Ok, my views on these leaderboard disputes.(posted 9613 days ago)I've always been an advocate of quality over quantity. Yeah, I've broken down and uploaded some crappy scores for temporary leaderboard points, but the rest of the time I'm making a conscious effort to learn the game and submit what I feel is a "good" score for me. Very rarely do I UL something that won't have 1st place at the time. I guess this is mainly because of the old 10-3-1 scoring system... I like the new percentage scoring too but I still like the old one as well... gotta break the 2000 mark ;)
I guess it's just kinda weird to see some "newcomers" come close to matching (or even surpassing?) the number of submissions that either JoustGod or I have... seeing how we've been over here for well over a year. And yes, I AM against lame submissions... but who am I to say if a recording is lame or not? I just think that sometimes the player is MUCH better off giving the game a few more plays before rushing to upload a recording for some more leaderboard points. For example, take Q.T. Quazar's Body Slam recording (Q.T., I'm not singling you out to pick on you! I already know you have enough to put up with considering Discipline's headhunting). He scored 120 points, and SportsDude has the high at 31,230. The 120 scores *0* points as it isn't even 1% of 31k. So isn't this really a waste of time? Just spend a few more games getting the mechanics down so the recording actually claims some leaderboard points.
Oh yeah, and I'm against scores on games that are considered "broken". Sure I gave in and did Battle Lane recordings, but who hasn't? It doesn't take any skill at all to start up the game, and it takes an eensy teeny tiny bit to get 540 or 550 or whatever on the two Cabal sets. If those romsets are fixed and work as well as cabalbl, how many of the people are going to re-record?
And people should always be allowed to better their own scores, putting restrictions on how often people can upload scores is a bit silly. My Psychic 5 recordings went from 140k to 6 million as I learned all the nuances of the game... and then Alan Kwan shows me up by getting 8.4 million, heh :P
-BBH