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Re: Suggestion for WGT

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Fri, Jul 27 2012 5:37 AM

  Tightrope:

  ,,,,,, I had a friend on Skype sending chat messages -  I grabbed the swing icon to start a shot, said "send!", and waited. Nothing happened. As soon as I released the shot the messages came in. Same with online/offline, nothing happened while the swing meter was in action.

  I believe a friend list update that occurs just before we grab the swing meter can cause so much work for Flash that it causes the meter to stutter on the swing.  I gave a somewhat technical explanation how I think this happens in Flash in this post  last September.

  I did a similar experiment as you did on Skype. But I was trying to cause a friend update just before the swing began.  I had a friend on Skype ready to start his swing.  I changed my on-line status then said "swing".  Amazingly, his meter stuttered on the first attempt.  Overall, due to the various timing considerations, I only made his meter stutter 2/10 tries.

  WGT needs to give us the option to turn off friend updates during our games.

   

• LizzieRossetti 1,545 Posts

  Fri, Jul 27 2012 5:43 AM

  Andy, you know as well as do I, "swing" is pathetically inept at distracting your fellow players. Try "ATISHOO"

   

  Lizzie xx

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Fri, Jul 27 2012 5:55 AM

  LizzieRossetti:

  Andy, you know as well as do I, "swing" is pathetically inept at distracting your fellow players. Try "ATISHOO"

  I had forgotten.  Thank you, I will add it to my long list of things I'm pathetically inept at.

  *edit*  Ok list updated.  I've added distracting fellow players right after speling.

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Fri, Jul 27 2012 6:38 AM

  Yes, we mentioned this years ago, that's why i deleted my 50 friends to zero, but its crept back up to 20.  The more friend activity the more skips i used to get (and staying hidden wont make much difference) Its meant to be a social game, but this is causing a lot of us to be antisocial because we don't want friends to effect our meters.

• peteduffer 48 Posts

  Fri, Jul 27 2012 6:42 AM

  Why doesn't wgt do something with drives on Olympic? Number 10 I hit meter 7 straight times only to hit the tree. If you watched the Pro's play they never had a problem with any tree's like you have on a few of the olympic holes. Tired of losing balls there and wasting power on the balls.Do something Wgt!

• hpurey 11,508 Posts

  Fri, Jul 27 2012 7:19 AM

  pjctas0822:

  Yes , we do have issues when friends log on and off . You would think disabling the sound event would eliminate that issue but it doesn't.

   

  Yes, I have also noticed the meter problems when you get the tone for friend activity.

   

  But,  I have had good luck with turning the invitation alert sound setting to OFF.  

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Fri, Jul 27 2012 7:26 AM

  maybe wgt could keep the friends list on our profile page & other pages...but when we get invites or invite folks into a game in the game client just remove the friends list completely and only allow the players playing to chat.

  shouldn't be too hard to do.

  tbe

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Fri, Jul 27 2012 7:45 AM

  thebigeasy707:

  shouldn't be too hard to do.

  But from past experience, every times WGT makes an adjustment somewhere it causes a problem some where else, one example is the new player stats when searching for a matchplay game, since this was introduced its caused the "no credits" bug.

• Tightrope 1,072 Posts

  Fri, Jul 27 2012 7:45 AM

  andyson:

  WGT needs to give us the option to turn off friend updates during our games.

  What they really need to do is to remove that idiotic gradient on the meter. Yes, it looks nice but it requires a lot, lot of attetion from the CPU and Adobe themselves has recommended to not use gradients if you want a smooth animation. But that is a darling they simply do not wish to kill for some reason.

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Fri, Jul 27 2012 8:33 AM

  hpurey:

  I have had good luck with turning the invitation alert sound setting to OFF.