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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night feedback for 2014!
« on: August 18, 2014, 10:57:59 am »
figured i would post here since it's being brought up again. i mainly just want to say i agree with almost everything token mentioned. in fact, several months ago i had listed a lot of these exact ideas to a certain few other individuals.
i'll copy paste hyper's cliffs since they're neatly organized and right there.
- Penalizing people who vote and don't show: i'm a huge proponent of this, and this has managed to bother me a lot with the frequency it happens. hyper mentioned the only real way to punish them is to discount future votes, and i feel that's exactly the punishment they should get.
- Various voting issues:
a. Ties: i also agree that the ties should be either randomized, or allow all the people who showed up to do a tiebreaker vote between the two. this could be done right before the race in the irc or whatever at 4:15 (assuming everyone still is as late as they used to be)
b. Limiting Options: i agree with this, but yes, on a game by game basis. i also think goals that won prior should be taken away the next time the game shows up to prevent getting the same troll option picked again.
c. Limiting Votes: as hyper said, if b. is used, this won't be an issue so much.
d. Vote cannot be changed: i absolutely agree with this. in fact, this is the prime reason i stopped showing up to race nights. especially when this is combined with the tie rules, it makes things extremely frustrating. i've had multiple times where the votes were changed right before voting closes to create a tie, and the tiebreaker rules were used to change the outcome into a trollingly long goal. being one with limited time on saturdays, that made me either ruin my day or forced me to sit out one too many times.
- Non-Sonic games: i don't agree with this for anything related the sonic center race night. however i would love it if members of the community ever actually wanted to race other games and tried to get as many people racing those things for fun. i've been barking at certain individuals to race donkey kong country/mario for a long time.
- Prizes: i don't particularly think this is a good idea if physical prizes are used. given the obsessive nature of this community, and the potential drama caused by it, it could only lead to bad times. however if there was a way to win a badge on your tsc profile or something, i think that would be nice. there could also be badges for things like showing up so many times and not forfeiting and what not, to award people who aren't so skilled, but are consistent.
- Prizes based on a ranking system: not exactly sure why this is separate from the above, but my opinion is the same.
- Time/Date change: i would love more than anything for this to be much earlier in the day or on sunday even. people often bring up the working/school during the week as a reason to have it on saturday. i can agree with that, but the time it is on saturday takes most of my(and i'm sure others') traditional saturday activities and throws them out the window.
hopefully these issues can be sorted out after the marathon so i can start coming back to these things.
i'll copy paste hyper's cliffs since they're neatly organized and right there.
- Penalizing people who vote and don't show: i'm a huge proponent of this, and this has managed to bother me a lot with the frequency it happens. hyper mentioned the only real way to punish them is to discount future votes, and i feel that's exactly the punishment they should get.
- Various voting issues:
a. Ties: i also agree that the ties should be either randomized, or allow all the people who showed up to do a tiebreaker vote between the two. this could be done right before the race in the irc or whatever at 4:15 (assuming everyone still is as late as they used to be)
b. Limiting Options: i agree with this, but yes, on a game by game basis. i also think goals that won prior should be taken away the next time the game shows up to prevent getting the same troll option picked again.
c. Limiting Votes: as hyper said, if b. is used, this won't be an issue so much.
d. Vote cannot be changed: i absolutely agree with this. in fact, this is the prime reason i stopped showing up to race nights. especially when this is combined with the tie rules, it makes things extremely frustrating. i've had multiple times where the votes were changed right before voting closes to create a tie, and the tiebreaker rules were used to change the outcome into a trollingly long goal. being one with limited time on saturdays, that made me either ruin my day or forced me to sit out one too many times.
- Non-Sonic games: i don't agree with this for anything related the sonic center race night. however i would love it if members of the community ever actually wanted to race other games and tried to get as many people racing those things for fun. i've been barking at certain individuals to race donkey kong country/mario for a long time.
- Prizes: i don't particularly think this is a good idea if physical prizes are used. given the obsessive nature of this community, and the potential drama caused by it, it could only lead to bad times. however if there was a way to win a badge on your tsc profile or something, i think that would be nice. there could also be badges for things like showing up so many times and not forfeiting and what not, to award people who aren't so skilled, but are consistent.
