Gamewhore Competition #2 - Lowest Average Rank

[justin_ator]

Re: Gamewhore Competition #2 - Lowest Average Rank

Hey, is there any way to make these accounts without having to make a new email?

[GWC_Beethovens Mask]

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Hey, is there any way to make these accounts without having to make a new email?

No. Just make a new email. Takes about 5 seconds.

[EDEdDNEdDYFaN]

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Hmm...which songs are worth more in terms of average rank...secret or purchased.

anyones strategy would probably be - Get as many credits as you can while going through the songlists and then play as many secret songs as possible before the time limit before purchasing the more higher ranked songs (stay with me, neomax) and playing those.

[GWC_justin_ator]

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Hm, okay.

[dancefloorkilla]

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Meh, that's what I was going to do. just go through all the song list and play them out. Easy songs should get you up there fairly quick =p

[ncmhp]

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My first post =)

I won't be taking part in this, as I have something on that day, but here's what I would suggest, for those of you with programming (scripting language) abilities:

-Start a new account. Take note of the levelranks of everything.
-Write a script that probes every single song and find out the song length (the length's given in the song's page).
-Divide the (levelrank - 1) by the length. This tells you roughly how much rank you are getting per second on that song, assuming you AAA.
-Sort in decreasing order.

Of course, this assumes that you *will* AAA the song, but I suppose you can always correct for that during the actual competition itself.

After all, the key limiting factor here is time, not skill (assuming you're sufficiently skillful), because I don't think 24 hours is sufficient time to play every song in the game - could be wrong, though.

[GWC_MahouMinachan]

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The only thing annoying about this is the non-sub for this name.

[Xx{Midday}xX]

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Who thinks I can cut a AAA on every VC or lower song in 4 hours?

I don't... =(, damn why did this have to be on my concert day?

I WANNA PLAY I WANNA I WANNA I Wanna i wanna ... T_T

[GWC2_Kynosaur]

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Tass, is this username ok? Seeing as GWC_Kynosaur and GWC_ Kynosaur are taken -.-

EDIT: Oh and also, can we start getting Tokens and Skill tokens before the competition starts? Or do we have to wait for that too?

[ieatyourlvllol]

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forgot about loading time

maybe i should preload all the songs lol

This^

Doing so is even more important for those with slower connections.

[MahouMinachan]

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meh, I probably won't do this... but we'll see

[ieatyourlvllol]

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Theoretically, you could gamble up to ~130k credits and get every purchased/secret song, and AAA them all in 1 try in 24 hours (Total length of all public songs is 22:52:37 right now, but I'd add 10-12 mins for the next round's songs in the official tournament). However, actually doing so would require both insane gambling luck and skill more godly than anyone on FFR currently has.

It's still an interesting bit of trivia though.

Tass hasn't yet established any restriction on transferring credits. Until then, I'd assume that would be the quick fix for obtaining secret songs.

With less than one hour (or 3,600 seconds) and around a thousand public songs, for each one (assuming you play once and FC with decent PA) you would have to average below 3.6 seconds to get from the results screen to the next song. Under the estimate of about a second or so to get to the sort menu, you have roughly two seconds to look around and click. Of course, the beginning songs would be located more quickly than those at the end, so you would have about 1 second from the start of the former and 3 seconds from end of the latter (with everything in between being theoretically distributed evenly).

That being said, I highly doubt anyone will manage to play every song.

One crucial thing to bear in mind for participants is that this competition will not be about AAA'ing. With most songs bearing an initial rank in the tens of thousands, any song left untouched by the competition's conclusion will add a significant (or more specifically, initial rank / # of public songs) to the player's average. Ten AR points may not seem like much, but that translates to 10,000 ranks. To compensate for that, a player would have to score an average of ~10 ranks better than otherwise on EVERY SINGLE SONG.

Example:

Suppose FFR has 1,000 ranked public songs.

P1 has played 1,000 songs.
P2 has played 990 songs.

They both score an average of 100 on songs played.
On the 10 untouched songs, P2 has an average rank of 10,000.

P1 has 100,000 total rank points.
P2 has 99,000 + 10 * 10,000 = 199,000 total rank points.

The difference is 99,000 rank points distributable over 990 songs.

The average rank shift needed to offset the loss is therefore 99,000 / 990 = 100 average rank points.

What that means is, in order to simply tie P1 (who gets a rank of about 100 on every song), P2 has to get a rank-0 on every single song he/she plays. That player would need nine-hundred ninety rank-0's. He/she would need 990 rank-0's. That's as many as ninety-nine tens. And that's terrible.

It looks like P2 should have tried to play those ten extra songs. >_>

[GWC_LupineDreamer]

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Got mine in before this mystery assailant could get to my account name. Not like many people know me on this site anyways

Besides that...I like my new avatar

SCARY CAT IS SCARY

I'm getting ready to break out my keg of Mountain Dew. Bring it!

[Professor Plum]

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stuff

The quick find menu can be ordered by difficulty, thus you have every song that you really need to play in order to get your average rank down.

[Skelerex]

Re: Gamewhore Competition #2 - Lowest Average Rank

Tass hasn't yet established any restriction on transferring credits.

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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.