7th Official FFR Tournament

[Magicturbo]

Re: 7th Official FFR Tournament

a week is long enough as it is wowza

A week to you. To those with lag, it's only been the first 20 minutes of the round, when the game didn't lag. Since then, a lot of us haven't been able to get lag-free runs in. So the days are just wasting away unfairly for us because of technical issues

[~Zeta~]

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A week to you. To those with lag, it's only been the first 20 minutes of the round, when the game didn't lag. Since then, a lot of us haven't been able to get lag-free runs in. So the days are just wasting away unfairly for us because of technical issues

+1.

[DossarLX ODI]

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A week to you. To those with lag, it's only been the first 20 minutes of the round, when the game didn't lag. Since then, a lot of us haven't been able to get lag-free runs in. So the days are just wasting away unfairly for us because of technical issues

Well said. I had to use legacy this round, and it's the first time I've ever had to switch back to it due to lag. I definitely can't continue on like this -- I was lucky Shotgun Surgery was a relatively consistent file.

[yo man im awesome]

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While I do feel bad for the people who are lagging (I'm one of them, but I was lucky enough to get a somewhat-lagless round in), I'm going to have to side with not having an extension.

[Reshiram]

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Extensions don't help me very much, and I've managed myself past computer failures to get a respectable score. On Velocity, the engine everyone is griping about.

Also, I don't think extensions should be done considering the alternatives. I noticed zero lag coming from my personal machines, just the one I had that was literally older than dirt****.

Not to mention: all the standalone options, engine choices (even just the two for non-vets)... So yeah, gonna side against since I don't see this being an issue of complete unplayability, just a lack of attempted alternatives.

[colt.45]

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Will the 17th place get a prize if you get into the top 16? (I'm pretty sure you will.) Also no extensions please, if I do somehow make it into the final rounds I don't want school to interfer with playing. (Nor do I want people to have more time to pass me out. :c)

Yes I will if that happens.. since I don't really want my own gift. This years competition is really tough. I'd be happy just to make it to top 32 =]! Hopefully there isn't a tie or I will have to take scores from the next round.
I'm also not just limiting the gift bags to placing Top 32/16/8, I'll be giving around 6-10 randomly to people who aren't winning one.
I might do this by picking people displaying good sportsmanship/encouragement throughout the tourney or I can take a random # generator and pick 1-2 random winners for each division. If I were to do 10 it'd be 7 picked from D4-6 and 3 from D1-3.

Also my vote is no extension given the numerous engines and options.

[DarknessXoXLight]

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An extension won't matter if you still have the lag through it.

[Velocity]

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Once you include the 3 engines, 4 flash version (not counting revisions), Windows/Mac/Ubuntu, and an unknown amount of system configs, the entire system starts to get very unnerving. There's just so many possible setups for the same task having every single one of them all run flawlessly is impossible.

Then throw in how old the Legacy engine is, toss on a bunch of code that I wrote when first learning flash coding while working from a decompiled source, and wonder why it lags.

Then track the problem down.

It's all of it really.

[VisD]

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depressing

[DossarLX ODI]

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Do you have a backup of the Velocity Engine with the Tournament Genre back from the 6th Official?

[Magicturbo]

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Extensions don't help me very much, and I've managed myself past computer failures to get a respectable score. On Velocity, the engine everyone is griping about.

Also, I don't think extensions should be done considering the alternatives. I noticed zero lag coming from my personal machines, just the one I had that was literally older than dirt****.

Not to mention: all the standalone options, engine choices (even just the two for non-vets)... So yeah, gonna side against since I don't see this being an issue of complete unplayability, just a lack of attempted alternatives.

Your older engines from your personal engines don't benefit us.

Standalone is somewhat of a given in the 'majority' of serious play (Though I think Mike Shinoda still uses browser .-.), I think. I've always used standalone because browser play is laggy for myself.

With engine choices, I feel like you haven't read any of the previous comments from people about using different engines, and how they usually equal the equivalent of asking someone to write neatly with their left hand (Or opposite hand of choice). If you're an ambidextrous person, then great! But not everyone is, and it's unfair to consider everyone can just switch hands (engines) as easily as you might be able to (lucky ability for you v.v). I can only play Velocity exclusively, and having tried Legacy and R^2 Beta, neither work for me in browser, nor in standalones (both due to being uncomfortable with the engine, as well as lag on all fronts).

I understand your stance on this, but your alternatives just don't work for a lot of us.



I understand Colt's reasoning behind no extensions though, with gift sendings and stuff, so I'm not going against that ;-;


Either way I hope it gets fixed up, because even outside of the tournament, regular playing is becoming sparse with this lag.

[MikeShinoda12345]

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I still use the user browser because I can't get the standalone to work on a mac rofl
it's a bit laggy, but you can get it to work.

[bob bob]

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extensions?

what is this madness

[TC_Halogen]

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I'm personally against an extension. I spent a lot of time optimizing on both Windows and Ubuntu, dealing with whatever I could to make the game as playable as possible during the entire second and third round. It's also not fair to those who were able to get a score early on to get trumped by people who got a score past the round's end date. Imagine if you're a person without any lag who nails your score on the third day getting trumped by someone else who might not have lag on the extended eighth (or more) day?

It's unfortunate, but no matter what you do, things get ruined for some group of people.

EDIT: Oh hey, this is my 12,000th post.

[yo man im awesome]

Re: 7th Official FFR Tournament

basically, shit happens FFR.