It's debatable that getting a high rank on a song takes a degree of skill. (Insanes +) I usually try to full combo all the "difficult" maps that are a challenge to me, so why not just put Hidden on anyways? When I play my goal is 97% accuracy and full combo, not how much pp I'll get, although I think many people enjoy being rewarded (to a degree) for their effort. Back when score determined your rank you still had people playing maps over and over with mods for the highest score possible. People will always want to have a high rank because it feels good. I wouldn't call one's rank 100% meaningless because obviously there is a skill difference between top 100 players and top 10000.Aqo wrote:
But that's the problem hereCallum Melville wrote:
Except some peoples' goals are to get higher ranks?
those "ranks" mean nothing
You think rank X makes you better than rank Y when X < Y? Guess what it doesn't.
It's a completely meaningless number on the internet.
If you enjoy going up ranks because you think it makes you better, then I'm sorry to tell you that it doesn't matter you better at all. You've been wasting your time all along. You should set actual goals, like, trying to get certain results on certain maps, measured by accuracy% and miss count.
The rank number in this game tells you no more than how much somebody wasted time on farming.
Threads like this are so... ugh. "my pp went from this to that". So what? Did this change anything for you? Are you less good of a player now that some number on the internet changed?
For me personally most of my pp came simply getting a full combo and high accuracy on high difficulty songs but that won't be the case soon, which is why I think the pp system should be based mainly on map difficulty, not rank.