MLB '12 The Show- FRANCHISE-MANAGE ONLY MODE-EDITOR suggestions/improvements

[Knight165]

Just as the case with Pared's gameplay thread.......there will be a focus group of players from O.S. and other places attending an event prior to the release of MLB 12 The Show.

This is a chance to TRY and get in to the game and try to reinforce the ideas of us...the guys who play the game.....to the devs. They are VERY open to our thoughts, ideas and suggestions of how the game direction should go.
Of course, we must realize that not everything can get done and frankly some of our suggestions are just not the direction the way the devs want to take the game(rare)....but as I said....they want to hear from us(as evidenced by the TWO events they hold every year for us to get a sneak peek at the game).

I will be focusing on an area of the game that definitely needs tweaking as a lot of us have discussed here. FRANCHISE MODE.
I will also see what can be done in MANAGE ONLY MODE(as a subset of franchise I suppose)
....and finally I will also try and work with the guys who control the EDITOR in the game.(I will also try and see to UNIFORMS, as this is part of the editor.. Keep in mind that what SCEA puts in the game as far as uni's is restricted to the MLB STYLE GUIDE(I know you guys don't want to hear it...but....it's there. Uni's are not my forte, but I'll do my best....perhaps another attendee will jump on it too)

Keep it concise and if you can use bullet points
Eg:
- this this and this needs to be worked on
-that could use attention
-I wish this could be added

As this format makes it MUCH easier to compile the ideas from each post.

Thanks and have at it!!!

M.K.
Knight165

[bp4baseball]

I know that you have been working hard with the developers that last couple years, and it sounds like they have a good plan of where they want franchise mode to go. Just to reiterate some of my ideas:



- Make trades into more of a process:

• Trade feedback

• Counter Trades

- More in depth contracts:

• No-trade clauses

• Performance bonuses

- Editor(if possible):

• Different level of bagginess for jerseys, like there currently is for the pants

• Different "styles" of cleats or gloves

[krmarks]

-I wish this could be added
Expansion Team\Team Builder

• Create a custom team to replace or be added to any division
• Custom stadium builder option
• Real expansion draft

-Needs work
Franchise menus

• Player growth screens would be nice so you could easily see how your players are progressing through training
• Trade screens need to be more intuitive and a make this trade work button (like ootp) would be nice.

[jcar0725]

• More historical player stats to view, also, career stats from each year that include for which team he played each year.

[econoodle]

Thanks Knight as always. Comforting to know guys like you are there digging in the batters box for us all.


Franchise Mode Interface Overhaul

A new look to the whole shebang would go a long way into making it feel fresh, which is a good start.
The menus this year were given a boost but the skeleton was the same as past years. Time for a refresh.

Player Roles

Ok so we all know Jeter would never sign a 5 year contract with the Cardinals, [as he did in my Franchise in 10 ], but in the Show he can because the game has no idea who Jeter is, hes just an aging shortstop with slightly declining numbers. But if a Player Role system was in place ala the last gen Madden series and now Madden 12, things like that could be avoided.
Giving Jeter the Franchise Player tag, it could signify him as untouchable or a player who will listen to the Yankees offer only.

A deeper look into maddens player roles will give an idea what the devs might be able to implement in the Show.

Imagine AJ Burnett with the 'hot/cold' role. You never know which one will show up each start.


Headlines

Ala 2k's baseball and basketball games, give us a deep and invlving headline page as well as a fake 'team website' for all the teams so u can peruse team leaders, rumors and milestones.

In the Show you are so far removed from the rest of the league its crazy.
Madden doesnt have this feature but in a 16 game season its not so bad, but in a 162 grind its tough to take.

Imagine roy halladay throws a no-no on may 3rd, or Pujols hits 4 ding dong daddy's in a game.
You have no idea it happened.
you feel like one team alone in the whole scheme of things.

Example: I played the red sox early in a season, they were undefeated after a handful of games. there was no mention by the announcers, let alone anywhere in the menus did it mention the red sox hot start.



More to come later.

[Russell_SCEA]

FYI guys these threads need to be about 90% fixes, re-balancing and tweaks to existing features. When the game visits us our feature set will be locked, so this isn't a team for "wishlist" types of ideas. We recorded all that info around May.

[Sco291]

Ok.

Fixes:

- Fix Franchise Mode.
- Fix the way trades work. I offered some very fair deals and included positions teams needed to fill, and I still didn't get the trade - this occured the whole year up until the TD.

- Free Agency needs some tweaking. I tried signing Longoria to a 4 year deal, and he decided to sign with the Orioles, who offered him a 2 year deal worth 4 million dollars. There's something seriously wrong with that.

- Presentation. Just re-do the whole thing. Please?!

What I'd like to see:

- New menus, new anything to make it seem like I'm not still submerged in MLB 10. This is it for now.

[zippy2212]

* Fix coaches

A pitching coach should never be hired as a hitting coach or vice versa. Give coaches specific attributes for their position. Even if Dave Duncan becomes a manager he still is only going to help pitchers and let his hitting coach handle the hitters. Same with hitting coaches.


This may be more of a new feature but allow us to edit coaches as well. Especially #'s. If I can't assign a play a retired number I don't want to see my 3rd base coach wearing a retired number.

Allow us to "reassign" coaches. 3B coach to manager, etc. without having to fire them first.

* Fix stats

To many unearned runs being counted as earned runs, hits being counted as outs because there is a throwing error after the player reaches base, etc.