r/EBaseballProspirit

Hi Konami team, it's your devoted fan jrod3921, the guy who's played Star Player for over 350 hours already and who's been writing guides like it's his day job (which it definitely isn't!). I love this game so much but have some big ideas about how you can make it even better! And the people in the comments will have ideas of their own so read what they have to say too. :)

• Add virtual stadium tours! Seriously, these things are works of art, but it's hard to take time to enjoy them in the middle of a game. Give us an option somewhere to just go into the stadium with a free-floating camera so we can see every nook and cranny!
• Give us options for more than just home and away jerseys! I know you've included throwback jerseys in previous years, and this community has already shown an amazing creative ability. I'd love to slap on a classic 1960s Hiroshima Carp shirt as I take on the Hanshin Tigers at the Zoomsta on Throwback Night!
• Expand multiplayer to four players or more! u/PutPutPutrik suggested this in their thread yesterday and I totally agree that this would be great. I don't play multiplayer yet but if you make it so that more than two players can face off, you expand the possibilities! See https://www.reddit.com/r/EBaseballProspirit/comments/1vr7lr7/konami_please_add_4player_online/
• Make the World Baseball Classic mode available worldwide! The fact that we can finally play this game with English menus is wonderful, but not being able to enjoy one of the flagship modes is disappointing. I'm sure it has to do with licensing but hopefully you can work it out. The fact that gamers outside Asia have figured out, uhhh, creative ways to circumvent this shows that there's a lot of interest in it! u/Doucejj pointed out in the comments that this is a licensing issue because MLB The Show has exclusive rights to the WBC in North America. So we'll remove this and just ask even harder for the other three! ;)

There are little things I'd love to see change throughout Star Player, but they're really minor ("we should be able to use any day as a Free Day"). The four I listed above are big ones that I think would be really impactful, and I'm sure others have great ideas too.

Hopefully someone from Konami is lurking in this sub and says, "you know, we should totally take this feedback". :)

I recently bought this game and made a CF but everytime the game tells me it’s time to field the ball never even comes my way it, it just isn’t very fun really, is there like a setting I need to change or something?

Some are pretty self explanatory by the name alone , while others are not as clear until you put it on your player. For Example , I had no idea what "Aura" did until I put it on someone.

It would be cool to have my player floating around when I eventually play Season mode.

I’ve been literally losing EVERY single game just because the AI cheeses me when It’s simulating this is killing my whole experience fr. Im up 3-0 in inning 1 and it just skips me to inning 8-9 being down 3-5 I dont get this at alllll

Is there a way to modify the difficulty of the game so AI batters stop hitting dingers?

I'm playing on veteran. Regarding the AI hitting pitches, I don't mind that at all. Throw a bad pitch over the plate, expect to get hit. This is also why I don't want to turn the difficulty down. Because at Pro, the AI seems to lose the ability to hit the ball.

I just wish that every bad pitch wasn't launched to the moon.

Any advice would be welcome.

Im trying to make the MLB rosters for my team but the game doesnt let you change the names of the players😭

Note: I miscounted again. I have no idea how I keep getting these wrong. This is guide #10, not guide #11. :) I think I was remembering the 10 from the "10 things" post I did.

Hey everyone! This is the last full guide I'm planning to do for Star Player mode, and it's going to cover Post-Game Free Actions (PGFAs). They come up in most of the other guides, but this one is dedicated to them as a whole. As with all of my other guides, I'm very aware that I will have missed things and I'm open to feedback, questions, etc. Just leave a comment and let's get to talkin' about it. :)

The tl;dr: There are more options than many people realize, but to be honest you can really just concentrate on two things--Hobbies and social stats from the Movie Theater and similar locations. You get some form of boost from every option but it's very unpredictable and you have limited influence over any of it.

The first question you probably have is, when exactly will I get PGFAs? The short answer is that you will usually get them after day games (14:00 start time), and day games often take place on weekends, so you can reasonably expect around eight PGFAs per month. You will occasionally get a midweek PGFA after a night game, but probably no more than two a month. And you are not guaranteed to get PGFAs after day games. If your team suffers a blowout loss, the manager may decide to schedule extra practice and you'll lose your PGFA (although you'll get a hefty amount of Practice EXP, so not the end of the world :)). You'll also never get a PGFA on the first game of a series, because instead you'll get the message about how there's still time before the game and you can meet with the manager, another player, or just proceed to the game. As a general rule-of-thumb, you can expect nine or 10 PGFAs per month.

