Posted by coach_billyg on 12/17/2012 12:38:00 PM (view original):
i just switched my last press team to man here, on account of the problems with the press... so i disagree. my question is this - if the press is too strong - why don't either of you play it? any time i felt something was too strong, i switched, and tried to prove it/use it myself. sometimes it worked, other times it hasn't, but its hard to tell until you try it yourself, what the limitations are and how severely they kick in.
I can tell you why I don't play it and I suspect that Mully and Daalt may have the same reasoning. I don't play the Press because if and when I win a title, I want it to feel like a legitimate title, like I've actually accomplished something, not because I exploited a flaw in the game. I've won an NT running a FCP and I must say that it was BY FAR, the easiest title (out of 11. 7 Man, 2 Zone, 1 FCP) that I have ever won. Not even close. It was also the most unfulfilling of the bunch. Not even close. In fact, because of that, I swore that I'd never even "attempt" to win another title while running that absolute atrocity of a "defense". It's a joke.
There was an argument a couple of calendar years back about whether a D3 title was worth the same as a D1 title. Many of the old timers that had won D1 titles didn't feel like a D3 title was the same, essentially arguing that the D3 coaches benefitted by playing against newbies. Of course, when I pointed out that many of those same coaches had won their coveted D1 titles very early in that world's existence by playing nearly all Sim teams in the D1 tournament, they all got strangely silent. Well, now I'm gonna take on the role of that grumpy, old D1 coach and say that an NT won a couple of years ago when the press was nuclear powered means far, far less to me than a title won using either one of the legitimate defenses over the same time frame. Hell, WIS even went so far as to admit that the FCP was too strong and attempted to neuter it as best as they could. It appeared that they had gotten all three defenses to be performing fairly evenly and then they went ahead and messed it up again, so that once again, the FCP appears to be too strong when compared to the other defenses.
Long story short, again, I suspect that Daalter and Mully haven't switched over to the FCP even though they both think it is too strong simply because they want their titles to feel like they've been earned. Some of us would rather have a win feel legitimate than instead win by pandering to the whims of a broken engine (and I used to be one of THE most competitive people you could have ever have hoped to meet. But I don't want to win like that, even if it means that instead of being in the top 5 all-time for HD titles and an HD coaching "legend", that I'm instead somewhere much farther down the list). I'm sure there are many coaches who feel differently and I'm sure that the vast majority of them probably love the FCP also. I'm also sure that it's not a coincidence. To each their own, but that's why "I" don't, and won't, run it.