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Re: An idea to make scores more realistic

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Wed, Jun 26 2013 8:45 AM

  There is so many game settings to make this game easier for players with experience and top equipment.

  I thought of an idea to make this game play on an even keel in credit games. No matter what the level of experience a player possesses.

  WGT should introduce random green speeds in all credit tournaments. We've all experienced different green speeds on various holes throughout a course in real life. We should have this in a virtual setting.

  The three slower putting speeds could be for pro tiers, the middle speeds for Master tiers, and the top three green speeds for Legend tiers. Hack and Amateur tiers would use standard speed.

  The idea would be, a putt for a Tour Legend player on one hole would be champ speed, while another hole would play the slower Legend speed and so on. No one player would ever know what the next putting speed would be. Total randomness.

  The green speed indicator in the upper right corner of the game-client would read, "Random Speed".

  Any thoughts?

   

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Wed, Jun 26 2013 8:58 AM

  Ridiculous.Putting blind would be totally frustrating and any success would be due to a lucky guess, no thanks.

  In real life the pro's or their caddies have stimpmeter readings for every green. They know the green speed before they putt, so should we.

• MBaggese 15,378 Posts

  Wed, Jun 26 2013 9:02 AM

  Richard4168:

  Any thoughts?

   

  As long as all players had the same green speed on each hole...and you were informed of the speed prior to approach shots...think of BPB15 in an extreme example...

  If slow greens,you shoot a few feet above, full bs, shot stays by hole...do that with Champ...even Tourney greens, you're on the fringe, and back into the rough.

• Therockdoctor 232 Posts

  Wed, Jun 26 2013 9:03 AM

  it would indeed thin the field out a bit but some players are of such a high standard when your 4 to 10ft from the hole every hole you will still see -9 thru 9 for sure.

  Saying that i am in favor it would spice things up but i dont think it should be rolled out for all credit games... maybe we could have a random green speed monthly 18 ?

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Wed, Jun 26 2013 9:14 AM

  Therockdoctor:

   maybe we could have a random green speed monthly 18 ?

  Now that's not a bad idea.

• tiffer67 1,764 Posts

  Wed, Jun 26 2013 9:28 AM

  I'm not going to criticise the idea but it's not one I would be in favour of, seems that brings luck into the game rather than ability.

  The answer to this issue isn't a difficult one, less distance, less precision and a faster swing meter than we currently have. All 3 of these game factors have been enhanced too much and need reigned back to where they were pre Burner days.

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Wed, Jun 26 2013 9:49 AM

  Good entries.

  Maybe more ideas like tiffer suggested could come from the original concept. I just threw the idea out there to see what players thought of it.

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Wed, Jun 26 2013 9:58 AM

  Putting is enough of a challenge, at least for me, in this game so that's not a problem that needs to be fixed.  Tiffer's suggestion, and he's stated it many times before this, making it more challenging to get to the green and close to the pin is the way to go.

• rjteeithi 686 Posts

  Wed, Jun 26 2013 11:40 AM

  When a legend plays a M or TM he has a big yardage disadvantage. The Tourney green speed evens it out a bit. No sir, I dont like it