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!

New Gamewhore Competition! This Saturday

So Whorli has left for Israel for a month, leaving me all alone until I go back to Philly in a few weeks. That means I’m going to be bored this weekend, and I need you guys to entertain me. I came up with this idea about a month ago, and ran it by a few people… everyone loved it.

This competition will be different from the last one. This one will not focus on the most points you can earn in 24 hours. It will focus on how low of an average rank you can get in 24 hours, starting from a fresh account.

The rules:
-It will run from 12:01am CST Saturday until 11:59pm CST Saturday, August 2nd.
-Your username for the competition will be in the format: “GWC_YourUsername”, where YourUsername is your username. Aka, mine would be GWC_Tasselfoot. Please do not use abbreviations, as it will only confuse me and make my life harder.
-You are not allowed to transfer credits to your GWC account… all secret/purchased songs will have to be played via credits you earn during the 24 hours. That makes it equally fair to everyone, and makes the competition have a bit more strategy.
-Whoever has the lowest average rank at the end of 24 hours will win.
-All GWC accounts will be blacklisted at the end of the 24 hours, so we don’t spam up the highscore lists from the competition.

Prizes:
FIRST PLACE IS GUARANTEED VROFL + a year subscription + a t-shirt + $20 + 50,000 credits
2nd place will be a year subscription and 40,000 credits
3rd place will be a 6 month subbie and 25k credits
4th place == 3 month subbie and 15k credits
5th place… 1 month subbie and 5k credits

As a note, a fresh account has an average a bit over 50,000 (about 50,670 right now). I’m expecting the winner to have an average rank under 150 by the time this is over. Which will be amazing and insane and I will personally call you crazy, but in a good way.

I’m looking forward to this, and I hope all of you guys are too.

-Tass

FFR Mapus

Maldon hooked up the ole google maps API to our GeoIP database so that all the users on FFR can plot their locations across the world. Want to see how accurate it is? Simply Visit the FFR Mapus page and see for yourself. It will place a location pin for you automatically if you are logged in. Looky looky, us admins already have pin points.

*In addition.. If you find someone near you on the map, you can click on their name and it will take you directly to their profile.*

Cheers,

Synthlight

Angels and Airwaves.. Yes You Know What I am talking about

So we had this Angels and Airwaves contest awhile back on FFR. The band was on tour which delayed our ability to secure the signed merchandise. But as of now, we have the goods and we have picture proof to go along with it. You can see all the fancy pants original signatures on the CD’s and Posters. Because of the nature of this story though I am going to move the details over to Rithum.com (Read about the story here)

Additionally, Rithum is launching it’s first FanPoints contest tonight at 9pm. Details are in the link above over at Rithum.

Cheers,

Synthlight

WE FIXED THE PURCHASED GENRE!

OMFG… it actually happened. We fixed Purchased. If you go into the FFR Shop, you’ll notice a nice, new song in there, ripe for buying. R8U (Another) by Shiki is a mix off of Kyle Ward‘s R8U which is a mix off of B4U by Naoki that is well known in DDR. I’m sure you’re aware that 4FT3R M3 is a remix of this also. Stepfile is by Behanjc and can be yours forever for the small sum of 5000 credits.

Keep checking Purchased every few days, as we’ll continue to make use of the genre again now that we can. Give you guys something new to use your credits on besides gambling (if you have any left!). Expect songs to range from 1000 to 10000 in price, based on my own arbitrary feelings at the time of adding.

-Tass

2nd Photo Scavenger Hunt – NOW thru Sun!!

Everyone enjoys a good scavenger hunt, and we at FFR are no different. Listed below is a list of items that you can take photos of to receive varying amounts of points. The harder something is to get a picture of, the more points it is worth! You will have until 11:59pm PST on Sunday, July 13th to submit pictures into this thread located here.

Important note: Please post pictures with IMG tags in the thread… NOT links.

The List:

1 point:
Picture of you with your finger up your nose
Picture of you doing a handstand
Picture of bubblewrap

2 points:
Picture of a dunkaroo
Picture of a cat tree (at least 3 levels of tree) – +1 per cat on the tree
Picture of a bullet (unfired, any caliber)
Picture of shoes with at least 5″ platforms
Picture of you blowing a bubble

Click MORE for the rest of the list, or go to the thread
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Gamble! At Your Own Risk.

Some of you may have heard that we’ve been testing a new gambling script with the subscribers over the past few days.  Now that we’re sure that it is 100% bug free, we’re ready to release it to all of you guys!  Go to the gambling page to accept a wager.  Just click accept and you’ll have a 50/50 shot of winning!  If there aren’t any wagers pending, or you want to place more than one…  go to the place a bet page!

What are you gambling on?  It’s just a flip of a coin.  You and an anonymous gambling opponent will each have 50% odds of winning the amount of credits that you both have agreed to wager.

I want to warn all of you…  gamble at your own risk.  Do NOT gamble for more than you are willing to lose.  We’ve had a LOT of subscribers lose their life savings of credits in a matter of minutes.  If you are not willing to risk that, then don’t gamble.

Finally, we have a statistics page up, if you want to see who has gambled the most, who has the best winning percentage, or who has won the most credits (or who has the worst losing percentage and who has lost the most credits).  A few users have won millions of credits…  but many others have lost all the credits they’ve ever had.  To get your name on the statistics page, you have to view your history page.  Also, 1% of all credits wagered will go to the house.

Good luck and good gambling!
-Tass

A final note… do NOT beg for credits. If you beg for credits, you will get a 24 hour ban.