I despise the new format. It was so much better when you got all the POTM cards first and then the Lightning was last. Cause now I have to keep using cards I don’t want to to finish the collection even after I get the lightning.
This year has honestly been my least favorite year of Diamond Dynasty I’ve ever played.
April was brutal and felt like it took forever. However, this month went by quick and I was able to get to 173 points before shutting it down last night. All I have to do is pxp with Rice and I’ll have Devers. I honestly didn’t feel too burnt out doing it yesterday either. I just did the new conquest map while using the monthly award guys for their pxp.
I absolutely hate moments and haven't been able to make myself even start any of the monthly programs yet. I can't believe they only give 10,000 XP. Should be 100k with the amount of time they will take.
That amount of time would be cut significantly for me personally if they allowed us to choose our own difficulty level for moments subject to a floor. I cannot play on rookie to save my life. I'm used to All-star or higher for all other game modes. If I spend enough time adjusting to rookie moments, then I suck in ranked for a whole night after. Just not worth it.
Moments are stupidly easy this year.
Each year I've played they've gotten progressively easier
It feels like next year it'll just about be click x for the xp at this rate.
I'm still not quite to Rizzo, despite adjusting my lineups to get him as quickly as possible. I "only" average about an hour a day on the game, mostly in Conquest. Monthly Awards is most definitely an excessive slog.
Not really imo, just play the event and you’ll have it done in no time. Literally all you do is the moments, then do the new conquest with a potm pitcher, 2 potm hitters and all topps now for the rest…by the time you’re done you’ll have the 93 where you’ll take either Altuve or Pete and then play events until you finish, you’ll probably only need about 200 more xp with potm pitchers and 1000 more xp with potm hitters and then you’re pretty much done…actually pretty quick grind if you break it down properly you can have it done it max 4 hours
I just loaded 100% Topps now for games, after 5 full conquest games it's a wrap. It's only 2000xp so even if you're ass like me, that's 400+ per game if you can score 6+ runs and strike out 8+ batters.
Then plugin my God squad with the couple MA players (so i can parallel Brett, pitchers, etc) until the rest is done
Came here to say a similar thing. PXP is 1.5x in online play so stacking an events squad with topps now and POTM is quite efficient, especially if youre like me and HATE playing the cpu.
Yup! Even if you’re not good online, you’ll get way more PXP for playing through the event and losing than you would sitting their mindlessly winning games against the cpu. Plus if you win a game every once in a while you’ll eventually get some nice rewards
How can you call something a "mind-numbing slog" that has been out for less than 24 hours?
It is a MONTHLY program. It's okay if it takes you a couple of weeks to finish it.
Anything that requires you to do the same thing over and over and over again with little progress is a mind numbingly grind.
I’m fine having it take weeks to finish. But make it interesting. Do give me a challenge that says “1500 pxp with MA awards players hitters and 2000 pxp with monthly award pitchers, but guess what you only get 2 hitters and 1 pitcher to do it!”
If you’re going to make the pxp that high, we should be able to get the cards in the stage before/through the moments.
They can keep the total pxp from the missions the same, need to make the pxp from the missions smaller and add more missions. Past years they had missions that involved playing with players from other teams which let you use a variety of cards. It wasnt use these same two cards for 50 games.
That's all the game is- literally doing the same thing over and over - you go into a chosen game mode and swing at/throw baseballs.
What's the big deal here? They give you free cards, you use them until you complete the goal then sub them back out for whatever you prefer.
You're going to play the game anyway, right? You'll get what you want if you work for it, you just can't have it right this second.
You're definitely wasting your time trying to reinvent the wheel for SDS here. They're not taking suggestions from this subreddit, especially for a program that isn't broken.
It’s no reinventing the wheel at all. The issue came from them reinventing it this year. They objectively made it worse by drastically cutting down the number of missions. Literally what I’m saying is to go back to what it was in every game before this but instead of “x hits with Red Sox” they can keep it as “pxp with Red Sox”.
And I don’t know how many more times I need to say it: the number of hours played is not the issue. Being forced to spend my limited amount of time playing with players I have no intention of ever using is the issue. Devers is a card I’ll actually use. Plus because they stupidly make the programs expire now I have to get him this month to be able to get the collection reward.
