Power Pros Forum

Okay, here are the options:
9-16: Hitting Practice. Fielding Practice. Running Practice. Pitching practice. Unique Practice: This is things like pitcher and catcher, infielders/1st baseman, long outfield throws, etc., based on postion.
17+: Same as above, but now the practices boost the players stats, and you can paly your kids. Boys just get drafted to your team. Girls, play in an exibiton league in off-season. (maybe add more time, like 2 options a week, to offseason?) what do you think?

My thoughts are

Success Mode
Change "save and exit" to "save" and add a "load" button
Make OK players easier to make, but stars really hard.


My Life
Fix the AI where if you play as a pitcher your team rarely (like 2 or 3 times a season) scores more than 2 runs.
Give the ability to control every day during the off season (it's supposed to be My Life, yet I still take days and weeks off in the off season)
Fix the mood thing. If I go 5 for 5 with 2 homers and 6 RBIs, I shouldn't still be going down in motivation!

Season
Give you the option of just playing the batters or the pitchers.
More expansion team options
Create a Stadium (or at least give us more stadiums, one for each city we can play in!)

General
More unlockables
A Create a player mode (make it so you can only make utility guys, if you want a star you have to try success mode)

Anyone else think that the next success mode will have something to do with managing a team? They've done it before and it seems like it makes sense.

I know this has been said before, but...

MORE SAVE SLOTS! MORE SAVE SLOTS! MORE SAVE SLOTS! MORE SAVE SLOTS! MORE SAVE SLOTS!

Three save slots irks me to this day (and even worse, only one success mode save slot)

I would like 10 or 20 for Season Mode/My Life Mode and maybe 3 or 4 for Success Mode.

i want to be able to make a pitcher AND a fielder at the same time, so when I find strategies for them on here, I can make them effective immedialty. Also, my brother always wants to play, so a third one as well. Everybody who thinks that the new game should have three save slots, write your username at the end of your message! If we get enough people, 2K Sports should not be dumb enough to realize to do it!

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I just don't want my success player to be tied to one team. Why can't I use him for different teams in Life mode? No, instead if I want BoBo to player for KC then I have remake him for KC.....that's ANNOYING!!!

i like that as well, but you shouldn't be able to do that with real players.

Yeah! That would be fun, like having to piece together a team from the campus? I also think it'd be cool if you could choose from a FEW colleges, with different scenarios boosting the Re Play value by a metric TON.

yeah. of course, konami and 2K sports are probably already working on success mode since it is by far the most popular mode, so it would be hard to do this. i like the idea, though.

I'm reposting this with a few more upadtes since I don't think anyone read it the first time.

Season Mode
I play season mode a lot. So I know what I'm asking for here. It's already good, and even though it would be safe not to mess with a good system, here are a few of my complains/suggestions:

Less injuries
If one more of my pitchers goes down with "elbow pains" I'm getting rid of the idea of a rotation all together. Just make everyone eligible to start and relieve...seriously though, injuries need to be toned down a bit more. Mostly elbow pains.

On the same note there should be a few more serious injuries. I have yet to have a guy out for more than one month.

Bullpen Functionality
If it's in exhibition, why isn't it in season? It would be a welcomed feature in my opinion.

More realistic trades
This applies for My Life Mode, too. Some of the trades that are made are downright stupid. Rosters for other teams don't look the same after only two years.

Full Minor League Rosters
Add AAA and AA! I don't care about the player names (more on that later) just add some function to them so they don't end up being holding places for mediocre players.

Random Generated Names
This is one of the little things that bothers me. Why the lmited names? Just do what other baseball games do with fake rookies. Combine two existing names from the name data, and you got yourself a fielder not named Person! For example, just randomly combine first and last names from existing players, ex. Michael Hamilton, or Alex Thomas! Anything would be an improvemnt over having my top prospect being named "Thrower".

More than 10 seasons
Having only 10 seasons renders the draft useless. At least extend it to 20 so we can see how player's careers end up.

Alternate Jerseys Available
They should be used for something.

MLB Life
It's a great innovative mode, it just gets repitive after a while. Some improvemnts could be...

More "Random Events"
In my first few seasons, I loved the surprise of what could happen next. The owner could come visit, or I could be hazed as a rookie, or I could go golfing with teammates. But it got repititive. It's a great mode, don't get me wrong, but just add more events. And in my opinion, though this might be disagreed upon, it should be done in the style of success mode. The art, the animation, the randomness and light sense of humor could be incorperated. Mostly because a 3D drawing of my guy swinging a golf club or reading a book isn't really doing it for me.

More Story Lines
This is related to more random events. It's pretty self explanatory, but depending on your guy's personality, choices, and performance, he should follow a different storyline.

