AAA training

[qqwref]

I just got 100 total AAAs today! (I finally did Alpha Helix too. That song had been bugging me a lot - I've had a black flag for like two weeks and tried a few times almost every day, and since 1000+ people had gotten the AAA it was one of my worst songs on the level rank.)

I wouldn't say that 100 is THAT impressive by itself, but the interesting thing is that I think I'm learning to hit notes accurately in a way that I never really did when I was playing Stepmania. I'd always play songs that were relatively difficult (say 9+ in the FFR scale), so my goal was pretty much to get AA (or to pass in the case of much harder ones). But now that I've started spending time on FFR, I'm playing a lot of easier songs, and instead of just comboing the patterns I'm really focusing on hitting them accurately. It surprises me how much my attitude towards songs has changed - I'm paying more attention to reading irregular steps carefully, I'm listening to my arrow taps a lot more, and I'm having more fun playing slower songs. My PA is also a lot better than it was a month ago. I think this is a pretty interesting effect; has this happened to anyone else when they first started caring about AAAs?

[CartoonHero94]

Originally Posted by qqwref

I just got 100 total AAAs today! (I finally did Alpha Helix too. That song had been bugging me a lot - I've had a black flag for like two weeks and tried a few times almost every day, and since 1000+ people had gotten the AAA it was one of my worst songs on the level rank.)

I wouldn't say that 100 is THAT impressive by itself, but the interesting thing is that I think I'm learning to hit notes accurately in a way that I never really did when I was playing Stepmania. I'd always play hard kind of songs, so my goal was pretty much to get AA (or to pass in the case of harder ones). But now that I've started spending time on FFR, I'm playing a lot of easier songs, and instead of just comboing the patterns I'm really focusing on hitting them accurately. It surprises me how much my attitude towards songs has changed - I'm paying more attention to reading irregular steps carefully, I'm listening to my arrow taps a lot more, and I'm having more fun playing slower songs. My PA is also a lot better than it was a month ago. I think this is a pretty interesting effect; has this happened to anyone else when they first started caring about AAAs?

Wow congrats!!!

[Chauster]

your logic makes no sense, stepmania was the time to play easy songs and go for AAA's to improve your MA

the only reason i see that you think FFR has improved your timing is because FFR timing is off and you want to whore AAA's to get known, if you had just played easier songs on stepmania your timing would be much better than it is now


congratulations on your 100th AAA nonetheless

[who_cares973]

as of right now i could care less about AAA's i still need to work on my PA >.<


EDIT: forgot to say congrats


CONGRATS

[CartoonHero94]

BTW what's FC??? It's under AAA's on your profile

[qqwref]

Originally Posted by Chauster

the only reason i see that you think FFR has improved your timing is because FFR timing is off and you want to whore AAA's to get known, if you had just played easier songs on stepmania your timing would be much better than it is now

It's true, but on Stepmania I never saw the point of AAA. I didn't (and don't) expect to be one of the best players, but if I have a choice between doing AAAs on very easy songs and passing hard songs, it's more interesting to me to pass the hard ones, especially since (in my opinion) hard songs are usually stepped more closely to the music, so I have more fun playing them. It always seemed to me that being able to pass or combo harder songs was a bigger step towards what the best players were doing (AAAing those songs, for instance) than being more and more accurate on easy songs. I think what's changed is not that I want to get known more now, but that the level rank system has encouraged me to try to do well at both easier and harder stepfiles.

Originally Posted by Chauster

stepmania was the time to play easy songs and go for AAA's to improve your MA

MA isn't very fun to improve if you are just playing with yourself