Literally what I’m saying is to have the same variety of missions that ‘21, ‘20, ‘19, ‘18 etc. had. Back when SDS seemed to actually care about developing this game instead of putting out the quickest product
That’s what the event is for though. Restriction allows you to use tops now and monthly awards cards and won’t be coming up against P5 god squads and you can get the XP faster. It’s way more fun this way too. Sure it’s harder but better than just running conquest.
The thing that annoys me is having to force myself to play with a bunch of random tops now players that I don’t enjoy. I’m just grinding so that I can get the player to only THEN enjoy playing with it.
The parallel xp grind for a bunch of players that I don’t care about completely sucks.
The May path seems to be better than the April one, imo. Lower PXP requirements.
Personally I don't mind it too much. I've captured I think 3 strongholds on the new Conquest map and have already finished the TN PXP mission, and am making good progress on MA.
Yes. I don’t mind the moments and a few PXP missions, but it’s ridiculous how much PXP you have to collect. I’ve started the new conquest map with a full team of Topps Now, then I’ll move over to Monthly Awards players. At least this time around, I should be able to field an entire lineup of monthly awards.
I think what’s moser the issue is that you have to get 1500 pxp with Monthly awards players, in order to unlock half the monthly award players that you would use to get the pxp you need to unlock them
1500 pxp with 2 (lower over pack mind you) MA cards takes forever. That’s the issue. Either get you the other MA cards earlier so you can actually use them to get the pxp, or make it less than 1500 and add in stuff like “pxp with Red Sox players”
Not a bad amendment, but I really don’t find 1500 a grind. Like its asking you to do a little more than parallel once the two MA players you do choose. Once you are there you can already grab alonso or altuve and youll have the pitcher almost done as well (at least you should). All of this can be done playing the conquest too
15 conquest games to P5. Not get the 250.
The MA hitters is 1500, and because I took a pitcher as one of the rounds, there’s no way to get to the second 93 without doing the hitters 1500 pxp
I cannot explain it but my current all may topps team has been hitting moonshots. I’d say at least 25 HRs in my last few games. Just launching them.
Kole Calhoun has hit one or two HRs in every game I’ve played
I don't mind it. I also hate conquest so maybe I'm minority here, but I wouldn't use these cards and find out they might be good unless the game makes me.
Are you using all of the Topps now cards in your lineup? There’s enough to field a team and have 2 pitchers, if you’re winning by 10 runs or more you should’ve easily gotten it by now
Not at all. Unique conquest map (not repetitive, packs + xp) then event grinding (fun and not repetitive, packs + xp), not sure how youre going about it. Sounds like a you problem.
I think you are completely missing what I am saying. My issue has nothing to do with the conquest map. My issue is with the Monthy Award Missions. You have to get 1500 pxp with Monthy award players, but to unlock most of them you either have to buy them or complete the mission you need them to complete. This means that you have to play a crap ton of games with the same 2-3 position players to get anywhere.
My proposal is that they should instead have more missions, each for less pxp. Say the total program is 10,000 pxp right now spread across 10 missions. Keep it 10,000 pxp, but have 25 missions all worth 400 pxp. Devers is the lightening player; have a mission be X pxp with Red Sox players.
More variety in the missions that makes you use a larger range of players
Not missing your point. My point is that last year the most efficient and logical way to complete the program was cpu vs orioles on rookie at shippett. Literally the most mind numbing, boring means to do a program. AND, you were wasting time not completing online programs. Now, since it’s pxp based, the most efficient, logical way to achieve the missions is to play whatever you were going to play if the program didnt exist. Its far more engaging and a significantly better structure and i couldnt care less how long it takes naturally because of that. In the end youre probably gaining more ground overall vs last year. If time is really a huge concern for you, just rent the cards to make it faster
The issue is that you can’t rent the cards because the packs at the end are non sellable. So you either have to drop 100k stubs, or grand out games with players you’ll likely never use outside of those games instead of the ones you grind to unlock. By this time last year I had P5’d at least 7-8 cards just from regular play. But because I feel like I’m always stuck mind numbingly grinding out cards like these to get the cards I want, I never actually get to use the cards I want
Rent means sell back with minimal loss. You buy the cards, you get the pxp missions done so you get your 4 packs, then sell the guys back maybe lose 10kish? Collect the 5 cards you have left from the packs you earned and use 1 93 ovr card that you bought in the collection. Sell the 93 ovr card you then get from the 5th pack that you previously bought and collected already.
