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AncuL

RiP46 wrote:

so, to put it simply, it's like this:

man, I'm so lazy to do hit sound for this map. I know, let's propose RC to remove hit sound.

man, I'm so lazy to do a full spread for this map. I know, let's propose RC to remove the spread.

very cool
it's not like the ranked section will become better with you posting something like that lol
+ do you really think your ranked ENHI sets require more effort than the one-diff maps currently staying in graveyard
RiP46

AncuL wrote:

it's not like the ranked section will become better with you posting something like that lol
+ do you really think your ranked ENHI sets require more effort than the one-diff maps currently staying in graveyard
why even bother to compare my maps with other map. I push my map to fulfill my own pleasure to have a ranked map of the song that I like not for making the ranked section become better.

Also asking for GD doesn't require much effort. maybe everyone should start asking for one. *shrug*
McEndu

abraker wrote:

There is a concerning number of unranked maps being used in mania tournaments. See first bullet point as to why.
This is not really concerning, especially considering that there are maps made specifically for a tournament (this is true for any mode).

Also statistics:
  1. Out of the 20 maps used in OWC 2020 Grand Finals, 19 maps were not ranked during the tournament.
  2. Out of the 16 maps used in TWC 2021 Grand Finals, 13 maps were not ranked during the tournament.
  3. Out of the 16 maps used in CWC 2021 Grand Finals, 12 maps were not ranked during the tournament, and the rest are converts from osu! (standard).
  4. Out of the 17 maps used in MWC4K 2021 Finals series, all maps were not ranked during the tournament.
Noch Einen
I'd go for relax instead of remove. The stake is quite high on both choices, but im slightly leaning toward relax.

Remove case: (speaking of inexperienced mapper)
Even though BN could reject any of nomination req but they still do brief check about the map. And seeing unpolished map with lot of general issues could be demotivating for them. I dont want it to be 2nd quaver (which is a lot of I - X content, sorry for mentioning), though that is not as worst as quaver ranking pool (again, this is just speaking about inexperienced mapper).
Topic Starter
abraker

RiP46 wrote:

=> Mapper is too lazy. Can always ask for GD from someone else.

"Graveyard was never intended to be permanent storage."

=> Just make a pack of your graveyarded map then. Can always update it for new map later.

"Loved was never supposed to be a dump of maps that couldn't make it to ranked"

=> You don't need to pass all the map to loved section. nobody ask you to pass all the map too.

"There is a concerning number of unranked maps being used in mania tournaments. See first bullet point as to why."

=> I don't see any problem with this.
These replies ignore the entirety of the conversation happened in this thread and this github post.

McEndu wrote:

This is not really concerning, especially considering that there are maps made specifically for a tournament (this is true for any mode).

Also statistics:
Out of the 20 maps used in OWC 2020 Grand Finals, 19 maps were not ranked during the tournament.
Out of the 16 maps used in TWC 2021 Grand Finals, 13 maps were not ranked during the tournament.
Out of the 16 maps used in CWC 2021 Grand Finals, 12 maps were not ranked during the tournament, and the rest are converts from osu! (standard).
Out of the 17 maps used in MWC4K 2021 Finals series, all maps were not ranked during the tournament.
How do these stats make this remotely ok? This is not ok. They are made specifically for tournaments, but they are barred from ranking because the mapper would never bother to make additional diffs to meet the criteria. Otherwise they are quality maps, and it's proven they are quality by being chosen to be used for osu! official tournament.
Scotty

abraker wrote:

How do these stats make this remotely ok? This is not ok. They are made specifically for tournaments, but they are barred from ranking because the mapper would never bother to make additional diffs to meet the criteria. Otherwise they are quality maps, and it's proven they are quality by being chosen to be used for osu! official tournament.
tournament maps aren't ranked because the mappers simply aren't interested in pushing them for ranked. among these are maps that feature rates (unrankable due to multiple mp3s) and a lot of marathon maps that never got ranked (this has nothing to do with spread requirements either).
Adri

RiP46 wrote:

"There is a concerning number of unranked maps being used in mania tournaments. See first bullet point as to why."

=> I don't see any problem with this.
The problem is not that tournament maps aren't ranked, it's that by wiping the graveyard we would essentially be wiping tournament content and be left with only the more recent stuff. Picking maps for a tournament is already hard enough as is, and also, willfully wiping quality content is not the right way to go imo.

And you can call mappers lazy, this is sometimes true, but for most of the quality content in unranked, the mappers simply don't share the same points of view as ranked criteria
Ventilo le vrai

Scotty wrote:

tournament maps aren't ranked because the mappers simply aren't interested in pushing them for ranked. among these are maps that feature rates (unrankable due to multiple mp3s) and a lot of marathon maps that never got ranked (this has nothing to do with spread requirements either).
Maybe these mappers add those rates and don't try to push it for ranked because they already know that in current circumstances their maps can't be ranked, so at tjis point they don't really care anymore about the RC.

RiP46 wrote:

so, to put it simply, it's like this:

man, I'm so lazy to do hit sound for this map. I know, let's propose RC to remove hit sound.

man, I'm so lazy to do a full spread for this map. I know, let's propose RC to remove the spread.
If mappers were lazy they wouldn't map at all.
-mint-

RiP46 wrote:

so, to put it simply, it's like this:

man, I'm so lazy to do hit sound for this map. I know, let's propose RC to remove hit sound.

man, I'm so lazy to do a full spread for this map. I know, let's propose RC to remove the spread.

very cool

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"Many good maps by various mappers are being left in graveyard because mappers refuse to map difficulties they don't feel like doing."

=> Mapper is too lazy. Can always ask for GD from someone else.

"Graveyard was never intended to be permanent storage."

=> Just make a pack of your graveyarded map then. Can always update it for new map later.

"Loved was never supposed to be a dump of maps that couldn't make it to ranked"

=> You don't need to pass all the map to loved section. nobody ask you to pass all the map too.

"There is a concerning number of unranked maps being used in mania tournaments. See first bullet point as to why."

=> I don't see any problem with this.
ratio


edit: in all seriousness. stop assuming people are doing things in bad faith/"laziness". if people were actually lazy they would just not propose anything in RC lol. these proposals are being made with the benefit in mind for all.

"Mapper is too lazy. Can always ask for GD from someone else."

=> Not everyone is all that comfortable with getting and managing GDs for spread issues etc. Communication is often made to be somewhat consuming as well.

"Just make a pack of your graveyarded map then. Can always update it for new map later."

=> The process of making packs on osu! is made to be stupidly difficult and there are many roadblocks along the way that can break all of your files.

"You don't need to pass all the map to loved section. nobody ask you to pass all the map too."

