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beaner69
Sep 12, 2009
You get 880 I think for the 180 version.

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Snow Halation
Dec 29, 2008

The 60, 120, and 180 versions give 4x experience for 4x tokens. They reduce the number of times you have to play the event song. That's all.

Yakiniku Teishoku
Mar 16, 2011

Peace On Egg
I would guess ranks are going down fast from people burning the extra gems from Kotori's birthday.

Sidesaddle Cavalry
Mar 15, 2013

Oh Boy Desert Map

ReidRansom posted:

EX event song nope nope nope I'm just leave you alone. Once is enough.



The map fits the groove of the song quite nicely.

E: oh NOW I remember why people are all over the 4x stages in this event. The SR for this event is a Perfect Lock card.

Sidesaddle Cavalry fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Sep 13, 2014

finalcake
Oct 5, 2002

CHESTO~!!

Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:

E: oh NOW I remember why people are all over the 4x stages in this event. The SR for this event is a Perfect Lock card.

I didn't realize this was a Perfect Lock until I noticed "...why are there two locks while playing this song??". I just rushed to get this card because I'm a stupid Nozomi fanboy :V

This is also the first time I ever cared about event ranking, though. First time I ever got to the top 900 spot, but that lasted a good 5 hours and I was down to 1800. Now I'm up in 1100ish, and I don't know if I want to buy some hearts to maintain it or try to go the distance and break 900 again.

Sidesaddle Cavalry
Mar 15, 2013

Oh Boy Desert Map
From a gameplay perspective, it sounds worth it to spend the gems if your focus is to keep the second event card as either a working duplicate or idolization fodder to get more score value out of the one single card. Definitely cheaper than blowing more gems on maybe someday drawing a UR.

But I guess Nozomi fanboyism is valid too :v:

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


Aku posted:

I didn't realize this was a Perfect Lock until I noticed "...why are there two locks while playing this song??". I just rushed to get this card because I'm a stupid Nozomi fanboy :V

This is also the first time I ever cared about event ranking, though. First time I ever got to the top 900 spot, but that lasted a good 5 hours and I was down to 1800. Now I'm up in 1100ish, and I don't know if I want to buy some hearts to maintain it or try to go the distance and break 900 again.

Keep in mind that if you like to actually sleep at night, you'll likely drop a couple hundred places while the people who don't have jobs/school/whatever in the morning stay up tapping away.

finalcake
Oct 5, 2002

CHESTO~!!

ReidRansom posted:

Keep in mind that if you like to actually sleep at night, you'll likely drop a couple hundred places while the people who don't have jobs/school/whatever in the morning stay up tapping away.

It's true. At this point I'm just praying I stay above 1000 by the end of the event(I'm at 500-ish right now). I have a few more hearts to help boost me up, at least.

This is also the last event I'll dedicate this much time/effort into, it's so draining.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


It took me 128 attempts but I finally!!! FC'd Mermaid Festa Vol.2. Feels good, man.

Sidesaddle Cavalry
Mar 15, 2013

Oh Boy Desert Map
Congratulations! Those triple taps are an abomination. oh, vol. 2 not vol. 1

I hope everyone is enjoying their stay in Chez SchoolIdolFestival Thread

E: please enjoy complimentary one free love gem per day for seven days

Sidesaddle Cavalry fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Sep 15, 2014

finalcake
Oct 5, 2002

CHESTO~!!
Congrats! I feel like that's the hardest to fullcombo out of the four Dailies, tbh. The last set of skippy notes are so hard to time, for some reason.

And it's great to see the game get 500K users! And I'm not just saying this for the hearts :v:

finalcake fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Sep 15, 2014

Snow Halation
Dec 29, 2008

I just got my first FC on a Hard daily this evening with Otomeshiki Renai Juku.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


Holy poo poo. I dropped from ~650 at 11 pm to like ~1300+ by the end of it. That's bananas. This event was different. 26600+ pts for rank 1000 is way higher than previous ones, right? Maybe it's more players or maybe just this one because perfect lock or whatever, but if they're like this from here out I may give up on chasing second SRs.

finalcake
Oct 5, 2002

CHESTO~!!

ReidRansom posted:

Holy poo poo. I dropped from ~650 at 11 pm to like ~1300+ by the end of it. That's bananas. This event was different. 26600+ pts for rank 1000 is way higher than previous ones, right? Maybe it's more players or maybe just this one because perfect lock or whatever, but if they're like this from here out I may give up on chasing second SRs.

