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*** Question for everyone - shot clock penalties ***

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Wed, Oct 14 2015 1:14 PM

  Hi everyone,

  We would like to hear your thoughts re a scenario below. Please feel free to mention other thoughts/ideas you have on how to improve shot clock penalties.

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  We are thinking about changing the shot clock timer penalties and would like to hear from you what you think. If a player times out the shot clock the first time (s)he will get a warning.  If (s)he times after another 30 seconds, (s)he will be automatically disqualified from the game.

  We are proposing that we remove the one and two shot penalties completely so players who time out are removed from the game and you don't have to wait for for each shot clock to run out before the player is finally removed

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  -WGTicon

• Kepone18 196 Posts

  Wed, Oct 14 2015 1:23 PM

  Great idea!!! Get on with it ye plonkers!!!

• fireman33 2,692 Posts

  Wed, Oct 14 2015 1:26 PM

  I agree it is a long wait now until a player that left is disqualified but 30 seconds is a little short. Give another 90 seconds and pull the plug on them would be fine. 

• twinponds169 3,044 Posts

  Wed, Oct 14 2015 1:29 PM

  Do you mean only on consecutive timeouts? What if a player times out on say, the second hole, then again on the 8th hole. Is the player booted on the 8th hole? I like the idea in general but at this point in time I think there are other serious issues that could skew this. Does the shot clock recognize a disconnect? They are so rampant these days amongst many that I can see that scenario, a player getting diso'd while on the clock, what then?

• DAZZA501 5,972 Posts

  Wed, Oct 14 2015 1:38 PM

  No. If it was changed to this then nobody would ever finish a multi player game. It's bad enough as it is to try to get a game finished without someone getting booted. This would just make it even worse.

  Leave it as it is.

• turfsand 1,773 Posts

  Wed, Oct 14 2015 1:44 PM

  the shot clock is fine the way it is for games of three or more players but for a two player we should have more options such as suspending the clock all together. i have been trying to mentor a friend through the lower tiers and the clock is a huge problem when trying to explain things; this game can be very confusing and overwhelming to a novice.

      Turfsand

• luvatlanta 18 Posts

  Wed, Oct 14 2015 1:48 PM

  Change whatever you want.  The game seems to have gone backwards in the past month, or so.  Very erratic the way the game plays out.   Won't be buying any more credits.  Let the minions do that.

• Infinito3010 3,689 Posts

  Wed, Oct 14 2015 2:07 PM

  turfsand:

  the shot clock is fine the way it is for games of three or more players but for a two player we should have more options such as suspending the clock all together. i have been trying to mentor a friend through the lower tiers and the clock is a huge problem when trying to explain things; this game can be very confusing and overwhelming to a novice.

      Turfsand

  Very well said.

  With all do respect, efforts should be made in improving overall playability of this great game.  Several times last night I had my avatar freeze at the top of my back swing.

  Perhaps a better question would be to ask which areas should be address first to eliminate bugs.

  My thinking is, work on the major ones and most likely the minor ones will be eliminated as a result.

• ScottHope 10,449 Posts

  Wed, Oct 14 2015 2:17 PM

  I have not seen vast quantities of posts asking for the shot clock penalties to be altered so I don't see why this is even being brought up.

  For me, the browser memory leakage is still one of the major issues with the game so I'd rather you focussed your attention on that please, thank you.

• 9,041 Posts

  Wed, Oct 14 2015 2:23 PM

  DON'T do fook all... till you sort the issues with multi player games... !!

  Was gonna suggest you give teams 5 disconnects now b4 disQ..as WGT bump us left, right and centre.

  Don't bother playing Alt anymore as it is an exercise in futility ( which pretty much means I don't play Period )

  FIX don't Twiddle !

  Andy