It’s probably about time to try this again.
Over the years, what can and can’t be ranked has overall, become much more accepting to a wide variety of styles than ever before.
However: this has a huge drawback. It becomes hard to find exactly what you want. Any map you download of a song you like, it’s a total crapshoot whether it’ll be in a style you enjoy playing or not.
I imagine some people may argue it’s healthy to branch out and play many different maps, and while that’s what I and others would personally find fun, I don’t think that’s a reason to make the game un-fun for anyone that wants to play something specific.
There are many times where a reddit thread or so is opened, the claim is made somewhere, comfy maps aren’t ranked anymore, a kind samaritan links like 20 or 30 from the past few months. But how is the average person supposed to find the 20 or 30 if there’s like 100 other maps in a variety of other styles in ranked, too?
Not only that, the definition of that is so different from person to person that what the samaritan thinks fits that descriptor may not to the others with this issue.
With the scale of ranked increasing every day, and a constant influx of ranked maps, this becomes nigh-impossible to search through and find what you want.
Who is going to play a game that is 70% playing levels you hate? I think it speaks a lot to player passion to somehow push through that deluge anyways and find literally anything these days.
Once a month:
- A newspost is made: propose map genre names!
- The conditions: Must not be a 1:1 mapper name. Otherwise just look for their maps ?_?
- Comment 3 example maps and your name for their shared genre, the most upvoted ones are then taken to a discussion to make sure they don’t overlap too much or the maps really do have a similar enough vibe to be labelled.
- The surviving labels are then added to a dedicated wiki list that lists the map genres, example maps.
- Genres are then encouraged to be added to applicable maps in qualified. If they’re not added, we’d need an accessible way to contact mods to add them to online tags at least. Especially as this is a huge retroactive thing.
Hybrid of website and reddit engagement for these would be cool as well imo
If you have another way to get this kind of idea rolling that’d be cool to hear too.
noffy's editor note: any post i make only represents my own personal thoughts, im not a spokesperson nor am i serving as one. Also if anything I wrote makes 0 sense please tell me, I’ll rewrite it
Context:
Over the years, what can and can’t be ranked has overall, become much more accepting to a wide variety of styles than ever before.
However: this has a huge drawback. It becomes hard to find exactly what you want. Any map you download of a song you like, it’s a total crapshoot whether it’ll be in a style you enjoy playing or not.
I imagine some people may argue it’s healthy to branch out and play many different maps, and while that’s what I and others would personally find fun, I don’t think that’s a reason to make the game un-fun for anyone that wants to play something specific.
There are many times where a reddit thread or so is opened, the claim is made somewhere, comfy maps aren’t ranked anymore, a kind samaritan links like 20 or 30 from the past few months. But how is the average person supposed to find the 20 or 30 if there’s like 100 other maps in a variety of other styles in ranked, too?
Not only that, the definition of that is so different from person to person that what the samaritan thinks fits that descriptor may not to the others with this issue.
With the scale of ranked increasing every day, and a constant influx of ranked maps, this becomes nigh-impossible to search through and find what you want.
Who is going to play a game that is 70% playing levels you hate? I think it speaks a lot to player passion to somehow push through that deluge anyways and find literally anything these days.
Probably not doable (but it’d be nice if it was):
It’s been proposed in the past to have web-based crowd-sourced tags where any player can submit a map genre label onto ranked maps. Since it involves development time, this is harder to push for.Something that may be doable (my proposal):
Ok it’s a little complicated but hopefully fun in practice, since most of it is just tick the box when actually happening, and can be summarized as “osu periodically votes on style names”:Once a month:
- A newspost is made: propose map genre names!
- The conditions: Must not be a 1:1 mapper name. Otherwise just look for their maps ?_?
- Comment 3 example maps and your name for their shared genre, the most upvoted ones are then taken to a discussion to make sure they don’t overlap too much or the maps really do have a similar enough vibe to be labelled.
- The surviving labels are then added to a dedicated wiki list that lists the map genres, example maps.
- Genres are then encouraged to be added to applicable maps in qualified. If they’re not added, we’d need an accessible way to contact mods to add them to online tags at least. Especially as this is a huge retroactive thing.
Hybrid of website and reddit engagement for these would be cool as well imo
If you have another way to get this kind of idea rolling that’d be cool to hear too.
noffy's editor note: any post i make only represents my own personal thoughts, im not a spokesperson nor am i serving as one. Also if anything I wrote makes 0 sense please tell me, I’ll rewrite it