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Re: ball taken out of play???

• alosso 21,088 Posts

  Fri, Feb 26 2016 9:43 PM

  $7 per week - there are many more expensive pastimes!

  I rather spend $7 per month - not too much of an investment for my leisure (before the flashy texts).

• sandcrusher8 5 Posts

  Sat, Feb 27 2016 6:14 PM

  If you only spend $7 a month you don't play much, I play every day, and 3 balls lasts me one week, that's $28 a month just for balls, let alone equipment such as clubs.

  You may also be younger than me, when I was in my youth, I wouldn't think twice about spending $28 a month, but in my youth, Dos wasn't even invented, let alone what we have today.

   

  Cheer's

• hpoks 5 Posts

  Tue, Mar 1 2016 6:40 AM

  my ball was taken out of play, but not when lying on the ground. it was still in the air - in the middle of the fairway. AND: I got one stroke penalty - incredible, ridiculous.

• alosso 21,088 Posts

  Wed, Mar 2 2016 11:23 PM

  hpoks:

  my ball was taken out of play, but not when lying on the ground. it was still in the air - in the middle of the fairway. AND: I got one stroke penalty - incredible, ridiculous.

  Hallöchen!

  That happens when the balls pass an inner OOB boundary which are special to this game. These are circa at the brink of the mini maps, and I suppose that there are no photos available from outside areas.

  Wonder that you haven't noticed these before, in almost three years?

• alosso 21,088 Posts

  Wed, Mar 2 2016 11:32 PM

  sandcrusher8:

  I play every day, and 3 balls lasts me one week, that's $28 a month just for balls, let alone equipment such as clubs.

  As I said, this isn't much investment for a leisure - 1 $ per day!
  Common vice or a night out on Saturdays cost more!

  Don't judge my age wrongly: DOS came to my life when I was a young engineer. Before, there were mainframes and PDP-11. Memories...

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Thu, Mar 3 2016 1:34 PM

  keidan:

  ApexPC:

  gmaster007:

  I really think they need to explain ball's life more clearly,
  I see a surge in those type of questions lately.

  How much more clear can they make it?

  Displaying the actual number of hits left would be one way. This has been discussed before but maybe it's a business decision to avoid showing the actual number of hits you start with, which could be a disincentive to buy (esp. for higher priced balls).

  Oh! That lame suggestion again. 

  The Hits remaining indicator turns red when the ball is nearing the end of it's durability.

  When that red section is just barely visible in the indicator, it's should to child's play to figure out that there are only a couple of hits left.

  It is stunning so many WGT players are incapable of figuring figure that out for themselves and have advocates like yourself that feel the need to coddle the idiots by suggesting WGT make the ball durability indicator a countdown display.

  I just keep sufficient balls in my bag and heed the LAST BALL warning WGT gives players that I rarely look at the ball durability indicator myself.

   

• alosso 21,088 Posts

  Thu, Mar 3 2016 2:06 PM

  ApexPC:

  It is stunning so many WGT players are incapable of figuring figure that out for themselves and have advocates like yourself that feel the need to coddle the idiots by suggesting WGT make the ball durability indicator a countdown display.

  Indeed, it's stunning that you fail to see the logical joint between ball life being given in fixed numbers, like 90 or 120, with wear being counted in strokes, one by one, and the desire of customers to know the exact number of what is left.

  Imagine a gas pump with only a bar without numbers. For an unknown volume "somewhere above red", the attendant demands 50 $ from you - would you accept this happily?

  OTOH, the company's concept is clear as spring water: They want to withhold precise information as much as they can, let the players live with uncertainty about levels, about averages, about tiers, about ball life... Let them hope for a favourable outcome, only to take profit from their blind grinding.

  ApexPC:

  Oh! That lame suggestion again. 

  And you, making one mark after the other as an advocate against clients' interests, even with snarky remarks, give one clue after the other on who's payroll you are.