3rd Style timing suggestion

[Exag0n]

So, as a preamble, here is my understanding of R1 timing:

The game runs at 30 fps, and arrows lie in certain frames. Timing for these frames is as follows:

Average
Good
Perfect
Perfect
Perfect
Good

My suggestion is to change this up slightly... to say:

Average
Good
Perfect
Flashing Perfect
Perfect
Good

A few pros of this setup:

• Allows more differentiation between scores. Especially in tournament situations, it would eliminate the need to have tie-breaks resulting from AAA-ties.
• Some experienced players would enjoy the game much more if they could see a better breakdown of the timing. As well, players would probably improve faster.
• One could give bonuses (whether in the form of credits or additional score) to players who AAA depending on the number of FPs they get. Of course, regular scores would be calculated just in terms of perfects, but there could be a "subscore" (kind of like IIDX's EX score) to help differentiate scores.

[jimerax]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

I like this idea.

Flashing perfects (or Marvelous) shouldn't affect the score, but will appear in the result screen for an indication of your accuracy.

[Shashakiro]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

the problem with this in 30FPS is that it's impossible to actually time that middle perf window (trust me, IMPOSSIBLE), unless the BPM is one of those special ones, like 150 or 225. For example, on Gradeus, you'd basically get a flashing perf every other note if you hit it EXACTLY onbeat.

So this wouldn't really work with 30 FPS. Maybe if the FPS increases for 3rd style.

[Doug31]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

Ya, if it were this way with how things currently are, you really would have to go da--da-da--da-da--da... or whatever at certain bpm like shash said streams really are. I really hope the fps is increased in 3rd style.

[ieatyourlvllol]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

This would be a very nice idea if the FPS happened to be raised to 60 or so.

The base score in R1 (the one that isn't used in the DB) should be converted to the subscore you mentioned. However, the subscore should not affect rank.

That's pretty much it, imo.

[dawg4321]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

great idea, as long as it doesn't effect the actual score. AAA's are unique to ffr, making them AAAA's just turns this closer to stepmania.

[Rebirth0]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

FPS should be raised to 100. Makes it a lot easier to sync.

[MixMasterLar]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

FPS should be raised to 100. Makes it a lot easier to sync.

I hope your joking, after all, this IS a flash game.

Im for uppin' the fps, and the new timing idea.

[Tps222]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

Synth won't want to alienate the large amount of users who do not have computers or connections capable of running at 100 fps, but perhaps a slight increase wouldn't hurt.

[wickedawesomeful]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

Synth won't want to alienate the large amount of users who do not have computers or connections capable of running at 100 fps, but perhaps a slight increase wouldn't hurt.

You could have a lo-res version at 30 fps, and a hi-res version at 100 fps.

[Tasselfoot]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

don't forget that for every change like that, it means 2x the work on each and every song.

100fps would be nice.... but it would increase my time spent on adding each level from about 5 minutes to about 10.

[sertman]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

don't forget that for every change like that, it means 2x the work on each and every song.

100fps would be nice.... but it would increase my time spent on adding each level from about 5 minutes to about 10.

If you only do it once a week, you'll probably live.

[Doug31]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

Once per week, plus once more for every single song that will be in the game by then, which will be a lot more than there are now, which would be a ton of time. Let's say there will be 500 songs in FFR by then. 10 minutes x 5000=5000 minutes, which is 83 1/3 hours I think.

[rickz0rz]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

Is 100 FPS even feasible?

Must computer monitors run between 60-75Hz. If you have the flash file running faster then the computer monitor's refresh rate, you are going to see the flash movie have a horrible flicker due to a refresh in-between monitor refreshes.

I have yet to test this out, but that's what I would presume would happen.

[Idonnoimconfused]

Re: 3rd Style timing suggestion

I'd say 60 fps is a good number to shoot for.