deepsea wrote:
Lol, I don't know how many modders would care about more kds.
I don't either. The pink stars DO look nice with the blue/yellow though :3
Quinctia wrote:
I think the main problem is that this is the first online community I've seen with an approval system that basically makes the submitters essentially whore themselves out for views in order to get more material for the game/audience. I understand where you all are coming from in terms of having paid your dues, making sure those who are new at this get enough guidance to make the map playable, or continuing to put forth effort to get your own stuff approved now, but it's a bizarre system.
Whoring themselves out? lol... (I'll comment more on this in the next paragraph) If osu! had a system where every map was approved regardless of how well it was (timing, placement of notes, etc etc)... I think you can imagine this for yourself. There HAVE to be standards, and thus it takes time to look through maps.
Quinctia wrote:
I enjoy the game, I wish there were more songs for it, and I even started making a map. I thought that volume of submissions was the problem. But then I started looking past the guidelines for submissions to look at the submissions forum and it's a mess. I have other hobbies, other games I can mod for, even. And if I submit my mods to a moderated site in those communities, a small team checks it for quality, sends a refusal back with tips for improvement (or directs them to the subforum set aside to help people get their submissions up to snuff), or passes it through to the site. Do I want to spend all that time making a map and then all that time begging people to look at it...or do I want to spend that time making things that other people might actually get a chance to enjoy?
Glad to hear that you started to make a map.
Yes, the volume of submissions IS a problem. There are too many maps and not enough people modding. The reason that people need to ask for help in #mod is to show that they actually CARE about their maps. Like I've said, so many people just think that they can submit a map and it's added to the game or something, but that's obviously not the case. You need to work and spend time on your maps if you want to get them added to the game. If you don't want to spend the time working on your map, then don't. For a new mapper, it can take a couple of months (at least) to get your map ranked.
Quinctia wrote:
I wouldn't feel comfortable doing a lot of modding for maps here until I had a couple under my belt and understood the process from the creation side of it. So I guess I won't submit or mod. I'll just play and, on the rare occasion a new song I want to play comes out, I guess I'll get to actually play a new song. 
Actually, you would probably feel a LOT more comfortable mapping once you've modding and seen how the map creation process really is. I thought my first map was great, but after modding and later going back to it, I saw how crappy it was and scrapped the whole thing. Just look at how other people mod and do the same. Check through someone's map for spacing inconsistencies, incorrect timing (BPM/offset/and notes themselves on the timeline), long combos, hit sounds, etc etc. You can always ask for help in #mod if you're not sure what to do when mapping/modding.
