Epicmafia

Comp Lobby Change Proposals

over 10 years

Hello comp lobby. As some people are discussing, activity has gone down a bit, and yesterday the lobby was delisted from the front page temporarily. As a result of that, we have some new ideas for competitive and training lobby to help revitalize both lobbies in integration and play. It does look likely though that another lobby will replace this placement on the front page if things do not change. I ask that you please review this if you want things to remain as they are now.

If you would like to see the ideas and proposals for training lobby, please view this thread here.

https://epicmafia.com/topic/63210

For now I will hierarchy things that will be done, and those ideas which would be dependent on Lucid and the undertaking work for them.

Main Changes

1) Lobby rename to ‘Ranked’

Having the lobby name as competitive comes off as intimidating for newer players. Whilst competitions are not going anywhere in this lobby, we want to encourage regular play for those who do not want to influence running competitions.

2) Lower point requirement for entry lowered to 500.

Having an entry amount of 1500 is a very large asking score for someone new to the game. By that time they have either settled down in one lobby with no opinion on moving, or even trying out another lobby. I realize this might lead to more reports being done in comp, but I don’t think it’ll hugely influence the amount of reports that have to be done on average that we have now. Existing limits such as new accounts not being able to participate in current trophy rounds won’t be removed.

Future Changes Pending Feedback

1) Greater new range of achievements.

Not everyone wants to play EpicMafia for trophies, but one thing that I’ve learnt is that lots of people enjoy the stat tracking and trying to get achievements. I feel going into every game with the chance to have a reward or unlock would be great, and we can possibly encourage lobby specifics achievements too.

One example I’d like to see with achievements is a much greater range of unlocks. Let’s take the current hunter achievement which requires you to shoot the mafia in 3 way. This isn’t achievable for everyone, but we can make this achievement accessible for all in some way by having levels without downgrading existing criteria.

Here’s an example

*Level 1: Hit the mafia as Hunter

*Level 2: Hit the mafia 10 times as Hunter

*Level 3 (Ranked Exclusive): Hit the mafia in 3 way as Hunter.

Earning an achievement can gain a small emblem, completing the complete range of achievements can earn a badge.

2) Cycling ‘Assignments’ and challenges

Moving back to the topic of not everyone wanting to run for a trophy, or not having the time to do so, having mini competitions known as assignments could be a new, fun aspect that some players might want to participate in. Like happy hours, imagine having weekly challenges such as who can have the most wins as a particular role, or who can achieve the most cop guilty reports in a week. This can keep things fresh and make achieving more accessible.

3) More community consultation on setups and these new ideas

Having submitted achievements and assignments be as easy as submitting new roles for the game would be brilliant if possible. One problem comp has is autonomy, there’s too much interjection with many actions and not many ways for viewpoints to influence the site.

Concluding notes

We’re fully welcoming in embracing ideas for what might help this lobby thrive, so please rate or give your own for consideration. Thanks guys.

Owen

over 10 years

https://epicmafia.com/report/103445

deletedover 10 years

Fluttershy says

Comp is the minority so their votes matter less. #FPTP

yeah but that doesn't excuse having factually incorrect opinions

Betrayal

over 10 years

Smorlicious says

EmmerrLouise says

Retti says

I think it is you, EmmerLouise, who does not want competitive to grace your safe haven of 'follow the PR' and minesweeper lobby.

Alas, my misinformed learned friend, I have participated in comp lobby rounds recently and found it's still a hive or negativity and elitism. It's been my choice to avoid that cancerous retch of a lobby and remain where the players are far more easy-going and less mad.

See! This is why if the lobbies were to merge, we need to keep gold heart games the way they are and just raise the admission a little.

smorl thats what we suggested, i dont know why lucid wouldnt be up for that

deletedover 10 years

Comp is the minority so their votes matter less. #FPTP

deletedover 10 years

EmmerrLouise says

Retti says

I think it is you, EmmerLouise, who does not want competitive to grace your safe haven of 'follow the PR' and minesweeper lobby.

Alas, my misinformed learned friend, I have participated in comp lobby rounds recently and found it's still a hive or negativity and elitism. It's been my choice to avoid that cancerous retch of a lobby and remain where the players are far more easy-going and less mad.

*uses autism and gets mad when people don't sheep her unexplained reads in games* Comp Lobby Is So Destructive

deletedover 10 years

EmmerrLouise says

Retti says

I think it is you, EmmerLouise, who does not want competitive to grace your safe haven of 'follow the PR' and minesweeper lobby.

