Play Limit Per Song

[Sensei Le Roof]

Well maybe have number of plays disclosed somewhere, because the new kids on the block see these thrones and think the guy at the top is some badass, when really he's just played the song incessantly because he's addicted to seeing his name on the top worse than a crackwhore...  I just think it would show the new people in the game the true reality, that the top guy played the song over 100x, and not that he/she's got some fabulous skill...

And just "maybe" people will also be forced to play other songs than "Through the Fire and Flames"...

And you can always play the song in practice mode ahead of time, I'm talking about posted scores...

You only get one posted score on a song anyway.

Hell, I've only surfed Dragonforce once, ever. Just yesterday I got the itch to surf some Songs to Wear Pants To.

[S.]

No

I play songs more than 20 times casually and if I finally make a higher score WITHOUT trying, and it wouldn't be uploaded, I'd shit in other people's mailbox.

[lavacano201014]

Songs to Wear Pants To.

lolwut

Also, song play limitations are BAD. It'd be like limiting the number of times you can play a specific Left 4 Dead campaign. It's almost as bad as Spore's DRM was (you only had three installs, period, after that you had to buy it again).

[S.]

Songs to Wear Pants To.

lolwut

Also, song play limitations are BAD. It'd be like limiting the number of times you can play a specific Left 4 Dead campaign. It's almost as bad as Spore's DRM was (you only had three installs, period, after that you had to buy it again).

I couldn't even find a legit version of that

[xandy]

I completely disagree with this. No one should be punished for practising...

Agreed!

[Sensei Le Roof]

Songs to Wear Pants To.

lolwut

http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/ lolthat

[Camtron47]

I admit i had a crazy obsession over a song. It was "Now That's Sacred" by Jack Conte, featured on the radio a while back.

Ken_sct held the throne with pusher and after !!!85!!! attempts I finally beat his score  . I'm not the best player so for me to beat Ken_sct means a lot of luck was involved. But all that practice on the song also contributed. I'd basically memorized the patterns of the yellows and reds. Theres nothing stopping anyone else from doing the same.

Although in the end, I don't think I deserve that throne. http://www.audio-surf.com/song.php#2762830

[h4c0rBG]

I do not agree to this, I play a song a few times (maybe about 10 sometimes) to dethrone somebody. Then he gets his throne back and maybe after a month or more i go back to that song again with better skills and try to beat him and get my throne back. I am still new, bought the game about 6 months ago so i still can improve (i think). 

[Cadiuro]

Isn't the entire point of having a throne "pushing your limits"?

I'll take Siege Engine by Buckethead as an example. I played that song a while ago, and scored 218k on it. This other guy, Blazted, took his throne back.

Now, a lot of months later, we're already at 805k. Isn't that beautiful? At first, 800k seemed to be impossible to reach - it's almost 4 times the first throne. Now is even 1 million coming within reach, and we're planning on racing on 'till we get there.

Imagine Blazted and I were allowed to play the song only 20 times. Let's say it takes about 5 or 6 tries average to take the throne back, improving it by 30 to 50k, sometimes even less. To make things easy: 5 times per person, improving the score by 50k. That would make 5*2 * 50k = 500k added to the original throne. That would have killed the song at 718k, which is funny enough the score I held the throne with for 9 weeks due to holidays . But do you see what's happening? The race would already have died, while it is now still going on. It's not like we play it excessively, but we just keep on playing it on a steady base.

With your idea, the scoreboards of the entire game would be killed in about 3 months.

[Camtron47]

OK OK so no-one likes the idea, but how bout this:

If a player takes the throne of a popular song (however the game defines a popular song), on their very first run (or maybe second), the throne is labelled an "ace throne" (or other name).
"Ace throne" declares that the player didn't use several attempts to get the top spot. This could be shown in the extended stats and would show the player didn't grind for a lucky run and actually used skill (unless the first few runs were lucky...). If the throne is re-taken, then the "ace throne" can be simply retaken by throning on the first re-attempt.

Good compromise or just confusing?

[Hammer]

I personally think that's just a confusing idea.

Thrones are thrones in my book, lol.

[Camtron47]

Fair enough...

[Cadiuro]

Then it would be better to just have some kind of "Plays since last dethrone" in the extended stats. A counter that will be set to 0 as soon as you are dethroned, and adds one everytime you play untill you have the throne.

We'd have to find a way to count after you've got the throne though: imagine you got the throne on 3 runs and start grinding to add a few thousand points to your score and after 20 runs aquire a monster-score, the counter shouldn't be saying "3 runs to get this throne". On the other hand, you can't just let it count, as everytime you play the song casually, your throne would appear less impressive.

[blue_h3x]

Still confusing. If anything is to be added, it should be a stat that says "times played: ###". Although it's not that needed. Maybe for personal reference, the times played would be good, though it doesn't exactly effect the throne.

[buddharock]

Personally, if I know a score isn't going to cut it, I restart the song just before hitting the end so AS doesn't record the score. I'm sure others do that as well, as I'm sure others do what UnLeaded is saying. Different strokes for different folks as they say, but the bottom line is that asking for a limit is stupid. This is a game that people paid for (assumedly). They should be able to enjoy it however they wish. Just because you don't think it makes scores legit doesn't mean they should be limited. Besides. Even the best players had to practice to get where they are. That's true of anything, be it game, sports, work, some sort of discipline... Everyone had to start from the bottom up.

Bottom line - It's just a game. Enjoy it for yourself and don't worry about others.