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Envoy · Feb 17, 2007, 07:09 PM // 19:09

skarkees said that:
They should make it the first 1000 or 10000. or the first 100 of this hour.

/agree

I agree on top 10,000 ...." let me see theres 3 mill plus players and .. hmm..ill make an event where only.. well... 100 players get a special prize that will be worth a lot(maybe) .. hmm makes sense and despite all my efforts to balance the markets ... hmm ... yeah 100 sounds good. "

No offense anet fun minigame to play and cool that there will be prizes, but all those people who want a prize and are trying hour after hour to get one and no "luck" is comming there way, some things wrong. So personal I think you screwed up on this mini game.

Again my opnion, and heres a tip for if your in last, sit on boxes till you get echo and super.

Moochy · Feb 17, 2007, 08:32 PM // 20:32

I seem to get echo and the distaction skill the most. I save the echo for dual super beetle. Which I usually get so far late in, that I cant use the 20 seconds I get before finishing. Bummer.

juicetoocool17 · Feb 17, 2007, 09:03 PM // 21:03

Please add these things, it will tell you all you have to do to win

At the beggining right when you start moving use the 2 skill and 3 skill at the same time, it will knockdown close foes and put you ahead of everyone. As soon as 3 runs out, use 1.
When you do this, make sure you cut the angles perfectly, if you have done it right, you will be infront of everyone.

From here you should be in first place everytime (works for me) you have 2 options :

Be cool and win the good way, play out with skill while using your skills at inteligent times this inculdes :
Use skill 2 before others will hit you, you can target the nearest beatle with c.
Use 3 and 1 all the time when you are not knocked down, and before every checkpoint.
Only get close boxes, and take the shortest paths.
This will also cause other people that are going for the box(which is usually almost everyone) to get rubbered/blocked and get them mad (and they dont move while they rubber, on the contrary, they go backwards ^^)
Method 2 (Warning Extremely LAME and not recommended but will win you 90% of the time if used right)
You are in first place, take a right at the first opptional path, and go on the box behind the rock. Stay there, dont move untill you have the super rollerbeatle (8) and Echo (6).
Then move again, use skill 6, then use 8, then once 8 runs out, use your next check pointed skills (3)+(2) then once 3 is out use 1, then when 1 is out use 6.
You are now in the lead by a huge amount, and if you play it smart, good game.

Bbickford · Feb 17, 2007, 09:12 PM // 21:12

One thing that I like to try and do, is save my echo for a super rollerbeetle. By doing this i have been able to use super rollerbeetle 4 times in one game. But as everyone has said, with all the knock downs it is hard to get ranked

juicetoocool17 · Feb 17, 2007, 09:45 PM // 21:45

Just cut corners perfectly, but not so close as to get rubbered, and hope not to get lamed, thats all you can do.

the doomgiver · Feb 17, 2007, 10:23 PM // 22:23

some people have got there names on the leaderboard more than once! OMG!!!!! i think its more than luck to do this, this has got to require extreme skill

Draikin · Feb 17, 2007, 10:55 PM // 22:55

After hours of racing I haven't seen any opponent get more than 460k in any race and I've only gotten up to 462k myself now. I've tried box-camping but I never get the echo-SRB combo fast enough, or there's always something going wrong (several opponents using KD skills on you, sudden lag warping you back,...).

Some things I noticed that may help others: like someone already said even when SRB runs out your speed won't drop that fast so at that point I use Rollerbeetle Dash to keep the same speed up for another 5 seconds. From what I've seen RBD isn't much use when going uphill, it only helps not to slow down in that case. SRB on the other hand will let you go at full speed even when going uphill and still goes reasonably fast through water. The speedboost given by Ram is useful, but when it ends you seem to drop back to the same speed you had when it started. For example I try to use it on the rocky area before check point 3, where you would slow down considerably otherwise. Ram doesn't seem to give any speedboost when you're in the water, so there's not much point in using it there.

Iscana · Feb 17, 2007, 11:37 PM // 23:37

About the quests you can do. There is one quest which is bugged. In Monastary you can accept a quest where you have to scare away 5 groups of enemies in a village. So what the quest asks is:

- buy 5 fireworks

So I had a Campagne popper and a sparkle and 3 rockets, so the quest said I had 5, np I thought and went out to do the quest.

I scares away 3 groups and then the quests said I failed, because I need 3 more fireworks. So for some reason suddenly the campagne popper and sparkle didn't count. Went back, bought 3 more rockets and did it again, and again bugged because while the quest says you need 5 fireworks, it means you need 5 rockets and nothing else. This discription is mission, that it only needs rockets and nothing else, or its bugged that it doesn't count the champagne popper and sparkle to finish the quest but counts it to max firework you carry.

So to fix: buy 5 rockets and do the quest.

Maybe Anet has to update this problem.

Draikin · Feb 18, 2007, 12:16 AM // 00:16

I finally reached the top 100 with a score of 468,360 (ranked #71 now) but I fear it's not going to be enough... The only problem is I used no less than 4 SRB's during that race to get that score (got lucky with a dual echo + SRB) , so I still don't understand how some people can get that score with just one echo + SRB

namkey · Feb 18, 2007, 12:47 AM // 00:47

I hope this does not come back to bite me on the arse.

Pink: Dash
Orange: Ram
Red: SRB

If you dont get the combo in the water before 47 seconds, you have very little chance of making top 100.

I will be away for a few hours from now, so don't expect any responses. Also, please stop contacting me in game. I enjoy being popular, but a request for help every minute or two gets a tad annoying.

