Mafia Scum Classic Arcade (AND THE WINNER IS...)

[WhemeStar]

Spoiler: Safe to say I'm an expert.

Stealing the bottom part of this post for convenience

Week 1

- Tetris Link

[WhemeStar]

Spoiler: Safe to say I'm an expert.

This was after like 10 tries too.

[implosion]

Spoiler: A score I'm happy with.

[WhemeStar]

How is that possible

[JDGA]

Dammit, here I was hoping to get away with not having to play this again

[mallowgeno]

Finally improved slightly

[RedCoyote]

Spoiler: Safe to say I'm an expert.

This was after like 10 tries too.

Yeah, same. I just barely broke 10K. I'm too embarassed to post my score.

[mallowgeno]

Spoiler: Safe to say I'm an expert.

This was after like 10 tries too.

Yeah, same. I just barely broke 10K. I'm too embarassed to post my score.

Hey a score's a score's a score

[Radja]

[mallowgeno]

Final submissions for this week's challenge due in thread by

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Leader Board - End of Day 6

1. 206276 - Implostion
2. 121601 - JDGA
3. 97376 - BigYoshiFan
4. 83472 - Racefan12
5. 82260 - JerryArr
6. 64315 - Implosion
7. 43727 - McMenno
8. 41650 - Max
9. 40997 - Cheery Dog
10. 35856 - Xofelf
11. 28563 - Mallowgeno
12. 24737 - Radja
13. 1694 - WhemeStar

[Klick]

[Klick]

Spoiler: I thought this would get me closer to not-bottom...

[JerryArr]

Spoiler: Got on a real great run

It stops getting faster after awhile, it seems.

[mallowgeno]

Jerry why...

[implosion]

It stops getting faster after awhile, it seems.

Yeah. After a while the game turns into how long you can go before making a mistake, where time spent making tetrises is more valuable than time spent generically surviving. It's still slow enough that it's possible to maintain a decent rhythm and avoid mistakes. You seem to be better than me at the whole actually getting tetrises part :p

I'd try to top that but it seems top 8 get to the playoffs so laziness will win again.

[JDGA]

Yeah Level 10 is the fastest it gets, if I bothered practicing at that speed it wouldn't be toooo bad.

[Cheery Dog]

I see jerry just inserted a 0 into my score.
Because of that I'm going to just settle and not attempt to do better

[WhemeStar]

Jerry used photoshop

[mallowgeno]

So I've heard a couple different objections to scoring in the rules. Some people have said that someone scoring 400,000 isn't ten times harder than score 40,000 but it would net you ten times the points.

On the other hand I want to reward players who have high scores. So I am debating switching the scoring. Does anyone have any suggestions or comments? I was thinking of giving first place 200 points, 2nd place 190, 3rd place 180, etc. The only problem with this is that someone who scores much much higher than the rest doesn't benefit from furthering their score.

What are people's thoughts?

[JDGA]

For this game, take the square root of everyone's scores. The scoring progression is quadratic, so that'll equalise it.

[mallowgeno]

For this game, take the square root of everyone's scores. The scoring progression is quadratic, so that'll equalise it.

That's fine for this one but will I have to finagle it for the others? Also would I still take each players scores and divide them by the high scorer after taking the square root?

[JDGA]

You'd want to change that for the other games based on their own scoring systems probably. And dividing by high scorer would be a good idea, yeah. Alternatively, just awarding points for places is fine too, but don't make it go in intervals of 10~

F1 uses 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1
MK8 uses 15-12-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

If you want place-based points, some variation on that system (I'd say leave room to award points down to top 20?) would be the best idea.

[mallowgeno]

I will take some suggestions but I like this idea of the straight scale as long as there's a little bit of a gap for the first few highest scorers.

I will keep this discussion open tomorrow and then will assign points tomorrow night based on what we decide.

[implosion]

I think points for places is ideal. Anything else runs the risk of someone completely blowing everyone out of the water in a game, which isn't inherently bad, but has the problem that it would cause differences in other places to be of minimal importance.

For instance if scores for some game were 1000, 2000, 3000, and 50000, and you divide by the high-scorer's score, the three smaller scores become effectively the same (i.e., "almost nothing") even though they are significantly different.

[mallowgeno]

FINAL SCORES

1. 400377 - JerryArr
2. 206276 - Implostion
3. 121601 - JDGA
4. 97376 - BigYoshiFan
5. 83472 - Racefan12
6. 43727 - McMenno
7. 41650 - Max
8. 40997 - Cheery Dog
9. 35856 - Xofelf
10. 28563 - Mallowgeno
11. 24737 - Radja
12. 22409 - Klick
13. 1694 - WhemeStar

Hammering out details on scores still