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Old February 13th, 2021 (2:36 AM).
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True, I was actually mentioning today that I'm not active in there but check in sometimes. But as for luring them in with my idol charm... You know exactly what's up!
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yeah i don't quote anyone i don't know thanks to anxiety lol.
I can't say I understand anxiety. That's probably a good and a bad thing, though. But at least it seems like every time you overcome that fear, it's a small victory for you, right?
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I can't say I understand anxiety. That's probably a good and a bad thing, though. But at least it seems like every time you overcome that fear, it's a small victory for you, right?
From my experience, it can be a lot of overthinking or worrying about "little" things. Like if I say one word instead of another in a conversation I could start thinking that the entire meaning of the sentence would change, which would cause the other person to react differently, which would cause a misunderstanding, which could cause them to think less of me. I think that's the best example I can give for how it affects me personally, but everyone's experiences are different. Hopefully that can help give some context if it's tougher to understand?

And yeah, overcoming it gives a huge boost. It's really nice to sit down at the end of the day knowing you did something that you felt you were unable to do from anxiety. As someone who's been on both sides of that, I'll be on your side cheering you on.~
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Old February 14th, 2021 (2:10 AM).
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From my experience, it can be a lot of overthinking or worrying about "little" things. Like if I say one word instead of another in a conversation I could start thinking that the entire meaning of the sentence would change, which would cause the other person to react differently, which would cause a misunderstanding, which could cause them to think less of me. I think that's the best example I can give for how it affects me personally, but everyone's experiences are different. Hopefully that can help give some context if it's tougher to understand?
This might be a little bit more relatable than I'd like to, but in a kinda "backwards" way. For me starting a conversation isn't as much of a big deal. However, the moment it starts to slow down feels very similar, if that makes sense? Probably some sort of abandonment issues, at least for me ^^"

And I suppose the only thing I can offer is trying to be more forgiving on potential mistakes that others make while at the same time coming of as less frightening to approach. Alongside giving support if someone needs encouragement.
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This might be a little bit more relatable than I'd like to, but in a kinda "backwards" way. For me starting a conversation isn't as much of a big deal. However, the moment it starts to slow down feels very similar, if that makes sense? Probably some sort of abandonment issues, at least for me ^^"

And I suppose the only thing I can offer is trying to be more forgiving on potential mistakes that others make while at the same time coming of as less frightening to approach. Alongside giving support if someone needs encouragement.
For sure. I think everyone can probably relate to that kind of thing in some way. The conversation idea is just the first example I could think of in my head, there are definitely a lot of those different thoughts, and ways of dealing with them of course.

As for what you can offer... yeah that probably sounds about right. I think it gets to a certain point where there's only so much you can do as someone who isn't the person facing the problem, but the support should never be undervalued. Supporting someone can be an ordeal by itself, so it's good to keep that in mind.


Uhhh anyways I didn't really mean to go off on a tangent in this thread and sound like I know what I mean, so uhhh... Setsuna high five gif?
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Doing pretty good myself, an event in an idol game just popped up and it's been one of my first experiences doing something like that with friends, there are awards they give out and we've been competing with each other to see who can get how many in our group of three. The game's 1 year anniversary is in a couple weeks too so there's upcoming content everyone's excited for. My boyfriend's birthday is today but I likely won't be able to spend any of it with him since he gets super busy, so the idol game stuff helps get my mind off that.


Hope everyone's doing well!
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That sounds awesome! It looks like it will be a hectic couple of weeks for you and your friends with the anniversary stuff coming up. Does it take up a lot of time?

It's a shame you won't get to spend the day with him, but I hope you both still have a wonderful day 😊
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It will be a hectic couple of weeks for me, but I already knew February was gonna be a busier month for me because of all the stuff in-game. For most people it won't really take up a lot of time though. The event with the awards ended today (and only lasted a couple days) and that's what often takes up the most time. Besides that, the anniversary announcement was mainly giving out daily bonuses (which you can just open your game, collect, and close) or weekly bonus stories (which you're able to just skip so it's like the same thing) so it's super low commitment.
For me personally, the next event coming up in a couple of days is one I'm choosing to grind super hard for, so I'm gonna be spending a few hours on it once it drops. I'm just choosing to sink a lot of time into something low commitment because I've been saving up for it.


