"Any beatmap found to be commissioned through monetary or other gains is not eligible for the ranked or loved categories, With the only Exception being that Every file and Source material has explicit permission from the respective creators this includes: SB Sprites, Background art, Mp3/Song's, and every other file found in the folder."
The recent trend of Beatmap commissions has created a large backlash within the mapping community and thus i see no reason not to ban the ranking / loved status of these maps as previously they where considered barely okay due to a vocal few stating that they wanted them in some shape or way to stay comparing it to artists being paid for their work. Beatmaping should not be seen as something that you spend years learning to earn money from if you want something like that as a hobby you should choose another hobby.They are legal issues waiting to happen, they promote low quality mapping with low standards trying to meet the bare minimum to hit the ranked/loved sections, and they create questionable situations with motives of Bn/Nat's when pushing a map.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- Banning commissions wont stop people from doing it behind closed doors so why bother?
- Currently the ranking criteria says a commissioned map can be pushed if the bn's involved are not paid for it. Meaning they in theory can still just push them in some extreme cases maybe even so their friends make money off it and who knows maybe that friend buys them a game or some league skins in the future as a thanks for pushing the map. Also in banning them all together this allows us to take action against any bn/Nat's found knowingly pushing these to ranked with punishments such as removal from the bng/nat ect. where currently we can only start an investigation and remove them if we have sufficient evidence that they where paid for the Comission itself.
Lastly allows us to take more extreme measures if need be and unrank maps / silence or restrict players breaking these rules intentionally for monetary gain.
I already learned mapping and don't wanted to make money off making maps though. - This proposal doesn't stop you from doing that you can still make commissioned maps they just cannot be ranked or loved as that is seen as official content for the game.
can i be commissioned for featured artists? - No they made a deal to have their songs used with staff not you, you can ask them or do the preferable route and try out mappers guild where there's plenty of underutilized benefits such as helping choose future FA'S profile badges and more!
What if i [insert Bn/Nat name here] rank a map without knowing its a commission? - If you didnt not know it was a commission there likely is no need to fear as there wont be any thing saying you knew,
if your worried about being framed or having a mixup there's a very low chance to that working as staff are very thorough on these checks there are a few cases where haste judgments are made but are usually rectified quite fast i.e. nuvolina and hailie being removed for undeadcapulets commissioned map.
so in these cases the map would be potentially unranked and the mapper would be punished accordingly
Punishments for those who try to sneak their way past the system. - Personally i believe that if you try to cheat the system for monetary gain after its made blatantly obvious you should face some sort of capital punishment such as at minimum a month silence scaling to 6 based on infraction count and unranking of the beatmap. after say 5 infractions or less potentially 3 as that would prove you're not learning, a ban as per the regular if you cheated could be imposed. this is the part of the post im unsure about so any suggestions would be appreciated below
