A Puzzle To Keep You Occupied
With Synth working hard up optimizing and updating our SmartFox (which is why ProChat and MP are currently down), I thought it’d be nice to give all you guys a little distraction.
Be the 1st person to solve this FFR releated puzzle and win 50,000 credits and a 6 month subscription. Post your answers in the comments of this story.
NOTE: do NOT post the answers to the 8 individual questions…Â you will only be helping other people!
1. Number of songs with 1 AAA.
2. The userID of the 1st person besides Synth to step a song for FFR minus that user’s age minus the levelID of the 2nd song he stepped.
3. The average levelID of the 3rd widget.
4. Find all the letters of the alphabet that are not represented as the 1st letter of an FFR artist (including widgets). In HEX, the sum of these lowercase letters.
5. This song has the highest percentage of AAAs per users who have played it (minimum of 500+ AAAs). Take the number of AAAs (rounded to the nearest hundred) divided by the percentage of users who have AAAd (rounded to the nearest 10 percent).
6. The number of notes in the second song by Excluded added to FFR.
7. The average rank (rounded to the nearest whole number) of the user who has the 2nd best average rank out of users who are 8th in their region.
8. Assuming all clicks were accepted, the number of t-shirts we’ve given away from linking to FFR.
Sum the answers to the above 8 questions and your answer will be the number of notes in a song (or songs). what song(s)?
-Tass
Creating a New World Through KARMA
Hello FFR’ers! (try saying that 10 times fast heh heh)
Today we have a very special treat for all of you. A rare and wonderful treat.
Stephen Kay, president of Karma-Lab and the developer of the music technology known as KARMA, has given his permission for us to use one of his songs as this week’s featured stepfile. This isn’t any ordinary permission. Stephen has been featured in many magazines and websites such as Electronic Musician, Keyboard Magazine, Sound on Sound, and IT-Review.net for his incredible line of electronic keyboards and software incorporating KARMA, as well as his career as a musician and composer. His works have appeared as themes for world-wide NBC sports programs such as Wimbledon and the French Open, and he’s played in just about every kind of music group you can name: rock bands, jazz fusion bands, show bands, etc. His music is truly wacky and colorful, a bright twist to most music you may have listened to. Here is a link to the media player on his site, loaded with some of product demo works.
For more information about Stephen Kay, check out his biography.
Now to the featured file:
Today’s featured file is called ==Planet KARMA==. Some of you might know it from ODIpack2. It’s one of Stephen Kay’s multi-part epics, featuring 5 movements, each with a completely different style and mood. Most of the file is similar to the one in ODIpack2, but there are some striking differences, especially in the 2nd movement. The difficulty varies throughout the song, anywhere from a 4 to a 12. The entire song is just under 6 and a half minutes long, so it’s sure to test your endurance throughout! Stepped by yours truly. You can find it in Secret; it’ll only take 100,000 credits to access. Enjoy this epic release!
2 In A Row! New Subbie Feature: Added Speedmods!
Hopefully this does show all of you that we DO listen to suggestions, even if it takes us some time until we can implement them. We had to remove 3.0x mod on the Beta, because the bar is now full. We figured you guys would rather have 2 new usable mods instead of 3.0x which is rarely used outside of as a joke.
2.25x and 2.5x are now usable! Yay! I know a lot of people were looking for a 1.875x mod as well, but there just isn’t room without completely re-doing that area of the settings menu.
I expect to see a metric butt-ton of new insane scores now… no excuses. Between masking and more mods, you guys are out of reasons to suck. And I say that with all the love in the world. <3.
-Tass, Synth, and the Green Lantern!
update: Another small feature… we added a song timer bar between the game interface and the MP interface. It appears as a black bar that gets blue as the song progresses. It’s not in the most amazing location… but it’s merely there to get the functionality in place and to beta test.
New Subbie Feature: In-Game Masking!
There are a few small features we’ve been wanting to add for some time now, and in-game masking is one of them. Many of you may ask… what is in-game masking? In-game masking is 2 things. It is the ability to hide your combo from displaying and it is the ability to hide your accuracy from displaying. Two separate features.
Now… why would this be a good thing? For the casual user, it likely won’t make much of a difference. In fact, for many users, it is crucial to be able to see one’s accuracy and/or combo. But for some users (especially reverse players), the combo and accuracy displays in-game can be highly distracting. It is for these users that we are giving the option to disable combo or accuracy or both.
For now, it is subscriber only. So if this is a feature you absolutely NEED, subscribe! You’ll also be getting all the other sweet subbie-only features and helping the site.
Be on the lookout for a few more small features that will make many users happy.
-Tass, Synth, and the gnome in the dryer that keeps stealing my socks.
Yay Labor Day!
A few song related things for you guys…
1. 2 new subbie SotW songs are out, for yesterday and Friday.
2. 2 new public songs were released on Friday and yesterday (like every Friday and Sunday). Do A Barrel Roll by Kil, stepped by ElectricWerewolf and Here’s To Life [Oni] by Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, stepped by DrugstoreCowboy, Kailure, AND Bluguerrilla.
