1. Open a Lv1 HUcast and use it on challenge mode
2. Download the map
3. Read this FAQ

The original map(Japanese) is in the web of Sakura Byori:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mihara/sakura/pso/
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mihara/sakura/pso/capture/challenge_mode/index.html

The English map is in mamak-int.com:
http://www.mamak-int.com
http://www.mamak-int.com/strategy/challenge/640/tocdc.htm
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1.2 Game, rank and s-rank
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C stand for challenge, C1 mean Challenge 1. If 1 people die without scape
doll. The mission failed. To survive, teamwork is necessary.

When you complete 1 stage, you can get a rank and have the access to the
next stages.

Rank...Status.......Access
(none) need C1..... C1
Ra-GOU C1 completed C1-C2
Gi-GOU C2 completed C1-C3
Bu-GOU C3 completed C1-C4
Ra-ZAN C4 completed C1-C5
Gi-ZAN C5 completed C1-C6
Bu-ZAN C6 completed C1-C7
Ra-EI. C7 completed C1-C8
Gi-EI. C8 completed C1-C9
Bu-EI. C9 completed C1-C9

When you finish 9 stages in 7 hours. You can get a Srank weapon with the
name you want. S rank weapons could be grinded to +99, sweet! It's very
useful. Specially when you use forces and rangers.

You can get better rank in any time, only the best time would be stored.
If you get a A rank, you can still get the S rank weapon once the total
time is below 7 hours.

A rank get white ring, B rank get yellow ring and S rank get all. Just
redo again and you will get it.
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1.3 suggest S rank time
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Stage suggest__ Average (normal time in miranda)
C1 - 15 minutes 12 minutes
C2 - 40 minutes 38 minutes
C3 - 40 minutes 34 minutes
C4 - 45 minutes 42 minutes
C5 - 40 minutes 37 minutes
C6 - 60 minutes 55 minutes
C7 - 55 minutes 52 minutes
C8 - 50 minutes 45 minutes
C9 - 75 minutes 65 minutes
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Total - 7 hours 6h 20min

The S rank time is easy to get, what you need is teams with 2 hunters or
more in "most of the stages" and the average would be less than 7 hours.
There are NO NEED TO EXCLUDE CERTAIN CLASSES in any stages. ONLY NEWBIES
would have such belief.
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1.4 S rank weapons
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Type____ ATP ATA Requirment
GUN_____ 660 170 130 ATA, All
MECHGUN_ 593 148 130 ATA, All
BAZOOKA_ 668 105 130 ATA, All
SABER___ 804 200 620 ATP, All except FOnl
SLICER__ 738 164 620 ATP, All except FOnl
CLAW____ 738 226 620 ATP, All except FOnl
TWIN____ 672 200 620 ATP, All except FOnl
SCYTHE__ 732 204 620 ATP, All except FOnl
HAMMER__ 744 250 620 ATP, All except FOnl
HARISEN_ 852 200 620 ATP, All except FOnl
J-BLADE_ 960 065 620 ATP, All except FOnl
SWORD___ 936 146 620 ATP, Hunters
BLADE___ 738 226 620 ATP, Hunters
PARTISAN 676 284 620 ATP, Hunters
NEEDLE__ 808 150 130 ATA, Hunters and Rangers
PUNCH___ 753 108 130 ATA, Hunters and Rangers
RIFLE___ 738 200 130 ATA, Rangers
SHOT____ 608 155 130 ATA, Rangers
CANE____ 612 180 500 MST, Forces
ROD_____ 706 148 500 MST, Forces
WAND____ 508 212 500 MST, Forces
MOON____ 627 130 500 MST, Forces
WINDMILL 552 230 500 MST, Forces
PSYCOGUN 533 198 130 ATA, HUmar, HUnewearl & RAmar
J-CUTTER 798 114 620 ATP, HUmar, HUcast, RAmar & RAcast
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1.5 Player's experience
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1st time
- First time players, may need someone to lead the way

Beginners
- People with less than 2 Bu-EI
- People that don't play a lot c-mode

Normal
- People that know the way and switches
- People with experience to evade enemies's attack

Advanced
- When a people know his limit and willing to improve his skills
(I am one of them)

Experts
- Tend to use brain to play. You will noticed that they play very
fast and have very good skills.
- Some of them has different play styles, you may see some forces
casting technique like no tomorrow and die like 7-8 times and
don't heal other members. Some hunters may run to another side of
the room and don't like to work with other hunters, some of them
even attack garanz directly.
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1.6 Type of game and teams
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The game objects could be:
- fun
- clear
- time
- chat, explore or others....
The game object determine the type of game.

