It feels like some of these responses are forgetting that these are supposed to just be guidelines. They're not supposed to restrict creativity, and they are expected to be broken under special circumstances. These guidelines are supposed to give a general rule of thumb to what you should aim for in a lowest-diff Normal, rather than drawing hard lines on what is and isn't allowed.
Yes there may or may not be a time when spamming 1/2 sliders over two measures is suitable. But for most cases, it probably isn't, and especially so for the lowest diff in a set.
The current RC and guidelines don't really outline what is suitable for the lowest difficulty, so we needed some general middle ground for people to agree on for the regular cases, lest people start making things up and we start judging on vague unwritten rules.
Also note that even if these guidelines aren't too helpful to experienced mappers attempting to push boundaries, they will be most useful to newbie mappers who aren't sure what the expectations of mapping are.
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Judging based on millisecond timing would probably make things more clear cut, but I feel like it would transfer less well between tempos in standard mode. It feels better to base measurements on the number of beats, and scale for double or half BPM styled songs/maps. If you wanted to use maths and hard numbers to justify why 1/1 is too small of a gap at 270 BPM then you could, but it feels less clunky and more natural to just use beats for the guidelines.
Yes there may or may not be a time when spamming 1/2 sliders over two measures is suitable. But for most cases, it probably isn't, and especially so for the lowest diff in a set.
The current RC and guidelines don't really outline what is suitable for the lowest difficulty, so we needed some general middle ground for people to agree on for the regular cases, lest people start making things up and we start judging on vague unwritten rules.
Also note that even if these guidelines aren't too helpful to experienced mappers attempting to push boundaries, they will be most useful to newbie mappers who aren't sure what the expectations of mapping are.
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Judging based on millisecond timing would probably make things more clear cut, but I feel like it would transfer less well between tempos in standard mode. It feels better to base measurements on the number of beats, and scale for double or half BPM styled songs/maps. If you wanted to use maths and hard numbers to justify why 1/1 is too small of a gap at 270 BPM then you could, but it feels less clunky and more natural to just use beats for the guidelines.