@packattack04082 wrote:
@Weyland4kI said arcade/pro (not just pro) so 522-9 is not far at all from 500-5. It's literally 98.3% winning percentage versus 99.0%, which is almost identical when looking at the big picture here. I couldn't remember the exact record and was barely off on my guess (.7%). Either way, 870-18 in Arcade/Pro/Sim seems pretty good to me and I've never seen anyone with a win percentage that is even remotely close to that. I average 50 wins per loss over those modes in my life. I don't play this mode anymore anyway because I got tired of it after a while but still think that all of the windy playlists should be a mainstay in this game. If making all birdies and eagles is the standard, why would people not rather have 10-15mph winds to make the challenge at least a little bit harder? When you shoot -22 with your eyes closed in 1-2mph wind, where is the fun in that? I could play match play vs 99's all day and win every match on pro, but the fun for me is playing Sim like this https://youtu.be/EkHs37zukJY and shooting -21 with no blue shot trail line, no white putting line, no elevation or wind numbers and no putting beads on the greens in 10+ mph winds.
You can have your opinion on the Crooked Numbers playlist. Everyone has a different view of things that they like and don't like. Unfortunately, the game wasn't designed well for online play and EA implemented nearly every aspect of it poorly and I probably won't play it much more as a result. Best of luck to you as you continue to play and hopefully enjoy this game.
I know you said Arcade/Pro and I said in my last reply that due to you posting a wall of text with no paragraphs, I have a hard time reading so I only saw Pro. I even apologized when I didn’t need to. I’m on a tablet and the screen is small, walls of text are hard to read. I literally opened with that statement in my last post, paragraph #2 sentence #1.
It has nothing to do with whatever ratio you want to use, the facts are it’s 76 less wins, almost double the losses and 30 ties. That’s a considerable difference against who knows we’re in that lobby. If you want to post ratios, I’m undefeated on Match Play against 99’s mostly and I set my skill points to 85 so the cherry-pickers won’t leave, That’s 100% wins against a lot of tip top players with 10’s of thousands of wins combined using 15 less skill points. I’m not using it because it’s not relevant.
I never said it was the “standard,” what I said was birds and eagles should be a baseline and to beat the best of the best you need to hole out, that’s how It’s always been. I also said that the top players are mostly hitting birds and eagles and not holing out as frequently as one would expect, so deductively it’s not a standard for everybody. I’m talking about being the best in that breath, do you understand that now?
Also, I’m talking about the best, not the average Joe. Again, the top 5% shouldn’t be catered to, that means you. You should not be catered to because you’re one of the top players and want the most challenging experience online all the time. It’s not fair to other players. If a AAA studio only catered to the top 5% ranked players, they would fold up like a chair. A game needs to be considerate to all levels of play, not just focus on the tip top who want extreme challenge all week long. Do you think that’s unreasonable?
I don’t want to be stressed with 15 mph winds on the majority of matches online when there is little time to play because the playlists are terrible. I want to relax and have fun. Some people think stress is fun, I don’t and I think most people agree that stress is not fun. Stress is linked to medical conditions, it’s a law of nature lol. I think going -22 is fun and you don’t get there without a lot of work. When you hit -22 regularly, it’s because you’re good, not an average Joe.
Additonally, EA has never had winds work properly since forever. Every single Tiger, every single year, had problems with winds and Patels physics engine is broken or coded to have RNG. Most players want to have fun and relax, not get punished by brutal winds all week long and if it’s not that, it’s courses with broken greens. The current playlist system is poor.
Someone sent me a screenshot of a poll on FB that asked if they would rather have playlists or set it up themselves and it was like 144 to 8 that people disliked the playlists. That is a significant number, overwhelming in fact. The current system is not liked by the vast vast majority of players, it’s a literal fact.
How can you say you’ll win every single match on Pro Match Play against 99’s with a straight face? That’s absolutely not true, you’re saying you’re unbeatable against the literal 1%. Nobody is unbeatable, not even the best at the game.
