want to do it accurately.

Idea:

Move Houston back to the NL where they belong and this issue is resolved.

[Jon Arbuckle]

Quote: Originally Posted by WhiteBunny

I think negative quirks are the positive ones for the pitchers and viceversa. For me the whole point around quirks is to give a quick showcase of your players and it's nice, cause baseball is a very situational sport.

There's definitely a place for negative quirks if The Show is trying to add more accurate personality to individual players. The already mentioned Lester pickoff issue is one of the most obvious examples of the role a negative quirk could play as he's terrible with anyone on base; it wouldn't matter whether the baserunner had a positive stealing base quirk. Another good example is that several power hitters simply can't hit breaking balls regardless of whether the pitcher they're facing merits the 'good breaking ball' quirk.

All that said, I wonder if they'd even be allowed to go out of their way to say that certain licensed players have glaring problems. It can be implied by the ratings to a certain degree of course but spelling things out might not make certain vested interests happy.

Quote: Originally Posted by Threeebs

I would have been pretty disappointed if they spent 8 months implementing rotating interleague schedules actually...

Agreed but that doesn't explain why they couldn't offer the much simpler option of simply cycling through previous years' IL schedules, as someone suggested earlier in the thread.

[Gagnon39]

In regards to Interleague schedules, couldn't they just use previous (real-life) schedules after the first year in franchise? I'm sure 95% of us (including me) would not say, "hey, that's the 2012 schedule!" And even so it would be better than the same interleague teams every year. Just do the real schedule year 1, another, previous schedule (say 2010) in year 2, 2011 in year 3, 2012 in year 4, etc. until you rotate back around. I'd be perfectly happy with that.

[MetsFan16]

Interleague rotating schedules must be a pain to code, I'm sure if your Franchise Dev could do it, it'd be in the game already.

I don't know if this would work but why not make 3 schedules for each team. There are already 5? I think because every 5 years in Franchise you get the '16 schedules again.

So if you create 3 for each team, they would rotate every 3 years.

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gagnon39

In regards to Interleague schedules, couldn't they just use previous (real-life) schedules after the first year in franchise? I'm sure 95% of us (including me) would not say, "hey, that's the 2012 schedule!" And even so it would be better than the same interleague teams every year. Just do the real schedule year 1, another, previous schedule (say 2010) in year 2, 2011 in year 3, 2012 in year 4, etc. until you rotate back around. I'd be perfectly happy with that.

Only problem is Houston just recently moved to the American League. If I'm an NL Central or AL West team, I may not be able to call out what schedule year I'm looking at, but I'd certainly know that it would be pre-2013.

So at most, you could play out and rotate five years worth of a schedule, which is better than nothing I guess! Close enough, at least.

But could somebody help me out... are we playing out the exact same schedule every year, or are they able to rotate NL with NL properly, just not the distinct interleague teams?

EDIT: Ah, MetsFan16 not only answers my question, but also addresses the concern question I had. Rotating five years? No problem, just do 2013-2017 over and over again from 2018, on. No division messes caused by the 'Stros.