re: **tOfficial MLB 16 The Show Thread**

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Picking it up today. Say I have 3-4 other friends I want to play with online. Which of the modes mentioned above are available/recommended for an online dynasty? Played in the NCAA dynasties for years but am new to The Show and PS4

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You can play an online franchise with your 3-4 friends.

You can customize the length of your season in online franchise mode, so you don't have to play all 162 games. I am not sure how it works in the new game, but you could not change the schedules in the old game. And the schedule was the same every year. So, if y'all are interested in playing a shorter season, but playing each other as often as possible you may want to start one alone and view the schedules and pick from those teams that are listed on the schedule.

It can be pretty fun with an active group. It's not as in depth as offline franchise, but still fun.

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Is it possible for me to sell literally every player card that I have?

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Cards you obtain via pre-order packs are not sell-able. If you complete a team collection, any card you use to get that collection complete becomes unsellable. So if you are going for the easy 25 player on a team missions and one of those teams you have a diamond player on that team, put that diamond player on the market for an absurd unsellable price, and that will prevent you from locking that diamond in, in case you want to sell him at a later date.

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Also, I have no fricking clue what this captain crap is

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My general understanding is that these were created to

A.) Award you with increasingly better cards

B.) Promote people to use a wider variety of lineups within Diamond Dynasty. Last year, after about 3 months, everyone had basically the same lineup and it killed the game mode.

Additionally, the packs that you can purchase within each captaincy are cards specifically for the objective you are currently using (You can also see what cards go to each captain based on the C's at the bottom of each card). They are color coordinated, so just match up the colors of the Cs at the bottom with your current captain and you will gain more tickets to unlock the rewards faster. I am on level 19 of 25 to get Gerrit Cole from the David Ortiz collection.

Sold a shite ton of my players from pre-order packs. Only card it wouldn't let me sell was Addison Russell for some reason.

Top sellers were Iwakuma and Mookie Betts for me.

Picked up the Maple Sam Bat and the Lunar Trout's.

Gametime.

I've got baserunning set to auto and I'll get a base hit and these frickers still won't advance.

Just last inning I hit 2 singles with a man on first and they don't run to 2nd.

WTF is that?

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Just last inning I hit 2 singles with a man on first and they don't run to 2nd.

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Press L1

I know last year you could change the difficulty for DD. I can't remember if changing the difficulty gave you better rewards or not but I think it did. The trick to get tickets faster is to pay attention to the captaincy cards. At the bottom of each card are C's. Color coordinate those C's to the Captains and use those players to get tickets faster. The fastest way to earn currency is to play the market like crazy and to complete the missions. There are conquest missions, collection missions, and the standard play as you go missions (obtain x strikeouts, runs, HRs, doubles, etc.)

There's just soooo much content in the game it is a bit overwhelming at first. But the good part of that is that you definitely won't get bored easily since modes like RTTS and DD offer their own unique experience.

Started my DD last night and forgot to set team colors, logo, anything like that before my first game. They looked like a team of house painters. Also, in DD do you just play exhibitions and games against other users or is there some type of linear season??

The cost for BR is really not that bad though. Considering that you get a pack simply just for playing. Entry fee is 1500 stubs. The pack is 1000 stubs on the market. So you are losing out on 500 stubs. If you are even sort of decent at the game, you should be able to get at least 6 wins before losing two games which nets you two additional player cards. I'd say all in all, you might lose out on an average of 200 stubs per entry into BR, which really isn't terrible. Just flip a couple of cards in between games on the market and you've made up your losses.

I'm switching the baserunning back to what it was last year if that's an option which I'm sure it is. Too often I've found myself with guys on the same base

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TheRig

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How was it in previous games?