3. We’ve added 2 new SKILL TOKENS, which gives us 100 total. #99 is straight-forward… Pass One Minute Waltz with less than 100 boos to unlock Minute Waltz v2. I listed it as a FMO, but it may be high VC. Not sure. Stepfile by jimerax. #100 is a bit different. We want to reward all the Token Whores out there, and hi19hi19 gave us the perfect opportunity. ST #100 requires you to have unlocked the previous 99 skill tokens. Have #1-99, then check your levelrank.php, and you’ll be given #100… the aptly named Token Whore, by dj tepples. If you get access to this song, congrats!, you ARE a Token Whore!
4. Some Support Token news: About 100 users were able to play Dendrite v2 without actually having access to the song… we’ve removed the scores from these users. In addition, all support tokens will now show up in special levelrank, not normal levelrank. Finally, challenges are being disallowed on support tokens if you do not have the token (just like secret, token, skill, etc).
5. Be on the lookout for a special public release file later today too. We ARE sitting on 599 public songs, and today IS a holiday (in the US).
-Tass
2nd UNOFFICIAL Tournament! Sign Up!
The time has arrived for its unveiling! It has plagued the minds of all whom have pondered what I have been keeping so secret lately. So, saving you the torment of what it may be, I welcome you all to join in the fun of my 2nd Unofficial FFR Tournament!
As many of you have seen before, concluding the 3rd Official FFR Tournament, I provided to you all the great joy and ecstasy of competition in my record smashing 1st Unofficial FFR Tournament, giving away a grand total of 2,800,000 credits to the winners of the event. But this time it’s different. The prizes are unbelievable! They make this THE event I’ve been hyping it up to be.
Now, before you lose your minds, let me explain a few things. First, donations. I’m going to ask that every generous soul donates a great deal of credits to me for this tournament. I, for one, am putting all of my remaining credits into it… which comes in at 165,000 after all the credits that I have already given away. So please, I really wish you all to donate the greatest amount you can. Let’s break the current record and set the bar to new heights!
Secondly, let’s talk prizes. I am going to make this short and sweet as all of you are anxious to see them. So bare with me if they are not the greatest 
Master’s Division:
1st: $100 cash, 6 month subscription, X Credits
2nd: $50 cash, 3 month subscription, X Credits
3rd: $25 cash, 1month subscription, X Credits
4th: X Credits
5th: X Credits
Expert’s Division:
1st in D4: $80 cash, 6 month subscription, X Credits
2nd in D4: $40 cash, 3 month subscription, X Credits
3rd in D4: $20 cash, 1month subscription, X Credits
4th in D4: X Credits
5th in D4: X Credits
Read more… »
Spontaneous Contest #95939.2 – The Puzzle!
Be the 1st person to solve this puzzle and post the answer in the comments of this story to win a 6 month subscription:
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Not going to give any hints that would lead towards how to solve it, as I want it to take some time for you guys to solve. I did get the concept for this puzzle from a puzzle that Rubix once posted. And I did not get anyone to test this… so I hope I didn’t make an error.
-Tass
edit: after 56 minutes, qqwref solved it correctly! See comments 258 or 264 for how to solve it.
Spontaneous Contest #95939.2
Stay tuned for details later tonight.
-Tass
4th Official Tournament Finished – Over $1,300 Worth in Winnings!
So after over 2 months of brutal competition, the 4th Official Tournament has finally come to a close. Congratulations to our top 3 placers:
Masters
1. Shashakiro (Will not receive prizes)
2. -Laggy- > 2 year subscription, $100 cash, and an FFR T-shirt.
3. gameboy42690 > 1 year subscription, $50 cash, and an FFR T-shirt.
4. omgitznpv > 6 month subscription and $25 cash.
Expert
1. dood gone krazee > 2 year subscription, $80 cash, and an FFR T-shirt.
2. powerfull > 1 year subscription, $40 cash, and an FFR T-shirt.
3. Kirby615 > 6 month subscription and $20 cash.
Advanced
1. suika510 > 2 year subscription, $60 cash, and an FFR T-shirt.
2. XXXleviXXX > 1 year subscription, $30 cash, and an FFR T-shirt.
3. Superfreak04 > 6 month subscription and $15 cash.
Intermediate
1. DarknessXoXLight > 2 year subscription, $40 cash, and an FFR T-shirt.
2. WaLkInStIcK > 1 year subscription and $20 cash.
3. Commandergamma > 6 month subscription and $10 cash.
Beginner
1. E_skittles > 2 year subscription, $20 cash, and an FFR T-shirt.
2. Kynosaur > 1 year subscription and $10 cash.
3. Kol > 6 month subscription and $5 cash.
These people worked extremely hard to do as well as they did. Many of them improved great amounts to the point where they would even do well in the division above them.
In addition to these people, everyone in the top 8 of each division received the Vertex Beta vROFL token as a prize.
Thanks to all 1520 participants who joined this tournament. Once again it was a fun and memorable experience, and I will expect to see all of you and more in the next one!
Best of luck,
Sprite-
Tass note: Would all 15 people please PM me with your paypal email address. Would those owed a t-shirt also tell me what country you are in. Thanks.
