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KaosFR

Gray Pigeon wrote:

Tom, you should make ppv2 to the same calculation method as tp.

The map of score(50|50|50) is easier than the map of score(100|0|0).
While this is very true, I personnaly dislike the way the tp system handles this. Right now getting 100/100/100 on a map or getting 100/0/0 + 0/100/0 + 0/0/100 on three different maps gives exactly the same number of tps, when the former is much harder. I am fairly sure that sorting maps by stats this way is unavoidably flawed.

To avoid the previous problem I think each stat just needs tweaking. I thought of a simple solution - I'm sure there are better ones than mine, though. That involves giving bonuses or maluses depending on which stat is the highest/2nd highest/lowest.

Let's say it gives +75% to the highest stat, +25% to the second highest and -25% to the lowest when calculating the total pp rating (I omitted the digits after the decimal point). I'll illustrate that with a simple example (two scores giving the same amount of pps initially) :

90/85/80 -> 157/106/60 || 255pps -> 323pps (it's relative, so the increase does not matter)
140/70/45 -> 245/87/33 || 255pps -> 365pps (notice how it's now higher than the previous score)

I chose the percentages randomly, but you get the idea.
Full Tablet

KaosFR wrote:

Let's say it gives +75% to the highest stat, +25% to the second highest and -25% to the lowest when calculating the total pp rating (I omitted the digits after the decimal point)

90/85/80 -> 157/106/60 || 255pps -> 323pps (it's relative, so the increase does not matter)
140/70/45 -> 245/87/33 || 255pps -> 365pps (notice how it's now higher than the previous score)

Tom94 wrote:

Currently the pp a score is worth is computed by the following formula: (aim^X + speed^X + acc^X)^(1/X)
Where X at the moment is 1.1 and will likely rise a bit in the future.
90/85/80 -> 230.789
140/70/45 -> 233.266
The value of X can be adjusted to change the worth of the highest stat.

Example: X=0.7 (The play gets "punished" for having a low stat).
90/85/80 -> 408.197
140/70/45 -> 395.121


Example: X=1.5 (The highest stat is given even more importance).
90/85/80 -> 176.909
140/70/45 -> 186.358
KaosFR
I see. I didn't know about the formula, thanks for pointing that out.

I'm not saying I like it that much though; even with X>>1 it doesn't seem to make much of a difference, mostly because of the last part of the formula (the ^(1/X)).
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Tom94

KaosFR wrote:

I see. I didn't know about the formula, thanks for pointing that out.

I'm not saying I like it that much though; even with X>>1 it doesn't seem to make much of a difference, mostly because of the last part of the formula (the ^(1/X)).
X>>1 indeed makes a huge difference. The ^(1/X) merely makes sure, that the result is not scaled horribly asymptotically to O(n^X), but remains in the same asymptotic scale.
Full Tablet

KaosFR wrote:

I see. I didn't know about the formula, thanks for pointing that out.

I'm not saying I like it that much though; even with X>>1 it doesn't seem to make much of a difference, mostly because of the last part of the formula (the ^(1/X)).
The value X can be changed to adjust how much "extra" bonus or penalty there is when a stats is considerably better or worse than the rest:
(aim^X + speed^X + acc^X)^(1/X) * (3)^((X-1)/X)
(The (3)^((x-1)/x) part of the formula isn't really needed, since it is just a constant when the performance stats change, it is just there so the magnitudes remain more easily comparable when changing x)
So:
X =1
Then the formula is just the sum of the 3 stats (the arithmetic mean, multiplied by 3)
X -> Infinity
The formula comes close to the maximum stat, multiplied by 3. That way, if X is a big number, only the best stat matters.
X -> 0
The formula comes close to the geometric mean of the stats, multiplied by 3. The geometric mean gives smaller values if one of the stats is considerably lower
X = -1
The formula is equal to the harmonic mean, multiplied by 3. It gives relatively even smaller values if one of the stats is considerably lower (compared to the geometric mean).
X-> -Infinity
The formula comes close to the minimum stat, multiplied by 3. In that case, the worth of a score is determined only by it's worst stat.
KaosFR
Thanks for you answers. Somehow I still feel scores with one or two big stats don't get rewarded enough, have you thought of using something exponential instead of just polynomial ? This kind of formula :

logx(x^aim+x^speed+x^accuracy)

Still scaled down to O(n) but gives high stats a bigger impact (and still tends to the highest stat)
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Tom94

Full Tablet wrote:

KaosFR wrote:

I see. I didn't know about the formula, thanks for pointing that out.

I'm not saying I like it that much though; even with X>>1 it doesn't seem to make much of a difference, mostly because of the last part of the formula (the ^(1/X)).
The value X can be changed to adjust how much "extra" bonus or penalty there is when a stats is considerably better or worse than the rest:
(aim^X + speed^X + acc^X)^(1/X) * (3)^((X-1)/X)
(The (3)^((x-1)/x) part of the formula isn't really needed, since it is just a constant when the performance stats change, it is just there so the magnitudes remain more easily comparable when changing x)
So:
X =1
Then the formula is just the sum of the 3 stats (the arithmetic mean, multiplied by 3)
X -> Infinity
The formula comes close to the maximum stat, multiplied by 3. That way, if X is a big number, only the best stat matters.
X -> 0
The formula comes close to the geometric mean of the stats, multiplied by 3. The geometric mean gives smaller values if one of the stats is considerably lower
X = -1
The formula is equal to the harmonic mean, multiplied by 3. It gives relatively even smaller values if one of the stats is considerably lower (compared to the geometric mean).
X-> -Infinity
The formula comes close to the minimum stat, multiplied by 3. In that case, the worth of a score is determined only by it's worst stat.
For X -> Infinity the fomula comes close to the maximum stat, not multiplied by 3. Even with the other stats having the optimal weight, that is the same value as the highest stat, it would still converge to the highest stat. For instance (100, 100, 100). If we let X go to infinity we will have (abusing notation)
(100^inf * 3)^(1/inf) = 100 * 3^(1/inf) = 100
Since with (100, 0, 0) we get the same limit it is clear that everything lying inbetween also yield this limit.

Didn't give your other statements much thought since they're not very relevant in this context. :P

KaosFR wrote:

Thanks for you answers. Somehow I still feel scores with one or two big stats don't get rewarded enough, have you thought of using something exponential instead of just polynomial ? This kind of formula :

logx(x^aim+x^speed+x^accuracy)

Still scaled down to O(n) but gives high stats a bigger impact (and still tends to the highest stat)
Exponential scaling would not work out very well, firstly due to it only working with very small X, because the intermediate results would be come too big otherwise and rounding issues would arise, and secondly, because it'd rise too rapidly. For small aim, speed and acc the effect would be small while for big the effect would be ridiculous while with the polynomial method the effect always is the same.

