GRR high scores thread

[Mr_Loon]

RE : Bugged hiscores

A quick and dirty fix would be to await confirmation that those few people with online hi scores from the bugged version had deleted their user data for GRR and were now running the latest version of GRR.

Then delete the incorrect scores from the database.

Not that it really matters, it's only a game.....................

[Rox]

Oh my god... What the hell..? What the fox just happened?!?

I finally beat level 200 tonight. Starting at that level, so my score's all kinds of horrible, but I wanted to see the "difficulty level PHAAL completed" screen real bad, so I pulled through. After that success, I thought I'd play Thrusty mode "for a little while before bedtime" to see how far I could get. This was my second attempt at Thrusty.

So why, over an hour later, am I at rank 1 with a score of 25,468,108?!

I now have a massive headache. My first attempt, last week, ended at the same level, 46, with 8 million points. What happened?!

[edit] That's with shader model 2.0. Heh, I never looked to see how to change that until now! Let's flip that to 3.0 for future madness. [/edit]
[edit2] Oh god! Let's not, some levels KILL my computer at 3.0. Shame, I like the shiny. [/edit2]

[bcass]

You completed all the Phaal levels? It says you only got as far as level 26 on the high score table:

http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/lsscore/lsta ... =4&start=0

[gilesgoat]

.. oh dear I just checked the number of people in the score tables

Geez I'll have at some point to allocate some time to fix/modify some things there .. there's an "upper limit" to some stuff
( but we are still far away from there ) however I never expected the tables to grow up so much (no worries, is much more
than 256 entries or such ).

I am SUPER and I mean SUPER busy doing "other stuff" but believe me is "for a very good cause" that I won't say a shit now
because I don't want to be responsible for a set of people dying with plastic bags over their heads or getting too dry cause
excessiveness of spoo or drooling

Plus I am on a deadline.

However yeah, just to say, the "score system" as it is is in its "version number 1" and because I plan/want to keep it for
possibly "all the next things" ( even if could be running "in parallel" with other score systems ) there will be "upgrades" WHEN
I WILL FIND THE TIME FOR.

Which it also mean "yes, I need to allocate some time for that too".

So as I said "do not despair" the will to improve/modify/add some new things to all this is but I just have to make it fit
"in the big list of plans".

Anyway is good to see that despite some glitches it does work and is used

[Rox]

You completed all the Phaal levels? It says you only got as far as level 26 on the high score table:

http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/lsscore/lsta ... =4&start=0

That just means my highest score only took me to level 26. Like I said, I wanted to get to 50 just so I could say I've beaten all the levels, so I wasn't using any high scoring techniques. My high score on 26 happened a bit afterward when I replayed some of the early levels using shader model 3.0 to see if my computer truly can't handle it, or if it was just a fluke. I ended up doing so well, I kept on playing and beat my current highest score.

Oh, and Giles! When you do get a chance to peek at the high score tables, I believe the Vic20 and C64 tables on the site are reversed. I'm supposed to have a higher score on the (easier) C64 version, but it shows that score on the Vic20 page.

[gilesgoat]

I'll have to check/etc. those things in the future.

As it is now all goes "by score" .. this means if you let's say reach level 50 with score of 1000 and/or you reach level 10
with score of 2000 the entery with score 2000 goes over the one with 1000.

"The highest score gets recorded", the level does not count ( as it is now ).

[ALLseeingEYE]

Nice to see the score tables becoming more crowded. Think I scoped well over 270 users on the lowest difficulty.

I must admit too, I got a good chuckle seeing your name at the bottom of the Phaal list Giles , looks like you gotta step that up when you get some free time dude.

[PVB]

I'm still beating Yak at Vindaloo:

3 - MedwayPVB 36 8,451,813
4 - stinky ox 40 8,374,425

[gilesgoat]

Nice to see the score tables becoming more crowded. Think I scoped well over 270 users on the lowest difficulty.

I must admit too, I got a good chuckle seeing your name at the bottom of the Phaal list Giles , looks like you gotta step that up when you get some free time dude.

.. I don't have much free time at all because I am working on NEW things and trying to find time to
support the old ones

Ironically .. I probably play less games then lot of others ( if we exclude all the time spent playing while making things work )

I understand your enthusiam and all .. but you want more stuff to play with don't you ?

[PVB]

.. I don't have much free time at all because I am working on NEW things and trying to find time to support the old ones

If you don't support the old ones, people might not buy the new ones.

[gilesgoat]

.. I don't have much free time at all because I am working on NEW things and trying to find time to support the old ones

If you don't support the old ones, people might not buy the new ones.

Of course I know.

But at some point I have to do some NEW stuff, can't lean forever on old stuff, "new" also means "improvement"

[PVB]

.. I don't have much free time at all because I am working on NEW things and trying to find time to support the old ones

If you don't support the old ones, people might not buy the new ones.

Of course I know.

But at some point I have to do some NEW stuff, can't lean forever on old stuff, "new" also means "improvement"

Time management.

[gilesgoat]

[quote="gilesgoat*FUCKING QUOTE LIMIT ^%*$&*^$%&* Of course I know.

But at some point I have to do some NEW stuff, can't lean forever on old stuff, "new" also means "improvement"

Time management.

If you think you can do better than me feel free to send your application form to Yak anytime

You know I never listen to people I never try to fix things

[ALLseeingEYE]

Nice to see the score tables becoming more crowded. Think I scoped well over 270 users on the lowest difficulty.

I must admit too, I got a good chuckle seeing your name at the bottom of the Phaal list Giles , looks like you gotta step that up when you get some free time dude.

.. I don't have much free time at all because I am working on NEW things and trying to find time to
support the old ones

Ironically .. I probably play less games then lot of others ( if we exclude all the time spent playing while making things work )

I understand your enthusiam and all .. but you want more stuff to play with don't you ?

Don't mind me man, I'm just having some fun. I honestly have very little time to play myself these days, we're trying to hit beta on FIFA World Cup right now, and I've been coming home and just essentially going straight to bed. Sucks! Besides, I'm sure you kicked that scores ass while making the game

So I hope you take my comment with a grin of salt.

[ALLseeingEYE]

Number of Entries currently on the G-Rev Scoreboards.

357 - Korma
217 - Madras
131 - Vindaloo
69 - Phaal
103 - Endurance
76 - C64
183 - Vic 20
103 - Thrusty

Notes:
- I've noticed some people being listed a couple times
- Also, I've noticed exact scores being marked as the same position (for example two users with the score 64, would both be listed as 357th place)
- For games on the XBLA who were given out for free, people seemed to sit on the games, and many people wouldn't play them until weeks/ months later
- People may not be aware of how to register for the leaderboards
- The Vic-20 version (or did somebody mention the Vic-20 and C64 scoreboards were reversed?) seems to be pretty damn popular.

So what I mean by this is, there seems to be at least 300 new people playing the game, which also means, at least 300 new owners. Also, this number seems to continually increase by the day, which means, many people are likely buying the game and not playing it right away (likely a lot of people who bought the combo pack on Steam). Also, since the scoreboard registration method isn't exactly obvious, I'm going to assume there are many people who simple haven't registered. I'm curious how many people bought the game since Steam put it up, but I wouldn't be surprised if the number was at least 1000, and perhaps double or more that.