How to fix FFR
Posted on: March 29, 2007, at 01:25:09am

1. MP. Make it so that either there are more MP mods, or subscribers can kick people out of their rooms, or that people can set minimum level requirements on the rooms they make. You should also just be able to click where it shows what song your opponent has selected, and have it bring up that song for you, also. I am also annoyed that any song with a long name, like EHHS, that has a v2, the name of it so long enough that you can't tell if the v1 or v2 is selected, so they need to fix that. Plus people can use this program to change their MP level to anything, even MOD, and their username, number of credits, color of text, all kinds of stuff. I don't know how this isn't blocked yet. There are also many cheaters in MP, that lose to themselves or do other crap, but it probably rarely does them any good, since I go through a ton of recent multiplayer scores when I feel like it and look for people that have really low scores, (often -3,100) multiple times against the same opponent, and if they do, I'll do a search for all their games, and if they've done it enough times, I report them, so I doubt it's doing very many of them much good for more than a few days.

2. Forums. I used to love the forums, they've just been all messed up with all this token stuff, so I'd really like it if there were a token section, with no talk about tokens whatsoever outside of it.

3. Songs. We need more good songs. They have over 50 songs in the queue, they need to finish 3rd style, release like 50 new songs with it, up the frames per second to at least 60 (this would supposedly eliminate jack syndrome), and add in speed mods. There are many other new features I am expecting to see with third style, such as an improved interface, with different music, more crazy mods like SM has, and more songs in the purchased section, since they can't add more to it right now, and a lot of old songs could really use v2s.

4. More subscriber benefits. We have been suggesting letting us see other people's average ranks for a long time, yet it still hasn't gotten implemented yet, and there are getting to be so many songs that it's going to take so long to look through them that I'm kind of starting to lose some of the interest I used to have in this. I still feel like most people are just subscribing as a donation, or because they want to buy a shirt, and are smart enough to realize they can buy a 1-month subscription and get a coupon for a shirt cheaper than it would have been to just buy the shirt.

5. Make the songs we have to play in the official tourney's closer to our skill level. For the final 8 in advanced, we should be playing something hard enough that my 2 good score could make it into the next round, since only the bottom 2 drop out, but now, it looks like I'd say I have about a 25% chance if I don't improve it. I don't see how it could be so hard to let us play hard songs, but some people are way too firm with their ways I guess. My brother refuses to change anything like this, also. But, with the insane value worth of prizes in the official tourneys, I refuse to stop trying to improve my score, since $40 for winning advanced is a lot for me, and 2nd and 3rd place get enough to be a big deal to me, also. Plus the glory of doing so well in something so hard and torturous would be enormous.

6. Other small fixes:
a. Make it so the backgrounds can be turned off, since I consider them extremely distracting.
b. Make resonance support bpm changes and have reverse.
c. Make r2 have reverse.
d. The FFR song list should have secret and token songs in it. I can understand why it doesn't, but any veteran around here knows you can see all of the secret and token songs in game level stats anyway, so at the very least, subscribers should be able to see a full song list. I once made a list of how many songs each artist had produced in FFR, and how many sims each member had stepped, and it took forever, you know why? Ya, I got most of the rather quickly from the FFR Song List, but then, I had to go find the simfile and song artists of every single secret and token song individually, which was ridiculous. The FFR song list should also be sortable by all of the different headers in it, I don't see how it could be so hard to do the rest of them, when they already have it for most of them.

7. Spin it up. Why don't subscribers get new spin it up songs early? If we did, then I'd feel there would actually be enough incentive for me to play them. Also, you have to play a song in SIU to see the high scores, and any score above 99.6% or something like that doesn't get recorded in the top 10 scores, which is pretty lame, too.

8. Autofail. You can't set this to fail at a certain combo, and I just decided it should be a forced autofail at a predetermined combo. This combo should be equal to the number of notes in the song you're playing. This way, if someone uses a hidden arrow, and comboes the whole song, it will fail them one note before then end.:) Also, if you're someone like me who tries to play in FF, then sometimes the song doesn't end when you reach the end, but autofail could fix that, and if it weren't an FC, then it probably wouldn't have been a good enough score for you to care that much about, most of the time. This can't really be done the way things currently are, unless you know how many goods/etc. you are going to get. You could just set the number of perfects to the number of notes in the song, and then you wouldn't have to worry about the song not ending when you reach the end, but only if you got an AAA.

9. My final thoughts. Actually, my biggest worry about a token is the possibility that I could end up never being able to get one of them. If shash said they would go up to as hard as having to AAA a for masters only song, I feel I'd never be able to do that, so I'd never get that token/song. Maybe if they made it so everyone could play a token song, say, 1 year after the token was released, then it wouldn't bother me nearly as much. I may have to wait quite a while, but that never feeling just kills me. I'm still unhappy about all of the old songs that have been removed, and now, I feel like it's hopeless at me ever getting to play them, like FFR Special Mix. Also, the FFR Token List doesn't have any of the skill tokens in it yet, but I'm not too worried about that getting added soon enough. Oh yeah, one more thing I don't understand. People have links to other forums in their sigs, yet every time I try to, someone on the staff will get mad at me specifically for it, so I just don't do it anymore, even though there are 4 other forums where I'm an admin and 1 where I'm a mod, and 3 of those I'd really like to get more members on, but oh well. Three of them get almost no posts anymore, but oh well, I also am getting annoyed since feel like I'm supposed to show up to every site where I'm on the staff every day, so now I'm up to a lot of sites to go to every day, since there are some like this one that I'll just go to every day, anyway. I PM'd myself the links to all of them here on FFR, to try to make it easier for myself. This is all I can think of for now, and I know I just totally went off on a huge tangent, but I don't really care. For now...on to RF to go read every new post there, since I should.