Curse

UnKn0wN415 · Feb 09, 2008, 09:16 AM // 09:16

been doing some test run and notice I gotten more SRB when I save my echo...

dont know if that helps but my last 10 games, on the first 5 boxes I gotten an echo and in 3 of them gotten SRB on the next box...

Martin Alvito · Feb 09, 2008, 09:20 AM // 09:20

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Originally Posted by Feathermoore Rep

Currently Yuris has 45 (give or take a few as i may have missed one or added one) top 100 scores. That's just... insane and wrong.

Yuris is very good, and his method is insanely consistent. As I see it, this is a binary solution set: outscore him, or concede that he's better at GW than you are. I'll be shooting for the former; we'll see how the result comes out. (As of right now, the record would indicate that the latter is the case. That said, I've broken 480k quite a few times.)

I don't think he'll dominate the top 100 quite as he is doing now when all is said and done; as more "old-school" runs post, they will push out his weaker runs. Also, he won't post the top time overall.

Martin Alvito · Feb 09, 2008, 09:24 AM // 09:24

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Originally Posted by UnKn0wN415

been doing some test run and notice I gotten more SRB when I save my echo...

dont know if that helps but my last 10 games, on the first 5 boxes I gotten an echo and in 3 of them gotten SRB on the next box...

Two possibilities:

1) Statistical anomaly
2) You fall further behind when you save the echo, and the chances of pulling an SRB go up because you are in 4th/5th/6th instead of 3rd/4th/5th. As with Mario Kart, you get better power ups when you are further behind.

Proff · Feb 09, 2008, 09:26 AM // 09:26

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Originally Posted by Fox Reeveheart

I hope anet takes a look at those scores and not turn a blind eye. Maybe they should make it that you can only recieve one mini? If you happen to beat your old record it replaces the record instead, the old one erases.

It's already only 1 mini per account...

makosi · Feb 09, 2008, 09:26 AM // 09:26

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Originally Posted by VitisVinifera

synching, then everyone else drops out

the /report system obviously fails when everyone else in your race is your friend

That was done last time too. People with multi accounts synch-joined in a desolate district and left their alternate accounts idle and races ahead on their main.

It's a rumour and I can't back it up but it is plausible.

Feathermoore Rep · Feb 09, 2008, 09:31 AM // 09:31

I feel like theres just something so big, i'm missing it. I can win races. Winning is easy. Posting fast times however....i feel like i'm staring at it, but still cant see it.

UnKn0wN415 · Feb 09, 2008, 09:32 AM // 09:32

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Originally Posted by Martin Alvito

Two possibilities:

1) Statistical anomaly
2) You fall further behind when you save the echo, and the chances of pulling an SRB go up because you are in 4th/5th/6th instead of 3rd/4th/5th. As with Mario Kart, you get better power ups when you are further behind.

ya notice when I gotten Echo then SRB was when I was last or 2nd to last...

forgot about Mario Kart theory, used to love staying in the back and mess around...

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Originally Posted by Feathermoore Rep

I feel like theres just something so big, i'm missing it. I can win races. Winning is easy. Posting fast times however....i feel like i'm staring at it, but still cant see it.

looking at the map the when you hit the 4th checkpoint the gap gets longer to the next point and I think thats where you have to make sure you using your skills in the right time...

Lykan · Feb 09, 2008, 09:41 AM // 09:41

You might say its luck with boxes and timing but with that amount of appearences on the board yuris is getting 470+ every time and he is beating old scores. That really must be some good luck. Maybe its lucky aura.
Not one match he gets blocked or kd'd?
Can't help being suspicious.

Navaros · Feb 09, 2008, 10:30 AM // 10:30

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Originally Posted by Martin Alvito

If you blow the doors open and create an obs mode, you might as well give away the beetles by random lottery. If you hold things as they are, it becomes possible for additional players to figure out how to accomplish the objective of making top 100.

Do you think that I, or anyone else, told Yuris Sayuri or Ouija Board how to post times with their radically different method? What they produced is ingenuity. What you propose is a lottery. I know which I prefer. I won't begrudge the former if they hammer me out of the top 100 under the new rules by repeatedly posting better times than I can. I would begrudge the latter; random draw is boring and unimaginative.