I was so pissed, because I was at 515 and I dropped all the way down to 1100s at the end. And I'm glad this is the last time I try to get the second SR, because if it's this competitive now, I don't want to think about what will happen onward.

Snow Halation
Dec 29, 2008

ReidRansom posted:

Holy poo poo. I dropped from ~650 at 11 pm to like ~1300+ by the end of it. That's bananas. This event was different.
I did pretty much the same drop, except it happened in the last 45 minutes.

ReidRansom posted:

26600+ pts for rank 1000 is way higher than previous ones, right?
Only a couple of events ago, getting into the top 1000 took about 15000 points.

Getting START:DASH!! as a new song is soothing the pain a little. It's one of my favorites.

Snow Halation fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Sep 15, 2014

PotU
Jul 5, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
is the new N card not out yet or something? spent 8k friend points and didnt get poo poo yet.

also did a 50 gem search thing and only got a loving SR hanayo everything is hell

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


Snow Halation posted:

I did pretty much the same drop, except it happened in the last 45 minutes.

Only a couple of events ago, getting into the top 1000 took about 15000 points.

Getting START:DASH!! as a new song is soothing the pain a little. It's one of my favorites.

I wish there was a way to look back at the scores from previous events, cus yeah, it feels ridiculous. If it's number of players, maybe they can throw us a bone and increase the rank cutoff for extra SRs like they do in Japan. Of course, looking at the score cutoff for previous events in Japan here, it looks like 30,000 isn't unusual. And I'd guess that if they do start moving the rank cutoff, it'll be with preventing too much score creep in mind, so I dunno, maybe this is just what we'll be looking at from here on.

Also, I saw a pubbie with a promo UR Honoka. Looked it up, the one from the limited edition Blu Ray set. Didn't even know the promo cards were something you could do on the english servers.

e: the promo URs really aren't very good.

ReidRansom fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Sep 15, 2014

Chill la Chill
Jul 2, 2007

Don't lose your gay


ReidRansom posted:

Holy poo poo. I dropped from ~650 at 11 pm to like ~1300+ by the end of it. That's bananas. This event was different. 26600+ pts for rank 1000 is way higher than previous ones, right? Maybe it's more players or maybe just this one because perfect lock or whatever, but if they're like this from here out I may give up on chasing second SRs.

Yep. I am just patiently waiting for my first UR and getting gems and the SR from events for now. At least I'm halfway to the next 11 draw and this weeklong event will make that much easier.

Maybe with a UR I can try competing for rank 1000 again. At least for that color.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


New EXs not so so bad.

And playing Sweet & Sweet Holiday again I can't believe I had so much trouble with it way back in the first event.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
I got a butler girl from my rank but when I went to look for the butler girl I got from accumulating event points she wasn't there so I guess I used her in training, oops.

The game consoled me for my stupidity by giving me a Honoka SR, an Eli SR, and a Nico UR when I spent 50 gems though. I'm really glad for that because now I can switch away from my Honoka UR as my leader character, her menu talk is annoying.

Happiness
Oct 10, 2004

ReidRansom posted:

I wish there was a way to look back at the scores from previous events, cus yeah, it feels ridiculous.

http://ll.idolactiviti.es/ The last five events have all been 24000 to 26000.

Going back to Umi's event it was still 22000.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


Happiness posted:

http://ll.idolactiviti.es/ The last five events have all been 24000 to 26000.

Going back to Umi's event it was still 22000.

Huh. Maybe it was just the end push that was more abrupt or something then. Or maybe I was just slacking compared to what I did on previous ones. Certainly felt a bit tedious with no EX songs.

beaner69
Sep 12, 2009
:toot:

AG3
Feb 4, 2004

Ask me about spending hundreds of dollars on Mass Effect 2 emoticons and Avatars.

Oven Wrangler

ReidRansom posted:

New EXs not so so bad.

And playing Sweet & Sweet Holiday again I can't believe I had so much trouble with it way back in the first event.

Same. I struggled a ton with it and failed probably 1/3 of the attempts I had on it back then, but when replaying it now it took me 2 tries to S-combo it. I'm still not sure if they made it easier or if I really was just that bad at the simultaneous star rings back then.

finalcake
Oct 5, 2002

CHESTO~!!
Sorry if this's been asked before, but I'm curious: does anyone know exactly how to level up a card's skill level? Some of my cards are permanently stuck on Lv1, while some are at Lv2 for whatever reason. I was thinking it'd depend on Super/Ultra Successful training, which itself seems to be random.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


You feed them dupes, like PAD. There's some sort of mechanic involved where you're guaranteed a skillup if the cards are the same skill level, I think, and the greater difference in card skill level, the lower chance of success. So like, take a dupe R Smile Honoka, feed it to itself, you get skill level 2. Feed it another, and you may or may not get the skillup. But feed another to yet another so that you now have two skill 2 cards, then feed one of those to the other, and you're guaranteed level 3. Something like that.

