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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 13:24:20 GMT -5
I have now created a new thread for the next design contest. Hopefully most of the designers will return to design more courses for us to play.
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Post by Violinguy69 on Mar 14, 2018 16:09:55 GMT -5
The idea of Blackrock County was to make very short par 4's, as if it was old hickory course; as if modern drivers now deem it easy but it was once a full length golf course. You can go for the green in one but it is a big risk. I'm trying to get you to play the course with irons off the tee, which is why there is no rough, just grass then desert, a 'they wouldn't have been cutting light rough 150 years ago' kind of thing. It adds to the challenge of missing with an iron in your hand. I wanted the holes to play heroic, penal and strategic all in one. If I'm honest it wasn't quite as fun to play as I had envisioned. Not sure the wild west theme really worked either. A little bit far fetched. Still I hope you can give me points for my attempts at: a mine, a grave, a gulch, a tepee, a labyrinth, a fireplace, oil well, saloon, corral, traintrack, wagons, and the stars and stripes and Scottish flags.. It was a lot of effort however bad some of it is I certainly did notice the short holes and I love that type of playability. Funny, I noticed exactly zero of the cool things you mentioned. Sorry. I played these courses with minimum effort and really quickly. I really wish TGC had some sort of course text you could upload. Like a twitter post describing a golf course. If I had read what you just typed, my round would have felt very different. I still hate the no-light-rough thing. An option for some intermediate rough would be the solution to that. On my Cuba course, I was testing an incomplete hole, and the ball rolled off the green and about an inch into the base rough. I had a 78% lie. That's not entirely fair. An intermediate rough that will give you no worse than 80% would be perfect. Use that instead of light rough for a difficult or US Open-style course and that's perfectly fine.
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Post by mav78 on Mar 14, 2018 17:09:43 GMT -5
The idea of Blackrock County was to make very short par 4's, as if it was old hickory course; as if modern drivers now deem it easy but it was once a full length golf course. You can go for the green in one but it is a big risk. I'm trying to get you to play the course with irons off the tee, which is why there is no rough, just grass then desert, a 'they wouldn't have been cutting light rough 150 years ago' kind of thing. It adds to the challenge of missing with an iron in your hand. I wanted the holes to play heroic, penal and strategic all in one. If I'm honest it wasn't quite as fun to play as I had envisioned. Not sure the wild west theme really worked either. A little bit far fetched. Still I hope you can give me points for my attempts at: a mine, a grave, a gulch, a tepee, a labyrinth, a fireplace, oil well, saloon, corral, traintrack, wagons, and the stars and stripes and Scottish flags.. It was a lot of effort however bad some of it is I certainly did notice the short holes and I love that type of playability. Funny, I noticed exactly zero of the cool things you mentioned. Sorry. I played these courses with minimum effort and really quickly. I really wish TGC had some sort of course text you could upload. Like a twitter post describing a golf course. If I had read what you just typed, my round would have felt very different. I still hate the no-light-rough thing. An option for some intermediate rough would be the solution to that. On my Cuba course, I was testing an incomplete hole, and the ball rolled off the green and about an inch into the base rough. I had a 78% lie. That's not entirely fair. An intermediate rough that will give you no worse than 80% would be perfect. Use that instead of light rough for a difficult or US Open-style course and that's perfectly fine. I agree with you on the light rough. As I said it was more because of the short holes and even if you missed the fairway it was only going to be a pitch in. I needed that protection of no rough and I also wanted to design a course completely free of bunkers or water. Real life courses will have fairway(roughly 10mm), lines of semi rough(25mm) then light rough of about 2 inches. Outside of that is the heavy rough. For the new game they should really improve on this. It would add an extra dimension to designing as well. I've really tried to push the boat out with my tool/object skills my last few courses. I hope it doesn't take anything away from my courses but I do enjoy that peripheral stuff.
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Post by lajvol20 on Mar 14, 2018 18:41:37 GMT -5
How long is voting open?
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Post by SAM on Mar 14, 2018 21:14:12 GMT -5
You can see that information at the bottom of the ongoing results, underneath where it tells you how many votes by how many voters..... To save you looking the answer is: This poll will automatically lock on 16 Mar 2018 at 19:00. *Note: I'm not sure what world time zone that is in though!!
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Post by jacobkessler on Mar 14, 2018 21:51:05 GMT -5
You can see that information at the bottom of the ongoing results, underneath where it tells you how many votes by how many voters..... To save you looking the answer is: This poll will automatically lock on 16 Mar 2018 at 19:00. *Note: I'm not sure what world time zone that is in though!! Says the 16th at 3pm for me, so I assume it changes based on time zone... So EST for me, adjust from there
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Post by joegolferg on Mar 15, 2018 12:00:28 GMT -5
I love chillingwood. Absolutely the best course of the bunch. Very realistic looking and on the playability front. I'm not too familiar with the designer but I'll be keeping an eye open from this moment forward. I'm only putting in one vote and Chillingwood gets it.
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Post by joegolferg on Mar 15, 2018 12:38:20 GMT -5
Someone is playing dirty lol. Chillingwood had 12 votes with my vote added and now somebody has removed a vote as it only has 11.....
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Post by SAM on Mar 15, 2018 15:18:11 GMT -5
Someone is playing dirty lol. Chillingwood had 12 votes with my vote added and now somebody has removed a vote as it only has 11..... I'm not sure but I think there is an option to keep the results hidden until the voting has closed at which time all is revealed. Totally up to Ninja obviously but I would personally prefer that.
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Post by jivesinator on Mar 15, 2018 16:32:23 GMT -5
I love chillingwood. Absolutely the best course of the bunch. Very realistic looking and on the playability front. I'm not too familiar with the designer but I'll be keeping an eye open from this moment forward. I'm only putting in one vote and Chillingwood gets it. Agreed. Chillingwood's easily my favorite from this
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Post by mayday_golf83 on Mar 15, 2018 16:42:23 GMT -5
Someone is playing dirty lol. Chillingwood had 12 votes with my vote added and now somebody has removed a vote as it only has 11..... I'm not sure but I think there is an option to keep the results hidden until the voting has closed at which time all is revealed. Totally up to Ninja obviously but I would personally prefer that. Meh, it is what it is. Not like there’s a prize on the line, other than some pride. Frankly, I’m tickled to have gotten 11 votes so far and some other positive feedback. Whether the course ends up 1st or 21st I’m satisfied with the effort.
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Post by welikeitroughnc on Mar 15, 2018 16:44:05 GMT -5
Looks like my pos has the 3rd most votes I’m not sure how this has happened
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Post by joegolferg on Mar 15, 2018 17:11:22 GMT -5
Looks like my pos has the 3rd most votes I’m not sure how this has happened 4th*
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Post by jacobkessler on Mar 15, 2018 18:03:33 GMT -5
Looks like my pos has the 3rd most votes I’m not sure how this has happened You cursed yourself Mitch, it's down to 5th lol
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Post by overr8edplaya on Mar 16, 2018 13:39:42 GMT -5
Makes me laugh that 1 person played ny course since voting opens...explains the 2 points
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