I say it's random draw lottery as it is now anyways , but it's a random draw from the very, very small pool of few players who are clued in to the best line and/or other secrets that exploit the map in an ideal way. To have a random draw from such a very small pool of players, in what is intended as a global event for every of the hundred of thousands of players who don't have any chance whatsoever of getting a prize - doesn't seem right.

The ingenuity skills required to uncover the best way to exploit game mechanics on the map should not be the "skills" that are most respected and reward-worthy in regards to rollerbeetle racing. Everyone is not on an even playing field that way. Making the playing field even by outing all the secrets, and then letting actual skill in performing the secrets within the race gameplay determine the winner - those are legitimate gameplay skills that should be respected and fairly determine & reward the winner. Yes the results would be random, but random results in which the whole playerbase has a chance to fairly compete with each other on an even playing field is a lot better than how it is now.

Im Using The Force · Feb 09, 2008, 10:52 AM // 10:52

480+ on only 2 supers huh?
Ill believe it when I see it.

Horus · Feb 09, 2008, 11:13 AM // 11:13

i wish Anet would add rollerbeetle racing as a hall service or someting, so you can race with your friends for fun... like another 100k upgrade. it would so rock to have it to race with guildies/friends or something, might be different track so you cant practice curent one...

anyway, i highly doubt its possible to get 480k+ with 2 SRB only, i got them and was only at around 460k :P (i know, i sux)

Solas · Feb 09, 2008, 11:21 AM // 11:21

if we could spectate matches like in HA matches etc. we would get a better understanding, and if it is luck+ skill they shouldn't mind because kill can't be immatated

also mini's should have been to top 100 unique entrants

MoriaOrc · Feb 09, 2008, 11:41 AM // 11:41

I've gotten 467k a couple times with only 2 SRB (actually 1+echo). I usually do bad in whichever stretch I don't get one in: Tunnel, Hairpin, Loop. I'll buy that someone who gets out with a really strong start and knows how to maintain speed in those areas better then me (not too hard) could get 470k+ on 2 SRB, but the top top times seem like a little extra luck with a third SRB.

N E D M · Feb 09, 2008, 12:26 PM // 12:26

ive had 4 srb in a row and still failed to break 470

tw1tchdp · Feb 09, 2008, 12:31 PM // 12:31

So far i havn't been able to get anything done because massive amounts of noobs like to KD and win 7 stupid tokens.... But stay on the damn path and dnt go in the water. save your boxes you get on lnd till you have both echo and super and you shuold be able to get a great time... if your lucky the last box you get you will get another super and you shuold be set!

Kashrlyyk · Feb 09, 2008, 12:35 PM // 12:35

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Originally Posted by Thor Tyr

I wish you could Practice the Map so that you could see if it is possible to get that fast while no one else is stopping you

This or that:

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Originally Posted by Ancient Menace

Solve this problem by giving us observer mode in Roller Beetle Races. That way, if they are cheating, it'll be blatantly obvious to everyone. If they aren't and know some super secret shortcut that magically only they know, then everyone will know and they won't have the corner on the market (top 100).

Chants: Observer Mode Observer Mode Observer Mode

Rexion · Feb 09, 2008, 12:44 PM // 12:44

they shouldn't allow people to have 10+ scores on the top 100 list..
it should be 1 top score per account. that way more people will get the mini pet from the event, and less QQ will happen.

N E D M · Feb 09, 2008, 12:46 PM // 12:46

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Originally Posted by Rexion

they shouldn't allow people to have 10+ scores on the top 100 list..
it should be 1 top score per account. that way more people will get the mini pet from the event, and less QQ will happen.

Hey thats a good idea!
I'm suprised nobody suggested this already...

Tarkin · Feb 09, 2008, 12:54 PM // 12:54

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Originally Posted by N E D M

ive had 4 srb in a row and still failed to break 470

Power without control is nothing...

Tarkin · Feb 09, 2008, 12:58 PM // 12:58

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Originally Posted by Rexion

they shouldn't allow people to have 10+ scores on the top 100 list..
it should be 1 top score per account. that way more people will get the mini pet from the event, and less QQ will happen.

Dont mather how many high scores you have in top 100, the acount will win only 1 mini pet, and the outsiders off top 100 will bump and receive a mini pet... its a old fact...