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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!
For those that know me, or have ever seen a picture of me, you’ll know that I sport a retro Philadelphia Phillies hat every day… and have for the past 8 or so years. The last championship for any major team in the city of Philadelphia was 1983, a year before I was born. It is so sweet to finally have a championship back in my City of Brotherly Love, and even moreso that it is my beloved Phillies.
I’m sure the majority of you guys don’t care about sports or baseball, but I do… and this is a moment in my life that I won’t ever forget. I flew across country, back to Philly, just to attend Game 3 of the World Series, and it was one hell of a game. I really am beyond words.
Congrats Phillies, and I can’t wait for the 2009 season!!!!!
-Tass
PS – A small spontaneous contest… 10,000 credits for the 1st correct answer. How many more HBP does Chase Utley need to be the modern career record holder?
Forum Upgrades
I’m sure many of you guys noticed that the forum is down, and possibly one or two other small misalignments around the site. Fear not, we’re hard at work doing some maitanence and upgrades around the forum and the site. Hopefully will all be finished and back to normal by the time everyone is up for school tomorrow.
-Tass, Synth, and the MegaMechaMaitanenceMachine
edit: everything should be back up now.
A Puzzle To Keep You Occupied
With Synth working hard up optimizing and updating our SmartFox (which is why ProChat and MP are currently down), I thought it’d be nice to give all you guys a little distraction.
Be the 1st person to solve this FFR releated puzzle and win 50,000 credits and a 6 month subscription. Post your answers in the comments of this story.
NOTE: do NOT post the answers to the 8 individual questions…Â you will only be helping other people!
1. Number of songs with 1 AAA.
2. The userID of the 1st person besides Synth to step a song for FFR minus that user’s age minus the levelID of the 2nd song he stepped.
3. The average levelID of the 3rd widget.
4. Find all the letters of the alphabet that are not represented as the 1st letter of an FFR artist (including widgets). In HEX, the sum of these lowercase letters.
5. This song has the highest percentage of AAAs per users who have played it (minimum of 500+ AAAs). Take the number of AAAs (rounded to the nearest hundred) divided by the percentage of users who have AAAd (rounded to the nearest 10 percent).
6. The number of notes in the second song by Excluded added to FFR.
7. The average rank (rounded to the nearest whole number) of the user who has the 2nd best average rank out of users who are 8th in their region.
8. Assuming all clicks were accepted, the number of t-shirts we’ve given away from linking to FFR.
Sum the answers to the above 8 questions and your answer will be the number of notes in a song (or songs). what song(s)?
-Tass
2 In A Row! New Subbie Feature: Added Speedmods!
Hopefully this does show all of you that we DO listen to suggestions, even if it takes us some time until we can implement them. We had to remove 3.0x mod on the Beta, because the bar is now full. We figured you guys would rather have 2 new usable mods instead of 3.0x which is rarely used outside of as a joke.
2.25x and 2.5x are now usable! Yay! I know a lot of people were looking for a 1.875x mod as well, but there just isn’t room without completely re-doing that area of the settings menu.
I expect to see a metric butt-ton of new insane scores now… no excuses. Between masking and more mods, you guys are out of reasons to suck. And I say that with all the love in the world. <3.
-Tass, Synth, and the Green Lantern!
update: Another small feature… we added a song timer bar between the game interface and the MP interface. It appears as a black bar that gets blue as the song progresses. It’s not in the most amazing location… but it’s merely there to get the functionality in place and to beta test.
New Subbie Feature: In-Game Masking!
There are a few small features we’ve been wanting to add for some time now, and in-game masking is one of them. Many of you may ask… what is in-game masking? In-game masking is 2 things. It is the ability to hide your combo from displaying and it is the ability to hide your accuracy from displaying. Two separate features.
Now… why would this be a good thing? For the casual user, it likely won’t make much of a difference. In fact, for many users, it is crucial to be able to see one’s accuracy and/or combo. But for some users (especially reverse players), the combo and accuracy displays in-game can be highly distracting. It is for these users that we are giving the option to disable combo or accuracy or both.
For now, it is subscriber only. So if this is a feature you absolutely NEED, subscribe! You’ll also be getting all the other sweet subbie-only features and helping the site.
Be on the lookout for a few more small features that will make many users happy.
-Tass, Synth, and the gnome in the dryer that keeps stealing my socks.
