Here's the not-so-new untested plan that should be edited into the other post, but the old descriptions were terrible.
So the issue is the lack of point items by the time the blue UFO gets summoned, and does it outweigh the 1,000 gain from a small UFO? Probably. This time the first row of fairies will be taken out to feed the UFO and then we'll wait on the rest to move down. It may be possible to place the bomb to go off when the seventh (sixth on the screen) row enters the screen, and it would be fine to sit on top of the fairy with the UFO for an immediate activation and a damaged UFO. If not then hopefully the UFO from the fairy will move in the same direction everytime, and we can position ourselves accordingly to intercept it a moment later to prevent damage to the summoned one from the bomb, then shoot down the last fairy row. If not then it's guessing character movements through the blinding explosion.
If this works it'll save the summoning of another UFO so the token from the flashing summon is covered for. Still not happy about being unable to stuff the blue UFO with point items from half of the yin-yang orbs.
I looked into it, and it looks like Blue is a better choice.
http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=4434So, suicide on Shou (or whatever; assume you have 2 bombs going into stage 6), use one bomb there, and another for the space invader fairies. It would be nice to have a third for Nue, but it's entirely possible to catch the final blue without one.
Other secret spots? Not aware of any, and I'm sure you noticed the purple yin-yang orb before Nue in stage four doesn't drop any UFOs. What could it be...
Indeed. I'm curious about setting a bomb off such that it hits at full power right when that one spawns. I'm curious if the issue isn't that it's despawning immediately due to Nue appearing.
Currently working on a way to graze Murasa's non-cards. I can usually get about 1000 graze by the end, but I'm only fairly confident in the first one. The second one's not as worth it, and the third one's dangerous. I'm also certain there's a way to graze Shou's non-cards. I have a solid method for the first one--but I'm sure better can be done--and I have no idea how to do the other ones. Shou's cards seem pretty grazable, but I don't know if it's worth it to lose the card bonus for a couple hundred grazes...
Okay, just got back from doing some intense investigation. Here's how stage 6 looks:
Initial fairies: 25 point items (irrelevant, basically)
Yinyangs: 161 point items
Space Invaders: 420 point items, 60 per non-UFO-carrying fairy
Full Power Nue drop: 239 point items (no, it's not 240)
Ignoring the initial fairies, since no one's going to (well, no one
can) blue UFO those anyway, this gives us 820 point items before Byakuren. I'm ignoring blue fairies during Nue for simplicity.
Since all 820 of these point items can be blue'd, this means that any point worth gathered prior to the beginning of stage 6 is effectively worth:
820 items * 8.0 multiplier * X point worth = 6560 * X EP (Effective Points)
So this means that the 7000 pw gained on stage 1 nets us 45,920,000 EP from stage 6 alone (more, if you include the initial fairies, Nue's fairies, and Byakuren's drops). Every PWUFO (point-worth UFO, or "pwoo-foah") is 6,560,000 EP, and that's not even including the stage 5 haul.
I'm not exactly sure of the placement for maximum supergraze on Shou's first card, but seems like a bit off-center gives the most. You should be able to 3-bomb graze it for about 1500 (maybe more), giving you 9,840,000 EP, which is more than you could ever get for a bonus (it starts at 10,000,000).
tl;dr: GRAZEEdit: Oh, right, almost forgot. Interesting thing I found out. The big F item Stage 6 Nue drops if you "capture" it gives 100 PW if you already have full power. That's all well and good, but here's the weird thing: the big P item it drops if you don't "capture" gives 200 PW if you already have full power. Sure as hell's not worth wasting a bomb over, but it's interesting nonetheless. I assume the big P item Byakuren drops before Flying Fantastica works the same way.
Okay, round two for interesting stuff.
('b' refers to point items and 'r' refers to power items)
Stage 5:
Initial two big fairies: 40b, 40r
Next mass of garbage: 275b, 152r
Three big fairies: 60b, 60r
Red Yinyangs: 80r
Big fairy: 20b, 20r
Blue Yinyangs: 180b
Nazrin drop: 90b, 90r
Depending on how quickly you kill Nazrin, up to 6 pairs of big fairies will spawn. The first 3 pairs will contain no UFOs, the 4th will both contain greens, the 5th will both contain reds, and the 6th will both contain blues. All 12 of them hold 20b, 20r.
Now for the criss-cross fairies. They all follow the same pattern. Every "wave" comes with 12 fairies, and each fairy drops 4 items of its color (blue or red). They come as follows:
Red wave from the right.
Blue wave from the left.
Red wave from the right.
Blue wave from the left.
Blue wave from the right.
Blue wave from the left.
Two blue waves from both sides simultaneously.
Two blue waves from both sides simultaneously.
Two blue waves from both sides simultaneously.
Two blue waves from both sides simultaneously.
All these waves together produce 576b, 96r.
Finally, red yinyangs: 80r.
Assuming max big fairies after Nazrin, this comes to a grand total of 1481b, 778r.
As for how this helps us, that's a bit more complicated. Unlike stage 6 where we can just assume everything will be blue'd (mostly). Stage 5 is a bit more volatile currently. I'm going to be basing this equation off of
this replay. I'm also only going to include things that come from UFOs.
Ignore the first wave.
The next mass gets entirely blue'd for 8 * 275.
Ignore the three big fairies.
The red yinyangs get flash'd for 4 * 80.
Ignore the big fairy (although it could be included in the flash for an extra 4 * 20).
The blue yinyangs get blue'd for 8 * 180.
Nazrin's drop and 3 of the pairs of big fairies get blue'd for 8 * 210.
The next 2 pairs of big fairies and the 2 red waves of criss-cross fairies get flash'd for 4 * 176 (optimally, though it doesn't happen in the replay).
Then you try to blue as much as possible. That replay got 8 * 528, so I'll use that.
So our equation becomes:
(8 * 275) + (4 * 80) + (8 * 180) + (8 * 210) + (4 * 176) + (8 * 528) = 9984
So 9984 * x is the EP equation for stage 5.
If we combine stage 5's and stage 6's EPEs, we get 16544 * x.
So, for example, if I get 400 grazes on Murasa's non-cards, that should be worth 6,617,600 points later on. Not bad.
Stage 4 should come soon.