(100, 50, 50) would yield half of (200, 100, 100) for any X using the polynomial method in contrast to what you proposed.
Kytoxid
When the new algorithm is used to calculate star rating, will OD be somehow factored in? Since it plays a big part in determining the pp a score gives (from accuracy), but it isn't reflected in the osu!tp map difficulty, which is solely aim/speed.
Full Tablet

Tom94 wrote:

For X -> Infinity the fomula comes close to the maximum stat, not multiplied by 3. Even with the other stats having the optimal weight, that is the same value as the highest stat, it would still converge to the highest stat. For instance (100, 100, 100). If we let X go to infinity we will have (abusing notation)
(100^inf * 3)^(1/inf) = 100 * 3^(1/inf) = 100
Since with (100, 0, 0) we get the same limit it is clear that everything lying in-between also yield this limit.

Didn't give your other statements much thought since they're not very relevant in this context. :P
I was referring to the formula if you multiplied it by (3)^((X-1)/X). While that factor isn't needed (since it's a constant when varying only the performance stats), it put it there so the magnitude of the values didn't change so much when changing X. With that, scores with equal amount of Acc-Speed-Aim don't change in magnitude, while, scores where one of the stats is better always get a bonus when increasing X.
Topic Starter
Tom94

Kytoxid wrote:

When the new algorithm is used to calculate star rating, will OD be somehow factored in? Since it plays a big part in determining the pp a score gives (from accuracy), but it isn't reflected in the osu!tp map difficulty, which is solely aim/speed.
I most likely will be in the future, but I can't promise it for the initial iteration.


Full Tablet wrote:

Tom94 wrote:

For X -> Infinity the fomula comes close to the maximum stat, not multiplied by 3. Even with the other stats having the optimal weight, that is the same value as the highest stat, it would still converge to the highest stat. For instance (100, 100, 100). If we let X go to infinity we will have (abusing notation)
(100^inf * 3)^(1/inf) = 100 * 3^(1/inf) = 100
Since with (100, 0, 0) we get the same limit it is clear that everything lying in-between also yield this limit.

Didn't give your other statements much thought since they're not very relevant in this context. :P
I was referring to the formula if you multiplied it by (3)^((X-1)/X). While that factor isn't needed (since it's a constant when varying only the performance stats), it put it there so the magnitude of the values didn't change so much when changing X. With that, scores with equal amount of Acc-Speed-Aim don't change in magnitude, while, scores where one of the stats is better always get a bonus when increasing X.
Oh yeah, I completely overlooked that. My bad. D:
Nyxa
I think I've read before that OD isn't weighted into the pp calculations. Is this true? Let's say I have an Insane SS, and I top that score with HR 97% accuracy, would this mean I would lose pp because my accuracy is lower? This would be imbalanced, since getting >95% accuracy with HR is much harder than getting an SS nomods, or with Hidden. Some Insanes I've SS'd but can not even FC with HR, and it feels like it's not even worth trying, because the 3-4% drop in accuracy would just make me lose pp for a much better performance. I like HR, but I don't try ranking with it purely because I end up losing pp.

Personally, I think HR should give more of a bonus than HD, since it is much harder to do a good performance with. I feel like HR is underrated (and was, even before ppv2) and considered to be about as difficult as HD. Play a map with DTHD, and then with DTHR and it should be obvious why I'm stating this. In my opinion, the order of mod difficulty is: DT > HR >>> HD, excluding FL since it requires an entirely different form of gameplay than the other three. However, to me it seems like pp looks at mods like: DT > HD > HR, which isn't balanced, since a 98% HR FC is much more impressive than an HD SS.

Also, sometimes I'm reluctant to try improving my accuracy on a map, since I've improved my accuracy by 5% on some maps and still lost pp. At first I thought it just happened because I dropped in ranks, not pp, but it keeps happening consistently. Now it feels like unless I FC something I will lose pp, regardless of my accuracy. Or maybe I'm wrong, but I would like to understand why this happens.

I like ppv2, I think the major issues are just some imbalances here and there and a lack of compact information on how it works. I understand that you can't work on the latter yet, though. My apologies if the things I've said have been answered before, but I've read about 75% of the thread and the only thing I've seen about HR was thelewa saying that HR is pretty much pointless below 99% accuracy, which sounds like a heavy imbalance to me.
Topic Starter
Tom94

-Scylla- wrote:

I think I've read before that OD isn't weighted into the pp calculations. Is this true? Let's say I have an Insane SS, and I top that score with HR 97% accuracy, would this mean I would lose pp because my accuracy is lower? This would be imbalanced, since getting >95% accuracy with HR is much harder than getting an SS nomods, or with Hidden. Some Insanes I've SS'd but can not even FC with HR, and it feels like it's not even worth trying, because the 3-4% drop in accuracy would just make me lose pp for a much better performance. I like HR, but I don't try ranking with it purely because I end up losing pp.

Personally, I think HR should give more of a bonus than HD, since it is much harder to do a good performance with. I feel like HR is underrated (and was, even before ppv2) and considered to be about as difficult as HD. Play a map with DTHD, and then with DTHR and it should be obvious why I'm stating this. In my opinion, the order of mod difficulty is: DT > HR >>> HD, excluding FL since it requires an entirely different form of gameplay than the other three. However, to me it seems like pp looks at mods like: DT > HD > HR, which isn't balanced, since a 98% HR FC is much more impressive than an HD SS.

Also, sometimes I'm reluctant to try improving my accuracy on a map, since I've improved my accuracy by 5% on some maps and still lost pp. At first I thought it just happened because I dropped in ranks, not pp, but it keeps happening consistently. Now it feels like unless I FC something I will lose pp, regardless of my accuracy. Or maybe I'm wrong, but I would like to understand why this happens.

I like ppv2, I think the major issues are just some imbalances here and there and a lack of compact information on how it works. I understand that you can't work on the latter yet, though. My apologies if the things I've said have been answered before, but I've read about 75% of the thread and the only thing I've seen about HR was thelewa saying that HR is pretty much pointless below 99% accuracy, which sounds like a heavy imbalance to me.
OD is factored in by a huge margin. And HR below 99% is not pointless. It is pointless for a top-tier player like thelewa, because he already has such good scores.
There will be a wiki article when pp got added for all modes.
Nyxa
Alright, thanks. That's relieving to hear.
Novixion
Does accuracy play a huge role in the amount of points you gain or is it based on maps (because of the specific weightings)?
Like one map: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/62263
I have an FC with 94% accuracy that gave me fewer points then a play with a miss (the max combo is 30 less then the FC but with 96% accuracy). I also noticed this between some of my other 95->96% plays.


Also, do qualified maps scores count or does the calculations wait until they are ranked?
Nyxa

Novixion wrote:

Does accuracy play a huge role in the amount of points you gain or is it based on maps (because of the specific weightings)?
From what I've seen, it does. I think Tom mentioned earlier in the thread that ppv2 is almost entirely accuracy-based, which would make sense. Map difficulty is factored into it as well, obviously. I've noticed that harder maps give me more pp with lower accuracies (if I were to get equal accuracy on an easier map), and the amount of pp I gain grows exponentially with higher accuracy on the same map. I think the basic idea is that the harder the map you do a good performance on is, the more pp you will get. "Harder map" here including mods.

