Current Ranking Criteria for Muzukashii states:
Muzukashii is a low diff and it's main purpose is to introduce 1/4 for new players. Monocolored triplets are regarded as the easiest 1/4 for newer players and it's what almost every Muzukashii is using. BNs already tell mappers to simplify multicolored triplets, and even monocolored quadruplets and quintuplets are rare and BNs may tell mappers to simplify them to x xx / xx x for quadruplets and xxx x / x xxx for quintuplets.
As such, a guideline explicitly allowing the usage of quadruplets and quintuplets with colour changes, like kkkkd and dkkk, even if only at the start or the end or followed by a rest moment, goes completely against what Muzukashiis look today. These patterns are too complex and should only be left for Oni.
With that in mind, I suggest the following change:
This will better reflect what I think is the community consensus on these kind of patterns in Muzukashiis. Keeping them as guidelines means that they can still be broken, but that should be left for exceptional circumstances, like very low BPM. Current guideline suggests thats this kind of pattern is acceptable in a 180 BPM Muzukashii if followed by a rest moment, which, practically speaking, is not the case.
- 1/4 patterns which are longer than three notes should consist of one colour change at most which should take place at the start or the end of the pattern. Patterns more complex than that would be too demanding for intermediate players. These patterns should be followed by a rest moment.
Muzukashii is a low diff and it's main purpose is to introduce 1/4 for new players. Monocolored triplets are regarded as the easiest 1/4 for newer players and it's what almost every Muzukashii is using. BNs already tell mappers to simplify multicolored triplets, and even monocolored quadruplets and quintuplets are rare and BNs may tell mappers to simplify them to x xx / xx x for quadruplets and xxx x / x xxx for quintuplets.
As such, a guideline explicitly allowing the usage of quadruplets and quintuplets with colour changes, like kkkkd and dkkk, even if only at the start or the end or followed by a rest moment, goes completely against what Muzukashiis look today. These patterns are too complex and should only be left for Oni.
With that in mind, I suggest the following change:
- 1/4 patterns longer than three notes should not have color changes. Patterns like that would be too demanding for intermediate players.
This will better reflect what I think is the community consensus on these kind of patterns in Muzukashiis. Keeping them as guidelines means that they can still be broken, but that should be left for exceptional circumstances, like very low BPM. Current guideline suggests thats this kind of pattern is acceptable in a 180 BPM Muzukashii if followed by a rest moment, which, practically speaking, is not the case.