First Candidate For MLB 13 The Show Cover is Bryce Harper, More Details Revealed

[Bobhead]

There definitely was room for improvement last year though. Hopefully 2.0 fixes the line drive percentages and whatnot.

And I agree with the timing window being expanded. The timing was just too minute when it came to intentionally swinging early or late to pull or slap balls, respectively.

I hope the scouting stuff is also simplified a little for those of us who play franchise for the short-term (eg play more games and sim fewer)? I just didn't have the time to stay on top of it, and always ended up forgetting to update scouts and everything, so I found it better to just leave the AI to handle all of that stuff.

[pirates1fan]

Well, now I can't play MLB 12 at all now, I just tried, and it just wasn't the same! Lol, no big deal, worth hearing the details. Thanks Russell! I hope McCutchen is a candidate! Would you guys vote for him if he was?

[pirates1fan]

And I am really new to Operation Sports, just joined, about 15 minutes ago. Just trying to figure everything out. Didn't know you could do as much as you can.

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by pirates1fan

And I am really new to Operation Sports, just joined, about 15 minutes ago. Just trying to figure everything out. Didn't know you could do as much as you can.

Aaaaand moooorrrreeee........

[Richie12]

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA

No on changing potential as it would unbalance the game and cause some budget issues. The game tries to keep the same number of A/B/C/D potential players in the league every year. So when a couple of A potential players retire it will generate new ones in the next draft and vice versa. If we allowed users to change potentials there would be more than a few nasty side effects right now. The most important one is player contracts are largely determined by a players overall and if you started editing guys and making some extra A rated players 5 years down the line there will be some problems with budgets and highly rated players not being signed by teams.

I understand all the constraints in the gaming engine, numbers of A-B-C-D and numbers of Pitchers and Position players etc, but a solution would be to let roster making do whatever they want and do the validation of the roster before saving or even using it in Franchise mode. Or maybe having a feature where roster makers can save a working copy with no validation but where you can only upload it once it's validated for numbers A-B-C-Ds and position wise.

That way both sides would be happy I think ( except the dev who'll have to code it :-)

[dalger21]

I like how we went from talking about Bryce Harper (whom I think should not be on the cover) to the new features and such. I'm excited about RttS. Perhaps now I won't be just biding my time til my player reaches FA.

[Unit303]

Great to hear that on the timing window as modes above all star were getting ludicrous.

I'll just take it grass is for PS4 but if you guys could somehow squeeze in some color matching at least for stadiums like Toronto I would probably do whatever you wanted.

[zippy2212]

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA

The promotion aspect of Franchise mode was removed in favor in a complete re-design of scouting, player progression/regression, and incentive based budget increases/decreases. Previously in the show you would set all those prices for hot dogs, bobble heads, etc... have 100 million in funds that you couldn't spend on player personnel decisions. It was kind of pointless and we needed the memory for the core a.i. rewrites that were done this year for the season modes.

I've been wanting something like this for years. I just want to run my baseball team, I always hired the AI to be my business operations manager.

This is awesome news!!