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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.

over 10 years

kyle says

"vdli has been played more than the other one this round. also, in vdli, the strategy is just "self vote give clear hammer", which is essentially a gun
"

junter you pointed out exactly a top reason to ban guns, people hae begun treating regular lynche like guns. self-voting day 1 in vdli was out of the question 2-3 years ago.


i dont rlly think thats the reason but w.e
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who was bad 2-3 years ago?
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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.
over 10 years

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
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kelly your baiting me to a vio qualifies as ENCOURAGING RULE BREAKAGE
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Kelly says


Love says

kyle


you had me at kyle


kelly do u believe (as kyle does) that guns should be banned from comp???
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"vdli has been played more than the other one this round. also, in vdli, the strategy is just "self vote give clear hammer", which is essentially a gun
"

junter you pointed out exactly a top reason to ban guns, people hae begun treating regular lynche like guns. self-voting day 1 in vdli was out of the question 2-3 years ago.
over 10 years

pranay7744 says

you wont understand because you have a narrow mind


why are you even posting at this point.. all you do is insult people.
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Love says

kyle


you had me at kyle
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if you want something fun and different, you should play forum mafia. or sandbox.
over 10 years
you wont understand because you have a narrow mind
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if you want fun and something different thats what the 3rd parties are for.
over 10 years
@pranay7744

whats your definition of a noob?

my definition is someone who plays lots of games and wins less than half.

http://puu.sh/a35Iq/68f3a3eebb.png

oh.

also how is it not reliant on the person with gun and the person giving it if you basically get to have complete dominance over what occurs in the game. if someone has a gun their word is absolute. theres no way to deny it. if person A with gun wants person B dead they are dead and the rest of town cant do anything about it.
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kyle still plays mafia.
over 10 years
i feel like mafia inherently is flawed as a competitive game so you should just roll w/ the guns bc it adds so variety and they can be fun
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nevermind whatever continue to call each other idiots because they disagree with your ruby mafia opinion
over 10 years
being on the site for a longer time does not mean they are not noob. evilpyro was a noob.
over 10 years
@warrens-- not it isnt
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yes, you can gun your townread before lylo which is a 50/50 hammer before the actual lylo giving no other players a chance, which goes against your 'every player gets a chance' theory. but then again guns having strategies has nothing to do with it being unhealthy for a lobby. picking your nose has strategies.
over 10 years

pranay7744 says

if you and many others like to enjoy other setups then why dont those others join your non gun setup?????????? you contradict yourself. more people play gun setups because more people enjoy it. noobs like kyle and bear cant play vvdli because the many others who want to play vdli do not exist


why do you call someone thats been around the site for over a year longer than you a noob?
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pranay7744 says

bear you are a noob.


you are laughably hypocritical. and you have unexplained bad opinions.
over 10 years
i am not going to explain the skills involved .. if you cant understand yourself then you shouldnt even have the right to vote
over 10 years

YeezusWest says


Sammie says


YeezusWest says

how about...u just dont play setups with guns


maybe because gun setups utterly dominate play every time they are comped? maybe because me and many others would like to actually enjoy a setup that doesnt have a gun every 2 rounds?


damn ure really condescending


how am i condescending? im actually trying really hard not to be since that comment adds nothing to the discussion at all.
over 10 years

pranay7744 says

bear you are a noob. you know nothing about guns. for example you can gun your townread before lylo. your mind is too narrow to see everything. i am not even gonna bother reasoning with people like you.


so the game essentially is reliant on two factors: the person who gets the gun and the person giving the gun
over 10 years
if you and many others like to enjoy other setups then why dont those others join your non gun setup?????????? you contradict yourself. more people play gun setups because more people enjoy it. noobs like kyle and bear cant play vvdli because the many others who want to play vdli do not exist