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

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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
NaomiMinette

Stefan wrote:

I should join this. owo
You should :P

Anyway, krazy karting as usual, etc. etc. etc. pieguy's such a haxor, etc. etc., etc. And now to focus on New Super Mario Bros. 2.
Topic Starter
Ekaru
Well, *now* I learn that you can cancel bob-omb explosions with the Tanooki Tail. It would have helped a lot to have known that earlier. XP
NaomiMinette
Meh... They usually blow up on me before I get the chance ._.
Topic Starter
Ekaru

Blazevoir wrote:

Meh... They usually blow up on me before I get the chance ._.
Are you trying to do it on reaction? You basically need to "feel out" when the bob-omb is going to explode for the correct timing. Even then it's only worth the risk if you're on like SNES RR or something where there isn't much else you can do other than stopping completely.
mm201
As if you'd ever have a tail at the right time.
*tests it out on blue shells...*
Justykanna
Maybe I should try this party thing sometime. Never actually played anything online on my N3DS before. =S
(That and I'm not ACTUALLY that great at the game, lol).
NaomiMinette
The more players, the better, especially if there's no one else around :D
Topic Starter
Ekaru
@Blaze: Seems that I've raced with you 323 times.

Hmm, I need to stop trolling, looking at that win-loss ratio. :P
NaomiMinette
Eh... I don't really care about my (overall) win-loss ratio anymore. My losses are starting to catch up to my wins ._.
Topic Starter
Ekaru

Blazevoir wrote:

Eh... I don't really care about my (overall) win-loss ratio anymore. My losses are starting to catch up to my wins ._.
Blame MM. :D

Though, I was referring to our specific W:L ratio we have with each other. ;P

EDIT: Also, I have a crapton of high-VR players on my list now. If anyone wants in on my stalker matches, just tell me and I'll start posting in #videogames when I do them.
Justykanna

Blazevoir wrote:

The more players, the better, especially if there's no one else around :D
I'll see.
Looking over the rules, I dunno if my internet connection's even stable.
9PM PST, that what... 6PM EST?
Topic Starter
Ekaru

Justykanna wrote:

Blazevoir wrote:

The more players, the better, especially if there's no one else around :D
I'll see.
Looking over the rules, I dunno if my internet connection's even stable.
9PM PST, that what... 6PM EST?
That's 10 PM EST, since it's 9 PM Central.

I'm considering starting it one hour earlier, though, to make it easier for people to play longer.
Justykanna
10PM? Gonna need to hole up alone in my basement and sit beside my router to get a good connection there late at night. xD
How long does it usually go until?
Aside from the rules in the original post, anything I should know?
NaomiMinette

Justykanna wrote:

10PM? Gonna need to hole up alone in my basement and sit beside my router to get a good connection there late at night. xD
How long does it usually go until?
Aside from the rules in the original post, anything I should know?
It varies. Sometimes it can be as long as 3+ hours, sometimes as short as 1-2 hours. As far as any additional rules go, please add kartparty to your highlights so you'll know when we're starting or when you can join in (if there ends up being connection issues or if we're starting up a new set).

More on the Skype thing: though it's completely optional, we'd love it if you could join us on there so we can rage at each other in real time :P

Oh yeah... The osu! Mario Kart 7 community code is over at the Nintendo 3DS Club thread, if you haven't grabbed it already. It'd also help to grab some of the friend codes there since we usually go on Worldwide if there's 4 players or less.

Uhh... Yeah... I think that's pretty much it. Everything else is usually discussed in-game. Hope to see ya there!
Justykanna

Justykanna wrote:

It varies. Sometimes it can be as long as 3+ hours, sometimes as short as 1-2 hours. As far as any additional rules go, please add kartparty to your highlights so you'll know when we're starting or when you can join in (if there ends up being connection issues or if we're starting up a new set).

More on the Skype thing: though it's completely optional, we'd love it if you could join us on there so we can rage at each other in real time :P

Oh yeah... The osu! Mario Kart 7 community code is over at the Nintendo 3DS Club thread, if you haven't grabbed it already. It'd also help to grab some of the friend codes there since we usually go on Worldwide if there's 4 players or less.

Uhh... Yeah... I think that's pretty much it. Everything else is usually discussed in-game. Hope to see ya there!
I dunno what you mean by adding 'kartparty' because I've never done this before. I'll have to look around the multiplayer stuff before tomorrow I guess.

My computer's in my room on the top floor of the house and the router's in the basement. Chances are, if I want a good internet connection, I'll need to be in the basement but that's another thing I'll have to test out. How do you join rooms in Skype, never done that before either.

Whose friend code, yours?
bomber34


I just colored the important parts ^^
Soaprman

Justykanna wrote:

Justykanna wrote:

How do you join rooms in Skype, never done that before either.

Whose friend code, yours?
One person (usually me or mm) starts a call and adds others on their friend list to it. If you want, you can go ahead and add me on there. (Skype name: soaprman)

As for friend codes, you don't need to add everyone, just as long as you've added someone in the group if we play worldwide. I'll add you if you're playing with us tomorrow night.
Justykanna
I am amazed at myself at how long it took me to do all that...
I've 'favourited' the osu! community in Mario Kart 7 and added the kartparty to the osu! in game highlighter (thank you bomber).
Hopefully I'll be ready to go tomorrow.
Soaprman
Remember to hang out in #videogames too. That's the channel we use to set things up.
mm201
lol @ bomber censoring his ignore list :P
Alo Justykanna I should warn you we're good. :D
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