Garven wrote:
The LC map you linked was okay, but tick rate 2 is the proper tick rate anyway and would invalidate the need for a check since it would have the tick visible anyway.
True, TR2 may fit that particular song. Nevertheless, my point was the pattern is readable regardless of the tick rate.
To be honest, I can't really come up with any good way to tweak the wording. After so much playing and spectating, I've arrived at the uncomfortable conclusion that readability is a much less objective thing than I thought it would be. As my previous post (and Ephemeral's) hinted at, there's a large assortment of cues of all different kinds that play a role in how players read patterns.
(Visual) Tick count can show SV changes.
(Visual) Colorhaxing schemes can also communicate SV changes.
(Visual) Decreased object density suggests slower sliders.
(Visual) Increased object density suggests faster sliders.
(Visual) If you have a slider, and then an object that appears 1/1 after the slider, the player knows for certain that the slider must be rhythmically shorter than 1/1.
(Flow) Stacking on top of a slow slider's head can kill momentum and make a slowdown more obvious.
(Flow) Large jumps into faster sliders can build momentum and make them more obvious as well.
(Visual / Leniency) People have a greater tendency to "rush" to follow the path on visually longer sliders, so short slow sliders are easier to handle than long slow sliders.
(Leniency) A 1/4 kickslider followed by a 1/8 kickslider with 2.0x would be perfectly readable despite being visually identical, because of how players handle kicksliders.
(Aural) Softer music suggests slower SV.
(Aural) Louder music suggests faster SV.
etc. etc.
And this is just a list from the top of my head. As you can see, any rule that we can synthesize from these cues (and the countless others that I have not listed) would be inevitably flawed.
We've been handling SV readability on a case-by-case basis thus far, and from what I can tell, it seems to be working fine? The introduction of a new rule doesn't sound like it would expedite modding by much, if at all.