To follow on the conversation about why we initially went for SP:
The aim was to incentivize kudosu use, since the currency has traditionally had almost no real use. My initial thoughts on this were that the natural process around gathering and spending kudosu (ergo, via modding) would denote a base level of community involvement in the process without requiring any sort of favourite threshold requirement. However, people raised the notion of modders accumulating large amounts of kudosu and using it to drop their own maps into Loved, something that goes contrary to the entire point of the category having community support behind it.
The solutions presented were to either remove the ability of a mapper's own kudosu to count towards the Loved SP cutoff, which obviously isn't great since it removes the entire point of introducing the SP sink as an incentive for modding in the first place, or add a small threshold of favourites required to at least denote some basic level of community support behind the map.
So, we chose the latter.
Please note that this system is still subject to change and is still very much experimental.
The aim was to incentivize kudosu use, since the currency has traditionally had almost no real use. My initial thoughts on this were that the natural process around gathering and spending kudosu (ergo, via modding) would denote a base level of community involvement in the process without requiring any sort of favourite threshold requirement. However, people raised the notion of modders accumulating large amounts of kudosu and using it to drop their own maps into Loved, something that goes contrary to the entire point of the category having community support behind it.
The solutions presented were to either remove the ability of a mapper's own kudosu to count towards the Loved SP cutoff, which obviously isn't great since it removes the entire point of introducing the SP sink as an incentive for modding in the first place, or add a small threshold of favourites required to at least denote some basic level of community support behind the map.
So, we chose the latter.
Please note that this system is still subject to change and is still very much experimental.