Difficulty names must indicate the difficulty of the map, and if it's a guest mapper, show that mapper's name. This is to help players find out what kind of difficulty it is without having to start the map first, since the star rating isn't always accurate. Things like [Insane], [Expert], [Pro] or [Level 5] are acceptable difficulty names, [Tree] isn't.Because a rule like this seems necessary. If difficulty names aren't supposed to indicate the map's difficulty, what are they there for? To give the mapper creative space? I'm by no means against creative space, but this doesn't belong into the difficulty names. Post all the creativity you have in your map posts, for what I care.
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New Rule: Difficulty names must name the difficulty
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Only if I can use Lunatic, Extra, and Valhalla (ok maybe not Valhalla)
The worst ones are the ones named after the characters in the anime the song comes from. Usually not even in any particular order.
I think as long as the names go in some kind of logical order, they are usually fine. Actually naming the difficulty is best of course!
I think as long as the names go in some kind of logical order, they are usually fine. Actually naming the difficulty is best of course!
I don't like mappers using their own name as difficulty too >_> What kind of a diff name is a "Raging Bull" No it's not insane!
Natteke's a trollin'!
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Who can tell indeed Fun Fact: Nogard was the easiest before i asked BD to increase diff settings by +1Shiirn wrote:
Oh whatever shall we do, who can tell what the hardest difficulty is!
But i do agree with this, regardless of "who can tell which one's the hardest" diff names must really make sense, and Shiirn isnt a difficulty, i'd take even as much as Level 1, Level 2, Level 3. Light, Medium, Heavy. Easy, Normal, Hard. Tiny, Small, Average, Big, Giant.
Anything that can be measured "X is more than Y" as long as it leaves enough room for some creativity while not going overboard with names that dont make sense.
What about difficulty names such as:
Castle, Sauna, Secret Lab, Heaven
It tells the difficulty, but you would need some sort of knowledge of a particular source in order to get it.
Edit: @ Shirn
http://osu.ppy.sh/s/33393
Star rating lied, but Difficulty names didn't.
Castle, Sauna, Secret Lab, Heaven
It tells the difficulty, but you would need some sort of knowledge of a particular source in order to get it.
Edit: @ Shirn
http://osu.ppy.sh/s/33393
Star rating lied, but Difficulty names didn't.
So no, as i said something that can be measured would sufficeNoHItter wrote:
What about difficulty names such as:
Castle, Sauna, Secret Lab, Heaven
It tells the difficulty, but you would need some sort of knowledge of a particular source in order to get it.
But they are stages in a game in increasing order of difficulty.
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On a sidenote, what about requiring the mention of the name of the guest mapper in the guest diff?
I've seen lots of maps that do this. It makes it look like the mapper did it himself/herself.
Edit:
On a sidenote, what about requiring the mention of the name of the guest mapper in the guest diff?
I've seen lots of maps that do this. It makes it look like the mapper did it himself/herself.
The proposed rule requires this, actually.NoHItter wrote:
On a sidenote, what about requiring the mention of the name of the guest mapper in the guest diff?
I've seen lots of maps that do this. It makes it look like the mapper did it himself/herself.
Except only-insane diffs in an approval map shouldn't respect this rule because that is very silly.Sakura Hana wrote:
Who can tell indeed Fun Fact: Nogard was the easiest before i asked BD to increase diff settings by +1
([Hakeru's Insane], then [Mercurius' even harder], then [BD's even more diffcult than that]?)
I was more like bringing the fact that you can't tell the real order of the difficulties sometimes with star rating, your diff names are fine because all are Expert/Insane
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Insane, Extreme, Impossible. :3Blue Dragon wrote:
Except only-insane diffs in an approval map shouldn't respect this rule because that is very silly.Sakura Hana wrote:
Who can tell indeed Fun Fact: Nogard was the easiest before i asked BD to increase diff settings by +1
([Hakeru's Insane], then [Mercurius' even harder], then [BD's even more diffcult than that]?)
Impossible, Really Impossible, Really Really Impossible.
Yeah, having all-insane approval mapsets follow this rule would be needless.
Yeah, having all-insane approval mapsets follow this rule would be needless.
http://osu.ppy.sh/s/29807
FYI.
Not having a clear picture of the difficulty from just one map is somewhat annoying when trying to join a multiplayer game.
FYI.
Not having a clear picture of the difficulty from just one map is somewhat annoying when trying to join a multiplayer game.
I do agree with this, i would like to add that possibly any 6 minute or higher map needs to be labeled as Marathon (or we could discuss the length for that) and needs a Marathon tag, because i feel we're missing quite a bit from here http://osu.ppy.sh/p/beatmaplist&s=4&r=6 ... 6&g=0&la=0 like for instance the top 2 here http://osu.ppy.sh/p/beatmaplist&s=4&r=6 ... 6&g=0&la=0
No more Blue, red and Gold Truths, then v_v