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東方封魔録 ～ the Story of Eastern Wonderland
KirbyComment:
--- Quote from: SomeGuy712x on December 12, 2014, 08:24:11 PM ---Well, we shouldn't have to use the zoom out function in order to see your whole post. Maybe you can edit your post and shorten the separator line or something to fix the issue.
Also, I keep meaning to ask this: What does "PB" stand for? (Like, when you say that you were "on PB-pace" in that post of yours.)
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I shortened it a little bit now. Hopefully it's now all readable.
PB stands for Personal Best. Alot of speedrunners (like me) use this term to indicate their fastest time. Or in this case, I use it for my highest score, which is my Personal Best.
SomeGuy712x:
@KirbyComment:
Ah, okay. I kept seeing the PB abbreviation in many places, and I kept wondering if that was something that I should've known or easily figured out already. Thanks.
As for your other post, the words are still cutoff by the right side of the page for me. I just thought of something: Try putting "hr" in brackets, instead of using a ton of underscore characters. I think that'll produce a line of the proper length.
@Spell Check:
"Should've" and "that'll" are real words, dude.
Karisa:
--- Quote from: KirbyComment on December 08, 2014, 08:45:26 PM ---Also, I noticed this right here and it's unfortunate that you have to 1cc to actually make the high-score count, because this would be more optimal in terms of scoring. Even though you'll have slightly less point items collected, the clear bonus itself is higher. Does anyone actually know what determines the "Stage"-value? I can't make sense of it.
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I think anything-goes scoring would be interesting (there's also starting with no extra lives, seeing as SoEW actually increases the clear bonus for reducing starting lives instead of just giving a penalty for increasing it), and the lack of replays wouldn't be an issue when a game doesn't have replays in the first place.
But I think the standard for scoring is default settings, no continues? I don't know much about scoring in other danmaku games outside of Touhou, though.
I think SoEW is one of the only Touhou games that'd be beneficial for, anyway, though the DDC Lunatic TAS also benefits from continues.
As for the clear bonus, I think this is accurate, though it's written a bit confusingly, and the exact formula for Extra's time bonus isn't known.
Also yes, use [hr] for dividing lines.
^ Like this.
And you're a speedrunner? I didn't know that. I happen to watch a lot of speedrunners on Twitch, mostly of Zelda, Metroid, and Mario games.
KirbyComment:
--- Quote from: Karisa on December 13, 2014, 02:13:31 AM ---As for the clear bonus, I think this is accurate, though it's written a bit confusingly, and the exact formula for Extra's time bonus isn't known.
And you're a speedrunner? I didn't know that. I happen to watch a lot of speedrunners on Twitch, mostly of Zelda, Metroid, and Mario games.
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Thing is, when I did the Full Power Early thing, I didn't have 2,000 clear bonus, but 4,200. And when I did a normal run right after, I had 3,400 as the Stage Bonus. So this page doesn't explain it accurately. Are there actually higher bonuses when setting your lives/bombs count to something below the default?
And yes, I'm a speedrunner. I run Rayman 2 100%. And even though I haven't done runs in 5 months, I found a bunch of interesting stuff lately.
Karisa:
Hmm... OK, I'd never looked closely at that part of the clear bonus before (and managed to entirely miss that it's not included in that wiki page), since I always thought it was a static stage-based bonus like in many later games.
I checked a few videos that exist, and it seems it was:
3400, 4000, 3400, 4000 in my Easy 20m
3400, 4000, 4000, 3600 in your Easy 19.9m
3400, 4600, 6000, 4000 in my Hard 29m
3400, 4600, 6000, 4000 in my Normal 20m [same as in my Hard run!]
4400, 5800, 3400, 4000 in Prinny's Normal 1cc
4200 in your Full Power Early video as you said.
Just a random guess (based on the fact that I died in my Easy run before the stage 3 boss while you didn't, and you died to Marisa while I didn't), but I wonder if it's actually based on your current rank? Perhaps Easy's max rank (if this game is like EoSD, max rank is lower on Easy than higher difficulties) corresponds to 4000, while higher difficulties' max rank corresponds to 6000.
That wouldn't explain Prinny's Normal 1cc getting a much higher "stage" bonus on stage 2 despite bombing 3 times and not collecting as many items, though...