The Masters

Biggest change I'd like is no link between clothes and stats. In order to max out my CAG, I have to wear the ugliest outfits and glasses on the planet. I'd like to be able to wear whatever I want with no effect on attributes.

I'll echo some earlier posts and just say that I have issues with the clothes "making the man". Somehow, the real Tiger Woods seems pretty well maxed out simply looking dapper without a diamond grill, wizard hat, paper bag over his head, bull ring, or any other ridiculous get-up. I shouldn't have to look like an idiot to play my best. Nor should I have to run calculus analyses to look only slightly ridiculous. I ought to be able to look like I want. Avatars are somewhat important to us nerds, and by tieing bonuses to shirts or the above stuff (which I'm sure many people like and I'm not saying do away with) it just makes us make choices we don't really want. But I am for more Hawaiian shirts! Love that EA is asking for input, Eric!

when i started TW10 and had a pull pocket of money i outfitted my player until he looked like a washed up ghetto rapper. chains, rings, haircut, outfit, the whole nine yards. that really did work but after some time spent in the pro shop, i now have a clean cut look even my son likes and that somehow resembles me when i was abt 30.
all my skills are maxed out and except for spin (which i dont need) i am at 110 %.
claus

wii.NoChinDeluxe wrote:I would like to see max stats done away with altogether. I would rather have a limited number of stat points which require you to make the choice of how to specialize your player. So instead of maxing all attributes, you may choose to give a small boost to power and putting, while sacrificing points from your spin and recovery stats. In other words, the way you choose your stats in the middle of your career. You choose what is most important to your playing style, and boost the stats in those areas. I think this would help the online play to be a little more dynamic as well. Some players may choose to max their distance, but then their character will suck at things like approach and putting. It would provide some balance and variation to online enounters. It would also keep every player from driving the exact same distance, and would cause online matches to be a battle of strengths and weaknesses, not just an even matchup of max stats. I see more drama there.

I agree with this. But maybe have the "max" be the equivalent of what the stock Tiger (not Super Tiger) has in the game. I also question why there is a need for some of the attributes. Like, why is there a need for a putting attribute? Your putting should be as good as you are at putting and not be even partially dependent on some attribute percentage. I suppose you could make that argument for most of the attributes though.

cem_ea_id.Rutsey wrote:I agree with this. But maybe have the "max" be the equivalent of what the stock Tiger (not Super Tiger) has in the game. I also question why there is a need for some of the attributes. Like, why is there a need for a putting attribute? Your putting should be as good as you are at putting and not be even partially dependent on some attribute percentage. I suppose you could make that argument for most of the attributes though.

Just for the record, your putting stats give you a sort of AHO for putts. If you line up a percentage, then miss it slightly, if you have maxed out putting stats, the system will fudge your putt and put you on the correct percentage. You can especially see this when using precision putting. If you watch the forward swing meter during a putt, you'll often see it stop where you actually made your stroke, and then it will snap up or down to the correct percentage, i.e. the percentage you were aiming for. That's your putting stats taking over.

wii.NoChinDeluxe wrote:

cem_ea_id.Rutsey wrote:I agree with this. But maybe have the "max" be the equivalent of what the stock Tiger (not Super Tiger) has in the game. I also question why there is a need for some of the attributes. Like, why is there a need for a putting attribute? Your putting should be as good as you are at putting and not be even partially dependent on some attribute percentage. I suppose you could make that argument for most of the attributes though.

Just for the record, your putting stats give you a sort of AHO for putts. If you line up a percentage, then miss it slightly, if you have maxed out putting stats, the system will fudge your putt and put you on the correct percentage. You can especially see this when using precision putting. If you watch the forward swing meter during a putt, you'll often see it stop where you actually made your stroke, and then it will snap up or down to the correct percentage, i.e. the percentage you were aiming for. That's your putting stats taking over.

Yeah I've noticed that. And as with AHOs, I wish it wasn't there.

wii.NoChinDeluxe wrote:Just for the record, your putting stats give you a sort of AHO for putts. If you line up a percentage, then miss it slightly, if you have maxed out putting stats, the system will fudge your putt and put you on the correct percentage. You can especially see this when using precision putting. If you watch the forward swing meter during a putt, you'll often see it stop where you actually made your stroke, and then it will snap up or down to the correct percentage, i.e. the percentage you were aiming for. That's your putting stats taking over.

Looking at a few people using precision putting, I suspected that might be the case. But I'll fight tooth and nail against any suggestion that classic putting gets assistance with the power. I've got my horizontal "GT Stripes" on the TV where the putting power slider goes, and I swing my putter to within one percent of the power I'm after around 4 times out of 5. So if it was any different, I'd know about it. Even when it is out by one or maybe two percent, I remember what was on the scale, and validate it normally each time. There's very few occasions where I spend the time to get the putt percentage absolutely spot on. But with classic putting, it definately is possible, and definately is repeatable, regardless of whether the percentage you were wanting is the right percentage or not. Okay. But NCD if you're saying that the gauge will show what you really swung but then putt the ball maybe slightly less or slightly more, yeah I guess that could be happening. But not much with classic putting. One thing I have noticed and this is similar to how classic putting was last year, was that if your putt preview shows the ball going into the hole on the lower side, you'd better move the aim uphill a bit otherwise you'll miss. Every putt with classic putting, TW09 and TW10 tends to be straighter in the real shot than the putt preview. I've proved this wiith mulligans dozens of times (to myself). If you have a huge side incline and you lag the putt and putt preview shows the ball going directly into centre of the hole, if you putt at same percentage, you'll miss the hole entirely. We're talking boomerang shaped putts here

Hey Eric, you know what would be a cool idea for stats? It would be nice if we had a setting for custom games where you could scale the players stats either up or down. So if you chose a "low" setting for stats, it would dial down everyone's relative distances and accuracy, etc. Something like this would allow some players to play with the maxed out distances, and others to play more of a sim style by reducing distances and other stats. Just a thought...

I was wondering how I lose attributes on line (the gold stars)and how I can gain them.I had 2 gold stars and now only have 1