people keep bringing up european countrys, but europe is too active to even be in need of this
You clearly haven't watched Top Gear mate.thelewa wrote:
you can't drive from scotland to norway
boat wrote:
If you can get people to vouch in on that then it will be noted down as a majorities opinion. Regardless of what country you supposedly get along with, if there is no ethnic correlation then chances are you will not get merged.laport wrote:
Just in case: The Netherlands wouldn't want to be grouped with any other country except for Finland. We get along with Belgium but we're too different (they speak French/Flemming and are roman Catholics, whereas we speak Dutch and are Protestants) and we don't get along with any other EU countries except for Finland.
Provide some reasoning for it. I'm not good at geography but I see zero correlation between you two.silmarilen wrote:
i vouch for nl + finland
For the record.boat wrote:
Argentina should have enough players for this to not be required anyways.Metro wrote:
Just in case: Argentina wouldn't want to be grouped with any other country. We get along with Brazil but we're too different and we don't get along with any other SA countries.
You can put Monaco with France. It's like they are almost French, really.CDFA wrote:
What am I doing with my life
As far as I know, there aren't a lot of Estonians that are rather active and yeah, there is about 10 people who only have a 4-digit rank on osu!. The majority of maps I play and whenever I have country ranking selected, I mostly see either nobody there or just my own score. I barely see anyone there except sometimes the same 2-6 people. (this is only from my osu!standard pov, I have no idea about taiko, ctb or mania)BRBP wrote:
There's only 10 people from Estonia who have a 4-digit osu! rank, I still don't see how merging Finland with only Estonia would be beneficial to either of us. Nearly 500 in Russia, so I don't see the point in merging them with anyone.peppy wrote:
I'd like to see the largest groupings possible to allow for actual competitive rankings.
+ Iceland
Opinions?
bonus info: Estonians have had a war for quite a while with the finnish whenever it comes to sauna + beer, I believe there is more of a competition between our two countries than anywhere when it comes to saunas.laport wrote:
Dutch people have been in a sauna with Finnish people. We have never been in a sauna with Belgian people.
Switzerland, Austria & Liechtenstein without Germany is a bad idea tho. I mean we alll speak the same language so why we/they or whatever need two channel which speak and write german?boat wrote:
As I do keep a list of the possible minor country groupings excluded from the major ones as well I would like to know if merging Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein without Germany would be reasonable.Loctav wrote:
SPOILERWell, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein share the same community channel, the same subboard, also we all speak the same language. Also Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein have not many active players. And the active ones can easily compete with the ones from Germany. Even if Germany has a huge playerbase compared to other countries, I think a merge is justified due to language and community sharing.
This is pretty much comparable with the merge of french speaking countries (even if I disagree in merging NL into FR, because they don't share the community (#french vs. #dutch) that much.
This change won't affect community channels at all, it will only turn the country rankings into regional rankings.Dark_Ai wrote:
Switzerland, Austria & Liechtenstein without Germany is a bad idea tho. I mean we alll speak the same language so why we/they or whatever need two channel which speak and write german?
Once again, there is a huge mistake. We are pretty far from Arabic culture. Our language and whatever. Just because the main religion is Islam, I don't accept being under same region with countries we don't have anything to share. And any of Turkish players won't accept either.CDFA wrote:
Maybe the Middle East can be grouped (Unless they have a high population of players. ie. Turkey, Egypt, Israel) as well?
UnderminE wrote:
Once again, there is a huge mistake. We are pretty far from Arabic culture. Our language and whatever. Just because the main religion is Islam, I don't accept being under same region with countries we don't have anything to share. And any of Turkish players won't accept either.
Weird thing is we are both in Asia and Europe.;_;
As I already said to boat, if there are any Azerbaijani players, we will be more than okay to share same region since our language are almost the same and we can understand each other very well. Maybe it has nothing with communication or sharing cultures but if we are talking about a regional scoreboard, I am sure it will bring some hate against countries with it since there will be a race to get the first rank. So IMO kind-of-enemy countries being on same ranking scoreboard as a "region" is not a good idea.
The idea must be discussed with country players very well, to prevent negative results in the future.
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On another side, how about Balkans?
You're partially right. There is still bad blood between some people here due to the past, however I don't think it's gonna be that much of a problem. At least not with Croatia.GladiOol wrote:
East europe will be a bitch. From what I know, Romania and Hungary won't work together. Croatia and Serbia won't work. Bosnia and Serbia won't work. Hungary and Slovakia won't work. Kosovo won't work with Croatia either iirc. Macedonia don't like the serbs either from what i know.
Good luck sorting it out :~D
Leave the users from their respective countries to decide that. Either way I don't agree with weighting historical events over the geographic aspect. This is a game and some things will have to be disregarded. Most of these wont be grouped specifically with one partner either, rather as a whole within a "Balkan Region".GladiOol wrote:
East europe will be a bitch. From what I know, Romania and Hungary won't work together. Croatia and Serbia won't work. Bosnia and Serbia won't work. Hungary and Slovakia won't work. Kosovo won't work with Croatia either iirc. Macedonia don't like the serbs either from what i know.
Good luck sorting it out :~D
This is in discussion in the Russian subforum as well. I'm looking into how to group the SOUSSR.Don Omar wrote:
11 - Russia (separately from USSR cuz of high amount of players in both sides)
12 - Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, (Kazakhstan)
I'm merely suggesting that you need to be careful to some degree when you put these countries together in one, selected group. Es tut mir leid.boat wrote:
Leave the users from their respective countries to decide that. Either way I don't agree with weighting historical events over the geographic aspect. This is a game and some things will have to be disregarded. Most of these wont be grouped specifically with one partner either, rather as a whole within a "Balkan Region".GladiOol wrote:
East europe will be a bitch. From what I know, Romania and Hungary won't work together. Croatia and Serbia won't work. Bosnia and Serbia won't work. Hungary and Slovakia won't work. Kosovo won't work with Croatia either iirc. Macedonia don't like the serbs either from what i know.
Good luck sorting it out :~D
boat wrote:
those with well below 20k users qualify
Yes, I did understand well that it's beatmap-specific.boat wrote:
I think you've also misunderstood that this is for the beatmap specific filter only. Don't focus on what's noted down, think of new and logical additions, such as the already almost concluded "benelux" which makes perfect sense.
UnderminE wrote:
Once again, there is a huge mistake. We are pretty far from Arabic culture. Our language and whatever. Just because the main religion is Islam, I don't accept being under same region with countries we don't have anything to share. And any of Turkish players won't accept either.CDFA wrote:
Maybe the Middle East can be grouped (Unless they have a high population of players. ie. Turkey, Egypt, Israel) as well?
Weird thing is we are both in Asia and Europe.;_;
As I already said to boat, if there are any Azerbaijani players, we will be more than okay to share same region since our language are almost the same and we can understand each other very well. Maybe it has nothing with communication or sharing cultures but if we are talking about a regional scoreboard, I am sure it will bring some hate against countries with it since there will be a race to get the first rank. So IMO kind-of-enemy countries being on same ranking scoreboard as a "region" is not a good idea.
The idea must be discussed with country players very well, to prevent negative results in the future.
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On another side, how about Balkans?