I've lurked this forum for a long while, and now I decided to gather up enough courage to post. I'm not bad at Tetris, but I'm not awesome at it either. I can get S1 in TGM1, and the farthest I made it was lv. 412. So... uhh... yeah. Glad to be here.
Greetings. A nice surge of new players here recently. If this keeps up we could possibly use an introduce yourself topic.
Thanks! By the way, I reached 446 later that day yesterday, and I'm probably gonna have a drinking party when I reach 500.
I'm also new and might as well introduce myself here: I'm Adam. I live in Seattle and have a very poor internet connection in my apartment (56k gratis), but frequent a nearby coffee shop with free internet and wifi. Purchased TDS around Christmas, then dropped my DS in the snow. Didn't get a new one until the summer, then accidentally left it in Connecticut. I recently had it shipped out to me and am playing again (maybe too much). Started with NES and GB Tetris. Next I got into The New Tetris and a Japanese Tetris for Dreamcast (forget the name), and now TDS. Would love to eventually test myself in TGM, but not yet. So far this has been the most informative site I've found regarding TDS (and Tetris in general) and it's improving my game significantly. I love to compete and love to learn, and plan to frequent this site as much as I can. Still unfamiliar with blockstats.org and how to earn/post a rank. If anyone could let me know or point me in the direction of where to look (I had trouble understanding exactly what to do from their site) it would be appreciated. Sorry for the long post. I just really like Tetris and am glad to be here.
"So far this has been the most informative site I've found regarding TDS (and Tetris in general) and it's improving my game significantly." this is exactly what i like to hear. it's a great complement to us. welcome to the forum.
You have to sign up for an account and input your wifi name. In the members area, there is a section of code you can copy into your signature in order to display an image of your rank. Welcome to the forums!
might as well use this thread to say thanks as well! about blockstats.org, it was the option to submit your own versus statistics that confused me. I think it's all squared away now. with all this said, what is the best way to make some friends here? to be honest, I'm not sure I've ever actually connected to someone via friend-code. I'm pretty sure I'm supreme noob when it comes to all of this. I have a decent grasp on the game, but not any of the perks. I'm also still posting in this thread because I don't know where else to ask, and I don't want to flood the board with personal questions. anybody care to answer some questions via PM? or would it be better off kept on the board? Question 1: Learned STS yesterday. How effective is it in multiplayer when starting the round? If I can make tetrises as fast, which is more lucrative?
The best place to make friends and set up friend matches is undoubtedly the blockstats chat. It's not always active, though, so you have be patient and wait around until someone comes to the keyboard.
"Learned STS yesterday. How effective is it in multiplayer..." you may be better off learning <a href="http://www.tetrisconcept.com/wiki/index.php/T-spin_double_triple">these</a> methods. DT specifically.
Those are a bit advanced perhaps? I'd say stick with simpler tactics until you can grasp the preview in such a way that you can plan ahead for such setups.
well yeah, if you want to start with your fundamentals, just learn to stack for tetrises first. STS is useful, but if you are going to learn advanced tactics, i'd put that energy into DT.
the first time I saw someone using DT stacking was a couple days ago. I couldn't believe the amount of garbage I was having to clean up. it was unfortunate that I played him right after I played my first hacker (infinite starman?) so I figured he was hacking too. thanks. I'll get to work on DT, and continue to stack for tetrises online.
I agree, I've been working on leaving the 2nd or 9th column open and working on tetrises or t-spin doubles. Starting with STS can screw you up sometimes depending on what kind of garbage you get. Sometimes I'll start setting up STS and will have to back out of it and end up with a mess to clean up, and by the time you get things straight again the game might be out of hand. I still think STS is good practice for programming your brain to spot t-spin triples but when playing competitively I wouldn't recommend it very much. Maybe just occasionally to mix things up.
