[TheRapingDragon]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

This is quite a silly post i feel, but i shall respond!

No silliness intended, just trying to get used to the forums and the game. Have to start somewhere, so I appreciate the response!

All right let's do this!

That's more positive already, I'm pumped.

Up to you, if you look at my scores and think hey I wanna be as good as that guy, this guide can potentially help!

I think I'll just play for fun at first, let the competitiveness come later.

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in options, it's fairly intuitive

in options, it's fairly intuitive

Sorry, I'm counter-intuitive.

This is a guide to help you improve, if you are happy with where you are at in terms of skill, you don't have to improve. Play for fun!

Solid guidance.

It's basically your level,

it's determined by what difficulty mathematically you should approximately be able to AAA

Thanks!

I'm saying don't focus on FFR's rating numbers such as average rank, skill rating, and grand total. Focus on yourself as a player and push your limits if you want to improve.

As a mathematician, I find it impossible not to let the numbers control me. If you can direct me to a mathematically-free version of FFR I'm sure I'd love it.

Acquiring a perfect on every arrow for a given song

More solid guidance.

You can play for as little or as long as you want, 1 hour is a reasonable time for a session, and it doesn't have to be every day. I'm hoping to get you in the proper mindset for growth and improvement. Again if that's what you really want.

Good to know. You see, I was seeing these people playing hundreds of songs, getting mad amounts of scores, even a top 10 where people got billions (!!) and I could only imagine how many hours they played to get that and it worried me that perhaps you were undercutting the amount and trying to keep newbies down, you know, rich getting richer and whatnot.

And I try, oh my God, do I try
I try all the time in this institution
And I pray, oh my God, do I pray
I pray every single day FOR A REVOLUTION!

Singing along to the songs? Well okay but the people on the bus might get a little annoyed, I mean my constant tapping is already drawing the ire of the woman beside me.

I mentioned earlier to try your best to hit every arrow, focusing on jumps more however is a good way to improve early on. You'll find that they are inherently twice as hard to hit than a single arrow, therefore it's a good thing to focus on making sure you nail.

So then shouldn't I focus on triples and quads because they are inherently thrice and frice as hard to hit than a single arrow?

Chances are you'll hear about stepmania at least once on this site that hosts both FFR and stepmania communities.

Okay, thanks.

This is not such a strict training regime type of guide, if you're playing for 1 hour a day, play new songs, take note of songs you like and of songs that are challenging for you.

They all are, should I just quit?

Again earlier i mentioned hitting every arrow, we're going bit by bit and now i'm saying improve this other skill you'll need.

But I'm getting lost, should I maybe keep an excel sheet with all my skills on it and keep track of which ones are improving?

You'll feel it man!

It hurts.

It's an approximation, probably not a very good one, but if you look at those difficulties now and go wow i can be there in 2 months, it might be quite encouraging to really strive for that skill.

I strive, boy do I strive, but then you get to a point in your life where you go 'what am I striving for?' you know? And I mean I've strived and I've strived and all I have are these two striving kids and a striving mother-striver of a wife and it's really disheartening.

Yes every ability is core. The more you play the more you'll build up on these skills. I thought I'd throw in the bit about spectators because at some point in time, you'll wow someone with your amazing skill.

Thanks. I started the excel sheet, added in core abilities to skills. Colour coded it so I wouldn't get confused.

I suppose I could do that, but no one is perfect! Besides that this guide is basically garbage compared to the other one you found.

Don't put yourself down like that. As you said, there's always room for improvement. You could always aim to have the best guide around within 2 months? AAA a guide like nobody else?

if the hardest things to get good at, it'll help just trust me bro

Thanks sis! Or are you a mate person? Thanks pal? God this is such a nightmare, friendisms are really beyond me, chum.

Take what you'd like from this post, as you and I've mentioned earlier it's more of a play more to get good kind of deal kind of post. Work on your mindset to improve, and have fun while doing it, and you'll get to where you want to be.

I can do it!

It takes time to get good, you're not going to be able to play the hardest songs right off the bat. The more you play the less inclined you'll be to play say a level 10-20 song when you can AAA 60-70's. I may have had a jab at FFR's difficulty there I admit though.

But I have an FFR seminar in 10 days and the whole board is going to be there. Phil's going to be there and he's like level 40 so how am I supposed to compete against that? We're going to play multiplayer, he's going to beat me, I'll never get that promotion.

I don't look at a game I've beaten like say Actraiser 2 and then think it's a waste of time because now I can beat a game like I Wanna Be The Boshy.

But I doubt you look back on it with fond memories. No-one looks back at Actraiser 2 with happiness in their heart.

yo man i got your back!
http://www.stepmania.com/

Awesome, chum...pal, matey mate. Thanks a bunch!