Thread: FFR Suggestions
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Old 05-23-2011, 09:29 PM   #910
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Default Re: FFR Suggestions

Here's one: fix the Legacy songs so they're either in the public levelrank, or the token one, but not both.

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Originally Posted by TC_Halogen View Post
most of the top players have the potential to AAA all of the FGO level files.
Yeah, maybe if by "top players" you mean "the best three or so people".


I definitely see an advantage to moving all 13s (read: anything harder than Revo) into the token ranks. It's definitely useful to have these files in the game, no doubt about that; the problem is that unless you're one of the top few players, those songs are only there as mashing practice, and if you have FC'd you might as well forget about the file. So it's not as interesting to even the typical good player as, say, a mid-high FGO. If they were all nonpublic people wouldn't worry about ranks, and could just play the files for fun. Plus, it's a lot cooler to accomplish something tough and end up with an unplayably hard file, than to just be given an unplayably hard file for free.

A modest proposal: make up two mashy requirements that aren't too difficult, and have them unlock DP and RATO. (Adding requirements to a previously public song isn't new, see the list of secret songs.) To compensate, let's make the old Support Tokens public (I don't see them getting actual unlock requirements anytime soon). In the future, all new potential 13s could have token requirements. And because they wouldn't affect rank, we can start accepting a very small number of fun dumps, if we want to. I believe TS has already added a small number of dumps.
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