Lobby Screen
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- Join an Open Game - Open games are marked by a "Join Game" button, followed by dots (the number of dots is the total number of players needed to fill the game, and the number of closed dots is the number of players already in the game. You can also mouse over it to see the number of players, in this case it would say 2/8. If you click anywhere other than the "Join Game" box, you will see the game settings on the right side, which show who the host is, which players are in the game, and if you click on the roles, the setup. Most games played in Sandbox are a little bit different from those played in other lobbies, but we'll go over that in another thread.
- Game in Progress - When the "Join Game" button is yellow, it means the game is currently in progress. Thus, you can't join the game. On the right side, you can see a little Sun with a 1 next to it, this means that the game is currently in the first day phase, aka "D1".
- Finished Game - When a game is finished, there will be a gray button to "Review" the game. Nobody really does this in Sandbox, though.
- These are the four major lobbies: Main, Sandbox, Games, and Vivor. You probably clicked on "Sandbox" to get here. You can click on the other ones to go to that lobby.
- Create Game - This opens a page which allows you to make your own game setup.
- Find Setup - This opens a page which allows you to search all of the created setups made.
- Rules - These are all of the rules on the site. Only Community Violations are enforced in Sandbox.
- Player Page - Clicking on this will open your user profile, which will be explained in another thread.
- Learn Page - Clicking on this will open a page where you can search all of the roles and learn about them.
- Forum - The forum is the place where people can discuss anything they like. There are different forums for different lobbies.
- Information Panel - This displays all of the information for Sandbox lobby.
- Clicking on this will bring you to your user page. If you hover over it, you have the choices of going into seeing your alternate accounts, your settings, or to logout. Clicking on the down arrow will allow you to switch to an alternate account faster.
- Inbox - You can send and receive messages from players here.
- These buttons allow you to toggle which kinds of games you are looking for. The first one displays only locked games, which require passwords. The second displays only open games. The third displays only closed games. The fourth displays only finished games.
- Clicking on "Next" will bring you to page 2 of the games list. However, games on page 2 never fill, so don't even bother to do that.
- Comment - You can make a comment on the lobby wall here.
- Featured Setups - Some setups that you can easily host due to their location on the lobby screen.
- The first button (which isn't shown here for some reason) should be the lobby video chat. Nobody uses it. The second button opens the forums. The third displays the reports made in the lobby. The fourth is the game list. The fifth refreshes the game list.
- This is where all of the lobby comments are.
- Chatbox - The Sandbox chatbox is the most active chatbox of any lobby! However, it doesn't like to work sometimes. When it doesn't have the reconnect button, you can find users chatting there.
- Poll - This is the lobby poll. You can vote in it.
- Stickied Topics - These are some of the important forum topics.
- Stickied Setups - Basically the same thing as Featured Setups in Sandbox.