=> There is a huge demand for loved maps, according to the survey that was put out recently. Claiming that "nobody" is asking is at worst an abhorrently bad faith claim, and at best incredulously ignorant to the collective conscience.
McEndu

AncuL wrote:

do you really think your ranked ENHI sets require more effort than the one-diff maps currently staying in graveyard
while the lower diffs don't need as much effort as the top diff, they do need effort to be done
AncuL
The issue of tournament maps closely relate to my first question on the discussion thread. afaik tournament maps don't get pushed to ranked not because of the lack of spread, but because of how disconnected (the mappers think) they are to the ranked section overall, especially on the higher ends of the tournament pools

Scotty wrote:

that feature rates
for now, you can just have a set that's just the diff without rates and the other one with rates. some people regularly do this
Quenlla
Just as a heads up, we have finally assembled a proper survey with the intention of determining the overall preferences of mappers, players and BNs/NATs. This should make as able to direct a bit the specifics of the final proposal.

We'd be grateful if everyone filled it out:

https://forms.gle/tCoVdkRRXzJgjqML6
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abraker wrote:

McEndu wrote:

This is not really concerning, especially considering that there are maps made specifically for a tournament (this is true for any mode).

Also statistics:
Out of the 20 maps used in OWC 2020 Grand Finals, 19 maps were not ranked during the tournament.
Out of the 16 maps used in TWC 2021 Grand Finals, 13 maps were not ranked during the tournament.
Out of the 16 maps used in CWC 2021 Grand Finals, 12 maps were not ranked during the tournament, and the rest are converts from osu! (standard).
Out of the 17 maps used in MWC4K 2021 Finals series, all maps were not ranked during the tournament.
How do these stats make this remotely ok? This is not ok. They are made specifically for tournaments, but they are barred from ranking because the mapper would never bother to make additional diffs to meet the criteria. Otherwise they are quality maps, and it's proven they are quality by being chosen to be used for osu! official tournament.
Pretty sure McEndu was showing how tournament maps not being ranked is a problem not only for mania. However, it seems like other modes didn't want this change / it is not beneficial to them as much as ours.


AncuL wrote:

The issue of tournament maps closely relate to my first question on the discussion thread. afaik tournament maps don't get pushed to ranked not because of the lack of spread, but because of how disconnected (the mappers think) they are to the ranked section overall, especially on the higher ends of the tournament pools

Scotty wrote:

that feature rates
for now, you can just have a set that's just the diff without rates and the other one with rates. some people regularly do this
Also agree with this. I think spread is just a part of the problem (which we can decided on changes based on this discussion). Another part is that we have to show tournament mappers somehow that our environment is willing to help their maps in the ranking process (I think currently Komirin and RandomeLoL are doing a very good job at contacting the tournament mappers for pushing their sets to the ranked section. However, community effort is still really needed). But that's another issue to be discussed.

Apart from that regarding tournament maps, if one wants to keep the tournament version, they can have two sets on the site (though I don't think it is a very good idea in the long run still since it would be bad to the server storage) or host only the .osu diff file somewhere else (it's just a text file after all). The first way was already done with HowToPlayLN's Endless (Mameyudoufu Remix) as an example (like I mentioned though I think hosting the original diff files separately might be better for osu! structure).
McEndu

[Ping] wrote:

abraker wrote:

McEndu wrote:

This is not really concerning, especially considering that there are maps made specifically for a tournament (this is true for any mode).

Also statistics:
Out of the 20 maps used in OWC 2020 Grand Finals, 19 maps were not ranked during the tournament.
Out of the 16 maps used in TWC 2021 Grand Finals, 13 maps were not ranked during the tournament.
Out of the 16 maps used in CWC 2021 Grand Finals, 12 maps were not ranked during the tournament, and the rest are converts from osu! (standard).
Out of the 17 maps used in MWC4K 2021 Finals series, all maps were not ranked during the tournament.
How do these stats make this remotely ok? This is not ok. They are made specifically for tournaments, but they are barred from ranking because the mapper would never bother to make additional diffs to meet the criteria. Otherwise they are quality maps, and it's proven they are quality by being chosen to be used for osu! official tournament.
Pretty sure McEndu was showing how tournament maps not being ranked is a problem not only for mania. However, it seems like other modes didn't want this change / it is not beneficial to them as much as ours.
"Not ranked during the tournament" is not "currently not ranked"; The stats also include maps that are ranked after the tournament concludes.
Topic Starter
abraker

McEndu wrote:

[Ping] wrote:

abraker wrote:

McEndu wrote:

This is not really concerning, especially considering that there are maps made specifically for a tournament (this is true for any mode).

Also statistics:
Out of the 20 maps used in OWC 2020 Grand Finals, 19 maps were not ranked during the tournament.
Out of the 16 maps used in TWC 2021 Grand Finals, 13 maps were not ranked during the tournament.
Out of the 16 maps used in CWC 2021 Grand Finals, 12 maps were not ranked during the tournament, and the rest are converts from osu! (standard).
Out of the 17 maps used in MWC4K 2021 Finals series, all maps were not ranked during the tournament.
How do these stats make this remotely ok? This is not ok. They are made specifically for tournaments, but they are barred from ranking because the mapper would never bother to make additional diffs to meet the criteria. Otherwise they are quality maps, and it's proven they are quality by being chosen to be used for osu! official tournament.
Pretty sure McEndu was showing how tournament maps not being ranked is a problem not only for mania. However, it seems like other modes didn't want this change / it is not beneficial to them as much as ours.
"Not ranked during the tournament" is not "currently not ranked"; The stats also include maps that are ranked after the tournament concludes.
It is understandable if the maps were not ranked for the tournament. The tragedy is for the maps to be left graveyarded way after the tournament. So here are the current stats, and I'm excluding maps that were loved since in this count:

OWC 2020: 11/20 still unrank
MWC4k 2021: 17/17 still unrank
CWC 2021: 10/16 still unrank
TWC 2021: 9/16 still unrank

One is not like the others.
-mint-
uh its almost like mwc just finished
Topic Starter
abraker

-mint- wrote:

uh its almost like mwc just finished
Oh had to check the dates oops. Let's use the 2020 one then

OWC 2020: 11/20 still unrank (55%)
MWC4k 2020: 11/17 still unrank (65%)
CWC 2021: 10/16 still unrank (63%)
TWC 2021: 9/16 still unrank (56%)

Not sure I can call 65% good, but it seems all gamemodes are in more or less the same camp.


edit: fixed totals
-mint-
i dont think a map should be ranked strictly by nature of it being used in the world cup anyways, imo just let it naturally happen, BNs will have a slightly higher incentive to go for those maps anyways bc a lot of them will get popular via being known as a map in the world cup. and its not like a high percentage is bad exactly either, especially when the other modes have similar percentages
[Crz]Alleyne
Here I want to deliver some of my ideas, having viewed just some of the posts.

osu! is widely played all over the world. Players can be newbies, noobs, skillers, etc. So thinking for the future, if the limiation doesn't exist any longer, the mappers may do what they like and make one single diff which can be as hard as possible at least for my watching of these days. So some of players may only see some easy maps which contain no music that they like, or just see there're some their favorite songs but they cannot play the maps, because of which, these players are not motivated and may have less activily in osu! or just quit. The advantages I can see just belong to mappers. They can do what they like but for players they cannot completely enjoy the game if so.