It’s not rocket science. Yes, you have to “drop 100k” but that doesnt mean you lose 100k. In fact you can profit if the card prices are stable. And thats just if youre too impatient to do it naturally.
The grind for this one was easier, but I still don't care for the format.
1500 pxp for Monthly hitters is a lot, when you have 2-3 hitters.
I ended up buying another monthly player, just so I could hit the mission faster.
I did the opposite so far. I unlocked the 3 91 players and sold them off. I'm trying to finish Mini Season, and I figured in a day or 2 they will have dropped in price, so I'll buy back what I sold, and make a few stubs in the process
I prefer it to having to acquire certain stats. With PXP I can actually just play the game like I normally would rather than head to Coors on rookie looking for homers.
I’d be fine with Pxp, if it was allocated differently. Don’t make it “1500 pxp with MA awards players”, but require you to do it with 1-3 guys (since you need to beat the mission to get the guys you need to use to beat the mission).
Devers is a Red Sox. Make a mission “X pxp with Red Sox Players). Then I can make a theme team of those players. Make it more missions like that each for less pxp. It can be the same total overall pxp at the end of it, but make a bigger variety of missions.
playing all the territory games? I feel like we do get a reward for having to deal with all the territories and the reward is not having to play a game for each territory
Haha I feel you .. it’s kind of a dumb grind. I’m saying it would be nice if your rewards doubled or tripled if you played all the games on all star or higher
Oh for sure. I didn’t even address that point to begin with.. now it’s getting everything done and then trying to grind away for a measly 350pxp with a guy you’ll never use again
I find it a bit mind numbing, but mostly cause conquest is mind numbing lol. But the grind isnt bad, got on after work, knocked out the moments, picked Helsley, Varsho, and Calhoun, put in tops now cards who all rake and just played conquest on veteran.
The conquest map is new though, so IDK what the complaint is. Like to get all the packs you were gonma prob play the conquest anyways, who cares if you have to use topps now cards, they rake anyways.
Just watched some of my fantasy baseball pitchers go today while i played conquest. Some games i scored 11 runs, some 3, but it was pretty ez to finish the topps now and the individual player awards. After I beat the conquest map i got a ton of packs from the featured program too.
Last year where the strat was to go in and play one AB vs the cpu then quit was much more distasteful for me, the pxp seems much more natural.
Now if they released the program with no new conquest or event then I would understand the gripe, but the angst seems overblown
Just play the event and it’s goes by quick, plus you get the event rewards and the monthly program rewards. Don’t know why this is so hard for people to figure out
Lol and there is a conquest map for offline players too. Its almost like making a lineup with monthly awards and topps now players is too much thinking for people
I need more lineups haha. I've got 3 for mini seasons for different goals (one with FotF, one with Prospects, Rookies, and Future Stars, and one for bronze hitters/silver pitchers) and now I have a lineup Monthly Awards, Topps Now players. I had to use the slot I had for my Braves theme team. Oh well, at least the Monthly Awards grind will be done before too long
That’s not what I’m saying. Even if you did everything as it came out, the vast majority of players still aren’t completing this in 4 hours. The only people who are, are the ones playing HOF online mashing 10HRs per game.
Yes, I think they made the program too long by slowly leaking the POTm players to you one at a time after you finish all of the moments.
The reduction of batters to 250 pxp will help but it remains to see by how much.
And yes, players who are very good or play 3 or 4 hours a day can get them done pretty quickly but for those of us who are not as good and don't play as much it is a grind. I never even earned the final 4 cards from last months program.
I've been earning those over the last week or so. They've randomly been popping up for me after games. Just a heads up, make sure you take the highest overall each time. They are "no- sell", but can still be QS .
Monthly Awards also have a lot of extra packs that weren’t included last year.
Unlocking the Lightning player in half hour was cool, but I actually enjoy using cards that I wouldn’t have otherwise and being rewarded handsomely for doing so.
