THE FOLLIES OF TABLE TENNIS GAME IN FACEBOOK

At the very outset i must confess in real world i had not much exposure to table tennis although i loved watching them on TV.Anyways i always wanted to play this game for the speed and accuracy that it demands .It is a joyful youthful adventure to be part of it .ANyways finally i got my chance to get a hang of things in virtual gaming world of facebook.It was challenging and riveting both to the highest splendour of emotional ecstacy a treat to all senses.BUT after having a good run with this game i found that there were certain problems in the game.I would share my experience in an iterative fashion.

THe first day when i registered for this game with name UBJ and started playing the training nets i found the training raw hard and very tough to beat the trainer.However it was all good till then.THen i stated playing the lower ranked onces in the 4500+ list of players.I started straightaway with a victory over ryan_145 currently rank 4951 and gained 10 points from it.Then continued playing with slightly higher ranked opponents 4700s and 4800 rankers and gained 10 points from there too with each win.Then this continued to happen till the following stage was reached.




now at this stage i had played 40 games and won 38 of them and lost 2 .Now as u can see 38 games should have ideally fetched 380 points but it was not so because here there is a point deciding function with this game which decides as to what ur current ranking is and what is difference in ranking with the person with whom u are playing.Now since there were times when i played with players who were ranked similar to me so at times even on victory i gained just a 1 point ,2 point at times 7 points,8 points and 9 points too.Anyways that was kind of ok and infact commendable but the big folly arrived just then.I left the game at total games 40 when i took the screen shot ..THE NEXT TIME I OPENED THE APPS I FOUND THAT THE NUMBER OF GAMES I HAD PLAYED IS 52!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I SAID WHAT IS THIS??????????????? I TOOK A SCREEN SHOT LAST TIME SO HOW CAN THERE BE SUCH A DIFFERENCE ,I DID NOT PLAY ALL THESE GAMES!!! 12 TO BE SPECIFIC..THEN I CHECKED MY MAIL ID uddalak.banerjee@gmail.com and found something like --------


Hi UBJ!

Beppi has challenged your ghost at the Table Tennis Cup and has won with 11:6!
Your score is currently: 304


NOW THIS IS A HUGE FLAW..even when i am not playing the game is running..which should not be the case.The computer program has created a separate copy for itself of my username which it uses to play the opponent who choses to challenge me!! But this should not be right because i had hard fought my points in this way if the results are plotted then the average will suffer badly because the computer has a few false shots especially when u carve the ball towards the left end of the board it shoots it high giving u ample chance to shoot back with a reverse handle volley.Although i must also acknowledge that to use a reverse handle volley is not going to be easy for new players there is every chance of the ball to go out of board but then if u have an experience of atleast 100 games u can do it mostly correctly ..Anyways from that moment onwards i decided i will play this game in one sitting and copy the screenshot so that atleast i can feel satisfied with my gaming experience and record .I had topped brain buddies among all my friends with a score of 4140 in all the 4 tests conducted namely memory,arithmetic,logical and visual and did it in just 21 games which was a record by itself of playing the least games and also scoring the maximum by a mile.Tje screen shot is appended as follows:




Given the major discrepancy in this game i decided to take screen shots after playing for aslong as i possibly can.The games were mostly one setters so i figured that if i could win every game on a trot i can make it to top 10.I wanted to see my name in the top 10 desparately so i did just that.It took mostly 2-3 minutes to finish a game and i sat infront of the computer for the next 5-6 hours on a trot to improve on my score.The final result is as follows when i finally left the game and took a screenshot to save the game postion to me...and that is uploaded in the very beginning of the article(see first uploaded picture of this article)




