Facebook Tetris?

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I remember in tetris you get a higher score for clearing more lines at once. Not just a multiple of what you get for 1 line but significantly more, am I correct? Isn't the goal to go for doubles, triples and quads?

 

[Dacalo]

Aye, higher risk = more points.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Dacalo
Aye, higher risk = more points.

Ok, and I might be a tetris guy because this was the game all nerds kicked butt at, and when TI-83/89 tetris rolled around we schooled people while not listening in math class in high school.

So with this idiotic scoring system on Facebook, I'm extremely annoyed. Throw that with the fact that Facebook is slowly inching towards Myspace in terms of quality, and you have too many stupid people. So I didn't understand this whole Tetris obsession and people playing in class on Facebook, so I gave it a spin at my friend's place. 2 girls were watching me and they said I suck. Why? Because I was building up for a Tetris. They were like "Don't you know you have a whole row missing over there?" I'm like "Yes, you go for a tetris to get more points."

Then another person chimed in to say "You rely on the lines to much, use the Ls"
Me: No, tetris = more points and unless I'm screwed I won't start dropping down to triples and doubles just yet, not at level 0 at least.

Then I find out that getting doubles, triples, tetrises don't even help my score at all. I might as well clear single lines all the way through.

I glanced at the top 10 amongst my friends and no way are these people that good. This is BS. Crap versions of Tetris allow crappy players to score high when they don't deserve it.

 

[Whisper]

It looks to me like you do get bonus points for clearing multiple rather than single lines, but I have no idea how high the bonuses are compared to "normal" tetris.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: Whisper
It looks to me like you do get bonus points for clearing multiple rather than single lines, but I have no idea how high the bonuses are compared to "normal" tetris.

:laugh: Like there's some sort of international standard for scoring Tetris :laugh:

 

[Syringer]

A) It's a repost: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2104932&enterthread=y
B) You do get big time bonuses for multiple lines. I just did a test run and in the first level, and by getting a 4-liner I got 800 points, while getting 1 line got me just 100--so you double up essentially with it. Are you playing Tetris Tournament (the most popular one) or another version?
C) Points also go up considerably the higher the level you go to. I'm in about the 300-400k range by level 15-16 I think, whereas my current 715k score was achieved in level 22, when I kept going for one liners in an effort to survive.
D) Just accept the fact that you suck and move on with life.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: GuideBot

Originally posted by: Whisper
It looks to me like you do get bonus points for clearing multiple rather than single lines, but I have no idea how high the bonuses are compared to "normal" tetris.

:laugh: Like there's some sort of international standard for scoring Tetris :laugh:

There actually is almost.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris#Scoring

 

[Sqube]

There isn't an international standard, but there sure as hell are pre-existing rules.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: Syringer

Originally posted by: GuideBot

Originally posted by: Whisper
It looks to me like you do get bonus points for clearing multiple rather than single lines, but I have no idea how high the bonuses are compared to "normal" tetris.

:laugh: Like there's some sort of international standard for scoring Tetris :laugh:

There actually is almost.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris#Scoring

Sweet. I want to play the original Tetris that was developed as an IQ test.