Value of the credit and credit sinks

[Ohaider]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

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millions of things you can do haha

[Zageron]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

I think reducing the number of credits required for secret songs, and then permanently unlocking them when you 'personally' gain (through playing) the number of credits required to unlock them. That way people will not feel obligated to hold on to their credits early on, which caused the 'hoarding' motion in the first place.

[emulord]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

I think newbies asking for credits shouldnt be technically against the rules. It should be like a "you're allowed to ask for credits in the garbage bin" or something instead. Then they can ask for credits and the more generous of us won't have stupidly large amounts of credits lying around.

[igotrhythm]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

I think reducing the number of credits required for secret songs, and then permanently unlocking them when you 'personally' gain (through playing) the number of credits required to unlock them. That way people will not feel obligated to hold on to their credits early on, which caused the 'hoarding' motion in the first place.

So permanent unlock of Max Forever when you hit 2006 credits in the bank even if you dip below that number? Seems legit.

I would personally go for the idea of having to pay credits to play harder songs. This has a number of advantages:

-Forces newbies to build up to the harder stuff
-Credit sink per game (perhaps even per mid-level restart!)
-Got a random miss? Keep going, time to do some damage control!

To avoid catching unskilled newbies in catch-22 situations, easier songs (perhaps 10 and under) won't have credit costs.

Because you have to pay to play, then get your credits back (and then some) for a good combo score, building up to the big purchases like Holy Orders will be much more difficult. This also means that the cost per song would have to be adjusted to the specific song's note count to allow people to "turn a profit" on long combos.

[ninjaKIWI]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

Wipe all credits !! People would be angry for all of two days and then not give a shit because seriously who cares about credits.

[Charu]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

Then I wouldn't be able to play the fantastic Staring at My Spaceship file.

=C

[UserNameGoesHere]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

I think FFR could have more minigames or something. You could both earn and spend credits on them as well. For some reason this idea wasn't popular last time this topic was brought up. I don't know why -- why wouldn't you want to have more games?

I just think there's only so much you can do with just FFR, the game, itself. Why not expand with additional games?

[Untimely Friction]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

Minigames eh... SLOTS~

[igotrhythm]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

I think FFR could have more minigames or something. You could both earn and spend credits on them as well. For some reason this idea wasn't popular last time this topic was brought up. I don't know why -- why wouldn't you want to have more games?

I just think there's only so much you can do with just FFR, the game, itself. Why not expand with additional games?

I think this was the idea in 2007 or so. Token hunting, MeTrivia, vidchat, SIU, R2, multiplayer...truly the site's golden age. Of course, back then we had the active userbase to warrant such expansion. I maintain that the downtime will be something from which we might never fully recover.

[rushyrulz]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

Bring back punch Tass!

[popsicle_3000]

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what was ^^?

[MrPoptart]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

maybe we could "rent" special song packs? =p
or we could just have a song that costs a mill creds to buy.
or more rich sponsored tournies focused more toward lower skilled player (players more likely to need credits)

idk I only have 90k and I haven't even bought all the songs yet. I assume most of the richer players get their cash from tournies?

Edit: punch tass - Pic
winning gave you 15cr, losing took 5, but you were more likely to lose.
everytime he got punched, it sent him a PM

-> Edit: on another forum we had this game where you could steal random amounts of credits from someone, but if you did, your name would go on the list of people able to steal from, and it would send you a PM telling who stole how much from you. we did it for a month iirc and you could only steal from the same person once a day.

[popsicle_3000]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

LMAO that punch tass game. why are all these good things in the past

[icontrolyourworld]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

How about an unlockable genre (100k credits) where veterans can add their own simfiles to the genre (up to a limit, let's say 5 files) and it costs credits to add files to the genre (let's say 10k credits) while it's free to remove your own files. All files added to the genre we should have permission for and anyone who has unlocked the genre (including non vets) can play any of the files added to it.

Just throwing something out there. I don't know how many people this would interest, but it could be cool

[Pseudo Enigma]

Re: Value of the credit and credit sinks

is there even a possibility of this happening? Every time a topic is brought up like this, everyone is on board, and then we have no follow through from the important people.

I don't want to put a hex on the whole thing, I just wanted to point it out so it won't happen again..