- Prizes based on a ranking system: not exactly sure why this is separate from the above, but my opinion is the same.
- Time/Date change: i would love more than anything for this to be much earlier in the day or on sunday even. people often bring up the working/school during the week as a reason to have it on saturday. i can agree with that, but the time it is on saturday takes most of my(and i'm sure others') traditional saturday activities and throws them out the window.
hopefully these issues can be sorted out after the marathon so i can start coming back to these things.
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News and Updates / Re: New rules regarding emulators
« on: April 03, 2014, 12:30:53 pm »
i want to say first and foremost that this rule doesn't effect me, and in all honesty i don't care that much. i also haven't really read this thread, so if my opinions have already been stated or shut down i apologize in advance for beating a dead horse. i'm mainly posting here because last night my entire stream was flooded with this conversation for the entire night and i agreed to share my opinion on it. i should also add i'm not really a competitor, i only have stats for a few games and they're not good. i'm mainly on this site for the sake of talking to people.
the one thing i took away from what i've heard about this emulator requiring proof/banning/whatever is that i feel it ultimately doesn't even solve the problem that it's trying to solve and is tackling the wrong issue. i believe people are trying to solve the issue of people bullshitting stats, which i understand on a competetive site completely and think it should be adressed. requiring proof from emulators doesn't solve that issue, bullshitters will just say that they're using console and get around the rule. as far as banning emulators, that would just hurt casual players that aren't quite ready to make the investment in a console or game or whatever. i say this as a casual player who owns every sonic game and every console to play them on (barring a 32x), but i can see why someone who does it casually wouldn't want to spend the money.
if you want to stop bullshit i think the only real way to do it is to absolutely require proof for world record stats. if someone is playing a game at such an intense level and are so passionate that they are able to get world records for a game, it's highly unlikely that this person is incapable of spending a little bit of money to support that hobby and supply some proof. seriously, who would actually want a world record that they can't show off to other people. again, this comes from a casual player who has every means necessary to prove any stat i would ever have, so again, someone hardcore should be more than ready to. this isn't 2002 or something, for around 200 dollars you could easily provide yourself with everything you need to get your hands on what is needed to record your specific game from console or upgrade your computer just enough to allow you to record from an emulator. if you have that hard of a time getting a bit of money set aside for your hobby that you are that passionate about, you should consider fixing that problem before spending more time trying to get world records.
anyway, that's all i really have to say on this topic, and there's no sense rustling jimmies if you're not even going to solve the right issue, so keep that in mind and good luck finding a solution.
the one thing i took away from what i've heard about this emulator requiring proof/banning/whatever is that i feel it ultimately doesn't even solve the problem that it's trying to solve and is tackling the wrong issue. i believe people are trying to solve the issue of people bullshitting stats, which i understand on a competetive site completely and think it should be adressed. requiring proof from emulators doesn't solve that issue, bullshitters will just say that they're using console and get around the rule. as far as banning emulators, that would just hurt casual players that aren't quite ready to make the investment in a console or game or whatever. i say this as a casual player who owns every sonic game and every console to play them on (barring a 32x), but i can see why someone who does it casually wouldn't want to spend the money.
if you want to stop bullshit i think the only real way to do it is to absolutely require proof for world record stats. if someone is playing a game at such an intense level and are so passionate that they are able to get world records for a game, it's highly unlikely that this person is incapable of spending a little bit of money to support that hobby and supply some proof. seriously, who would actually want a world record that they can't show off to other people. again, this comes from a casual player who has every means necessary to prove any stat i would ever have, so again, someone hardcore should be more than ready to. this isn't 2002 or something, for around 200 dollars you could easily provide yourself with everything you need to get your hands on what is needed to record your specific game from console or upgrade your computer just enough to allow you to record from an emulator. if you have that hard of a time getting a bit of money set aside for your hobby that you are that passionate about, you should consider fixing that problem before spending more time trying to get world records.
anyway, that's all i really have to say on this topic, and there's no sense rustling jimmies if you're not even going to solve the right issue, so keep that in mind and good luck finding a solution.
