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Re: disconnect/forfeit and balls change

• fyaajster 3 Posts

  Wed, Dec 30 2015 8:32 AM

  1. If forfeit/disconnect is done by the users then it should count against his/her tier.

  Reason is some people just disconnect/forfeit on the first hole due to a bad start and some people disconnect/forfeit because they are losing in the 8th or 9th hole. If a user has forfeit/disconnect 3x in a day it should have a setting in the game to not allow that user to join. I have run into this issue a lot lately including legend players as well. The quitter tiers point should spread among those that are still in the game.

  2. If forfeit/disconnect is done by the WGT server then it ok that is understandable.

  3. Golf balls can't not change during play.

  I think that you should be able to change your balls during play if you have multiple balls that are available to you. Example wood be your on your last ball and you hit it OB, Water hazard, lost ball you only have the option to buy more ball but if I have different balls that is available why can't I use those available ball instead it defaulted to the WGT ball. 

  Thanks!

• srellim234 2,077 Posts

  Thu, Dec 31 2015 9:09 AM

  Regarding #3:

  This has been brought up as one of the most often discussed issues here. The original programming from the very beginning was that equipment in the bag be set without choices available during the game. It may well have to do with stability issues, difficulty in programming or something else. It does not appear that is going to ever change.  At least now WGT allows us to buy the same ball during the round. That wasn't always the way it worked here. 

  It's the player's responsibility to make sure the bag is stocked properly before the start of the round. Since you know there aren't other brands/styles available, just buy another sleeve any time you get to the last sleeve or two of your preferred ball. Set your bottom threshold and don't allow it to be lower at the start of any game that counts.

  Odds and ends balls are great for use in CTTH, practice and multiple play tournaments. If the ball runs out during those rounds it's not a big deal. Since they're solo play and you can start over you can finish the round or not without offending anyone.

• PCTaylor 27 Posts

  Thu, Dec 31 2015 10:12 PM

  srellim234:

  Regarding #3:

  This has been brought up as one of the most often discussed issues here. The original programming from the very beginning was that equipment in the bag be set without choices available during the game. It may well have to do with stability issues, difficulty in programming or something else. It does not appear that is going to ever change.  At least now WGT allows us to buy the same ball during the round. That wasn't always the way it worked here. 

  It's the player's responsibility to make sure the bag is stocked properly before the start of the round. Since you know there aren't other brands/styles available, just buy another sleeve any time you get to the last sleeve or two of your preferred ball. Set your bottom threshold and don't allow it to be lower at the start of any game that counts.

  Odds and ends balls are great for use in CTTH, practice and multiple play tournaments. If the ball runs out during those rounds it's not a big deal. Since they're solo play and you can start over you can finish the round or not without offending anyone.

  :) was also going to suggest this, but your explanation solved my issue.

  Just have to make sure have enough credits to buy another sleeve, but my suggestion was that we should if hitting prefered ball into OB or water be that we have other balls better than the starter ball in the bag so why can't we select one of those if we lose our last prefered ball?

• srellim234 2,077 Posts

  Fri, Jan 1 2016 4:44 PM

  Yeah, people think those other balls are in the bag but the way the game is programmed they're not. We only get to take one specific brand and model to the first tee with us; consider the rest as sitting at home in the closet. That's why we don't get to break up the iron sets and substitute a hybrid for a three iron, too. Each iron set is programmed as one club taking up one spot in the bag. Getting to use the 14 clubs individually on the course is a different part of the programming.

• PSUTOM 188 Posts

  Mon, Jun 26 2017 9:29 AM

  I just recently ran into this situation while playing a Bracket round. I thought I had more than one of the type of ball I started with, but I must have counted wrong. I put one in the water and was given the option of using a starter or buying another sleeve of the ball I lost. Since I was near the end of an 18 holer, and having a good game, I chose to buy another sleeve. After the game I checked my inventory and I did not get the same type of ball I started with.

  I'm not going to make a big fuss about it to WGT as the two types are similar, just thought I'd mention it to see if anyone else had that happen.