So, the only argument left against it is the "laziness"?
Oh also the "privilege" thing. Right
Laziness: If we (mappers) want to bring more variety (as in more songs from the 5~6 mins range) that's because absolutely are NOT lazy. We would just map short songs and Tv Sizes like most mappers do
but we're not. Not everyone maps long songs like this and it's pretty obvious why. It takes time, creativity and effort to fulfill 5 minutes of music and 5 minutes of a song IS NOT SHORT. 5 minutes waiting for a bus is a short time but mapping a 5 minutes song or playing a long map is not so short. I mapped an
almost 5 mins song once and man that was tiring. Way more tiring than making a
simple 3 diffs set for a short song.
Go check what's ranked for this year and find many 2 mins (max) songs. So making two diffs (or 3 in some cases) for a tv size is NOT lazy but trying to approve good 5 mins maps IS lazy? Everyone knows that mapping low diffs is faster and way easier than spending a lot of creativity on high diffs (at least for most mappers), so anyone who makes a TV Size spread is mapping "less" than someone mapping a 5 mins song. Lets not forget this, please.
Privilege: Of course it is a privilege. Not an OMG I GOT A RANKED MAP!!!! kind of privilege since, cmon, anyone can get a ranked map nowadays just by having the average rankable quality with an average amount of mods and star priority and average spread. It's more like "make a rankable set and it's ranked" privilege tbh. Sure it takes time and effort but it's not even that hard to rank maps if you know how to make rankable stuff.
Why is an average set rankable and a GOOD 5 mins 1 diff set not? Why the average owns the privilege more than the different and good?
That makes no sense, both deserves to get ranked because BOTH needs effort to make it happen.
Ranking is not like getting a Nobel prize.
On a side note:
Marathons are even harder to rank, did you know? We need 3 BATs. Most people refuse to mod long songs, you can check many queues and there's this draintime limit rule or "no approval maps" rule. Maps like this (not talking about only 5 mins maps, but any marathon) hardly get mods.
It's not a privilege anymore, it's making those maps rare to find.
Limiting it to 6 minutes makes them even more rare.
We find more songs with 5 mins than 6 mins but no one wants to map them for rank because making 4 diffs for a 5 mins song is like mapping a 10 mins song (considering that mapping easy and normal doesn't take much time so 10 mins is more accurate than 20).
Even if it's still hard to get mods for those at least we will have MAPS for those, which we DON'T HAVE RIGHT NOW. It's like the first step.
Edit about mappers being level designers:
Just because we are level designers we must be restricted by what we can rank?
Again, doesn't make sense.
If we don't map 5 mins songs the community is losing more than the mappers, really. Mappers make levels without getting anything in return because they like to map. This game would be nothing without mappers. If mappers can't rank something, the community will have less to play.
That's the problem, we don't have many 5~6 mins maps and the community loses variety because of this
A mapper being sad because can't rank their map is one person. Players are many people.
People on this thread are not doing this just for their own pleasure, yknow.