Guess I'll throw in my 2 cents about this.
I think it's obvious that the majority of the people that unironically enjoy this abysmal implementation are the people that enjoy the thought of having more pp, the people that gain more recognition out of it, or the people that have no other skillsets than mashing through 7* maps. Let's just clarify that pp means absolutely nothing in this game atm, it doesn't reflect on your skill level, and you shouldn't be concerned about it right now. If you really enjoy having a nice big number next to a rank, go to ripple, you'll really feel better about yourself there. They shouldn't have even implemented any bonuses for pp until they fix the star rating algorithm. I don't even think HT should give pp for any game modes either, but that's another story...
This isn't a pp issue so much, it's the shit star rating system that ruins this more imo. This star rating algorithm has been around for how long now and they still haven't realized that it's broken to shit? I get that you genuinely don't care about this game peppy and that you'd rather have your people work on other useless projects, but at least make it seem like you trying, man. You guys impress me by making this game worse somehow, and I honestly didn't think that was possible. And to answer peoples' questions about Mina fixing it, Mina's not gonna submit all of his hard work to the other "developers" that will mooch off of it for free, because that's basically what they wanted him to do. So don't expect him to work with them because it's not going to happen.
By implementing this dt pp system, you're creating a cancerous meta for one trick pony players that play for 90-95's on maps they can barely play the maps in the first place, and it's supposedly worth giving more pp for? Fuck off. This is probably the worst thing I've seen on o!m yet and anyone who says otherwise doesn't have a clue about what's going on about this game. No, I'm not being some pessimistic Stepmania elitist fanboy. I'm being an observant individual that sees there is something wrong with this game.
This game would be better off not even having a pp system imo. Maybe people would actually learn a thing or two about this game instead of playing the same garbage ranked maps over and over again.
/salt