Fantasy Land

[mahlemiut]

http://replay.marpirc.net/inp/d/1/d/snp ... olf142.zip

Too much leeching, perhaps?

[Chad]

definitley leeching there in almost every stage but not an extremely excessive amount, tough question if it's too much since it can be done, at least progress was attempted to be made. Tough to call, definitley bbh's recording is better since it gets farther although doesn't extract nearly as many points.

http://replay.marpirc.net/r/fantland

[BBH]

The problem with this game (well there's a lot of problems with this game...) is that there's no in-game timer which makes leeching all too real a possibility for the player. It seems like although there is no in-game timer, if you wait around long enough on a level, it deducts 1 hit point (I'm not sure how long this takes... a minute or so maybe?). Since most of the enemies will shoot at you, I'm not sure if there is any spot in the game where one can leech away at no risk to the player other than losing life through time... saulon gets a lot of his leeching points on the ice level, and it doesn't look like the safest thing to do. Nonetheless, it does seem like the most lucrative part in the game to waste all your remaining life/lives on...

The way I see it there's two options to take here, both of which would alter the scoring on MARP:

1. Add a bonus for levels cleared. Something like 10,000,000 for each level, so each level cleared exceeds the amount of points anyone can get through leeching. The highest score will go to whoever can get away with the most leeching AND finish the game.

2. Add a bonus to the score only for recordings that finish the game. Again, it needs to be a bonus that would exceed a score spent doing nothing but leeching. At this time I'm not sure exactly what would be a good scoring implementation for the bonus.

Any other thoughts?