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« on: June 15, 2017, 06:24:31 PM »
The current ordering has a lot of room for improvement. The first and last ranks are the only ones where I am comfortable saying most of the levels in that rank should stay in that rank. The intermediate ranks are a lot more fluid with difficulty. I tried to incorporate peoples' early statements about how difficult they found the levels; but I found that over half of the levels which are in the pack were judged to be a medium difficulty. Most of the easy stuff found its way into Gentle or early Quirky. Most of the hard stuff got put directly into Lunatic. I split up the stuff in the middle more on a whim than anything as I think the difficulty is fairly flat across the center third of the pack.
As for the order within each rank, the biggest influence on level ordering was the graphic styles, trying to avoid clusters of the same style; Gentle is an exception as the main influence there was having X-of-everything skillcounts decrease as you progress through the rank. Other than that I put the special graphic levels + Sega 4 as the midpoint of each rank and tried to pick a level I thought would make a good rank finale. (On this note I think Triple Trouble may be better as the Manic finale rather than having it in Lunatic.)
A side note, I am warming up to the rank names Gentle, Quirky, Zany, Manic, Lunatic since I have been mentally appending "Lemmings" behind each rank name.