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Hi all,

Due to having a really crap game on loderndf-g3, it has come to my attention that the scoring system for loderndf needs a minor alteration. The time indicated at the end of each level is the total time taken. Take my inp, I definitely did not take 19 minutes to complete the last level - it's impossible - the timer only goes up as far as 6 minutes.

http://marp.retrogames.com/index.cgi?mo ... 00&tourn=0

The current system is in favour of people that make mistakes late-on in the game. For example, if you make a mistake on the first level & you take 2 minutes, you will carry that 2 minutes on each subsequent level - penalizing you an additional 2 minutes for each level completed thereafter.

I suggest the scoring system for the loderndf-* games should be altered to:

10000*(levels complete) - (total time taken in seconds)

Total time taken is indicated at the end of the last successfully completed level.

Seconds of the game are not real seconds ; but it still shows how fast you complete the level, and we can easily deal with that since we have changed the 10k bonus by a 100k bonus recently to avoid any problem

Scoring for now is working perfectly IMO

Let me give a ficticious example.

Two players compete on the same three-stage course & each complete two stages at 30 second and one stage at 2 minutes.

The first player completes the first two at 30 second and the third at 2 minutes. The game would show the following records:

Stage one record: 30
Stage two record: 1 minute
Stage three record: 3 minutes

Total: 4.30 minutes.
Score: 29730

... as you would expect.

The second player completes the first stage in 2 minutes and then the following two stages in 30 seconds each.

Stage one record: 2 minutes
Stage two record: 2.30 minutes
Stage three record: 3 minutes

Total: 7.30 minutes
Score: 29550

Both of these player would have completed the whole game in the same time, but the record given at the end of the level is the total played time - not the time for the individual course.

I think the scoring system for this game needs changing to use only the last record - this is then the correct total time taken.

Mmmm ... maybe you're right ;
a few more work for editors then

Recent SKL's input on loderndf-g7 shows that Barthax is right : "time record" is total time for ALL stages clear so scoring has definitely (and for the very last time I hope) to be changed ... more than that, it makes scoring much more easier now : no need to take notes of all times during the game and to do complex calculates now

SCORING = (nb stages clear)x10000 - (time record at last stage completed in seconds)

I've updated all special rules link and edit (again !) all my scores ; it's now up to editors or players to do the same for other scores

Thanks for the notice. I'll change mine.

Editors will be adjusting the scores over the weekend.

All scores edited. So, now all of you Lode Runner maniacs can start confirming the scores