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Originally Posted by bailey
1) Defensive training -- if that wasn't a thing, the number of players useable at each position would shrink leading to more teams with the exact same cards everywhere
2) Peak cards -- no opinion, except to say if you want people to spend money on cards, you have to make them exceptional.
3) Live cards -- Agree. Live cards are kind of worthless and making their ratings vary during the season makes them even less desirable. They are useful only for speculation on whether a diamond changes to perfect. One of those "Win at the Auction House" activities that many abhor.
4) Future Legends, POTM cards -- Agree. Totally fictional, although you could say that about the Negro League cards, too. Do you want to get rid of those, as well?
The rating inflation of these cards have undergone from 19 to 20 to 21 makes you wonder whether they will be the first cards in PT22 to have 200 contact, 200 gap, 200 power and 200 defense.
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I am OK with #1, I think the answer is adding more cards that are from different years in players' careers and adding more players. I prefer that to seeing Ozzie Smith being an inhuman 3b for example, to seeing IFs of nothing but trained up SSs, OFs of nothing but trained up CFs, and playing against teams whose defenses are so unbalanced and OP that offense gets killed.
That is my problem with PEAK cards, yes they are carrots to dangle in front of whales, but they are fictional. I think though that whatever the top cards are, the whales will drive up their prices. I'd rather see those cards be based on historical reality instead of a fantasy algorithm. There have been a ton of fantastic single seasons by a ton of players, I would rather see those types of cards being added to entice the whales. They're going to pay for whatever the best cards are.
And I would keep LIVE cards, but just also have another card for every player that gets a LIVE card that is static and solely based on their performance from the past season. That would also help increase the choices of cards available in the game
I wouldn't want PEAK Negro league cards, but I'd be OK with taking individual seasons of those players. Some accuracy may be sacrificed in the translation to what they would have done in the majors, but I think it would be minor compared to what happens with POTM and Rookie Legends. It would at least be based on real, full historical seasons. I don't think there's any question that a ton of those players would have performed extremely well in MLB.