Quote from: lousk on May 27, 2014, 05:22:32 AM

Quote from: Jacqul on May 27, 2014, 05:13:15 AM

Quote from: lousk on May 27, 2014, 04:35:33 AM

I don't understand this thread. How is it easier to mine with less time for each block? Winning is easy enough already.

The block time target is 5min at the moment. To try and get the games hard enough so ppl only solve it every 5 min the game is shortening the time available to play. At the moment 26 secs. This is working and blocks are found slower now than 2 days ago when they were found every minute or so.
At block 8000 we are now changing to a shorter expected block time 1 min likely instead of 5 min. This means the game won't keep shrinking the clock to try and retard players. This emans that people will have more time to solve, making it easier and so blocks will be found every minute. I expect that the clock will hover around 30 secs.

If you think it is easy now then you are one of the lucky ones. Ride and make coins!

Lucky? Nah, I'm an Elasto Mania player. Thanks for explanation, that clears it.

Although... with 30sec limit there were lots of unskilled luck finishes. 26sec is actually a bit challenging and you can't just flop down to the coin however.

I think with shorter time you need more luck. You have to get a map that is possible to finish and that depends on luck. With more time you would be more reliant on skill. The race would be to finish your map the fastest rather than hope for a map that kind of finishes itself.

Look at replay 4871 for example.. basically a straight road to the coin. The only skill there is not completely messing up the lucky map you got.