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.

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...

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!

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/

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!

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.

This fucking timezonestory ...
I want to be in the ranking too ^^

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.

I'm really strong.

Soaprman wrote:

I'm really strong.

Yeah, our W/L ratio is 71-74, your favor. You son of a-

Haha, just noticed your OP edit (Then again, it's hard NOT to notice it, especially since you changed the thread title XD) <3 it~

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.

Blazevoir wrote:

Haha, just noticed your OP edit (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.

Ekaru: I find your play style very tenacious. I'd place you right up there with Blaze for sure.

Btw. Who is yoshi on this list o.o ?

An old friend of mine from across the cyberweb. His account name here and elsewhere is Yoshi348.

Uhh... Stupid question, but do the etiquette rules only apply to Community? (AKA clarify the OP, yo!)

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

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

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.

@mm: Awwwwwww, thank you. <3

Fine with me

Ekaru wrote:

pieguy: Nah, it was someone else.

oh yay, I'm off the hook

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.

Define properly. Banana sniping ftw!

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.

So guys, about CNM's and Elly's funeral...

But seriously, poot you two >_>

We love ya too Blaze <3

I'm fine with a funeral as long as I get buried in a Warp Pipe or something related to Mario Bros.

K, enjoy this Piranha Plant~

I crashed your guys' late-night kartparty. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

You can't crash a party to which you are invited.

mm201 wrote:

You can't crash a party to which you are invited.

Pfft, technicalities.

What happened to Blazevoir's post about points?

It... disappeared...

http://soaprman.net/r/spooky.wav

Oh... I deleted it because no one replied... I can repost it if you guys are still interested.

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.

Can we hit mm instead?

Ekaru wrote:

Can we hit mm instead?

^ I agree with this post.

>Time Trial runs

Good luck, yo.

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)

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

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

I choose you, Honey Queen!

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.)

Take a break from it, I'm making my brother take a break from it so I can join in today's party.

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.

I'm remembering to use Honey Queen this time.

I won't be on Skype this time because all you would hear is coughing.
Edit: I can join it but will be muted

Hope you feel better soon

If you wanna add me, my friend code is:

0130-1983-0524

Happy racing

ASD;LFKJASDL;FKJSA;LDKFJSD;L Yay!

You MUST join us next kartparty 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.

Just unscrew the cap? It's not on that tight.

Soaprman wrote:

Just unscrew the cap? It's not on that tight.

^That

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.

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

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).

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.

Or we can storm worldwide and grind up to a million VR.

Ekaru wrote:

If we don't get enough people tomorrow night then we can just reschedule it to Sunday.

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).

Can everyone join your MK7 community ? ^^

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. Well, unless you're lying in the hospital severely injured or something, in which case we'd rather you get some rest.

Ekaru wrote:

Yes. 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

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

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.

Blahblahblahblah

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

I should join this. owo

Stefan wrote:

I should join this. owo

You should

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.

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

Meh... They usually blow up on me before I get the chance ._.

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.

As if you'd ever have a tail at the right time.
*tests it out on blue shells...*

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).

The more players, the better, especially if there's no one else around

@Blaze: Seems that I've raced with you 323 times.

Hmm, I need to stop trolling, looking at that win-loss ratio.

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

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.

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.

Blazevoir wrote:

The more players, the better, especially if there's no one else around

I'll see.
Looking over the rules, I dunno if my internet connection's even stable.
9PM PST, that what... 6PM EST?

Justykanna wrote:

Blazevoir wrote:

The more players, the better, especially if there's no one else around

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.

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?

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

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 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

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?

I just colored the important parts ^^

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.

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.

Remember to hang out in #videogames too. That's the channel we use to set things up.

lol @ bomber censoring his ignore list
Alo Justykanna I should warn you we're good.

Soaprman wrote:

Remember to hang out in #videogames too. That's the channel we use to set things up.

Done.

mm201 wrote:

Alo Justykanna I should warn you we're good.

Oh I'm terrible at Mario Kart games, lol. I expect to be near the back half every race! =P

mm201 wrote:

lol @ bomber censoring his ignore list

Nobody should ever see themself being ignored by a random user

mm201 wrote:

Alo Justykanna I should warn you we're good.

Well most likely just you and blaze ^^

Soaprman wrote:

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.

Added you to Skype.
Uh. Alright. I'll need to find my friend code then, lol.

bomber34 wrote:

Well most likely just you and blaze ^^

Ekaru's better than me =c
___

Kartparty in 30 mins, blah blah blah. Make sure to get your chargers ahead of time *nudges Ekaru to add that to the OP*

So... what was up with that lag during Rainbow Road? Lol. Anyway, great party as always (pieguy, stop haxing!).

I really hope I can find a way to get better internet, otherwise I probably won't be able to play in many more of these for a while T T
(I'll still be around IRC and watch some of the worldwide races, but I'll just DC a lot)

Blazevoir wrote:

bomber34 wrote:

Well most likely just you and blaze ^^

Ekaru's better than me =c
___

Kartparty in 30 mins, blah blah blah. Make sure to get your chargers ahead of time *nudges Ekaru to add that to the OP*

So... what was up with that lag during Rainbow Road? Lol. Anyway, great party as always (pieguy, stop haxing!).

saving a star in 1st to dodge a lightning and then also dodging a blue by luck isn't haxing >_<

Actually, that's the first time I've ever dodged a blue in MK7 o-o

My Stars usually get Lightning'd when I try to save them ._.

