Okay, I already suggested this internally, but now I want to throw it for public to be discussed and refined.
There is one thing that bugged me since I am here (so for almost 4 years).
Every map is created by 1 person, at least systemwise. All difficulties, regardless of guest difficulties or collaborations, are labeled as "created by <Beatmapset Hoster>".
Also we have some awkward rules (imo) regarding possession, like the hoster needs to have at least 50% of the set mapped and bla, which makes sense under current circumstances to an extend, but is limiting the ambitions of many people, who would map stuff to contribute to this community, but don't want to do it alone (or not so much)
Since we have a BeatmapSetID, which is consistent over all difficulties, I think such changes are way more possible now.
What I purpose is the possibility to set the REAL creator of a certain beatmap under the "Beatmap Creator" metatags, for multiple creators, seperate with a comma.
I thought this idea a bit more forward. Every created difficulty will be shown on the people's respective profile:
Beware, badly paint-edited,because lazy
If you add a difficulty under someone else's name, the other person needs to approve it (receive some kind of notification?).
Maybe later, people could also upload/update/delete(?) their difficulties on their own via BSS/Profile, after beatmapset hoster (the one, who initially opened the beatmap thread and submitted the whole beatmap set as first) added their difficulty with each's name to the beatmapset.
Also people would appear red ingame as "editing xyz" when they edit their own guest difficulty/collaboration.
Collaboration sets shall only be updated by beatmapset hoster.
Maybe it's also possible to remove the "Ranked/Pending/Graveyarded Beatmap" bracket and replace it with "Ranked/Pending/Graveyarded Difficulties" instead. Maybe it's also possible to add a "Ranked/Pending/Graveyarded Collaborations" bracket.
The whole suggestions aims to attribute the difficulties to their real respective creators, supporting guest difficulties, collaborations - also making it possible to see any user's contributed stuff on their profile, instead of searching them via Tags (which doesnt always work, since sometimes the contributors are not listed in tags or difficulty names) - Also it removes the need of "xyz's Easy/Hard/Extra/Whatever", since it would be "Hard (grumd)" "Insane (Loctav, [Luanny])".
I probably forgot some stuff and circumstances, so let's iron it out a bit and discuss it. Feel free to add some ideas/thoughts or critics, if you think it should work elsehow. If this idea is a duplicate of an ages-old suggestion from 2010, I am sorry. We should dig it out then and rethink it.
There is one thing that bugged me since I am here (so for almost 4 years).
Every map is created by 1 person, at least systemwise. All difficulties, regardless of guest difficulties or collaborations, are labeled as "created by <Beatmapset Hoster>".
Also we have some awkward rules (imo) regarding possession, like the hoster needs to have at least 50% of the set mapped and bla, which makes sense under current circumstances to an extend, but is limiting the ambitions of many people, who would map stuff to contribute to this community, but don't want to do it alone (or not so much)
Since we have a BeatmapSetID, which is consistent over all difficulties, I think such changes are way more possible now.
What I purpose is the possibility to set the REAL creator of a certain beatmap under the "Beatmap Creator" metatags, for multiple creators, seperate with a comma.
I thought this idea a bit more forward. Every created difficulty will be shown on the people's respective profile:
Beware, badly paint-edited,because lazy
If you add a difficulty under someone else's name, the other person needs to approve it (receive some kind of notification?).
Maybe later, people could also upload/update/delete(?) their difficulties on their own via BSS/Profile, after beatmapset hoster (the one, who initially opened the beatmap thread and submitted the whole beatmap set as first) added their difficulty with each's name to the beatmapset.
Also people would appear red ingame as "editing xyz" when they edit their own guest difficulty/collaboration.
Collaboration sets shall only be updated by beatmapset hoster.
Maybe it's also possible to remove the "Ranked/Pending/Graveyarded Beatmap" bracket and replace it with "Ranked/Pending/Graveyarded Difficulties" instead. Maybe it's also possible to add a "Ranked/Pending/Graveyarded Collaborations" bracket.
The whole suggestions aims to attribute the difficulties to their real respective creators, supporting guest difficulties, collaborations - also making it possible to see any user's contributed stuff on their profile, instead of searching them via Tags (which doesnt always work, since sometimes the contributors are not listed in tags or difficulty names) - Also it removes the need of "xyz's Easy/Hard/Extra/Whatever", since it would be "Hard (grumd)" "Insane (Loctav, [Luanny])".
I probably forgot some stuff and circumstances, so let's iron it out a bit and discuss it. Feel free to add some ideas/thoughts or critics, if you think it should work elsehow. If this idea is a duplicate of an ages-old suggestion from 2010, I am sorry. We should dig it out then and rethink it.