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NoSanity
Since you need at least two difficulties, and the difference in difficulty between the top diff and the diff before it doesn't matter, could you have only two difficulties in your map with a large gap of difficulty?
lewski

NoSanity wrote:

Since you need at least two difficulties

That rule hasn't existed for a while now.

NoSanity wrote:

the difference in difficulty between the top diff and the diff before it doesn't matter

That's just not true unless the top diff is the lowest required difficulty for the length of the song. Check the spread requirements in the Ranking Criteria. For example, if the song is longer than 4:15 and the top diff is an Insane, you can include a Normal without needing to fill the spread with a Hard.
Rivals_7
no you cant skip difficulty. things like NX, HX, NI, etc are not rankables

thats the point of "reasonable spread" mentioned on that very RC too ^
lewski

Ranking Criteria wrote:

Reasonable spread: A beatmapset that does not skip any difficulty levels as dictated by difficulty-specific rules and guidelines, starting from the lowest difficulty level required for the song's length, and does not have any drastically large differences between difficulties. This includes beatmapsets that feature only a single difficulty.

According to the part in italics, you can skip difficulties below the lowest required one. At least one mapset that skips difficulties this way has been ranked after the spread rule was changed last year.
Rivals_7
thats what i said though? you obviously can skip lowest difficulties (HIX, IX, HI)

but the OP suggesting that we can skip from the highest, straight to the lowest (he said "large gap of difficulty"), without needing any difficulties in between which is what OP mean and what you said

lewski wrote:

you can include a Normal without needing to fill the spread with a Hard.
which is not rankables. you still need "hard" that way

Ranking Criteria wrote:

Reasonable spread: A beatmapset that does not skip any difficulty levels as dictated by difficulty-specific rules and guidelines, starting from the lowest difficulty level required for the song's length, and does not have any drastically large differences between difficulties. This includes beatmapsets that feature only a single difficulty.
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NoSanity
thanks for the responses
lewski
I don't know if the commonly accepted interpretation has changed since last October, but at least back then, an NI spread like this was considered rankable.
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