Thanks all for the feedback, whether it’s positive or negative please continue to discuss as much as possible ;)
The tactical feature is slight different from fine-tuning how the tactics work for one important reason, and this is the benefits of ‘breaking’ the optimal strategy. But please do keep in mind that the lower costs of SB and JR should eventually lead to some more diverse skillsets that allow playing tactics like a 2-3 zone or a motion more effectively – which I believe, unlike some other comments I read, thus challenges one of the root causes of tactical dominance. Aside from this, of course even with this feature it is still most important to set your tactics correctly and on top of that if you want to guess the tactics (not obligatory) you can earn a little bonus for taking some risk of getting a hit. Well, actually, it's not really guessing. It's understanding your opponent's team, scouting the players and anticipating to possible tactics, quite fun if you ask me.
If a situation similar to the one we are in now consists for a longer period of time, i.e. teams playing one dominant tactic every week, the benefits from switching to another tactic increase considerably. One of the users in this topic mentioned two teams always playing LI + setting the feature to defend LI. If you expect this situation to happen, then switching tactics is more beneficial as this will not only result in possible wrong set defensive tactics but also on top of that a negative hit for the team setting the wrong expectations. This increases the incentives for setting possibly less effective tactics.
Last edited by BB-Patrick at 9/21/2013 3:35:25 PM