A major, unconventional, request. Please, ALL respond!

[PeoplesWar]

I've been playing MVP 2005 for almost a year now, and to make a long story short, there is something awfully wrong with my game. I cannot understand how my infield defense has only turned three clean double plays and only around two dozen double plays. Almost every third infield play seems to be error and this is really getting monotonous and is taking away from the gaming experience. My catchers also cannot throw accurately or throw out any runners and my pitchers airmail every pick-off throw.

What mystifies me even more is how I seem to be the only one getting this issue. I've only come across two other people that have had issues with the defense, but nobody else. Tinkering with sliders makes little difference. This has led me to conclude that there is something wrong with my datafile.

Which leads me to my request. I am hoping an intrepid member of this forum will take this challenge and take a look at my datafile to see what exactly is causing the problem. I have grown tired of the constant errors that is making it almost a challenge to play a few innings and seeing an average of four errors a game does not really help matters. I've been patient long enough, it's time for a REVOLUTION!!! :wink:

[UncleMo]

dang. somebody help this dude out. He's talking war against his PC or EA or us. Revolutions. People's War. I swear if this guy gets no help he'll do something to one of us (EA, his PC, or us).

Dude, did you try a different datafile? Sounds like you need to tell us what steps you've taken to correct his issue.

[NYYKing]

your game is cursed

[medric822]

well, it could be several things.

You may have tried to set your error chance number to 50, insted of -50. 50 is lots o errors, while -50 is nearly non existant.

Your infielders may be crapy infielders. When looking at their nunmer's, the fielding nunmer should be high. The higher, the better.

You may have the fielding set on "MVP" insted of manual. This is a very difficult level to field on, because, well, I cant explain why, but its kinda difficult. You have to have kina a delayed responce, otherwise they'll take a few steps in the opposite direction.

Or..... there may be something wrong with your game. In that case, I or someone else here on MVP mods would gladly help you out, and "lend" you our files to replace yours.

Well, with that said and done, I hope you figure out whats wrong.

PS. When throwing a ball, you have to hold down the button, but not to the red. When it reaches the red zone, you have a chance to make a throwing error. For more playing tips, PM me. Because I dont want to give all my secrets away, because I like to play online as much as the next guy.

[PeoplesWar]

I will try to address all three responses with one reply.

UncleMo, I started off by fiddling with the sliders, like I said in the post. i tried at least three different sets of sliders that somebody posted on MVPMods. Did nothing. Then I tried at least two datafiles that were pretty realistic, that is, except for fielding.

medric, I play on All-Star. Also, I do not play manual defense, I use auto defense, which means it should be absolutely impossible for errors to occur due to my poor handling of the infield defense. Infielders having crappy numbers shouldn't be a problem either. I mean it AT LEAST shouldn't result in four errors every game I play.

I will give the -50 errors a shot.

[PeoplesWar]

Okay medric, I gave -50 errors a shot. However, I'm not sure you understood my post clearly. The errors slider in MVP refers to Catch Errors, not throwing errors, in which there is no slider for. That's the issue here. There are very few catch errors that I see, but there are definitely too many throwing errors. That's what I was referring to.

So I turned up Throw Accuracy in hopes that would do the trick, but it went up as high as 50 and didn't do anything.

[PeoplesWar]

Update. I play a few more games and it looks like on the infield, the throwing accuracy has improved. It'll take a few more test games to see how it turned out, but it looks good so far, as they're making tough plays.

However, pick-off throws and throws to throw out base stealers are still very inaccurate.

[medric822]

well, the auto fielding kinda stinks, because they tend to run slower, and throw softer than a normal player or thr CPU would.

[MarkB]

Do you really want 18,845 people to respond in this thread?

[PeoplesWar]

Do you really want 18,845 people to respond in this thread?

As much as it takes.

[PeoplesWar]

well, the auto fielding kinda stinks, because they tend to run slower, and throw softer than a normal player or thr CPU would.

But that problem never occured in MVP 2003 and 2004, which only mystifies me more.

[medric822]

well, i dunno for 2k5, but its that way for 2k4

[PeoplesWar]

So, is anybody willing to look at my game? I don't know what else can be done by myself.

[big shmooz]

So, is anybody willing to look at my game? I don't know what else can be done by myself.

Remove the datafile & see if anything changes. If it does you know the problem is not in your game.

One more thing... make sure that you do not hold the button down as long when trying to pick off baserunners. As far as throwing to a base to catch somebody stealing, try with a high rated catcher who has good ability in throwing & hold the button down longer as you throw. (you may lose some accuracy) This will tell you though if the throw has more power than before.

[medric822]

PW, there's not realy much we can do, besides sending you a copy of what we have in our datafiles.

[PeoplesWar]

Thanks for all your help.

Is there a very capable datafile editor out there that can create the most realistic-as-possible datafile for MVP '05?

[medric822]

um you realy cant, other than donwloading all the unis and stadiums and portraits and the correct rosters. Very easy to do.

[PeoplesWar]

Of course it's very easy to do.

[PeoplesWar]

Medric, could you please send me your datafile? If I can't use the whole thing, I'll just take snippets of it nd apply it to mine. Much appreciated.

Send it to JC.Conspirator@att.net. Thanks!

[medric822]

ok, just pm me your e-mail adress

[PeoplesWar]

Scratch that last one, Medric. I've just tried two of Rod's datafiles and the defense has gotten worse. They can't even make a play to first on a bunt.

Does anybody have an answer? I am seriously incapable of playing this if my CPU defense cannot play defense.

[PeoplesWar]

I've thought of something else, but it depends on who's willing to do it. I would appreciate it if someone played their game using my datafile. It might not sound like a good idea from your end, but that's just about the only thing that can tell me what's wrong with my game.

[medric822]

dude, I just sent you a pm saying that I would, If you dont mind.

[PeoplesWar]

Okay everybody, update. I started using Rod's latest datafile and that seems to have done the trick. The datafile is very realistic, but the infield defense has improved greatly. I have not seen a single error on an infield play by the CPU (including my team's CPU), and they make the tough plays, plays which would've resulted in errors with my other datafile. So thanks Rod.

However, the catchers still have trouble throwing accurately to throw runners out and the pitchers cannot make infield plays to save their life, esepcially on pick-offs. So I'm almost there, but these problems persist.

If anyone has a remedy, I'd love to hear it.

[MarlinsMS_35]

a)since when have pitchers been good fielders

b)you need to hold down the throw button when you throw but not to the red because if you do the throws will be inaccurate