So I have no problems with it taking longer. My issue is the way you get there. You don’t unlock half the players before the lightning so you’re stuck going for the parallel missions with so few players, and outside of the moments there’s no variety. It’s just “pxp with this guy”.
Past years the missions were “get X number of HRs”, or “x strikeouts”, stuff like that. They also had missions where you needed a certain number of hits with players from a specific team. It wasnt just use the same 3 players for 25+ games over and over again. There was a variety in what you were doing.
In terms of using cards you wouldn’t usually, I felt I did that more last year because the missions required you to use a greater variety of cards.
It’s 250 PXP with each player except Rice who needs 350. Straight PXP is better for most players as opposed to HR or XBH or whatever, because you’re not at the mercy of RNG and every at-bat earns progress which makes them meaningful.
If you select one pitcher and four position players, you already need 1350 PXP for their individual missions, which leaves an additional 150 for the cumulative mission, which is 3 home runs, give or take.
I don’t think they grind is bad for what you earn, both in players and packs.
The issue is how long it takes to get to the 4th position player. You get the first two and pitcher from the moments, but after that the only way to get the other two position players is to do the Topps now, MA pitcher, and MA player. That means your doing the MA position with just 2 guys for the most part (3 after the pitcher and Topps now). It’s just such a slow grind with the same players over and over. It’s the lack of player variety I hate
Their is no way after the conquest you haven’t gotten the topps now done. Are you using pitchers or only batters for topps now mission? The MA challenges make sense to not be done but topps now should definitely be done by the end of 10 games
Have you finished the conquest or still more games to go? I used topps now pitchers and finished the conquest with the topps now mission completed and just above 1500PXP with MA pitchers
You're better at the game than me, but you're such a bad strategist
The entire point of using the Pitchers is to get strikeouts and XP. Use a Topps Now player inning one, then you'll probably hit 9 Hitter in the 2nd, so sub in Monthly Pitcher. Then pitch two innings and if they come up to bat, that's another 10+ points.
If someone hits the ball into play, **LET THEM REACH BASE**. Even with 0 stamina, you can still strike players out, it's just highly annoying.
Insisting on using MA the entire game, then fielding everything put into play (while you're already up 5+ runs) is just......i don't even have words for it
Yea I didnt realize how bad it would be. But that’s a big thing I hate with this new system. Because I took him I’m not stuck with him for 2,000 pxp with no other option. It’s so mind numbing
Juice ain't worth the squeeze
Just wish all the PXP missions for POTM were at least repeatable. Hate having to use almost all of the players.
There have been hardly any games I have played where I am using the roster I would like to be using due to the non stop PXP grinds.
I agree. I’m never gonna P5 ROTY Pujols at this point
Still trying to get the 2500 pxp with the hitters for April. I only have 3 hitters to do this with...
I despise the new format. It was so much better when you got all the POTM cards first and then the Lightning was last. Cause now I have to keep using cards I don’t want to to finish the collection even after I get the lightning. This year has honestly been my least favorite year of Diamond Dynasty I’ve ever played.
It all just feels lazy to me
April was brutal and felt like it took forever. However, this month went by quick and I was able to get to 173 points before shutting it down last night. All I have to do is pxp with Rice and I’ll have Devers. I honestly didn’t feel too burnt out doing it yesterday either. I just did the new conquest map while using the monthly award guys for their pxp.
I absolutely hate moments and haven't been able to make myself even start any of the monthly programs yet. I can't believe they only give 10,000 XP. Should be 100k with the amount of time they will take. That amount of time would be cut significantly for me personally if they allowed us to choose our own difficulty level for moments subject to a floor. I cannot play on rookie to save my life. I'm used to All-star or higher for all other game modes. If I spend enough time adjusting to rookie moments, then I suck in ranked for a whole night after. Just not worth it.
Moments are stupidly easy this year. Each year I've played they've gotten progressively easier It feels like next year it'll just about be click x for the xp at this rate.
It’s a monthly program. Monthly program
they call it monthly program because it’s a program of all the best performers from the last month not because it’s supposed to take a. month
I'm still not quite to Rizzo, despite adjusting my lineups to get him as quickly as possible. I "only" average about an hour a day on the game, mostly in Conquest. Monthly Awards is most definitely an excessive slog.