People open a game and wait for people to join. The teamname specific the
condiction and game object. For example, if you want a C1 games. You can
simply create a team "C1" and wait there.

Type of teams:

Reserved
========
examples,
"C7 reserved"
"C2 full"
"C3 yoyakuzumi"
(written in Japanese, read kanji teamname)

- The teams already has enough members, it's not open for other gamers.
Equal to password games. Sometimes even if the team would be "C3 all
welcome" with 2 people inside. They may found someone and the team
become reserved.

Open team
=========
Some people would open the team for anyone, some people would put some
condiction in the teamname like, "C9 FO please". There are lot's of types
depend on the game object.

HU = Hunter
HUc or Hc = HUcast
RA = Ranger
Rc = RAcast or RAcasearl
FO = Force

Beginners
=========
examples,
"C4 Help!!!!"
"C3 need experts"
"First C5 need RA"

Clear > Time

- It's important to clear a stage. Time become less important
- When some people are beginners, communication is needed
- It's likely that some people with experience would join

Time attack
===========
examples,
"C2 TA"
"C4 TA 1FO only"
"C8 TA 40 min"

Time > Clear

TA = Time attack, it's for people with experience, willing to play fast
and get good time. The combination become important.
2 hunters or more are needed:

normal TA team

4HU: Sometimes it's good. But using 4 hunters from C1-C9 may not faster
than 3HU 1FO
3HU 1FO: It may be the best fixed team running from C1-C9
2HU 1FO 1RA: a balanced team
3HU 1RA: For a ranger, it's a good TA team

special team (not recommended for TA)

2HU 2RA: weaker, but gained safety in some stages
2HU 2FO: work in most stages, better than 2HU 2RA in later stages.
It is not as bad as most people think.
(A friend got 30 minutes in C4, 2Hu 2Fo)

Team with only 1 hunter may excesss 5-10 minutes over S rank time.
However, s rank is easy. A few stages over s rank time is OK.


Mattari/leisure game (JPonly?)
==============================
fun only, clear and time are not important

Fun isthe only consideration. It's a game of enjoyment. People can chat,
mail or do anything they want. 4 forces or 4 rangers are OK, too. As far
as I know, no non-japanese play that type of game. The game time would
be long.

(Maybe I am the only foreigner that enjoy it. Um.... I don't play
mattari games in miranda)

Pure challenges
===============
"RAmar legend 4"
"C9 Force team"

Some people want real challenge, I passed C4 with 2forces 2Rangers.
And it's the best game I have ever had. Some friends tried C8 4forces,
it would be fun if you see a FOmarl use a mechgun in C8. Things that
would never happen in a normal challenge. You may also see some games
with only 2 people.

Limit TA (JPonly)*
==================
Time only

(the teamname is written in Japanese, read kanji teamname)

Did you see some Japanese players has a total time of around 4 hours?
Congratulation. You are playing with a expert, most of them use HUcast
or forces. I don't think a ranger can play limit TA.

What they do is keep retrying until they get a good condiction - few
enemies and great weapons. Normally it's a team of experts with BBA,
using strongest combination like 3Hc 1FO or 4Hc. The patterns is not
a normal game. You may see hunters attack garanz directly and forces
commit suicide to refill TP...etc.

You can see it as ultimate time attack. I don't have enough
information in this subject.

recomendation:
- BBA (less lag, almost no disconnection)
- lot's of experience,
for example... played three months, 15 Bu-EI...etc
- no rangers. They use HUcast and forces normally
- know Japanese
(must understand what's the strategy and learn better skills or else
you seldom has chance to play in limit TA teams.)
- lot's of time
(may use over hours resetting the game to meet the condiction)

(My connection is not fast and I don't know how to use saber. So I
never play that type of TA, anyway, you can see some limit TA players
in normal game.)
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1.7 cheating
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Some people want to try another experience with easier "challenge".
However, it doesn't work in miranda. People seldom join teams with level
200, and many people will commit suicide when they see people level up to
Lv200.

Type of cheating:
- Lv200 or ang high level
- unlimited items
- 1 hit kill

The way to avoid that type of game is:
1. Don't join any games when the people there has too high levels
(cheaters tends to be Lv200)

2. When you see any people over level 100, drop dolls and suicide
(If he use the codes in your game without asking your opinion, you can
do that without explanation)


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