Visting After ~1 Year
Posted on: September 7, 2015, at 02:33:25pm

It looks like the last time I was here for a while was about a year ago. So one of the first things I do is check out the updated level stats to update my spreadsheet of scores. Doing this, I find out scoring has changed; I found out how after a little searching. OK, spreadsheet gets updated. Then I see some rather old songs with very poor ranks that I know I played. Fortunately these are fairly low difficulty, so I get decent scores on them. FCed a few, so my skill's not completely gone, but it's definitely poor compared to when I played regularly. Next, a pass through some unplayed songs (because they're new) that also have poor ranks to improve my overall rank. Knowing I can't play very well anymore, I stick to things under ~35 in difficulty. I'm a little surprised at the kind of steps in what are considered the easy third of songs on the site: e.g., triples, some very quick rhythms, switches between eighth patters and triplet patterns. I didn't expect quite that much difficulty at the lower levels. It reinforces the idea I had a while ago that the site is really targeting advanced players. Back then I remember fewer low-difficulty songs and lots of high-difficulty songs. Now it looks like there are more low-difficulty songs, but the overall difficulty has increased, making the new "easy" songs harder than that old "easy" songs were. *shrug* I guess that's what most users want, so they keep the majority of the visitors happy that way. Personally, I'd (still) like to see a little more done for the more casual players. When I played regularly, I was OK, but never fantastic. Now that I play so rarely, it's sometimes hard to find things that are enjoyable with the site looking like it's so stronger geared at advanced players. Oh well. I've got plenty of other things to keep me busy. I do think I'll still come by here once in a while, but I'll probably never get back to the sort of daily playing I once did.