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Amiga.org specific forums => Amiga.org Discussion and Site Feedback => Topic started by: Wayne on August 13, 2009, 04:48:46 PM
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Sitting here looking at the arcade, and I'm wondering if it's time to level the playing field by way of resetting the scores.
Might be good to get people back into playing harder. Whattaya think?
Wayne
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Do what to the whatnow?
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Do what to the whatnow?
Sorry, didn't realize English was confusing...
"What do the players in the arcade think about resetting the scores in order to give everyone better motivation to keep playing?"
Work better?
:)
Wayne
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what arcade? what scores?
edit: oh! found it :-)
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No problem here Wayne :)
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fine with me... Also could you block X-ray from playing anymore! ;)
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"....fine with me... Also could you block X-ray from playing anymore!....."
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Noooooooooooo, you can't do that to me just because I am good!
Well if the scores are reset, it won't make a difference. Adz and I will still have an ongoing Mahjong battle, Ilwrath and Sandy will own the Tetris, and I'll definitely own the Asteroids.
You guys gotta take me down sometime, whether it is now or later ;)
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Wayne, a good plan might be to retire some of the games and get new ones in. Obvious candidates for retirement are Bugz, Breakout, Starship Legend and Mission to Mars. They have a kind of short appeal and only hardcore fools like me play them, I reckon.
I saw a nice flash game on another site called Meeblings. Similar to Lemmings, very nicely executed. If you can get that, it would be great!
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Do what to the whatnow?
Check the arcade game link....
http://www.amiga.org/forums/arcade.php
Wayne wants to reset the high scores.
Plaz
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Oh, I didn't know there was an arcade here, I thought it was some comment on the anti-health care activities the insurance companies are doing in the US, never mind.
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...Adz and I will still have an ongoing Mahjong battle...
Speaking of which, I just can't get anywhere near your latest score, I figure you must have finished it in under three minutes. On one game, I got down to the last four tiles at two minutes twenty, but damn it the tiles were stacked wrong :madashell:
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Wayne, I'd say reset the Arcade scores if you wish.... I'm pretty lame, I guess.. the only one I ever got a high score in was Space Invaders, after losing, I tried again a few times, and then, yup, I lost interest...:(
And I agree, some new games would be nice.....
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i dunno wayne? i sorta like trying to move up the ranks when I got a spare moment of time ....besides some poor fools played hours to get that high score so it should stay up till its beat fair & square..NO CHEATS :-)
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Now that I know about the arcade, now would be an ideal time to reset the scores! :-P
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The arcade scoreboards are accumulating some cruft, for sure. I wouldn't be against flushing them out every so often. My only thought is it would be kind of cool to keep an "all time highest score" noted somewhere, just for recording of the epic wins that may be unlikely to be repeated. It certainly doesn't need to be live... It could even be just a little flat text file tucked away somewhere. Each time before the high scores are flushed, check if the current high score is higher than the "all time highest score" and update, if necessary.
But I think a main arcade reset every so often, and letting the live scoreboards, trophies, and "champion" designations be for the current leaders of each game is a good idea. It is kind of funny how all the trophies gravitated to be divided up between a handful of people. As X-Ray said, I suspect there will probably be a lot of the "usual suspects" dominating their respective games again after a short while... But in the meantime, it'll be a fresh slate for everyone. Sounds like a good thing, to me.
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To be honest, I'm just finding myself dismayed at the number of people who didn't even know the arcade existed -- despite it being a major choice on the menu at the top and side.
If you consider how bewildering it is that people didn't even see the arcade, maybe everyone can start to understand my maddening frustration at the people who get upset with the site because they can't figure out how to do even the simplest of reply tasks in the forums "because it's not like the old AO or Amigaworld".
Everything you could want or need in a web site should be currently available, and usually in plain sight (like finding "YOUR POSTS" on the Quick Links menu, which is a continual question...)
Wayne
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Hi Wayne,
Maybe its time to add an IQ test game to the arcade. That may clarify a few things :laughing:
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I'm all for reseting it.
Some of the places where I play the most online games reset every week.
So basically it is a "Weekly Tournament". It's kinda nice that way as you don't get so bored playing the same games. Each week you have chance to kick each others butts.
Just a thought.
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The arcade scores were reset at noon on the 1st of September.
Play on.
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Cheers Dude, but don't tell Ilwrath, as Sandy is quietly trying to get the Tetris high score. Oops ! I've said too much :lol:
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LOL! Too late on that. I currently also have the Mahjong title, which won't last long until Adz or X-Ray notices. ;)