can someone tell me what the hell this thing is

Zapmeister · 10-24-2014, 02:02 PM

on the legacy engine i found a button called "challenge" which leads to this scary-looking screen. i can't find anything similar on velocity or r^3.

can someone tell me what this screen does before i press a wrong button and end up losing all my credits by accident or something.

**psychoangel691** · 10-24-2014, 02:05 PM

You used to be able to send out challenges to people on songs for credit wagers. It hasn't worked in some time though.

**gold stinger** · 10-24-2014, 02:06 PM

It was a really old thing that we had instead of multiplayer for a very long time. It was scrapped & never updated when multiplayer was born. Pretty much, it allowed you to send one-time scores to other players, so that when they logged into the engine, they got the challenge and could try to set a one-time score to beat the score that was registered on the other end.

You could include credits as a way of betting for these challenges as well, but has been long since broken. The credits won't be distributed most of the time for using it, and some people don't even get the challenges anymore (you could tell whether you had a challenge waiting for you or not by the giant shiny "C" in the top-right corner being next to the challenge & setting buttons on the main menu area.)

I really think it should be revamped & re-added, because it allows for a way of competition in scores & communications using scores without having to arrange with another person to go onto multiplayer, and people used to automatically get these challenges when they logged in, meaning people could create these challenges and send them off regardless of whether the person was online or not.

**psychoangel691** · 10-24-2014, 02:14 PM

It was around when Multiplayer was around. I used to use it in 2009, it just never came back from the site crash iirc.

Wayward Vagabond · 10-24-2014, 02:17 PM

Yeah its been around for at least as long as I've been around lol.

The fact that this is an actual thread is hilarious and it reminds me of the code box that use to pop up in legacy. I feel old

**Jtehanonymous** · 10-24-2014, 02:17 PM

I miss it :'(

**j-rodd123** · 10-24-2014, 02:18 PM

i didnt realize that this actually didnt work anymore, it was def still around when mp was lol, fun to back up that trash talk :P

Zapmeister · 10-24-2014, 02:28 PM

so i ask a simple question and inadvertently send all of ffr on a heartbreaking nostalgia trip? what have i done!? :/

so why is it still there if it doesn't work and hasn't worked for a while? were there any plans to restore it at any point or was it scrapped for good? shame though, it sounds like a fun thing to try out as a means of winning credits

out of interest, was the winner determined by raw or combo scoring? i think i heard that raw scoring didn't exist in ffr's distant past but it's silly to do a multiplayer challenge with combo scoring

**Dark_Chrysalis** · 10-24-2014, 02:38 PM

Yes... yes it was.

There was also a way to gain any amount of credits you wished as long as you had enough credits to start off with to make it easier. When you sent a challenge with a wager, it wouldn't debit the credits from your account until the challenge was played on the other end. So you could take all of your credits, wager them 100 times with shit scores to an alt account, and log in on the other account and get 100 times your original credits, with the source account going deep into negative credits. This worked up to the credit ceiling at the time (8288640)

Good times.

Wayward Vagabond · 10-24-2014, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zapmeister

so i ask a simple question and inadvertently send all of ffr on a heartbreaking nostalgia trip? what have i done!? :/

so why is it still there if it doesn't work and hasn't worked for a while? were there any plans to restore it at any point or was it scrapped for good? shame though, it sounds like a fun thing to try out as a means of winning credits

out of interest, was the winner determined by raw or combo scoring? i think i heard that raw scoring didn't exist in ffr's distant past but it's silly to do a multiplayer challenge with combo scoring

Raw scoring is a relatively new thing. I personally still prefer combo scoring over raw scoring

**Crazyjayde** · 10-24-2014, 04:06 PM

I agree with the following post.

**Crazyjayde** · 10-24-2014, 04:07 PM

All those things, dead? Really?
RIP ;__;

**DarkManticoreX2** · 10-24-2014, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crazyjayde

I agree with the following post.

Preceeding post.

Unless you want to agree with the post after yours... which is yours...

**Crazyjayde** · 10-24-2014, 04:52 PM

Lmao that's the point. I hit Reply twice and had to make up for it somehow.

**danceflashrevo** · 10-24-2014, 04:54 PM

one time i challenged synthlight. i don't think he responded ; ;

**dashoe93** · 10-24-2014, 07:30 PM

I still have a challenge awaiting me. I'm going to keep him waiting.