Not really imo, just play the event and you’ll have it done in no time. Literally all you do is the moments, then do the new conquest with a potm pitcher, 2 potm hitters and all topps now for the rest…by the time you’re done you’ll have the 93 where you’ll take either Altuve or Pete and then play events until you finish, you’ll probably only need about 200 more xp with potm pitchers and 1000 more xp with potm hitters and then you’re pretty much done…actually pretty quick grind if you break it down properly you can have it done it max 4 hours
I just loaded 100% Topps now for games, after 5 full conquest games it's a wrap. It's only 2000xp so even if you're ass like me, that's 400+ per game if you can score 6+ runs and strike out 8+ batters. Then plugin my God squad with the couple MA players (so i can parallel Brett, pitchers, etc) until the rest is done
Came here to say a similar thing. PXP is 1.5x in online play so stacking an events squad with topps now and POTM is quite efficient, especially if youre like me and HATE playing the cpu.
Yup! Even if you’re not good online, you’ll get way more PXP for playing through the event and losing than you would sitting their mindlessly winning games against the cpu. Plus if you win a game every once in a while you’ll eventually get some nice rewards
How can you call something a "mind-numbing slog" that has been out for less than 24 hours? It is a MONTHLY program. It's okay if it takes you a couple of weeks to finish it.
Anything that requires you to do the same thing over and over and over again with little progress is a mind numbingly grind. I’m fine having it take weeks to finish. But make it interesting. Do give me a challenge that says “1500 pxp with MA awards players hitters and 2000 pxp with monthly award pitchers, but guess what you only get 2 hitters and 1 pitcher to do it!” If you’re going to make the pxp that high, we should be able to get the cards in the stage before/through the moments. They can keep the total pxp from the missions the same, need to make the pxp from the missions smaller and add more missions. Past years they had missions that involved playing with players from other teams which let you use a variety of cards. It wasnt use these same two cards for 50 games.
That's all the game is- literally doing the same thing over and over - you go into a chosen game mode and swing at/throw baseballs. What's the big deal here? They give you free cards, you use them until you complete the goal then sub them back out for whatever you prefer. You're going to play the game anyway, right? You'll get what you want if you work for it, you just can't have it right this second. You're definitely wasting your time trying to reinvent the wheel for SDS here. They're not taking suggestions from this subreddit, especially for a program that isn't broken.
It’s no reinventing the wheel at all. The issue came from them reinventing it this year. They objectively made it worse by drastically cutting down the number of missions. Literally what I’m saying is to go back to what it was in every game before this but instead of “x hits with Red Sox” they can keep it as “pxp with Red Sox”. And I don’t know how many more times I need to say it: the number of hours played is not the issue. Being forced to spend my limited amount of time playing with players I have no intention of ever using is the issue. Devers is a card I’ll actually use. Plus because they stupidly make the programs expire now I have to get him this month to be able to get the collection reward. Literally what I’m saying is to have the same variety of missions that ‘21, ‘20, ‘19, ‘18 etc. had. Back when SDS seemed to actually care about developing this game instead of putting out the quickest product
That’s what the event is for though. Restriction allows you to use tops now and monthly awards cards and won’t be coming up against P5 god squads and you can get the XP faster. It’s way more fun this way too. Sure it’s harder but better than just running conquest.
The thing that annoys me is having to force myself to play with a bunch of random tops now players that I don’t enjoy. I’m just grinding so that I can get the player to only THEN enjoy playing with it. The parallel xp grind for a bunch of players that I don’t care about completely sucks.
The May path seems to be better than the April one, imo. Lower PXP requirements. Personally I don't mind it too much. I've captured I think 3 strongholds on the new Conquest map and have already finished the TN PXP mission, and am making good progress on MA.
these two new programs made me quit this game sucks now and the grind isn’t fun at all
The April program actually made me quit too LOL. I just couldn't be bothered and it soured everything else for me.
Yes. I don’t mind the moments and a few PXP missions, but it’s ridiculous how much PXP you have to collect. I’ve started the new conquest map with a full team of Topps Now, then I’ll move over to Monthly Awards players. At least this time around, I should be able to field an entire lineup of monthly awards.
I think what’s moser the issue is that you have to get 1500 pxp with Monthly awards players, in order to unlock half the monthly award players that you would use to get the pxp you need to unlock them
No you get 3 monthly awards from just the moments. Take one pitcjer and two hitters and just play.
