Got my account back, and who else feels discouraged and may quit FFR?

[stavie33]

I finally got back into my main account, and I want some advice here now, because I'm not sure whether or not to quit FFR...for these reasons:

I DID lose a significant amount of skill while I was gone, however 2 weeks before the site came back up I was playing ffr.lightdarkness' version and could AAA Crash the Beat, Purple, EHHS v1, and the really easy songs like Tori no uta and Chaoz Japan. I come back now, only 2 weeks later, and can't AAA Chaoz japan nor Tori no uta, hell I can't even BF them. On {Rose} I hit 5 goods before I even reach the stream! Is this my skill? I thought so, but I remembered I was doing fine just two weeks ago on the mirror, so then is it the site revamped? Or a mix of both? Right now, FFR is lagging like crap for me, the songs occasionally freeze in the middle of them, and are choppy, but for those that remember me, I would complain about that constantly back when I was AAA'ing FMO's and FGO's, so that shouldn't be the problem, although it seems much more severe right now. Maybe you do, but do you know how frustrating it is to come back from being 7th best overall rank with every song below VC AAA'd and half the FMO's then you come back to finish the job and can't even AAA a Very Difficult song.

Due to what may be technical problems in the game with the site just coming back up, or it could just be lag I previously accommodated myself to and forgot how to play with it, either way, until the site is fully up and running, I won't know if my skill is so dramatically decreased that I will be so discouraged that I won't play anymore, or it's just the lag.

This wouldn't bother me knowing the site has issues, except I'm hearing people are coming back and BF'ing October and still AAA'ing FMO's and FGO's. That's fine for them, and that's not the reason I'm mad, reason I'm mad is my computer is running at it's optimum power, I've adjusted flash player and other programs, and cleared nearly all my ram and mem to factory defaults (this is my old comp I played FFR on, when I went to college I got a new one for CS).

So this means that since other people can still get these scores with this atrocious lag, it most be my skill, but I will still not know for a long time, and that upsets me. I've gone quite a while without FFR, and Stepmania for that matter, because I thought it was gone for good and just moved on with my life. I'm in college now, and have other stuff, but FFR was a huge part of my life, and as you remember, I used to write rants and wine all the time, that's who I am, and I am now seriously thinking about quitting if I can't even AAA Chaoz Japan after 20 tries, I mean, as I said, 2 weeks ago I AAA'd all the aforementioned songs almost everytime I played them. No one gets this bad, but I can't tell.

I don't know, I'm blabbering now, I am just scared that I'll never be good again, lag or no lag. So anyone else gonna quit or move on? Anyone else having terrible choppy lag? I was so happy to get back into my account and start playing, just to realize I can't do ****, wow...this was a lame thread, sorry guys, I'm just kinda disappoint at myself...

waiting for the tl;dr

[OneHandNow]

Firefox + GameBooster + have nothing else on (this means torrents, messengers, iTunes, whatever)

=

Less lag

Try it.

[bmah]

You know what I do...stop playing competitively, just chat with the community, maybe make a few files for FFR. I stopped playing for scores when it became too much of a burden for me. I really only play the game for fun now.

[samurai7694]

I quit playing, never been happier, but I still stick around.

[who_cares973]

stop being a bitch and just play the game until you're as good as you were before

[Superfreak04]

I would just keep playing, since you dind't play for a while, of course you're gonna lose some skill. I'm not as good as I used to be either, so just practice Sm and you'll get better easily and be AAA'ing in no time.

[TC_Halogen]

Originally Posted by who_cares973

stop being a bitch and just play the game until you're as good as you were before

I raged a lot but I'm fairly satisfied with the new AAAs/scores I've gotten. I've still got a little bit more to do, but I'll get there slowly. As far as the lag issue, lots of people are complaining about it. It's mostly a Flash 10 issue.

[stavie33]

Originally Posted by OneHandNow

Firefox + GameBooster + have nothing else on (this means torrents, messengers, iTunes, whatever)

=

Less lag

Try it.

what's gamebooster?

[Emo_Saur_]

Play SM Judge 7

[stavie33]

Originally Posted by TC_Halogen

I raged a lot but I'm fairly satisfied with the new AAAs/scores I've gotten. I've still got a little bit more to do, but I'll get there slowly. As far as the lag issue, lots of people are complaining about it. It's mostly a Flash 10 issue.

I have flash 9

EDIT:

Alright, I'm pretty convinced right now it's NOT me, and it's the lag, so I'll just focus on fixing it

[i love you]

Originally Posted by bmah

You know what I do...stop playing competitively, just chat with the community, maybe make a few files for FFR. I stopped playing for scores when it became too much of a burden for me. I really only play the game for fun now.

Pretty much this except for one thing: I don't even care about getting scores on FFR anymore. I find that stepping files and hanging with the community is a lot better and less time consuming then playing this game almost everyday trying to get better at a flash game while slowly destroying your wrists.

[remedy1502]

I'm not discouraged... I know I suck, and I have been playing some SM recently, but it's not the same at all. My MA on SM is pretty good, but here I just suck XD
I'll get better.

If you want to quit, you can quit. If you want to play, you will play. It will be annoying as hell that you suck now, but that's just how it is. I'm dealing with it by just playing and eventually i think I'll be good enough again.

[DarkbearX]

Play for fun or else you won't have any.

[pedolad]

Originally Posted by i love you

Pretty much this except for one thing: I don't even care about getting scores on FFR anymore. I find that stepping files and hanging with the community is a lot better and less time consuming then playing this game almost everyday trying to get better at a flash game while slowly destroying your wrists.

I've been doing this pretty much the entire time I've been on FFR. The only time I did play was at 6 in the morn when I was bored to death.

[Etylukah]

Originally Posted by stavie33

Anyone else having terrible choppy lag?

Yup, had to play around with a specific flash player and use the right things and now it works perfectly. What Windows are you on? No matter how much you want to play "for fun", lag is never fun. So, i guess we could try to fix this.

Otherwise +1 to what everyone else said.

[stavielostpass]

this is all good advice, I think you're right, I'll just hang around the community and occasionally play for fun. Who knows, maybe while playing for fun I'll get some of my skill back. Before I left though, I was all about getting my average rank to 2 or 3, especially when I love you got 2-0-0-0 on AT, I had to beat that, and then I Holy Ordered, then all I could think of was AAA'ing Tageri and fixing my SDG, AAA'ing Feldschlatt to complete all my VC's, etc. I've actually been better off anyway without FFR. I have a lot of free time and I actually go out of the house now :/ I couldn't believe it. So I guess playing for fun occasionally is the way to go, still, for now it's kinda frustrating...

[MrMagic5239]

Originally Posted by stavie33

what's gamebooster?

Game Booster temporarily shuts down all unnecessary background programs to free up RAM. When you shut it down it turns them all back on though.

Good program.

[Frozen Beat]

Sup stavie, haven't talked to you in a while (masterofthetaco is a b*tch)

Anyways, I suggest playing hardcore for a week, you'll probably recover all that lost skill within that time since you already had it at some point

[stavie33]

Originally Posted by Frozen Beat

Sup stavie, haven't talked to you in a while (masterofthetaco is a b*tch)

Anyways, I suggest playing hardcore for a week, you'll probably recover all that lost skill within that time since you already had it at some point

taco is the biggest *** I've ever met in my life. I started blocking all his calls thank god. He is so delusional and stupid and then acts like an ass, I'm really, really glad I cut ties with him 2 years ago. So what have you been up to? PM me.

Also, just realized I was on my lost pass account for a moment, lol

[MrRubix]

an hero yourself