There is an assumption in concluding that.Dax wrote:What eats the shit outta me is these "one and only" last minute submissions that crush my score after ive been leading and improving all week long. Its just in bad taste.
I can't play in these cuz I play using macmame, but for almost all of my inps I have uploaded to MARP I didn't upload each and every single new best score I got when playing the game.
I played it and when I felt I was done with it(for months) or had the top score I would then upload the inp.
I then wouldn't upload another inp for it...even if a better score until someone else had topped my previous score.
I have at least 50 replay files on my HD from the past year like this that would all earn decent MARP points(at least 50 points for each replay file) but I haven't submitted any of those because I felt they were efforts where I could do better...then just never got back to playing the game.
I have a handful that are better than ones I currently have posted at MARP also but I have not submitted them...cuz I know if I play the game even another night or 2 I can beat that score too.
If I was playing in these, I might be where I would give a shout to threads like this announcing my current best score for the game...but I wouldn't bother uploading any replay file until I was DONE playing it for the event.
I think it's even more important knowing all replay files are saved at MARP...so even when you upload a new one your older ones for that same rom set are still on the MARP site....what a huge waste of storage space to have that as the default. By default older replays and scores should be totally deleted if a new one is uploaded...then perhaps a checkbox on the submission form where checking it has the site preserve your previous replay file...so in those cases where someone wants to refer to that one also they can.
I'd bet 15+% of the storage space for all the replay files are ones that really could be deleted.
I wonder for some games if someone might have 20+ replay files uploaded for the 1 rom set cuz they upload each new personal high they get....what a waste. I think most would only want to watch the best one they have....not the previous 19+ that were lower and less skilled. The only time that would be cool would be to see some cool trick or event that happened in that other game but not the 1 you have your best score for.