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Make Advanced a Recognized Difficulty

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Shohei Ohtani
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Shohei Ohtani
NOTE: This is in regards to the star rating shown on the website.

So for a while like, a LOT of maps have been including an Advanced difficulty. I think it would be nice to officially set a star rating about what an advanced difficulty is, since it's so prevelant in the mapping community.

I don't think that this should make mappers forced to put an advanced diff where none is needed, but it would be helpful to indicate what an Advanced difficulty is due to its prevelance in modern mapping.
Bara-
11,978 posts
Joined April 2013
Bara-
Yes, I agree
I use them a lot. Maybe from 2.25-2.75?
Rilene
2,105 posts
Joined April 2014
Rilene
Yes please.
And maybe add another one 5.25* to 7*.
abraker
Global Moderator
8,327 posts
Joined July 2014
abraker

Rilene wrote:

And maybe add another one 5.25* to 7*.
That's already being done on the new beatmap listing. They are black in color.
Bara-
11,978 posts
Joined April 2013
Bara-
That just shifts the colors around
Currently -Green-Blue-Orange-Red-Purple-
On new -Green-Orange-Red-Purple-Black
It doesn't change much
Endaris
5,282 posts
Joined June 2010
Endaris
If I have learned one thing from star difficulties and difficulty names then it's that they don't have a meaning regarding the actual difficulty of a map.
A 89bpm map might very well fully apply the gameplay-elements specific for an advanced difficulty but still land 1,49 stars in terms of difficulty.
On the other hand fast maps will still use very simple gameplay-elements at this star difficulty range that don't deserve the name"Advanced".

Or differently expressed:
When the complexity of a map isn't characterized by its star difficulty, why would we add another difficulty range based on star rating? From my knowledge most people can't even tell apart an Easy- from a Normal-diff in terms of element-usage and it wouldnt be a tad better for Advanced vs Hard/Normal.
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