About the schedule

[Turboo]

What you seem to not be getting is that we've already said many times that there will probably not be a flood of mafias at once; people still seem to have trouble keeping up with mafias even with the four-game limit, and keeping the limit would basically be like keeping the schedule altogether, so...

Having to go through a system of contacting Smasher or someone to let them know that you're ready to start your mafia ASAP sounds like a pain compared to just letting go of it altogether. What if there's already four mafias that are completely ready? Isn't the whole thing just glorified line-cutting?

We're already having rough patches with the schedule system due to the way it works, so how would this make it worse (from what I'm seeing, the biggest problems could be avoided by common sense, and having a more open system would probably be beneficial)?

This is what I posted earlier about the schedule rework thing (this was before you went in-depth, but it seems to be what I thought you were describing), and I think it still applies. I'm not really thrilled with it, since I just don't see the point of it. You'll still have to wait for games to finish, and host update schedules can vary.

 

[Rocker64]

well excuse me for pointing out the fact that you only sticky topics

Actually, we do things like decide whether or not to get rid of the schedule.

wait no thats the same as stickying things :S

Dumb question: does the MHG really need 12+ members?

No, a majority of the members don't even do anything.

Which ends up being the problem with getting the MHG to actually be something, and do stuff.

 

[Baby Mario Bloops]

What you seem to not be getting is that we've already said many times that there will probably not be a flood of mafias at once; people still seem to have trouble keeping up with mafias even with the four-game limit, and keeping the limit would basically be like keeping the schedule altogether, so...

Having to go through a system of contacting Smasher or someone to let them know that you're ready to start your mafia ASAP sounds like a pain compared to just letting go of it altogether. What if there's already four mafias that are completely ready? Isn't the whole thing just glorified line-cutting?

We're already having rough patches with the schedule system due to the way it works, so how would this make it worse (from what I'm seeing, the biggest problems could be avoided by common sense, and having a more open system would probably be beneficial)?

This is what I posted earlier about the schedule rework thing (this was before you went in-depth, but it seems to be what I thought you were describing), and I think it still applies. I'm not really thrilled with it, since I just don't see the point of it. You'll still have to wait for games to finish, and host update schedules can vary.

But it brings us back to the point that having more than 4 games at a time is a bad thing! When Awards Mafia was active, the activity level on this place just started to drop and people had to sacrifice which ones they would pay attention to. It's not our fault as the hosts to expect that when there are 4-5 other mafia games going at a time that we expect all our players in our game to be 100% focused on our game!

Besides, my in-depth thing was limiting it so that there was no more than 4 games at a time. It is what works best here, and we all know that trying to push for more games at a time will only kill the activity and basically make it to where we have to go back to only have 4 games at a time. Just like with population charts, you can only repopulate stuff until the need for survival is low because of high population, thus the population peeks and then stays on a homostatis curve that is about at the peek. Why I said that is because mafia games are like that, and we try to do too many at once, the food supply - the players - will go down, and then in order to have a successful mafia game, we'll need to hold off on the game or wait on other stuff!

And so with the schedule or not, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT!!!!!!! It's either that or we suffer from the consequences. And don't give me the "oh 4 games at a time won't happen because of how long phases are differ from host and people take different amounts of time to prepare", because we have had 4 games running at a time for well over a year, and there have been games where people are just waiting to begin.

 

[Dr. Javelin]

But my point is that you mention that you hate the MHG and that its just a "cool kids club" at any chance you get. Complaints are fine, but it gets a bit dumb when you mention it so much.

eh, okay

i guess i can just focus on abolishing the schedule for now

 

[Yoshiwaker]

we all know that trying to push for more games at a time will only kill the activity and basically make it to where we have to go back to only have 4 games at a time.

yeah we all agree on this

except for the people who disagreed with it :|

 

[Dr. Javelin]

which would be at least two-thirds of this thread

 

[Baby Mario Bloops]

which would be at least two-thirds of this thread

So you're saying that if 6 mafia games were going at the same time, nothing would happen and everyone will be able to multi-task as though there were only 3 mafia games going at a time, and that no one will have any issues?

 

[Dr. Javelin]

no

i'm saying that people would be able to play the games they wanted to now, instead of being forced to wait for games that bore them to finish

as for the games that no one wants to play, then tough luck

 

[Baby Mario Bloops]

no

i'm saying that people would be able to play the games they wanted to now, instead of being forced to wait for games that bore them to finish

as for the games that no one wants to play, then tough luck

So just too bad to someone like let's say me who has spent months preparing for a game, but tough luck to me because Javelin has a much more interesting game, and so I should just cry in a corner and drop my game and any future games because people like Javelin's game better?

 

[Rocker64]

no

i'm saying that people would be able to play the games they wanted to now, instead of being forced to wait for games that bore them to finish

as for the games that no one wants to play, then tough luck

So just too bad to someone like let's say me who has spent months preparing for a game, but tough luck to me because Javelin has a much more interesting game, and so I should just cry in a corner and drop my game and any future games because people like Javelin's game better?

But having a schedule doesn't fix that.

It is obvious, Stoob's games, Awards Mafia, your games, they take a lot of attention, and they usually end up having a decrease in activity in the other games, people will play the game they are most interested in more than others regardless of a schedule or not.

Paraphrasing something MG1(I believe) said:

"Pick one game you really like to play, and then half-ass the others."