The triathlete analogy is subtly flawed - a swimmer is not a triathlete and if a swimmer one day decides to go for a short bike ride and then for a run, he is still not a triathlete. If you play any of the 4 osu! game modes, you're an osu! player.Drezi wrote:
Including everyone in all-mode rankings is wrong, and should not ever happen. Why? There are lots of people (including me) who have no interest at all in game modes other than standard, thus ranking multi-mode players above us would be like ranking a Triathlon athele above every pure Swimmer/Cyclist/Runner. I hope you can see how bad that would be. The purpose of such a sport/ranking is to compare ONLY THOSE who actually decided to competitively participate in all the subcategories involved.
So you can make a ranking among yourselves, all-mode players, but don't try to include those who don't play all-mode.
The interesting thing is that if this overall rank were implemented, viewpoints like the one you expressed in your post would become less common. I haven't checked this thread much recently, but iirc, the most common objection to an overall ranking (or perhaps the only objection aside from concerns over implementation details) is that it's unfair for players who only play one mode to have a bad overall rank listed on their profile. I honestly can't see how that's a problem unless people seeing every game mode as legitimate is a problem - think about it, that bad rank on your profile would only mean anything to someone who believes all 4 modes are legitimate parts of osu! and the opposition to this feature is primarily (not entirely but mostly) thinly-veiled osu!standard-centricism. Having an all-mode ranking would go a long way towards making all 4 modes seem like legitimate parts of osu! rather than a core game with 3 undesirable siblings. If you wanted to know who was better at osu!standard, you would look at osu!standard rankings. If you wanted to know who was better overall at the 4 osu! game modes, you would look at the overall ranking.
My only concerns with this request are pp-related (things like making sure pp scaling is uniform across all modes). If/when pp is accurate enough and consistent enough across modes, overall ranking could just be based on the sum or average (probably average) of your pp totals for each mode.