Novixion wrote:

Also, do qualified maps scores count or does the calculations wait until they are ranked?
I'd like to know this as well.
hoolas
i really dont unerstand the new system, i've played a lot of insane songs with mods (hidden and/or dt) and my pp didnt change, for exapmpel i just played athe song o2Jam (Brandy) - Cross Time [Relaxing] , which would be a "hard", DT, 99.00% acc, rank 40 and i didnt even get 1 point.. im rank 13500.
NotThat
I love what you've done in ppv2, really livened up my desire to play Osu!.

Here's my suggestion:


Allow sorting maps by Level as found on the osu!tp site. This level sorting should also factor in the currently selected mods.
In addition the aim and speed stats should be presented.
Thirdly the TP, or unmodified PP value should be displayed along with score.

We've all been in the position where we felt we had just scored a really good play but didn't get as much PP for it as we expected, and these changes should alleviate this problem.

End play:


This small change would give players insight as to the worth of their last play.

Didn't make a picture for it but the on the website, the user page should include modified PP rewards and perhaps also unmodified TP scores for best plays, and potentially include more than 10 maps as well.

I understand the reluctance to add a second 'scoring' method in addition to the already implemented scores, but to some extent I think it's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm sure many players already sneak peek at osu!tp website to get an idea of which maps to play and what they can expect from maps in terms of PP. These changes just integrate them into the Osu! client, with even more information.
PlasticSmoothie

hoolas wrote:

i really dont unerstand the new system, i've played a lot of insane songs with mods (hidden and/or dt) and my pp didnt change, for exapmpel i just played athe song o2Jam (Brandy) - Cross Time [Relaxing] , which would be a "hard", DT, 99.00% acc, rank 40 and i didnt even get 1 point.. im rank 13500.
Play harder stuff.
buny

hoolas wrote:

i really dont unerstand the new system, i've played a lot of insane songs with mods (hidden and/or dt) and my pp didnt change, for exapmpel i just played athe song o2Jam (Brandy) - Cross Time [Relaxing] , which would be a "hard", DT, 99.00% acc, rank 40 and i didnt even get 1 point.. im rank 13500.
stop playing easy maps then
Horolynn

hoolas wrote:

i've played a lot of insane songs [...] for exapmpel i just played athe song o2Jam (Brandy) - Cross Time [Relaxing] , which would be a "hard".
Make up your mind. To make it easy on you, I'll tell you a secret. This map is not hard.
Full Tablet

Draxuss wrote:

hoolas wrote:

i've played a lot of insane songs [...] for exapmpel i just played athe song o2Jam (Brandy) - Cross Time [Relaxing] , which would be a "hard".
Make up your mind. To make it easy on you, I'll tell you a secret. This map is not hard.
I actually found it harder than most Insane songs (The [Relaxing] map with DT)... and also harder than several songs in his top performance list.
Horolynn

Full Tablet wrote:

I actually found it harder than most Insane songs (The [Relaxing] map with DT)... and also harder than several songs in his top performance list.
That's kind of weird since it has DTHDHR scores on it.
Full Tablet

Draxuss wrote:

Full Tablet wrote:

I actually found it harder than most Insane songs (The [Relaxing] map with DT)... and also harder than several songs in his top performance list.
That's kind of weird since it has DTHDHR scores on it.
Well, I say it's relatively hard because of the spaced 240bpm 1/2 streams. The map has very low OD and AR, so HR doesn't do much.
Ekaru
Just so we're all on the same page, the map in question is a Normal. This is why its AR and OD are 5 and why it has a tp level of only 7. It's an NH set.

Carry on.
Topic Starter
Tom94

NotThat wrote:

SPOILER
I love what you've done in ppv2, really livened up my desire to play Osu!.

Here's my suggestion:


Allow sorting maps by Level as found on the osu!tp site. This level sorting should also factor in the currently selected mods.
In addition the aim and speed stats should be presented.
Thirdly the TP, or unmodified PP value should be displayed along with score.

We've all been in the position where we felt we had just scored a really good play but didn't get as much PP for it as we expected, and these changes should alleviate this problem.

End play:


This small change would give players insight as to the worth of their last play.

Didn't make a picture for it but the on the website, the user page should include modified PP rewards and perhaps also unmodified TP scores for best plays, and potentially include more than 10 maps as well.

I understand the reluctance to add a second 'scoring' method in addition to the already implemented scores, but to some extent I think it's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm sure many players already sneak peek at osu!tp website to get an idea of which maps to play and what they can expect from maps in terms of PP. These changes just integrate them into the Osu! client, with even more information.
It is planned to incorporate the difficulty algorithm into the star rating. Displaying the actual pp value of a score is also a possibility, that will be looked into.
Currently the focus is on getting pp to run in all gamemodes, but afterwards you can expect such changes. :P
hoolas

Draxuss wrote:

hoolas wrote:

i've played a lot of insane songs [...] for exapmpel i just played athe song o2Jam (Brandy) - Cross Time [Relaxing] , which would be a "hard".
Make up your mind. To make it easy on you, I'll tell you a secret. This map is not hard.

-__- that was just an example of what i just had played at the moment of writing the post, i've played insane songs with DT, like i said, and still my pp didnt change, im not WWW of course i cant play the hardest songs. and what i see is that being 13.500, you have to pass extremely hard songs (extremely hard for my level, probably normal songs for a top 100 rank) to go up, and thats just not right.. im not saying that i wanna be top 100 in 1 week playing this kinds of songs but at least give me 1 freaking point.., do i need to pass scarlet rose with DT HD to get ponts?'...

maybe im wrong and i deserve to be stuck in 13.500 cause i just suck, but i dont see it that way..
laref

hoolas wrote:

-__- that was just an example of what i just had played at the moment of writing the post, i've played insane songs with DT, like i said, and still my pp didnt change, im not WWW of course i cant play the hardest songs. and what i see is that being 13.500, you have to pass extremely hard songs (extremely hard for my level, probably normal songs for a top 100 rank) to go up, and thats just not right.. im not saying that i wanna be top 100 in 1 week playing this kinds of songs but at least give me 1 freaking point.., do i need to pass scarlet rose with DT HD to get ponts?'...

maybe im wrong and i deserve to be stuck in 13.500 cause i just suck, but i dont see it that way..
Go dt that kesha song you recently ss'd with hd and see if you get any pp. I'm pretty sure you will.
IamNotgod_old
For the most part I like this new system, except for one thing, though I'm not sure if it's fixable. The "problem" would be that the system seems to factor in combo the most when calculating score. This means that breaking in the middle of a song, let's say on a slow slider, is much, much worse than breaking at the end of a song, let's say on some full screen jumps. In those cases, the smaller mistake is being punished more and pp would be distributed unfairly.