When you do get a PGFA, you're going to have a default set of options no matter which city you're in, with minor variations. You've probably seen the general layout a hundred times by now, but here it is again:

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I'm not going to cover the Restaurants in any detail here, because I did that in Star Player Guide #5 - Restaurants (work-in-progress) : r/EBaseballProspirit. The Shops are also very straightforward. Use the Shops as needed--when you finish all your Books, when you break your last Power Bat, when you want to buy a fancy Luxury Watch, etc. The Real Estate and Car Dealership are never open at night, but the other seven usually are. On occasion, you'll find that only the VP Shop is open when you go to select a PGFA, like in the above screenshot. I haven't exhaustively tested this, but I think it happens when your game goes to extra innings (which would make sense).

If you need fatigue relief, your best bet is actually to wait until the following morning and use a Fatigue Drink to reduce 30% instead of visiting a Restaurant. You can use up to 30 of them in a single career playthrough, so relying on Restaurants for fatigue relief early on isn't an efficient use of time. But if you absolutely must relieve fatigue at night, by all means dine out! If you're in a city where you've discovered the Ramen Restaurant, Sushi Restaurant, or Yakiniku Restaurant, use one of those for 30%+ fatigue reduction. If you're in a city where you haven't discovered any of those, go to the Gyudon Restaurant and get the Extra-Meat Gyudon with Pork Miso Soup Set. The fatigue reduction varies but it's generally over 10%.

The next section down, Others, is actually quite important for boosting your Intelligence, Communication, and other social stats. While many of the Other locations are only available during the day (and thus only accessible via Free Days), a subset are available at night. The Movie Theater, Karaoke, Park, Spa, and Sports Rehab Center are usually open at night, and on weekend nights the Manga Cafe, Game Cafe, Arcade, and Shopping District are usually available as well. The Movie Theater, Manga Cafe, Game Cafe, and Arcade are among the best options for raising stats. However, you have to have discovered them in your current city before they'll show up in this list. Because you have half your games in your home city, it's worth selecting the Take a Stroll option on Free Days there until you've discovered these and the Event Hall. For more detail on the Other locations, see Star Player Guide #2 - Other locations : r/EBaseballProspirit.

So now that we're done with Shops, Restaurants, and Other sections, that leaves us with just the top row, and that's what I'm going to concentrate on here. I'm going to save Go Home for the end, because it's the longest group and cover the others first.

Chat With Manager

Talking with your manager typically results in one of two outcomes:

• You invite him to dinner. If he accepts, you'll go to an izakaya together and you'll either have a good, relaxing time (and thus reduce fatigue) or you'll obsess over the game (and thus increase fatigue). If he says he has other plans and declines, you just go home and rest. He is far more likely to agree to go to dinner with you if you've spent time on his friendship, but even at max friendship and Star Player level 100, he'd still turn Fujii down.
• You discuss post-game recovery and you pick up tips from him. I haven't actually seen any improvements to Health, Condition, or Fatigue after getting this outcome.

You'll occasionally get a message that your manager looks busy and you just leave him alone. You don't get any fatigue reduction if you get this outcome.

Now, if you're reading the above and wondering, "why would I ever choose to talk with my manager?" you're not alone. Simply stated, this option isn't a great choice. It adds color and variety, sure, but you don't get any meaningful gains, especially not early in the game. My recommendation is to just never choose this option.

Chat with Player

This option is very similar to the pre-game option of choosing to talk to a player but unlike talking to your manager, you have a little agency here. You're given three random teammates to talk to (drawn from the top team) and you can select any of them:

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Regardless of who you choose, you get four options for post-game activities:

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• The first one, Grab some food, is functionally equivalent to inviting your manager to dinner. If you have a good relationship with the player already, or you are significantly higher rated than him, he's likely to agree and you go to the izakaya where you'll either reduce or increase fatigue.
• The second, Do some stretching, reduces fatigue, but not significantly. [For example, when I did it for these screenshots, I got a whopping 2% reduction.] There are much better options for fatigue recovery than stretching with a teammate.
• The third, Hit the sauna, has similar health effects, but unlike stretching they improve with each visit. Once you've gone to the sauna five times, you'll get decent Health, Condition, and Fatigue improvements.
• The last one, Chat, is similar to the random chats you have with teammates before games. You'll talk about Defensive Theory or something, and you may gain a bit of fatigue relief.