Rules are still rules and they're reasonable. If you change the reasonable rules for recent disadvantages, this may leave a hole on the road to future. So yes I mean this is reasonable for the spread rules. For some maps for long music, they are only fit for the players who have some skills even how easy it could be. Long maps require endurance which cannot be expressed on newbies. So making single diff for the long music is absolutely alright. And for some short music, there can be various diffs because they are short and friendly to players on different levels. You can see there must be spreads in some other music games such as Arcaea, Deemo, Cytus, Lanota, etc. And they all have one thing in common. That is the music is not so long. The length of most music is not more than 3 minutes. For example, in Arcaea, Tempestissimo is a cut verion actually but uncut version is over 4 minutes. You should understand this.

I don't care what BNs or mappers think (I'm also a mapper). I just speak objectively. Feel free to criticize me.

I may write more but for my personal reasons I want to leave it behind or just go away.
Sydosys
I feel like everyone here is theorizing about what would or wouldn't happen and the only way to really know is to have a test trial for a few months, if there's practically no easy diffs or whatever ranked during that time then we know we should reinstate some spread criteria, albeit likely more relaxed than the current ones, or maybe the trial goes well. I don't see any reason to be against just trying it out.
Arzenvald
i don't feel easier difficulty would be neglected if the spread requirements in mania is removed, BN have the liberty to pick maps they feel like to nominate, its weird seeing people freaking out that there will be lack of easier diff if the spread is removed haha

i'm damn sure every map deserve equal amount of attention from players, mappers, and modders, regardless the keymode, duration, difficulty, etc. and i believe there's plenty good map out there that deserved to be ranked. however the current state of ranking criteria for osu!mania hinders certain maps to get that kind of attention & engagement from within the community, prevent certain mappers, players, and modders engage with one to each other.

if the goal is to increase the engagement of these kind of map, making those maps eligible for rank by removing the spread requirement is one good solution, but there should also be different kind of proposal and solution that will help kickstart a much richer, more engaging mapping/modding experience that will benefit more people.

what i wish is to not remove the 'engagement process' between the 3 elements of community (modders, mappers, and players) during the process of ranking a map.

meta maps won't be affected anyways
vernonlim

[LS]Ham wrote:

I feel like everyone here is theorizing about what would or wouldn't happen and the only way to really know is to have a test trial for a few months
This is kind of the main point, from my view. osu! as a game looks to be staying around for an absurdly long time into the future, so even if they turned out to be disasterous, trying out the changes for a mere 1-2 months wouldn't do much harm over the long run. On the flip side, if they turn out to be a success and they are kept, the benefits would last for the many years to come.
Linlime
My opinion on this is that it would be a good change,

I will take the game quaver as an example. Quavers RC would state that a map only needs 2+ diffs if the map is under 2:29. difficulty requirements don't apply.

Even though those requirements are so low the game still gets enough low and high diff maps submitted.

Now if we look at osu!mania. the community is much bigger so there will be much more maps. and this is just one change. It wont mean that the quality of the maps would go down since every other RC would still apply. This just gives opportunity to mappers to more easily rank smaller maps/mapsets
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Jawbraiker wrote:

My opinion on this is that it would be a good change,

I will take the game quaver as an example. Quavers RC would state that a map only needs 2+ diffs if the map is under 2:29. difficulty requirements don't apply.

Even though those requirements are so low the game still gets enough low and high diff maps submitted.

Now if we look at osu!mania. the community is much bigger so there will be much more maps. and this is just one change. It wont mean that the quality of the maps would go down since every other RC would still apply. This just gives opportunity to mappers to more easily rank smaller maps/mapsets
fwiw as someone who dabbles into the Quaver community also, I think it is partially because of what the mappers are trying to appeal to, which is slightly different from mania. However, I think this is still somewhat a pretty good point but we cannot really conclude anything until things are being tried / implemented out
Sydosys

[Ping] wrote:

Jawbraiker wrote:

My opinion on this is that it would be a good change,

I will take the game quaver as an example. Quavers RC would state that a map only needs 2+ diffs if the map is under 2:29. difficulty requirements don't apply.

Even though those requirements are so low the game still gets enough low and high diff maps submitted.

Now if we look at osu!mania. the community is much bigger so there will be much more maps. and this is just one change. It wont mean that the quality of the maps would go down since every other RC would still apply. This just gives opportunity to mappers to more easily rank smaller maps/mapsets
fwiw as someone who dabbles into the Quaver community also, I think it is partially because of what the mappers are trying to appeal to, which is slightly different from mania. However, I think this is still somewhat a pretty good point but we cannot really conclude anything until things are being tried / implemented out
also partially because quaver has rates, so if you want a diff to be easier or harder, you just put it on a rate. no need to incentivize different difficulty levels
_VianK_
Actually it's good opinion. But i more like to reject this proposal. I have several reason for this.

1. By removing this rule it would be make the ranked section is less beginner friendly. Altho you're said that isn't easy for a really a beginner player for find this game. But c'mon it just an probability, there is also player who just this game is his first rythm game. I think they deserve more love by us.

2. I strongly agree with Ancul's opinion " it's not like the ranked section will become better with you posting something like that lol
+ do you really think your ranked ENHI sets require more effort than the one-diff maps currently staying in graveyard"
Honestly completing the set is much easier than the modding process LoL. Tbh looking for mod for lower diff is much easier than higher diff.

3. Then the last one from mint's quote
"edit: in all seriousness. stop assuming people are doing things in bad faith/"laziness". if people were actually lazy they would just not propose anything in RC lol. these proposals are being made with the benefit in mind for all.

"Mapper is too lazy. Can always ask for GD from someone else."

=> Not everyone is all that comfortable with getting and managing GDs for spread issues etc. Communication is often made to be somewhat consuming as well.

"Just make a pack of your graveyarded map then. Can always update it for new map later."

