VMod: The Great Debate (POLL)

Well to be honest my first impression after seeing ultrapros and Weebles "conversation" ( yea lets call it that way.. ) almost led me to the thought of just closeing the tab since they both lacked in depth detail and argumentation ( plus the respect required to actualy ensure proper communication between individuals ). Now is communication required for this topic one may ask since its a poll.. the "winning side" gets their will right? Well unfortunely its not as easy as that since in the end a poll is nothing more then a simple multiple choice application which adds nothing into the mind of people except finding out how many people are pro or contra against a thing without giving any actual explaination on whys that. What iam trying to say is that our community is small and any loss of a player ( which isnt damaging our community more then hes benefiting it ) is hurting the game dramaticaly. Due to the impatient nature of people ( fewer players means longer waiting ) less games and therefore less motivation will be succesfuly created in order to keep the game running which is a self feeding cycle until it runs out of "fuel". The question about vmod is in reality nothing more then what plagues this community from its very start. People tend to ( if at all ) talk AT each other without trying to explain their side properly and thus is making improvement impossible. Despite me being against the vmod and wanting it to be taken out of the default setup I love this game too much to be ignoring this crucial factor being the other side which can be expected to quit the game likely if they explainlessly get forced to abbandon their prefered way of playing our everyones game. So what makes vmod such a powerful, tactical and skill decreasing element what the opposite of the coin keeps on mentioning? Well the reason is versatile and not as easy to explain as people tryed here. For instance and this is one major factor which in my many conversations with pro and contrarian people didnt seem to get mentioned is that vmodding emphersizes reaction instead of prediction for ground battles. The reason for that is simply being the high range and low time it takes for the vmod to fullfill its effect paired with the ability to control the heading direction while maintaining a short period of invincibility. Or in other words : Since auto v didnt always had a effective route ( depending on the positions of the players ) and therefore wasnt desired in every situation, you had to press v in many classic defending scenarios a good ammount of time before a action actualy took place ( catching ) which required more prediction and therefore also more tactical indepth knowledge in order to get the greater effectivity. Another reason would be that if a vmodder gets past someone he ultimately outruns the opponent fairly easy by chaining x and vmod forward dribblings essentialy just as effective as x forwarding without requiring difficult timeing and granting less possession over the ball so fewer time is being lost. Practicaly impossible for the defender to catch up to him and create a threat again the attacker got himself precious room earned which leads us to the most dramatical part of this topic : The air battles "insert dramatic tune here". Where shall we begin? Well.. if we would reduce the game down to its very core what does grant victory in this game throughout all its versions? Is it the teamplay? the dribbling? the positioning?.. Its everything which grants less space towards the opponents goal. In this game getting closer to the goal / preventing your opponent from it is ( or to be more precise "was" ) the main difficult since in close to very closeup ranges certain ways of scoring are impossible to defend ( which itself isnt the problem aslong the path in order to achieve this goal is holding it in balance by having high requirements to maintain a great niveau of skill ). Now appart from the scenarios and attributes regarding to vmod ive mentioned above its real impact on the skill and tactical level is in the airbattles due to its lets call it "cost efficiency". Whereas a classic air fight would depending on the constelation and situation offer up to atleast four possibilitys ( and we are only talking about solo air fighting here ) of approaching the opponent ( f.e. positioning yourself behind a opponent offers a likely victory of the ball given the opponent doesnt possess airlead timeing and vice versa getting ball possession first asures the victory but is not always of most advantage and requires frame perfect timeing ). We basicialy had a situation where every option has their respective pros and cons.. a great tactical foundation unlike in the "newgen" air fights for the following reasons : vmod ditches the ball possession system and has superior range which means its first : requiring less precise positioning and secondly being far more important : its positioning is in practice not dependent of the opponents position being relative to the fixed ( most optimal ) point. But instead aims directly for the fixed point making it while being absolutely obvious only counterable with another vmod. The air fight isnt anymore about who considers and predicts better but instead : Who is able to press in the soonest moment to reach the ball first as possible. Since the x buffering allows for a great ammount of timeing tollerance the need to time your actions after winning the air fight is dropped aswell. I think I dont have to mention the vmod heading pass and shooting gains without "cost" ( great difficult / a great enough penalty for a failure ) and thus winning of space so lets jump to the final of this. While theres so many bad to say about vmod all the other updates ( appart from curve ) actualy were splendid! I want to adress this to the people who dont understand and specificialy morgan : People which are against vmod and curve arent against you but just those two elements which unfortunely are outweighting the goods with their bads and are incompatible with the high competitive base structure of gameplay we have build ourselfs through all those awesome years we spent together which you have contributed a great part to it too. In the conclusion we went from air battles which had so many variables and such complex pathfinding involved, people in those fights tryed that hard to get into the best possible position, it overchallenged and caused both fractions to miss the ball. To a fairly easy pathfinding with less options and timeing requirement. In hope that this text helps to contribute to the understanding of people regarding to this topic ( and soccer in general being it on a technical or psychological standpoint ) I will give my final answer and vote which shall be a No to vmod.