there's always specs in the store i want but without points, i can't buy them. They added daily and weekly quests but daily is only like 500 and weekly is like 1,000 but not all are arcade which i like so i can't do those. i hope someone can help get this part figured out. they should even make some specs available with real money if possible. i just want to finish up updating my character. ☹️
I'm pretty sure they don't have them to buy as it would make it a pay-to-win type of thing. I get the frustration about the grind though. I thought I'd never get there myself. I did the challenges which will get you some vc, but I found more success with the tournaments. They have currently made the daily tournaments WAY less appealing by rotating them around and a lot of time it's not worth doing them, but the weekly and especially season tournaments are what you want. If you can do well in these and be able to do a few of them, Aracde to Tour or SIM, you can get bigger payouts. It takes a bit as you have to do all 18 holes, but worth the time if you are trying to grow your bank.
Also, don't use your VC to buy cosmetics. It will just slow you way down in getting all the right specs you want. I didn't was any VC on anything but gold specs as well. You can win some lower-level ones from some tournaments etc, but when the gold spec you've been waiting for finally comes back around, you may not have enough now having used it on other things. It's also good to know what gold specs give you the best bang for your virtual buck. Someone has created a Google sheet outlining the best for each category. It's here: EA Sport's PGA Tour: Available Specs .
@c4a1d589907a2d55 wrote:there's always specs in the store i want but without points, i can't buy them. They added daily and weekly quests but daily is only like 500 and weekly is like 1,000 but not all are arcade which i like so i can't do those. i hope someone can help get this part figured out. they should even make some specs available with real money if possible. i just want to finish up updating my character. ☹️
The daily and weekly quest objectives can be completed using in any game mode using any difficulty setting. So this could be career or quick-play using Arcade mode for example. The weekly quest reward is 2000 Reward points too, although this week's may prove challenging to complete as the 'hit pin' element doesn't seem to be working properly. (I've done this three times but it hasn't marked as completed.)
Are you playing the free daily tournaments? They're only 4 holes and guarantee you a minimum of 100 reward points no matter how badly you do (so play them no matter the difficulty), and you'll get better over time I'm sure. Long term the best source of Reward Points in the game is the other tournaments but how well you are able to do in them will affect what's worth entering.
If it's specifically specs you're after note that you can earn these directly in career mode, including some legendary ones.
I for one really don't want to see a direct pay-to-win mechanic introduced where real money could be used to buy specs.
yes. it ised to be Arcade always but now they mix it up and i can;t use the stick to hit the ball. aas far as the other tournaments i'df have to keep buying the tickets with real money to keep doing that and i have no money for that. and challenges used to be easy but the ones i've been playing lately are hard. as far as Career tournaments, the last 3 or 4 are also hard as they up the wind and a couple of them are difficult to play course wise as well. like this one, i'm at Quail Hollow on Korn Ferry and i have been +2 while all the other players are -4. i'm on arcade with 3 click so i don;t know why this is happening. but oh well. i think in regular stroke play there should be poits there as well. you get 18,000 XP for a round plus all the other stuff like Eagles, Par Save, Sand Save, Birdies, so i'll get like 19,500 in that area so, a fraction of that could result in 2,000 or something, level 50 or not. Just an idea.
yeah i wish i could use stick swing but it never goes where i want it. But oh well. i guess i'll just have to fgorget it unless EA decides making Quick Play or regular 18 holes a way to get it as well.
You get points by playing career, challenges etc
there is plenty of points to earn.
I swear everyone just wants everything NOW in all forms of life and it seems this game is no different. Gimme gimme gimme
@agentputt wrote:
Easy 80k coins for this week
Well yes but that's because you'll be a 'Winner' in everything you enter 🙂. By definition of the finishing position categories, the vast majority will earn a lot less than this, and with tournaments many also run the risk of players making a net loss if they finish too low. Even on the pay-to-enter dailies people who finish in the bottom 25% make a net loss (since tickets can be bought for 1000 reward points). This is a lot of players.
Over time my guess is the average standard in each level will increase, with those finishing in the bottom 25% with any regularity stopping playing them. Then players that were previously outside this group will fall into it, and the process will repeat itself.
Personally I think the risk of losing out by entering tournaments is too high currently and will harm long-term participation.
I've just been having another look at the tournament situation and it's actually worse than I thought for most players.
'Tickets' can be bought for 1000 Reward Points each in the shop. Across all of the daily tournaments where you can win Tickets, the bottom 75% only get 1 ticket per 1000 Reward Points paid as entry fee, or worse fewer or even none. For 75% of players we can therefore view the entry costs to the weekly and seasonal tournaments to be at least 1000 Rewards Points per Ticket the entrance costs. To win more than this a player needs to finish as follows in each tournament:
Weekly Arcade: top 35%.
Weekly Pro: top 40%.
Weekly Tour: top 40%.
Weekly Sim: top 40%.
Seasonal Arcade: top 20%.
Seasonal Pro: top 25%.
Seasonal Tour: top 30%.
Overall this means that for most players (comfortably >50%) they'd be better off not playing tournaments at all and just using the reward points earned from the free daily tournaments to buy specs or cosmetic items they want. Not a sustainable model IMHO.
@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:I've just been having another look at the tournament situation and it's actually worse than I thought for most players.
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Overall this means that for most players (comfortably >50%) they'd be better off not playing tournaments at all and just using the reward points earned from the free daily tournaments to buy specs or cosmetic items they want. Not a sustainable model IMHO.
I came to this realization as I was exploring the tournaments more - I just started playing a few weeks ago.
I've been getting better at the game, consistently place in the top 2 ranks for pro/arcade, and crush career mode on tour difficulty - will be upgrading to simulation in year 2. But the payout risk just isn't worth it for the weekly/seasonal tourney's, and because of the entry fee vs. risk, in addition to the lower player count in the more expensive tourneys, it's smarter not to play. And that sucks.
I'm sure they don't care, as there will always be whales and frustrated gamblers to drop big bucks, but creating negative monetary scenarios like that actually disincentivizes me from spending anything beyond sticker price and limits the time I spend with the game.
