I am satisfied with how Comfort is right now. All that I think it really needs is someone to help me polish it up a bit. I have been satisfied with it since soon after the first DQ, when it received a minor visual and directional overhaul, but no BN or QAT is willing to rank it.
Extra was and currently is the problem, as it is an utter mess that has been torn apart three separate times: Right before qualification, where I needed to arbitrarily increase circle spacing so as to bump the star rating from 5.13 to 5.5 whilst barely making the map any harder, right after qualification, when I was balancing it to be more of a mediary between Insane and Comfort, and then after I dumped Comfort when it became clear that without Millhiore's say so nobody would be willing to qualify it, I tried to make Extra more of a standalone difficulty.
It was always meant to tie Insane and Comfort together, and with Comfort being gone, it lost a lot of context, which lead to confusing moments for modders where it's like "why don't you have a click here?", "well when Comfort was there all of those beats had clicks but Extra is less dense for the sake of ease of play" doesn't make sense when Comfort no longer exists.
This can be circularly discussed for days, if not weeks, without a consensus being reached. This is the kind of map that I really felt only really needed some polishing mods and moving into ranking, disagreements about the concept be damned. It's pointless unless there is a light at the end of the tunnel, which the current mapping climate has convinced me does not exist.
People will simply take down this map with opinions they've spent ten minutes scrounging off the floor whilst "modding" the map because "DQ for discussion" is the most retarded piece of shit rule I've ever seen. I had literally five motherfucking minutes to formulate a response to Natsu before the disqualification - where the fuck is the sense of "discussion" there? it just seems like people are trying to throw their weight around.
Extra was and currently is the problem, as it is an utter mess that has been torn apart three separate times: Right before qualification, where I needed to arbitrarily increase circle spacing so as to bump the star rating from 5.13 to 5.5 whilst barely making the map any harder, right after qualification, when I was balancing it to be more of a mediary between Insane and Comfort, and then after I dumped Comfort when it became clear that without Millhiore's say so nobody would be willing to qualify it, I tried to make Extra more of a standalone difficulty.
It was always meant to tie Insane and Comfort together, and with Comfort being gone, it lost a lot of context, which lead to confusing moments for modders where it's like "why don't you have a click here?", "well when Comfort was there all of those beats had clicks but Extra is less dense for the sake of ease of play" doesn't make sense when Comfort no longer exists.
This can be circularly discussed for days, if not weeks, without a consensus being reached. This is the kind of map that I really felt only really needed some polishing mods and moving into ranking, disagreements about the concept be damned. It's pointless unless there is a light at the end of the tunnel, which the current mapping climate has convinced me does not exist.
People will simply take down this map with opinions they've spent ten minutes scrounging off the floor whilst "modding" the map because "DQ for discussion" is the most retarded piece of shit rule I've ever seen. I had literally five motherfucking minutes to formulate a response to Natsu before the disqualification - where the fuck is the sense of "discussion" there? it just seems like people are trying to throw their weight around.