Edit: Gate 5 is out by a bit, but yuo know anyway ;P, use that dash just before the gate. I also got one ram wrong, I put it as just before gate 6, bu you use it at the top of the bridges to get over without losing speed.

Feathermoore Rep · Feb 18, 2007, 12:53 AM // 00:53

Wow thats pretty close to the track i run, and i usually win with. (not top100 anyway) :-p

Draikin · Feb 18, 2007, 01:16 AM // 01:16

Thanks for the walkthrough namkey, it's similar to what I run but I do try to get two more bonuses (the one after gate 3 and the one before gate 6), perhaps I'm losing too much time there. One question though, at the top of the hill before gate 5 why do you use ram instead of dash? From what I've seen dash will increase your speed to maximum unlike ram where your speed actually goes down when going downhill.

namkey · Feb 18, 2007, 01:18 AM // 01:18

CAuse I use dash later to keep the speed up over a longer period. Ram speed boost drops quick after i expires, but dash drops slowly. You spread it out to give your speed a little poke upwards at the most effecient times.

LordDeArnise · Feb 18, 2007, 05:10 AM // 05:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maxiemonster

If only it was this simple, I got Superbeetle twice in the same runs, but got knocked down twice, so I still didn't get a high score... It's all a matter of chance, and the chance of getting 470K+ is very small.

470k means the player had a 'perfect' run. He wasn't knocked down, he had minimal lag, if any, he had a 'perfect' racing line, and he got plenty of super rollerbeetle powerups which the player can double at times with echo.

Some people say that such players took high risks by hogging the power-up crates. While, to me, it is a tactic to tie up a crate, it does stall the player. It's better, IMO, to keep racing.

I hear that some people are complaining that battling for the win does affect scoring. Remember, that this is PvP, and winners do get Balth Faction pts, with everyone getting gamer points.

Quote:

Originally Posted by the doomgiver

some people have got there names on the leaderboard more than once! OMG!!!!! i think its more than luck to do this, this has got to require extreme skill

It's more than pure skill, it's also luck.

Asrial · Feb 18, 2007, 10:25 AM // 10:25

namkey, if you do not win this event I will personally give you 50 plat for doing what you did

It's TREMENDOUSLY helped my game and I've come close!

Twice I've had 466 but both times I got screwed up bad.

The first time I got glitched halfway through and thought my skills were gone or I was lagging so I wasn't using dash and ram when they were just greyed out but still active.

The second time through I was flying and then lagged back a few seconds.

Blah!

Corinthian · Feb 18, 2007, 10:56 AM // 10:56

Since I got knocked down while Harden Shell was active, I won't be playing this atrocity anymore.

godot · Feb 18, 2007, 05:23 PM // 17:23

Namkey, thanks for the great map and tips. Btw, have you placed in the top 100 with any other characters? I'm curious if it would be possible for a single account to win multiple prizes.

At this moment there are only 61 unique players in the top 100 all-time roster and only around 80 unique players if you include the top 100 daily scores. In other words, if the contest ended now there would be at least 20 winners who haven't shown up on any roster. Let's assume that ArenaNet is keeping track of many more than just 100 high scores. It's just a shame we don't get to see who they all are.

namkey · Feb 18, 2007, 05:27 PM // 17:27

Nah, havent tried with another character. If I get time tomorrow, I'll give it a go, but with the quality of the top 100 scores now, it'd take a hell of a lot of luck to get another time up there. had a few good chances ruined by lag tonight or by someone way in the distance blacking me out at a critical moment.

Anyway, currently 8 times in the top 100, but by the time this is over, at the rate big scores are coming in, I think I'll be lucky to have 2 times in the top 100.

Just one thing I have changed in my style. I save the ram till the water boxes, to help me move through the water and pick up the two boxes quicker and get out of the water quick. If you get a super early combo (ie 45 seconds), you can still make the top 100 with no further boosts, if absolutely everything goes perfect and you may need to skip the box before the loop bridge as it is a little out of the way. If you get a second echo or SRB though, you should definately make it, if you can avoid lag that is.

Oh, and finally. Good night. I'm in for 5 1/2 hours sleep. So addictive. Hope I awke up to see as many of you as possible in the top 100, with me still there at the end of course.

Brandon1107 · Feb 18, 2007, 05:30 PM // 17:30

most i got was 460k =( not good enough.

2 super beetles with an echo, and another super beetle was no knock downs.

oh well, maybe next year.

Dragou Du Porzan · Feb 18, 2007, 07:42 PM // 19:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by namkey

I hope this does not come back to bite me on the arse.

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namkey, my hat is off to you. I imagine very few people would risk their own reward to give others a shot at a prize. I've just achieved a top 100 score, and I can say without a doubt I would never have been able to do that without your assistance. I hope people take note of your selflessness and that it rubs off; more good deeds like this can only be a good thing for GW in general. And if by some tragedy you find yourself knocked out of the Top 100, I will gladly turn whatever prize I may win over to you.

As far as what I can add to nameky's guide, I've also started using my ram right before I hit the water boxes so that I can maintain speed while grabbing them. After that it depends on how quickly I get the Echo-SRB combo. If it's fast (under :50 into the race) I won't bother going for any more boxes for the rest of the race; instead, I'll just take the shortest lines I can (this is how I achieved my two top 100 times). If I get the combo after :50 into the race, I'll hit the boxes. If I snag another SRB, I save it until I hit gate 6.

Now I'm going to see if I can "pay it forward" by farming some ingredients for the chefs. Maybe I can make some people in need of piggies happy. Thanks again namkey!