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Mario Kart 7 weekly kartparties (Sat, 9 PM CST)

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Ekaru
It's 5PM? Oh goody!
NaomiMinette
Okay, so time zones officially suck. Apparently DST doesn't take away an hour when converting timezones. The time for the kartparty according to bomber was supposedly 4 PM CDT, but he said we can have it at 5 PM CDT.

Ah whatever... It's still pretty much the same schedule anyway.
rust45
I forgot about DST. Curse you America and your arbitrary systems that other countries don't use!

But it's going to be 5 PM Central. That would still be 3 for me then. Are we gonna skype for this party?
NaomiMinette
SKYPE SHOULD BE MANDATORY IN ALL KARTPARTIES /ragecaps

But seriously, most likely.
rust45
C'mon guys, let's do this.
Topic Starter
Ekaru
It's annoying when you pick a course you just played on because you're a sore loser and then it gets picked and you still do poorly.

I hate this game and I hate Music Park. :roll:

See you guys next time! 8-)
mm201
So are we doing the regularly scheduled party tonight? :D~
Topic Starter
Ekaru

mm201 wrote:

So are we doing the regularly scheduled party tonight? :D~
I already announced it last Sunday or so, so yep! ^_^
NaomiMinette
So how about that Toad Circuit?
Soaprman

Blazevoir wrote:

So how about that Toad Circuit?
Topic Starter
Ekaru

Blazevoir wrote:

So how about that Toad Circuit?
I demand vandalism of Goop's profile! >:O
0_o
SUP GUYS

EDIT: APPARENTLY I SUCK!
NaomiMinette
Faceman, y u no play with us moar? =c

Also, it was odd how you joined us mid-Community session.
0_o
I don't check the forums very often.. I just happened to be browsing this thread when I saw you guys were playing so I hopped on.

I'll see if I can be more pro-active with keeping up with this stuff in the future.

Also I'll have to play with a stat calculator to find an optimal kart combo..
Topic Starter
Ekaru

0_o wrote:

I don't check the forums very often.. I just happened to be browsing this thread when I saw you guys were playing so I hopped on.

I'll see if I can be more pro-active with keeping up with this stuff in the future.

Also I'll have to play with a stat calculator to find an optimal kart combo..
9 PM Central time on Saturdays. That's all you gotta remember.
Soaprman
If you want a good setup, some stats are more important than others. Mainly, look at acceleration. High acceleration has two big things on its side:

  1. It allows faster recovery from being hit by items or falling off the track or whatever. High max speed is kind of useless since your speed is being knocked down to zero so often.
  2. At the start of the race, it makes it more likely that you can pull ahead and grab the coins, increasing your speed and allowing you to widen the gap. High acceleration karts are the karts most likely to experience "time trials" in online races.
Each character weight class also gives its own small bonuses... there's a chart with all this stuff on GAMEFAQs.

I use Wiggler because it's my favorite character of the lot, and I make it work by choosing a kart and wheels (Bumble-V and Roller) that have extreme acceleration to offset the poor numbers Wiggler would have in those stats otherwise.

I actually think it would be good if in a future kart game they did away with character weight classes and keep the customization to the karts. It would remove pressure to pick characters just because they're better than others.
mm201
Basically Soap tries to balance "effective racing" with "being a douche who can knock you off the track." :P

I use Train because of its max acceleration, extremely tight handling, and long MT stat. I use wood instead of roller for their better offroad, plus my use of a featherweight character and Paraglider means I get the highest possible acceleration anyway.

You can use a time trial kart combination, but it's a gamble that you can get to first place, hold it, and hope not many blue shells come along. Time trial karts use one of the top speed frames (usually BDasher, but sometimes Zucchini, Blue 7, and Bruiser) with either slick, red, mushroom, or gold wheels. Slick/gold have the best speed, slicks have better handling/MTs, gold have slightly better offroad/underwater, reds are best offroad (which includes snowy/rainy tracks), and mushrooms have better handling.

Woods are like mini reds, rollers are like mini mushrooms, sponges are like mini slicks.
bomber34
btw. can someone make me a "Married to Rainbow Road SNES" signature?
NaomiMinette
Good luck fitting it into your sig :P
bomber34
I can manage that somehow ^^
Topic Starter
Ekaru

mm201 wrote:

Basically Soap tries to balance "effective racing" with "being a douche who can knock you off the track." :P

I use Train because of its max acceleration, extremely tight handling, and long MT stat. I use wood instead of roller for their better offroad, plus my use of a featherweight character and Paraglider means I get the highest possible acceleration anyway.