For a solution I, I noticed on the osutp site (http://osutp.net/info) there was a graph of speed/aim vs. time for the map Freedom Dive. My solution would be to relate pp to the area under the graph. The reasoning behind this is because to make the graph, there obviously must be points. The points should correlate to the difficulty of hitting the next note. Thus, when one fails to hit the next note the point on the graph should then go to 0 (or something like that) which would decrease the area of the graph. In this case, missing higher difficulty notes (higher points on the graph) will result in bigger pp losses than messing up on an easy note (lower point on the graph). Thus, pp distribution should be more fair with that system.

The only problem I see here is the computing power it would take to do those sorts of calculations (is it too much?). Otherwise, I feel like that would be a much more accurate calculation on a players performance in a map. Feel free to point out any flaws in my logic.
Novixion

hoolas wrote:

-__- that was just an example of what i just had played at the moment of writing the post, i've played insane songs with DT, like i said, and still my pp didnt change, im not WWW of course i cant play the hardest songs. and what i see is that being 13.500, you have to pass extremely hard songs (extremely hard for my level, probably normal songs for a top 100 rank) to go up, and thats just not right.. im not saying that i wanna be top 100 in 1 week playing this kinds of songs but at least give me 1 freaking point.
Some insane songs are relatively easy and passing does not guarantee you will get points.
To earn points at around rank 13k, you either need to FC stuff in the tp lvl 50+ range or score with accuracies higher then 96% and FC songs in the lvl 40 range (99% for best results, accuracy is weighted a little much from 97->99).

hoolas wrote:

do i need to pass scarlet rose with DT HD to get ponts?'...
Probably not even physically possible because of the 480 BPM, plus stuff that is actually possible give more points: e.g. killer song.
You can get points from Scarlet Rose at rank 13k because it is about lvl 60 but you have to FC it or break only once with high accuracy.
S o h

IamNotgod wrote:

quote
For the most part I like this new system, except for one thing, though I'm not sure if it's fixable. The "problem" would be that the system seems to factor in combo the most when calculating score. This means that breaking in the middle of a song, let's say on a slow slider, is much, much worse than breaking at the end of a song, let's say on some full screen jumps. In those cases, the smaller mistake is being punished more and pp would be distributed unfairly.

For a solution I, I noticed on the osutp site (http://osutp.net/info) there was a graph of speed/aim vs. time for the map Freedom Dive. My solution would be to relate pp to the area under the graph. The reasoning behind this is because to make the graph, there obviously must be points. The points should correlate to the difficulty of hitting the next note. Thus, when one fails to hit the next note the point on the graph should then go to 0 (or something like that) which would decrease the area of the graph. In this case, missing higher difficulty notes (higher points on the graph) will result in bigger pp losses than messing up on an easy note (lower point on the graph). Thus, pp distribution should be more fair with that system.

The only problem I see here is the computing power it would take to do those sorts of calculations (is it too much?). Otherwise, I feel like that would be a much more accurate calculation on a players performance in a map. Feel free to point out any flaws in my logic.
The "Highest score is the only score that gets considered" issue has been mentioned more than just several times already. The problem is that the current infrastructure of the server won't allow consideration of other scores, so there is no current workaround that can be done within the pp algorithm. It is to be fixed, I believe. It just doesn't have the highest priority at this moment.

I'm dumb
GhostFrog
IamNotgod was referring to a different issue (equal weighting of all parts of the map, despite inconsistent difficulty). Last I heard, Tom was interested in having pp consider "per-Hitobject" data in order to solve that, but it's not currently possible (and I don't see how it would be possible to get accurate data on that from old scores).

Personally, I think HD is the biggest "issue" right now. HD does deserve a bonus, but it doesn't belong in aim and it doesn't belong in accuracy (it also doesn't belong in speed, but it doesn't give a bonus to speed right now). The accuracy bonus in particular seems silly to me - HD gives a 2% (or something like that) bonus to accuracy under the assumption that people will mess up at reading a map when playing with it. Apparently playing with HD means we're supposed to be playing maps we can't read well and playing nomod means we're supposed to be playing maps we can read perfectly. I don't get it. The 18% bonus to aim...well, that's just really misplaced and inflated and it's even more egregious on slider-heavy maps. If and when pp incorporates pattern/reading difficulty, all of that should be solvable by just throwing the HD bonus into that instead. That could also help with flashlight - flashlight is crazy hard, but the primary difficulty with it has nothing to do with aim, speed, or accuracy.

Speaking of flashlight, its bonus should probably scale with the player's max combo instead of being a flat 36%. Flashlighting a 50 combo map is easy. Flashlighting a 1000 combo map is very difficult.

In fact, maps with high max combos feel underweighted in general. I don't know by how much or what exactly should be done about that, but long maps that are difficult throughout could use some love imo.

Overall, I really like pp right now. I feel like it for the most part rewards good plays - exactly what a ranking system should do. It makes it feel worthwhile to sometimes play specifically for ranks, which always felt worthless with ppv1.

Something that happened earlier seemed very wrong to me. I had the following plays in order:


Seemed really strange to me, especially considering what osu!tp has to say about the relative values of aim, speed, and accuracy in that map. Is combo weighted considerably lower in pp than in tp or is there some other factor pp takes into account that I'm not considering? Or did my pp for it not calculate immediately (as of 2 hours later, it still hadn't changed, so that makes this a bit less likely)? It would be convenient if there could be some sort of indicator on the score screen that tells you if your pp for the play has been computed and added to your total (or, better yet, as has been suggested, something that tells you exactly how much raw pp your play was worth).
Novixion

GhostFrog wrote:

Something that happened earlier seemed very wrong to me. I had the following plays in order:

I actually got penalized for having 1% lower accuracy yet a much higher combo. I also agree that combo is not weighted enough and it seems accuracy is still heavily weighted.
HoboEater
I like how combo isn't weighted so hard! I really suck at FC for some reason and always miss one note at the end. (Yay for A rank best performances!) I still find it shocking how many players have [Blackhole - Lagomorphic] on their top ranks, it really isn't that hard....

Overall I really like the system. It really motivates you to play harder songs, even though some beatmaps are weighted properly. To be honest, I really don't think I deserve to be at my rank (Currently 3,131pp #3106). Most of my top ranks aren't even that difficult. Like my 3rd best pp was A rank on Krewella - Come & Get it [Insane no-mod]... Wut?
Ziggo

HoboEater wrote:

I still find it shocking how many players have [Blackhole - Lagomorphic] on their top ranks, it really isn't that hard....
Everyone considers different things hard. I personally find [Blackhole - Lagomorphic] extremely hard and needed like 100 tries to fc it once. On the other hand I have scores in my top performances list that I don't consider to be hard at all.

HoboEater wrote:

To be honest, I really don't think I deserve to be at my rank (Currently 3,131pp #3106)
This just means that you are capable of doing scores that others can't, so your rank is well deserved.

