The Old Man Band (Players Over 30)

[Pubknight]

I'm still going to play for a bit tonight... nice games Z and Kev.
I just need a bit of a break (Teenage Riot wipes me out).

I'll be back in 30 mins or so.

A bit of a general thought though, since I think we all have each other added now... regardless or whomevers band we are playing in at the time... we should get in the habit of going back to the lobby periodically to see if anyone else is around that we can invite.

And maybe if you get an invite, but you are in a set... when you get out of your set, fire an invite back as a signal you are available again.

I dunno... just brainstorming... what do you folks think?
It would be great to play with a true full band... I think so far I've only done it like twice since I got the game.

[zarlor]

I've done the full band thing, but only on pickup bands and usually I got a lot of disconnects that way. Not so much fun. Although I've done full band with friends over playing locally, which is always fun. Full band with you guys would probably be a blast!

As for dropping back the the lobby, I think that's always a good idea. Even if it's just the leader dropping back, doing a quick check for anyone else being on and then right back down into another set. I also thought dropping to the Rock Shop to say you needed a short break worked pretty well, too. Good visual cue, I think (although when I did it, PubKnight, you disconnected for a bit and I wasn't sure if that was deliberate or not.)

Not sure how to signal, as a non-leader, you got an invite from someone as a reminder to the leader to check who else might be on. It happened the other day when I was doing a set with PubKnight and Kev sent an invite, but of course he must have sent the invite to PK as well because one the set was done he pull Kev into the band so it worked fine. The other thing is if you see someone on AND they'd previously added you to their band, you can always just try to directly connect to the band and you're good to go when the back up from their set (which I forgot to do today when I saw PK on and sent and invite, when I probably should have just tried to join "Free Beer Tomorrow" instead.

[Pubknight]

If I'm going to be gone for a bit longer than a short break... like gone for 10-15 minutes... I'll disconnect so whomever I'm playing with isn't sitting around waiting for me.

I know a lot of us don't have a ton of time to play all the time... so if you only had an hour or two, you wouldn't necessarily want to sit around for 15 minutes waiting on someone who's away from the game.

I like the Rock Shop 'code' for taking a break... that works pretty well.

[Kev2380]

Hey Pub, Good times playing with you last night. Sorry I sucked so bad trying to play on hard. 85% on some of the songs. Sheesh. I need to practice bad. I guess I'm not the best person if you're trying to rack up points.

[Pubknight]

I don't care about points in the context of how we were playing last night.
Not. At. All.
You did fine. You are much better on hard bass/guitar than I am. (Z has seen me try hard guitar/bass at the end of a long session when it was too late for me to be playing drums.... let's just say it wasn't pretty... *cough* loss of 2 million fans *cough*)

Z and I talk about points just for kicks n giggles... and for some general strategies for any BotB stuff. And because he and I have played together reasonably often now (I've played more online with him than everyone else combined)... so trying to improve our scores when we play is a way to tell if we are doing better or not.

I'm thinking I need to push myself a bit more and go from hard to expert... but I'm really torn over the whole thing.

[Kev2380]

I hear ya, I have enough fun on hard, I doubt I'll ever ben on expert.

[zarlor]

Hey PubKnight, you just missed out. Right after you logged I hooked up with Cherkov for a set and then Kev popped in. We played in my band, mainly because I wasn''t sure if Kev and Cherkov had each other in as friends or not, yet. (And Cherkov, sorry about the inviting you in and then kickin you out part, I was trying to suggest that we play in your band instead of mine, was all.) So we just worked on some of my band challenges.

It looks like working on overdrive with two guitar controllers running it's best for the vocalist, in general, to just stick to the optimal vocal path, I think. It seemed to work out pretty good overall (except when I missed a window or got lost or on something like Lump which has annoying hard to activate windows.) For a bit there I though Kev had my vocal cheat sheet in front of him since he was often activiating right as or even a tad before I did (or even a useful amount earlier if he had more energy built up.) Sometimes, though, I think you guys didn't trust me to go off if you 3/4 full before you next OD bars popped up, but sometimes that worked out pretty well. Not to mention when vocals are coming to a tapping section it seems like it's better for the guitarists to kick into overdrive and just pick up more energy by the time the taps are done. Those were my observations anyway. (Oh, and most often if I'm at a full energy bar and didn't hit the very next activation, I probably missed my activation. Some windows are just harder to activate than others and only in a few instances do you fill to full and then activate one or two windows later. Just in case you might be wondering about that.) Lots of fun, though, guys! Thanks for the session!

And megatron and I kept missing each other. Sorry dude, I eded up catching your invite inevitably when I was in the first or second song of a 4 song set. I guess after the first invite I should have gone into Tour mode and done just 1 song at a time so I could have backed up quicker to catch you. Ah well, maybe next time.

[Kev2380]

It was fun playing last night zarlor, I'm not sure what you mean by the OD thing. I was hoping to keep a 100% streak up on medium. I had about 5 sons in a row but couldn't nail the last one.

Megatron, I'm having issues with your friend code, I keep getting a message saying it's invalid.

[megatron]

It was fun playing last night zarlor, I'm not sure what you mean by the OD thing. I was hoping to keep a 100% streak up on medium. I had about 5 sons in a row but couldn't nail the last one.

Megatron, I'm having issues with your friend code, I keep getting a message saying it's invalid.

I did have the wrong code in my original sig, but it's working now. Sorry about that. Probably gonna be on again around 10ish tonight, I'll send invites when I can jam!!!

[zarlor]

I got the same invalid on megtron's invite as well, but I think that happens if he drops back out to a non-online section or at least out of the Tour or wherever he sent the invite from.

As for the OD thing. What strategy were you using for when to kick off your Overdrive mode?

EDIT: megatron I thought Kev meant an invalid request from your invite, but rereading it you might be right about just having the old FC. I was getting some invalid requests, but I think that was just because we kept missing each others invites.