You can use a time trial kart combination, but it's a gamble that you can get to first place, hold it, and hope not many blue shells come along. Time trial karts use one of the top speed frames (usually BDasher, but sometimes Zucchini, Blue 7, and Bruiser) with either slick, red, mushroom, or gold wheels. Slick/gold have the best speed, slicks have better handling/MTs, gold have slightly better offroad/underwater, reds are best offroad (which includes snowy/rainy tracks), and mushrooms have better handling.

Woods are like mini reds, rollers are like mini mushrooms, sponges are like mini slicks.
I can testify that his combo works nicely. ^_^ I do need to try out my old Bumblebee/Roller/Flower Glider combo against you guys, though.
0_o
Thanks for the tips guys. I actually was planning on focusing acceleration and miniturbo, I'm just not that familiar with the miniturbo stats for each part which is what I was gonna use the stat calculators for.

I'll see if I can pull myself away from my newly-gifted Kid Icarus and Xenoblade at some point this week so I can get a nice kart setup going for next week ^_^
rust45

bomber34 wrote:

btw. can someone make me a "Married to Rainbow Road SNES" signature?
Soap was the one making those. So he's the one to ask about it.
CNM501
Since uhh, appreantly there's those siggy thingies, I humbly request a Married to Maple Treeway sig please. o3o
And just to add to the kart setup discussion, I use Gherkin and regular glider and slim wheels. Why? Mostly because Gherkin is green heheh. :D
Soaprman
Give my generator a try!

http://soaprman.net/r/marriage/

It still has some kinks to work out and I want to add a bit more functionality to it (mainly regarding image resizing/cropping and maybe image auto-uploading) but what's there should get the job done if you can find a pic and resize it yourself. Everything but the preview bgcolor changer works perfectly in Firefox (not sure why that stopped working, will have to look). The upload image from computer doesn't work in non-Firefox browsers yet... will get that working later on. Once I'm done I'll release it to the masses...

If you don't want to do that I'll have it to you sometime tomorrow.
CNM501
Oh thanks. I'll try it sometime and I'm team Firefox so it's all good. But I'd prefer to get it from you personally o3o. But Thanks!~~
mm201
OSX Safari is making the text really fuzzy.
http://puu.sh/HeFA
pieguyn

Blazevoir wrote:

So how about that Toad Circuit?
:?

as for stats, I tried to get high acceleration and handling, but I didn't want to sacrifice too much speed :? so I found a combination that gives me 4.25 of each and 3.0 speed (Lakitu+Mushroom+Pipe Frame), and it works fine... And I use Lakitu cause I like Lakitu 8-)
Soaprman
As requested by people since I'm not in bed quite yet:



mm201: Try adjusting zoom a notch. I had that happen in IE9 too. I recall it being fine on Windows Safari.

Pixel fonts are fun. They don't resample nicely (esp. at smaller sizes) and with some of them you get display issues if you center align them with certain characters... I think characters with an even pixel width? Not positive on that, it's just a guess. The 1 screws up in this font though with center align, so I had to left align then move a whole number of pixels over to make it look centered.
CNM501
Woo Thanks Soap! :D
Topic Starter
Ekaru
9 PM Central tomorrow etc. etc. etc. Obligatory "So Blaze doesn't freak out" etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
NaomiMinette
Y U NO SKYPE WIT US YET >=C /freakout

Ohai
Topic Starter
Ekaru
We're happy to accept any nationality in our kart parties. However, please join us in #videogames first so we know that you're an osu! member interested in joining us.

Thank you.

Also, someone should probably edit the OP with our standard time now. W/E

EDIT: Also, I think I'll use this combo again next time.
Soaprman
I said this in Skype but you didn't hear it... I think it was probably someone one of us faced in worldwide that found us in the rivals list and said "ooh, that mii looks neat, I'll race this person again".

At least I think you can join community via rivals.
mm201
New music park drum strat:
Hold your right drift into and out of the drum, release just before landing on the far side, land into a left slide. If done correctly, you should strafe to the right.
NaomiMinette
Best thing about these kartparties: the sudden drop from 1st to 8th /o/

Anyway, was fun- and rage-filled as always~ Too bad it ended shorter than usual...
Topic Starter
Ekaru

Soaprman wrote:

I said this in Skype but you didn't hear it... I think it was probably someone one of us faced in worldwide that found us in the rivals list and said "ooh, that mii looks neat, I'll race this person again".

At least I think you can join community via rivals.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Just covering all my bases. ~

New music park drum strat:
Hold your right drift into and out of the drum, release just before landing on the far side, land into a left slide. If done correctly, you should strafe to the right.
So practicing that for next time. Tired of bombing races due to screwing up the drums. Thanks!
Topic Starter
Ekaru
I'm bored. Let's play, "Rank our players!"

