July 4th! New Token!
Well, we were going to do a new token anyway… but, might as well theme it around July 4th. It is, I believe, the easiest of the 4 Achievement Tokens released to date. All you have to do is load up MP and get 2501 exp.
Wait. What? You don’t know what exp in MP is? Well, then clearly you’ve never read Shashakiro’s Complete Multiplayer Rules sticky, which clearly explains that you win/lose exp in MP, which is displayed as a colored bar and level to the users. In case you are lazy, 2501 exp is the minimum amount to be level 10. So, get to MP level 10 (or higher) and check your levelrank.php and you’ll be rewarded with Paradise Decay’s Slow Motion (Wipeout Pure Xtra), stepped by SulferDragon.
-Tass
Achievement Token #3 & New Levelrank Feature!
Achievement Token #3 has been gotten by 645 users at the time of the release. The requirement? Full Combo 50% of all public songs in the game. We feel that percentages work better compared to a static number. This way, 500 more public songs from now, the req is still 50% and not 274. Note: On this and all future percentage based tokens, all percentages will be rounded down. FCing 49.996% of the songs in game will NOT get you the token. Once, again, just check your levelrank.php page to get the token.
Quickdraw is a not-so-flaccid song by one of our very own, KgZ. Stepfile is by Vote4Nixon. I listed it as a 9, but I have a feeling you guys are going to yell at me that it is only an 8. If so, I will not be opposed to changing it.
Also, we’ve added a new feature to your levelrank page. At the very bottom, below your Average Rank, it now displays your % of songs FCed and % of songs AAAd. This should make it easier for you guys to know how close you are to the token. Also, again, if you get the token and then slip under 50% of songs FCed, you will NOT lose the token.
Achievement Token #2 - Under 1000 Ave Rank
Apparently some haters in the new Achievement Token thread didn’t think we’d do one of these based on average rank. I’m not really sure why… but that’s why they’re haters, I guess.
Anyway, this has been in store since we came up with all of these initial reqs for achievement tokens. Just like with yesterday’s, if you meet the req (either now or in the future)… just go to your levelrank page to gain access to the song. You’ll find it on Page 3 of Token.
Happy Rainbow is an uptempo and happy (duh) song by OSTER Project and is stepped by bmah. To meet the req, get an average rank under 1000 and then check your levelrank.
For those wondering, there are 4177 users with 1 billion or more GTS. There are currently 343 users with an average rank under 1000. So this is a decent bit harder to get!
-Tass
PS - LD wants me to mention something dealing with the Level Stats page… something about it now showing perf/good/av/miss, etc.
4th Official Tournament - Round 3 Almost Over!
Apparently many of you are/were waiting for this news post about the tournament… well… we tend to stop making news posts around this time, because it has turned into a routine. Each round from now until the end will end at 11:59pm EST on Thursday and the new round will begin shortly thereafter (unless otherwise noted).
So, let this be your final front page story about this tournament… Round 3 ends in a little under 48 hours from now, and there will be no more news stories about it. Sprite- will continue to send out PM reminders for a few more rounds, but those will eventually stop as well. You MUST keep checking the FFR Events forum for the stickies on the new tournament rounds.
-Tass
New Token!!! OMFG TOKEN!!! #30
No, there is no riddle to solve… no brainteaser to figure out… no link on ffrtokens.com for you to steal in order to get this token. No no no. This is a unique token, but not the only of it’s kind. Expect to see more of these in the future.
I am calling them “achievement tokens” and you’ll be able to find them in Token (Skill is too crowded already, and these are lifetime achievements, not single-game skill based unlocks). To get access to the songs, just meet the achievement… then check your levelrank.php page.
This 1st achievement token is for the song Orchestral Angels, by dj-nate. Stepfile is by behanjc and has some nifty jumpstream towards the end. I still say it is a high 8 and not a 9. I managed to AAA on my 2nd try. To unlock: have 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) Grand Total Score.
