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ban guns from competitive games

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people are using the same mentality for shooting a gun as lynching, it's absolutely impossible to make a competitively viable setup with guns, they promote trolling and gamethrowing, the power to instantly remove one person from the game is overbearing and this community can't handle it. furthermore, remove deputy, sniper and gunsmith from competitive lobby and training lobby. part of the problem is guns cause games to become trollish, fast-paced and lower effort which has leaked onto other games, guns probably should be banned from competitive lobby yes, guns are slowly killing competitive lobby. and by slowly, i mean someone get nikki on the phone and tell him to ban guns from competitive lobby. guns are becoming the new lynch, that'st he problem with most new setups. lynching is only ever for lylos now, and equivalent to set in stone absolutes, rather than placeholders for FOSes and reactions. it also encourages a chain of command that makes reading harder, hence why most gun setups end up being scumsided. not only do you run the risk of a *** pr, you also lose any valuable voting process and instead get SHOOT KYLE LOL a bunch. by replacing lynching for a ML with guns, you effectively neuter most competent setups and ruin any form of methodical strategy that could be employed.

guns shouldnt be in comp lobby.. plain and simple, they are either game breaking for town and make easy wins out of nothing or they give mafia a free win because the person with gun shoots. also , theres an entire rule dedicated to hipfiring with guns. guns give people an excuse to grudge lynch people without being able to be opposed. if youre pr with gun you have full control no matter how much town objects, which is just silly.

setup the best setup is what more setups should look like. both PRs shoudl optimally hide instead of claiming , PR claim d1 is the only bad thing about VDLI. if one of the power roles was squishy instead of hard to kill (doc is "squishy, bp is "hard to kill", etc") then it would be great , imo.

and i remember when people actually LIKED playing those scumhunt based setups,. they preferred it to gimmick ones. regardless of whether anyone thinks overall play is worse or better, the attitude people have towards scumhunt setups or scumhunting in general is worse now, which makes overall play worse as a result.

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Love says


Kelly says


Love says

kyle


you had me at kyle


kelly do u believe (as kyle does) that guns should be banned from comp???


lol
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sircyx says

>banning guns
>might as well just close comp lobby, cuz its already dead pop-wise


>mfw no greentexting on the forums
over 10 years
>banning guns
>might as well just close comp lobby, cuz its already dead pop-wise
over 10 years

Cantankerous says

well petri isn't fun, and we unbanned her.


jeepers creepers
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well petri isn't fun, and we unbanned her.
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abc is fun, let's unban him
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I don't see any problems with gun tbh. As for your argument regarding people dodging scumhunting such as VDLI, comp players in general dodge scumhunting setups and favor setups with a consistent plan. It's not b/c of guns. Let's say Jan2.0 was comped with VDLI, people will play Jan2.0 over VDLI. It is just how it works. I do not see why can't we have fun in comp lobby? Guns are fun.
over 10 years
well also a long time ago there were lesser known players that were surprisingly good but didnt run much. you dont see that much now. you either get people who run every round and always end up top 10 because of thin competition or people that play every round but never get anywhere because they just arent good (see maymay and BigBeef)

when was the last new player that just steamrolled everyone like Maxwell? (and yes maxwell was as good as everyone says, i dont care what people say).
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aaanyway, i agree with banning the guns.
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YeezusWest says


Cantankerous says


YeezusWest says


Cantankerous says

i think better players were more populous here. like i didn't feel as htough i could name all the top players in comp in one brainstorm session. the opposite is true here, imo.


its bc 2-3 years ago there were more players from 4-5 years ago


that's what i mean. trophies honestly don't mean that much anymore because there's really not that much competition in comparison to older competitions.


they never meant anything to begin with imo


i'd disagree w/that but w/e
over 10 years

Cantankerous says


YeezusWest says


Cantankerous says

i think better players were more populous here. like i didn't feel as htough i could name all the top players in comp in one brainstorm session. the opposite is true here, imo.


its bc 2-3 years ago there were more players from 4-5 years ago


that's what i mean. trophies honestly don't mean that much anymore because there's really not that much competition in comparison to older competitions.


they never meant anything to begin with imo
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YeezusWest says


Cantankerous says

i think better players were more populous here. like i didn't feel as htough i could name all the top players in comp in one brainstorm session. the opposite is true here, imo.


its bc 2-3 years ago there were more players from 4-5 years ago


that's what i mean. trophies honestly don't mean that much anymore because there's really not that much competition in comparison to older competitions.
over 10 years

Cantankerous says

rnb was pretty overwhelmingly mediocre in any game he didn't cheat in.


maybe idk
over 10 years

Cantankerous says

i think better players were more populous here. like i didn't feel as htough i could name all the top players in comp in one brainstorm session. the opposite is true here, imo.


its bc 2-3 years ago there were more players from 4-5 years ago
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rnb was pretty overwhelmingly mediocre in any game he didn't cheat in.
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i think better players were more populous here. like i didn't feel as htough i could name all the top players in comp in one brainstorm session. the opposite is true here, imo.
over 10 years
rnb wasn't that bad imho
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oh yeah i remember rnb.
over 10 years
Guns are awesome I refuse to sign this. They should stay in Comp.
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Took me a while to decide, but I think the purpose of red hearts (and I'm guessing competition in other lobbies, but I wasn't there for that), and the reason I always pushed for minimum regulation of red-heart setups, was to allow for the competition to focus on 'classic', scumhunting based mafia. No gun set up so far has supported this in any way. The gun itself fundamentally challenges the whole teamwork aspect of townsplay while forcing the mafia to limit itself to deceiving one person, as opposed to the whole town.

TL;DR I'm slow but yeah ban guns.
over 10 years

Cantankerous says


YeezusWest says


kyle says

if you want fun and something different thats what the 3rd parties are for.


3rd parties literally break the game. sandbox is not "mafia". forum mafia is also a completely different game


sandbox isn't that uncompetitive once you get past the 12 man roulette role games.


yk what i mean
over 10 years

Cantankerous says

i do think we need to stop acting like the epicmafia meta was golden 2-3 years ago, because, well, bad players were still regularly praised and immediately sheeped.


well it wasnt "golden" but there was a lot less cancer.

as far as what cancer is defined as, pretty much all the blacksmith games form last round i played had a lot of it. its hard to describe but games were somehow more pleasant 2-3 years ago.
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Cantankerous says

i do think we need to stop acting like the epicmafia meta was golden 2-3 years ago, because, well, bad players were still regularly praised and immediately sheeped.


it wasn't golden but it was better.
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Love says

who was bad 2-3 years ago?


rnb and brown singlehandedly destroyed the setup strategies to many valid and good setups like B2NS by forcing clears to claim and then hammer (often on a blue) d1.
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YeezusWest says


kyle says

if you want fun and something different thats what the 3rd parties are for.


3rd parties literally break the game. sandbox is not "mafia". forum mafia is also a completely different game


sandbox isn't that uncompetitive once you get past the 12 man roulette role games.