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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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plz respond
deletedover 10 years
hi antanekous how r u :)
deletedover 10 years
imho guns are for noobs.
over 10 years
paragraphs are your friends
deletedover 10 years
Guns are an inherently uncompetitive concept because you're going against what the core of mafia is; discussing who mafia is and then lynching them. discussion is not required, the clear can choose to remove any player they want from the game at any time during the day. the entire lynch process is ditched, the only foses that truly matter with a gun in play is the person with the gun. there are no chances for mafia to escape lynch by appealing to the town or reacting well to a near lynch, or reaction votes, the only person it matters to appeal to is the person with the gun. the main arguments for keeping guns presented have been 3 things, a.) they're fun, b.) they add variety and c.) they have strategies. the first is a ludicrous argument since there are a lot of things that are fun but not suitable for competitive play, like most 3rd parties and a boatload of setups that aren't even suitable for red hearts. b.) is really not true at all, there are 2 types of setups; gun setups and non-gun setups. there are only like 3 gun setups that alternate anyway, frontier justice, illusions and a&d + all the variants. gun setups are mostly the same, they revolve around giving a clear a gun and they shoot their fos, the prs may be different but it's mostly the same. c.) is true, but does nothing to deter the fact that guns by design, are an uncompetitive concept and like a lot of things have no place in competitive lobby
over 10 years

Peta says

Whispers are awesome as long as you're not playing in a game with Polms and Shacky


: )
over 10 years
lol ive signed in unintentionally, this petition is bs.
over 10 years
Gun setups are designed with intention to allow mylo scenarios to become lylo scenarios. So i don't see the problem in terms of balancing.
deletedover 10 years
but how can we ban them if we all have gUnS fOr HaNdS
over 10 years

Flea says

Hi i'm here to take away fun.
A pr with gun is the same exact thing as the pr claiming and asking everyone to quickly self vote or cross no matter what the pr has all the power on who gets hammered or lynched


Nah you're wrong
deletedover 10 years
Hi i'm here to take away fun.
A pr with gun is the same exact thing as the pr claiming and asking everyone to quickly self vote or cross no matter what the pr has all the power on who gets hammered or lynched
deletedover 10 years
hahahaha connor's massive "lobl remade" thread got purged.
over 10 years
Whispers are awesome as long as you're not playing in a game with Polms and Shacky
deletedover 10 years
setup making is boring and brakes-esque.
over 10 years
Join the game, Bear.
over 10 years
we used to be gorillas has whispers which makes me gag
deletedover 10 years

Peta says

Join this game https://epicmafia.com/game/3176964


join. game.
over 10 years
Yeah I think that was the original reason
over 10 years
the answer seems to be that there are more guilty townies than mafia so might as well switch it up to keep the reports consistent. i think it would just confuse people more and you'd have to spend each game explaining what reports mean
over 10 years

Happeh says

what's the point of the cop being insane


I don't remember lol
over 10 years

Peta says

Join this game https://epicmafia.com/game/3176964


Please join this game
over 10 years
what's the point of the cop being insane
over 10 years
deletedover 10 years
"people who roll sherriff won't shoot becuase it doesn't give a ML" hahahahahahaha do you really believe that
over 10 years
We should have a Peta round where all the setups are setups made by me.