Firstly, I'd like to clarify that english is not my first language, but I will try to make my points clear. Also, I feel like it's important to say that even though this account is brand new, I've been using this site for years, but I just created it for commenting on this discussion.
Personally, my problem is not the "tactics spam", because I love visiting the tactics index everyday to see new posts, for me the "new tactic every 2 days" rule would be fine to give other creators some visibility though. My problem is that Josh's tactic posts feel inauthentic. No match engine is showed (in other forums it's even stated that he still uses an old ME, which is not ok in my opinion) and some things just doesn't add up. I've personally tested some of them (holidaying + only manually playing big matches, as he says he does) and the results were nowhere near his. You can tell me that "it's just luck", but I can't believe that he can create a new OP tactic and also have a miracle run in his simulations EVERYDAY.
I remember that once he did a Brighton recreation (very far from reality in my opinion) where he won the league with 100 points and only showed the league table and the data hub for a few statistics. Under that post, fellow users posted their own simulations with the same tactic+team and, surprise, the could only achieve half of Josh's points. Again, it could also been luck, so I tested it myself (a month ago, when the tactic was published) and also had terrible results for a misleading "BROKEN 4231 MASTERCLASS".
This is the post that I'm talking about and the tests by other users are on the comments of that post: https://www.fmscout.com/c-fm26-tactics.html?id=13277
What I mean is that every of his tactics is like this, they only seem to work for him. I get that he has to sell it like a "NEW OP TACTIC" everytime for clicks, he lives off that, but at least I want this forum with actual tactics, and no fake/low-effort posts (I'm not even going to talk about most of them being almost the same tactic) that look more like a cash-grab than actual interest in the FM Scout community. Obviously, at some point, people like me who have been playing the game for years, will start to think that something is not right. Either it is that he save-scums (which I don't think) or that he uses the In-Game Editor for boosting the player stats, but both possibilities are not good. Users have told him to show more things like the Game Status window or the players profiles, but he never answer that kind of things. He only responds to comments that are direct attacks against him (I don't think it's right to attack him, let's be clear) but it's with the typical almost AI-like response of "talk to me on my other social media to chat". He had a lot of time to start showing this kind of IMPORTANT things for people to believe in him, but he didn't do it.
Again, I apologize if anything is poorly written, and I hope you understood what I meant. I only want what's best for this forum that I use every day.
Personally, my problem is not the "tactics spam", because I love visiting the tactics index everyday to see new posts, for me the "new tactic every 2 days" rule would be fine to give other creators some visibility though. My problem is that Josh's tactic posts feel inauthentic. No match engine is showed (in other forums it's even stated that he still uses an old ME, which is not ok in my opinion) and some things just doesn't add up. I've personally tested some of them (holidaying + only manually playing big matches, as he says he does) and the results were nowhere near his. You can tell me that "it's just luck", but I can't believe that he can create a new OP tactic and also have a miracle run in his simulations EVERYDAY.
I remember that once he did a Brighton recreation (very far from reality in my opinion) where he won the league with 100 points and only showed the league table and the data hub for a few statistics. Under that post, fellow users posted their own simulations with the same tactic+team and, surprise, the could only achieve half of Josh's points. Again, it could also been luck, so I tested it myself (a month ago, when the tactic was published) and also had terrible results for a misleading "BROKEN 4231 MASTERCLASS".
This is the post that I'm talking about and the tests by other users are on the comments of that post: https://www.fmscout.com/c-fm26-tactics.html?id=13277
What I mean is that every of his tactics is like this, they only seem to work for him. I get that he has to sell it like a "NEW OP TACTIC" everytime for clicks, he lives off that, but at least I want this forum with actual tactics, and no fake/low-effort posts (I'm not even going to talk about most of them being almost the same tactic) that look more like a cash-grab than actual interest in the FM Scout community. Obviously, at some point, people like me who have been playing the game for years, will start to think that something is not right. Either it is that he save-scums (which I don't think) or that he uses the In-Game Editor for boosting the player stats, but both possibilities are not good. Users have told him to show more things like the Game Status window or the players profiles, but he never answer that kind of things. He only responds to comments that are direct attacks against him (I don't think it's right to attack him, let's be clear) but it's with the typical almost AI-like response of "talk to me on my other social media to chat". He had a lot of time to start showing this kind of IMPORTANT things for people to believe in him, but he didn't do it.
Again, I apologize if anything is poorly written, and I hope you understood what I meant. I only want what's best for this forum that I use every day.
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