**gold stinger** · 10-24-2014, 09:57 PM

who is it that's waiting for you

**dashoe93** · 10-25-2014, 01:00 AM

kidx3000 hey man

10-24-2014, 02:02 PM	#1
Zapmeister FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: England Posts: 466	can someone tell me what the hell this thing is on the legacy engine i found a button called "challenge" which leads to this scary-looking screen. i can't find anything similar on velocity or r^3. can someone tell me what this screen does before i press a wrong button and end up losing all my credits by accident or something. __________________ Theorem: If you have a large enough number of monkeys, and a large enough number of computer keyboards, one of them will sight-read AAA death piano on stealth. And the ffr community will forever worship it. Proof Example ask me anything here mashed FCs: 329 r1: 5 r2: 4 r3: 6 r4: 8 r5: 3 r6: 5 r7: 15 final position: 4th

10-24-2014, 02:17 PM	#5
Wayward Vagabond Confirmed Heartbreaker Join Date: Jul 2012 Age: 35 Posts: 5,859	Re: can someone tell me what the hell this thing is Yeah its been around for at least as long as I've been around lol. The fact that this is an actual thread is hilarious and it reminds me of the code box that use to pop up in legacy. I feel old __________________

10-24-2014, 02:28 PM	#8
Zapmeister FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: England Posts: 466	Re: can someone tell me what the hell this thing is so i ask a simple question and inadvertently send all of ffr on a heartbreaking nostalgia trip? what have i done!? :/ so why is it still there if it doesn't work and hasn't worked for a while? were there any plans to restore it at any point or was it scrapped for good? shame though, it sounds like a fun thing to try out as a means of winning credits out of interest, was the winner determined by raw or combo scoring? i think i heard that raw scoring didn't exist in ffr's distant past but it's silly to do a multiplayer challenge with combo scoring __________________ Theorem: If you have a large enough number of monkeys, and a large enough number of computer keyboards, one of them will sight-read AAA death piano on stealth. And the ffr community will forever worship it. Proof Example ask me anything here mashed FCs: 329 r1: 5 r2: 4 r3: 6 r4: 8 r5: 3 r6: 5 r7: 15 final position: 4th

10-24-2014, 02:38 PM	#9
Dark_Chrysalis Something clever. Join Date: Jan 2007 Age: 34 Posts: 740	Re: can someone tell me what the hell this thing is Yes... yes it was. There was also a way to gain any amount of credits you wished as long as you had enough credits to start off with to make it easier. When you sent a challenge with a wager, it wouldn't debit the credits from your account until the challenge was played on the other end. So you could take all of your credits, wager them 100 times with shit scores to an alt account, and log in on the other account and get 100 times your original credits, with the source account going deep into negative credits. This worked up to the credit ceiling at the time (8288640) Good times. __________________ Last edited by Dark_Chrysalis; 10-24-2014 at 02:42 PM..

10-24-2014, 04:06 PM	#11
Crazyjayde FFR Veteran Wiki Administrator Join Date: May 2007 Location: Quebec Posts: 1,169	Re: can someone tell me what the hell this thing is I agree with the following post. Last edited by Crazyjayde; 10-24-2014 at 04:11 PM..

10-24-2014, 04:07 PM	#12
Crazyjayde FFR Veteran Wiki Administrator Join Date: May 2007 Location: Quebec Posts: 1,169	Re: can someone tell me what the hell this thing is All those things, dead? Really? RIP ;__;

10-24-2014, 04:52 PM	#14
Crazyjayde FFR Veteran Wiki Administrator Join Date: May 2007 Location: Quebec Posts: 1,169	Re: can someone tell me what the hell this thing is Lmao that's the point. I hit Reply twice and had to make up for it somehow. Last edited by Crazyjayde; 10-24-2014 at 04:52 PM..

10-24-2014, 04:54 PM	#15
danceflashrevo scumfan is scared of aa Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 488	Re: can someone tell me what the hell this thing is one time i challenged synthlight. i don't think he responded ; ; __________________ Why are you here?

10-24-2014, 07:30 PM	#16
dashoe93 Alphabet Crowd Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Single Age: 30 Posts: 2,950	Re: can someone tell me what the hell this thing is I still have a challenge awaiting me. I'm going to keep him waiting.

10-25-2014, 01:00 AM	#18
dashoe93 Alphabet Crowd Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Single Age: 30 Posts: 2,950	Re: can someone tell me what the hell this thing is kidx3000 hey man

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