venom400 wrote:Serve is not the problem , it is power , I think just limiting the power and banning certain couches (berserk serve , etc..) would still give everyone plenty to play around with .
also max out the amount on the strokes so it makes people creative , so either you select a player with huge forehand or backhand and a week oposite or a all around stroker but just decent , the only player that kicked my arse big time on line was a guy that had 90 FH 90 BH , 90 power and 70 speed and grey everythign else I don't know how he did this but he would just serve out wide every time and I don't care how well I placed the return he would hit and a winner in one or two strokes at most .
Limiting the power to what degree though? Would how much power someone has also affect how good their strokes can be?
The problem is the game gives people the ability to have a good wing, and huge power. It's hard enough to deal with someone who has a 90fh/bh, but when coupled with 75+ power that stroke practically becomes a "winner on demand" stroke. If there were errors and the more power you used the higher your chance of error, then that wouldn't be a problem, but unfortunately there isn't. So they can just blast away as long as their timing is good/perfect.
I don't mind people having great strokes, 80/90+, but then they shouldn't have 70+ power.
emate007 wrote:I haven't played that much, but from my limited experience I think the best solution is to just make ALL gold coaches illegal in ITST matches.
I thought about that too, which means that silver coaches would be used. The problem is that you can still create monsters even with silver coaches. All this does is just create a lite version of the current gold coach monsters. You can use the coach calculator to see what I mean. Even with silver coaches, there will still have to be more rules.
My personal thoughts:
I don't like silver coaches because they don't add as much variety as gold coaches do. Since they only give 1 skill, so many of them that give "useless" skills will become obsolete, and then a lot of players will only pick the ones that give (for example) topspin invasion, slice invasion, diesel hard hitter, etc. Making many people similar. Some times you might need both skills from a gold coach, sometimes you might not. This way, every coach has a use, and players are more free to branch out, rather than just pick the silver coaches that gives topspin invasion or monster defense or slice invasion for instance, because everyone has figured out that those skills are very important now that they are dealing with silver coaches. Also, there is the problem of silver coaches not giving enough, in both points and skills, to warrant a wide variety of styles. Some playstyles might not be as good because the gold coaches that appear for that style give players just enough points and skills to make that style of play effective, whereas the silver coaches do not. If that makes sense.
You could say the same for gold coaches, yes, but then most of the pros, cept a few who are too low in points and probably nadal, are pretty balanced even though they have more points than customs and 3 skills. It's because there is a correletion between their strokes and how much power they have. This is something that will still need to be addressed even with silver coaches. Problems will still arise even though silver coaches give less points and 1 skill.
You can apply the same rules in this thread to silver coaches, but you can also apply them to gold coaches. Except gold coaches are more diverse than silver, giving people more room to explore. This is what I believe at least.
I'm in no way saying my way is absolute and the only way to solve things, so I hope I didn't sound all pompous and arrogant in my post as I didn't mean to. I'm just stating what I personally think.
, but that is not the point. It's the clear advantage people using the 90*3, topspin invasion + monster defense characters have over those who want to create sim like characters.
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