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night 57: Sonic R
« on: February 08, 2014, 06:00:22 pm »
any% no oob, fk the saturn version
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night 56: Sonic Pocket Adventure
« on: February 07, 2014, 09:43:28 pm »
voting for no emeralds you damn trolls
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News and Updates / Re: Sonic's future goes BOOM and site shenanigans
« on: February 06, 2014, 05:18:25 pm »we expect to bring many of the social events currently being hosted on SRL back to TSC
have i told you lately, that i love you
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General Sonic / Re: Favorite Music Track/Theme in Sonic games
« on: January 13, 2014, 02:14:00 pm »
bridge zone, get on my level
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TSC Race Night / Re: A REAL unofficial Race Night: Sonic Colours DS
« on: January 10, 2014, 08:27:49 pm »
i vote for whatever time more people are available, so if saturday at 3pm is good for don as well i'll vote for that since it works better for focussight
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TSC Race Night / Re: A REAL unofficial Race Night: Sonic Colours DS
« on: January 07, 2014, 03:08:15 pm »
if it's any% i can do it at the usual time if that's what works for people. i'm free pretty much any time before 5pm est, and all day sunday
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General Sonic / Re: R.I.P Greg Martin
« on: January 04, 2014, 09:26:49 am »
rip in peace sweet prince ;(
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night 51: Sonic Unleashed (360/PS3)
« on: December 08, 2013, 08:51:32 pm »
i'll vote for all non dlc day stages
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night feedback for 2014!
« on: November 26, 2013, 06:18:41 pm »
another vote is a good idea probably, given that there are a lot of people here now that weren't here when we first voted. you could also throw all the games that weren't voted for or have very slight interest into the misc group if you do decide to make a race dedicated to those kinds of games. that said throwing all your 3d blasts and your labyrinths and your kart racers and your fighting games and your whatever the hell else into their own category would already lower the amount of games played on certain nights a lot and leave pretty much the main sonic platformers for the more common nights.
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night feedback for 2014!
« on: November 26, 2013, 05:50:34 pm »I also assume making them "rare" means something like having them once every 6 weeks-2 months?
that is exactly what i meant, you could have it alternating with hack night, so a hack one month, a misc game the other month. unless people actually want hack night to be more often, in which case you could just put a misc night at the end of every 2 cycles, so every 7th week or further apart than that if you want. or again, you could just remove these games since they're not that popular and if people express interest they could just have a non race night race. also imo, 3d races being more prevalent even if there is less games isn't too bad since there's more variance in goals for those games. for example, to me sonic 2 as knuckles feels very similar to sonic 2 as sonic, but sonic adventure 2 dark story feels a lot different from hero story.
also since it's been brought up, i would once again like to go on record that i also am not that fond of the race night time. i'd prefer it to be either MUCH earlier or MUCH later. it's hard for me to plan my saturdays around it since my friends like to come over to my house on saturdays, and i'd like to be able to do these when my friends aren't over so i can join calls again and not get overloaded with people in my ear and from all directions of my house trying to communicate with me.
i also am in favor of a smaller list of more accessible sonic games. while i WILL play anything and probably have fun doing it, it kinda sucks having to wait a long time for a sonic game i actually really enjoy replaying to pop up, especially if it finally pops up and its a goal i'm not particularly fond of. though the idea of having an additional monthly race or whatever for a specific game isn't bad if you don't want to trim the games list down for the main race night
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night feedback for 2014!
