Why aren't rates above 1.0 counting for scores?

[foxfire667]

Originally Posted by YoshL

is it possible to enable local score saving for alternate engines on rates

I would certainly imagine it's possible, and it would be a neat little feature if it was added.

What I personally want to know is if it will ever be possible to get GTS and credits from an alternate engine song play through. As it stands now, I have lots of fun playing alternate engine songs, but I feel like (at least in terms of working on overall rank) I'm wasting a pretty good song session. Not expecting this to happen, but I'd be interested if anyone else would be for / against this and why.

Originally Posted by alloyus

Fox if you read my newest post you'd know I'm a little more open to it now, but you certainly don't need to go through level ranks to show you're a good player, a good chunk of the site who's active is a subscriber and can actually look at your ranks and see what scores you have on what files, you can have few AAAs/FCs and still be a good player. Also a pretty decent amount of games award tedium in general (leveling in RPGs/playing game after game after game in CoD, etc)

Sorry, it takes a while to write long posts, sometimes things happen in between I overlook.

As for knowing if a player is good, that is true, but I mainly was referring to visually (ie: having an average rank of like 10000, even though you already have oni / scarhand or something). Having a good public rank is also a solid indicator you are playing lots of files on FFR, which seems like a very good thing to encourage players to do. I suppose the problem lies in how FFR itself perceives skill in ranks, considering it's just a big average of everything.

As for tedium, I would say games like RPG's (and what you said about CoD) and whatnot reward time, not tedium. From what I recall, it doesn't take all that long to level up in CoD, and if you prestige, most of your stuff is removed and you have to start over again. Chances are, if you are playing CoD and leveling up a lot, you are probably enjoying it. If I thought playing game after game of CoD was boring and tedious, I just wouldn't buy or play CoD, period. Don't really play many RPG's, so I'm not sure if leveling in most of them would be boring, but I do know if leveling was integral to the game, and it was boring to do so, I wouldn't play the game. Would you honestly play something that bored you (unless you really really enjoyed other major aspects of it?)