Marius Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 26 minutes ago, McKong said: I think, cos the points thing on the girder screen exploits a bug and it's easy to score heavily without too much risk, we should ban it. I tried it and I was easily able to get an extra 5k and 10k on level 1 and 3 respectively, and Deteacher demonstrated getting an additional 15k or so on level 4. That's a lot of points, which would kind of spoil the HSC record. However if others are happy with it, no problem I tend to agree although I can not imagine someone in the end wants to win this game/round by doing this. I personally do not care. I want to conquer as much as possible fields and I am less interested in the points. So I would say: leave it to the player. As long people do not use freezer / save state I am fine. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 I just race every screen. Seems to work for me. Never heard of point pressing before and so it never really occured to me to use it. So I'm happy with my score so far. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 On 2/9/2020 at 1:26 PM, mimo said: Unlike Joust, this feels like a game that I can improve my score on Unlike Joust, this feels just the opposite to me 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 I think the consensus is that we don't rack up the score on the girder levels. So, I will not use that tactic for the HSC. Back to the ol' grind. :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magmavision2000 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 I was s o c l o s e to 100k: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 30900 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 (edited) 34700 40000 Edited February 11, 2020 by mimo increased score 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 233,300 L7 An improvement :-). 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTrust Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 71,300. The struggle is real. If only I could get more than 20 minutes here and there, I might be able to improve. Need to learn those foundry levels. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 So far I never made it higher than my last score. It is quite 'frustrating' (in a good way) ... Most of the time I already in screen #3 (that is when you get the barrels again). That is for me the moment to press START again. I do not want to die so soon, otherwise I will NEVER get to a higher score. Do you guys recognize this, that you press START in this game before you lost all your lives? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Yep I've been trying to improve my score. 230k I think is beyond me but I wanted to at least get to level 7 and a 200k score cos I've managed that before 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 Bloomin eck guys 110 posts you have been busy ok I've got a lot of reading to do and only 2 days left on this round to improve my score ! Will update the tables shortly... Please vote everyone in the >>> Round 3 POLL <<< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 On 2/10/2020 at 6:48 PM, McKong said: I think, cos the points thing on the girder screen exploits a bug and it's easy to score heavily without too much risk, we should ban it. I tried it and I was easily able to get an extra 5k and 10k on level 1 and 3 respectively, and Deteacher demonstrated getting an additional 15k or so on level 4. That's a lot of points, which would kind of spoil the HSC record. However if others are happy with it, no problem On 2/10/2020 at 9:20 PM, Deteacher said: I think the consensus is that we don't rack up the score on the girder levels. So, I will not use that tactic for the HSC. Back to the ol' grind. OK bit late for a ruling but NO using the feature this time at least ! Thanks carlsson for cruching the numbers 21 hours ago, Marius said: So far I never made it higher than my last score. It is quite 'frustrating' (in a good way) ... Most of the time I already in screen #3 (that is when you get the barrels again). That is for me the moment to press START again. I do not want to die so soon, otherwise I will NEVER get to a higher score. Do you guys recognize this, that you press START in this game before you lost all your lives? I do find myself restarting but it's a bad habbit, better to just stick with it - you know my one man theory but it might be man #4 that is the hero. 17 hours ago, McKong said: Yep I've been trying to improve my score. 230k I think is beyond me but I wanted to at least get to level 7 and a 200k score cos I've managed that before Yes I think somwhere on level 7 is the target for top players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 Latest Table Reminder: round ends Sunday 16th 10pm UK time (5pm EST). Please vote everyone in the >>> Round 3 POLL <<< *DONKEY KONG* 1st RedThunder 233,300 12pts 2nd McKong 197,600 11pts 3rd Deteacher 191,200 10pts 4th therealbountybob 152,000 9pts 5th Starbug 121,700 9pts 6th graywest 114,900 9pts 7th Goochman 101,000 8pts 8th Magmavision2000 97,000 8pts 9th oracle_jedi 84,100 8pts 10th Marius 82,900 7pts 11th McKong Bro 82,800 7pts 12th Mr Trust 71,300 7pts 13th pusakat 70,000 6pts 14th Gury 65,300 6pts 15th jblenkle 61,500 5pts 16th Mangia-Boy 58,300 5pts 17th MagicMarc-er 47,700 4pts 18th mimo 40,000 4pts 19th Sikor 39,400 3pts 20th carlsson 38,200 3pts 21st ballyalley 28,300 2pts 22nd roadrunner 17,600 2pts 23rd slx 14,300 2pts Please vote everyone in the >>> Round 3 POLL <<< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 Oh I am SO proud. For the first time in YEARS I managed to reach 125m. 111700 points. Pfff. More luck than wisdom though. I managed to survive the extremely hard barrel screen. The rest of the screens is easier for me (well the bakery is harder too). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 3 hours ago, Marius said: Oh I am SO proud. For the first time in YEARS I managed to reach 125m. 111700 points. Pfff. More luck than wisdom though. I managed to survive the extremely hard barrel screen. The rest of the screens is easier for me (well the bakery is harder too). Good work M. I just had my session for today and had one good go at 151,500 which amusingly is 500 less than my best posted, level 5 freaks me out !! p.s. don't eat those pies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMarc-er Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 OK, 63,500. This will probably be my last attempt. Just getting to this took soooo many tries. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle_jedi Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 105,900 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manterola Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 So I guess this game is not for me. I cannot stand it anymore. This was the best I could do 44700. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallout_002 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 18,900 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTrust Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 87,700. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Had a load of goes this morning. 194k, 183k, 193k all most of the way up level 6 but didn't quite make it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Same here...just can't seem to replicate that one good game for a chance to improve. So wanted to crack 200K. It just wasn't in the cards this time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTrust Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 115,900. If only I had given this one a little more time before the HSC, I could'a been a contender. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister-VCS Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 39,200 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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