Rohulk's avatar accurately describes the mapping standards currently imposed by the community. I love it xD.
I agree to a certain extent though. Mapping challenging stuff is fun and rewarding honestly. Not all maps are meant to be easily fc'ed. Sometimes a map is fun not because of all the fun and original patterns it employs, but because it gives the player an interesting challenge, whether it be reading, extremely high SV's, or just some sort of gimmick etc... Where some people derive fun from these maps, others might derive cancer. It happens. But there's a clear difference between "fun and challenging maps", and rankable "fun and challenging maps". The map still has to go through the modding process if it wants to be ranked. Why? So the map can be improved to a subjectively sufficient quality standard. The community decides what maps get through to the ranked section. And unfortunately the community is mainly mappers, not players. We make the maps, you simply play our creations. If we didn't exist, you wouldn't have songs to play, so trust our judgement a bit more please. What is playable is not always good.
I agree to a certain extent though. Mapping challenging stuff is fun and rewarding honestly. Not all maps are meant to be easily fc'ed. Sometimes a map is fun not because of all the fun and original patterns it employs, but because it gives the player an interesting challenge, whether it be reading, extremely high SV's, or just some sort of gimmick etc... Where some people derive fun from these maps, others might derive cancer. It happens. But there's a clear difference between "fun and challenging maps", and rankable "fun and challenging maps". The map still has to go through the modding process if it wants to be ranked. Why? So the map can be improved to a subjectively sufficient quality standard. The community decides what maps get through to the ranked section. And unfortunately the community is mainly mappers, not players. We make the maps, you simply play our creations. If we didn't exist, you wouldn't have songs to play, so trust our judgement a bit more please. What is playable is not always good.