Much because of v1.7.0, but I didn't take that long before I remember why I stopped playing a while ago!
The thing is that I mostly play offline by me self, or with a buddy or two!
But mostly by myself.. The reason is because that's pretty much how I like it, playing online isn't that much fun when you are far from the level the other players are! When I preform one of my best jumps ever online, it will just result in something like a 4-5 place? Not really that much fun if you ask me.. I know it's simply me being a bad player, and I've got no problem with admitting that, and that's why I barley play online at all!
But the offline part of the game could need an "overhaul", the fact that when I play a full game, with 2x competitions in all hills I get this stupid 2-4m/s 40% of the time?!
Might be realistic, but not fun at all to be honest! It's okay when playing online, as everyone gets the hard conditions and it's therefore fair to everyone, but when playing offline with my fifteen jumpers it's not fun at all when one jumper get like 0m/s, and another one gets 4m/s tailwind within the same round in the same competition!
It's actually nagging me A LOT! Because it destroys everything I want from the game, there should be some option to let you at least disable the wind completely? That wont give players any advantages when it comes to setting hill records, as you wont have any chance doing that with 0m/s. At the same time those of us playing mostly offline can get the same conditions for every jumper! Might not be as realistic as in real-life, but much less annoying and much more fun! It's plain stupid watching one of my jumpers getting 3-4m/s upwind in the second round, jumping like 50meters longer than anyone else and watch the leader of the first round getting 1-2m/s tailwind and sustain no chance at all when it comes to defending his lead!
It's not fun at all playing offline with 15 jumpers in a hill when all you get is tailwind all the three rounds (qualifications, first and second round). Not even when it's about the same tailwind for everyone, it's simply no fun when you barley manage to get pass K-Point with any of my fifteen jumpers
I can sit playing like 3-4 hills non-stop with ease, but suddenly I get to Slovenia with 3-4m/s tailwind, no fun at all and mostly I will just quit the game before I even managed to get through the qualification round, because jumping with that much tailwind in a ski flying hill is just no fun at all! It's not that realistic either, because in the real world they would just give the jumpers a little more speed so they at least managed to get passed K-Point with ease. But when you get 3-4m/s tailwind in Slovenia in the game, you will just be stuck with your poor jumps not even making it past K-Point?!
There should really be added some options to these wind condition, at least let us disable it when playing offline? Or have some option making the conditions staying exactly the same all the competition through or something? Or simply let us choose before the competition starts what kind of wind conditions we want? Like making us being able to set something like "max wind: 0 - 4m/s.. "lowest wind: 0 - 3m/s".. direction: "random / tailwind / upwind / sidewind".
That would make the game much more enjoyable, at least for us playing 100% offline with multiply jumpers! I can't describe how frustrating it is when in 1 / 3 competitions there are always 1-3 of my 15 jumpers getting some insane much better wind conditions than the others? Or the other way, 1-3 of my 15 jumpers get ridiculously bad wind conditions compared to all the others! I just hate when the jumper I lead with after the first round sustain no chance whatsoever to win because of bad conditions in the last round! AAARRGHH!
Not to mention all the competitions with tailwind only, those are not fun to play at all. Having to jump 3x 15 jumps where like 90% of them are in tailwind only, making me barley able to reach the K-Point in just a few of my jumps. NOT FUN! I've seen Jussi have used "realistic weather conditions" as an excuse, but that isn't a valid excuse I'm afraid. Because in the real world, a jumper getting much worse conditions that some of the other jumpers, like the first couple of jumpers have had 1-2m/s upwind, then the next jumper getting 1-2m/s tailwind would have been pulled of and sit waiting for better condition, it's not realistic that some jumpers are getting 2-3m/s upwind, and some other 1-2m/s tailwind in the same competition?! Neither is it realistic that a competition is held with 3-4m/s tailwind without the speed being increased, there would never have been an entire competition where only 5% of the jumpers made it past the K-Point?
I can understand that more control of the wind conditions might make it easier for people to make world records etc.. But why not simply make the world records only being valid while playing online? So that a wind condition editor for offline usage wouldn't interfere with the records on Mediamond.fi?
Something simply has to be change, or this game is dead offline. Not fun playing by yourself, or with friends when the wind conditions behave like they do now, where we have no control or option when it comes to modifying it within something we could accept.
Don't get me wrong, it's a really good game! But hey! The offline part really needs something added when it comes to wind conditions!
