"Ranking Degredation" for song scores

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Originally Posted by Dinglesberry

That's a good point as well, low division prizes don't really make sense. I guess the entire issue is that the prizes in general are kind of useless.. What good is credits? Every division, its all just about getting the support tokens, maybe that's the issue.

Regardless, people are going to cheat in tournaments or in competitive games, they always will. Perhaps FFR is going to need some sort of anti cheat or something that analyzes your gameplay and detects when you are sandbagging lol.. I guess thats the issue when it comes to a small community with a 7 division system where everyone is still good, there's going to be people smurfing all along the lower divisions.

Maybe the solution is to improve the prizes and incentive to compete in tournaments by making the prizes more relevant to the skill bracket... How that's accomplished, that's the difficult part There has to be something better than throwing credits and a couple tokens that are impossible to unlock otherwise at the player...

That feel when you are trying to think of new ideas in a game that's over 12 years old in a community that has people playing for 12 years ago ;D

Credits have less meaning for players that have been around for as long as they have. Offer a person like me 100k credits as the prize for a tournament win, and I might not even flinch. Offer that same prize amount as first prize to a D1 player whose credit output is so slow, they couldn't dream of getting 100k credits in their first 6-12 months of play, and suddenly it seems like a great idea.

FFR does have, and has had an anti-cheat for a while. It has been used to catch numerous players in previous official tournaments.

Prize improvements are not as easy as you think being that the site is non-profit and tournament fundraisers can only go so far. The purpose of picking an extreme difficult to unlock token is to give users something to play for -- giving the opportunity for a more common token is useless. But, this is why the site needs to go a little bit further in figuring out other content that could be rewardable (or alternatively, possible to spend a ton of credits on).

Believe us when we say that these are things that have been discussed for quite some time.