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As simple as hitting the ding

• RonnieCig 50 Posts

  Thu, Oct 22 2015 4:08 AM

  poldimaier:

  To ding the shot is not the ultimate secret for low scores in this game.......to be able to calculate the length and to hit the shot mainly on the proper side of the "ding" is the secret.

  Especially with putting not dinged shots are very effective.

  That´s pretty obvious when you watch the vids of fmag, myself or some other players, who show their rounds.

   

   

  Watching closely many don't "off-ding" full swings very often unless there's really high winds, the reason being the amount of yardage lost by doing so. My theory is if you can hit a spot before or after the line accurately you may as well just hit the line....I've see Fmag ding full shots sometimes 85-90%  on a good round. A decent ding miss for me cost about 6 yards so when I'm having an off day I'll add that 6 into the shot just to get it pin high, I miss it, percentage-wise more than I hit it.

   

• 11BC2 555 Posts

  Fri, Oct 23 2015 12:41 AM

  RonnieCig:

  The "simple" way to combat this is to, early on in the swing

  Sadly this wouldn't help.  Imo there are quite a few people who use CE which allows them to slow down flash to a crawl.  I don't think there's a realistic way to stop cheaters as long as flash is being used.

  The best option would be get out of beta, use dedicated servers/new game platform, and use programs like punkbuster which take random screen shots of people playing, checking to see if any keys are repeatedly spammed, etc etc.  The could even use active mods in games to view players (including screens) and by using dedicated servers and a new gaming platform they could scan for 3rd party programs an Boot/ban repeated offenders. 

  Adding an obverver mode where you can see their point of view would fix some stuff too.  Twitch and live streaming is pointless because you can always use a set up that doesnt allow viewers to see every active program you are using.  Aside from that the best bet is to suck it up and buy expensive slow meter balls to make things easier.

• StrayedFairway 379 Posts

  Fri, Oct 23 2015 10:24 AM

  11BC2:

  Imo there are quite a few people who use CE which allows them to slow down flash to a crawl.  I don't think there's a realistic way to stop cheaters as long as flash is being used.

  One way would be to ask an NTP (Network Time Protocol) server for the time as the swing is released, and on ding ask again, WGT knows how long a non cheated swing takes normally, so if its way off then a cheat is being used.

  I'm not saying do thing on every swing but take a sample from every 20 or so, should be good enough proof.