I still managed to enjoy the day, mostly with friends, so I'm really thankful for that! Hope yours is wonderful too!
I know I just used this gif but I wasn't prepared and god it's so cute...
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It will be a hectic couple of weeks for me, but I already knew February was gonna be a busier month for me because of all the stuff in-game. For most people it won't really take up a lot of time though. The event with the awards ended today (and only lasted a couple days) and that's what often takes up the most time. Besides that, the anniversary announcement was mainly giving out daily bonuses (which you can just open your game, collect, and close) or weekly bonus stories (which you're able to just skip so it's like the same thing) so it's super low commitment.
For me personally, the next event coming up in a couple of days is one I'm choosing to grind super hard for, so I'm gonna be spending a few hours on it once it drops. I'm just choosing to sink a lot of time into something low commitment because I've been saving up for it.


I still managed to enjoy the day, mostly with friends, so I'm really thankful for that! Hope yours is wonderful too!
I know I just used this gif but I wasn't prepared and god it's so cute...
If its something you've been looking foward to then I hope it works out well and you get everything you were hoping for! 😊

I'm glad you've been enjoying your day! Mine has been a little strange but also very good ty!

I'm off to sleep very soon, but I need to say just how cute that gif is!
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If its something you've been looking foward to then I hope it works out well and you get everything you were hoping for! 😊

I'm glad you've been enjoying your day! Mine has been a little strange but also very good ty!

I'm off to sleep very soon, but I need to say just how cute that gif is!
Thanks! Yeah it's been a couple months I've been waiting for it, so I hope it all goes well. The gacha spending I'd been saving up for a few days ago also went well, so I'm really hopeful.~

Good to hear, sometimes you just have those strange moments but it's good to continue to have a good outlook and it's great the day was still good.


I'm also off to sleep and was about to mention it before I saw you say it so... goodnight to both of us? Hello to whoever opens this thread next! Here's the same gif again!
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I opened this to see what the last post was, guess I gotta post!

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near 5 hour late reply, but i'm doing good Ash! how's everyone else?
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Checking in to see, hey, it's been a while since we've had a last post. How about I get this on people's FTs so they come in? If anyone else even checks that I might be the only one whoops


As for how I'm doing, the grind I'd been doing went really well, I was able to reach 12th place in the event in the first hour, and considering there's roughly about 20k active players, it's a pretty nice goal. The event keeps going for the next few and people can score higher, so I'm expecting to end up finishing in the top 100, proud of that. I've been saving up for everything in February since the end of November (which isn't considered very long), so it's gone incredibly well.
Maybe I should be checking in on PC more often? I feel like I haven't been around too much and it's always nice to drop some replies in the threads I frequent, you guys are just nice to talk to. I've been talking to a lot of people lately but I don't wanna get too busy and not pop in.
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I'm glad it's going well for you! Top 100 out of that many peeps? Really? Thats an awesome achievement, you have every right to feel proud!!!

Have you done all you can in the event, I mean, is it over for you now then, or do you keep going until the end?
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Plan worked. Sweet.~


Thanks! I've done everything I can right now, but that's just because I'm out of stamina and can't play anymore until it refills. You can get items to refill stamina but I used all of mine at the beginning of the event to reach that placement, and I've been getting some during the event period I'm saving for the very end in case other people are trying to make a final push at the end. At this point, I've just gone back to playing whenever my stamina refills just like normal, but I'm still playing until the end, which will be in 5 days.~
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awesome stuff, congrats! when you talked about stamina, i actually thought you meant you got tired after a while of playing it lol.

i can't recall if this was mentioned before, but what's the prize for those who get into the Top 100?
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Thankfully most of the grinding is menuing, so I haven't had to worry about getting tired. There are items you can use to skip playing a song but still get the rewards and event points from it, so that's how a lot of people will grind it out. Just means you have to skip the song a bunch, restore stamina, and continue skipping. Hence all the menuing.


Here's a screenshot of the rewards screen. The biggest thing is the titles, everyone in the top 50k gets a title with their placement, but anyone in the top 10 will have their exact ranking instead of just "top 300" or "top 100". Next to those are 3 different idols you can use to put in your team or things like that. For example, you can see on the left is the reward spotlight idol, this UR You Watanabe. Top 100 will get 2 of her while top 300 gets 1 (since she's a higher rarity, you have to finish higher for multiple copies). And the green gems are items you can use to raise your idols to higher levels.
The titles are the big things people always compete for, but getting multiples of the idols means you have to spend less of the green gems to bring them to max level, so it can be helpful to just get all you can.
My rank dropped from 12 to 36 in almost 48 hours, so that might give some insight into how the top rankings are. With 5 days remaining that's how I make my guess that I'll end up around Top 100 before any final push.

