I mean I've had no trouble finding "good" maps in ranked. However as a player I feel like lately most of the fun out of playing most maps has been fading away. Seeing what kind of maps have gotten through lately, the varietry still seems to be really not there, most people just mapping safe and not doing really much interesting within a map itself that is actually interesting. Guess all the blame is sort of on the ranking process though.
Unluckily quality and enjoyment can't be linked together mostly. Maps that I sometimes enjoy as a player have no redeeming qualities as a map when I look it at as a mapper. It can go the other way around too. It's really hard to decide what kind of maps should actually get ranked, especially when everyone else major taste differences as for what kind of maps they like to play and thus enjoy. There's no going around that most likely at leats 50% of the playerbase will dislike your map for whatever reason possible.
Maps have improved. There's no denying that. Fun on the other hand hasn't changed at all as maps in their core haven't gone through major changes in concepts in maps. The feeling generally of maps has not changed. I don't know if that really matters but it has made me stop playing actively.
All that I need is maps to be interesting again while playing. I've already farmed enough stupid PP maps
Unluckily quality and enjoyment can't be linked together mostly. Maps that I sometimes enjoy as a player have no redeeming qualities as a map when I look it at as a mapper. It can go the other way around too. It's really hard to decide what kind of maps should actually get ranked, especially when everyone else major taste differences as for what kind of maps they like to play and thus enjoy. There's no going around that most likely at leats 50% of the playerbase will dislike your map for whatever reason possible.
Maps have improved. There's no denying that. Fun on the other hand hasn't changed at all as maps in their core haven't gone through major changes in concepts in maps. The feeling generally of maps has not changed. I don't know if that really matters but it has made me stop playing actively.
All that I need is maps to be interesting again while playing. I've already farmed enough stupid PP maps