=> The process of making packs on osu! is made to be stupidly difficult and there are many roadblocks along the way that can break all of your files.

"You don't need to pass all the map to loved section. nobody ask you to pass all the map too."

=> There is a huge demand for loved maps, according to the survey that was put out recently. Claiming that "nobody" is asking is at worst an abhorrently bad faith claim, and at best incredulously ignorant to the collective conscience."

What i want to said for this quote is the ranked section is something osu! Official content for his comunity. If you felt too lazy to do it, Then don't do it. You shouldn't change the rule for coz of your lazinees. If you already felt that was too painfull you too finished one time, then take a break and finish it in next section. As a mapper no one ask US for make a chart first, we just do it coz we love it without any payment.

Honestly i want to ask "what your really reason is?" I felt your reason in the main post and your reply to another player or mapper just like an arguing.
Rikuka
i kinda agree and disagree with this

agree cause it can be easier for people to ranking maps / no need to modding many diffs

disagree cause look at qualified map , sometimes people with anti meta main still trying on doing it with lower diff / enjoying lower diff

and yeah if no ranking criteria exist , how can you downloading 2 same exact songs with only 1 diff and tv size mapsets?

trust me , as an graveyarded mapper , making ultra hard diff is much easier than easy diff
Topic Starter
abraker

_VianK_ wrote:

What i want to said for this quote is the ranked section is something osu! Official content for his comunity. If you felt too lazy to do it, Then don't do it. You shouldn't change the rule for coz of your lazinees. If you already felt that was too painfull you too finished one time, then take a break and finish it in next section. As a mapper no one ask US for make a chart first, we just do it coz we love it without any payment.
You can't call a mapper lazy if they are making over a hundred single difficulty maps. All effort and focus goes into making each difficulty great. Ranked is missing out on many many good maps because of this. osu! is not the only game that has people making maps. Mappers from stepmania made many great maps. Mappers who made those maps might be willing to rank if criteria allowed them to.

Rikuka wrote:

trust me , as an graveyarded mapper , making ultra hard diff is much easier than easy diff
As a graveyard mapper you should be concerned that the graveyard section was supposed to be subject to map purging every few years.
_Stan
Well, I'll give some of my points here.
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At first, I wanna say, spread still matter due to those three below
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1) Contains players of all abilities.
Yeah, there are lots of E-H players I'm sure, you can definitely see the play counts on the statistics bar, so this demand is huge. If we break the spread, cancel them (some easier diffs) will cuz losing those people and hard for new blood come in. (we won't this game just played by old group of people and dead right?)
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2) Mainstream commercial game difficulty distribution rules
This is an unwritten rule that this kind of rhythm game needs increasing difficulty changes in a range, like E-N-H, H-I-X (osu way).
Cytus (Easy→Normal→Hard/Extra))
太鼓の达人 (かんたん→ふつう→-むずかしい→おに)
beatmania IIDX (BEGINNER→NORMAL→HYPER→ANOTHER→LEGGENDARIA)
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Even in other games like
The adventure game (tomb raider had Easy-Normal-Hard for experience)
HOTS bots (Easy-Normal-Hard-Expert)
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so that means a completed set should have a consistent, gradually rising difficulty system, or just feel informal.
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3) Establish the authority of the rank section (or make the rank section seems more professional)
I can't imagine the future rank section became (E-N-X-X-U) (N-U-U) something like this, so bad like chaos. If the necessary rules and forms are missing, then professionalism and authority are meaningless.

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However, I agree to lower the standard or cancel some rules for getting spread easier, like we don't actually start from a specific difficulty, but spread needs to be kept (that means the diff between the easiest one and hardest one should be increased gradually as spread looked like).

So my position here doesn't have actually agree or disagree, I hope RC can be more accurate and clear.



edit: something wrong grammar
_VianK_

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

What i want to said for this quote is the ranked section is something osu! Official content for his comunity. If you felt too lazy to do it, Then don't do it. You shouldn't change the rule for coz of your lazinees. If you already felt that was too painfull you too finished one time, then take a break and finish it in next section. As a mapper no one ask US for make a chart first, we just do it coz we love it without any payment.
You can't call a mapper lazy if they are making over a hundred single difficulty maps. All effort and focus goes into making each difficulty great. Ranked is missing out on many many good maps because of this. osu! is not the only game that has people making maps. Mappers from stepmania made many great maps. Mappers who made those maps might be willing to rank if criteria allowed them to.

Who said the RC not allowed them?

If they want to rank their map on here, they have to study before how the system works here, not changing system for them. Actually word "lost" isn't really accurate since you can still play it even that was in the graveyard. Honestly i was really like map from stepmania chart too, but doing this for them (?) I think you go too far.

I guees you got the point.
epic man 2
damn this discussion has been going for a bit
richardfeder
Current RC is way too restrictive, and it tries to enforcing the same spread pattern (E-N-H-I-X, and there are even detailed, but completely out-of-context terms that specifically define how each diff should look like) on every song and it is just a pure nonsense.

That being said, having a spread should still be a minimum requirement for rank section. We can and I think we should offer more freedom to mappers and let them design a proper spread so that rules are not forcing them to make difficulties that they are uncomfortable to make. Given them the option to start the lowest difficulty in the set/gap among all difficulties can be something. Given them the freedom to use whatever patterns they want in each difficulty and let any justifiable design go to rank section can also be something. There are a lot of ways for us to make constructing multiple difficulties that form a proper spread a lesser burden for mappers; nevertheless, in order to push their map to ranked section they should still at least provide a proper spread. If you want to rank a map you should at the bear minimum work for it, and completing a somewhat proper spread is part of that work.

We need some incentives for mappers who are going to rank their map to cover a spectrum but not only target at a very small, specific group of audiences. That is just unhealthy to the community as any player who are not the targeted audience will be left out, and this is not just about beginners. I think spread rule is good in that sense as it encourage mappers to cover at least a range of players. It doesn't have to be a very wide range that goes from easy to ultra, but it shouldn't be one single difficulty such as a Easy/Insane, and mapper just let everyone who doesn't enjoy Easy/Insane to screw themselves either. Spread is fine. It's just the way how we formulate and enforce it is quite broken.
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_VianK_ wrote:

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

What i want to said for this quote is the ranked section is something osu! Official content for his comunity. If you felt too lazy to do it, Then don't do it. You shouldn't change the rule for coz of your lazinees. If you already felt that was too painfull you too finished one time, then take a break and finish it in next section. As a mapper no one ask US for make a chart first, we just do it coz we love it without any payment.
You can't call a mapper lazy if they are making over a hundred single difficulty maps. All effort and focus goes into making each difficulty great. Ranked is missing out on many many good maps because of this. osu! is not the only game that has people making maps. Mappers from stepmania made many great maps. Mappers who made those maps might be willing to rank if criteria allowed them to.

