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[resolved] The ranking seems a bit off?

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reddyxu_
Ever since the update when a beatmap and an overall ranking bar has been added ( http://prntscr.com/mmab5s ), the ranking system seemed to be off when I got back to the game a few months ago. Since I lost my skill, I obviously had to get it back, but every time I beat a map after a long time, my rank goes down for about a hundred.
Even this happened: http://prntscr.com/mmacwu
Now that the ranking system received an update, farm maps don't work anymore and using difficulties that decrease your score impacts your rank by a lot.
Can someone explain why the hell did the ranking become awful all of a sudden (and a few months ago) and how do I get back to my rank? (I was around 199k, now I'm 203k)

Also, the ranking isn't awful, it did fix a lot of stuff, but it became crap tbh.

P.S. This one was a while back http://prntscr.com/mmaewj
Tobias Leander
Just play some sotarks maps and you should see your rank go up.
Death

reddyfu wrote:

Ever since the update when a beatmap and an overall ranking bar has been added ( http://prntscr.com/mmab5s ), the ranking system seemed to be off when I got back to the game a few months ago.
What do you mean by "off"? Do you just mean your rank was different than you remembered?

reddyfu wrote:

Since I lost my skill, I obviously had to get it back, but every time I beat a map after a long time, my rank goes down for about a hundred.
This is because people pass you over time. When you submit a new score your rank updates and reflects the hundred or so people that passed you. This is also why your rank is different after taking a break.

reddyfu wrote:

Now that the ranking system received an update, farm maps don't work anymore...
Uh... what?

reddyfu wrote:

...using difficulties that decrease your score impacts your rank by a lot.
I'm not sure what you mean by this either. Are you referring to using mods that reduce your score? Rank is determined by Performance Points, not really your "score" on a map. They are different things.

I'm also not sure what exactly your screenshots are meant to show. The second one is likely a result of the break you took (I'm assuming you took a break because you said "...when I got back to the game...").

reddyfu wrote:

Can someone explain why the hell did the ranking become awful all of a sudden (and a few months ago) and how do I get back to my rank? (I was around 199k, now I'm 203k)
Practice.
https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/99612
https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/187364

Tobias Leander wrote:

Just play some sotarks maps and you should see your rank go up.
:thinking:
Topic Starter
reddyxu_

Death wrote:

What do you mean by "off"? Do you just mean your rank was different than you remembered?

I guess so. It just seems like there was a tiny update to the ranking that made it harder to go up.

Death wrote:

This is because people pass you over time. When you submit a new score your rank updates and reflects the hundred or so people that passed you. This is also why your rank is different after taking a break.

Yeah, you might be right on that.

reddyfu wrote:

Now that the ranking system received an update, farm maps don't work anymore...

Death wrote:

Uh... what?

Either I didn't play enough farm maps or they may have changed a bit (though I'm sticking on the former)

reddyfu wrote:

...using difficulties that decrease your score impacts your rank by a lot.

Death wrote:

I'm not sure what you mean by this either. Are you referring to using mods that reduce your score? Rank is determined by Performance Points, not really your "score" on a map. They are different things.

Yeah, using mods that decrease your score is a bad idea as of right now.

Death wrote:

I'm also not sure what exactly your screenshots are meant to show. The second one is likely a result of the break you took (I'm assuming you took a break because you said "...when I got back to the game...").

The first screenshot is what I'm talking about
The second one is what happened when I got back
The third one is when I beated a very hard map and only went up by 1, which I found absurd.

Death wrote:

Practice.

You're right
Death

reddyfu wrote:

I guess so. It just seems like there was a tiny update to the ranking that made it harder to go up.
You can read about the changes here. It didn't strictly make anything harder to gain ranks on.

reddyfu wrote:

Yeah, using mods that decrease your score is a bad idea as of right now.
They have always, and probably will always, decrease the amount of performance points you can get from a map. This is because the mods that reduce the score you get make the game easier in some way. This is not a new thing.

reddyfu wrote:

The third one is when I beated a very hard map and only went up by 1, which I found absurd.
You should read that performance points wiki page I linked in my last post. Not mentioned in there though is: Max combo achieved, accuracy, and misses, among other things, impact the amount of performance points you gain from a song greatly. Simply passing a super hard map with (relatively) low accuracy/small max combo/a lot of misses (or a combination of those things) generally does not yield a lot of pp.
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reddyxu_
Yeah, I guess everything makes sense now, thanks a lot.
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