STRATEGY

NOW SEe in the game of tabletennis there can be very many strategies.I employed the one which was simpler to me.I tried each time of serve to serve correctly and try to maintain a straight line serve from one corner to the geometrically opposite end and eachtime change the level of service.Meaning i continuously varied the height of service each time varing it from very high (which extracted maximum bounce making it hard for return) and the moderately high(which was aimed at diagonally opposite part which unequivocally forced the opponent to just touch it back straight and i used it easy to pull a smash straightaway with a reverse handle.Now this alone was not enough because once u start playing top 100 players they are good at both service and break of opponent service .So u need to change strategy in such cases i played with just one thing in mind KEEP THE BALL ON THE TABLE..for the longest period of time ..it could be 10 shots returns or could be 20 ..but in the end from my side the ball should always end up on the opponents court ..and it ALWAYS WORKED..the opponent finally made a rash shot sooner or later...That did it in tough games..
SOME OF THEM ARE AS FOLLOWS:




















the pictures uploaded just above are of the results of the matches against the top 10 players which were in the list (uploaded at the start of the article).Well as such records are made to be broken mine will also not lastlong ..but then it will remain in the memory through this article and the screenshots.


ATTEMPTS TO REMOVE THE FOLLIES:

the continueous process of having a game continue even after the player has left is perhaps a thought out move from the original uploaders of the game in facebook.But i tried to remove the follies by going to global settings (PAGE SETTINGS USUALLY LEAD TO SCREEN SHOT HANDLING AND NOT GLOBAL PAGE HANDLING flashplayer) read the article at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html#117152 and then tried to handle the storage of data manually.And then opened page source and found -------------*{} @import url('http://apps.facebook.com/ajax/connect/load_test.php?app_id=101423915399&url=http%3A%2F%2Fapps.facebook.com%2Ftable_tennis_cup%2F%3Fref%3Dbookmarks&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F%3Fref%3Dhome');-->
I wanted that my record should remain the way throughout so i wanted the cache at webserver to store data when i wished and not to store data there after infact i wanted that when i go offline my name should not be shown.But then that was not possible because the moment i traced to the webserver it reported that access is denied.

I HAVE REPORTED THE PROBLEM IN DETAIL..now i hope that future readers would come up with some solution to the ensuing problem.

CLICK ME GAME

TODAY I CAME ACROSS A FACEBOOK GAME NAMED CLICK ME..THERE WAS 10 SECONDS GIVEN FOR THE CLICKS AND THE RESULTS I FOUND WERE AS FOLLOWS.NOW I FOUND THAT MANY OF MY FRIENDS MANAGED ABNORMALLY HIGH NUMBER OF CLICKS GOING DOWN INTO HUNDREDS .I WISHED TO FIND OUT WHY THAT WAS AND WHAT SHOULD BE THE BASIC MINIMUM CLICKS THAT CAN BE THERE.

NOW MOUSE IS OF LOGITECH AND IS MADE IN CHINA ,ITS RATING IS 5V 100A AND IT IS SBF96 PRODUCT AND I FOUND ON REPEATED ATTEMPTS THAT THE NUMBER OF CLICKS POSSIBLE IS NOT MORE THAN 88 WITH THIS MOUSE .IT HAS A CAPACITY TO RESPOND TO THESE CLICKS AND THAT CAPACITY PERHAPS VARIES FROM MOUSE TO MOUSE.NOW WITH THE GIVEN MOUSE THAT IS THE HIGHEST CAPACITY.I WAS INQUISITIVE TO KNOW WHETHER THE GUYS WHO HAD 300 + CLICKS HAD THE SAME MOUSE OR NOT .THE MOUSE TYPES ARE ASFOLLOWS:--
ALONG WITH INTERFACES
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1.The mechanical mouse(which requires a ball to move the cursor on the screen)IMPORTANT TO NOTE:: To get more efficacies with this type of mice, a flat surface named mouse pads is necessary.

2.The optomechanical or optical-mechanical mouse (which is a combination of the optical and the mechanical technologies. It uses a ball but detects the mouse movement optically. It is now the most commonly used with PC.)

3.The optical mouse (which uses a laser; precisely an optical sensor to help detecting the mouse’s moving. More expensive than the two other types, the optical mouses offer more precision and speed and even can be used on any surface.)

To transmit data to the computer three types of interfaces can be used:------

The RS-232C serial port connects the mouse to the computer through a thin electrical cord using a 9 pin connector.

The PS/2 port do the same as the first interface mentioned but using a 6 pin connector.

The USB interface receives various types of mice through a USB connector.


