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Re: TrueSwing

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Sat, Aug 8 2009 9:28 AM by Faterson. 27 replies.
  • scoresby United States
    152 Posts
    Wed, Aug 5 2009 1:22 PM

    What works for you is good for you.

    For me, give me the click, click, click; rather, Spacebar, Spacebar, Spacebar as in Mean 18.  We're talkin' 80's here.

    Faterson:

    It also resembles a real golfer's swing more than the 3-click procedure.

    In my opinion, there is nothing about click-hold, slide-hold as long as you need, release, and click that resembles a real golfer's swing.  Where's the rhythm?

    With the 3-clicks that I enjoyed, there was a definite rhythm involved.  Click on 1, Click again on count of 2, Click again on count of 3.


    Cheers,

  • Snaike United States
    3,678 Posts
    Wed, Aug 5 2009 2:00 PM

    Hey Spagheti...  Faterson wrote a guide on that stuff here.

    Smilies, color coded... quotes...  all that html stuff.

     

  • TheSpaghettiKid United States
    234 Posts
    Wed, Aug 5 2009 2:06 PM

    Dobre!

  • Faterson Slovakia
    2,885 Posts
    Wed, Aug 5 2009 2:49 PM

    scoresby:
    In my opinion, there is nothing about click-hold, slide-hold as long as you need, release, and click that resembles a real golfer's swing. Where's the rhythm?

    Not the rhythm, but the mouse-slide movement itself resembles the backswing, doesn't it? As you slide the mouse, you can see the golfer performing the backswing. That's some correlation that is missing in the 3-click method. You can do practice swings this way in WGT without hitting the ball – not possible in the 3-click method. Apart from similarities, the 3-click method is definitely more difficult for the player; in PrizeGolf, I frequently ended up hitting the ball with less or more strength than intended; thanks to the mouse-slide in WGT, you can measure the strength of your shot exactly you want it to be.

    Snaike:
    all that html stuff

    Off-topic: Another mini-bug in this forum, in the otherwise excellent WYSIWYG Compose editor, is that if you play around with tags a lot, like TheSpaghettiKid apparently did a few posts above this one, empty space is sometimes added at the end of your post. See the large empty space beneath Spaghetti's  smiley.* The user needs to rectify that by re-opening the post for editing and deleting the trailing empty lines in the main editor window, or by clicking the  button on the toolbar and removing the superfluous <p> and </p> tags at the end of the post that somehow get added there.

    * (Fixed by Spaghetti now.)

  • scoresby United States
    152 Posts
    Wed, Aug 5 2009 4:07 PM

    I'm sure you are right about Prize Golf; I never tried it.

    As far as what we have here, like it or not, well...........I guess I'm speechless.

    Cheers,

     

  • Faterson Slovakia
    2,885 Posts
    Wed, Aug 5 2009 4:51 PM

    It looks like PrizeGolf itself can no longer be downloaded from anywhere and the former domain is dysfunctional. I found this screenshot online, though:

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    Wow, the graphics has certainly improved over the last 10 years!    Now as to putting, shown above, this was even a mere double-click in PrizeGolf, where the first click didn't mean anything, it just initiated the putt, and the 2nd click was for both strength & precision. I like it a lot that when putting in WGT, the mouse-slide is for strength and the click is for precision.

  • Snaike United States
    3,678 Posts
    Wed, Aug 5 2009 7:32 PM

    Oh my....

    Boom Boom??!!??!!?!

  • TheSpaghettiKid United States
    234 Posts
    Wed, Aug 5 2009 8:13 PM

    Faterson:

     

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    baaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha!!!

  • Faterson Slovakia
    2,885 Posts
    Wed, Aug 5 2009 9:40 PM

    It wasn't all that ridiculous, in fact pretty sophisticated for its time. If WGT today could offer some of the features PrizeGolf (a game from New Zealand) already offered 10 years ago, it would make quite a few people in these forums happy. For example, to enter a PrizeGolf tournament, you had to pay $5, but in return you'd get a whole-new 18-hole stroke play course to play, yours to keep. That means a new stroke play course was added every month! The tournament winner was paid $300 in real money to his credit card; if you came in 30th, you stil won $25 in real money. There was guaranteed cash for each tournament hole-in-one, longest putt, drive & hole-out, and even some nice "hidden" consolation cash "spot" prizes for players who failed to reach the leaderboard, etc. etc. (See details in the Wayback Machine.) PrizeGolf prizes were pretty generous, and generally cash, whereas WGT tends to operate with virtual prizes preferably (tin to diamond award shields, credits, etc.). PrizeGolf finally died due to lack of sponsors in about 2001. Let's hope WGT can escape that fate, although, as you yourself posted, there are warning signs.

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