While writing my osu!mania guide, I came up with a neat idea that isn't too hard to implement and can prove to be fairly useful to many players.
When you think about it, any pattern or skill has a way for you to practice em. Need to practice your accuracy? Use Hard Rock! Need to practice your reading? Use Flash Light or Hidden! Need to practice your speed and/stamina? Use Double Time! Need to practice your speed changes skills? Play with a higher and lower scroll speed!
Every pattern types can be learned with somewhat of entry level. What I mean is, there's easy bms maps, there's easy LN layering maps, there's stream maps, there's easy jack maps, there's almost easy everything.
Almost.
The biggest pattern type without an entry level are Inverse Notes maps, or LN walls, or immerse LN, etc. etc. For those of you who does not know what this is, it's exactly what it sounds like. It inverses every space with no notes with a long note, and every note with an open space. Like this;
Becomes this -> 
Why? because the "entry" level for these types of patterns are nearly non-existent, you're introduced to em at like lvl 40 (o2jam) and you're completely lost with no way to practice them. Some ET player told me the way he learned these patterns was to literally memorize an inverse song from A - Z and hope to actually learn something, not something you want to do. But this way, people will be able to practice these patterns on any easier songs they wish!
And please, before anyone says anything between the lines of this being too extreme, there's many players in advance levels struggling to learn these types of pattern by playing lvl 40+ (o2jam) songs. Now THAT's is extreme.
That's about it, unranked since it's just for practice, not as hard to code as something like random, and it'll give mania something other rhythm games don't have.
Thoughts?
When you think about it, any pattern or skill has a way for you to practice em. Need to practice your accuracy? Use Hard Rock! Need to practice your reading? Use Flash Light or Hidden! Need to practice your speed and/stamina? Use Double Time! Need to practice your speed changes skills? Play with a higher and lower scroll speed!
Every pattern types can be learned with somewhat of entry level. What I mean is, there's easy bms maps, there's easy LN layering maps, there's stream maps, there's easy jack maps, there's almost easy everything.
Almost.
The biggest pattern type without an entry level are Inverse Notes maps, or LN walls, or immerse LN, etc. etc. For those of you who does not know what this is, it's exactly what it sounds like. It inverses every space with no notes with a long note, and every note with an open space. Like this;
Why? because the "entry" level for these types of patterns are nearly non-existent, you're introduced to em at like lvl 40 (o2jam) and you're completely lost with no way to practice them. Some ET player told me the way he learned these patterns was to literally memorize an inverse song from A - Z and hope to actually learn something, not something you want to do. But this way, people will be able to practice these patterns on any easier songs they wish!
And please, before anyone says anything between the lines of this being too extreme, there's many players in advance levels struggling to learn these types of pattern by playing lvl 40+ (o2jam) songs. Now THAT's is extreme.
That's about it, unranked since it's just for practice, not as hard to code as something like random, and it'll give mania something other rhythm games don't have.
Thoughts?
