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Animations: Sprinkler, Birds, Lawn Mower, Golf Cart, Gopher, Plane Pulling Banner Ad

• JamesLimborg 11 Posts

  Fri, May 11 2012 5:30 PM

  Would be nice if once in a while sprinklers came on, and when they did it gives everyone extra points.  Have a person riding a lawn mower and golf cart pass bye once in a while (perhaps giving a few extra points if they do.  Add some bird and water sounds to make the audio more realistic.  Have a gopher pop out of the ground; The gopher from Caddy Shack giving people extra points once in a while.  Plane passing bye pulling a banner saying something... Perhaps an advertisement giving people a few extra points.  These animations would make the game even more realistic and fun.

• alosso 21,094 Posts

  Sat, May 12 2012 5:53 AM

  nice idea James,

  A gopher with a banner... *chuckles*

  A new source of income for WGT...

  Wouldn't it slow down play when we wait forever until we get some xtra XPs?

  (or if the game is blocked for a 30 s video ad on that banner *shudders*)

• Voyager9940 684 Posts

  Sat, May 12 2012 6:14 AM

  JamesLimborg:

  Would be nice if once in a while sprinklers came on, and when they did it gives everyone extra points.  Have a person riding a lawn mower and golf cart pass bye once in a while (perhaps giving a few extra points if they do.  Add some bird and water sounds to make the audio more realistic.  Have a gopher pop out of the ground; The gopher from Caddy Shack giving people extra points once in a while.  Plane passing bye pulling a banner saying something... Perhaps an advertisement giving people a few extra points.  These animations would make the game even more realistic and fun.

  Dear James,

  It would indeed be a nice add-on to WGT yet my biggest fear (and probably that of all of us here) would be that the game would considerably slow down or might even freeze. Not everybody has a superfast connection and loads of memory to play this game and it is already showing far too often that the game is slower and/or hampering in the weekends, where far more players are online then during the week. Nevertheless it was a nice thought!

  VOY

• kjarvis001 25 Posts

  Sun, May 13 2012 7:32 AM

  I would agree that more animation might slow the game down.

  But one of my biggest peeves is playing in a 12+mph wind the the flag on the stick just hangs there. :-)

• piztaker 5,743 Posts

  Sun, May 13 2012 8:06 AM

  kjarvis001:

  I would agree that more animation might slow the game down.

  But one of my biggest peeves is playing in a 12+mph wind the the flag on the stick just hangs there. :-)

   

  You can turn on flag movements sir.

   

• scottishbloke 1,277 Posts

  Sun, May 13 2012 9:31 AM

  id like spectators behind the greens so my ball can bounce back on the green after hitting them i have a habit of being to firm firing at the pins lol

• scooterdog14 2 Posts

  Sun, May 13 2012 9:38 AM

  I would like to see a percentage beside every players profile on how many times they quit a game early,so you will know whether to invite them or not. It is frustrating when a player hits one bad shot and they quit the game. I usually end up finishing by myself out of a foursome.

• gsoup 2,929 Posts

  Sun, May 13 2012 10:10 AM

  scooterdog14:

  I would like to see a percentage beside every players profile on how many times they quit a game early,so you will know whether to invite them or not. It is frustrating when a player hits one bad shot and they quit the game. I usually end up finishing by myself out of a foursome.

  just type in 'quitters' in the forum search.

  been brought up B4

  a couple times

• Timmytoastman 569 Posts

  Sun, May 13 2012 10:42 AM

  Go to menu, options & click on the flag animation. But I found that this give me meter jump.

• nyctc7 160 Posts

  Sun, May 13 2012 10:45 AM

  If a gopher pops up maybe I'd think I was playing Word Whomp on Pogo (one of my favorites), maybe on that game they should have a golfer pop up. 

  I kind of like the sound effect they have already--kind of like the noise when you put a seashell to your ear--at low levels I find it isn't distracting and maybe even a little calming. I wouldn't change it, but perhaps in "options" you could choose from a variety of sound effects to suit your taste. 

  Don't really like the idea of adding animations such as you describe, seems a little gimmicky. I'm here more for fun than competition, but I still am taking it seriously. That's what I love about WGT so far. It's fun but it's quite serious. Just my $0.02.