Clickbait title, but legit question that goes hand-in-hand with another question at the end. Also this touches all gamemodes, I just main mania, that's why you see mania screenshot.
As a high ranking player I have no hope rank will give me maps of any worth. Maps of worth to me are ones that challenge my skills and ones that contain interesting or uncommon concepts in mapping. Many of those maps are found in loved, so as a player I have a place somewhere else I can look. As a player/semi-mapper in desire to make ranked more worthy, however, I find myself at odds. I depend on ranked more than loved for maps due to the rate new maps come out, but there is hardly any diversity in ranked. So I am willing to make maps of my own for ranked, but I find that such maps would not be considered ranked material.
So imagine you, a mapper, are going to try ranking a map. There are certain things you want to do in your own style. Granted you need to follow the rules, but it may break guidelines. That should not be an issue if you can make a compelling argument supporting patterns that break those guidelines. Unfortunately you also happen to be bad at making compelling arguments. Hiring someone to argue for you is a ridiculous idea, so you don't.. Well knowing this you can still try, but it will likely be all wasted effort. So you should map for fun instead, right? Let your map rot in the graveyard, who cares? Oh, but the other you, a fellow player, probably cares! You are also a player that wishes one of your favorite unranked maps became ranked. Yet it won't because that other mapper has no hope of getting that map ranked for same reasons you did not.
As for me, I have my own quirky style I do. It's my thing. It's what makes my maps identify as my maps. It's not the best mapping, but it is different. I know it won't get ranked, or at least I believe it won't without changes. I'm not willing to make those changes though, because that removes what makes it different and unique to me. I suppose that goes for many other mappers too. If you are left with mappers who will change patterns, it's to no surprise ranked feels bland a lot of times.
To give an example, sometimes you can't even make patterns like these without being questioned. Depends what BN comes around favoring or despising the patterns. For context these are progressively decreasing gaps mapped onto a piano roll that decreases in pitch. Makes perfect sense to me. Hard? Yes. But that's the fun of it! Featured in this map.
Looking at some recent cases not just in mania, but in std as well, [1], [2], it's really REALLY demoralizing and frustrating to see mappers blocked for various trivial reasons. There is no point in trying to punch concrete if you are going to break your hand in the process and maybe crack it slightly. So this is more of a plea than anything. Can someone restore my hope in ranked or is it as doomed to be as same as it always has been?
As a high ranking player I have no hope rank will give me maps of any worth. Maps of worth to me are ones that challenge my skills and ones that contain interesting or uncommon concepts in mapping. Many of those maps are found in loved, so as a player I have a place somewhere else I can look. As a player/semi-mapper in desire to make ranked more worthy, however, I find myself at odds. I depend on ranked more than loved for maps due to the rate new maps come out, but there is hardly any diversity in ranked. So I am willing to make maps of my own for ranked, but I find that such maps would not be considered ranked material.
So imagine you, a mapper, are going to try ranking a map. There are certain things you want to do in your own style. Granted you need to follow the rules, but it may break guidelines. That should not be an issue if you can make a compelling argument supporting patterns that break those guidelines. Unfortunately you also happen to be bad at making compelling arguments. Hiring someone to argue for you is a ridiculous idea, so you don't.. Well knowing this you can still try, but it will likely be all wasted effort. So you should map for fun instead, right? Let your map rot in the graveyard, who cares? Oh, but the other you, a fellow player, probably cares! You are also a player that wishes one of your favorite unranked maps became ranked. Yet it won't because that other mapper has no hope of getting that map ranked for same reasons you did not.
As for me, I have my own quirky style I do. It's my thing. It's what makes my maps identify as my maps. It's not the best mapping, but it is different. I know it won't get ranked, or at least I believe it won't without changes. I'm not willing to make those changes though, because that removes what makes it different and unique to me. I suppose that goes for many other mappers too. If you are left with mappers who will change patterns, it's to no surprise ranked feels bland a lot of times.
To give an example, sometimes you can't even make patterns like these without being questioned. Depends what BN comes around favoring or despising the patterns. For context these are progressively decreasing gaps mapped onto a piano roll that decreases in pitch. Makes perfect sense to me. Hard? Yes. But that's the fun of it! Featured in this map.
Looking at some recent cases not just in mania, but in std as well, [1], [2], it's really REALLY demoralizing and frustrating to see mappers blocked for various trivial reasons. There is no point in trying to punch concrete if you are going to break your hand in the process and maybe crack it slightly. So this is more of a plea than anything. Can someone restore my hope in ranked or is it as doomed to be as same as it always has been?