Snow Halation
Dec 29, 2008

never mind.

Snow Halation fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Sep 16, 2014

finalcake
Oct 5, 2002

CHESTO~!!

ReidRansom posted:

You feed them dupes, like PAD. There's some sort of mechanic involved where you're guaranteed a skillup if the cards are the same skill level, I think, and the greater difference in card skill level, the lower chance of success. So like, take a dupe R Smile Honoka, feed it to itself, you get skill level 2. Feed it another, and you may or may not get the skillup. But feed another to yet another so that you now have two skill 2 cards, then feed one of those to the other, and you're guaranteed level 3. Something like that.

Okay, this makes sense. Just tried it out with duplicate Rares for an Idolized Rare with the same skill and it works. Thanks for the explanation!

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


Gonna see if I can intentionally restrain myself on this next one and try to just accumulate gems instead. I've already got a full team of 9 green SRs, so I'm not exactly in great need of another, even though it is perfect lock so now I'm torn.

Snow Halation
Dec 29, 2008

ReidRansom posted:

Gonna see if I can intentionally restrain myself on this next one and try to just accumulate gems instead. I've already got a full team of 9 green SRs, so I'm not exactly in great need of another, even though it is perfect lock so now I'm torn.

I think I'm going to chase it. The card is super cute and I enjoy competition.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


Honestly, me too. Spending free gems on LP refills and just buying them when I want to do a 50 pull every now and again isn't going to kill me. I do alright.

e: cheaper than drinking and smoking, in any case.

Snow Halation
Dec 29, 2008

I do NOT like the patterns on this song.

finalcake
Oct 5, 2002

CHESTO~!!
Yeah, I'm not feeling After School Navigators at all. The song itself is such a weird juxtaposition, not to mention the chart itself isn't that fun. It also feels offsync somewhat, kind of like No Brand Girls...but that may just be my phone.

AF
Oct 8, 2007
hi
Spotted this thread a few days ago and have been playing since then. Game is pretty fun! Great fit for the touch screen input. Any tips for newbies? Should I be saving up as much gems as I can for the 10 + 1 card draw? What cards should I level? I've got my original leader up to 20 or so.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


AF posted:

Spotted this thread a few days ago and have been playing since then. Game is pretty fun! Great fit for the touch screen input. Any tips for newbies? Should I be saving up as much gems as I can for the 10 + 1 card draw? What cards should I level? I've got my original leader up to 20 or so.

Level all your cards to max, starting with your starter R (or SR/UR if you're super lucky I guess). Get additional Rs with all the friend points you'll get from rank, combo, and event rewards. And save your gems for now, no point in using them to refresh LP at low rank, and certainly not worth it to use them for continues if you gently caress up a song. Just keep ranking up for now, don't let your LP stay full longer than you have to, and try to earn enough event points for the SR.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


Or

Option 2:

Spend thousands of $$, win the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2DKqNVlhLY

x however many times it takes to get this

Sidesaddle Cavalry
Mar 15, 2013

Oh Boy Desert Map

Snow Halation posted:

I do NOT like the patterns on this song.

Aku posted:

Yeah, I'm not feeling After School Navigators at all. The song itself is such a weird juxtaposition, not to mention the chart itself isn't that fun. It also feels offsync somewhat, kind of like No Brand Girls...but that may just be my phone.

I guess it might only be me, but I just tried the Hard mode and I love it :rock: I think it helps that I enjoy the song itself, I think the lyrics about girls' afternoon out accompanied by thrash metal is goofy and adorable.

Can't wait for Expert again so I can spaz out all over my phone again like I'm doing with Festa Vol.1.

Snow Halation
Dec 29, 2008

I've changed my mind. I think I'm going to save my gems for Maki Maki-ma's event.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

I am so tired... I am so tired all the time...
After School NAVIGATORs is dumb as hell and I love it.

It's also an event song whose Hard I'm actually capable of completing, so there's that too. :v:

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Chill la Chill
Jul 2, 2007

Don't lose your gay


This event song is some funny baby metal. I'm at 40 gems ATM so I'll probably just save it for 50 and try to compete for rank 1000 in the next event instead.

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