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Re: custom player made courses

• skilletts 3 Posts

  Tue, May 15 2012 3:16 PM

  I played the motocross maddness 2 game for years and one of their best ideas they had was offering a free track building program, I think it was called armadillo , where you can lay out and shape your own motorcycle tracks then post them as free down loadable files.   In the early to mid 90's there might have been 10 different sites that you could go to a site and download 15 + new tracks a day and most were good because they were designed by motocross riders.  Some were outragous and stunning between the use of all colors and different ideas.    If wgt wanted to step it up to a new level, they could offer this option for players to design and download the new free courses.  Someone could work with WGT and might could offer this off the main wgt site.  Just a thought. Thanx!

• salamii 1,058 Posts

  Tue, May 15 2012 4:16 PM

  ROFLMAO!!!!!!

  Good luck with that.

• kjarvis001 25 Posts

  Tue, May 15 2012 4:45 PM

  I prefer playing in a photoreal setting as we do now. WGT has gone to a lot of trouble to give us the graphics package that we have now. To turn it into a cartoon would be unbearable.

• pUGfANmn 436 Posts

  Wed, May 16 2012 12:07 AM

  Look for the (very, very old) Sim Golf - build your own courses and play at your leisure.  Probably have to run in compatibility mode unless you have an ancient box with (gasp!) Windows 95.

  (and yes, I'm totally dating myself with that suggestion)

• helen1972 347 Posts

  Wed, May 16 2012 12:44 AM

  skilletts:

  I played the motocross maddness 2 game for years and one of their best ideas they had was offering a free track building program, I think it was called armadillo , where you can lay out and shape your own motorcycle tracks then post them as free down loadable files.   In the early to mid 90's there might have been 10 different sites that you could go to a site and download 15 + new tracks a day and most were good because they were designed by motocross riders.  Some were outragous and stunning between the use of all colors and different ideas.    If wgt wanted to step it up to a new level, they could offer this option for players to design and download the new free courses.  Someone could work with WGT and might could offer this off the main wgt site.  Just a thought. Thanx!

  People choose to play WGT because it's the best on line golf game there is !

  I for one believe the main reason is the fact that the courses available to play, are TRUE representations of the courses on offer.

  For WGT to offer anything less than that would be a huge step backwards for them, it's the realism that has so many addicted to the game, therefore to allow users to design and upload " PRETEND " courses would detract from what I believe is the main aim of the site.

  WGT go to incredible lengths to ensure the accuracy of courses on offer for play, spending an absolute fortune sending teams of people to photograph each course, anything other than professional representation of the courses we play would simply not work, just my opinion, but I think it's valid.

  Helen.

• DannyPhan 1,013 Posts

  Wed, May 16 2012 9:10 AM

  This is just another example of someone who doesn't know what he doesn't know, also known as "Unconscious Incompetence" 

  The amount of work involved in creating WGT courses is way above his head.

  Danny

• skilletts 3 Posts

  Wed, May 16 2012 7:24 PM

  It was just an idea, to add something different to the game.  I guess it's not ready for that yet.  Sorry to insult your "high'r level of kno'ledge".    Let me go back to the club house and get my broom to sweep it out for u.

  Thanks  from "Unconscious Incompetence"  

  PS.   I been call'd worse.     LOL 

• DannyPhan 1,013 Posts

  Thu, May 17 2012 8:05 AM

  skilletts:

  It was just an idea, to add something different to the game.  I guess it's not ready for that yet.  Sorry to insult your "high'r level of kno'ledge".    Let me go back to the club house and get my broom to sweep it out for u.

  Thanks  from "Unconscious Incompetence"  

  PS.   I been call'd worse.     LOL 

  It wasn't intended as an INSULT! Simply an observation.

  it is just a stage in the Learning process.

  In the four stages of competence, or the "conscious competence" learning model, relates to the psychological states involved in the process of progressing from incompetence to competence in a skill.

  This applies to GOLF as well

   

  The four stages

  1. Unconscious incompetence

     The individual does not understand or know how to do something and does not necessarily recognize the deficit. They may deny the usefulness of the skill. The individual must recognise their own incompetence, and the value of the new skill, before moving on to the next stage. The length of time an individual spends in this stage depends on the strength of the stimulus to learn.

  2. Conscious incompetence

     Though the individual does not understand or know how to do something, he or she does recognize the deficit, as well as the value of a new skill in addressing the deficit. The making of mistakes can be integral to the learning process at this stage.

  3. Conscious competence

     The individual understands or knows how to do something. However, demonstrating the skill or knowledge requires concentration. It may be broken down into steps, and there is heavy conscious involvement in executing the new skill.

  4. Unconscious competence

     The individual has had so much practice with a skill that it has become "second nature" and can be performed easily. As a result, the skill can be performed while executing another task. The individual may be able to teach it to others, depending upon how and when it was learned

   

• skilletts 3 Posts

  Thu, May 17 2012 4:27 PM

  "The individual must recognise their own incompetence, and the value of the new skill, before moving on to the next stage."

  NP, I understand it wasn't  aimed as an insult.   It may take me a while to catch on to this stuff.  U see  I'm level 83 and a tour pro@ 80.48 so I'm not the sharpest pencil on the box.   LOL   I'll show this to my wife of 35 years and maybe she will cut me some slack on her list of my short comings.  LOL  .  Look me up and you can give me some lessons because, I got good clothes and clubs but no skills.   Thanx - Skilless in LA.