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Topic Starter
mulraf
Ello,
Sorry if this has already been asked for but i would like to see a "Prefer Score" option in the game.

Introduction to the idea:
Plenty of people in the osu!community will know at least either of those situations:
a.) You have a certain score on a map. You try to redo the map with different mods to gain more pp. You get a play that would give you more pp but isn't counted because it has a lower score than your old play
b.) You try to achieve more pp at the same map but are frightened because you could actually get a higher score with a worse play. You can't always watch your accuarcy while you are playing since that would affect your gameplay a lot in a negative way. You either decide not to play it because of that or you do decide to play it and you actually end up with a better score and worse pp.
Just now i had the first case happen to me again and i have enough of it. I really want to change how things are currently regarding this scenario.

How to solve the problem:
In my opinion there should be a button "Prefer Score" or something along those lines in the Beatmap Options Menu. It should use that score to calculate your pp's. Whether the 'better' online score should be cleared or not is debateable.

Why i think this is fair:
PP is meant as a measure of how well you play. If you actually played better i think it is only just that you gain pp. If you played worse i think you shouldn't be held liable for that and lose pp since it takes away the fun always having to think about it and in a normal scenario this isn't happening so that should be prove of it not being what the game actually aims for.

Example:

As you can see in the picture the pp i actually would have gotten from the new play were 161pp instead of 150pp. a pretty decent increase. yet because of the lower score the new play wasn't counted. As someone who lately struggles gaining pp it feels very demotivating to still not gain anything while i actually should have at least little results. I know people will hate for using this pp-farm map as an example but it doesn't change the outcome.

Other aspects:
A really good effect of this change would actually be that it is an equal change that can help everyone. It doesn't matter if you are a new player or a old player. If you play with or without mods. It is an equal opportunity.


Instead of bringing in scorev2 or anything along those lines i would really like this in the game. The score system is actually fine as it is in my opinion, it just happens to have a strong conflict with the pp-system in my opinion.

uh. k. thx. bye.
o x
I get why you would want this but I am not a big fan of it. I don't think this would be very useful and the leaderboards are determined by score I don't think choosing which score you want to be uploaded would be very nice. Just because you want more PP doesn't mean you should be able to choose which score you want uploaded, also how would bancho know which score is set offline and which is set online.

Something similar to this got denied a while back t/245636
Topic Starter
mulraf
Thanks for your reply.

Cawub wrote:

I don't think this would be very useful
It is true that it wouldn't be too usefull since cases like this are rare. Yet it would have it's use.

Cawub wrote:

the leaderboards are determined by score I don't think choosing which score you want to be uploaded would be very nice.
Why? The leaderboards are determined by score, yes. PP isn't determined by score. So those should be seperate instances. Since Both are part of the play though there should be another section where they can be seperated. Also as written above: i think whether the old scores should be erased or still available is debateable.

Cawub wrote:

Just because you want more PP doesn't mean you should be able to choose which score you want uploaded
I think the argumentation of it being fair since you achieved something better with your play and pp being a system that rewards you for better achievements is perfectly fine.

Cawub wrote:

also how would bancho know which score is set offline and which is set online.
I'm not to knowledgeable when it comes to technical stuff, sorry :/ To me it sounds reasonable that the system receives an alert of the players who want to change their scores and change accordingly, but again, i don't know to much about that kind of stuff.

Cawub wrote:

Something similar to this got denied a while back t/245636
Ah. Indeed, that looks similar. Doesn't look to good for this thread then :/
o x
:c sorry I just don't agree with this sort of thing, good luck though!
Bara-
Edgar_Figaro
Tbh the way I always make sure highest PP scores are kept are that when I play a map I know what ACC/Mods I'd need to beat old PP score before I start playing. I keep the high score (tab) open the entire time and if I see my score go above I quickly shoot my eyes at my ACC. If the ACC is above the point I need to gain PP I finish the song. If it's not a hastily hit that retry button before disaster strikes. Granted this only works for the happy 50% where old score is worth more PP than new score but not the other where new score is worth more than old yet I don't beat the score(these frustrate me to no end)
Topic Starter
mulraf

Edgar_Figaro wrote:

Tbh the way I always make sure highest PP scores are kept are that when I play a map I know what ACC/Mods I'd need to beat old PP score before I start playing. I keep the high score (tab) open the entire time and if I see my score go above I quickly shoot my eyes at my ACC. If the ACC is above the point I need to gain PP I finish the song. If it's not a hastily hit that retry button before disaster strikes. Granted this only works for the happy 50% where old score is worth more PP than new score but not the other where new score is worth more than old yet I don't beat the score(these frustrate me to no end)
i try doing the same. this works especially if there's a spinner at then end where you don't need to fully spin it but have a few seconds left. but usually i'm not fast enough or i miss because i concentrate to much on looking at the acc etc. i think this isn't how things should be, i think the players shouldn't have to worry about that kind of stuff.

Bara- wrote:

Go support Add pp as a scoring system in standard mode
thanks! i'll shoot a star i guess. but this thread has a different objective and while i like both versions the chances are higher that something gets realized if there are more viable options that the staff can choose from :)
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