Too much button mashing?

[windsurfer-sp]

I was wondering if there is an "ethical" limit on how much you should button mash?

I have been passing killer songs by practically non-stop button mashing and was wondering if it is wrong? In songs like max-forever i can get upto 1000 boo's and in other songs around 2/3 minutes long i can rack up 600 boo's.

Im not just closing my eyes and hoping for the best but I am roughly working out what i should be trying to hit but I always have a hell of a lot of boo's.

I know that I can not pass a lot of songs if there were larger penalties for button mashing (Like in Stepmania). Can i please have your opinon?

[Jammer325]

Re: Too much button mashing?

meh, as long as you don't post screenies of how good you did with a score that has a load of boos in it most probably wouldn't care / know about it. As you get better at reading the notes you'll find that you have to mash less, and that you get less boos.

[T0rajir0u]

Re: Too much button mashing?

passing doesn't mean anything on ffr. you gain the same amount of life hitting a perfect as you lose by missing. this is much more lenient than ddr or sm.

[windsurfer-sp]

Re: Too much button mashing?

passing doesn't mean anything on ffr. you gain the same amount of life hitting a perfect as you lose by missing. this is much more lenient than ddr or sm.

Because FFR is so easy on boo's im wondering if there is an ethical limit?

[T0rajir0u]

Re: Too much button mashing?

there isn't an ethical limit because passes don't mean anything. x.x

[windsurfer-sp]

Re: Too much button mashing?

there isn't an ethical limit because passes don't mean anything. x.x

Fair enough, I get your point because passing doesn't count then it dosen't matter whethier you button mash or not.

[Dronak]

Re: Too much button mashing?

Maybe passing doesn't mean much, or anything, but it's the first step for me to improving in a song. I don't intentionally mash the keys either, just pound away and hope for the best, but on streams that are fast enough, that's almost what I end up doing. I can't separate the notes well enough and move my fingers fast enough to hit them very accurately. I try, but I end up hitting a few notes and missing a few. Sometimes I hit enough to pass, sometimes I don't. Most of the time, if I have serious problems with a song, I won't play it much. I go back to working on lower level songs and trying to improve there first. (I'm not that good, so I have plenty of room for improvement, if I want to work on it.) However, I do like to play some of the harder songs now and then just to see if I can make any progress on them. Sometimes I try them just for fun to see just how difficult they are, knowing I'm going to fail really fast.

I guess if no one thinks much of passing a song, no one's really going to care if you mash or not. Like Jammer325 said, you probably wouldn't want to advertise it as a great result if you do it though. But for me, I need to pass the song and see the whole thing before I have a chance at doing even better on it, so it passing have some meaning for me. I don't advertise most of my scores though because I know they're pretty bad compared to many people here.

[windsurfer-sp]

Re: Too much button mashing?

Maybe passing doesn't mean much, or anything, but it's the first step for me to improving in a song. I don't intentionally mash the keys either, just pound away and hope for the best, but on streams that are fast enough, that's almost what I end up doing. I can't separate the notes well enough and move my fingers fast enough to hit them very accurately. I try, but I end up hitting a few notes and missing a few. Sometimes I hit enough to pass, sometimes I don't. Most of the time, if I have serious problems with a song, I won't play it much. I go back to working on lower level songs and trying to improve there first. (I'm not that good, so I have plenty of room for improvement, if I want to work on it.) However, I do like to play some of the harder songs now and then just to see if I can make any progress on them. Sometimes I try them just for fun to see just how difficult they are, knowing I'm going to fail really fast.

I guess if no one thinks much of passing a song, no one's really going to care if you mash or not. Like Jammer325 said, you probably wouldn't want to advertise it as a great result if you do it though. But for me, I need to pass the song and see the whole thing before I have a chance at doing even better on it, so it passing have some meaning for me. I don't advertise most of my scores though because I know they're pretty bad compared to many people here.

You sound just like the situation im in but instead of just passing I have gotten a couple of songs in the top 5000 through button mashing. I guess in time I wont have to button mash to get thoose scores. Until then I think I will button mash away

[Tasselfoot]

Re: Too much button mashing?

The other end of the spectrum... back in the day I got ~1400 combo on Silence with about 1400 boos. 100% pure mashing. And to this day that is my HS. And it is ranked 98th. Without mashing, the best I've done is about a 400 combo...

So, if you are highly concerned with rank, then mashing is acceptable to me. But in terms of brags... it isn't really.

[Jammer325]

Re: Too much button mashing?

The other end of the spectrum... back in the day I got ~1400 combo on Silence with about 1400 boos. 100% pure mashing. And to this day that is my HS. And it is ranked 98th. Without mashing, the best I've done is about a 400 combo...

So, if you are highly concerned with rank, then mashing is acceptable to me. But in terms of brags... it isn't really.

I love how you still posted screenies though

[Dronak]

Re: Too much button mashing?

You sound just like the situation im in but instead of just passing I have gotten a couple of songs in the top 5000 through button mashing. I guess in time I wont have to button mash to get thoose scores. Until then I think I will button mash away

You must be better than me then. I don't think any of the songs I barely pass rank that high. There could be exceptions for songs that rarely get played, I don't know. I think they're usually ranked 10000+. But yes, it seems like we're doing similar things. Hopefully eventually we'll both get good enough to get through those hard parts without msahing.

[windsurfer-sp]

Re: Too much button mashing?

If Tass does it then i will

One day Dronoak one day!

[sleeplessdragn]

Re: Too much button mashing?

If Tass does it then i will

One day Dronoak one day!

This is bad logic. Very bad logic.

[windsurfer-sp]

Re: Too much button mashing?

Why all logic should be bassed aroround Tasselfoot right?

[Tasselfoot]

Re: Too much button mashing?

Well... to be fair, I amost entirely did it 2+ years ago. Recently I've not only not been doing it (much), I've gotten good enough to pass my old mashing scores with non-mashed scores.