3 Things I'm Hoping to See in Show 25

[Cycloniac]

First of all, are they finally adding the sweeper? I think it's time guys. So many pitchers throw this pitch, and it's become such a discussed pitch. Hope we see it in this year.

Second of all, this is one I check every single year when editing players: can we finally select custom secondary positions? Let us choose which ones, not just the pre-defined ones like 1B/OF, IF etc. At a minimum, give us a utility preset.

Third, will this be the year they remove MPH caps for pitches? Let us throw 91 MPH changeups. Let us throw 99 MPH sinkers.

What do you guys think?

[CBoller1331]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cycloniac

First of all, are they finally adding the sweeper? I think it's time guys. So many pitchers throw this pitch, and it's become such a discussed pitch. Hope we see it in this year. Second of all, this is one I check every single year when editing players: can we finally select custom secondary positions? Let us choose which ones, not just the pre-defined ones like 1B/OF, IF etc. At a minimum, give us a utility preset. Third, will this be the year they remove MPH caps for pitches? Let us throw 91 MPH changeups. Let us throw 99 MPH sinkers. What do you guys think?

I agree with all - but I'm not super optimistic that these things are top priorities.

However, we've already seen the impact that Ridin/tabarnes have had on a few of these small "nagging" reoccurring issues - like correcting option years and a few other things that only come up when you spend a lot of time editing players, so maybe a couple of these do make it in.

I say this as a someone with no game development experience, but a decent amount of data modeling experience, but I kind of get the sense that there are a lot of small things in the game like pitch types and velocity limits that are coded/stored much deeper in the foundation of the game than it seems like they should be - if that makes any sense? As an example why did they have to add a quirk to allow certain pitches to exceed the pre-existing velocity limits instead of just raising/removing said limits? Kinda smells like a "band-aid" fix on something that would be a much bigger lift to fix permanently.

[Cycloniac]

Quote: Originally Posted by CBoller1331

I agree with all - but I'm not super optimistic that these things are top priorities. However, is we've already seen the impact that Ridin/tabarnes have had on a few of these small "nagging" reoccurring issues - like correcting option years and a few other things that only come up when you spend alot of time editing players, so maybe a couple of these do make it in. I say this as a someone with no game development experience, but a decent amount of data modeling experience, but I kind of get the sense that there are alot of small things in the game like pitch types and velocity limits that are coded/stores much deeper in the foundation of the game than it seems like they should be - if that makes any sense? As an example why did they have to add a quirk to allow certain pitches to exceed the pre-existing velocity limits instead of just raising/removing said limits? Kinda smells like a "band-aid" fix on something that would be a mich bigger lift to fix permanently.

I see your point - my understanding was the caps were added because of RTTS/created players. I'm not sure how easy/hard it is to remove them at this point.

[CBoller1331]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cycloniac

I see your point - my understanding was the caps were added because of RTTS/created players. I'm not sure how easy/hard it is to remove them at this point.

Yeah that's the big question.

I could very well be speaking out of turn - I'm sure the game is much more complex than the excel files/data sets I deal with a work - but my guess is the way that the game is structured is making it harder than (we think) it should be to change some of these seemingly minor things - perhaps due to lack of "future proofing" some things 10-15 years ago.

Again....all this is entirely speculation from some random idiot (me) on the internet!

[0blong00]

We definitely need the sweeper! I also hope we can get pitchers who throw 6+ pitches and/or pitchers who only throw 2 pitches.

[Armor and Sword]

Top 3 things I want to see:


1. "My League" Total Customization Suite so we can create any era we want. Want to play the 1985 season? Great we can eliminate teams, realign divisions, customize era specific rules (no 3 batter minimum rule, no replay at 1B since that's all we have to this day) be able to have alternate created home and away uniforms as well (why only one home and one away still?), this would also require a new schedule generator for the amount of teams in your custom league. NBA 2K has the very best "My League" "Era Mode" in sports gaming and if The Show could do this.....it would be the ultimate love letter to their long time fan base and OG baseball fans in general

2. Extensive expansion of the audio name database - We are missing way too many common and legendary names and it's year 4 of the new booth (who I love) and high time this get's the TLC it needs.

3. Expanded Rosters for full minor leagues including full A ball and an international free agency period, non roster spring training invitees as well. And this will require the financial system to be overhauled as well....so My top 3 are big asks....but at this point the game has pretty much hit that wall where we need something off this list to happen to get a lot of people excited again.

I have already pre-ordered and am excited for the game....regardless I love playing The Show because nothing is better on the field than The Show. It replicates the sport incredibly well. Better than all the other games including 2K. That's just my opinion of course.

[Ghost Of The Year]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cycloniac

First of all, are they finally adding the sweeper? I think it's time guys. So many pitchers throw this pitch, and it's become such a discussed pitch. Hope we see it in this year. Second of all, this is one I check every single year when editing players: can we finally select custom secondary positions? Let us choose which ones, not just the pre-defined ones like 1B/OF, IF etc. At a minimum, give us a utility preset. Third, will this be the year they remove MPH caps for pitches? Let us throw 91 MPH changeups. Let us throw 99 MPH sinkers. What do you guys think?

My order of interest in these three:
1 - Custom Secondary Positions. On a scale of 10 for necessity, I'd rank this a 10. Been wanting them to do this forever.

2 - The Sweeper. Get rid of the Running Fastball. Use the slot for the sweeper. I've never even believed ts a real pitch anyway. Better yet, let me also be able to give two of the same pitch to a pitcher, so I can give one pitch a different speed rating and/or movement rating. This is a 7 of 10 for me.

3 - Remove the MPH cap. Scale of 10, this is a 4 for me.

[LegendKillerOne]

For me



1- Expanded rosters (though not hopeful we will see this)


2- International signing period


3- Smarter franchise AI, I would love to not need 30 team control. But seeing a team trade Judge for like Cal Raliegh to me just can not happen