« on: November 25, 2013, 05:51:28 pm »
going to start by saying i personally hate the hack nights. i do them when i can because i like racing with you guys, but the hacks tend to annoy me more often than not, especially the buggier ones. that said, there have been a few that i enjoyed, but the vast majority of them annoy me to the point where i'm just spaced out at the end trying to complete it because i don't want to forfeit. also to note, if the 2d to 3d ratio is giving us too much 2d, then more hack nights will just further that problem.
i would also like to see a miscellaneous night implemented. one where games like the racing games and quirkier games like the isometrics and the storybook games fall into place. i personally think these races should be more rare though, since there's not that many and they might not be that fun to race. games like that could also probably just be removed from the schedule to save bloat. they also tend to take away from a 3d slot, since a lot of them are 3d, and removing/giving them their own night would help make 3d nights feel more prevalent.
i would also like to see a miscellaneous night implemented. one where games like the racing games and quirkier games like the isometrics and the storybook games fall into place. i personally think these races should be more rare though, since there's not that many and they might not be that fun to race. games like that could also probably just be removed from the schedule to save bloat. they also tend to take away from a 3d slot, since a lot of them are 3d, and removing/giving them their own night would help make 3d nights feel more prevalent.
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night 49: Sonic 2
« on: November 18, 2013, 11:00:22 pm »
voting for 1 since it's the only one i'm decent at
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News and Updates / Re: TSC Birthday Race
« on: October 11, 2013, 08:14:38 pm »
i don't care what day i just need to know a week in advance so i can get the day off or at least come home early from work
s3k:any
adventure:sonic or tails
hack:time trial since i'm assuming that's easier than survival/burger time instead of the hack
s3k:any
adventure:sonic or tails
hack:time trial since i'm assuming that's easier than survival/burger time instead of the hack
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night 35: Sonic R
« on: July 17, 2013, 12:18:07 am »
voting for 4 because i assume oob means out of bounds and these bounds weren't made for breaking and fuck the special races those guys cheat
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Marathon Planning / Re: Donation Incentives
« on: March 13, 2013, 10:58:59 pm »
hyper playing crystal egg zone after sonic 2 gg using level select
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night 21: Sonic Unwiished
« on: March 08, 2013, 01:00:32 pm »
1) legend of zelda: link's awakening
2) metroid fusion
3) starcraft
4) sonic adventure 2 hero side story bc hyper likes racing hero side so much
2) metroid fusion
3) starcraft
4) sonic adventure 2 hero side story bc hyper likes racing hero side so much
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Board Games / Re: Ask the Next Person a Question
« on: February 17, 2013, 02:25:25 am »
because he's a giant fkin dink and deserves it
do you even donkey?
do you even donkey?
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Marathon Planning / Re: Schedule (First Draft)
« on: February 14, 2013, 11:47:33 am »
no pso? MAKE IT AGAIN
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night 19: Sonic Heroes
« on: February 10, 2013, 08:14:03 pm »
CHAOTIX TEAM BLAST HYPE. also team sonic.
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Marathon Planning / Re: Games List and Volunteers
« on: February 08, 2013, 05:04:32 pm »
i stand by being willing to play any game that is on the list and needs played. i can't speedrun any of them, but i will totes play anything
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Marathon Planning / Re: Calling All Digital Artists
« on: February 08, 2013, 08:02:36 am »
i'll try to come up with some stuff, i still owe parax a picture too though. i'll im you later about it. i don't wanna sign on for too much D:
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night 18: Sonic 3D Blast
« on: February 03, 2013, 12:44:18 pm »
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY
edit: OPTION 1 PLEASE
edit: OPTION 1 PLEASE
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night 17: Shadow the Hedgehog
« on: January 29, 2013, 09:31:46 pm »
neutral story pls
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night 17: Shadow the Hedgehog
« on: January 27, 2013, 08:12:13 pm »
can we just not have the weapons unlocked and take our losses, i don't think i still have a save file for this game since my old memory card dieded and i don't remember how to unlock them
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TSC Race Night / Re: Unofficial Race Night 2: Sonic Robo Blast 2
« on: January 20, 2013, 05:59:17 pm »
going to vote for shoes the two tailed fox. i imagine this game is going to be a blind run for a majority of racers, and the game is quite difficult for people that aren't used to it. shoes has been in my experience the easiest to complete the game as, sonic would probably be a nightmare for someone not familiar with the game, lol
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TSC Race Night / Re: Race Night 16: Sonic Advance 2
« on: January 15, 2013, 10:08:11 pm »
i would like to play as either sonic or cream because sonic is sonic and cream is adorable
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