Recommendation (cart paths)

[GoesForIt]

If you're not going to make your cart path droppable, make it category fairway.

I don't know of a single golf course that doesn't allow a free drop from the cart path, but I've seen several courses in APCD that do not.

Just a recommendation.

[Danny D]

If you're not going to make your cart path droppable, make it category fairway.

I don't know of a single golf course that doesn't allow a free drop from the cart path, but I've seen several courses in APCD that do not.

Just a recommendation.

Hiya GoesForit...

Every cart path that I've hit from has always played like a fairway. I've never ran across one yet that didn't. I actually prefer hitting from the cart path. Most of the time when you have to take a drop from it, it makes you drop in the rough, depending on what it's surrounded by

Dan

[Adelade]

Cant remember what courses but I definitely remember a couple times where I ended up on a path and I was forced to take a drop with one stroke penalty, that indeed sucks. Same thing happened once on a tiny piece of dirt right beside a sprinkler when I missed the fairway by about 1 foot... Those penalties just kill your day. I think I prefer the universal free drop approach, because even if you can play off a path its ultimately a guessing game for the player about what properties the path is assigned. If the path is very near a fairway you will be able to drop on the fairway 99 times out of 100, if its not, then a rough shot is deserved anyway. I suspect some of these issues may be caused by seam blend errors.

[Danny D]

Cant remember what courses but I definitely remember a couple times where I ended up on a path and I was forced to take a drop with one stroke penalty, that indeed sucks. Same thing happened once on a tiny piece of dirt right beside a sprinkler when I missed the fairway by about 1 foot... Those penalties just kill your day. I think I prefer the universal free drop approach, because even if you can play off a path its ultimately a guessing game for the player about what properties the path is assigned. If the path is very near a fairway you will be able to drop on the fairway 99 times out of 100, if its not, then a rough shot is deserved anyway. I suspect some of these issues may be caused by seam blend errors.

There should be no penalty for being on a cart path, unless the cart path was within a penalty area, which shouldn't happen if the designer was careful about terrain assignments. Sometimes we miss things like that. Getting a course 100% correct on the first try is not an easy task. That's why we like to use beta testers. More eyes can find more errors.

Dan

[GoesForIt]

Cant remember what courses but I definitely remember a couple times where I ended up on a path and I was forced to take a drop with one stroke penalty, that indeed sucks. Same thing happened once on a tiny piece of dirt right beside a sprinkler when I missed the fairway by about 1 foot... Those penalties just kill your day. I think I prefer the universal free drop approach, because even if you can play off a path its ultimately a guessing game for the player about what properties the path is assigned. If the path is very near a fairway you will be able to drop on the fairway 99 times out of 100, if its not, then a rough shot is deserved anyway. I suspect some of these issues may be caused by seam blend errors.

There should be no penalty for being on a cart path, unless the cart path was within a penalty area, which shouldn't happen if the designer was careful about terrain assignments. Sometimes we miss things like that. Getting a course 100% correct on the first try is not an easy task. That's why we like to use beta testers. More eyes can find more errors.

Dan

Agree, especially when the texture and category are concrete. In champ mode, you have to hit the snap absolutely perfect if you're hitting from the cart path or the error is magnified dramatically. I suggest you CLONE the default CONCRETE Terrain Type and make it a free drop. You cannot alter the default Terrain Types.

Although, by default, CONCRETE is a "FREE DROP"

Also agree with "Getting a course 100% correct on the first try is not an easy task." It's going to be a great course.