Who said the RC not allowed them?

If they want to rank their map on here, they have to study before how the system works here, not changing system for them. Actually word "lost" isn't really accurate since you can still play it even that was in the graveyard. Honestly i was really like map from stepmania chart too, but doing this for them (?) I think you go too far.

I guees you got the point.
The point of this is mainly because this was said by peppy that inactive graveyard maps will slowly being deleted - which is why this discussion is very much needed to preserve charts both ported from stepmania and made in osu! to continue staying on the website.
_VianK_

[Ping] wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

What i want to said for this quote is the ranked section is something osu! Official content for his comunity. If you felt too lazy to do it, Then don't do it. You shouldn't change the rule for coz of your lazinees. If you already felt that was too painfull you too finished one time, then take a break and finish it in next section. As a mapper no one ask US for make a chart first, we just do it coz we love it without any payment.
You can't call a mapper lazy if they are making over a hundred single difficulty maps. All effort and focus goes into making each difficulty great. Ranked is missing out on many many good maps because of this. osu! is not the only game that has people making maps. Mappers from stepmania made many great maps. Mappers who made those maps might be willing to rank if criteria allowed them to.

Who said the RC not allowed them?

If they want to rank their map on here, they have to study before how the system works here, not changing system for them. Actually word "lost" isn't really accurate since you can still play it even that was in the graveyard. Honestly i was really like map from stepmania chart too, but doing this for them (?) I think you go too far.

I guees you got the point.
The point of this is mainly because this was said by peppy that inactive graveyard maps will slowly being deleted - which is why this discussion is very much needed to preserve charts both ported from stepmania and made in osu! to continue staying on the website.

I guess this thing is not really the solution it's like this community trying to sacrifice the standard of quality from the ranket set just for save chart from the other VSRG. If that was created for stepmania, that was for stepmania then. But if that was created for osu! Then it was for Osu!. Both of the game have their own standard. You cannot lowering this VSRG standard just coz for saving other converted other VSRG. Tbh allowing for just using hitnormal already drop the ranked section quality for mania dropped so far. So please, don't totally ruin it.

i have more than 100 map in my graveyard. Which just created for this VSRG. But should i Going to change the ranked standard just for saving them? I think it's a big no. Since there is quality criteria between ranked section and graveyard section.

Well, the solution i just can give to you is to back up the chart in somewhere else. Remember chart in stepmania are hosted in 3rd party cloud storage :")







OMG...... I have to back up my Grave map
Topic Starter
abraker

_VianK_ wrote:

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

What i want to said for this quote is the ranked section is something osu! Official content for his comunity. If you felt too lazy to do it, Then don't do it. You shouldn't change the rule for coz of your lazinees. If you already felt that was too painfull you too finished one time, then take a break and finish it in next section. As a mapper no one ask US for make a chart first, we just do it coz we love it without any payment.
You can't call a mapper lazy if they are making over a hundred single difficulty maps. All effort and focus goes into making each difficulty great. Ranked is missing out on many many good maps because of this. osu! is not the only game that has people making maps. Mappers from stepmania made many great maps. Mappers who made those maps might be willing to rank if criteria allowed them to.

Who said the RC not allowed them?

If they want to rank their map on here, they have to study before how the system works here, not changing system for them. Actually word "lost" isn't really accurate since you can still play it even that was in the graveyard. Honestly i was really like map from stepmania chart too, but doing this for them (?) I think you go too far.

I guees you got the point.
RC does not allow them because those maps require full spreads. Those creators dont care about creating additional difficulties, so those difficulties will never be made. Even asking for gd wont happen because it's based on principle. Despite this, that doesnt make the maps themselves any worse. There are great maps we are loosing out on only because of this.

They are not "lost" now, but they will be lost in future if maps are left graveyarded. Peppy plans on turning on map purging sometime, and that will wipe a significant portion of those maps. If that wasnt a thing, I suppose they could be left graveyarded, but peppy instead requested to do what can be done to get those ranked instead. So here we are.
_VianK_

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

What i want to said for this quote is the ranked section is something osu! Official content for his comunity. If you felt too lazy to do it, Then don't do it. You shouldn't change the rule for coz of your lazinees. If you already felt that was too painfull you too finished one time, then take a break and finish it in next section. As a mapper no one ask US for make a chart first, we just do it coz we love it without any payment.
You can't call a mapper lazy if they are making over a hundred single difficulty maps. All effort and focus goes into making each difficulty great. Ranked is missing out on many many good maps because of this. osu! is not the only game that has people making maps. Mappers from stepmania made many great maps. Mappers who made those maps might be willing to rank if criteria allowed them to.

Who said the RC not allowed them?

If they want to rank their map on here, they have to study before how the system works here, not changing system for them. Actually word "lost" isn't really accurate since you can still play it even that was in the graveyard. Honestly i was really like map from stepmania chart too, but doing this for them (?) I think you go too far.

I guees you got the point.
RC does not allow them because those maps require full spreads. Those creators dont care about creating additional difficulties, so those difficulties will never be made. Even asking for gd wont happen because it's based on principle. Despite this, that doesnt make the maps themselves any worse. There are great maps we are loosing out on only because of this.

They are not "lost" now, but they will be lost in future if maps are left graveyarded. Peppy plans on turning on map purging sometime, and that will wipe a significant portion of those maps.
See?

If the creator it self don't care. Why you have to sacrifice our standard. Isn't really worthed to do.

If they are really care about their map. They have to do more effort than just making proposal.

This reply are making me more believe that this proposal is just about



LAZINESS
Topic Starter
abraker

_VianK_ wrote:

[Ping] wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

What i want to said for this quote is the ranked section is something osu! Official content for his comunity. If you felt too lazy to do it, Then don't do it. You shouldn't change the rule for coz of your lazinees. If you already felt that was too painfull you too finished one time, then take a break and finish it in next section. As a mapper no one ask US for make a chart first, we just do it coz we love it without any payment.
You can't call a mapper lazy if they are making over a hundred single difficulty maps. All effort and focus goes into making each difficulty great. Ranked is missing out on many many good maps because of this. osu! is not the only game that has people making maps. Mappers from stepmania made many great maps. Mappers who made those maps might be willing to rank if criteria allowed them to.

Who said the RC not allowed them?

If they want to rank their map on here, they have to study before how the system works here, not changing system for them. Actually word "lost" isn't really accurate since you can still play it even that was in the graveyard. Honestly i was really like map from stepmania chart too, but doing this for them (?) I think you go too far.