GhostFrog wrote:

SPOILER
Personally, I think HD is the biggest "issue" right now. HD does deserve a bonus, but it doesn't belong in aim and it doesn't belong in accuracy (it also doesn't belong in speed, but it doesn't give a bonus to speed right now). The accuracy bonus in particular seems silly to me - HD gives a 2% (or something like that) bonus to accuracy under the assumption that people will mess up at reading a map when playing with it. Apparently playing with HD means we're supposed to be playing maps we can't read well and playing nomod means we're supposed to be playing maps we can read perfectly. I don't get it. The 18% bonus to aim...well, that's just really misplaced and inflated and it's even more egregious on slider-heavy maps. If and when pp incorporates pattern/reading difficulty, all of that should be solvable by just throwing the HD bonus into that instead. That could also help with flashlight - flashlight is crazy hard, but the primary difficulty with it has nothing to do with aim, speed, or accuracy.

Speaking of flashlight, its bonus should probably scale with the player's max combo instead of being a flat 36%. Flashlighting a 50 combo map is easy. Flashlighting a 1000 combo map is very difficult.

In fact, maps with high max combos feel underweighted in general. I don't know by how much or what exactly should be done about that, but long maps that are difficult throughout could use some love imo.
Very good point and probably the biggest issue with pp right now!
Rewben2

HoboEater wrote:

I still find it shocking how many players have [Blackhole - Lagomorphic] on their top ranks, it really isn't that hard....
I've noticed very frequently appearing songs on the best performances of people that are a similar rank to me. I've seen that song around a little bit, it's probably more common among higher ranks.
Examples:
http://osu.ppy.sh/b/161611?m=0
http://osu.ppy.sh/b/290581?m=0
http://osu.ppy.sh/b/211697?m=0
http://osu.ppy.sh/b/114446?m=0
and yes they are all in mine because muh pp's

Some songs are just worth lots for their difficulty. The ratio of people who have nomod insanes in their best performance compared to DT/HD is also very high (for rank 5k-8k).
zitekyo
have often the same problem. Im a low acc player.
a small example
Sometimes i play a map with 90% acc (2mio points)
next try then 82% acc (2,5mio poiints ) = the reason -10pp

i hate this..
Almost

zitekyo wrote:

have often the same problem. Im a low acc player.
a small example
Sometimes i play a map with 90% acc (2mio points)
next try then 82% acc (2,5mio poiints ) = the reason -10pp

i hate this..
The simple solution to this problem: get better accuracy. Accuracy is probably the easiest aspect of this game to improve in...
zitekyo
i know that acc is important , but i love to play harder maps , on this maps i dont get "s" "ss" or high acc.
in my opinion,
Jumps/fast singletaps.. all is much easier then hit a circle on the right moment =D
now i play slowerer maps .I focus only on acc/fc ,i hope this training will work =)
HoboEater

zitekyo wrote:

i know that acc is important , but i love to play harder maps , on this maps i dont get "s" "ss" or high acc.
in my opinion,
Jumps/fast singletaps.. all is much easier then hit a circle on the right moment =D
now i play slowerer maps .I focus only on acc/fc ,i hope this training will work =)
I wouldn't focus on accuracy too much. Instead, focus on being comfortable with harder songs. If you can play difficult songs with a calm attitude, you will notice accuracy comes naturally. Also, you will improve much faster compared to practicing slow songs. For some reason, I actually get much lower accuracy on easier songs because of my play style.

Ziggo wrote:

This just means that you are capable of doing scores that others can't, so your rank is well deserved.
I would disagree since most of my top performances are swiped from players close to my rank. In other words, I just took all the easy maps worth high amounts of performance with high accuracy, which isn't what most players would do.

As Rewben2 suggests, similar songs appear in best performances due to their high performance to difficulty ratio. Therefore its much easier to gain ranks if you know which songs to play.
Jessie
This system is probably more accurate, and i dont think there's any arguing that. BUt the problem is that it isnt rewarding AT ALL. Full Combo'ing things isnt particularly rewarding if i dont like the song, which seem to be the only ones worth anything. Streams are also worth next to no pp, even for giant combos or full combos. Double time is vastly over-weighted, and top 50'ing hards, much harder to do than full combo'ing insanes with no mod, are worth nothing. The system doesnt make me want to play, it makes me grind rather than enjoy myself while improving rank.
HoboEater

StratoPulse wrote:

This system is probably more accurate, and i dont think there's any arguing that. BUt the problem is that it isnt rewarding AT ALL. Full Combo'ing things isnt particularly rewarding if i dont like the song, which seem to be the only ones worth anything. Streams are also worth next to no pp, even for giant combos or full combos. Double time is vastly over-weighted, and top 50'ing hards, much harder to do than full combo'ing insanes with no mod, are worth nothing. The system doesnt make me want to play, it makes me grind rather than enjoy myself while improving rank.
Wtf? The whole point of the system is to be less reliant on scoring top 50. People could grind normal songs with FL and get in to 10k rank on the old System . Streams are worth huge amounts of pp in the new system .
jesse1412

StratoPulse wrote:

This system is probably more accurate, and i dont think there's any arguing that. BUt the problem is that it isnt rewarding AT ALL. Full Combo'ing things isnt particularly rewarding if i dont like the song, which seem to be the only ones worth anything. Streams are also worth next to no pp, even for giant combos or full combos. Double time is vastly over-weighted, and top 50'ing hards, much harder to do than full combo'ing insanes with no mod, are worth nothing. The system doesnt make me want to play, it makes me grind rather than enjoy myself while improving rank.
Streams seem to only become relevant in calculations on a higher level of play (arguably over rated at this level too). Also top 50ing hards means you're probably doing high accuracy scores which is harder to do. If low accuracy scores gave high pp on average tier insane full combos a lot of players would farm the system insanely easily.
nooblet

StratoPulse wrote:

This system is probably more accurate, and i dont think there's any arguing that. BUt the problem is that it isnt rewarding AT ALL. Full Combo'ing things isnt particularly rewarding if i dont like the song, which seem to be the only ones worth anything. Streams are also worth next to no pp, even for giant combos or full combos. Double time is vastly over-weighted, and top 50'ing hards, much harder to do than full combo'ing insanes with no mod, are worth nothing. The system doesnt make me want to play, it makes me grind rather than enjoy myself while improving rank.
You only feel this way because you're caring too much about what other people do. Checking the people around my rank, I find most of them play DT, but I probably have a grand total of... 1 map that has a DT high score? Don't let what others do affect you. Find maps with higher difficulty and do them with good accuracy, you're not getting any less pp than they are unless they DT the maps you're doing, you can just get them through other aspects like aim and accuracy.

Also, from my understanding, DT is actually not overweighted because it's calculated the exact same way a map made at 1.5x of its speed would be (someone confirm or correct?). It does, however, ruin songs :( .