I was hardly paying attention to the top screen to make sure I used the star in time, lol

Was a fun first time for me, regardless of being close to (if not) last every race.
Part of it is I dunno how the shortcuts and tricks that most other seem to know too though. =P

I'll probably come next week.

Justykanna wrote:

Was a fun first time for me, regardless of being close to (if not) last every race.
Part of it is I dunno how the shortcuts and tricks that most other seem to know too though. =P

I'll probably come next week.

It's not like you can't look up the shortcuts Also, some tips:

* MT (mini-turbo) whenever it's relevant.
* When drifting, hug the inner part of the turn as much as possible, though be careful when doing this when there's no wall.
* (This was mentioned during the kartparty, but I'll repeat it here anyway.) When getting shot out of a cannon, hold Down to get a speed boost during flight.
* Not sure if you knew this already, but you can trick off of glider ramps to get a slight speed boost.
* Stay behind someone long enough to get a draft/slipstream (it's basically a huge speed boost that lasts for a short while). BE CAREFUL WHEN TRYING TO DO THIS WHEN SOMEONE'S HOLDING AN ITEM BEHIND THEM AS WELL AS DURING TURNS!

Too bad i couldn't join, because of the time :/

Blazevoir wrote:

It's not like you can't look up the shortcuts Also, some tips:

* MT (mini-turbo) whenever it's relevant.
* When drifting, hug the inner part of the turn as much as possible, though be careful when doing this when there's no wall.
* (This was mentioned during the kartparty, but I'll repeat it here anyway.) When getting shot out of a cannon, hold Down to get a speed boost during flight.
* Not sure if you knew this already, but you can trick off of glider ramps to get a slight speed boost.
* Stay behind someone long enough to get a draft/slipstream (it's basically a huge speed boost that lasts for a short while). BE CAREFUL WHEN TRYING TO DO THIS WHEN SOMEONE'S HOLDING AN ITEM BEHIND THEM AS WELL AS DURING TURNS!

Well I can't exactly memorize them all.

I dunno what you mean by mini-turbo.
I know to hug inner part of ramps but I usually don't do it if there's someone nearby who can push me off. I tend to use karts that are light with high acceleration so bumping me off isn't exactly difficult.
Never knew about the holding down part. Someone said to hold something but I didn't hear em.
I do trick off of any sort of ramp when I can. Stages like Rainbow Roar when the bumps are sorta random I tend to miss them all.
I didn't actually tend to stick behind people because they can just move, unlike computer players.

MTs are the sparks you get while drifting. As for practicing drifting... Here are the courses I recommend practicing drifting on:

-Airship Fortress - in that U-turn at the beginning, practice until you can consistently go between the moles and the wall. It helps a lot with your precision.
-Bowser's Castle
-Neo Bowser City for obvious reasons
-Cheep Cheep Lagoon - you need to learn how to drift between the clamshells and the wall if you don't want that course to turn into an automatic not-good-placing
-Waluigi's Pinball, because it has very tight turns that are great for this.

Anyways, once you get decent lines and get a good kart combo together, the most important thing to learn is good item management. Mainly, the following points:

-Get into the habit of looking at the bottom screen regularly. This takes some practice; I recommend starting out by learning to do it on the straightaways. Once you get that down you can do cool things like:
-If someone has a red shell and you have nothing to defend with, stay behind them until it's safe. Else they'll just nail you.
-If you're close behind 1st and see a blue shell pop up, be prepared to brake in case they try to brake to nail you with a Blue Shell.
-Some people in 1st brake regularly. Then 2nd brakes. Then 3rd brakes. Then 4th brakes. Then 5th brakes. Then the person in 6th suddenly becomes 1st with a Blue Shell and you're all screwed. This is why you should only brake in 1st if the person in 2nd is literally right behind you; at high level play, if they have enough time to react they *will* brake, and said scenario will occur.

-If you have a red shell and the person ahead of you has a Tanooki Tail, wait for them to lose their tail before firing your red shell. They'll be an open target the moment they lose that tail.
-If you get a Lightning and the course has a huge gliding section, save the Lightning for that gliding section. It'll be worth it.
-If you get a Blue Shell, always wait a few seconds to see if the braking scenario I mentioned earlier occurs. It doesn't happen much in our rooms, but in like 40k VR rooms it happens all the damn time.

-It's usually better to leave bob-ombs behind you than to try to snipe somebody with them. It's 100x easier to get someone with a dropped bob-omb than a snipe.
-When possible, save your bananas for blind spots. Don't be that person that always winds up using their bananas right before an item box because they weren't paying attention.

Then there's some fancier stuff you can do, but a lot of that involves figuring out who has red shells and what's safe and blahblahblah. Also, I think that's enough for you to practice for now, anyways. ;P

Holy what in the... xD

Oh. Yeah, usually people I know refer to it as drifting. Not really MT. That I do on a pretty regular basis. Not 'quite' so worried about that as item management.

I really do like the karts I've been using. Huge acceleration. Just not a ton of top speed and lighter.

Next week's actually gonna be the only other week I'll be able to go because the week after that, I start school. University I'm going to has no wifi in my residence. =(

Justykanna wrote:

Oh. Yeah, usually people I know refer to it as drifting. Not really MT. That I do on a pretty regular basis.

No no, miniturbos are something you GET from drifting. Drifting's, well... drifting