Time for a frickin' 9 innings thread on ILG, folks... ― schwantz, Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:26 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Same with special, rare, etc - you can draw the "special" form of a really shitty player (in fact, you will, repeatedly)

And the point of a Special or Rare card is that you can level it up more?

TBH it seems like level-ups really don't increase the stats that much.. seems worth it to just wait for a better card to be awarded to you, or create one.

I have a feeling this would all make more sense if I'd ever played Magic The Gathering.

You can level them up more, yep, I think. The problem is that it's also more expensive to level them up, which is totally annoying.

I just buy all the extra points.

What do you mean?

Leave my points alone!

If you go to the card box, then shop you can do an in app purchase of more points. 150000 for 7.99. Also get packs of level up and combo cards.

JUST SAY NO TO PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING MICROTRANSACTIONS

It does seem a little like cheating.

OMG you guys I just had a crazy thought:

multiplayer.

Laaaaaaaag

Yeah :(

It's not cheating, it's free market baseball. A true simulation.

Haha there should be like a salary cap or something

protip: since there is no defensive substitution, if a defensively weak player gets on base later in the game, sub him with a pinch runner who will also take his spot in the field. not as intuitive but does the trick.

i have done that!

i also am stealing bases at will - i take off whenever the fuck i feel like it. been thrown out like once. it fucks with my swing though. i haven't come close to throwing anyone out myself, so i guess it evens out.

i can't steal bases but then again my team's avg running speed is like a D. I am 19-15 in my season so far and that puts me wayyyy back in third place in the AL east (BOS is like 25-8 already and NYY are not far behind them) (I picked the Jays because Canada... bad call I suppose) (not that it makes a difference because I just get cards and replace my whole team except Hill, Wells and Lind)

i'm first in batting and ERA and wayyy near the bottom in RBI and every other metric. basically it's my shitty baserunning, same reason i have 12-hit games where i score 2 runs. i'm hovering around .500.

i dunno what other folks' strategies are but any cards i get that are worse than my current lineup i combine whenever i get the chance, in the hopes of getting a better one.

still no idea how to "boost" the combining process.

i've bought exactly one booster, for 2000 points, and it was crap. basically just keeping my dudes, all at level 3, and hoping for some good luck on the card front. card levelup seems kind of pointless when thousands of points gain you one measly point of stat improvement. i've got a manager who gives me plus 5% so that seems pretty good..

ok i bought the US version hee hee

i am currently killin it - got a complete game out of beckett last night

question: you guys are playing on "normal" right? i am, but i'm sort of wondering if maybe it's too easy. i went through the twins like a scythe through sausage

I'm playing on hard, it got really easy after my lineup got stacked

I feel maybe they cut the difficulty down in the latest update? i dunno though I split my time between trainyard and drop7 these days

hmm I guess I'm stuck. just won a 2-1 squeaker. if I keep winning everything guess I'll need to start over on hard.

it chafes my goolies that player cards don't indicate rightie or lefty!! fuck

also that I can't check a baserunner's speed rating

any opinions on which coaches or cheerleaders are worthwhile? no idea what the diff is between "card +3%" and "stat +3%" tbh

you can check a baserunner's speed rating, it's on the card

I use the batting cards, bat CON and bat EYE, think bat EYE increases your chances of getting hits? dunno

once the dude's on base his card isn't available though

pretty sure CON is likelihood of contact and EYE is likelihood of extra-base hit

could also stand for CONCENTRATION...or CONTINENT...or CONNOR...

where is the setting for normal/hard ? am into my 2011 season and my roster is p stacked, 11-2 so far but 3 of those are either walk-off or extra inning wins. is hard considerably harder?

The setting for normal/hard only appears when you're first setting up your league season.

hate hate HATE that you can't tell if someone's a rightie or leftie by looking at their card

still haven't thrown anyone out

after a storming start to my season (18-4) the pendulum is starting to move the other way - toronto has handed me my ass in back to back games. i got c.c. sabs somehow but he lasted two innings.

lolz the other night when a 100mph fastball blew by me, thrown from the immortal grip of... darren oliver

Tracer, do you think you're overstating the importance of LH/RH batters vs. RH/LH pitchers? Cuz if you pay attn to the player "attributes", you'll see some LH that are "lefty killers" and vice versa and of course the natural reverse which is intuitive (esp for you!). I think the game really doesn't dole out the advantage the way it occurs in real life. I've hit some of my longest, clutchiest, Jeterrific homeruns with LH batter facing LHP and vice versa, so much that I stopped even paying attn to it.

haha yeah i guess i shouldn't give a shit about that! especially when i'm able to play pedroia at 1B with no loss of fielding stats

the game is definitely catching up with me. getting some tough games these days. submarine relievers are killin me.

for some reason i always find myself playing the orioles. the phrase "suggest ban matt wieters" comes to mind frequently.

has anyone figured out a good way to double switch btw?

"different stats for cheerleader cards even though they are the same" - that's a pro tip (??)

lol @ you guys expecting MLB the show 2011 on your iphones

not at all, i don't have the patience for that! i love the easy cartoon style of 9innings. still wanna double switch though.

pinch-hit walkoff followed by a 6-1 drubbing at the hands of the halos; but I just got POO HOLES!

"Better luck next time!"

ILX, long time no talk. you ruined my life by introducing this addictive nonsense to me.

my batting & pitching:

http://i54.tinypic.com/r/5doylg.jpg
http://i54.tinypic.com/24e6fif.jpg

AND A QUESTION... I got this card at some point, my team is Toronto btw (not that you can tell from that lineup) and I got this... Aaron Hill card? The stats are nearly identical to my original, position's the same, and yet it says he plays for the Cubs and the picture is someone else. Who is the picture? WTF is going on?

http://i54.tinypic.com/4sh3rt.jpg

gonna try that pitching lineup again.

http://i54.tinypic.com/5doylg.jpg

first season teixeira i got like halfway thru and he still dominated the HR charts, like 61 total? 10 ahead of the next guy. awesome. wolf has been way more dominant than his stats might make you think on account of being a lefty and a right-killer. haven't used kershaw yet, got him during the world series and he was on the rest-day in rotation for the first run of the second season (i am only 5 games into season 2). does the game get way harder when you hit season 2, btw?!

lolz the other night when a 100mph fastball blew by me, thrown from the immortal grip of... darren oliver

i have had several 105mph heaters thrown for my team by matt cain...????????

nah it's not harder in season 2 (tho mine is still on easy -- if they let u upgrade btwn seasons go for it, i cant recall if it did or not)

also WOW & TEX's 117 power. never seen that card

^that should be wow @

how u have so many dope platinums my best 1 is like mike cameron

o i guess ur already in seas 2

im like ~ 45-12-1 seas 2

good cards from: 1. luck 2. paid money like an asshole 3. my coach is an upgraded +card% (right now at +9%). I think most of my plats are from homeruns and shit like that. Also gaming for points over stats ie. robbing myself saves to let a starter finish a game, etc. Also last season I had a million blowout games. Should mention that I have a cheerleader w/ +5 bat CON which is why everyone's CON is like 999999999

in fact except for grienke i think i got every plat there in-game, never ever get anything good from combine, or draw

I never do anymore. Seriously, I draw a gold card and it's like 30 points in various categories below my current guys.

exactly, the good thing is that this season i'll basically not change a single player.

people should go into the player rank and make the second field ILX or something, so we can compare "scores" whatever the f they mean!