-Kurenai- wrote:

Some questions I have too:
1. How does the weighting system for pp work? Yes, I have read the wiki, but I still don't seem to understand it.
Every play beneath your top play is only worth a fraction of the total pp from the map. When you get a good score that shows up in your top plays, all of the plays below it lose value. Really, the best explanation is the one that you read on the wiki. If there is a particular part of it you don't understand, then ask

2. Best ways to get pp out of a song?
Full combo and high accuracy. Combo is more important than accuracy because even if you get a good acc, you won't get anything without a decent combo

3. What is pp farming? Heard of that term a lot, which is why I'm asking.
pp farming is finding maps that are worth a lot of pp, but have simple patterns, making them pretty easy to complete and get pp from

4. Will getting a better score on a song improve the pp amount you get from the song?
Most of the time yes. There are a few instances where a higher score does not equal more pp because you had terrible accuracy, but for the most part, yes

Sandy Hoey wrote:

-Kurenai- wrote:

Some questions I have too:
1. How does the weighting system for pp work? Yes, I have read the wiki, but I still don't seem to understand it.
Every play beneath your top play is only worth a fraction of the total pp from the map. When you get a good score that shows up in your top plays, all of the plays below it lose value. Really, the best explanation is the one that you read on the wiki. If there is a particular part of it you don't understand, then ask

2. Best ways to get pp out of a song?
Full combo and high accuracy. Combo is more important than accuracy because even if you get a good acc, you won't get anything without a decent combo

3. What is pp farming? Heard of that term a lot, which is why I'm asking.
pp farming is finding maps that are worth a lot of pp, but have simple patterns, making them pretty easy to complete and get pp from

4. Will getting a better score on a song improve the pp amount you get from the song?
Most of the time yes. There are a few instances where a higher score does not equal more pp because you had terrible accuracy, but for the most part, yes

Cirno9 wrote:

People who play insanes at your rank don't really "play" them. Don't worry too much about them, they rush things and are most likely at your level.

Honestly, stop using mods. Don't play for pp, learn the basics like doubles/triples etc. and go step by step to 3* maps. You should aim for 99% accuracy, get lots of maps and just play the game :3

-Kurenai- wrote:

Cirno9 wrote:

People who play insanes at your rank don't really "play" them. Don't worry too much about them, they rush things and are most likely at your level.

Honestly, stop using mods. Don't play for pp, learn the basics like doubles/triples etc. and go step by step to 3* maps. You should aim for 99% accuracy, get lots of maps and just play the game :3

I'll do my best to follow your suggestions, thanks :3 (I already have over 4k maps, but that's probably not a lot)

deidarabochi wrote:

as for pp farming, compare the following maps:
- https://osu.ppy.sh/b/979155&m=0
- https://osu.ppy.sh/s/41686

ask yourself which one is the pp farm map and which one isn't

deidarabochi wrote:

4k maps is a lot for someone at your level lol

i would also recommend playing nomod first. yes, it's frustrating at first to try to fc 500/1000/2000 combo maps, but practice makes perfect - without building your fundamentals, you won't get very far in terms of pp. i personally didn't touch HR or DT until i've been able to fc 5.5*+ maps consistently (around 220pp)

as for pp farming, compare the following maps:
- https://osu.ppy.sh/b/979155&m=0
- https://osu.ppy.sh/s/41686

ask yourself which one is the pp farm map and which one isn't

deidarabochi wrote:

4k maps is a lot for someone at your level lol

-Kurenai- wrote:

At the moment, I got the habit of making sure every circle, slider, and spinner is perfect, which makes me playing easy maps (and sometimes normal) with mods like HR, HD and DT to get some pp.
Many people dislike the idea of players who are ~4kpp playing with mods but let's be honest. we need it sometimes just to spice up the game. But I advise you to base your plays mainly on nomods, as they are the fundamentals. You can also keep track of your mod plays here

I have noticed that I haven't been improving recently because of that, nor I have been getting a lot of pp.
Yeah. For me, when increasing my star rating, (e.g. 3* --> 3.3*) I usually go nomod --> HD --> HDDT(lower star songs) --> HDHR(lower star songs). By HDDT I don't get a lot of pp nor increase my skill but I still do it for the sake of "squeezing last drops of pp" lel.

I tried playing 3 star maps, but either they were like 600 combo, or I missed too much and rage quit. For this, I'm looking for some short 3 star maps
Start with short first, and do some long maps in between. When you get more comfortable, 1k combo will be tough but won't be too difficult. My first 1k combo was so extremely stressing, but after about a month or two after my first 1k combo I could do about five more of them.

I extremely suck at long maps too because I single tap with my keyboard (Tried double tapping, but my fingers just won't do it naturally). Due to this, my finger doesn't function after like a 800 combo map.
This is a mutual problem in players because stress and choke. Happens to me all the time too.

I took a look at some players' profiles that are thousands of ranks under me, and they are playing hard and insane while I'm playing easy and normal.
Don't do it, ain't good for you

Some questions I have too:
1. How does the weighting system for pp work? Yes, I have read the wiki, but I still don't seem to understand it.
Over time, both looking at your profile and checking Tillerino, you'll get the gist of it. Also check the Chrome extension "ezpp".

2. Best ways to get pp out of a song?
Basically accuracy is the most important in calculating pp but you have to hold a combo as long as possible.

3. What is pp farming? Heard of that term a lot, which is why I'm asking.
I'm pretty sure people have answered this question.

4. Will getting a better score on a song improve the pp amount you get from the song?
Yes and no.
Under same mods, the higher score will be counted as the pp song, to what I understand.

Example:
1st try: 99.75% acc, 350,000 score
2nd try: 98.5% acc, 450,000 score
Your pp will be based off the 98.5% accuracy and give less pp than the 99.75% acc because the second try has the higher score.

Under different mods, the score with the higher pp count will be counted.

If that made any sense..