Hey everyone!
Um, this might come out of the blue, but have you ever had a beatmap request? If so, how did you handled it?
Are there mappers that are used to work on maps by demand? (I'm really skeptical about that)
I thought to pop this question up because, it's not that I don't like japanese or asian in general based beatmaps, but let's face it, it's predominant; and myself, am more of a classical/jazz bebopy/swing guy. I love anime, OP and EN themes, but after a while, a really long while I feel that it would be good to change it up a bit (techno and electronic music can be kind of just resorting to alternating). I have spent nights searching for maps of the before mentioned genres but there has been little to no result, and a lot of those maps are either experiments or 30 seconds of the actual song with the only actual full song being beatmapped as CS 6 AR 8 OD 5 HP 7 and objects arranged randomly. There are only a few good ones that are like, playable, memorable and made with love.

Examples of what those genres mean in this context:
Classical:

Jazz:

Swing:


Could have provided better examples but I made the lists up from the top of my head.
And this is where I ask the thing that I'm afraid of being pointed out as controversial
Are there any mappers that are willing to map for money? Like, good maps, rankable maps, different difficulties or not.

I'm afraid that if they are, all mappers would want to charge for mapping, and suddenly, we are running out of maps to play 'cause everyone wants to get paid; I actually dunno how large the mapping community is, certainly is far smaller in comparison to the only-play portion of the osu community.

Anyway, just throwing that out there, I want to hear your thoughts since this has been on my head for a while now.
Cheers!

LuriaStars wrote:

Hey everyone!
Um, this might come out of the blue, but have you ever had a beatmap request? yes. check out beatmap project subforum If so, how did you handled it? most of us /moderator will simply say "No"
Are there mappers that are used to work on maps by demand? (I'm really skeptical about that) mapping is initially "For fun" because majority of mapper will say "I become a mapper so i can play my favourite songs as a beatmap" kind of things. so... by demands is probably not true. Most of mappers i know is making their maps in their free time.

Are there any mappers that are willing to map for money? Like, good maps, rankable maps, different difficulties or not. maybe? its hard to see one, its like searching a needle in a haystack.

one thing to keep in mind that Mapping takes a lot of effort. Its time consuming, sometimes you have to deal discussing with the modder that mod your map, the process is relatively hard if you new, so in the end it might not sounds "fun" but once it reaches ranked, there's a pleasure on it. your creation could be played for all the players in the world.

mapper creates map for free, so its kinda disrespectful when people just kinda throw a song suggestion. They are not obligated to make maps.

I'm afraid that if they are, all mappers would want to charge for mapping, and suddenly, we are running out of maps to play 'cause everyone wants to get paid; I actually dunno how large the mapping community is, certainly is far smaller in comparison to the only-play portion of the osu community.
with the amount of mappers we have now, its unlikely that mapper going to dissapear, in-fact, 2017 alone has quite an influx of new mappers so hope is always there.


Cheers!

well, hope that answers the question xd
(also can you not put box inside boxes pls)