Everyone has different tastes adx, and seeing as its my first course I don't think I'm doing too bad, especially that I've made it to the third round so far is no mean feat.
Btw what do you think I could do to improve those holes already published? As I want to finish this one so any tips before publishing would help,
Thanks.
Rob, I can't respond to a certain post because we've been ordered to ignore each other and I have no intention of disobeying a direct order so I'm going to direct this comment specifically to you.
Taste is a funny thing. There is no accounting for it. There are things in this world that I love that people look at me and wonder what the hell I'm thinking. Conversely, there are things that others love that I shake my head and wonder how.
You know how I feel about your course. I felt it was designed well. I had no problem at all with design. My criticisms were strictly on a difficulty level. And even there, you have all kinds of tastes. Some people want courses that play very easy while others bore easy unless the course is of QA School difficulty level. Again, different tastes.
So any criticisms of your course, or any course for that matter, is just that...taste. It is no actual reflection on the quality of work that you've done.
Now, somebody who does in fact just auto gen a course, knows how much or how little work they have put in. If they are fine with that, hey, it's their course. Conversely, if somebody suspects an auto gen course with little effort put in, they're going to judge that course accordingly. That is their right as well. It's why we have contests like these. You really don't know how others will vote because everybody has different tastes and judgments. Otherwise, we could just feed the course code into a computer and have the computer pick the winner.
Point is this. Take each comment here, good or bad, with a grain of salt. Because just like in baseball, your course is never as good as the best comments and never as bad as the worst. The truth usually lies somewhere in the middle. It's only how many people see the one side or the other that will determine where you end up in this contest.
I learned this a long time ago. Never believe your own press, no matter how good or bad it is. Because you're libel to end up with either a swelled head or terribly depressed. I've lived through that with my music for over 36 years now. And it's taken me almost that long to just accept that some will like my music and some will hate my music and that ultimately, what I have to do, is make music for ME and nobody else. Once I learned to do that, that's when I became truly happy with my craft.
I almost fell into that trap with this course design stuff. Sure, I'd like to get better at it. But in the grand scheme of things, the only thing that matters is that I make a course that I like to play. If others like it, that'a just gravy on the mashed potatoes.
I think your course is fine. And the only reason I didn't vote for it is because CC's was easier for me to play. It had nothing to do with the "quality" of the course that you've created. So when somebody tells you that you're not in the same league, take it with a grain of salt.
An opinion does not make it a fact.
No matter what somebody says.
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