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So Long To The Circus! BYE!
Nice new rock song, So Long To The Circus is by the band The World/Inferno Friendship Society. I don’t know much about them, and had asked Mead1 to write me up a paragraph about them, but he didn’t. So, I’ll stick to my normal commentary of saying that the song is lots of fun, full of bread and circuses. Besides, we all love new Rock songs.
Very very easy req to unlock this too, just hit at least 200 notes before failing. Total of perfects + goods + averages has to be at least 200. Erm….. on the song Victims & Martyrs.
So Long To The Circus is a difficulty 7, mostly because of its length. It’s over 3 minutes long (as most Rock songs released today are), and is almost all 8th notes. File is by the same lazy Mead1 who didn’t send me a paragraph about the band… which means you guys all have to read the same boring commentary from me over and over again. And over again.
Again, if you like the band’s sound… check them out here.
-Tass & Boring Commentary
EDIT: I’m dumb.
A Little Tribal To Start Your Day
Skill Token #3 of the month is being brought to you by the letter T. Tribal Style is a song by Kyle Ward, under his KaW alias. To unlock it, you must Full Combo Tribal Revival. Stepfile is by Brilliant Dynamite Neon & shortysnmn2010. File is pretty straightforward; once again, a 7 in difficulty – “Difficult”.
Enjoy, and don’t forget to have your Bran.
-Tass
Statistics? We Don’t Need No Stinking Statistics!
In a few short minutes, all of those pretty new stat features that I listed the other day will be available to their respective groups.
Top1000 Average Rank for subscribers (although make sure to check your Level Rank if you want to be added to the list!
Top100 AAA Counts (again, Levelrank to get updated onto the list)
Game Level Stats:
-Within Each Level:
—AAAs on that level (updated hourly)
—Players who have played that level (updated every 6 hours)
—Total number of gameplays on that level (updated every 24 hours) (Will be added after the contest, no cheating!)
-On Seperate Page:
—Sortable list of Most AAAs, Most Players, and Most Gameplays (tomorrow).
Coming later tonight will be the results of the contest! It is not too late to enter! After it is over, we’ll have the numbers listed on the main page.
Also later tonight… the 2nd skill token of the day!
-All The Hard Working Beavers Who Run The Site.
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. OMG?
So, today is FINALLY July 1st. I no, rite? Couldn’t get here soon enough. Lets start off Skill Token Month with a bang! You are NOT going to want to leave FFR all day long. First off, 2 skill tokens will be released at some point today. They are:
Emotions v2, by Silver_Brian, our resident v2 simfile author. Emotions is one of our old-school files, a song by Trance [] Control and originally stepped by the one and only bemaniruler (who is so old in the bemani world that he actually coined the term stepfile). Very cool song, although unfortunately v1 is offsync. 
BUT! Now we have a v2 that isn’t and is tons of fun to play. Rated a 7 for overall moderate difficulty. Probably a low 7, IMO. To unlock it you’ll need to get 400+ perfects, 20+ goods, AND 20+ averages on Emotions v1 (which has 500 notes).
Calm (Short ‘n’ Slow Mix) is a very soothing, simple, and melodic song by Pyroshock. What do you know… the song is calming. Anyway, it is a 3 in difficulty… nice and easy to start the month off. File is by hi19hi19. The req to unlock it is also QUITE simple… get goods >= misses on I Can See The Light. Aka, you can AAA it and it’ll unlock, you could set autofail to perfects of 1 and hit the 1st note and unlock it… easy file, easy unlock.
Also, as you all are waiting for… other fun features will be added today too! I’ll be updating this thread when things (new features or songs) get added. So check back often!
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE
Starting right now, and going until 7pm PST (10pm EST, 9pm CST, 8pm MST)…. we’re having a CONTEST! to guess the overall Grand Total Score of all the players on FFR of all time AND separately to guess the overall Games Played of all the players on FFR of all time. This is the link you can use to submit your guesses. PRIZES!: The person who is closest to the GTS will get a 6 month subscription. The 2nd-5th closest will get a 1 month subscription. The person who is closest to the Games Played will get a 6 month subscription. The 2nd-5th closest will get a 1 month subscription. Have Fun guessing!
-Tass & LD’s code (but not actually LD)
EDIT: Emotions v2 is available for unlock! The time is 10:07am PST.
I Can’t Take The Suspense!!!
Are you guys pumped about Skill Token Month? 62 skill tokens + normal subscriber SotWs + a few special occasion releases… there will be over SEVENTY files released total in July. Even I don’t know the exact count of how many we’ll release!
But… wait…. THERE’S MORE! If you act now, you’ll get a 2nd bottle free! Erm…. I digress.
We’ve been dropping hints, subtle and not-so-subtle (hi LD), saying that we’ll be adding new statistics in the near future. Well, some of them are already coded. Some are still in the works. Those that ARE coded will be released en mass on July 1st, to kick off Skill Token Month with a BANG! You can expect these features:
Top1000 Average Rank (subscriber only)
Top 100 Most AAAs (public, with other cool additions in the future to it)
Some snazzy features within each level’s Game Level Stats, including # of AAAs on the song, number of users who have played the song, total number of gameplays on the song. And eventually, we’ll be adding a Top50 or Top100 of who has played each level the most.
We’re also hammering down a built-in Tier Point system, for those who know what that is. And if you don’t, check out this thread. Big thanks to Summerschool for all his hard work on the Tier Point calculator.
Finally, what I think is the coolest thing ever… cooler than sliced bread even. Or ice. We’ll be putting up an overall FFR GrandTotalScore and Games Played counter. Ever wondered how much grandtotalscore the entire site gains in a day? a month? a year? since the game first started back in 2002? Now you’ll be able to see. For the record, my guess is that the Overall GTS is somewhere around 10 trillion. And overall gameplays is around 500 million.
