What's happening in here?

[V-Ormix]

Re: What's happening in here?

I feel so welcomed :') *request sent*

[_Zenith_]

Re: What's happening in here?

I feel so welcomed :') *request sent*

Gonna have to get an admin to approve because A2P is nonexistent.

[Vendetta21]

Re: What's happening in here?

Gonna have to get an admin to approve because A2P is nonexistent.

Nah I will text him

[V-Ormix]

Re: What's happening in here?

Nah I will text him

https://soundcloud.com/ormix/score-ja-ja-ja

[Vendetta21]

Re: What's happening in here?

Gonna have to get an admin to approve because A2P is nonexistent.

Also man I know this isn't the place but can someone give manti the ability to approve TGB group requests?? It's fucking impossible to get the attention of admins around here I had to be annoying and persistent for like 2 months to get Manti as a mod.

[Vendetta21]

Re: What's happening in here?

https://soundcloud.com/ormix/score-ja-ja-ja

Should be good to go. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the forums.

[Charu]

Re: What's happening in here?

I agree to make Manti able to accept keycards.

[MrGiggles]

Re: What's happening in here?

There are a few ways to do this. Most of them are somewhat simple in concept but just need people who care.

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and he crushes it out the park oh my god it's a grand slaaaaaaaam

The web is literally flooded with places to discuss shit and none of them are nearly as bizarre or restrictive.

I actually disagree with this though, there are a lot of forums more restrictive than FFR, especially when they are forums attached to video games. For instance, all Blizzard forums have a no-tolerance policy on politics and religion discussions, even totally objective discussions.

FFR forums are uncommon and possibly unique among 'official' videogame forums in that many users don't discuss or sometimes even play the game at all (guilty as fuc). The WoW forums have ~40 forums dedicated to various aspects of the game and literally 2 small off-topic forums. Meanwhile, FFR has 4 FFR-related forums and 16 off-topic forums.

Game forums typically exist almost entirely for the developers, to keep their eye on the pulse of the playerbase and generate interest and hype. They also want to keep an immaculate image going, so any discussion that smells like it might go south is dealt with immediately. They don't really care if they're encouraging intelligent discussion or creating a tight-knit community because that doesn't make the dolla or help the product.

Synth has let the forums wander pretty far outside the scope of FFR The Game and that's rad and I love it but it's not making him any money. I don't know how to monetize a close community and intelligent discussion. Maybe the SA model? I'd pay five dollars for an off-topic FFR forum account, no joke. Ten? .... Yeah, I think so. But I'm already part of the community, and a five dollar barrier to entry would be insurmountable to anyone new who hasn't yet seen the value of what goes down here.

i'm rambling so in conclusion please give manti access to tgb keycards

[LeiN-]

Re: What's happening in here?

Ayy..
sry for nonsense

[TheRapingDragon]

Re: What's happening in here?

So does anyone have any update on what's happening here? I'd like to remain positive in thinking that things are actually happening to try to improve this site but Synth hasn't been active (or at least logged in) since 23rd August. The last thing posted was:

I have additional meetings being scheduled with different management groups here at FFR so that we can help make progress in parallel. Does everyone want me to stay transparent with these plans or would you rather we hold back until we have something significant?

As part of the request for transparency, I think a lot of people here would appreciate knowing when these meetings are being held and what comes from them with regards to progress and plans for the future.

FYI that hi19, Velocity, Zag a few others and myself are going to have a conversation [afternoon of 23rd August] over (most likely) skype. I am looking forward to it.

Did this happen? Did anything productive come from it?

[mrpreggers]

Re: What's happening in here?

Ayy..
sry for nonsense

luckily you can't get silenced for nonsense in #FFR

[MarcusHawkins]

Re: What's happening in here?

I just bumped a thread I made months about how rigged the Secret Songs is...Zenith, Rapta, OWA, and one other person agrees that it should be changed to being how high your GT is, now how many credits you have.

My point is, there's always something else that adds to the weight on your shoulders as staff/admins, Changing the Secret Songs Genre system is just yet another problem that needs to be fixed!

[justin_ator]

Re: What's happening in here?

Perhaps I'm wrong on this, but wouldn't the secret songs be an easy fix once there is a good GT value for each of the songs? You're querying credits already, just change that to GT and change the value you're checking against? If the holdup on that is a good scale for GT vs credits, I'd be happy to have a look at it.

[MarcusHawkins]

Re: What's happening in here?

Perhaps I'm wrong on this, but wouldn't the secret songs be an easy fix once there is a good GT value for each of the songs? You're querying credits already, just change that to GT and change the value you're checking against? If the holdup on that is a good scale for GT vs credits, I'd be happy to have a look at it.

lol, don't ask me, I'm the guy who said that credits aren't the solution to secret songs! Go ahead and look at how much GT you would need for each song, so there's a good indication of what it would look like! ;P

[_Zenith_]

Re: What's happening in here?

Perhaps I'm wrong on this, but wouldn't the secret songs be an easy fix once there is a good GT value for each of the songs? You're querying credits already, just change that to GT and change the value you're checking against? If the holdup on that is a good scale for GT vs credits, I'd be happy to have a look at it.

I proposed the final credit secret unlock (150,000 credits currently) to be set at 5 Billion GT, and I'm sure it could be tweaked further but that was my first thought because it would encourage getting Veteran Status if someone doesn't have it already.

I would've originally said 10 Billion if I wasn't considering time consumption, because as it stands Secret Songs can easily be lost and unplayable until you get enough credits again, where any change from Credits to GT would always award the song and you cannot lose Grand Total unless you get score swiped.

Scaling would be something to be fine-tuned, though this overall change is pretty easy/beneficial to the community imo.