fmagnets:
Nothing to do with the changes to the rough which were ages ago.
Sorry but I didn't mean to express or imply that the rough change, in and of itself, caused the meter problem or the green dots problem. What I was getting at was, before the rough change update, and after the release of Bandon Dunes, that is when the invitation problem began surfacing. It was minor then ... most people I know of were getting game invitations, and the problem had been brought to WGT's notice, but never totally solved.
After the rough change update, some people began to experience loss of spin from the fairway. Again it was brought to WGT's notice. Ever since then, the problems have continued to compound.
I suggested rolling back the changes to before the rough update, so that WGT could solve for one variable at a time, beginning with the invitation glitch. AFAIK, there wasn't any outcry before the rough change update about much of anything wrong other than the invitation problem, but I could be wrong.
I know if I were the person (or persons) assigned the task of tackling troubleshooting, I would want the variables to be as few as possible. Now we have bad meter, bad green speed indicators, invitations not being sent and/or received (surely not being received), problems with tournaments, an increased CPU load ... alt shot and match play games not going to extra holes ... people losing credits through no fault of their own. All this after the rough change update.
I merely suggested a certain point in time as a starting point ... it makes more sense to me than attempting to solve for a plethora of problems and watching new ones crop up with every change.
After the invitation update were solved, then WGT could make other changes as they see fit, but I would recommend only after rigourous testing, and then one change at a time, to gauge the effect. When things are trouble-free (as much as possible), and you introduce one change at a time into the system, if you get some unforeseen effect, it's easier to find where the problem lies.