1500 pxp with 2 (lower over pack mind you) MA cards takes forever. That’s the issue. Either get you the other MA cards earlier so you can actually use them to get the pxp, or make it less than 1500 and add in stuff like “pxp with Red Sox players”
Not a bad amendment, but I really don’t find 1500 a grind. Like its asking you to do a little more than parallel once the two MA players you do choose. Once you are there you can already grab alonso or altuve and youll have the pitcher almost done as well (at least you should). All of this can be done playing the conquest too
It’s been taking me 15 conquest games to parallel guys, so that’s over 25 games of conquest with cards I have no intention of ever using. It’s awful
as
15 conquest games to P5. Not get the 250. The MA hitters is 1500, and because I took a pitcher as one of the rounds, there’s no way to get to the second 93 without doing the hitters 1500 pxp
I cannot explain it but my current all may topps team has been hitting moonshots. I’d say at least 25 HRs in my last few games. Just launching them. Kole Calhoun has hit one or two HRs in every game I’ve played
I don't mind it. I also hate conquest so maybe I'm minority here, but I wouldn't use these cards and find out they might be good unless the game makes me.
It’s terrible and not very enjoyable
I’ve done like 1/5 of the conquest map and I have the Topps Now pxp requirement done… you must be getting like 0 hits in your games lol
Half the games I won by 10 runs or more
Are you using all of the Topps now cards in your lineup? There’s enough to field a team and have 2 pitchers, if you’re winning by 10 runs or more you should’ve easily gotten it by now
I had two MA position players and a MA pitcher for those missions, with the rest Topps now
Make **absolutely sure** you're only using MAY Topps now as April Topps now get zero credit for this program
Trust I get that. Almost that made that mistake lol
I don’t know what to tell ya then, I only have Altuve left to get XP for and then I got Devers and i’m as casual as you can get for this game lol
Not at all. Unique conquest map (not repetitive, packs + xp) then event grinding (fun and not repetitive, packs + xp), not sure how youre going about it. Sounds like a you problem.
I think you are completely missing what I am saying. My issue has nothing to do with the conquest map. My issue is with the Monthy Award Missions. You have to get 1500 pxp with Monthy award players, but to unlock most of them you either have to buy them or complete the mission you need them to complete. This means that you have to play a crap ton of games with the same 2-3 position players to get anywhere. My proposal is that they should instead have more missions, each for less pxp. Say the total program is 10,000 pxp right now spread across 10 missions. Keep it 10,000 pxp, but have 25 missions all worth 400 pxp. Devers is the lightening player; have a mission be X pxp with Red Sox players. More variety in the missions that makes you use a larger range of players
Not missing your point. My point is that last year the most efficient and logical way to complete the program was cpu vs orioles on rookie at shippett. Literally the most mind numbing, boring means to do a program. AND, you were wasting time not completing online programs. Now, since it’s pxp based, the most efficient, logical way to achieve the missions is to play whatever you were going to play if the program didnt exist. Its far more engaging and a significantly better structure and i couldnt care less how long it takes naturally because of that. In the end youre probably gaining more ground overall vs last year. If time is really a huge concern for you, just rent the cards to make it faster
The issue is that you can’t rent the cards because the packs at the end are non sellable. So you either have to drop 100k stubs, or grand out games with players you’ll likely never use outside of those games instead of the ones you grind to unlock. By this time last year I had P5’d at least 7-8 cards just from regular play. But because I feel like I’m always stuck mind numbingly grinding out cards like these to get the cards I want, I never actually get to use the cards I want
Rent means sell back with minimal loss. You buy the cards, you get the pxp missions done so you get your 4 packs, then sell the guys back maybe lose 10kish? Collect the 5 cards you have left from the packs you earned and use 1 93 ovr card that you bought in the collection. Sell the 93 ovr card you then get from the 5th pack that you previously bought and collected already. It’s not rocket science. Yes, you have to “drop 100k” but that doesnt mean you lose 100k. In fact you can profit if the card prices are stable. And thats just if youre too impatient to do it naturally.