1. Greg (I think we can all agree on that one. STOP WINNING)
2. Blaze
3. Soap
4. Yoshi
5. CNM
6. rust
7. Ekaru (D:)
8. Gloop
9. Remmy (If he's scared of Gloop then that is *not* a good sign. MWAHAHAHAHA!)

I probably forgot somebody. Oh, if I was to put Elly in then I'd put Elly in the top 3 somewhere. Elly doesn't come on often enough for me to give Elly a ranking, though.

Oh, I forgot jj! Oops. Oh well! \o/
NaomiMinette

Ekaru wrote:

I'm bored. Let's play, "Rank our players!"

1. Greg (I think we can all agree on that one. STOP WINNING)
2. Blaze
3. Soap
4. Yoshi
5. CNM
6. rust
7. Ekaru (D:)
8. Gloop
9. Remmy (If he's scared of Gloop then that is *not* a good sign. MWAHAHAHAHA!)

I probably forgot somebody. Oh, if I was to put Elly in then I'd put Elly in the top 3 somewhere. Elly doesn't come on often enough for me to give Elly a ranking, though.

Oh, I forgot jj! Oops. Oh well! \o/
This is why I wish the scores wouldn't keep dropping each month... but then again some people would play whenever others aren't and so on.

I guess there's always the win/lose ratio screen, but until then... NINTENDO, MAKE A BETTER LEADERBOARD SYSTEM!
rust45

Ekaru wrote:

I'm bored. Let's play, "Rank our players!"

1. Greg (I think we can all agree on that one. STOP WINNING)
2. Blaze
3. Soap
4. Yoshi
5. CNM
6. rust
7. Ekaru (D:)
8. Gloop
9. Remmy (If he's scared of Gloop then that is *not* a good sign. MWAHAHAHAHA!)

I probably forgot somebody. Oh, if I was to put Elly in then I'd put Elly in the top 3 somewhere. Elly doesn't come on often enough for me to give Elly a ranking, though.

Oh, I forgot jj! Oops. Oh well! \o/
I'm not sure I'd rank you below me, but otherwise the list looks pretty good. MM is definitely the best of all of us.
bomber34
This fucking timezonestory ...
I want to be in the ranking too ^^
Topic Starter
Ekaru

rust45 wrote:

I'm not sure I'd rank you below me, but otherwise the list looks pretty good. MM is definitely the best of all of us.
I was being polite. In reality I'm actually tied with Soap for 3rd, but placing me like that would make me look arrogant. ;P Nah, I'm really that bad. :(

Also, I started playing on WW again. Is it just me, or do most of the people who pick Metal Mario with that overused combo not know what they are doing? It's like they just pick the combo they see used all the time in TT and copy it because they think this is Mario Kart Wii, completely forgetting that this game has different mechanics.

EDIT: Actually, I might be 4th, since I've never really seen Soap use a light character yet he still manages to have a pretty even W/L ratio with me.
Soaprman
I'm really strong.
Topic Starter
Ekaru

Soaprman wrote:

I'm really strong.
Yeah, our W/L ratio is 71-74, your favor. You son of a- :(
NaomiMinette
Haha, just noticed your OP edit :P (Then again, it's hard NOT to notice it, especially since you changed the thread title XD) <3 it~
rust45

Ekaru wrote:

However, do be warned that your W/L ratio will likely be tarnished by this experience.
I used to have a positive W/L before I started karting with you guys.
Topic Starter
Ekaru

Blazevoir wrote:

Haha, just noticed your OP edit :P (Then again, it's hard NOT to notice it, especially since you changed the thread title XD) <3 it~
Added Etiquette Rules just now, too, in hopes that we'll never have to suffer through somebody spamming Toad Circuit for like 2 hours straight again.
mm201
Ekaru: I find your play style very tenacious. I'd place you right up there with Blaze for sure.
bomber34
Btw. Who is yoshi on this list o.o ?
Soaprman
An old friend of mine from across the cyberweb. His account name here and elsewhere is Yoshi348.
NaomiMinette
Uhh... Stupid question, but do the etiquette rules only apply to Community? (AKA clarify the OP, yo!)
pieguyn

Ekaru wrote:

Added Etiquette Rules just now, too, in hopes that we'll never have to suffer through somebody spamming Toad Circuit for like 2 hours straight again.
If you're referring to me, I don't think that was for 2 hours :?