Expect to see both easier and harder achievement tokens in the near future.
-Tass
Scheduled Maintenance Almost Complete
The good news is that our datacenter underwent some pretty massive upgrades starting around midnight last night. These upgrades will bring more bandwidth to our datacenter which basically translates into quicker loading of site pages and the game levels.
The bad news (not really bad.. just more like annoying news) is that during the maintenance, some people were blocked out on Time Warner cable, Comcast cable and a few others. Being on Comcast myself, this was irritating while it was going on but it seems that the routing has been corrected now.
Vidchat and multiplayer are being relaunched shortly. Let me know if you see any other problems.
Cheers,
Synthlight
LD Thinks He Is Awesome… Is He?
So, I posted a subscriber news story last night (also found in my profile’s random thoughts) about how we are going to fix the challenge system so that you can no longer play files you don’t have access to by getting a challenge on them. Well, that has happened. So, now you won’t be able to play Vertex BETA vROFL unless you earn it. Or Otaku [Oni]. Or the big boy secret levels. Or any upcoming levels we have in store. These levels are meant to be rewards for an accomplishment, and they haven’t been to this point. Now they are again. If you want to play them, you’ll have to earn it.
You guys can thank (or curse) Lightdarkness for implementing this system. It is the reason he thinks he is awesome. I think he’s a pretty cool kid myself.
Finally… we have some new token ideas that we’ll be putting into place later this week, completely different than anything you’ve seen before. *insert gasps and looks of awe*.
Cheers,
-Tass & his slave coder, LD
Spontaneous Contest - #58940-384856.2 - Guess NOW!
Our Winners!
Gameplays: 171,079,352. Top 3: Emerald000, Killburn, knq
Grandtotal: 34,923,734,741,500. Top 3: nuclearsamurai, .Mantis., Xx{Midday}xX
Current # of Replays: 1,474,042. Top 3: FlameFalco, sarahxjane (can’t win, staff), DarkRavenX9X, and .Mantis.
Total # of Replays (some of you quasi-cheated): 24,099,430. Top 3: shadow 1800, [TeRa], kcfp_Ice
Total # of MP Games: 5,986,038. Top 3: n0uille (only off by 626!), Strife_Of_The_Ages, cry4eternity
Profile Votes: 920,786. Top 3: keyslayer101, Silver_Brian, star99
Total # of AAAs (some of you quasi-cheated): 170,890. Top 3: DarkProdigy (off by 1!!), Popmeister (off by 157), Xx{Midday}xX
Congrats guys! Subbies will be sent out shortly… and don’t forget that if you are already a subbie, read the sticky in the subbies forum on manual extension of subbies!
As promised, we have SEVEN different interesting statistics for all of you guys to take your best guess on:
Overall Gameplays:
Overall Grand Total Score:
Total AAAs:
Overall Replays Recorded:
Current # of Replays Stored:
# of MP Games Played:
Total Profile Votes:
All of these stats are for all registered users (no guests, sorry), and date back to when the stat was first recorded. Total AAAs will still only count 1 AAA per user per song. AAAing Excite Bike 50 times will still only count as 1. It will also include ALL songs, not just public ones.
Use this link to submit your guesses. ONCE YOU SUBMIT, YOUR ANSWERS ARE FINAL
Contest will run from now (5:55pm EST) until 11:00pm EST. Prizes: Closest on each statistic will get a 6 month subbie, 2nd closest will get 3 months, and 3rd closest will get 1 month. So we’re giving away 21 prizes!
Spontaneous Contest TONIGHT! - #58940-384856.2
Lightdarkness and I will be running a contest tonight that is derived from the weird statistics thread I made a few days ago. The goal will be for you guys to guess close to a specific statistic… such as the overall gameplays in the history of the game. Or other, more creative, statistics. We’ll have 5-10 different statistical categories for you to guess. And we’ll be giving out subscription prizes to the top3 closest for each one.
So stay tuned!
-Tass