Alas, my misinformed learned friend, I have participated in comp lobby rounds recently and found it's still a hive or negativity and elitism. It's been my choice to avoid that cancerous retch of a lobby and remain where the players are far more easy-going and less mad.

See! This is why if the lobbies were to merge, we need to keep gold heart games the way they are and just raise the admission a little.

Betrayal

over 10 years

Retti says

when did the idea of mafia get so fickle where one way is right and the other is wrong

i love minesweeper and sometimes i even enjoy training, but that doesn't mean we need to manufacture a bunch of mindless people who aren't even really being taught HOW to play mafia, rather setups. that is where training failed.

the mentorship program was created for a reason, a lobby merge is needed. if people wanna learn how to play they can read the wiki or apply to be mentored, we didn't create the mentorship lobby for nothing, it was intended to kill training lobby so we could merge. Please let us purge lucid and begin the merge!

deletedover 10 years

I just want an answer regarding a possible trial period and if lucid would be give AT LEAST one round a chance.

Bumpers

over 10 years

Asking for reunification and then obstructing to the way a lobby does their thing is laughable. If you want to go in with a proper unified peace proposal, you adhere to what they do and you drop lobby callouts. Training is not changing for you guys who want a single lobby.

deletedover 10 years

howl is terrible, emmer is pretentious, and betrayal is unbanned. this thread needs to be locked in swift fashion

deletedover 10 years

howl makes sincerely terrible posts.

Betrayal

over 10 years

Emmerr 4 training lobby senator 2014 -waves flag-

deletedover 10 years

when did the idea of mafia get so fickle where one way is right and the other is wrong

i love minesweeper and sometimes i even enjoy training, but that doesn't mean we need to manufacture a bunch of mindless people who aren't even really being taught HOW to play mafia, rather setups. that is where training failed.

EmmerrLouise

over 10 years

Retti says

I think it is you, EmmerLouise, who does not want competitive to grace your safe haven of 'follow the PR' and minesweeper lobby.

Alas, my misinformed learned friend, I have participated in comp lobby rounds recently and found it's still a hive or negativity and elitism. It's been my choice to avoid that cancerous retch of a lobby and remain where the players are far more easy-going and less mad.

Bumpers

over 10 years

animegayboy69 says

Bumpers says

Any argument of what people side people are in terms of lobbies is absolutely horrible and does nothing for what is trying to be fixed.

the way to fix things is to delete competitive

It's going to happen with all of this splinter talk, and it's not going to be the single lobby dream people have been hoping for.

I don't know how many times I need to repeat this.

deletedover 10 years

you're just naive if you think training and comp are going to have the same viewpoints and perspectives on epicmafia and what it should be.

animegayboy69

over 10 years

Bumpers says

Any argument of what people side people are in terms of lobbies is absolutely horrible and does nothing for what is trying to be fixed.

the way to fix things is to delete competitive

deletedover 10 years

@Retti the people who complain about the noobs in comp are the reason why so many players are turned off by the idea of playing in it.

animegayboy69

over 10 years

EmmerrLouise says

Connor says

training lobby player EmmerLouise

This is the adversarial, lobby v lobby kinda stuff I've been talking about - identifying users by the lobby they play in. And yet you pretend to advocate merging the lobbies, holding hands, everyone getting along and helping 'noobs'. I laugh at the hypocrisy of it all.

well no its actually you pretend to be informed on a subject which you are ignorant hope this helps

deletedover 10 years

Minesweeper is never played in Training. Do you even know what ur talking about???

Bumpers

over 10 years

Any argument of what people side people are in terms of lobbies is absolutely horrible and does nothing for what is trying to be fixed.

deletedover 10 years

EmmerrLouise says

Connor says

training lobby player EmmerLouise

This is the adversarial, lobby v lobby kinda stuff I've been talking about - identifying users by the lobby they play in. And yet you pretend to advocate merging the lobbies, holding hands, everyone getting along and helping 'noobs'. I laugh at the hypocrisy of it all.

actually, identifying people by what lobby they primarily play in while in a discussion about lobbies is just sort of sensible.

deletedover 10 years

I think it is you, EmmerLouise, who does not want competitive to grace your safe haven of 'follow the PR' and minesweeper lobby.

animegayboy69

over 10 years

Fluttershy says

Training complain about noobs a lot tbh

theyre vicious