About the schedule

[Turboo]

I know this has been brought up in the past, but no action has been taken about it (I don't think the previous threads agreed on anything, but they also weren't heavily sided one way or the other? Maybe more support for removing it, but). I don't expect this to automatically get the schedule removed if people vote in favor of doing so, but I'd like it if the MHG would consider it.

I don't think there's really a need for a schedule anymore, and I still stand by the view that it needlessly clogs things up. I don't see why removing the schedule would suddenly create a problem; the argument of "but I want to play every Mafia game, and if they're all going at once, it'll be hard to keep up" doesn't really seem that good. What people seem to be forgetting is that every Mafia game will, regardless of whether or not there's a schedule, take time to prepare roles and gather players and whatnot.

The schedule makes it harder for Mafia games to advance to a playable state, since people will sometimes change their minds about hosting in the 6-month or so lull between when their game gets added and when it's time to finally host it; this goes back to my point about it needlessly clogging things up, since having games that go into preparation hell just to be unceremoniously canceled just makes things slower and slower. There's also no real reason for games that are ready and have been ready for months to be unable to start just because the schedule is taking ages to advance.

I hope this covers everything; it's a bit late and I can't really think of anything else to address, so! Feel free to point out anything else in the thread, though, and I'll try to get to it!

I'm running the poll here for 14 days, which'll hopefully be enough time. If it isn't, you should probably point that out too so I can get to it.

 

[NSY]

NO

Why not: Because we have like 8 mafias going on at once and it will just be chaos, players will lose track of each one and there's a good chance that one of these games just gets picked as the one they to "focus" on and then the others just become inactive. What your trying to do is let hosts take time their time but they already do that, they have all that time to prepare while it's on schedule.

However 6 months shouldn't be the amount of time it has to wait for but I don't think there's we can do about that.

 

[Turboo]

I addressed this point already, though: people aren't going to start 8 mafias at once due to preparation time for each, and I doubt the situation would escalate to a point where people would be legitimately starting 8 mafias at once. Even if there was no schedule, people should have the common sense to not completely flood the board with mafias, and I've mentioned this several times by now, but the prep time/people wanting to delay for their own reasons on their own time/etc. would probably prevent it anyway. People probably shouldn't bite off more than they can chew when it comes to these kinds of things, but I guess that's a matter of choice more than anything.

 

[Mario4Ever]

players will lose track of each one and there's a good chance that one of these games just gets picked as the one they "focus" on and then the others just become inactive.

That happens already.

 

[Lakituthequick]

Without schedule things will get gaotic. Keep it.

 

[Uniju]

Without schedule things will get gaotic. Keep it.

Also: There's absolutely no reason why it would get chaotic. Forum games isn't chaotic without a schedule, neither is elimination- atleast not chaotic engouh that we feel the need to add a schedule to them. So why bother with one for mafia? Many unaddressed points against it have already been put forward.

 

[Lily x]

I was thinking about this the other day...
Recently, the mafia schedule has been a bit of a mess with people cancelling and 3 games ending at once...

It could actually work as people won't start all at once as some games take longer to prepare than others.

 

[Revin]

i honestly think that a non-schedule system could work well. the only concern would be people getting mixed up or complaining that they're in too many games, in which case they'd just have to be more careful and not sign up for every single game.

 

[Specific Neptune]

I'm in favour, if you don't want to be bombarded by mafia games then you really shouldn't sign up for all of them. If you're good at mafia, then you'll find a way to get around them, or drop out of a few of them. Frankly, I can't really see how hard it would be without the schedule. Just remember which role you have for which mafia, and you should be fine.

 

[Toad Eightyfive]

I disagree that the schedule needs to be completely abolished. It worked well for its run, and when/if Mafia increases in activity it will become vital to keep order again.

However, we could alter how the schedule is run, in order to clear up the issues described in the OP. Smaller, readier games by trusted hosts could get weighted to start sooner. While enormous, slow games with a larger likelihood for cancellation have to wait longer.

 

[Revin]

I disagree that the schedule needs to be completely abolished. It worked well for its run, and when/if Mafia increases in activity it will become vital to keep order again.

but you don't need a schedule to keep orde