In addition to the effects I described above, you will also increase your friendship with the player you chose. If you weren't previously acquainted with the player, he'll be added to your Player Relationships list. This means Talk to Player can be a useful tool in the early game for expanding your pool of players from whom to acquire Carry-Over Abilities and Practice EXP, but as I mentioned at the beginning of this section the selection of players is entirely random and you can't influence it. This unpredictability means that Talk to Player is a very low priority. You'll get something from it if you choose to select it, but there's a better way to spend your time.

Go Home

So for the last 10 paragraphs or so I've been a real Debbie Downer. But Talk to Manager and Talk to Player are really just color, not content. I promise, I am much more positive on the options for Go Home. Well, some of them, anyway. :)

After you've confirmed that you really want to head home, you'll be asked what you want to do. You'll have your choice of up to 10 options:

• Rest <<< don't ever select this. Really.
• (Read a Book)
• (Watch a Movie)
• (Play a Game)
• (Listen to Music)
• Watch TV
• Surf the Web
• Clean
• Meditation
• Mobile Apps

Notice that I said "up to 10". That's because the four with parentheses will only appear if you have bought the necessary equipment and have incomplete items to consume. For example, if you haven't bought the Home Theater Kit, you won't see Watch a Movie, and if you've bought five books and completed them all, you won't see Read a Book.

Earlier I mentioned that if you're worried about fatigue, you should wait until the next morning and use a Fatigue Drink. That still holds true here--you should NEVER Go Home and just Rest. If you choose to Go Home, your primary reason for doing so is generally going to be to work on those Hobbies or Stat boosts.

Read a Book / Watch a Movie / Play a Game / Listen to Music

In your early career, you will want to use 90%+ of your PGFAs specifically for your Hobbies (especially if you're planning to marry Runa). When you choose one of the Hobby items, you'll finish about 30% of a book/movie/etc. during a PGFA (or during a Free Day). This means that it takes four attempts to complete one of these Hobby Items. And yes, the idea of listening to two or three tracks on a CD or watching 30 minutes of two-hour movie sounds as stupid to me as it does to you. :) But that's how the game works--you need to read a book four times before you complete it. You increase your Hobby skill as you're making progress on the Hobby item as well, and the Hobby items also increase your social stats. This is why these are so important--you're progressing two things at once, although you only get the social stat gain when you complete the Hobby item.

[Side note: I noticed something interesting about doing Hobbies with Players as opposed to doing them on your own. If you read a book during a PGFA, you'll complete about 30% of the book and make some progress on the skill. If you read a book with another Player, you'll complete only about 10% of the book, but you'll actually increase your Hobby skill level more than if you read alone. And if you notice the way the math works, it's actually "more efficient" to read a book three times alone and then once with another Player. You'll actually see that in the progress bar if you go into Private Life > Items and then look at the Hobby item in question.]

The last five options are intriguing ones because the effects are quite varied. You may see a boost to a Hobby, or you may see a significant boost to Intelligence or another social stat. You may see huge fatigue reduction. You may discover a new location in the city you're visiting. Or ... nothing at all might happen. Luck of the draw.

