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.
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