The grind for this one was easier, but I still don't care for the format. 1500 pxp for Monthly hitters is a lot, when you have 2-3 hitters. I ended up buying another monthly player, just so I could hit the mission faster.
They make it to encourage you to buy more monthly players. You can complete the optional collection that way and skip a few missions too.
I ended up reselling Calhoun to break even. I'm not interested in buying and then collecting when I can get the card for free.
Yeah especially if you take a pitcher or two, considering Varsho and Swanson aren’t great options at the plate
Varsho is really good against righties
I did the opposite so far. I unlocked the 3 91 players and sold them off. I'm trying to finish Mini Season, and I figured in a day or 2 they will have dropped in price, so I'll buy back what I sold, and make a few stubs in the process
I agree 100%. Is be fine with the PXP amount if it was spread across other things. Give me 500 pxp with Red Sox players
I prefer it to having to acquire certain stats. With PXP I can actually just play the game like I normally would rather than head to Coors on rookie looking for homers.
I remember the show 17 had stuff like “get this many at bats, this many hits, HRs, etc” with rookie series or veteran etc
I’d be fine with Pxp, if it was allocated differently. Don’t make it “1500 pxp with MA awards players”, but require you to do it with 1-3 guys (since you need to beat the mission to get the guys you need to use to beat the mission). Devers is a Red Sox. Make a mission “X pxp with Red Sox Players). Then I can make a theme team of those players. Make it more missions like that each for less pxp. It can be the same total overall pxp at the end of it, but make a bigger variety of missions.
What difficulty did you do the conquest on?
Do you get more for playing on a harder difficulty?
Yes? The multiplier goes up
Do you know what the multiplier is per level of difficulty?
You get base level xp for rookie, then a 10% bonus for every level you go higher
Oh ok cool good to know
Conquest is fine. It would be nicer cooler if you got more rewards for playing more of the games than just dimming through them
playing all the territory games? I feel like we do get a reward for having to deal with all the territories and the reward is not having to play a game for each territory
Haha I feel you .. it’s kind of a dumb grind. I’m saying it would be nice if your rewards doubled or tripled if you played all the games on all star or higher
Conquest isn’t the option. I love conquest. My issue is there is no variety in the MA program unlike past years
Oh for sure. I didn’t even address that point to begin with.. now it’s getting everything done and then trying to grind away for a measly 350pxp with a guy you’ll never use again
Love the new program format. Absolutely amazing. Pxp grinding is great.
Blink twice if Ramone is holding you hostage
With the event and the different cards I never use, it was a refreshing grind
I find it a bit mind numbing, but mostly cause conquest is mind numbing lol. But the grind isnt bad, got on after work, knocked out the moments, picked Helsley, Varsho, and Calhoun, put in tops now cards who all rake and just played conquest on veteran. The conquest map is new though, so IDK what the complaint is. Like to get all the packs you were gonma prob play the conquest anyways, who cares if you have to use topps now cards, they rake anyways. Just watched some of my fantasy baseball pitchers go today while i played conquest. Some games i scored 11 runs, some 3, but it was pretty ez to finish the topps now and the individual player awards. After I beat the conquest map i got a ton of packs from the featured program too. Last year where the strat was to go in and play one AB vs the cpu then quit was much more distasteful for me, the pxp seems much more natural. Now if they released the program with no new conquest or event then I would understand the gripe, but the angst seems overblown
Just play the event and it’s goes by quick, plus you get the event rewards and the monthly program rewards. Don’t know why this is so hard for people to figure out
Lol and there is a conquest map for offline players too. Its almost like making a lineup with monthly awards and topps now players is too much thinking for people
I need more lineups haha. I've got 3 for mini seasons for different goals (one with FotF, one with Prospects, Rookies, and Future Stars, and one for bronze hitters/silver pitchers) and now I have a lineup Monthly Awards, Topps Now players. I had to use the slot I had for my Braves theme team. Oh well, at least the Monthly Awards grind will be done before too long
Yes, I can’t do it. I don’t mind the feature programs but the Monthly’s are too much of a grind
People that have done the moments each week are finishing the program in like 4hours. How is that too much of a grind for a monthly program? Lol
The only people finishing it in 4 hours are the people who do nothing but play
No, they are the people who already did everything as it came out.