• Watch TV: You'll watch something (a soccer game, a cooking show, whatever) which will increase the associated skill (Watching Sports, Cooking, etc.). You'll only see programming for Hobbies you've unlocked. I haven't tested enough to see if you can increase your Fishing or Golfing skills by watching them on TV.
• Surf the Web: When you select this, you get two sub-options, Watch Videos and Do Some Research. Selecting either of these will give you some form of attribute boost, but (and you're going to get tired of reading this) it's unpredictable. I've gained Creativity from watching cat videos, Communication from reading an interview with a teammate, and gained Intelligence from researching batting theory. The gains can be of decent size (maybe +20 or +25).
• Clean: It's what it sounds like. You clean. This is one of those multi-part ones, where you need to do the same activity more than once. After you've cleaned three times, you finally finish cleaning your room and ... that's it. I didn't see any social stat gains and didn't get any messages about fatigue reduction, health improvement, or a bump in my condition. It seems that the cycle starts over after the third cleaning, and I didn't explore this one to the bitter end.
• Meditation: I didn't see any benefit to this beyond a tiny bit of fatigue reduction on the occasions when I fell asleep while Meditating. This may be another multi-part one but even after Meditating 10 times in a season I didn't reach enlightenment or have an epiphany. I was hoping that maybe I'd just have a flash of inspiration and acquire a Carry-Over Ability or something, but no. Maybe I wasn't properly contemplating my navel?
• Mobile Apps: This has three choices: Play a mobile game, Open the map app, and Scroll through social media. One of them has promise but underdelivers, and the others are simply underwhelming.
  • Play a mobile game: You play a gacha game and try to get a specific character. You have the illusion of choice in that you can choose to pull or not pull. When you finally get the character you're looking for (typically after spending three PGFAs on this), it's underwhelming as you get a health benefit and fatigue reduction.
  • Open the map app: This is basically a roulette version of Take a Stroll on a Free Day. You may discover a location in your current city, or you might not find anywhere noteworthy. In my testing I discovered new locations about 30% of the time. That's not a high success rate, especially since you're almost guaranteed to find a new location when you Take a Stroll on a Free Day.
  • Scroll through social media: You see that a teammate has posted something. You comment on it. Your teammate likes the comment. You get a bit of Initiative for doing this, but in smaller amounts than you'd get at (for example) the Arcade, and while it mentions a teammate, you don't actually see any increases in friendship level with any of your Player Relationships. Sometimes you'll get a message that one of your comments will go viral, and you'll get a big health and fatigue boost, and sometimes your comment will "blow up in a bad way" and you'll apologize to everyone but not suffer any other consequences.

So after exploring the PGFA mechanism for several days (real-life days, not in-game days :)), and discovering quite a few things I didn't know about, I feel like I've come full circle. Despite the incredible variety of activities and options, I still feel that the best use of PGFAs is for Hobbies and stat boosts. In a pinch you can relieve a lot of fatigue and if you get bored with just going to the Movie Theater or reading books every time, you can spice things up by opening the map app or whatever. But if you're trying to be efficient, you should stick to Hobbies and the primary Other locations like the Movie Theater.

This is the last major guide I'm going to do for Star Player (I say "major" because I want to do guide 7B for the Pitcher Carry-Over Abilities). At this point I've covered absolutely everything I wanted to do, and I hope that I've helped folks in this community enjoy this game even more!

I'm five years into my career (just started my fifth season a few hours ago) and I've been the best player in the league since my 2nd year (won back to back league MVPs, triple crown, best nine, won MVP of the month every month for the past two seasons straight, etc) and yet for the past two seasons every time the season starts up and the championship teams are getting selected I never get picked. Is it because my player is international so it's not possible for me to be on the Japan team? I figure there's no way it could be performance related, also my Star Level is 83 so I'm a very popular player if that is at all relevant to them picking me. Every time I don't get selected it says something along the lines of me being motivated to be better so I assume there is some way that I could make the team.

There's a banner hanging in the roof of the Belluna Dome (Seibu's home stadium) indicating where Alex Cabrera hit a 180m blast back in 2005. Everyone marvels over a towering home run like Cabrera's, but you don't get bonus runs for distance. So I wanna flip the script: I'm curious what your SHORTEST home runs are. So far I've managed a 102m poke off the base of the foul pole in Hiroshima. From my research it looks like the shortest distance down any foul line in NPB is 97.5m in Meiji Jingu (Yakult's home stadium). I would love to get a home run under 100m. Has anyone done that?

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Added the above image in honor of u/SnakesRewind31 :)

I’m just not sure if I’m supposed to keep them on the farm team or the top team. I can see that focused training helps a lot but I can’t tell if the graph that shows potential is real or not.

Just curious if I’m even drafting developing correctly lol.

Anybody play online? Every time I go on to
Play it seems like nobody is available to match with. I’m
Assuming game is not popular enough yet?