captainzakku
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Is there a way to remove high scores after they have been submitted? Would deleting my own demos work, or is there an easier way?

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zex20913
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I'm not sure why you would want to do that...remove them from the server, at least.

If you improve your score in a room, that score will replace the old one.

If it's for your own conservation of space on your computer, then manual control is the way to go.

If there is a way to delete your demos from the server, I don't know about it. Schik would, but only if such a method exists.

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halyavin
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zex20913 wrote:
I'm not sure why you would want to do that...remove them from the server, at least.

In order to remove cheat (sniped or started from entrance not available now) demos for example. Or remove demos with too long or weird pauses (playing DROD after drinking beer for example).

Beef Row
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halyavin wrote:

zex20913 wrote:
I'm not sure why you would want to do that...remove them from the server, at least.

In order to remove cheat (sniped or started from entrance not available now) demos for example. Or remove demos with too long or weird pauses (playing DROD after drinking beer for example).

Also, for people that play for average rank, I could see getting 100th place in a long terribly tedious room, and just wishing you could delete the demo instead of replaying that room.

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Rabscuttle
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Why not just remove all scores that aren't #1 => average rank: 1.00, average score: 17.00. yeah baby!

I can see me using something like this if I get a #1 and then noticing that there are some improvements that could be made and I don't have time, so I remove my score to stop nosy nellies from peeking at it before I have a chance to examine it properly. But that would probably stuff up the lost #1s and histories.

So I'm agin' this idea.

captainzakku
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zex20913 wrote:
I'm not sure why you would want to do that...remove them from the server, at least.

If you improve your score in a room, that score will replace the old one.

If it's for your own conservation of space on your computer, then manual control is the way to go.

If there is a way to delete your demos from the server, I don't know about it. Schik would, but only if such a method exists.

Mostly I was curious. I'm not sure I would even if I could, I was just realizing today that in order to get to averaging 8 pts/room I need to either
A) go back and beat the 200 rooms in JtRH that I'm averaging 100 on (which I'm not sure I want to do right now)
B) beat another 950 rooms at 10 pts/room
C) just remove the 200 scores, which hopefully would only take 20 rooms anyway.

Given that everyone has played JtRH, I figured it is probably the hardest hold to score well on, and that I would score better if I played 50 other holds before I went back and tried to optimize there.

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zex20913
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Fortunately, ties are acceptable forms of point gaining. I remember, back in the day, if we had 8 1st place ties, that was it for points. There weren't even points per room back then! It was a crazy time, and you should be glad you've been born into this world. Sonny.

--The 23 year old fogey.

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Beef Row
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captainzakku wrote:
Mostly I was curious. I'm not sure I would even if I could, I was just realizing today that in order to get to averaging 8 pts/room I need to either
A) go back and beat the 200 rooms in JtRH that I'm averaging 100 on (which I'm not sure I want to do right now)
B) beat another 950 rooms at 10 pts/room
C) just remove the 200 scores, which hopefully would only take 20 rooms anyway.

Well, as someone 2 places below you on the board, I have to say I support your worthy goal of lowering your score! ;-) Good luck finding a way

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