BN members receive increased acknowledgement via a forum title and some sort of visual identification (currently a purple name a la MAT). This particular point is temporary and will not carry over into the 'moddingv2' version of the Beatmap Nominators.I always wonder why BNs didn't obtain this kind of identification like old MATs from the beginning of BN/QAT change. This would be 100% correct if it wasn't "temporary" but permanent. Do not forget that if we have the possibility to play every day some new qualified > ranked maps this is given by the BNs hard work that should be recognized by others as well. They deserve to be recognized with some different colour in the forum/game chat like old MATs system.
The most active BN will be determined every 6 months via a composite consideration of successfully qualified beatmaps and overall modding activity, and will receive the Elite Nominator title plus suitable accolades for their efforts.This is actually cool. This would push BNs to work more and better. I mean better because if this comes to be true they could try to nominate maps that are not 100% ready for ranking just to show their activities for the hunger of power making troubles with the future QATs' work. (Well I am kinda pessimist but we must see all the aspects of each propose).
QAT will be freed from administrative obligation (regarding busywork and the like) and will be encouraged to check qualified maps of their own volition again. A new reporting system will be linked to the internal QAT channels, allowing them to fill their primary obligation as members of the team - to respond to complaints about improperly qualified maps.Finally? I always wonder so far what QATs were related to mapping/modding system since they are doing only moderating actions.
QAT will be encouraged to consider minimalist revisions of the current Ranking Criteria to promote higher quality beatmaps whilst also removing unnecessary roadblocks to alternate mapping styles entering RankedThis is so cool. But being the BNs experienced modders and mappers as well they could contribuite to this too.
You are right by a side, but not on the other one. There are a lot of cases you mentioned that are true, but don't forget that BNs are anyways experienced mappers. If they get a map modded and even nominated by his BN friend, you can't do anything with this, but you can't even negate the fact that if they get the nomination this means that the map is ready to be qualified and ranked. You can not make this a BN's fault because when they mod a BN's map he is working for him like he does for everyone else.GaterRaider wrote:
An upheaval to me would require that the blatant favoritism amongst BNs is addressed. Quick bubbles are passed around as favors that will be returned in the future in some way or the other. I am not going to name people but public cases of this are well recorded and should be no surprise to anyone. I don't even want to know how bad this truly is when you are an insider that has access to these advantages.
The problem is that nominators are naturally mappers and have a lot of influence in the ranking process. This creates an obvious incentive for favoritism to help each other out with their own maps. When those who are in charge of running the system are actively participating in it as individuals themselves then there are going to be problems.
Connections are too big of a driver in the current ranking process. Those with access to the people in charge are highly advantaged compared to those that do not. When getting hold of a BN is incredibly frustrating for some, while others can simply post a short message in a private discord server to get things rolling quickly I do not consider it a fair system.
Furthermore, I would propose to give much more importance to the Kudosu system too to "find" a good solution to the problem GaterRaider mentioned here. I mean, it's true that mostly of the ranked beatmaps are from experienced and well known mappers. I modded some maps that could be potentially qualified but the mentioned mappers are unknown and mostly are rejected when they ask privately a mod to a BN even if they think from other modders beatmaps are cool and respect the ranking criteria. It's just an idea I write here because I do not know where else I could propose. All modders with more than 200kd can vote a modded beatmap (this would make the queue's more active than asking it privately on the game). I mean, they can vote map on some parameters like the flow, the structure, the innovation and so on only after they received the kudosu (or people will give random kd just to get some points on their maps). There will be created a ranking of these voted maps that can be checked only by BNs and QATs where they can choose which maps to mod that are considered already good for qualifying. This would be nice for unknown mappers (that have for example 0 ranked beatmaps but a good quality of mapping) to be chosen by this "ranking" beatmap system instead to try to have the impossible luck to reach a BN's queue in time. Sorry if this is not related to the post but I wanted to propose this anyways.