Yo o/
I actually talked with Manwon at christmas but i had to cut of the talk because, yeah simply because it was christmas
Alright so like i already said him i'm still not really satisfied about the changes. The main points, the kiai, got basically ignored without a proper answer why.
I don't want to destroy your difficulty or something but i really think the Kiai Times are a bit overdone and somehow we need to find an agreement here or the mapset never get's moved forward.
So, since you didn't like my suggestion let me make another one and i would be really happy when someone who can speak korean could explain it to him what i mean or translate because in our IRC talk i kinda saw that he has little problems to understand english or at least to reply in english.
Don't want to let this get graved or something.
Alright so. My other suggestion would be that we make a little build-up. Instead just to delete all marked notes i said in my last mod you can keep the last kiai how it is. The music get's more exciting and strong from 02:41:230 - to 03:32:659 - so i can agree with leaving it how it is. This represents the song "okay" so there is no really need to change it.
From 00:06:945 - i would really like to see you follow my suggestion. The Music isn't that exciting/exhausting (i can't find the right word ?_?) or strong like in the kiai so "hi-hat only" should be really keep'd as single note.
For this Kiai here 01:08:659 - i also stay behind my suggestion how i made it. I simply don't see why you should keep here straight jumps through the whole part. I mean like 01:09:623 - is actually even a ghost note. There isn't even a hihat in the melody. Nothing. And when it's so quiet you can't even hear it. 01:12:195 - same like here but i think it would destroy the complete flow of the kiai and with it the beatmap and this is what i don't want. That's why i suggest you single notes at least for only hihat sounds.
Hope someone can translate it to him. I can even help you with getting it back to ranked but we really need to find somehow an agreement here :/