Scott0530's Success Mode Guide

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Introduction

When I first started playing Success mode in Power Pros 2007, I will have to admit, the players I made weren’t very good. In fact, they were downright lousy. I was happy if I made players with E and D attributes and was thrilled if I could get their power levels to just sneak into the C-range; or if I could create a pitcher whom I could scrape B-level stamina out of, achieve an 87 MPH fastball and maybe a level one or two breaking pitch or two.

After plodding around like that for some time I started to think there had to be a better way of creating good players. Lo-and-behold I found the Power Pros Forums on the internet and found exactly what I was looking for; a strategy for creating both great pitchers and one for creating great position players. I found the basis for creating fielders here, and creating pitchers here.

These ideas/methods were a great start. Now, how to formulate a plan to actually create good players using these methods, that was a whole other ball of wax, and there were no shortage of suggestions.

Most folks, and the one I will employ in my system, used the gambling/saving and loading method; practice once and gamble on abilities to raise them quickly; save the game often and quit/reload if you have a negative. Since this was the most efficient way to upgrade players, I decided to stick with this method.

Going with gambling, the most popular way I saw to gamble was to obtain the gamblers ring. As I looked around the forum, I found the three most popular methods for getting the ring were to wait for the following random events:

• Save and load for surprise bag
• Shady Accessories
• Room cleaning

I also found ways to upgrade attributes through random events that would happen in the game that would raise power, stamina, fielding abilities, hitting abilities, etc. Some of the more popular ones I found were:

• Letter from Major Leaguer
• Dr. Goodjob
• Dad’s training
• Dating

Now, I won’t say I didn’t find other ways to upgrade abilities or get the gamblers ring; these were just the most common ones.

Using what I found I started trying to create players with all the information I found. And what I discovered was that this took a lot of patience. Saving and loading was time consuming enough, but I would literally spend hours just trying to get the gamblers ring and more hours trying to get all the random events to appear that I wanted to use to boost my abilities. Using these methods was taking days, and my players were still nowhere near done. My biggest issue:

• The gamblers ring; it would take hours to finally get the correct random event to cooperate to just get the darn thing. And when you finally got it…
• The Gamblers Ring always breaks! Half an hour to upgrade a curveball wasted!
• Constantly saving and loading for random events to upgrade abilities.

Here, is where I would like to praise those of you who have the patience to sit there for days on end to create a player… I commend you for your stick-to-itivness.

I, however a patient person I’m, figured there had to be a faster way to make players that were just as good as the ones I was seeing people create by somehow eliminating the gambles ring and eliminating the need to save/load for a ton of RE’s that were extremely difficult to get. Surely I could find a way to create a pitcher that could throw 105 MPH and have 4-5 different breaking balls. There had to be a way I could create a fielder with all A & B abilities and 230 power.

Turns out, I was right. Well, I was close to right. While I may never be able to create a maxed out player with the systems I have created, I have been able to make some great players that nobody would be unhappy to have made. And these aren’t just one dimensional players either; these are all round great players who all have high stats and abilities.

What is my secret, you ask? Don’t laugh, because I know some of you will: I traded using the gamblers ring for gamblers tickets. I know it sounds silly but, used the correct way; this is a very effective strategy for creating fantastic players.