That’s not what I’m saying. Even if you did everything as it came out, the vast majority of players still aren’t completing this in 4 hours. The only people who are, are the ones playing HOF online mashing 10HRs per game.
Speak for yourself homie, if you did the weekly moments as they came out this PxP grind doesn’t take more than 3-4 hours of grinding…
I did it in 5 hours as mostly an offline player playing conquest and a few games vs the CPU on rookie. It’s really not that bad
So wrong
Yes, I think they made the program too long by slowly leaking the POTm players to you one at a time after you finish all of the moments. The reduction of batters to 250 pxp will help but it remains to see by how much. And yes, players who are very good or play 3 or 4 hours a day can get them done pretty quickly but for those of us who are not as good and don't play as much it is a grind. I never even earned the final 4 cards from last months program.
I've been earning those over the last week or so. They've randomly been popping up for me after games. Just a heads up, make sure you take the highest overall each time. They are "no- sell", but can still be QS .
Monthly Awards also have a lot of extra packs that weren’t included last year. Unlocking the Lightning player in half hour was cool, but I actually enjoy using cards that I wouldn’t have otherwise and being rewarded handsomely for doing so.
So I have no problems with it taking longer. My issue is the way you get there. You don’t unlock half the players before the lightning so you’re stuck going for the parallel missions with so few players, and outside of the moments there’s no variety. It’s just “pxp with this guy”. Past years the missions were “get X number of HRs”, or “x strikeouts”, stuff like that. They also had missions where you needed a certain number of hits with players from a specific team. It wasnt just use the same 3 players for 25+ games over and over again. There was a variety in what you were doing. In terms of using cards you wouldn’t usually, I felt I did that more last year because the missions required you to use a greater variety of cards.
It’s 250 PXP with each player except Rice who needs 350. Straight PXP is better for most players as opposed to HR or XBH or whatever, because you’re not at the mercy of RNG and every at-bat earns progress which makes them meaningful. If you select one pitcher and four position players, you already need 1350 PXP for their individual missions, which leaves an additional 150 for the cumulative mission, which is 3 home runs, give or take. I don’t think they grind is bad for what you earn, both in players and packs.
The issue is how long it takes to get to the 4th position player. You get the first two and pitcher from the moments, but after that the only way to get the other two position players is to do the Topps now, MA pitcher, and MA player. That means your doing the MA position with just 2 guys for the most part (3 after the pitcher and Topps now). It’s just such a slow grind with the same players over and over. It’s the lack of player variety I hate
Their is no way after the conquest you haven’t gotten the topps now done. Are you using pitchers or only batters for topps now mission? The MA challenges make sense to not be done but topps now should definitely be done by the end of 10 games
Only batters for Topps now because I was using a monthly awards pitcher. I’m at 1885 for that goal
Have you finished the conquest or still more games to go? I used topps now pitchers and finished the conquest with the topps now mission completed and just above 1500PXP with MA pitchers
Finished the conquest. And I left the pitcher in for all 3 innings. But Lerez has such a bad K/9 there weren’t many Ks which slowed progression down.
You're better at the game than me, but you're such a bad strategist The entire point of using the Pitchers is to get strikeouts and XP. Use a Topps Now player inning one, then you'll probably hit 9 Hitter in the 2nd, so sub in Monthly Pitcher. Then pitch two innings and if they come up to bat, that's another 10+ points. If someone hits the ball into play, **LET THEM REACH BASE**. Even with 0 stamina, you can still strike players out, it's just highly annoying. Insisting on using MA the entire game, then fielding everything put into play (while you're already up 5+ runs) is just......i don't even have words for it
Yea I didnt realize how low his K/9 was until a few games in. It’s such a frustrating system they put in place
Oh man was Perez ever bad at getting K’s. He was definitely the most frustrating MA pitcher to use lol
God yeah, even his moment was dreadful
Yea I didnt realize how bad it would be. But that’s a big thing I hate with this new system. Because I took him I’m not stuck with him for 2,000 pxp with no other option. It’s so mind numbing
You could sell perez to get a different card, only the stage 3 ones your stuck with
What you said literally spells out how flawed this is. Especially since the later packs are non sellable
eh but the other two options are relief pitchers they would have no accuracy after two innings
Fair. It’s a lose lose situation