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A little idea.

jbomber732
almost 10 years

So basically, one huge issue this site has is simplicity for newer players. Upon joining an unranked game, which new players are forced to do, you face a couple different situations, all basically bad. You either join a game with a -ton of random roles that is a clusterfuck and scares the player away. Or you might join a game with a bunch of veterans who do stuff without an explanation which just confuses the new player, and likely drives them away. Or you join an unranked game with a bunch of other noobs who have no clue what they're doing and screw it up. In all situations, new players seem to have a tough road ahead of them. It's only the players who are smart and patient enough to learn about the site that will actually end up staying.

So, my proposal is this: Have a beginner lobby, where players are automatically sent to upon joining the site. There they can join one of the couple allowed setups (simple ones) and join a game. Simultaneously, the game will also have a couple of slots for veterans. Essentially, veterans with over 100 games played, may join the beginner lobby and join games. They can join the game, help the new players understand it, and so on. What do the veterans gain from it? Every 25 beginner games a veteran helps out in, they get 1 token (something along those lines)

This whole system encourages veterans to help out, helps new players understand the site, and I think it'd work. I want harsh critique. kThxBye

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justrec
almost 10 years

Devante says

i'd make u a hbd thread but that's a pretty virgin activity so i can't do it. lemme ask caroline


its fine, i retired posting on the forums. i just wanted to get this idea out there. if its stupid or impossible i'll go away again.
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i'd make u a hbd thread but that's a pretty virgin activity so i can't do it. lemme ask caroline
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it's sort of creepy that there are lots of people with multithousand fp games and that giant unranked tables filled with anime avatars are commonplace on epic mafia
justrec
almost 10 years
thank you non virgin
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justrec says

never played runescape because when i was into that stuff i was already playing WoW and runescape looked like a downgraded crap version.

what i mean by tutorial game is a game that actually looks like a real mafia game with scripted bots and arrows pointing to everything explaining what they are. make it skipable for people who already know what mafia is.


Happy Birthday Virgin.
justrec
almost 10 years
never played runescape because when i was into that stuff i was already playing WoW and runescape looked like a downgraded crap version.

what i mean by tutorial game is a game that actually looks like a real mafia game with scripted bots and arrows pointing to everything explaining what they are. make it skipable for people who already know what mafia is.
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Nothing.
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Can someone explain to me whats wrong with Main lobby hosting the rounds now? What is the difference between Main vs Comp lobby?

I'm shocked you morons on this website are still crying about lobbies three years later
Togepi
almost 10 years

justrec says

tell lucid to code a tutorial game that you are automatically sent to after registering that covers everything you need to know about epic mafia


You mean like the tutorial when you make a new account on Runescape?
Edark
almost 10 years
The funny thing is that comp wasnt actually dying, sure it was hard to find games in EU time but that has always been the case. The amount of players playing had actually steadily increased to reach 800-900 consistenly and sometimes even 1200. The merge happend way too fast with too many moronos yelling comp was dying without look at the numbers.
justrec
almost 10 years
tell lucid to code a tutorial game that you are automatically sent to after registering that covers everything you need to know about epic mafia
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Edark says


Peta says

Well it is awful for the sizable corps of users who have been around long enough to know that competitive Mafia was the original purpose of EM. This website wasn't always just the substitute for a healthy social life that many people, I imagine yourself included, now consider it to be.


great post


Ive always hated this *** but this is a pretty quality post
Edark
almost 10 years

Peta says

Well it is awful for the sizable corps of users who have been around long enough to know that competitive Mafia was the original purpose of EM. This website wasn't always just the substitute for a healthy social life that many people, I imagine yourself included, now consider it to be.


great post
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Wait, if we have a beginner lobby and a competitive lobby, then where am i supposed to go? I'm intermediate D:
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We tried this before and it didn't work
Anna
almost 10 years
Sims belongs in training lobby
Togepi
almost 10 years
I'm clearly too happy for this thread.
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Is this where the bitter people post? I'm bitter.
Sims
almost 10 years
i'm bitter
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Ur frigging bitter
Togepi
almost 10 years
Awkward.
Peta
almost 10 years
Not that I'm bitter. I'm not frigging bitter.
Peta
almost 10 years
Well it is awful for the sizable corps of users who have been around long enough to know that competitive Mafia was the original purpose of EM. This website wasn't always just the substitute for a healthy social life that many people, I imagine yourself included, now consider it to be.
Escurai
almost 10 years

Ashelia says

actually training lobby didn't work when we had more users, instead of people upgrading to the """better lobby""", people just stayed in training and it slowly killed the competitive lobby.


Oh no. how awful.
MARCOVANBASTEN
almost 10 years

codes says

Most of them are actually really nice


lol