"Next Piece" Player Spotlight Nominations

MarioThePhenom · January 26, 2012, 01:05:39 PM

39.88-36.43 40L
dig challenge nullpo:3:35-3:37minutes
dig race(18L)28.18- 22.20
dig race(10L) 11.33-8.65
went from S1 113 in TGM3 to S2 297(sudden TI texmaster)
S1-S3 special TI(texmaster)
taught myself how to use 180 rotation

XaeL · January 26, 2012, 05:30:36 PM

Quote from: MarioThePhenom
39.88-36.43 40L
dig challenge nullpo:3:35-3:37minutes
dig race(18L)28.18- 22.20
dig race(10L) 11.33-8.65
went from S1 113 in TGM3 to S2 297(sudden TI texmaster)
S1-S3 special TI(texmaster)
taught myself how to use 180 rotation

ur ti scores make no sense. if u can get s2 in sudden ti u can get like s5 or s6+ in special Ti.

tjenyao · January 27, 2012, 03:59:02 AM

I'm not posting here until I sub-30 for 40L. Which will take AGES.

MarioThePhenom · January 27, 2012, 06:13:20 AM

Quote from: XaeL
ur ti scores make no sense. if u can get s2 in sudden ti u can get like s5 or s6+ in special Ti.

really? i was only clearing singles and things like that for sudden ti.
ill give special TI another go after exams, and see if i hit s5 or s6

ohitsstef · January 28, 2012, 08:27:14 AM

POTM submissions for January is now closed - I will make a poll thread soon.

Profane · January 30, 2012, 07:21:35 PM

woot woot. went from 34.73 and just crushed my record with 33.28 in one game. woot woot.

Confugal · February 01, 2012, 03:31:48 PM

971 on Special TI (600-700 yesterday), but it didn't even give me a S1 because I played so damned slow. Only a 2, haha.

Bugger.

MarioThePhenom · February 01, 2012, 03:56:22 PM

Quote from: Confugal
971 on Special TI (600-700 yesterday), but it didn't even give me a S1 because I played so damned slow. Only a 2, haha.

Bugger.

hahah wow, really? why were you playing so sloww?

Confugal · February 01, 2012, 05:02:39 PM

Quote from: MarioThePhenom
hahah wow, really? why were you playing so sloww?

0-400 were quickly played (1:10, IIRC).
Everything after that was teediddledum let's have fun with rainbows and ponies!

XaeL · February 01, 2012, 05:43:05 PM

Quote from: Confugal
971 on Special TI (600-700 yesterday), but it didn't even give me a S1 because I played so damned slow. Only a 2, haha.

Bugger.

I've never gotten past 700 because i get all the Cool's and then its too fast and i die. Well i got to 980 once, when i intentionally softdropped every piece. Tahts when i found out that the speed increases based on cools T_T.

Dont u get +10 ranks for finishing game? i.e. play game slow, get S1 but pass it so it becomes M1? :O

I'm pretty sure my rank will jump from like s7 ish to m6 or m7, since i'm basically just dying isntantly at the speedcap, and once i get it i'll pass the game and be a happy chappy.

Kitaru · February 01, 2012, 06:24:21 PM

Quote from: XaeLDont u get +10 ranks for finishing game? i.e. play game slow, get S1 but pass it so it becomes M1? :O

No. The Cools are added when the game ends, successfully or otherwise. If you get 9 Cools, you get +9. If you get no Cools, you get zip.

MarioThePhenom · February 01, 2012, 06:57:47 PM

Quote from: Kitaru
No. The Cools are added when the game ends, successfully or otherwise. If you get 9 Cools, you get +9. If you get no Cools, you get zip.

i finally get it

Confugal · February 01, 2012, 07:08:08 PM

I did have cools that game, but I had a damned lot of regrets too (guess they cancelled out). I had no clue getting more cools sped up the play. So much to learn!

XaeL · February 02, 2012, 12:08:49 AM

Quote from: Kitaru
No. The Cools are added when the game ends, successfully or otherwise. If you get 9 Cools, you get +9. If you get no Cools, you get zip.

what do u get if u get 0 cools and pass the game (0 regrets)

It's based off tetris'es too right?

Cant remember the formula.

basically i'm wondering if i can play super slow, pass the game and then get an m-rank.

Kitaru · February 02, 2012, 12:36:31 AM

Quote from: ConfugalI did have cools that game, but I had a damned lot of regrets too (guess they cancelled out). I had no clue getting more cools sped up the play. So much to learn!

Yeah, a Cool skips an entire section of the speedcurve. 0-999 defaults to TGM2's speedcurve, but the Cools launch you into the TGM3 specific speed levels. The time for getting at least one Cool is fairly lenient and there is no way to rank down on the speedcurve, so TGM3's Master is much less beginner-friendly than the previous games and there isn't really anything in the game bridging the gap between Easy and Master...

Quote from: XaeLwhat do u get if u get 0 cools and pass the game (0 regrets)

It's based off tetris'es too right?

Cant remember the formula.

basically i'm wondering if i can play super slow, pass the game and then get an m-rank.

It breaks down like this:
+TAP Grading (max S9)
+Cools - Regrets (out of 9 possible each)
+Credit Roll Bonus

Ti plays a lot faster so it may be possible to preempt some of the traditional scoring walls, but here is how it works in TAP: solid 0-500 all but guarantees a grade of 1, sufficient tetrises or triples by 750 should earn at least S4, and (assuming the previous) every two tetrises after 750 earns one grade. (This is an abstraction of the actual underlying system, but there is always the wiki if you really want the nitty gritty, haha.)

So let's say you figure out how to both max out your TAP grade as well as avoid any and all Cool/Regret grading. Going into the fading roll with S9, only one grade stands between you and m1. Given the fading roll grade formula, this breaks down to either a) 25 normal line clears and fail, b) 13 normal line clears and survive, c) 4 tetrises and fail, d) 2 tetrises and survive, or any other mish-mash of things that add up to at least 1.0 given the chart on the wiki.

Now, if you wanted to avoid all Cools and then get a Capital M for Master rank, we would talking about some TAS-level impossibility. You can make up for missing a couple and still reasonably get M or a bit higher, though.