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Unblacklisting of Gun Run

over 10 years

The Situation

Since I cannot get a reason why my setups were exactly blacklisted I am posting this petition. I created 3 setups in order to test them subsequently if the problems with the previous setups could not be rectified. Instead of blacking listing just one of the setups that was above 100 plays all three were blacklisted without explanation.

I should note that I worked really hard to even create this setup. Literally, going through about 20 setups trying to perfect it.

This is NOT a "mods are crap" forum. So I do not want to hear garbage about mods in the posts. That solves nothing here.

The Solution

I want 1.) Mods to tell me what setups they can accept from the three setups as there are 9 different setups total. 2.) If they cannot accept ANY of the 9 setups why? 3.) The same advice from the community.

I am asking for these three things cause I am tired of making the setup over and over again. I just want something that can be played and ranked. If I can make a Gun Run that just has 2 of the setups that work in it great! Then I feel like I have helped the community. That is my goal

Invalid Reasons for Blacklisting Gun Run III

*If the reason is because Mafia should not kill n1. That is invalid. FT3 has the same problem with Vig killing N1 and people are usually mature enough not to kill n1 as Vig. (Yes, Mafia can kill night 1 in these setups, it is not optimal, BUT with the Vig in FT3 it can be done in Mafia's favor with the same exact statistics that FT3 carries when the Vig shoots N1, if you do NOT include the Hooker factor.)

*If it is due to the % of Gun Run I, It should be noted that 41% - 50% is not that bad and Gun Run III should be able to fix that to make it balanced.

*If it is due to LZCop, this might be one of the only setups that will ever be able to host LZCop ranked. If LZCop can never be hosted in ranked games then, why is LZCop even permitted into the lobby?

*Gun Run III has NONE of the glitches that Gun Run I has.

*I completely agree with Blacklisting Gun Run I. But not the other two without testing them first.

*Another problem is that the way things are setup here, we cannot get validated tests without the game being ranked in the Main Lobby.

The Community Deserves Blacklisting Standards

I've heard several complaints from players over the past year who work hard to try to bring new and exciting setups into EM just to be shot down. For those of us who are making setups for YOUR enjoyment, can we have the Blacklisting standards in writing? Can I propose that they be this. 1.) 110 plays where the game must be within the 45%-55% range w/o 3rd party. 43%-57% w/3rd party. 2.) The mod who blacklists gives a courteous reason to the maker of the setup so they can try to make changes. 3.) That mods do not just blanket blacklist setups cause one variation is bad. If the mod has explained the first problem with the setup and it carries to all setups that makes sense.

Here is a list of the 3 Gun Run setups in question.

1.) https://epicmafia.com/setup/1130286

2.) https://epicmafia.com/setup/1130372

3.) https://epicmafia.com/setup/1130382

over 10 years
This is promoting Gun Run III. Not Gun Run I. Gun Run III should never have been blacklisted.
over 10 years
m8 you know i love this set up but it's incredibly unbalanced. too many autowin/autoloss situations and it's incredibly easy to GT. nice idea but it still needs a lot of work.
over 10 years
Over 50 signatures and still nothing.
over 10 years
SO many signatures wtf?
over 10 years
Thanks Sully, I've been sick for a couple of days so. I will be around to do stuff this week.
over 10 years
I played alot of these setups whilst mafiagod was testing them and, yes, there is an imbalance of what setup is rolled BUT they were still enjoyable and they should at least be trialed. I did not see one single mod in any of the games I played so I don't see any feasible evidence to the blacklisting of these setups. Like any setup it needs to be learned well for town to win and for stats to balance out. #TeamKristy
over 10 years

JepoJ says

Whenever i see a setup getting blacklisted i go read the thread about blacklisting and honestly... 9 out of 10 times i see that the setup had no reason to get blacklisted.