New Token Type: Support Tokens
Ahoy freaks! (common.. I had to say at least one thing that sounded like a pirate.)
Based on countless threads, the last news story, aim messages sent to me and PM’s, we have decided to launch a mixture of album sales with Support Tokens. We will also be offering separate Support Token purchases in the future.
To break it down, a Support Token is a special token (aka level) that you receive from FFR when you purchase certain items. These items are intended to help not only FFR but the musicians that support FFR. A percentage of every album sale will go to the artist and the remainder will go towards FFR daily costs. As a thank you for the support, we push a special level into your account which can be seen in your profile.
To get things rolling we have put up Spook Goblin’s (For Great Justice!) album + 2 brand new tracks for sale. The album will be available immediately after purchase for download and the download page will immediately activate the Dendrite V2 Support Token on your account. All purchases are currently handled by paypal but will also accept credit cards.
Just to break the process down one last time
2) download album or visit this page to activiate your token level
(Also available from the FFR Store dropdown menu)
3) go here to play the level within the support genre
Simple? Clear? I hope so. Maldon, Tass and myself have gone through many many sleepless hours in the past few days trying to make sure this process was as simple and clean as possible.
This new model will help bring in more prominent artists and will also ease the pain of trying to pay for the site expenses. If you have any additional ideas or suggestions, please let us know. I am scouring the forum and news stories to make sure I roll with the FFR public opinion.
Many of these artists have long contributed to the FFR we know and love. They understand the role we play in the community. Beyond just helping out FFR, purchasing these albums etc will help these (mostly) indie artists that produce music often without praise or pay.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Support Tokens? – We Need Your Opinions!
If you have ever wondered what I look like, that guy on the right couldn’t be further from the truth. As a matter of fact, we are looking for new ways to support the musicians that take part in our community along with the month to month cost of running such an obscenely large site.
I have a few ideas so I am just going to kind of brainstorm here.
#1 Support Tokens. Special genre in FFR for Support Tokens. Purchase a level, 100% of the money goes towards running FFR after the musicians are paid their share.
#2 Album sales.. For instance, selling Spook Goblin’s album or many others in digital format. Maybe attach support tokens to each purchase
#3 FFR Credit sales? The thought of it kind of freaks me out but this could be an option
#4 Sponsor an artist? I have no idea what that means, it just popped into my head.
#5 Mobile leaderboards and alerts through SMS texting services?
Thoughts? Suggestions? I don’t care how odd your idea is, I want to hear it. I won’t act on any of the ideas unless they have solid community support.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Something Easy For You on Sunday. Spontaneous Time!
While taking a break from my work on “FFR Dog”, I thought it would be fun to put up somewhat of a spontaneous contest this evening.
The first person to respond to this message with the secret password, wins a 6 month subby or an FFR T-Shirt… Your choice.
This should be an easy one! Now you just have to figure out the secret password! Guess as many times as you like.
Cheers,
Synthlight
*WOOOHOO!! We have a winner after nearly 800 guesses. da_headhunter guessed “bigfoot” which was correct. As a matter of fact it was printed across the photo on the right the entire time. Thanks for participating everyone! And headhunter, send me a PM with what you want.
HERE WE GOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So my good buddy and fellow Admin, Plaguefox, told me about this crazy song his buddy Renard did and how we needed to have it in FFR. Here We Go is an absolutely insane 441bpm speedcore Mario song. It is 13.5 notes/second for 89 seconds. It is, IMO, the 2nd hardest song in FFR (behind Death Piano). It’s like Adventures of Lolo on crack for 3x as long.
Anyway… most of you will never get to play it. It’s also the 2nd hardest token to get in FFR (behind vROFL). You will need to full combo 99% of all public songs in FFR to unlock it (then check your levelrank) [As of right now, only 17 users have access to it, but I'm confident more will work a little harder and reach 99%]. I’d recommend working on that really soon, because there are 3 more FGOs being released for the tournament in the next 2 weeks. The good news is we’re going to hit 600 public songs really soon, which will mean you can get up to 6 non-FCd songs and still have 99%, instead of only 5.
In other news… be on the look out for more purchased songs over the next 3 days, before I go on vacation for 2 weeks.
-Tass
Oh yea, PS – Congratulations to Flaming_Dingleberry on winning our 2nd Gamewhore Competition! He was the only user to play for all 24 hours, and was the only user to get his average rank under 1000. Way to go!
