On Oct 15, 2014, at 1:23 AM, Hitoshi Doi <doi@usagi.org> wrote:

> Timothy Yeh <tenton@mac.com> wrote:
> | 
> | Today I learned, from one of the top 10 rankers in the EN event…
> | if you have unlimited stones, you can cheat your way into scoring.
> | Well, not really cheating, but it’s a way to gain way more points/hour

> | than actually playing. That is, 
> | start the hardest match you can and then just die. You get points for failing

> | (55 for hard, 91 for EX); if you fail right at the outset,
> | you’ll gain points faster than actually playing the song
> | (even if you S rank/S combo) if you keep that up. 
> 
> I always do this when..
> - I'm about to rank up and I have extra LPs left
> - I arrive at work and I have more LPs than my work hours
> - I'm about to sleep and I have more LPs than my sleep hours

I only did it for the first one in the past. The 2nd one, I use a bathroom break or
my lunch to help clear my LPs (by CA state law, I’m obligated to take a lunch
and since I always bring my food, I have extra time anyways. :P )

Sleep? What’s that? :P

These guys were actually causing games to slow down, because if someone fails like
that, everyone else in the game, at the end, has to wait until the timer goes to 0
before they can continue. So it involved 25 seconds of waiting when I ran into these

people. And I ran into them, over and over again. If I had calculated out my path
for the EN event…I would have been doing this for the last half hour to get
to the top tier, instead of falling short by 3k points. I think I don’t have

the time to do anything more than get the 2nd SR card if I’m going to continue
to play both JP and EN events. ^_^;

--Tim