I guees you got the point.
The point of this is mainly because this was said by peppy that inactive graveyard maps will slowly being deleted - which is why this discussion is very much needed to preserve charts both ported from stepmania and made in osu! to continue staying on the website.

I guess this thing is not really the solution it's like this community trying to sacrifice the standard of quality from the ranket set just for save chart from the other VSRG. If that was created for stepmania, that was for stepmania then. But if that was created for osu! Then it was for Osu!. Both of the game have their own standard. You cannot lowering this VSRG standard just coz for saving other converted other VSRG. Tbh allowing for just using hitnormal already drop the ranked section quality for mania dropped so far. So please, don't totally ruin it.
Why the hell are we judging quality by quantity and not by the enjoyability of individual difficulties themselves? Why osu so backwards ??

_VianK_ wrote:

See? If the creator it self don't care. Why you have to sacrifice our standard. Isn't really worthed to do.
What? Creators care that people enjoy the maps they make. It's a dedicated craft. They dont care making maps to fill some silly criteria.
_VianK_

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

[Ping] wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

What i want to said for this quote is the ranked section is something osu! Official content for his comunity. If you felt too lazy to do it, Then don't do it. You shouldn't change the rule for coz of your lazinees. If you already felt that was too painfull you too finished one time, then take a break and finish it in next section. As a mapper no one ask US for make a chart first, we just do it coz we love it without any payment.
You can't call a mapper lazy if they are making over a hundred single difficulty maps. All effort and focus goes into making each difficulty great. Ranked is missing out on many many good maps because of this. osu! is not the only game that has people making maps. Mappers from stepmania made many great maps. Mappers who made those maps might be willing to rank if criteria allowed them to.

Who said the RC not allowed them?

If they want to rank their map on here, they have to study before how the system works here, not changing system for them. Actually word "lost" isn't really accurate since you can still play it even that was in the graveyard. Honestly i was really like map from stepmania chart too, but doing this for them (?) I think you go too far.

I guees you got the point.
The point of this is mainly because this was said by peppy that inactive graveyard maps will slowly being deleted - which is why this discussion is very much needed to preserve charts both ported from stepmania and made in osu! to continue staying on the website.

I guess this thing is not really the solution it's like this community trying to sacrifice the standard of quality from the ranket set just for save chart from the other VSRG. If that was created for stepmania, that was for stepmania then. But if that was created for osu! Then it was for Osu!. Both of the game have their own standard. You cannot lowering this VSRG standard just coz for saving other converted other VSRG. Tbh allowing for just using hitnormal already drop the ranked section quality for mania dropped so far. So please, don't totally ruin it.
Why the hell are we judging quality by quantity and not by the enjoyability of individual difficulties themselves? Why osu so backwards ??

_VianK_ wrote:

See? If the creator it self don't care. Why you have to sacrifice our standard. Isn't really worthed to do.
What? Creators care that people enjoy the maps they make. It's a dedicated craft. They dont care making maps to fill some silly criteria.
Of course not. But don't forget if lower diff also have their own enjoyability, not only insane + + diff, if it cannot enjoyable for insane player, it means thats not for them, but for lower player. Thats why we have modding section. Our modder help to improve that thing (unless your mod just only based on RC). Thats make o!m different with Stepmania, we have modding section. But in stepmania once it done, it just need to submitted in somewhere else.

Fulfill the criteria is the most. Crafting a map for pleasure is the reason why that was mapped. But fulfill the criteria is more like the process for ranked section. That was really different thing.


finally i just wanna said If they are don't want to do it and Don't care about it. Then let it be.


Don't Go too far.....

Edit : i didn't notice this

"but peppy instead requested to do what can be done to get those ranked instead. So here we are."

Why not loved section?? That's perfectly suitable
richardfeder
I think altering RC to salvage chart in graveyard doesn't sound quite right. We have a loved category specifically for maps that doesn't quite fit RC but still deserve to be archived. If we want to quickly put all those maps in a permanent place then we might want to make loved more accessible to those maps, not trying to push them into ranked section. And to be honest I think with the help of lvd team that process might just be way shorter than letting bns who are overwhelmed by requests to manually check maps one by one.

RC is quite broken, but fixing RC isn't a suitable way to address this graveyard issue.
_VianK_

richardfeder wrote:

I think altering RC to salvage chart in graveyard doesn't sound quite right. We have a loved cataloger specifically for maps that doesn't quite fit RC but still deserve to be archived. If we want to quickly put all those maps in a permanent place then we might want to make loved more accessible to those maps, not trying to push them into ranked section. And to be honest I think with the help of lvd team that process might just be way shorter than letting bns who are overwhelmed by requests to manually check maps one by one.

RC is quite broken, but fixing RC isn't a suitable way to address this graveyard issue.
Strongly agree with this.
Ventilo le vrai

_VianK_ wrote:

You cannot lowering this VSRG standard just coz for saving other converted other VSRG. Tbh allowing for just using hitnormal already drop the ranked section quality for mania dropped so far. So please, don't totally ruin it.
Most of RC has no relation to quality, and if you think that the ranked section has high quality standards, you just don't know what is in the ranked section because some ranked maps are... what they are

_VianK_ wrote:

Why not loved section?? That's perfectly suitable
Hmmmm I wonder if you know that only few maps get loved every months, in October we got 16 new loved maps and that's a huge improvement compared to what we were used to, but we can't put everything into the loved section because there is just to many good classic maps that can't be ranked.
_VianK_

Ventilo le vrai wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

You cannot lowering this VSRG standard just coz for saving other converted other VSRG. Tbh allowing for just using hitnormal already drop the ranked section quality for mania dropped so far. So please, don't totally ruin it.
Most of RC has no relation to quality, and if you think that the ranked section has high quality standards, you just don't know what is in the ranked section because some ranked maps are... what they are //


_VianK_ wrote:

Why not loved section?? That's perfectly suitable
Hmmmm I wonder if you know that only few maps get loved every months, in October we got 16 new loved maps and that's a huge improvement compared to what we were used to, but we can't put everything into the loved section because there is just to many good classic maps that can't be ranked.

i know... But thats back to the mapper mapping style, and you cannot blame them coz of that. But at least they care to fulfill the criteria.

Your second argument isn't makes sense tbh. If you can try to do this for ranked section, then put them to the loved section is more easier to do. I i think for this case there is should be special excpetion since you're said asked by Peppy too.
Baio
I believe the mania ranking system has some big issues outside of just the requirements. A very giant issue with current system is that there are not enough BNs. Even if you managed to meet the extensive amount of rules and guidelines as well as the unwritten ones, finding a BN is still a massive roadblock. BN queues are closed more often than not. Found one that's open? Cross your fingers because they probably require you have another BN lined up. I think the requirements for becoming a BN should be more lenient so we can get more BNs. This would increase the number of open BN queues so going for ranked is even a possibility. Taiko has more BNs despite the fact mania is much larger. While I don't have as much experience with taiko, I would wager they don't have the same issues with ranking that taiko does.

