Christmas FSX Play wishlist

[tkvaughn999]

Winter and sim golf season is here. I do really like FSX Play for how it looks, and I just prefer how it plays to other software. However there are a few big ticket wish items that just kill me:

1) Online play. Either FS needs to create many more competitive events or just activate the setting to allow us to setup our own. I used to spend a lot of time trying to improve my score on the online competitions and it was so fun and great “pressure practice”. But now you get one try and that’s it. Not to mentions scores posted in FSX Play don’t show on leaderboard. But come on man, three per month??? That’s ridiculous. And no you don’t win anything, or at least I didn’t for one I won so who cares just let us try to shot that perfect 9.

2) More formats of team play. Scramble etc. Match play work well now so keep expanding it.

3) Netplay feature. Figured this out please. I used to be able to get it to work with couple guys on FSX 2020 and it would be the best feature available for us if it worked in any type of functionality.

Thsnks you Foresight and Merry Christmas.

[sinkingputts]

My list

1. Fix the ball turf physics. The “Hard” setting for greens should be US Open firmness. Ball hitting “light rough” should still bounce more then one yard.

2. Fix all the glitches the happen after a hazard drop when two or more people are playing.

[TD22057]

I hope they don't add new features until they fix all the (IMO serious) problems. I'd be fired or seriously yelled at if I ever released software with this many issues.

1) Fix the spin problems - they've admitted it's a bug. I assume it's a lack of spin degradation so side spin is over-emphasized. (Why aren't they using the physics code that already exists in 2020?)
2) Fix the scoring problems w/ multiple players. How a golf game could be released that doesn't know how to keep score I have no idea. Every time we've played the score has glitched and put shots on the wrong player. It also fails sometimes when a ball is OB or in a hazard and mulligan is selected - we've had it give penalty shots to the wrong player.
3) OMG why does the menu take forever to load when starting up or exiting a round?
4) Random (about 1/3 times) crashes

For features:
1) I'd love to be able to change the font on the bouncing yardage indicator so I can actually read it (yes, bad eyes).
2) Have the white yardage trace on the mini map disappear when I start clicking or mouse moving. It's too cluttered and the text overlaps and is hard to read with two lines and 4 yardages on it.
3) Have an option to make the mini-map big all the time by default
4) Please explain in the docs what exactly all the lie penalties actually mean. "Flyer chance 80-95%" is just confusing. I can guess what it means but my guesses never seem to match the reality of what actually happens to the ball. Or give me sliders to so I can program the distance penalty range from the various lies.

[sinkingputts]

Yes to feature 4)

[sinkingputts]

tkvauhghn999 do you play mostly solo or with others? I cant remember any crashes while playing solo but as soon as I have friends over the crashing starts. usually something happens like a hazard drop then the game freezes followed by a crash. Sad part for foresight is I had two friends ready to buy a GCquad but after seeing the software glitches they are leaning towards a Trackman.

[tkvaughn999]

Both solo and with others. A couple of updates ago I was having that problem. Called tech support they remoted in and changed some settings, no issues since then. I don't typically have anything else running when playing only FSX. Currently since last update I do get the long lag after quitting a game but usually not in huge rush so just wait it out. I do really wish they would update so you can change holes on course while in practice mode as well.

[Trubico]

Can anyone tell me what the “real time weather” switch does in FSX Play? I have tried changing to “course level” on altitude, but usually it just reduces distance (even if course elevation is higher than the default. In fact, I’ve noticed that distances are not consistent as compared to FSX 2020.