At this point i think mods blacklist setups they don't like *shrugs*
#corrupt


im completely convinced half of them do not even know it exists and the other half just ignore it knowingly even though it's there for a reason. Anything that "looks" a bit odd gets blacklisted without thought
over 10 years
Gallis hunter and reverse mafia being blacklisted have nothing to do with third parties

Third parties are allowed in ranked games freely. Point payout is also always irrelevant. See the blacklisting thread.

There could be another reason but it's neither lazy cop or third parties
over 10 years
The truth about Autocrat and Zombie is that it never hardly flipped those setups so the %'s are off. I know cause I played most of the games.
over 10 years
Thanks Jackhammer. Too bad you aren't a mod anymore. :P Gun Run III has no 3rd party. Why is it blacklisted?
deletedover 10 years
The third party characters make setup 1 hilariously unbalanced and the point payoff is ridiculous, so based on precedent (gallis hunter, reverse mafia) it's blacklisted.

No clue about setups 2 or 3 though.
deletedover 10 years
all three setups posted look terribly imbalanced. Obviously they dont have a lot of games played so their stats could be skewed. but why should any of these setups be allowed in comp?
over 10 years
Points don't matter for except for comp anyway. So who cares about the 3rds in that setup?
over 10 years
Disincluded third party playing for themselves honestly. You did Autocrat well, but no goddamn zombies.
deletedover 10 years
Keep bad setups blacklisted, please
over 10 years
bump
over 10 years

MafiaGod says

I think this deserves one mod response that is relevant after 35 petition signs.


I got one more response for a petition I made to get a certain user banned. They replied after 100+ signs.
over 10 years
I think this deserves one mod response that is relevant after 35 petition signs.
over 10 years
Haven't read, but it's probably blacklisted due to third parties, which give unfair distribution to town and mafia. Even getting those third party roles in the first place is an uncommon occurrence.

I'm guessing it's blacklisted because some of the setups in 1+2 have no third parties while others do, making the end result a bit unfair.

3 might be viable, but 1 and 2 shouldn't even be considered.
over 10 years

Happy0wns says

I like how not one mod has bothered to comment about this


who cares
over 10 years
Demod everyone
over 10 years
I like how not one mod has bothered to comment about this
over 10 years
MafiaGod more like NovelGod
over 10 years
That is my point. Piney ... exactly! I've been trying to break the Fancypants mold so that Fancypants doesn't just become the new Reverse Mafia. Any setup that is played in mass, FT3, Classic, Reverse Mafia, and Fancy Pants, just gets old. It is great to have the base to return too. But without an influx of setups new users won't stay more than a year. Maybe I am creating these setups to actually save Fancy Pants from perhaps two years down the road having the same fate as Reverse Mafia. [Remember I came from FBMafia where we understood that a mafiasided setup or a townsided setup just made you have to become better at being on the opposing side. We are so concerned about the stats that we don't want challenges, and we've become so childish in our fear of point farms it is just .... sad. A slightly mafia sided setup or townsided setup wasn't the initial definition of a pointfarm. The problem with ALL these definitions, pointfarm ISP, OGI, GT is that they have morphed over time and have become shtty excuses to solve 10 problems in one solution that wasn't meant for or designed to handle the problems they are now trying to cover.]
deletedover 10 years
Most people have already said what I want to say above, so to avoid repeating the same info, let me leave it at this:

Have you seen how long its been since a new setup took off on the Main Lobby? It must have been months now. Currently, the only setups that are ever really played ranked in the Main Lobby (excl. competition) are Coco's, Classic and Fancy Pants, and occasionally FT3. The same regurgitated setups over, and over, and over again. And its situations like this that are stopping people from bothering to create new setups. MafiaGod spent a huge amount of time on this set of setups, I know because I had the pleasure of playing them a month or two back. Then they get blacklisted for no apparent reason or a reason that hasn't stopped other setups from remaining in the lobby. Who is going to spend all that time creating a balanced setup only to have it survive in the lobby for a few weeks before being blacklisted, without a reason to improve it?

Eventually we're gonna be stuck with Fancy Pants and nothing else, I can feel it.