[sevinon]

I could see having a "highest rate FCed" stat for each song (including rates below 1 for those songs beyond ones current abilities) as being a nice added feature. This would also naturally add something I've wanted for a while which is just a visible FC tag for each song that isn't overwritten by a higher non-FC score.

This obviously would have a corresponding "highest rate AAAed" (which I know matters to other people more than it does to me).

I can't see any real downsides to this though I guess there's the following caveat to the FC version: Since FFR is inherently precision focused compared to SM and such (e.g. boos don't break combos etc.), this would encourage mashing for high rate FCs (and therefore this wouldn't be a skill rating in any meaningful way, just a personal accomplishment indicator). However, since it would be it's own category it wouldn't pollute anything else so I don't see this being a real problem (I guess one could make it FC&Booless if you really wanted to avoid that issue). Additionally, this caveat obviously doesn't apply to the AAA version and there it's a perfectly valid stat for (song by song) skill comparison.

I guess it might drive the completionists nuts having another category (or two) to compete in. Any of them want to chime in?

Edit: This is intended as solution to having higher rates feel like they "count" (which it does) while preserving the sanctity of avgrank (which it leaves untouched). This isn't intended as something to push people into being completionists, but rather as a way to make it more fun to mess around with songs both above and below ones current skill.

The one added point that is missing from this diatribe is that I think it probably makes sense to only store FC (or FC&Booless if people are so inclined) and AAA flags at non-1 rates, as storing (and trying to compare) full scores at alternate rates is what leads to the above cluster****.