I understand they're probably worried about junk campaigns clogging their servers, but I feel like they could let everyone upload unlimited individual levels, but also give everyone their own channel of sorts, and on that channel, you could store one campaign, complete with a custom world map.

They already sort of showed where people died in Mario Maker 1, but there wasn't a way to examine it closely. It just showed up when you died for a few seconds. And perhaps if they stored ghost data for the current world record of each level, and let you view it, it would provide some neat info. Perhaps a preview mode that the level's creator could turn on or off as they pleased (to prevent ruining surprises) or have a setting so it's only previewable after completing it once, and it could let you see all kinds of information about the level and look over it to see how it works without having to download it.

I thought about it, after playing a game just a moment ago. If not a new voting system, because there's error in that method...then a new system of lives. I was thinking about it the other day and one idea that came to mind was a "(x) seconds playtime penalty," where the player is only penalized a life if the player continues to play after 100 seconds each level. Or a percentage of the total time limit for stages less than 100 seconds.

I'll give a prime example of what is so wrong about the current system used for determining a levels difficulty.

I'm playing a level now that involves falling blue platforms (one time jump) without a reset door. Normally, I don't have an issue with that but this is different. When I reach the highest platform, I'm immediately bombarded with a random projectile of Bowser flame. There's only one place to land and depending on whether or not the flame aligns with the platform, I'm able to continue.

That scenario has literally zero to do with expertise and everything to do with luck.

Now use this or other countless similar events in the case of having one life left.

The player has virtually no chance to defeat the level. I realize, that's just how it is but that doesn't sit well with me, especially coming from the great minds at Nintendo.

If they have 4 player couch-coop then I'm down.

It's not technically confirmed, but the promotional art strongly hints at that.

I'm not even sure how online multiplayer would work in this case. Can you imagine a laggy platformer? The online part should be social and collaborative, for sharing and creating together, with the co-op and competitive aspects best left for couch multiplayer.

The current difficulty ratings don't really capture the nuance of the kinds of difficulty on offer. There's luck based difficulty like you describe, skill based difficulty, and then there's troll based difficulty, which is designed to kill you repeatedly and have you learn all the tricks the level is hiding through trial and error and memorization. You can't describe all that with a linear easy-to-difficult continuum.

You forgot puzzle difficulty. A lot of my levels never killed the player, yet they either gave up or the time limit exceeded (needs to be higher as well) Of course puzzles are just as hard to rate as skill based difficulty.

Co-op puzzle levels, I'm down with that idea :)

I don't know if it was already possible, yet when you do a 10 level challenge you should be able to set what kind of levels you want in the mix. I never liked to play that way since often you would get stuck on a troll level in the mix. I mainly used an external site to find good levels, same as with lbp.

One thing mariomaker doesn't need is the multiple layers LBP uses. That was finicky and only complicated matters disrupting the flow. Some Mario games use the foreground / background switch I think, or is that just DK. Not needed anyway, keep things simple.

On the topic of couch multiplayer, a simple splitscreen so 2 can play at the same time (yet independently) would also be cool. Even cooler when one can build while the other play tests, or build together.

Multi screen multiplayer for real time speed run competitions.

Yeah that wasn't meant to be an exhaustive list. Puzzle difficulty is another one. That's why they'd need tags, both official and custom, to categorize the levels into design trends and genres. Some levels literally play themselves, and don't need a difficulty level. Calling them "super easy" isn't really accurate, as they're less levels with a difficulty and more contraptions or performances that you can break or ruin if you input anything. It wasn't possible in SMM1, but SMM2 definitely needs a customizable 10 and 100-Mario challenge. I remember one external site that was really good for it. At the same time, if Nintendo can't top those sites with their own servers, that's pretty sad. At least give us an advanced search mode, Nintendo.

Layers could be interesting. I wouldn't want to play in two layers, as it overcomplicates things like you said, but think about how people are using foreground and background layers in Smash Ultimate Stage Builder. I've seen some pretty cool stuff on there already.

I want to see tons of multiplayer options. Nintendo is shy about giving lots of options for some reason, I cannot fathom why. Are they afraid it'll be too complicated for younger players? Just make some straightforward defaults or something. Are they afraid it'll get cluttered? Smash Ultimate showed just how much you can fit options wise without it looking cluttered at all. Just give us tons of options, Nintendo! Have a variety of games for different multiplayer play styles. Building together could be a section, and have games like the capture the flag thing I described in the OP. One builds, one plays could be a section, and you could have two stages being swapped between each other, you make some edits and give it to them to play, they make edits to theirs and give to you to play, if you win you get a point, win or lose, now you switch levels and make edits. There are a ton of possibilities with co-creation multiplayer, and I want Nintendo to really dig deep and explore them all and give us a huge variety.

And yes, co-op puzzles would be so fucking dope.