On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 8:39 AM, Hitoshi Doi <doi@usagi.org> wrote:

> Very addicting game, isn't it?

Well, we'll see how long I stay fixated on it.  After collecting the easier loveca,
when it becomes a couple of months between 10+1 recruits unless I buy loveca with
real money, that will be the true test of how addictive it is.    :)


If I start playing it due to a feeling of obligation and not a feeling of, "Hey, I
want to play some SIF!", then that will be the first sign of losing interest.


> I did 2 10+1 draws of the second year students,
> and got just one SR for each.


Second year is a good place for me to draw from as well, since it has both Kotori
and Honoka.  Just not as good a match as Printemps, since I like Hanayo too.


> My favorites are Kotori, Niko, and Umi but since there is no

> grouping like that, I do the second year group.

My only UR is a Smile Umi in a kimono.  It's a nice enough picture, and naturally
she's the Center of the Smile team, but I made a Main Team called 'Mascots' that just
contains my favorite character images, so I could put Honoka or Hanayo or Kotori
down as the character who appears on the menu screens instead of Umi.   :) 


> I also do the pure only group, as that has the most "yell"
> (recovery) type Rs.


Is this for levelling the recovery skills on your Rs, or just to recruit better 'healing'
skill characters?  I made a healing team once and tried an EX song... that didn't
turn out very well for me, but I'll try again sometime.


>| Playing on Hard in the EN event and Normal in the JP event...
>| there are a few scary Hards that I've failed out of on JP due to
>| lack of familiarity with the song, and my team is still pretty weak,
>| so dropped back to Normal.
> It seems you're on a good pace to get the first SR.
> The second set of songs just came out today,
> and most of them are easier than the first ones.


I'd forgotten about the song rotation changing, so my first Score Match this morning
on JP was a little confusing.  "Huh?  I don't recognize that song title.  But the
song is oddly familiar... OH!  It's the song from the JP title screen!"   :)   (It

was Paradise Live: "3, 2, 1, Live!") 

For the first part of this event on the US side, Cutie Panther is the only song I
looked forward to randomly getting, as it was catchy and I don't have it unlocked.
Apparently it unlocks at level 88, and I'm only 48, so that will be a while.  Once
it
rotates to the second set of songs, I can look forward to playing a lot of Aishiteru
Banzai and Kitto Seishun Ga Kikoeru, though those are both fairly early unlocks.


For the first part of the event on the JP side, Koi No Shigunaru Rin Rin Rin was a
winner, though it's apparently a B-side tune.  Also sort of like Blueberry Train once
the slow intro part is over.  Now that JP has rotated, Susume -> Tomorrow is
available, which was my most recent unlock on the US side, but I haven't played it
yet due to spending all LP on Score Matches.  Enjoyed Paradise Live.  Mou Hitori Ja
Nai Yo was painfully dull on low difficulty, but since I fail about 50% of the Hard

attempts in the JP Score Match, am hesitant to bump up to Hard.  Don't have much of
anything in the way of recovery for songs that give trouble.

Only recognize Yuujou No Change and Mermaid Festa Vol 1 from the second set of JP
songs.  Almost everything is an 8 on Hard, but with lack of familiarity with the songs,
bumping up to Hard might be a problem.  Maybe I'll go a day on Normal and then
try some Hards, but my scores might be low enough on them (due to team quality and
occasional failure) to make that a bad idea from an Event Points perspective.

--Robert