lol It is a long thread now
To ask yourself (Is my map fun to play)I guess the answer is
YES for most people
I thought
http://osu.ppy.sh/s/3661 is fun to playone year ago (I think it`s a crap now)
I thought
http://osu.ppy.sh/s/4155 sounds good one year ago (come on my diff is a holy crap)
I realized that my maps are not good enough because of low rating (7.9~8.1)
Why can darri and Al make so high rating maps (i start to learn/copy their style)
After few months mapping i realize one thing
I am not a fucking native mapperIt is the 10000% true my old maps are really really bad (but i still love them so much because they are parts of me)
I got some ways to improve my mapping skills
1.play moreyou may say wat!!! but it is really useful,i don`t mean to play one song 65535 times lol
there are over 2000 ranked maps,come on just play those maps,you may find some good stuffs
you can also improve your playing skill,it is a very important factor to make a good insane map
2.copyJames told me that he is a copy king,he copies things he loving and uses in his maps
copy is not that easy, if you use an idea in a wrong song,people may loooooooool
to understand WHY they do that in their maps is the basic thing of copy
in other words:
USE YOUR BRAIN 3.Find test playerspick some people to play your maps(not pick some people to mod your maps)
some people just use edit mode to mod maps,this is the worst modding way
maps are for play not for mod(We mod
when i make an insane map i will pick 10~15 people to play it (#10~#1000)
when i make an normal map i will pick 3~5 people to play it (#100~#5000)
I will spec and ask what they are thinking
4.Work with other mappersI learned a lot when i work with kiou2+Al-Azif,we share our mapping ideas
5.Think about mod postsDon`t just change things what people say,pick the really useful modding
well i already typed a long ass post
you are really a lucky guy because you have a kow rating map
you have a chance to improve yourself
some new mappers had a high rating first map (8.8~9.1),so they start to think that they are pro mappers
but if they really think things like that,they will stop improving
I will mod your another TERRA map anyway