| This is my first time participating in FAL and I have a couple of questions. Firstly, the Ace. It states that you can only Ace a show once each and that the Ace is only successful if it scores the most points that week. Let's say that one week I Ace something, i'm right, and then the next week that same show still is giving me the most points. If I Ace the show that will give me the next largest amount of points, is this a successful Ace since it received the most points out of the shows I am eligible to Ace? So on and so forth for weeks 3,4, etc...? Secondly, in regard to swaps and Aces, am I correct in my understanding that I can use these at any point before scores are tallied for the week? Even up until 5 minutes before? If so, is there any reason or penalty preventing me from doing so? It seems waiting until just before is most logical. Lastly, in regard to shows that started before FAL (aka before Oct 2) not receiving points for their week 1 forum posts, you do still get points for the watchers correct? In other words, if I had a show on my active that started before Oct 2nd, I can get the "users watching" points for week one and then swap it out in the next week with a show that will get full forum points since it aired after the start of FAL? If these questions could be answered it would be very helpful. Thank you. |
NoDropZoneOct 8, 2022 10:03 PM
| Hi hi! I am confused on the Ace. So I aced "Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!" and it was successful, so, it is still my highest scored in active. Since that means I can't pick that anime again will I be able to successfully select another thats in my active or do I have to make Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! inactive since it has the most watched in my active? I tried to make it make sense Im sorry its confusing, but thanks you to anyone who can help! 💞 |
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eplipswich said: IsaBelle33 said: Hi hi! I am confused on the Ace. So I aced "Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!" and it was successful, so, it is still my highest scored in active. Since that means I can't pick that anime again will I be able to successfully select another thats in my active or do I have to make Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! inactive since it has the most watched in my active? I tried to make it make sense Im sorry its confusing, but thanks you to anyone who can help! 💞 You have to make Kage inactive, or wait until it hits 85k watching (which is unlikely for this week). I would not advise making Kage inactive though because that would make you lose a lot of points and waste a valuable swap later down the road when the season is still early. You just don't ace this week. You don't have to ace every week btw. It really depends on the situation. Ooooo okay okay thank you so much!! I thought I would lose 5k if i didn't select an ace. ^_^ |
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Reply to LEVIATHAN_6969
See i am new on the FAL so i just wanna ask a question so active anime count points and bench anime dont ok this is understandable to me but when i am swapping an anime it shows 0 points so will a swapped anime be counted from next week ???? Please anyone clarify
| @LEVIATHAN_6969 if the anime you’re swapping for has 0 points, that means it hasn’t aired yet, if I understand your question correctly. |
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| I have a doubt about the ace as well. I had both Gachiakuta and Kaoru Hana on my active team, so I swapped Kaoru Hana to be inactive so I could Ace Gachiakuta before it was ineligible. Gachiakuta was the active anime which score the most points but I still lost 5k instead of winning. Was this supposed to happen? |
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Reply to RodIshiCi
I have a doubt about the ace as well. I had both Gachiakuta and Kaoru Hana on my active team, so I swapped Kaoru Hana to be inactive so I could Ace Gachiakuta before it was ineligible.
Gachiakuta was the active anime which score the most points but I still lost 5k instead of winning. Was this supposed to happen?
Gachiakuta was the active anime which score the most points but I still lost 5k instead of winning. Was this supposed to happen?
| @RodIshiCi Once an anime crosses a certain threshold (this FAL 70000+ users) of users watching it becomes uneligible as an ace even if you declared it before crossing the threshold. Gachiakuta crossed the threshold within a single week. Thus nobody was able to successfully declare it an ace. |
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Reply to Hiyajo-san
@RodIshiCi Once an anime crosses a certain threshold (this FAL 70000+ users) of users watching it becomes uneligible as an ace even if you declared it before crossing the threshold.
Gachiakuta crossed the threshold within a single week. Thus nobody was able to successfully declare it an ace.
Gachiakuta crossed the threshold within a single week. Thus nobody was able to successfully declare it an ace.
| @Hiyajo-san Actually it was eligible for the 1st week, but you couldn't have better scoring shows like Kaoru Hana or Hikaru ga Shinda. At least now I know how exactly the rule works for ace (I tough it'd make people unable to vote it for ace once it crossed the threshold, but not make people lose points if they did beforehand), albeit at a 110k net loss. |
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Reply to RodIshiCi
@Hiyajo-san Actually it was eligible for the 1st week, but you couldn't have better scoring shows like Kaoru Hana or Hikaru ga Shinda.
At least now I know how exactly the rule works for ace (I tough it'd make people unable to vote it for ace once it crossed the threshold, but not make people lose points if they did beforehand), albeit at a 110k net loss.
At least now I know how exactly the rule works for ace (I tough it'd make people unable to vote it for ace once it crossed the threshold, but not make people lose points if they did beforehand), albeit at a 110k net loss.
| @RodIshiCi True, this could have worked, but you'd have to put 5 inactive shows on xout team and I'm not sure how the ace works if there are multiple anime tied at 0 points. |
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Reply to Hiyajo-san
@RodIshiCi True, this could have worked, but you'd have to put 5 inactive shows on xout team and I'm not sure how the ace works if there are multiple anime tied at 0 points.
| @Hiyajo-san It scored 7k on first week, so no need for that, but that'd need a not so good choice of animes, maybe leaving 2 or 3 of the current top 6 outside of your choices. So far, the best course would have been Hikaru ga Shinda as ace on 1st week, Kaoru Hana on 2nd and Dr. Stone on 3rd, just accept the inegilbility on Gachiakuta. |
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