While reading and participating in the thread "VEM, Fixed Rounds bla bla bla........." I saw, IMO, WGT is getting peeved by all the posts claiming WGT controls our game. Posts like: "I had a great round going and I had this shot, I hit this power, it went crazy left or right or long or short (pick one), therefore WGT is controlling our game or scores.".
The original point of the thread was "post a video" of the weird results and show everyone what actually happened to support the claim.
WGT agreed with that idea and in fact several times in the thread issued a challenge for players to post proof, via videos, that WGT was indeed controlling their game.
It was pointed out that recording one's game demands much CPU resources and causes meter problems. So its likely that no one will risk recording their game and play with a bad meter to capture something that occurs infrequently.
As an alternative, bhoese, jaderoks, and Ffudd suggested replays show all the details of a shot. Club, power, aim, spin, ding, lie, the whole works. WGT replied basically its not gonna happen because we don't want to give players the illusion they can analyze shots and come up with an equation to guarantee success.
It was then pointed out that recording shots, which WGT supports, provides the same information that bhoese et. al. suggested included in the replays.
Let me give WGT a reason to add details to replays.
You can charge us credits for the extra detail!
1. It covers WGTs development costs
2. No doubt provides long term revenue as we spend credits to view the details
3. It likely to eliminate many, many of the so-called silly posts with made up excuses for poor player performance that is holding up the growth and evolution of this community. Why? Well we can check ourselves and see we had the wrong club, or the aimer was actually out in left field, or we had no spin rather than full back spin, etc.
4. Make it available on any replay, a great training aid for newbs and advanced players. Yeah they can do that now by watching the top player's videos. But with this feature you can see how anyone played the wind or backspin on a Double Eagle or HIO or Eagle wedge shot.
Here's one way to do this.
Add a button to the replay screen called View Details
Click on it and a pop-up appears, similar to the "This is your last ball of this type" pop-up
The pop-up has a Buy-Now button.
Clicking the Buy-Now deducts the credits from our account just like buying balls in game.
The screen refreshes and the replay now shows all the details, just like in a shot or even in tabular format if its easier to code (would still need to display the aim point).
It would look like this: Click image for a larger view.
