How are skill points calculated?

Brett · 01-17-2008, 02:36 PM

Does anyone know the math involved for calculating your total skill points? I had read before that if you get an excellent on a level XX song you will get XX skill points, but if you look at every basic/advance/extreme/bass/open there are clearly more than 1535 total points that can be earned in the game. I've also noticed that if I play a low level song that I haven't played before, even with an S it doesn't add anything to my total. So I'm just trying to figure the whole thing out.

oni-ice · 01-17-2008, 04:35 PM

total SP = 14 new songs + 36 old songs + 3 long songs.

if im not wrong....
SP = (song level - 1) / 3 * (skill%)

(sp count is for v4)

Brett · 01-17-2008, 05:08 PM

What about courses? And does it work differently for CS since there are mostly new songs and not old?

oni-ice · 01-17-2008, 06:54 PM

oh CS eh?

if im not wrong, total SP = 13 new songs + 35 old songs + 2 long songs + 3 courses.

courses dun care about new or old songs. its a seperate section by itself.

calculation is still same, i tink.

(edited previous post)

aeriyu · 01-18-2008, 07:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oni-ice

calculation is still same, i tink.

Only GFDMV3 is different... for some reason they've skewed the SP calculations such that your total SP is closer to what you'd actually get in the arcades. Discrepancies are usually triple digit (100-300... very generous lol) because as oni mentioned, your total SP is calculated from fewer songs... not to mention that the selection is smaller, and you don't get access to some of the "free SP" songs