More Choices
The career changing choices (making decisions outside of improving your player) were limited. Make every decision my player makes effect him in a direct way.

Gameplay
The gameplay is what made me fall in love with this game. But after two years of recycled animations, it's time for a (small) change.

More animations
I enjoy the surprise of the many animatins in the game. Seeing the these comical figures play baseball usually puts a smile on my face, butthere needs to be more animations! Seeing the same things over again gets, well, boring. By more animations, I need more homerun reactions , more pitcher and batter reactions, more fielding animations, I'd like to see a lot of the subtle nuances in the game of baseball replicated in Power Pros. It might prolong the game for a few minutes but who cares! The games are already short enough, I doubt little things like the runner actually running through first base on close plays and the catcher tossing the ball back to the pitcher after a pitch wouldn't make a difference. It's these little things that could make the game so much better. I'd like to see more realism in a sense. After giving up a homer, the manager could come and console the pitcher. Maybe when switching pitchers we could get a little scene of the pitcher coming dramitaclly though the bullpen doors. All of these little things would add to the experience, and not just the ones I said. You have to use your imagination to imagine the possibilities of all of these little quirks. They'd make the game infinitely nicer.

Fix the Commentary
""And he hit it too high...Is it fair or foul? Home run to Center Field!...And the YANKEES! take the lead." That, in a nutshell, is what we go through every game. Fix the commentary, please.

More Logos for Arrange Team
Either let us make our own or upload a logo or something because the logos we're given to make a team are downright ugly. I went with the American Flag for my expansion team since the Mr. Power Pros logo looked out of place during season mode last year. I love the idea of designing uniforms for an expansion team, but picking out a logo is painful.

Creating Players outside of Success Mode
I know it's possible by editing existing players, but it would be nice not being forced to run through Success Mode to make a player.

Create a Stadium
I used to always doodle stadiums in my notebook during class, but I wasn't a good drawer so I never really knew what they could have looked like. Anyway, giving us a Create a Stadium feature would be great. Let us choose are background, seat structure, outfield dimensions, things such as that. Just don't make it limited, otherwise it's useless. This mode would be one of my favorite features in any game if installed. The possibilities would be endless.

Online Play/Rosters
Online play and downloadable rosters would be nice.

Full Replay System
I hate how you are restricted to watching replays from a certain angle. I want to see replay like in any other video game, I want to control the camera, the angle, the zoom, the height, all of those things! There have been so many times I've wanted to see my monster homerun or clutch strikeout with the bases loaded in different camera angles, but I can't. Make it happen.

Make Life Mode more In-Depth
I said this earlier, but I want to emphasize on it. It get's repititive. Play a game, go on a date, play a game, read a book...it's the same things over and over again. Give the me (the player) a more direct influence on my guy's life. And don't give me a looping animation when I read a book, I want to be able to actually read the book. When I go golfing I want to pick the course and clubs and freinds and see how I did. When I go on a date I don't want to here my girl say the same darn thing for the 100th time. When I go fishing, keep a record of what I've caught. It's asking for a lot, but these are jst examples I came up. I want direct results, I want a direct influence, and I want it to actually feel like I'm living the life of a major leaguer. No more repitivenes. Make it feel like no two player's careers are alike.

Now I'm gonna go watch football, but I will update this more as I play the game. And can i get some feedback, I want to see if people like my ideas.

Oh, and another good one for success mode, instead of practices being random cards, make us actually do practices if we so choose. They already have a great one for pitch control with the test the agent gives pitchers, also home run challenge would be good for power, just a thought.

fielding is obvious as well.
but what about speed (running or pitching) or strength for pitching?

Releivers gain stamina faster
Ex: Joba Chamberlain

I like that. That could give me a chance of making Maxed out players. Still, good idea khrag.

Power pros
• They need to include more ppl from last years version. I went back and counted and their were about 55 ppl that shouldve been in this game that were in last years version.

• There should be less greats, there r way too much this year. And last year players like jerry Owens and josh fields weren't greats but somehow they're greats this year( I could edit all of them but I hate that purple line)

• For expansion teams there should be more logos to choose from.

• Wi-fi

Season mode
• Bullpen

• I think that all relievers should have at least D stamina so that it would make it easier for relievers to start.

• Pitchers should not get tired after 60 pitches. I think that pitchers with A or B stamina should be able to pitch 90-110 pitches. And pitchers should be ready for there next start so that there aren't 6 man rotations and so I don't have to start a reliever.

• There should definetly be more than 10 years in season. I think like 20-40 would be great.

• The draft picks should be better than they r now. I want fielders that one day can be players that could be like howard or arod.

• And depending on how ur teams doing should change the crowd size. Teams that r like 20 games behind should have small crowds instead of every team having the same crowd sizer