I think the Quaver system is great example of what the ranking system can be. Quaver ranking has a focus on playability, not a large page a rules and regulations. If a map plays well and has no obvious reason for why it does not fit with the ranked category, why should it not be ranked? Being a BN in mania is a powerful position and it just feels like(from my outsider perspective) BNs are forced to have unreasonably high standards so that they don't lose their BN status. This negatively affects the community's perception of ranking a beatmap.

In my experience with trying to get a map ranked, I was told by other players numerous times to not even try for reasons such as: I don't have the right connections, I don't have enough experience (in other words, a long list of graveyarded beatmaps), and because it is too much work that it is not worth it. The first person I ever met who did not have disdain for the ranking process was a BN. Overall, the ranking community from what I have seen, is considered unapproachable by the average player.

Personally, I now go to Quaver if I want to get a map ranked. I still map and upload to Osu because I like the engine, the editor, and have more friends on Osu. If Peppy truly intends to purge the graveyard section, mania will take a serious hit, regardless of whether or not ranked gets fixed, although it would still be nice to address the issues with ranked. I agree that relaxed RC is a step in the right direction but I don't think it will solve any problems. Mainly, I think we simply need more BNs.
guden

Baiohazado wrote:

BNs are forced to have unreasonably high standards so that they don't lose their BN status. This negatively affects the community's perception of ranking a beatmap.
There's a lot to unpack here, but I feel like this is not the appropriate thread to be bringing up these issues. Nonetheless, I think it's important to bring up these claims as it's a popular opinion amongst the community that is so entirely misguided.

Baio

Baiohazado wrote:

BNs are forced to have unreasonably high standards so that they don't lose their BN status. This negatively affects the community's perception of ranking a beatmap.
This confuses me, what unreasonably high standards are BNs held to? The requirements right now can allow you to easily get through just by having mediocre modding ability and a decent amount of activity. Becoming a BN and staying as one, is not that hard, and I am saying this as someone who recently joined this year. They have even made it more accessible for current BNs to stay IN the BNG or return later. In my and many other's experiences, it is not difficult to ask for feedback on your mods, ask for ways to improve and even seek guidance on learning such. There's even discord channels and entire programs dedicated to teaching mappers how to mod properly and how to improve to "BN quality level." If you think BNs are held to unreasonable standards, I'd like you to take a look at mods half of the BNG makes. I'd also like you to take a look at the ecosystem currently held in qualified -> rank and then reconsider what are these standards you speak of. At best, your claim is misguided and you failed to do much consideration of the current ranked ecosystem.

Baiohazado wrote:

I think the Quaver system is great example of what the ranking system can be...
This paragraph seems to not take into account that Quaver's system has countless faults and a lot of their solutions to "osu!mania problems" are just band-aid fixes. I think it's ironic that you bring up Quaver's "focus on playability" since I've noticed over the years that Quaver's Ranking Supervisor team's goal is extremely inconsistent, even after talking directly with those who were involved with the team. The queue system of Quaver had it's fair share of issues as well, with it being extremely overloaded, charts taking MONTHS to even be looked at. Now imagine pulling that over to osu!mania, it would be even worse especially since there's a wider audience of people that migrate and start on osu!mania. I think it's obvious to tell that it would not end well.

It'd also be great if you could elaborate on the "large page a rules and regulations." This is very vague and I'm not quite sure what you're exactly referring to. The osu!mania specific ranking criteria? What rules specifically? Did you take into account that most of the RC is guidelines and these guidelines can be broken if necessary? I feel like a lot of the community shares this misguided opinion on the RC being some sentient being that must be followed, and that it's super strict and long. When that's really not the case whatsoever.

If you're talking about the "high standard of quality" for osu!mania... I'd like you to again comb through what gets ranked each week. I think now, the quality of charts has improved on average... but it's not the standard. It's not even an unwritten rule, since some BNs will nominate extremely low quality charts. (I'd like to add that when I say quality, I'm also including the playablity factor as apart of it. Since mapping is more than just one aspect, it's multiple elements that come together to create a cohesive product).

I am not denying that osu!mania has problems with the current system, and I think there should be a lot more changes beyond this. osu!mania DOES need more BNs, but sacrificing quality over quantity is not the way to go. I'm all for promoting programs and helping mappers attain their goals of becoming a BN. But lowering the already low standards will create more problems, Quaver's history with ranked is a prime example of what we should NOT be doing.

Last thing I'd like to mention, please look at the the statistics before claiming that relaxation of spread will not solve any problems. This data clearly shows that it will create progress towards motivating more mappers to rank their charts. You can already see this with the influx of more well established charters starting to open up to ranking things after the hitsound addition requirement was removed. I'm sure with this, it will open up more charters that BNs want to push into the ranked section and allow BNs to reach a wider audience of whom they could not reach before. Again, one of the original problems is that well established charters did not want to push their charts into the ranked section. These proposals were done to hopefully solve this issue. The problem of it being difficult for new charters to get into the ranked system is an entirely different thread for an entirely different discussion (though these changes will certainly have some sort of impact on that issue).

Clearing up some misconceptions in the thread...

Please stop treating Loved as if it's some dumpster for maps that couldn't make it to rank for XYZ reason. That's literally not the goal of loved, and I'm sure the loved team has reiterated this over and over again. Loved has it's OWN goal separate from Ranked, so treat them that way please.

I think some people in this thread failed to read the original threads as a lot of these topics are being brought up again despite already having previous discussion on such. An example is..

richardfeder wrote:

If we want to quickly put all those maps in a permanent place then we might want to make loved more accessible to those maps


Peppy confirmed that this was his original goal for ranked though, and it's something that is still relatively true to this day. And again Loved has it's OWN separate goal aside from ranked, so stop treating them as if they are similar.

