Man this turned into a wall of text before I realized it.
Conor wrote:
Tasha wrote:
Having new options doesn't make old scores suddenly bad, it just means you can improve them further.
i have over 12,000 scores (approximately 7,200 of those are HR only) if you think i'm going back to improve all of those you're insane
You are not forced to go back and improve all of those scores. This would really only have an impact on maps that aren't extremely difficult to read with DTHR (low difficulty or low scroll speed maps could be done with DTHRHD) and on maps outside of your DT / DTHD playing range (so any maps you have to use HR or HD on alone). If you have 7200 HR only scores then you haven't maxed out a lot of your scores anyways as there isn't that large of a pool from the ranked maps where you cannot DT them (excluding converted maps here).
Conor wrote:
basically if HDHR became possible it wouldn't make my life any harder i'd just feel heavily inconvenienced that my full score SS's aren't the best full score SS's they could be and i'm sure the people with more scores than me and even some people with less than me on this mode would feel the same way and none of us would ever play every map again so don't think we'd go back and improve them (okay maybe kevin would)
heck it doesn't even have to be an SS it could be anything to my name but there's literally thousands so please don't think i'm putting in another 1,300 hours of play time just to repeat everything
Again, it only gives you the -option- to go and improve them. And I certainly disagree that it wouldn't make your life scoring any harder, higher scroll speed and higher accuracy requirement from HR added onto HD is a lot harder no matter how you cut it.
Conor wrote:
if you want to go out of your way to make something possible at the expense of some players feeling shitty for everything they've ever done you can go right ahead i mean what's really important at the end of it all
This obviously isn't the intent. What's really important at the end of it all to me is enjoyment of the game, just like I'm guessing it is for you. On the same token, I don't want to see the leaderboards stagnate because we don't have so few options for maps that aren't DTable (unless you're on a completely different level like _yu68 / other extremely talented players in the top 10-20 range)
Conor wrote:
you've also just told garpo that HR would have an advantage over HD so what happened with your opinion 12 days ago?
This wouldn't be a buff to HR by itself as you'd need to be good at HD as well to get the extra score. I don't see how I'm changing my opinion at all here? I still feel HR is too good as it is (as an individual mod) so shouldn't get buffed.
Conor wrote:
don't even get me started on giving DS players more excuses this whole situation honestly doesn't seem worth it for the inconvenience behind it
The whole point is to make it something that isn't only accomplished by people DSing (or really dedicated players). If you want to argue DSers as a point then you realize that HR and HD as individual mods can be DS'd in the same way right? If it's something that a regular player can learn and play then if anything it'd hinder DSers as non-DSers could start accomplishing those scores too (albeit with a lot more effort obviously).
Conor wrote:
i can put my scores/feelings aside for one second and say the combination shouldn't be strictly impossible i can agree with that but unfortunately due to how the mode can be abused putting it into the realm of possibility would cause mayhem as it stands in the current timeline
Kinda explained my thoughts on this above for both scores and abuse. I'm glad you can at least agree that the combination shouldn't be impossible though.
Conor wrote:
like why do these #1's still exist https://osu.ppy.sh/s/136969 https://osu.ppy.sh/b/97949?m=1 (two out of thousands)
oh that's right this mode has shitty to none moderation and we should fix that first before messing around with combinations that cheaters have already been using for years and getting away with (looking at you rokodo and every DS player that followed after him)
I agree that scores like those that are very unlikely to be legit (given user's playcount / song playcount) aren't really dealt with very fast even with reports. I don't know how to resolve this as it's kinda beyond our control but as mentioned before this could apply to any mods. If anything the proposed changes put more power in the hands of legit players.
Sorry it took me so long to get back to this. This topic may end up sitting for a little while most likely as gameplay changes aren't too likely to happen when lazer's being worked on anyways.