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Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:30 pm
by more heat than light
Manwell Pablo wrote:how does that even work surely a achievement is worth its base score at least.


It's called ratio decay and is a bit tricky to explain. In the GTASC they take a snapshot of your TA score at the start of the week. Your current score for the week is recorded as (Your current TA score - The start of the week TA score). This can throw up some anomalies.

Imagine you unlocked a rare achievement before the cutoff worth 100 points. After the cutoff a lot more people unlock that achievement, and it becomes less rare. It's now worth just 75 points. This gives you a weekly score of -25.

This is why it's best to avoid getting hard achievements on new games, as they will always be high scoring to start with and then drop as time goes on. It works the other way too though, if you've completed a game which becomes a Game With Gold for instance, loads more people will start the game, increasing those ratios and giving you a large boost.

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:44 pm
by Manwell Pablo
more heat than light wrote:
Manwell Pablo wrote:how does that even work surely a achievement is worth its base score at least.


It's called ratio decay and is a bit tricky to explain. In the GTASC they take a snapshot of your TA score at the start of the week. Your current score for the week is recorded as (Your current TA score - The start of the week TA score). This can throw up some anomalies.

Imagine you unlocked a rare achievement before the cutoff worth 100 points. After the cutoff a lot more people unlock that achievement, and it becomes less rare. It's now worth just 75 points. This gives you a weekly score of -25.

This is why it's best to avoid getting hard achievements on new games, as they will always be high scoring to start with and then drop as time goes on. It works the other way too though, if you've completed a game which becomes a Game With Gold for instance, loads more people will start the game, increasing those ratios and giving you a large boost.


.......k :D :fp:

I'm not going to worry about it as I'm too crap to get hard Chevos and too poor to buy new games....that'll be my official excuse for not understanding anyway.

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:57 pm
by more heat than light
I explained it badly, don't worry. TA scores go up and down. Dont worry about it too much. :-)

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:14 pm
by Manwell Pablo
more heat than light wrote:I explained it badly, don't worry. TA scores go up and down. Dont worry about it too much. :-)


I get how TA scores work just not how you could ever end up negative if it's all relative to one week. but yeah we will leave it at that :D

Anyone need any forza (apart from 6) online achievements? I'll even extend the offer to prestige world as they are going home at the moment

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:26 pm
by more heat than light
I do have one of the Forza games on my hard drive, I think it might be Forza 5. Got it free with the Xbox, they're not really my thing but I'm happy to boost at some point. :-)

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:54 pm
by Manwell Pablo
more heat than light wrote:I do have one of the Forza games on my hard drive, I think it might be Forza 5. Got it free with the Xbox, they're not really my thing but I'm happy to boost at some point. :-)


Erf, the only ones I need on 5 are paint job and tune related. Which would have outstanding ratios but they are a massive ball ache, plus you'd have to do literally all the work for minimal personal reward.

Perhaps have a look if you somehow end up out of the individual before team :D

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 11:39 am
by more heat than light
Made a small amount of progress this morning. :shifty:

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:48 pm
by Manwell Pablo
more heat than light wrote:Made a small amount of progress this morning. :shifty:


:lol:

I think we are safe now!

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:23 pm
by more heat than light
Manwell Pablo wrote:
more heat than light wrote:Made a small amount of progress this morning. :shifty:


:lol:

I think we are safe now!


Yeah, but we gotta get that bonus. Should be plain sailing from this position though.

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:22 pm
by Manwell Pablo
more heat than light wrote:
Manwell Pablo wrote:
more heat than light wrote:Made a small amount of progress this morning. :shifty:


:lol:

I think we are safe now!


Yeah, but we gotta get that bonus. Should be plain sailing from this position though.


I'm gonna need 1600 (at least) to stay safe in the individual comp given everyone has that crazy bonus so will keep so we will get it.

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:26 pm
by more heat than light
Don't worry too much, not everyone remembers to use their bonus. First weeks cutoff should be fairly low.

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 5:08 pm
by Manwell Pablo
more heat than light wrote:Don't worry too much, not everyone remembers to use their bonus. First weeks cutoff should be fairly low.

It's not even a positive figure ATM :D

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:35 pm
by Manwell Pablo
Ok so Xbox live is broken and I'm owed about 400 GS :lol:

Do hope this gets sorted.

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:39 pm
by more heat than light
Are you playing on Xbox One? If so it should be fine, those achievements usually sort themselves out.

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 11:45 pm
by Manwell Pablo
more heat than light wrote:Are you playing on Xbox One? If so it should be fine, those achievements usually sort themselves out.


Yep I've had it before and it's been ok just under current circumstances slightly concerning.

EDIT: you might want to hold fire and think about next week now I may have accidentally unlocked a lot of achievements and we might have enough for bonus :lol: I'll leave the Xbox on over night as they are leaking through

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 6:19 am
by more heat than light
Haha, nice! I'll continue my plod through Dark Souls 3 then. :-)

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:18 am
by more heat than light
Prestige Worldwide in the drop zone. :dread:

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 5:11 pm
by hamm sandwich
Not for much longer, hopefully.

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 1:44 pm
by more heat than light
hamm sandwich wrote:Not for much longer, hopefully.


That's good to know. :-)

We're still a good 1500G away from the bonus target this week. Do you have anything else in the tank Manuel? Happy to pump a bit more in if needs be.

Re: GTASC 2018 // Week 1 // Let battle commence!

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:59 pm
by Manwell Pablo
more heat than light wrote:
hamm sandwich wrote:Not for much longer, hopefully.


That's good to know. :-)

We're still a good 1500G away from the bonus target this week. Do you have anything else in the tank Manuel? Happy to pump a bit more in if needs be.


I thought it was 6000?

Yeah I can do if we need it.

Oh. I bet it's 6000G not TA