Stupid Big Scores!

Brick Tamland(LoveRevenG) · Trick Member Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Location: NC

I think that it is very stupid to have scores be in the ten millions because if someone asks you your score on your song, it's kind of hard to say..."Yea, umm, I got a 89,073,224 on Cartoon Heroes yesterday. Cant it just be like 10 points for each perfect, and not like 5000?? Please post what you think about the scores, and discuss what you think should be done about it, or if you like it the way it is.
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DemonHybrid · Trick Member Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Location: Matamoras, PA

...people pay attention to the numeric scores?

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T33J4Y · Trick Member Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Location: Macedon, NY

The Fact of the matter is , depending on how many feet it is (7 feet,8 feet, etc.) is how many million it will go up to. All 10 footers will be 10000000, 9 footers will be 9000000, and so on. If you are talking to someone who plays DDR, then you can usually just say "Oh i got 79 on Cartoon Heroes, and it's a nine footer." If it's someone that doesn't play DDR, then tell them 79 million 800 thousand blah blah, just to show off

Or you could say it the easy way and just say "I got a AA"

Brick Tamland(LoveRevenG) · Trick Member Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Location: NC

You make a good point T33J4Y, but you said if you were to AAA a 10 footer you would get 10,000,000, but you would really get a 100,000,000. You were just 1 zero off, but it can make a big difference. (same thing on a 7 or 9 footer, you left off a zero)
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Bryan · Trick Member Joined: 29 May 2005

I just tell them my grade, I don't read the points o.o

T33J4Y · Trick Member Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Location: Macedon, NY

Julie QQQ...? · Trick Member Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Location: Boston, MA

Not many people pay attention to the numeric scores since a Perfect at the end is worth more than a perfect in the beginning (the steps are weighted), so if two people black flag a song, the person who gets their one Great later in the song gets a worse score than a person who flags it in the beginning, and would lose, even though they get the same amount of Greats.

That's why most serious players talk about scores in Missing DP/Great count, because it attributes most to a letter grade score and is more valuable when trying to chart someone against someone else. The only thing I can think of numbers being an important factor would be Oni (where the numbers are a lot smaller and people who are good at Oni mode know what a good score is for a particular course) and Nonstop mode, where people usually use the first two to four digits to describe their score since machine score is what determines rank on a chart.

Like, when I talk about my Cartoon Heroes score, I'd say, "Oh, I got 42 Full Combo" and most people would know I made the cut for AA, or I'd say, "My best was 24/2/1", or "I got 34 Missing DP" (since a Great counts as 1 Missing DP, a Good is 2, and a Boo is 6).

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goatman596 · Trick Member Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Location: Tucson, AZ

The score system does sometimes leave something to be desired. It's tilted and leaned in such a way that it doesn't feel like it really does justice to the persons performance. A simpler way of describing the score could really do a lot for the game, especially if it was just the total dancepoints shown next to the total possible.

I got a 1249/1300 on Max 300 sounds like something understandable to a non-ddr player, and it also seems more accurate to a real player, who knows how the points system works.

Brick Tamland(LoveRevenG) · Trick Member Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Location: NC

wraith985 · Trick Member Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Location: Saratoga, CA

The only use I can think of for it is to estimate whether or not you hit the AA cutoff (usually, you can be 5mil or so off - i.e. 85mil on a 9 foot song) - and even then, it's just to temporarily hold you over until the results screen comes up.

In other words, it's worthless. Pay no attention to it. Use # of noncombos and it'll just be easier for everyone.

xpguardian · Trick Member Joined: 11 Mar 2005

mtwieg · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 5:55 am Post subject:

the only thing numeric score are good for is a few laughs when you get your phone number in the first seven digits. (true story on ordinary world)

Julie QQQ...? · Trick Member Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Location: Boston, MA