I'll try and get into more of these now that I know what time it's at :P
NaomiMinette
Thing is, we've actually been getting 8 player kartparties recently, so there might be a chance you'll either have to wait till someone else leaves or join a separate group :(

Assuming the latter happens, we could probably still play with two groups:
  1. One Group would have to be full
  2. 9th or so person attempting to join would automatically make a 2nd group
  3. A few/Some people from the first group could tag the person in the 2nd group
Topic Starter
Ekaru

Blazevoir wrote:

Uhh... Stupid question, but do the etiquette rules only apply to Community? (AKA clarify the OP, yo!)
My only point was that you shouldn't be picking the same course over and over and over the entire freaking time. Don't worry about it!

@pieguy: Nah, it was someone else. :D

@mm: Awwwwwww, thank you. <3
pieguyn
Fine with me ;)

Ekaru wrote:

pieguy: Nah, it was someone else. :D
oh yay, I'm off the hook :P
Topic Starter
Ekaru
I've been playing quite a bit of WW this past week, and I have come to discover just how amazing bananas are when used properly.
NaomiMinette
Define properly. Banana sniping ftw!
Soaprman
I've been playing quite a bit of community these past months, and I have come to discover just how amazing starmen are when used properly.
NaomiMinette
So guys, about CNM's and Elly's funeral... :P

But seriously, poot you two >_>
CNM501
We love ya too Blaze <3
Elysian_Arceus
I'm fine with a funeral as long as I get buried in a Warp Pipe or something related to Mario Bros.
NaomiMinette
K, enjoy this Piranha Plant~
Topic Starter
Ekaru
I crashed your guys' late-night kartparty. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
mm201
You can't crash a party to which you are invited.
Topic Starter
Ekaru

mm201 wrote:

You can't crash a party to which you are invited.
Pfft, technicalities.
rust45
What happened to Blazevoir's post about points?
Soaprman
NaomiMinette
Oh... I deleted it because no one replied... I can repost it if you guys are still interested.
Topic Starter
Ekaru

Blazevoir wrote:

Oh... I deleted it because no one replied... I can repost it if you guys are still interested.
I never even saw it! I can't reply to things I don't see! Repost, please.
NaomiMinette
What I removed (read this first!)
So, this is probably gonna sound extremely silly, but I thought about a way to make things a bit more interesting for our next kartparty:

For testing purposes (and to see if I'll keep this up), you'll have to try and hit me with certain items/a certain amount of items as part of challenges I'll be setting (they'll be announced before each race or so; Community races only unless we somehow get a Worldwide party with only us osu! people). For example, if I say "Try and hit me with 5 green shells within one race before it ends" (you MUST be somewhere within my touchscreen/range for it to count) and you manage to do so, you get a point. (No, I'm not letting it stack AKA you hitting me with 10 green shells for 2 points, etc. Yes, more than one person can get a point for the same challenge. Also, since I'm sure we all have different internet speeds, I'll be judging things from my screen.) The challenges, of course, will vary. Also, if any challenges involve more than one race (ex.: Try and hit me with a Blue Shell 3 times within 3 races), you'd get a point for each successful attempt. Whoever has the most points from these challenges wins!

Now, like I said before, this is just something silly I came up with, and you don't HAVE to do this. I just wanted to try something that'll probably make things a bit more competitive (and possibly more fun) even though you don't really win anything out of this. That being said, if this manages to catch on, I WILL be posting a leaderboard after each kartparty session. To keep things fair (especially for those who either couldn't join in right away or decide to leave early), a person can only have a certain max amount of points per session (which will probably vary depending on the amount of people playing/who agree to do this).

So what do you guys think?
After you've read the above
To be honest, I didn't think things through and will most likely scrap the above idea, and here's why:
  1. This will definitely requite a lot of concentration on my end, so I honestly don't know if I'll be able to track each hit properly.
  2. I suck at creativity, so the challenges will probably be generic (though if I try to add anything complex, it'll probably ruin what place you'll end up in).
  3. Since mm usually "does Time Trials" during most of the races, the challenges wouldn't be fair on his end.
  4. The above idea (first spoilerbox) was something I typed out of boredom.
Of course, if you guys have any ideas on how to keep things interesting, I'll try to continue this.
Topic Starter
Ekaru
Can we hit mm instead?
CNM501

Ekaru wrote:

Can we hit mm instead?
^ I agree with this post.
NaomiMinette
>Time Trial runs

Good luck, yo.
bomber34
Is the "typical saturday" kartparty going today?
I have school break so i can participate on any time
._. I guess it was 4 a.m. for me (6pm central time or so (noideatolazytocheck)
Topic Starter
Ekaru

bomber34 wrote:

Is the "typical saturday" kartparty going today?
I have school break so i can participate on any time
._. I guess it was 4 a.m. for me (6pm central time or so (noideatolazytocheck)
Yes, yes it is. 9 PM Central, but I'm pretty sure you have the time right on your side.

