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Re: Reconnect option for stroke play

• BolloxInBruges 1,389 Posts

  Fri, Apr 8 2011 1:46 AM

  About time you get around to adding this feature.  I have not willingly quit a multiplayer round in a long time, yet roughly 25% of multiplayer rounds never get finished due to a flash error, wgt error, temporary modem outage, computer problem, you name it.  It does not need to be a full 5 minute timer like you have in match play, 1-2 minutes would be plenty of time to reconnect in most circumstances.

  If the counterargument is that 90% of the people that leave the game do so with the intent of quitting rather than a legitimate problem.  Then in that case you could implement it where the reconnect option is only available if 1 or more players is friends with 1 or more players in the group.

• MissouriDan 312 Posts

  Fri, Apr 8 2011 3:02 AM

  Im glad you posted this. Alot of my CC members have been talking about this very issue. If WGT can do it during Alt shot matches then why not mutli player stroke play rounds as well. We have had many a round that for whatever problem had to be finished solo. Please WGT, put a re connect feature in multi player stroke games.

• MioKontic 4,661 Posts

  Fri, Apr 8 2011 5:30 AM

  I think it's only in Practice mode that it doesn't reconnect, but no reason what it shouldn't be done there either.

  I had a load error yesterday in the middle of a 3-ball game.  Once I restarted WGT I got back in only to find I was alone.

• HDBanger 348 Posts

  Fri, Apr 8 2011 5:30 AM

  O my, someone who knows a bit about the game suggesting something logical!  Run WGT, run!  I second the motion btw, sorely needed. 

• TurkishTerror 2,177 Posts

  Fri, Apr 8 2011 12:33 PM

  How can you disagree with one of the top 10 players here.....................Anything he says is right in my book!!

• RichGast 351 Posts

  Fri, Apr 8 2011 2:15 PM

  That post addresses a serious need, especially in light of the fact that it's WGT's servers that are undoubtedly the cause of it all.  I would estimate that since the last "upgrade", I have been able to complete, at best, 50% of the 4-player matches in which I have played without one or more players being disconnected.

  More than additional balls ... more than additional clubs ...  and more than additional advertisements ... what would be nice would be fixes for the flaws that exist in this potentially superior online game.  And completely unnecessary disconnects that are not the fault of the user's computer or internet connection are one of the more glaring flaws that need attention.  At least permitting a reconnect, as in Alt Shot, would be a step in the right direction.

• Dutch57 362 Posts

  Fri, Apr 8 2011 3:51 PM

  I suggested this many times...  Glad  your  sounding the fog horn again  BB ..  

• BolloxInBruges 1,389 Posts

  Thu, Jul 28 2011 8:40 PM

  Bump.

  Many more rounds ruined due to disconnects.   Mostly due to being randomly logged off of the site, flash errors, or WGT freezing in some other fashion.  All of these can be remedied within seconds and back to enjoying your round.

  Please give us a disconnect protection option in the lobby.

• TrufflIE 524 Posts

  Thu, May 31 2012 9:33 PM

  Bump...

  This needs to be brought up again.

• bazkitcase5 86 Posts

  Fri, Jun 1 2012 9:17 AM

  bump again - this is necessary!

  no purpose in playing a round with friends if u can't finish that round with friends if something goes wrong with the game