Streams are worth PP if it's actually streamy and has high bpm. Having a few 7-note or 15-note streams in a beatmap is pretty much expected nowadays, so you can't really give pp for a few of those. Low bpm streams aren't be worth anything. Just look at the "speed" value on osutp, streamy maps at high bpm like mytho, unlimitation, calamity fortune, etc. have a very high speed value.
HoboEater

nooblet wrote:

StratoPulse wrote:

This system is probably more accurate, and i dont think there's any arguing that. BUt the problem is that it isnt rewarding AT ALL. Full Combo'ing things isnt particularly rewarding if i dont like the song, which seem to be the only ones worth anything. Streams are also worth next to no pp, even for giant combos or full combos. Double time is vastly over-weighted, and top 50'ing hards, much harder to do than full combo'ing insanes with no mod, are worth nothing. The system doesnt make me want to play, it makes me grind rather than enjoy myself while improving rank.
You only feel this way because you're caring too much about what other people do. Checking the people around my rank, I find most of them play DT, but I probably have a grand total of... 1 map that has a DT high score? Don't let what others do affect you. Find maps with higher difficulty and do them with good accuracy, you're not getting any less pp than they are unless they DT the maps you're doing, you can just get them through other aspects like aim and accuracy.

Also, from my understanding, DT is actually not overweighted because it's calculated the exact same way a map made at 1.5x of its speed would be (someone confirm or correct?). It does, however, ruin songs :( .

Streams are worth PP if it's actually streamy and has high bpm. Having a few 7-note or 15-note streams in a beatmap is pretty much expected nowadays, so you can't really give pp for a few of those. Low bpm streams aren't be worth anything. Just look at the "speed" value on osutp, streamy maps at high bpm like mytho, unlimitation, calamity fortune, etc. have a very high speed value.
From my experience, DT can be slightly overweighted since some maps are shorter with easier patterns compared to harder maps, but they should be calculated the same way (Tom?).

My example of DT and streams being overweighted is insane DT on http://osu.ppy.sh/b/105265?m=0
Topic Starter
Tom94

nooblet wrote:

StratoPulse wrote:

[...]
Also, from my understanding, DT is actually not overweighted because it's calculated the exact same way a map made at 1.5x of its speed would be (someone confirm or correct?). [...]
I confirm. Same goes for HalfTime, HardRock and Easy.
The only mods giving some arbitrary bonus are Hidden and FlashLight.

Also, FlashLight is giving a 50% aim bonus since the last update (you can find it in the changelog somewhere, it's been a week or two), not a 36% one anymore. I do also agree with making FlashLight scale with MaxCombo, it does make a lot of sense. You can expect that to be the case in the near future. ;)
Totoki
Speaking of max combo, i have an issue about the weighing of certain plays corresponding to their combos.

For example: http://osutp.net/scores?bid=142954 (using tp scores to give a rough idea)
In a map like Senketsu no Chikai where there are jumps throughout the song, i can't help but feel misses should be more penalized than combo.
In the scores: 1.1k combo w/ 5 miss and 98% acc is weighted higher than 700combo w/ 1 miss and 99% acc
in my opinion missing once near the middle with almost perfect acc is a far better play than managing to combo most of the map with worse acc and far more misses.

The above is just my personal evaluation but i would like you hear your opinion on this matter Tom, thanks~ :)
Aqo
usually misses on maps like that when you're actually able to get a low miss count overall mean a loss of concentration and not a lack of aim skill, the person who had 1 miss was just more lucky to get less penalized for his momentary loss of concentration compared to the person who had 5 miss all at once. The second person was able to stay concentrated for longer overall, and apply a decent aim consistency, so that's why his score earns more in the end.
-Chisana te-
just a question, I have lost 10 pp, why ??
Yano

hugola22 wrote:

just a question, I have lost 10 pp, why ??
Maybe better Score in a Map but worse Accuary

One of the most reasons why ppl lose pp

---------------

-Chisana te-
yes but 10 is so much !
Novixion

Ultrayano wrote:

They need to really update osutp.net
A bunch of deleted/hidden scores from obvious cheaters still have not been removed.
buny
they don't get removed until the user gets banned
You can actually find a LOT of hidden scores on certain maps, because apparently it's really hard to tell if a big black DT score is legit or not.
Dalvoid
I still feel that osu! now has a pretty confusing scoring system. I mean, in a rhythm game what's the aim? Usually to get the highest score right? Well quite often now we get PENALIZED for getting better scores ie because of lower accuracy etc.

Now aside from the fact that that is extremely unintuitive for users (see: this thread "why did i lose x pp"), the real problem is the fact that scores are sorted not by their worth, but by their score, WHICH ACCORDING TO THE RANKED SYSTEM IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.

I really feel that scores should be sorted by either their pp worth, or that we should be able to choose which score on a song to submit, or that we have the ability to delete a score. There are lots of options there that all solve this problem, I'm just wondering if Tom/peppy also consider this to be a problem or aren't fazed by it.
Yano

Dalvoid wrote:

I still feel that osu! now has a pretty confusing scoring system. I mean, in a rhythm game what's the aim? Usually to get the highest score right? Well quite often now we get PENALIZED for getting better scores ie because of lower accuracy etc.

Now aside from the fact that that is extremely unintuitive for users (see: this thread "why did i lose x pp"), the real problem is the fact that scores are sorted not by their worth, but by their score, WHICH ACCORDING TO THE RANKED SYSTEM IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.

I really feel that scores should be sorted by either their pp worth, or that we should be able to choose which score on a song to submit, or that we have the ability to delete a score. There are lots of options there that all solve this problem, I'm just wondering if Tom/peppy also consider this to be a problem or aren't fazed by it.
Just wait a little bit more :) Tom is still working on the System but first he want implement the System also in all the other Modes
Icyteru
The aim isn't to get score, otherwise, uan/andrea/geckogates best players in world.
Yano

[AirCoN] wrote:

The aim isn't to get score, otherwise, uan/andrea/geckogates best players in world.
Yeah so true

If ppl want a Score Ranking <-
Dalvoid
Ok, I kinda knew this would happen with all the forum knights skimming posts, BUT YOU ARE COMPLETELY MISSING MY POINT.

The point is that best score =/= best play, AS YOU SAID. However osu! is submitting scores as if best score = best play. The problem is that the goal of the game has become convoluted, and now we can become 'stuck' with a "high score" which is actually negatively impacting our ranking.

tl;dr if you feel like trying again: the problem is the submission system and I am not making the ridiculous assertion that score should be the defining factor of osu!'s ranked play.
Horolynn

Dalvoid wrote:

Ok, I kinda knew this would happen with all the forum knights skimming posts, BUT YOU ARE COMPLETELY MISSING MY POINT.

