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Score No Restrictive Settings WolfMame version 145 Score Track https://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?scores=132433 Rules ROMSet: SpcEnctr
Bonus Life: Any
Bonus/Test Mode: Bonus On
Time: Any
Special Rules: NoneSubmission Message Thanx to 1500 A new track has been created so I could submit my recording.
Hi John. With much due respect to both you and Mark H, I gotta say, you both wreak of desperation by creating this new track!
What bit am I missing? You can't get the settings right on your first submission, so you just create another track to JUSTIFY your lack of awareness of them REAL rules/standards!
Thank you both for diluting the scoreboard!
John
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I agree with John...
Is this track really necessary?
Old TG focused far too heavily on what was considered the optimum "competition-based approach" to creating rules and rarely on "what score is possible". When they did focus on "what score is possible" it only went as far as modifying previous rule sets with Pac-Man's "3-men unless kill-screening then 5-men" style approach. Open scoring is now possible and should be encouraged in a single track so that any & all can post a score without too much worry about the minutiae.
The addition of the "5+1" Pacman variation was done for one reason and one reason only...to satisfy the egos of three players. All of this is documented within these forums and it is one of the single worst decisions that TG ever made....3+1 for all submissions except a kill screen which allowed for 5+1 solely because Billy and Chris did not want to potentially get beat by someone who did 3,333,270 or 3,333,360 afterwards.
And for those who remember...Rick Forthergill at the very first Funspot event did 3,333,270 which is NOT possible under 3+1 settings...the settings were created thereafter for ego purposes, and if there is ANY doubt over that, if you ever happened to see the 9 dots at the bottom of the graphics of some objects that were issued over the years, that represents the 9 dots that Rick missed from the first Funspot event in 1999.
Fast forward 15+ years and here we are again with yet another incongruous decision to accept a completely useless variation and accompanying score. I can't reject this score since it was done according to the stated rules for the variation, but there is no way I'm going to vote accept either as this variation should NEVER have been created.
Don't see why everyone is getting so salty about this track. Someone wanted it and someone bought it. I'll stay on topic here and say accept instead of trashing someone for creating a "bad" track.
OK then...I'll petition for a few variations to be setup...NO scoring restrictions or any limitations whatsoever on "Megazone", "Krull", "Time Pilot", "RipOff", "Indiana Jones" and "Paperboy" and submit multi-million scores on each which totally dwarf the legit scores. They will be cheesy as heck, but hey...now that the precedent has been made then any similar no-restriction variation should be allowed. When you make one stupid decision that is incongruous with the standard policy, you cannot disallow another else you create the appearance of favouritism and inconsistency.
A door was opened that should have remained shut.
Well, that's the rub here now. If you want to make a new track and pay for it, that's on you. If you don't like it then don't compete on it; it's not like a new track existing makes another track worthless. There are probably going to be plenty of max-out tracks without restrictions in the future. If that's how people want to have fun and get their name on the board then what's the big deal?
You are free to do exactly this, if you wish. Jace made that perfectly clear in last week's State of the Galaxies.Quote:
Originally Posted by RTM
What you aren't taking into account is the track rating system. The tracks you mention would be downvoted by the community, and thus be irrelevant in terms of popularity and PSI. The community determines which scores are prestigious, and which aren't, just as it should be.