October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

[Dinglesberry]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

Check out vertex Beta vrofl, it's a 255 difficulty song lol

I wonder what rank you would be if your #1 score was a AAA on vrofl

[Charu]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

Probably the level of BANNED in all caps

[rayword45]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

If we have reactive tapping, can we make OMGWTFT0K3N and The Wises Were Wrong playable on R^3?

Heck, even if the mod doesn't really apply that much to the latter, they should be playable even if it means disabling score recording or something.

[Walrusizer]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

Check out vertex Beta vrofl, it's a 255 difficulty song lol

I wonder what rank you would be if your #1 score was a AAA on vrofl

you would be rank 1

[Precarious]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

Two questions regarding the new tokens system.

For Sifon/Fall/Happy Rainbow, are they based on Average Rank or Skill Rating? It says Average, but if that's the case, they don't appear to be unlocking properly.

The Coactive token still uses the 99-difficulty scale in its description. How is that going to work now?

Anyway, this update was fantastic. Glad to see everything implemented.

[XelNya]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

Cool update frens though with the volume slider please tell me that option saves so we don't have to redo it every time we load the engine XD

[Dinglesberry]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

Cool update frens though with the volume slider please tell me that option saves so we don't have to redo it every time we load the engine XD

All engine settings are output through the below php call, the engine POSTs it and builds your settings from the response (response is unique based on what account is logged in), so I'd figure it isn't saving, since it doesn't seem to appear in here.

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...3-userInfo.php

Regarding adding it:

I guess it would be a matter of outputting your setting there as well, and then also updating the method that builds options in the engine, I'm just guessing though.

EDIT: I dunno, I can't even figure out where the game actually loads your info lol, looking at the engine, probably easier said than done.
EDIT2: nvm its what I thought, I think, it's all in da Users.as.... ;O

Edit: a suggestion as well, i think it would be cool to be able to increase volume above 1

[scoper49]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

The Skill Rating formula has been improved. Is that actually explained further in detail anywhere? I went up like 80 in rank so I'd like to know how I improved.

Edit: Apparently the update also bumped me into D5 when before I was I think level 64. (Far away from D5 relatively.)

[Trumpet63]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

The Skill Rating formula has been improved. Is that actually explained further in detail anywhere? I went up like 80 in rank so I'd like to know how I improved.

Edit: Apparently the update also bumped me into D5 when before I was I think level 64. (Far away from D5 relatively.)

The specific changes to the skill rating formula aren't explained anywhere yet. As soon as I get around to it I can give PrawnSkunk the new numbers to go in the OP of the skill rating thread. But knowing the new formula probably isn't very helpful, so I'll try to explain a bit of what happened:

Since the new difficulty system is a bit more well-thought-out, the actual difficulty scales more consistently with the difficulty number. This means that my formula had an easier time matching itself to what we believe to be the correct AAA equivalents. During this process I also made some changes to the formula that I think will make scores with good counts greater than 15 not be rated as low as before. The goal of the formula change was really to keep everything mostly the same, just scaled up a bit. It turns out that that didn't quite happen, and the general shape of the formula changed a bit. As a result, I expect that there will be some edge cases of people that moved up or down a lot of ranks unduly, and if a correction needs to be made I'll work on it. In general though, I'm not the one who can tell you for sure whether your skill rating is too high. It's possible that it was too low before, and now it's fixed. So I'll have to rely on the users to point out inconsistencies and the expert staff to determine whether those inconsistencies are significant.

[PhantomPuppy]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

ooh, im above level 90 now. i like the sound of that

[scoper49]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

Well I actually looked at my ranks after I posted. I'm not sure how much the formula affected me. The fact that my #1 ranked song went from a 76 to an 86? I think bumped me up a lot where most of the other songs stayed about the same level. Not really complaining about going up in rank but I'm definitely not capable of competing in D5 competitively.

[Trumpet63]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

The fact that my #1 ranked song went from a 76 to an 86

On average a 76 difficulty in the old system converts to an 82 difficulty in the new system. Plus, given that your top score is a 14-1-2-0, that's equivalent to 20.6 goods, so I would expect that that score was pushed too far down by the old formula, which is why it has now risen to the top.

EDIT: Also an obligatory disclaimer: Skill rating is not a perfect substitute for the actual division placement process.

[Son Paimon]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

Is the lag I'm getting in the game now part of some update?

Edit: As of right now, still, FFR is unplayable. For the first 10 seconds, there are no arrows. Then they speed past and I fail the song. x.x Not even just me but some of my friends as well.

[Gradiant]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

Is the lag I'm getting in the game now part of some update?

Edit: As of right now, still, FFR is unplayable. For the first 10 seconds, there are no arrows. Then they speed past and I fail the song. x.x Not even just me but some of my friends as well.

Game works perfectly fine on my end. Only thing I'm getting is the actual site taking an obnoxiously long time to load anything at all

[Son Paimon]

Re: October 2016 Site Updates Discussion

Game works perfectly fine on my end. Only thing I'm getting is the actual site taking an obnoxiously long time to load anything at all

Had to delete cookies and what not. Now the game is playable. Odd, so random.