The point is that best score =/= best play, AS YOU SAID. However osu! is submitting scores as if best score = best play. The problem is that the goal of the game has become convoluted, and now we can become 'stuck' with a "high score" which is actually negatively impacting our ranking.

tl;dr if you feel like trying again: the problem is the submission system and I am not making the ridiculous assertion that score should be the defining factor of osu!'s ranked play.
If you actually paid any attention to this topic, Tom has stated MULTIPLE times that it is not possible to sort plays by their performance. Sorting by score is the only possible way for now, and there is no information on when, if at all, it is gonna change.
Aqo
just FC maps or don't expect to get anything from plays where you didn't FC. simple.
dennischan
One of my friends (mike6649) dosen't get any pp at all. He passed Mad Machine and Sonata and he didn't get any pp.
I'm not very sure what's happening, as those are the highest tier maps in this game, and there's no reward for beating them!?
He's only at #32,482, and people at that rank usually fail miserably at these top tier maps.
I think that about people in #10000 or above are the only people able to pass those maps, as in MP, I've seen some #10000 that can't pass mad machine.
I think there must be something wrong with this system if you don't get pp from high tier plays, so I think I need a bit of explanation
Stoneybeans

dennischan wrote:

One of my friends (mike6649) dosen't get any pp at all. He passed Mad Machine and Sonata and he didn't get any pp.
I'm not very sure what's happening, as those are the highest tier maps in this game, and there's no reward for beating them!?
He's only at #32,482, and people at that rank usually fail miserably at these top tier maps.
I think that about people in #10000 or above are the only people able to pass those maps, as in MP, I've seen some #10000 that can't pass mad machine.
I think there must be something wrong with this system if you don't get pp from high tier plays, so I think I need a bit of explanation
the system cares more about what maps(+mod/s) you can play well than what you can just mash and pass like that
RaneFire
You don't even need accuracy for mad machine, you just need speed. I wouldn't call it a "highest tier" map since the only difficult part about it is that it has 270 BPM 1/4 streams, but they are not very long (not bad for stamina) and have multiple hold-sliders in between them. It's OD7, which is lenient for 270 BPM, you could be out of time (slower), even double-tapping, and still get 300's.

Afaik Tom's algorithm uses strain values, so the number of hold sliders in between these streams reduces that value and there are many slow parts too, which inflates your accuracy for a 270 BPM map, mainly due to half the map being sliders, giving you most of your combo. Sliders are ignored for accuracy calculation, so you would need a high accuracy score to get any pp. Combo matters due to these fast repeating sliders and the combo in the screenies is too low.
nooblet

dennischan wrote:

One of my friends (mike6649) dosen't get any pp at all. He passed Mad Machine and Sonata and he didn't get any pp.
I'm not very sure what's happening, as those are the highest tier maps in this game, and there's no reward for beating them!?
He's only at #32,482, and people at that rank usually fail miserably at these top tier maps.
I think that about people in #10000 or above are the only people able to pass those maps, as in MP, I've seen some #10000 that can't pass mad machine.
I think there must be something wrong with this system if you don't get pp from high tier plays, so I think I need a bit of explanation
PP rewards you for good performances, passing =/= a good performance. You'll get PP from getting 99% on an easier map/diff. You can tell from the tp site that accuracy is pretty much nill once you hit 90%. Low accuracy and lack of combo also means no points in accuracy and aim.
VIDgamefrk9
I do find it rather odd that I get pp in other modes even though I get LESS THAN 90% accuracy. I think you are on to something about the lack of combo, as I do OK with combo but I tend to drop it quite easily as I don't play often enough to build my stamina up on both hands. I think the pp system is fine, as you do get some for improving your score on a map that you have already played I do, however, find it rather odd that only the highest difficulty counts on a beatmap if you have played multiple diffs.
Luna

VIDgamefrk9 wrote:

I do find it rather odd that I get pp in other modes even though I get LESS THAN 90% accuracy.
The pp system for special modes is not yet functional, please just ignore pp in those modes until it's implemented (soon-ish hopefully).
Symqn
I just played on new ranked map by chance got rank 34 even if i didn't FC it and i lost 50 pp why would i lose pp i get if map has low plays even if you get high rank you dont get alot pp but losing it those 50 pp were hard to get since iam improving now so i rank up slowly
Multtari
Most likely some changes (or issues?) with calculation, 100 pp disappeared in thin air.
zitekyo
everyone will lose pp dont be afraid..

after a overall rank update, youi get probablyy your old rank.
Topic Starter
Tom94
pp just got switched to use calculations of the soon-to-come star rating system. Small changes in pp are to be expected. :P
Camnel
Just lost 136pp LULZ
Yano

Tom94 wrote:

pp just got switched to use calculations of the soon-to-come star rating system. Small changes in pp are to be expected. :P
Saw it xD
I was shocked
Lost 16pp after better Score and better Accuary
But wayne I'm to bad to say i don't deserve this rank
DeViezeMan
Oh man, how annoying. The amount of pp i lost was exactly the amount of pp i gained by getting 2 good scores. For a moment i was afraid they'd be deleted because of something ridiculous like hacking or something.

Is it possible to make a notice about a change in calculations? Because of this i went from near #1200 to near #1300, which is quite a change for me. Especially if someone happens to be trying to get some great scores, communication will be appreciates, i feel. Or is too much hassle compared to the amount of changes made or magnitude of changes?
Felipe Massa
lose 20pp TAT
Topic Starter
Tom94
Other people will lose pp, too, so you won't lose many ranks in the long run. You might even gain some. :P
Camnel

Tom94 wrote:

Other people will lose pp, too, so you won't lose many ranks in the long run. You might even gain some. :P
Think im not coming back from this one, i mean, 136pp FUCK MY LIFE
Yano

Tom94 wrote:

Other people will lose pp, too, so you won't lose many ranks in the long run. You might even gain some. :P
Will the Rank only update if the User rank a Map ? Or will it update in the next 48H
Topic Starter
Tom94

Ultrayano wrote:

Tom94 wrote:

Other people will lose pp, too, so you won't lose many ranks in the long run. You might even gain some. :P
Will the Rank only update if the User rank a Map ? Or will it update in the next 48H
Next few hours. Your best performance list will take a few days, though.
GoldenWolf

Camnel wrote:

Think im not coming back from this one, i mean, 136pp FUCK MY LIFE
But the number of pp doesn't matter, because it's only a number
What matters is your rank, once recalculations are done you can compare your previous rank with your new one and see if you have lost anything or not
DeViezeMan
Thanks, Tom, for the clarification.
TakuMii
There really should be something telling people to ignore the raw pp amount when there are changes to the system (or at least make it display secondary on profiles) so that people don't focus on it so much.

@Tom94: Just curious, how will the new star system work? Will it have an open ceiling, or will it still just be limited to 5 stars?
Kexxon
Is combo/score a big factor in ppv2 if any at all?
buny

Kexxon wrote:

Is combo/score a big factor in ppv2 if any at all?
combo does
Erased_old_1
NERF THE STREAMS! 'nough said
GoldenWolf
What's wrong with streams?
Novixion

[El_Cake] wrote:

NERF THE STREAMS! 'nough said
Ok I would say I agree since I suck at streams but streams are rather critical for determining speed and accuracy/consistency.

