Raiden wrote:

Probably Sliders/Long spinners they are shorter with DT and thus award less points

It is. In taiko the most weighted things when it comes to pp is Accuracy and Misses. A 98% FC gives less pp than a 99% 1x miss, regardless of where the miss is.

Also, converted maps are the maps which are designed to be played in osu!standard but people play them in Taiko mode (most of them are broken since they don't follow at all the Ranking Criteria).

So yeah if you want to get good at TAiko you have to play taiko specific diffs to learn different patterns.

agu wrote:

@raiden: p sure he's talking about ranked score, not pp

combo is a lot more important for ranked score than accuracy, you can easily get 90% probably and just beat a 200 combo 97% score with like 500 combo.

as for your score raiden covered that, DT makes spinners award less points, also maybe you didn't hit big notes and less drumrolls/sliders

Appelkatt wrote:

Certain converted maps (or really easy Futsuu/Kantan maps) can actually give a higher overall score if a player uses HT, because it extends drumrolls, therefore giving more points. In this particular case, it seems like HT is just enough of a points reduction that it makes it score less than No Mod, but DT doesn't add enough score to be worth the lost points. You shouldn't feel cheated by it, or anything - it's likely you got notably more pp for your play than many of those No Mod scores, as 96% with DT is certainly a respectable start for someone with so few plays in the mode.

However, that map serves as a good example as to why you should avoid standard converted maps - at least at earlier difficulties. For learning and getting good at taiko, you'll want to search for taiko maps that are of either Kantan or Futsuu difficulty to start out with, and try to progress to Muzukashii as soon as you feel comfortable. If you're playing with KD DK keybinds (like the default zxcv), try to alternate hands for every note, even when you don't have to. Otherwise, have fun and don't worry about the scoreboards too much.

darklime wrote:

Appelkatt wrote:

Certain converted maps (or really easy Futsuu/Kantan maps) can actually give a higher overall score if a player uses HT, because it extends drumrolls, therefore giving more points. In this particular case, it seems like HT is just enough of a points reduction that it makes it score less than No Mod, but DT doesn't add enough score to be worth the lost points. You shouldn't feel cheated by it, or anything - it's likely you got notably more pp for your play than many of those No Mod scores, as 96% with DT is certainly a respectable start for someone with so few plays in the mode.

However, that map serves as a good example as to why you should avoid standard converted maps - at least at earlier difficulties. For learning and getting good at taiko, you'll want to search for taiko maps that are of either Kantan or Futsuu difficulty to start out with, and try to progress to Muzukashii as soon as you feel comfortable. If you're playing with KD DK keybinds (like the default zxcv), try to alternate hands for every note, even when you don't have to. Otherwise, have fun and don't worry about the scoreboards too much.

I appreciate the reply! I'm having trouble finding easy maps on taiko. Any recommendations? All I see are muzukashii and oni. Also, on drum rolls, my keys don't register each hit...even if I don't spam and go slow; something seems wrong there. Thanks for the explanation. I'll try alternating but even in standard I didn't alternate until I was comfortable so I'll get comfortable first.