EDIT: 'cuz if it was 7 AM for you then you'd have a much easier time getting on. ;P
NaomiMinette
Eh... Guess I'll scrap the idea... Anyway, kartparty in 15 mins unless you're busy.

Y u gaiz liek mushys sauu mawch? Ez nawt faeeeeer!

P.S. pieguy's such a haxor
Topic Starter
Ekaru
I choose you, Honey Queen!
NaomiMinette
Time to break out the bug repellant... maybe.

(To be honest, I don't know if I'll be joining tonight; KH3D's really making me wanna finish it first.)
rust45
Take a break from it, I'm making my brother take a break from it so I can join in today's party.
NaomiMinette
Yeah... taking a break... Fighting 3 bosses IN A ROW WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO SAVE AND DYING A LOT isn't helping ._.

Damn, so many Starmen and magical jumping stuff this session, lol.
Topic Starter
Ekaru
I'm remembering to use Honey Queen this time.
mm201
I won't be on Skype this time because all you would hear is coughing.
Edit: I can join it but will be muted
NaomiMinette
Hope you feel better soon :(
Inori
If you wanna add me, my friend code is:

0130-1983-0524

Happy racing :)
NaomiMinette
ASD;LFKJASDL;FKJSA;LDKFJSD;L Yay!

You MUST join us next kartparty :D Grab the codes you need (especially the osu! MK7 Community one) at the Nintendo 3DS Club thread.

EDIT: ...Even though I said all that, there's a chance I might not be able to join this weekend's kartparty, if there's gonna be one. Apparently my net's capped at the moment ._. I'll edit this post again/make another post if something changes.
Soaprman
Just unscrew the cap? It's not on that tight.
Inori

Soaprman wrote:

Just unscrew the cap? It's not on that tight.
^That
rust45
I probably won't make tomorrow's party unless it goes on really long. I'm going to be heading to the fair to watch a friend's band play.
Inori
Yeah turns out I'm visiting my cousins over in Lake Tahoe so yeah. unless my uncle magically installed wifi in his car, I might not make it this saturday
NaomiMinette
It doesn't bother me either way. It's not like the kartparties are mandatory anyway (though I'd still like to race with new people as well).
Topic Starter
Ekaru

Blazevoir wrote:

It doesn't bother me either way. It's not like the kartparties are mandatory anyway (though I'd still like to race with new people as well).
If we don't get enough people tomorrow night then we can just reschedule it to Sunday. :P
Soaprman
Or we can storm worldwide and grind up to a million VR.
NaomiMinette

Ekaru wrote:

If we don't get enough people tomorrow night then we can just reschedule it to Sunday. :P
Sundays are sometimes bad for me, usually because that's when my family and I eat out (not that it's tradition or anything, but it seems like we hardly ever go anywhere till Sunday).
Saso-Hikage
Can everyone join your MK7 community ? ^^
Topic Starter
Ekaru

Soaprman wrote:

Or we can storm worldwide and grind up to a million VR.
Or get 10K coins. Which I really need to do.

sasori93 wrote:

Can everyone join your MK7 community ? ^^
Yes. :P Well, unless you're lying in the hospital severely injured or something, in which case we'd rather you get some rest.
Saso-Hikage

Ekaru wrote:

Yes. :P Well, unless you're lying in the hospital severely injured or something, in which case we'd rather you get some rest.
Argh, forget about it. I don't think I can join you. :/
I noticed that you meet at 9 pm. In Germany that would be 4 am and well, that's the time when normal people sleep :D
bomber34
After 4 weeks i realized that we suddenly have Etiquette Rules:
I lol'd ... I won't stop spamming rainbow road snes, because i never get that track anyway
I might join today again ._.

I also noticed the last time that you guys highlight me often while we do kartparties ... that's funny, because you should ´know already that i cannot chat because my room sucks but it actually does not suck because i like my room just the internet connection sucks
CNM501
Hnnnnng!! I haven't been regular in the Kartparties as much as I used to and probably won't be for a while! I'm so busy, because I wanna finish KH first XD, but in all seriousness I have been really busy lately so count me out of a few Kartparties for a while and I'll try and make a future one as soon as I can. :(
Topic Starter
Ekaru
Blahblahblahblah

Before anyone asks, no, we aren't cancelling. We might schedule another one, but still... Only one of you is actually a regular. >_>;
Stefan
I should join this. owo
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