Archive: 16 posts

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On my challenging levels I try and wait till there are alot of plays before setting a score. I kind of feel like I'm cheating though because I know all the INS and outs. There is a few of My levels that for the life of me I cannot get into the top three. So are you king of your own levels or do you let the community go at it?

2010-08-19 17:00:00 Author: CENTURION24 Posts: 266

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Never made any levels that had many plays so, i havent set the highscore for my levels.

2010-08-19 17:04:00 Author: grayspence Posts: 1990

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Depends... Not that I've done this with any of my levels, but I'd play the level and get first, but not a perfect score. Something beatable, but challenging to surpass. Then, once passed, I'd take the top spot again!

2010-08-19 17:05:00 Author: piggabling Posts: 2979

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I tend to be near the top of my levels, but not on my survival challenges.

2010-08-19 17:06:00 Author: Jedi_1993 Posts: 1518

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I purposely try to avoid getting too many points on my own levels. I know all of the boss patterns by heart, all of the secret point bubble caches, and I've generally playtested each part of the level enough that I can breeze through them with ease. That, to me, is the definition of an unfair advantage, so I counter it by not getting all of the points that I could. I don't feel a particular sense of accomplishment getting the top spot on my own levels anyway. It kind of feels like winning a competition for which you're one of the judges.

2010-08-19 17:14:00 Author: Gilgamesh Posts: 2536

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I guess I need to rethink the way I do things. I always figured it'd be embarrassing not to have the top score of your own level, but I've noticed that all the creators I respect the most never seem to be in the top five or so of their own levels. Anyway, whenever I find a hole in one of my levels, instead of closing it off, I make it a secret with a bunch of points. I get all those points and set my high score: if anybody else gets a score close to mine, I know they found the secret. Someone else actually found the infinite point glitch in my Starfighter level before I did... but I went back and got a higher score anyway

2010-08-19 18:13:00 Author: Sehven Posts: 2188

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Yeah, It's pretty much cheating, imo. And if the creator has the top score, I dont bother attempting to beat them, as for all I know, they could have a custom sticker switch with an infinite bubble spawn or something. When I playtest online, I avoid those extra bubbles off the main path, so I -don't- get a highscore. For the most part I playtest on my moon before publish/republish (for fixes only), that way I can try and break it without worrying about the score. I ran through my R&C level online (since it's hard to find on my moon lol), to see if I could ace it (did btw), and got the high score by accident, ha. Luckily someone had already beaten it the next day when I checked it. My C&H level has an exponential bubble combo at the end depending on how many hidden tuna cans you find. I made -sure- I didn't playtest that one online heh.

2010-08-21 00:32:00 Author: midnight_heist Posts: 2513

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I always try to get the highest score in order to show the player how much is possible for them to get. On the other hand, when people have beaten my score, I tend to get competitive about it & won't stand for second place.

2010-08-21 01:54:00 Author: ApeCheese Posts: 369

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I try to got a "top score" but not an "ultimate score/ unbeatable score." What I mean is, I will et a really high score, but break a combo or stop at the race-gate for a bit so to loose some points, leaving a small window to players to surpass that score, but not just handing it away, you know?

2010-08-21 02:36:00 Author: Silverleon Posts: 6707

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I never get the highscore on my levels, cause I die all the time

2010-08-21 12:36:00 Author: Alec Posts: 3871

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I think the best thing to have in certain levels such as races or survival challenges is to set a score as best you can playing it properly, if you have a great level it should be beaten, in many cases it will surprise you that people can score X amount more than you in those types of levels. But in the more traditional platform levels where there is X amounts of ways to chain etc you will know how to make a near perfect score, I would avoid doing this TBH.

2010-08-21 13:00:00 Author: robotiod Posts: 2662

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My survival level What a Dump, I'm trying to reach 1st place but its hard.

2010-08-24 08:03:00 Author: Eronninja13 Posts: 637

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Altho you are somewhat pushed to get a high score on "Difficult levels" as not [placing a score there will lead people to say its trully impossible since even the creator hasn't finished it yet.... :/

2010-08-24 09:14:00 Author: Silverleon Posts: 6707

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Yeah I have a Mirrors edge level and am not at the top but it doesn't really bother me I am just happy that someone gets the chance to feel a sense of pride to own the 1# spot.

2010-08-24 09:15:00 Author: AssassinatorRFC Posts: 715

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In my first level, me and my brother put a secret area, just so that we could get the top score. We still have scores of 1 million, and nobody even comes close But now it doesn't really bother me. I'm not even sure I've played through my most recent level completely since I published it.

2010-08-24 10:04:00 Author: Otune Posts: 131

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Yeah I would normaly let the community score. And I am not the master of all my levels it seems. People did pull off some CRAZY scores in Crazy Train. Seriously. .

2010-08-25 17:35:00 Author: RangerZero Posts: 3901

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