To think capped scores are no longer safe because of Lazer's score calculation is unsettling. Just to be clear, I know these scores will be preserved. The problem is that the unsnipeable has become snipeable. Who knows how much time, how many retries were behind each perfect run? That player later returns to see someone else above them for using a score multiplier that were not available to them. It's so unfair. This is part of what makes osu! so special, the leaderboards and their history. Since the time a map has gotten ranked/loved/approved, every player has had the opportunity to cap and every submission has been judged by the same standard. With a few exceptions:
You could argue that it should be up to the community and the developers to decide how score is calculated, but what message does that send to aspiring competitors? That there is no guarantee that you will remain on top even if you do everything right. Because they might just decide to introduce another difficulty factor (adjustable or not) that can SLIGHTLY cut you off. What the fuck? It's as if we have run out of maps to set new interesting scores on. On the contrary.
You could argue that it should be up to the community and the developers to decide how score is calculated, but what message does that send to aspiring competitors? That there is no guarantee that you will remain on top even if you do everything right. Because they might just decide to introduce another difficulty factor (adjustable or not) that can SLIGHTLY cut you off. What the fuck? It's as if we have run out of maps to set new interesting scores on. On the contrary.