NOW THIS ARE THE THEORITICAL CLASSIFICATION COMING BACK TO MY CONFIGURATION.MINE IS AN OPTICAL MOUSE AND HAS A PS/2 INTERFACE.IT WORKS FAST BUT MAYBE NOT FAST ENOUGH TO MY LIKING.I DID THE FOLLOWING THING ---

I WENT TO THE RUN/REGEDIT/CURRENTUSER/USERCONTROL/MOUSE/MOUSESPEED
AND CHANGED THE DEFAULT VALUE TO 2 FROM 1..BECAUSE THAT WAS THE HIGEST PERMISSIBLE.

I ALSO WENT TO THE START/CONTROL PANEL/ACCEBILITYOPITONS /MOUSE/SETTINGS
AND since in my computer the mousekeys were switched off i switched them on and went to the settings and then made both the topspeed and acceleration to be maximum.

NOW THAT TOO DIDNOT SOLVE THE PURPOSE I TRIED THE STRATEGY LIKE USING THE THUMB WITH THE FIRST FINGER AND HOLD THE MOUSE WITH OTHER HAND AND PRESS IT HARD AT THE TIP REPEATEDLY IT ONLY ENABLED ME TO IMPROVE THE SCORE FROM AN AVERAGE OF 60 CLICKS/10 SEC TO 76 CLICKS/SEC BUT IT WAS STILL SHORT OF 300+ /10 SEC WHICH MADE ME DOUBT THE POSSIBLILITY OF REACHING THAT LEVEL.I SEARCHED FOR THE WORLD RECORD ON THE WEB
FOR HIGHEST NUMBER OF CLICKS EVER REGISTERED AND I FOUND THAT AS 15.5 CLICKS/SEC
SO THAT WOULD GIVE 15.5 * 60 =930 CLICKS A MINUTE AND A 155 CLICKS PER 10 SECONDS.

HOWEVER THE CONVERSATIONS SAID 432 SO I STILL TRIED TO GET TO THE BUTTOM OF THIS.


Anyways the proper answer still remains eluding but yes..i got the final defination today about what exactly is a mouse speed and it is as follows============(SOURCE WIKIPEDIA)

The computer industry often measures mouse sensitivity in terms of counts per inch (CPI), commonly expressed less correctly as dots per inch (DPI) – the number of steps the mouse will report when it moves one inch.The CPI or DPI as reported by manufacturers depends on how they make the mouse; the higher the CPI, the faster the cursor moves with mouse movement. However, software can adjust the mouse sensitivity, making the cursor move faster or slower than its CPI. Current[update] software can change the speed of the cursor dynamically, taking into account the mouse's absolute speed and the movement from the last stop-point. In most software[specify] this setting is named "speed", referring to "cursor precision". However, some software[specify] names this setting "acceleration", but this term is in fact incorrect. The mouse acceleration, in the majority of mouse software, refers to the setting allowing the user to modify the cursor acceleration: the change in speed of the cursor over time while the mouse movement is constant.

FEW ASTONISHING FACTS..

I always thought chocolates were harmful but according to this newsmail article i found it was beneficial ------

The Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity or ORAC is a scientific measurement of the antioxidant capabilities of a food. The higher the ORAC value, the greater its antioxidant properties. In tests, surprisingly chocolate has a greater ORAC value than many healthy foods which are touted as being high in antioxidants. For example, blueberries are one of the healthiest fruits around. Blueberries have an ORAC value of around 8700. Dark chocolate has an ORAC value of 13,000 units. And even milk chocolate, which has only a fraction of the antioxidants of dark chocolate, has an ORAC value of 6,700.
BUT
Just because chocolate can be good for you doesn’t mean that you can eat all that you want. Chocolate has a high fat content, and even though much of it is good fat, too much of any kind of fat is not good for you. In addition, just because chocolate is healthy, doesn’t mean that candy bars or chocolate cake is healthy. Candy bars, in addition to chocolate, have caramel, nuts, nougat, and all kinds of other materials which are not particularly healthy. The same is true for chocolate cake which usually comes with unhealthy frosting – which is essentially butter and sugar.

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APPLES PRODUCED TODAY ARE MOSTLY CLONES..THIS I KNEW BUT I DID NOT HAVE THE EXACT INFO OF QUANTITIES ..I GOT THAT INFO TOO TODAY..

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