Thoughts? Suggestions on other cool statistics pages? Post them in the comments.
-Tass. I am to skill tokens what the pied piper was to children.
HYPE! An Evil 4 Letter Word. July: Month of the Skill Token!
Few things to share with you guys today. First off, I’d like to formally announce July as Skill Token Month. I know we had hinted at it before, but now it is official. We will be releasing SIXTY TWO skill tokens throughout the month of July… 2 per day, each and every day. Some reqs will be simple. Others will be insanely difficult. I’ll do my best to be original on all the reqs and match an easier req to an easier song. Once July starts, you can continue to check this page for all of your skill token update needs. Also, this thread is the official home for all things token related, but I suspect we’ll have a seperate thread specifically for this event. Big thanks to TheRapingDragon for maintaining that thread, big thanks to Brilliant Dyanmite Neon for all the past token images, and a personal big thanks to WhorliChan for all the skill token images that will be used in this event.
Now, you may be wondering how we can add 62 songs to the game and not run out of ones to add in the future. Well… we will be draining our queue to a big degree. It’ll drop from around 100 to 35 or so. But, thanks to all of our wonderful simfile authors, that queue just keeps filling back up and filling back up again. EVEN STILL… I’d like to take this time to let you all know, once again, that ANYONE can submit files to me for consideration to be added into the game. Check out this subforum for all things related to FFR Song Submissions and FFR Song Permissions. Because we DO have to have permission to use a song.
Which brings up my final point of discussion. A huge thanks to Rebirth0, jimerax, and everyone else who works so hard in getting us new artist permissions. One man has recently risen above the rest though, and I’d like to not only acknowledge it, but also let all of you know about all of the new Rock permissions he’s gotten us. DrugstoreCowboy is a one-man MySpace Emo/Rock permission machine. His recent permissions include: Kaddisfly, Racing Kites, The Perfect Mistake, Off Broadway, August Burns Red, A Billion Ernies, LoveHateHero… and those are just the blanket permissions. There are even more in the Permissions Subforum. HUGE thanks to DrugstoreCowboy.
So, to summarize: Crap-ton of new skill tokens in July means that I’m going to need a bunch more submissions to replenish the queue… and it just so happens that we have a huge new influx on Rock permissions to use for stepfiles.
You may now begin the praise. Be it for me, for the stepfile authors, the songwriters, the permission gatherers, the image makers. Or, heck, praise yourself!
-Tass
Destiny to NOT Have Token #12.
I know many of you have been looking for a REAL challenge out of our Skill Tokens. Well, you have your first. Certainly not your last, and certainly not the hardest you’ll ever have…. but this one is pretty darn challenging.
As is stated in the Skill Token Page, Destiny v2 is unlocked via a very specific result on Destiny. What is that specific result, you might ask?
To unlock Destiny v2, you have to get EXACTLY:
313 perfects
0 goods
0 averages
299 misses
0 boos
I’m referring to it as the imperfect AAA. I will state that there is a trick to getting that score that’ll make it a bit easier. You still need to have skill, but if you figure out this trick, it’ll take away half the challenge. I’d like to request that if you figure out what this trick is, you keep it to yourself for a bit. I’d like for this to stay as hard as possible as long as possible.
About Destiny v2: It is the full version of the song Destiny by Kyle Ward, as opposed to the ITG cut used in Destiny v1. It is a low 4.5/6 on the Chardish scale, aka Challenging. I managed to AAA it without TOO much trouble, but i suspect it’ll be a fun FC for most, but a hard AAA. Very upbeat, as with all of Kyle Ward’s Smiley songs. PS – file is by hi19hi19, and is NOTHING like his famous Destiny file for StepMania.
Have fun, and feel free to start complaining all my little Token Tards.
-Tass & his evil Skill Token reqs.
PS – Just so you guys don’t think I’m doing all these evil reqs and then getting access to them myself without being able to do it… see the FFR Scores thread. I posted a SS of me doing it hours ago. I even had to do it a 2nd time about an hour ago to verify that the req was set up correctly in the database.
FFR Radio, Back On Top!
Howdy guys,
After some fine tuning and major convincing, I’ve decided to have a comeback tour on the radio. So, expect me to be in there broadcasting fairly frequently at all hours of the day and night. Having some issues with my mic, so no speaking until I get that worked out… but awesome rockin’ tunes and your requests.
I’m even broadcasting RIGHT NOW. As of 10:00pm PST. Will update this when I get off as well.
I’m on Station 3. So come listen and chat.
-Tass
EDIT: Oh yea! The link to the radio is at the top… or just click on this whole thing.
EDIT2: 11:50pm PST. Radio Show over. Show died when my winamp locked up. Went from 19 listeners to 5.
Skill Token Updates And AdminCon Signoff …
We think everything should be working correctly for now. Please confirm that the skill tokens are working for us and let us know. Essentially if you received any of the skill tokens, they should be showing up now.
Please post in here if you still have issues. Also the skill token page will be updated in the next couple of days to properly show the current data!
On a final note from me, thanks for everyone’s patience these last couple of days as we are winding down on our massively busy week, where Rick0rz, Xelius, Nestlekwik, Tasselfoot, Synthlight and myself spent many MANY late nights and early mornings getting plans in place, testing ideas and moving FFR ahead.
A lot of FFR and its neighbors are going to see some love and get updates from profiles, to FFR, to SpinItUp, Metrivia, the FFR Video Chat and Rithum Gaming News. Pretty much all of the sites and sections have schedules for updates throughout this summer and if we can hit all our goals you guys are in for a big summer too!
A lot is on the way folks .. and the summer is just starting!
See you guys out there and in here!