As for the overall thread, I think the consensus from both the survey results and the arguments throughout the thread is that there's strong reasonings for relaxation, and also for wanting removal entirely. Sometime in the very near future a new proposal thread should be posted that hopefully reaches a middle ground for this. It has been discussed in the BN server amongst the mania BNG to create a new proposal that is hopefully more guided by the overall community's interests.
_VianK_
if this really applied, i hope it doesn't last longer. I very scary if the beginner player don't have any new ranked diff to play in the future. Thats why i strongly reject this proposal.
Topic Starter
abraker

_VianK_ wrote:

if this really applied, i hope it doesn't last longer. I very scary if the beginner player don't have any new ranked diff to play in the future. Thats why i strongly reject this proposal.
You can't possibly think that there will not be any new diffs for beginners to play. For that to happen
  1. The BN need collectively agree to reject spreads that have diffs for beginner players. This is like wtf levels of not ever happening.
  2. All mappers need to never map difficulties for beginner players. This is very unlikely to happen. BN can also bias toward ranking easier diffs by prioritizing checks for spreads containing them.
Can we expect less easier difficulties? Yes. That's expected. Will there be a content drought of easier difficulties? Not likely.

there is a content drought of extreme diffs but it seems nobody seems to bat an eye for that
_VianK_

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

if this really applied, i hope it doesn't last longer. I very scary if the beginner player don't have any new ranked diff to play in the future. Thats why i strongly reject this proposal.
You can't possibly think that there will not be any new diffs for beginners to play. For that to happen
  1. The BN need collectively agree to reject spreads that have diffs for beginner players. This is like wtf levels of not ever happening.
  2. All mappers need to never map difficulties for beginner players. This is very unlikely to happen. BN can also bias toward ranking easier diffs by prioritizing checks for spreads containing them.
Can we expect less easier difficulties? Yes. That's expected. Will there be a content drought of easier difficulties? Not likely.

there is a content drought of extreme diffs but it seems nobody seems to bat an eye for that

I know, but actually happen is the lower diff is created just only for completing the rule since the most of mapper are enjoying to make higher diff only. If this is not exist anymore, they would said "why we should make lower diff? We can just go with single diff or why we should care of lower even we don't enjoy the map, etc." Because of that, the easier diff Will slowly disappeared and make this VSRG Will not beginner any friendly anymore.

Even the BN try to collecting to nominate full spread and single spread map, The ranked section in the future would be just dominated by single insane + diff. Since to find the map with the full of spread would be extremely rare.
Topic Starter
abraker

_VianK_ wrote:

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

if this really applied, i hope it doesn't last longer. I very scary if the beginner player don't have any new ranked diff to play in the future. Thats why i strongly reject this proposal.
You can't possibly think that there will not be any new diffs for beginners to play. For that to happen
  1. The BN need collectively agree to reject spreads that have diffs for beginner players. This is like wtf levels of not ever happening.
  2. All mappers need to never map difficulties for beginner players. This is very unlikely to happen. BN can also bias toward ranking easier diffs by prioritizing checks for spreads containing them.
Can we expect less easier difficulties? Yes. That's expected. Will there be a content drought of easier difficulties? Not likely.

there is a content drought of extreme diffs but it seems nobody seems to bat an eye for that

I know, but actually happen is the lower diff is created just only for completing the rule since the most of mapper are enjoying to make higher diff only. If this is not exist anymore, they would said "why we should make lower diff? We can just go with single diff or why we should care of lower even we don't enjoy the map, etc." Because of that, the easier diff Will slowly disappeared and make this VSRG Will not beginner any friendly anymore.

Even the BN try to collecting to nominate full spread and single spread map, The ranked section in the future would be just dominated by single insane + diff. Since to find the map with the full of spread would be extremely rare.
This has a lot of assumptions and generalizations. Not all spreads mappers create have lower diffs created solely to satisfy the criteria.
richardfeder

guden wrote:

Clearing up some misconceptions in the thread...

Please stop treating Loved as if it's some dumpster for maps that couldn't make it to rank for XYZ reason. That's literally not the goal of loved, and I'm sure the loved team has reiterated this over and over again. Loved has it's OWN goal separate from Ranked, so treat them that way please.

I think some people in this thread failed to read the original threads as a lot of these topics are being brought up again despite already having previous discussion on such. An example is..

richardfeder wrote:

If we want to quickly put all those maps in a permanent place then we might want to make loved more accessible to those maps


Peppy confirmed that this was his original goal for ranked though, and it's something that is still relatively true to this day. And again Loved has it's OWN separate goal aside from ranked, so stop treating them as if they are similar.
I am very confused by the direction of where this is going. Nobody treats Loved as some dumpster I don't know where did you get this sentiment. I am merely stating that in my opinion, regarding the whole graveyard issue we have better alternatives other than reshaping RC just to accommodate these specific maps. And I believe that Lvd teams are way more flexible dealing with this type of maps and can act way quicker than BNs who are already very occupied.

And everything above is irrelevant to the discussion in the thread. We are evaluating the potential drawback and aftermath of altering RC here, and while the graveyard issue provides a good starting point for us to reflect on current rules, it is not the only problem that we need to address. There are bigger implications in the changes that we are about to make beyond just getting awesome graveyard maps to ranked section, such as removing incentives for future mappers to provide entertainment to a wider audiences. My whole point of mentioning this in my post is that if we only want to solve the graveyard issue, there might be better options in my opinion, as changing RC affects way beyond just graveyard maps and I am concerned about its aftermath.
_VianK_

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

abraker wrote:

_VianK_ wrote:

if this really applied, i hope it doesn't last longer. I very scary if the beginner player don't have any new ranked diff to play in the future. Thats why i strongly reject this proposal.
You can't possibly think that there will not be any new diffs for beginners to play. For that to happen
  1. The BN need collectively agree to reject spreads that have diffs for beginner players. This is like wtf levels of not ever happening.
  2. All mappers need to never map difficulties for beginner players. This is very unlikely to happen. BN can also bias toward ranking easier diffs by prioritizing checks for spreads containing them.
Can we expect less easier difficulties? Yes. That's expected. Will there be a content drought of easier difficulties? Not likely.

there is a content drought of extreme diffs but it seems nobody seems to bat an eye for that

I know, but actually happen is the lower diff is created just only for completing the rule since the most of mapper are enjoying to make higher diff only. If this is not exist anymore, they would said "why we should make lower diff? We can just go with single diff or why we should care of lower even we don't enjoy the map, etc." Because of that, the easier diff Will slowly disappeared and make this VSRG Will not beginner any friendly anymore.

Even the BN try to collecting to nominate full spread and single spread map, The ranked section in the future would be just dominated by single insane + diff. Since to find the map with the full of spread would be extremely rare.
This has a lot of assumptions and generalizations. Not all spreads mappers create have lower diffs created solely to satisfy the criteria.
Let's see whats happen in the future then.
Topic Starter
abraker
Archiving due to inadequate support for the proposal.

Decision is split, but more in favor of not removing spreads completely. Leading argument for why not to remove spreads completely is the lack of easier difficulties it is believed that will cause.

This has been superseded by community/forums/topics/1440933
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