Hopefully that wasn't too tough or awkward of an explanation? I act like I could write a guide on this game, but a lot of the in-depth things I've just picked up from others.
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That is so cool! I will be keeping my fingers crossed for you to stay as high as possible! 😊

Goodnight everyone. I will chat properly tomorrow :)
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Don't have much else to say, but sleep well Ash!
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wow that's... way more complicated than VPP lmao. best of luck to you Aisaka!

genuinely wasn't expecting over 50k playing the game actively. i thought it was just a small niche community or something damn. how did people easily overtake you though? like, are they faster than you at playing or something? or do they collect more points somehow?
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It still feels like its own little niche in a way, but it's common for fans of this series to have heard of or play the game. It's definitely WAY bigger on the Japanese server, it's hard for people to even reach the top 50k in events because of how much bigger the playerbase is over there. The rewards go up to top 50k in the English server as well, but there's a lot less people, so usually people on the English server can get top 20k with no effort. The English server is also currently a little behind the Japanese server's schedule, which is why we're having a Christmas event right after Valentine's.

Basically the short answer is, you get event points for every song you complete during the event period. There are other factors that impact it but basically, because I've run out of stamina and can't play several songs multiple times a day, these people can overtake me by playing more songs and raising their point totals. I basically sprinted at the start and now that I'm out of resources, they're able to catch up and pass me if they've got enough. The very beginning and very end of these events are when people typically spend a lot of their resources to "push" the event, or raise their point total by a bunch to get into the rankings. That's why I'm just playing as much as my normal stamina allows, and saving any resources I get for the final push, which usually tends to happen in the last 4 hours or so.

On that topic I should also add I haven't spent a single penny on this event, but there are people who will spend money for the event gacha banner (which can give them specific idols which give them more points for this particular event) or for things like stamina recovery. The difference in point totals between free to play players and people who spend a lot of money (we tend to call them "whales") is massive. Usually they'll be able to have some of the better idols in the game which allow them to clear the hardest songs and get the most points per song. The 1st place ranking has 6x my current score, and it's obvious to tell they're a whale.
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The only ever mobile/gacha game I played was Fire Emblem Heroes (ignoring Xenoblade 2). But even that couldn't hold my interest for long. Guess which character I liked using a lot. :D

I find it impressive when people can play them for a long time especially if they can pull off not spending any real money on it.
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props to you Aisaka for being smart with your money! i can only imagine how much those whales spend in total, but hey they keep these franchises well funded right?

i'm amazed though that even with you being a non-spending player, you still managed to get to Top 36 overall. one would think that the the first top 100 or something would be filled with nothing but pay2win folks. or i'm guessing that's all gonna change in the future when things start wrapping up...
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The only ever mobile/gacha game I played was Fire Emblem Heroes (ignoring Xenoblade 2).

Oh god... is Xenoblade 2 a gacha game? I've owned it for a while and put off playing it so I don't know how you obtain blades, but... that... makes things interesting.

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props to you Aisaka for being smart with your money! i can only imagine how much those whales spend in total, but hey they keep these franchises well funded right?
Haha, that's a really sweet way of looking at it, I think these games bring in a lot of money for the franchise. Not only is this game just about "collect the cute girls", you could probably make a defined tier list for the different "cards" so people are always eager to whale for either their favourite characters, or the "best" cards.

There was a lot of hype over this really good Setsuna card, which was the best in the game at that point. In some of the events, it's not rare to see Setsuna dominate the rankings. As she should.~

The way I see spending personally is that I can at least support the devs when I spend, but I don't often have the funds I can realistically spend on the game. I think the whole "people spend thousands of dollars and it's a gambling addiction" is just an exaggeration helped by some people who actually do that. It's not common, and it's just like spending on anything else. We joke often that the "anime girl png" isn't burning your life savings. I mean... that Setsuna is really pretty though... and she's really good...

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i'm amazed though that even with you being a non-spending player, you still managed to get to Top 36 overall. one would think that the the first top 100 or something would be filled with nothing but pay2win folks. or i'm guessing that's all gonna change in the future when things start wrapping up...
That's what I was thinking too, it was surprising to be so high up after 24 hours. I'd have guessed all the whales would have occupied these top spots, or that I'd just get lowered really quickly. It'll likely change in the future, but I think we're roughly halfway in and I'm not giving up for sure.
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