On a side note, I lost pp but gained ranks XD, HD is now worth playing again.
Kreso-Kun
i give up on ranking its like i gained pp like up 599 yesterday then today after 1 game i drop to 74k and 583 pp again wtf ig ive up on ranking just sigh...
buny

Kreto wrote:

i give up on ranking its like i gained pp like up 599 yesterday then today after 1 game i drop to 74k and 583 pp again wtf ig ive up on ranking just sigh...
pp got recalculated
believe it or not, there are people better than you
Kreso-Kun
[quote="Kreto"]i give up on ranking its like i gained pp like up 599 yesterday then today after 1 game i drop to 74k and 583 pp again wtf ig ive up on ranking just sigh... the next day
Kreso-Kun

buny wrote:

Kreto wrote:

i give up on ranking its like i gained pp like up 599 yesterday then today after 1 game i drop to 74k and 583 pp again wtf ig ive up on ranking just sigh...
pp got recalculated
believe it or not, there are people better than you
i know there is people better than me buny but i got 599 pp yesterday like 9:30 and now at like 1:00pm it drops so thats recalculating huh like i raise it and i drop after a day it just doesnt seem fun anymore to rank so yeah. Thanks for the reply
dennischan
Thats not a tragedy, you can get your ranks back.
Passing mad machine and getting nothing IS a tragedy.
passing mad machine is just so stupidly hard its much harder than a random FC on insanes which are actually not so hard.
I dont understand why we get no pp from top tier maps while farming insanes give tons of pp
HoboEater

dennischan wrote:

Thats not a tragedy, you can get your ranks back.
Passing mad machine and getting nothing IS a tragedy.
passing mad machine is just so stupidly hard its much harder than a random FC on insanes which are actually not so hard.
I dont understand why we get no pp from top tier maps while farming insanes give tons of pp
Because just "passing" top tier maps is difficult to reliably evaluate performance..
Novixion

HoboEater wrote:

dennischan wrote:

Thats not a tragedy, you can get your ranks back.
Passing mad machine and getting nothing IS a tragedy.
passing mad machine is just so stupidly hard its much harder than a random FC on insanes which are actually not so hard.
I dont understand why we get no pp from top tier maps while farming insanes give tons of pp
Because just "passing" top tier maps is difficult to reliably evaluate performance..
On top of that mashing can let you pass those maps. Also, all those misses and combo breaks mean that not much aim was involved.
MrPotato
I didn't read all of the 46 pages because I'm lazy so maybe someone already asked this, if there will be a way to look at your own accuracy\speed\aim level like Osu!tp shows, expaple: http://puu.sh/7ezSR.png.
Topic Starter
Tom94

dennischan wrote:

Thats not a tragedy, you can get your ranks back.
Passing mad machine and getting nothing IS a tragedy.
passing mad machine is just so stupidly hard its much harder than a random FC on insanes which are actually not so hard.
I dont understand why we get no pp from top tier maps while farming insanes give tons of pp
pp are called "performance points". They are rating your performance, not your skill. Those 2 things are very similar but not exactly the same. Let's look at a piano player for instance. Would you rate a perfect interpretation of an easier piece lower than a horrible play through some ridiculously hard piece? I wouldn't.

The first requirement for getting pp is delivering a decent performance. Map difficulty is also factored in and can make up for worse performances up to a certain degree, but barely passing won't get you anywhere. As a guideline, you should try to get below 10 misses and above 90% accuracy if you want your play to be rated well. A higher combo also does help. Of course if the map indeed is ridiculously hard, then you can get away even with a low accuracy, as long as you keep your misses low and your combo high. You can see the C in jesus1412's best performances for instance.


-MrPotato- wrote:

I didn't read all of the 46 pages because I'm lazy so maybe someone already asked this, if there will be a way to look at your own accuracy\speed\aim level like Osu!tp shows, expaple: http://puu.sh/7ezSR.png.
There might be such a display at some point.
WAVEDASH
Does accuracy have any influence on pp? Or is it just your score and the weight of said score depending on the map/mod combo?
mike6649
Is it possible to get docked 100pp every 3 weeks or so? Because that's happening right now to me.

I was 1,114pp just before the ppv2 performance charts became available, and after that i dropped to 1000pp, which i noticed while playing.

After gaining 100 back over a few weeks since then, my pp just now dropped by 100. AGAIN.

I can understand the fact that pp is constantly being recalculated, but I believe 100pp disappearing every single time it does so is simply absurd.

Can someone explain what factors contribute to a decrease in pp?
dennischan
I think that this is a serious bug, so if its convenient, can you please recheck mike's scores for him
like you did for the guys here? t/181850/start=165
Thanks Tom in advance, and sorry for bothering you.
DT-sama

mike6649 wrote:

I can understand the fact that pp is constantly being recalculated, but I believe 100pp disappearing every single time it does so is simply absurd.

Can someone explain what factors contribute to a decrease in pp?
Everytime you lost pp, the algorithm that calculates pp has changed. You haven't lost any pp, according to the new algorithm you just have the pp you have.

Are you an FL or HD player? Do you have any scores that excel in one category in particular (e.g., a SS in 7000 circles OD11 map for accuracy, FC a 360bpm 7000 circles stream map for speed , FC a 360bpm 7000 circles full screen squares AR11 map for aim)? If you're not, you "lost" pp because the recent adjustments were to give a fairer pp value to such plays. For more info on how exactly it happened, read the thread.
Symqn

Tom94 wrote:

dennischan wrote:

Thats not a tragedy, you can get your ranks back.
Passing mad machine and getting nothing IS a tragedy.
passing mad machine is just so stupidly hard its much harder than a random FC on insanes which are actually not so hard.
I dont understand why we get no pp from top tier maps while farming insanes give tons of pp
pp are called "performance points". They are rating your performance, not your skill. Those 2 things are very similar but not exactly the same. Let's look at a piano player for instance. Would you rate a perfect interpretation of an easier piece lower than a horrible play through some ridiculously hard piece? I wouldn't.

The first requirement for getting pp is delivering a decent performance. Map difficulty is also factored in and can make up for worse performances up to a certain degree, but barely passing won't get you anywhere. As a guideline, you should try to get below 10 misses and above 90% accuracy if you want your play to be rated well. A higher combo also does help. Of course if the map indeed is ridiculously hard, then you can get away even with a low accuracy, as long as you keep your misses low and your combo high. You can see the C in jesus1412's best performances for instance.


-MrPotato- wrote:

I didn't read all of the 46 pages because I'm lazy so maybe someone already asked this, if there will be a way to look at your own accuracy\speed\aim level like Osu!tp shows, expaple: http://puu.sh/7ezSR.png.
There might be such a display at some point.
How about this X person is playing insane maps and he fc them but whit lower acc like around 94% acc lets say then Y person is doing hard and normals and even easy whit alot of mods gets a good acc around 98% and getting high ranks and they are at same rank. Shouldn't the Y person be lower rank since it takes much less skill than doing insanes?
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Tom94

Symqn wrote:

How about this X person is playing insane maps and he fc them but whit lower acc like around 94% acc lets say then Y person is doing hard and normals and even easy whit alot of mods gets a good acc around 98% and getting high ranks and they are at same rank. Shouldn't the Y person be lower rank since it takes much less skill than doing insanes?
That really depends on the maps. Some hard maps become harder than insanes with the right mods.
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