Mio Winter wrote:
What's up with the hate on PP maps?
I hear people all the time complaining about mappers making maps that are easy to get PP from, but it doesn't unfairly advantage anyone, since anyone can play them (but, seriously, why would you play the choco-cookie song? it's terrible).
And while we're on it, what's up with the hate on players who try to gain PP? It seems like a fun activity.
I will give you an example, from life:
What's up with all hate towards fastfoods?
Simple: it taste great and everyone love it despite it is full of chemicals and artificial ingredients who are supposed to imitate real food, as well as everyone only hear "but it is natural". One simple example - naturally made roll from flour, milk, water, eggs taste completely different from this sold in fastfood shit right? Right! You can make it in home, better, if you live in small agricultural village, you have access to truly natural ingredients, yet you will never create same taste of any single shit sold in fastfood. Reason is simple - amount of chemicals added in production stage to make it
look better, taste better, keep fresh longer.
Does people like it? - Yes, hell yea, tons of kids and adults who doesn't care about healthy life loves it.
Is it good? - Hell no, it simply decrease your lifespan due your body being unable to handle all this chemicals.
Translating to pp maps:
Does people like them? - Yes! They give massive amount of pp and you don't need to work for it at all, you don't need to obtain any skillsets, you just need to mash keys and get FC.
Is it good? - Hell no, it simply makes you a worst kind of player who will be never be a competition to someone who spend his time to polish consistency, accuracy and stamina.
You simply will NEVER see a pp farmer who spend his life on monstrata garbage maps going higher in any tournament than group stage.
Yet to find balance, in both situations:
Eating fastfood from time to time is fine - playing pp maps from time to time when you somehow miss some pp, you want to get some certain rank or just fill the gap for some shit is fine.
TL;DR:
Sorry but 10k all-rounder player with stable, high quality aim consistency, high accuracy and good stamina will be always better than 1k player who got all pp from 30s-1m maps.
PP maps makes ranking irrelevant right now.
Ranking means jackshit right now.
Telling someone that you are higher than him is pointless if your top ranks from top to bottom are garbage pp maps while other guy have from top to bottom mainly full size 1k+ combo, tech maps, slider art maps and maybe just some pp maps - Why? - Because he can just simply pick one of his top ranks, ask you to play it and you will need to really work out to get close to his score while he pick one of your top ranks 30s map and FC it at max few tries.
I had this situation myself in random multi where 4k rank player wasnt able to reach more than 400 combo on a 4,7* 10min marathon map. His top ranks were.... yeah - harumachi, cookie monster, bill nye, ok dad etc.
It was fun to see random 30-40k players being placed higher than a "4k high ranked player".