Epicmafia

A little idea.

over 9 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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Solace

over 9 years

If this gets implemented, people will insult me with "go back to training lobby, ya scrub" again :-(

deletedover 9 years

I think that Sims has a good point with competitive players. Most of them are actually really nice, but people with strong competitive streaks can get nasty in games. I think the idea suggested in this thread is a great one and can bring some good activity and revival to this community.

deletedover 9 years

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.

you could argue this is because the competitive element of epicmafia is obsolete now with so many tryhards either not caring or having left, but this isn't the thread for that

qeSuited

over 9 years

Training Lobby would work if we had 10 times the amount of players on this site and it was growing faster and faster. 10 simultaneous games during peak hours isn't all too much.

Giga13

over 9 years

People forget that some new players (and some older ones) don't try in games, screw everything up, and make no attempt to inprove, I don't know about you guys but when I'm playing mafia and this happens I get irritated

Some old players get upset with newer players (for good and bad reasons) but there are a lot of times where newer players get upset at older ones too (for good and bad reasons). There are many kind people and many a-holes in each group of players, so to use the older more experienced players as (the only) scapegoat isn't fair, even if that's how it (generally) used to be

Peta

over 9 years

Embarrassing.

Anna

over 9 years

Go back to training lobby

Peta

over 9 years

MattHelders says

im not even editting that, i cant believe v agina is a blacklisted word

Lucid thinks that Google will shut him down if certain human body parts show up on the site.

MattHelders

over 9 years

im not even editting that, i cant believe v agina is a blacklisted word

Peta

over 9 years

Anna says

Peta says

Anna says

Good joke. Everyone who plays comp jerks off to their win statistics and you know it.

That's probably the most embarrassing response you could have made to his post.

Why would I care what a bunch of weeabos think about me on an EbicMafia site?

You're showing pretty high levels of care right now, starting with "Go back to training lobby" and ending with that edit.

MattHelders

over 9 years

crypto touched my when i was just a little girl

Peta

over 9 years

Except for me: I might have, if the situation called for it.

Peta

over 9 years

Anna says

Peta says

Anna says

Good joke. Everyone who plays comp jerks off to their win statistics and you know it.

That's probably the most embarrassing response you could have made to his post.

Go back to training lobby.

Nobody ever said that.

Anna

over 9 years

Peta says

Anna says

Good joke. Everyone who plays comp jerks off to their win statistics and you know it.

That's probably the most embarrassing response you could have made to his post.

Why would I care what a bunch of weeabos think about me on an EbicMafia site?

Peta

over 9 years

Anna says

Good joke. Everyone who plays comp jerks off to their win statistics and you know it.

That's probably the most embarrassing response you could have made to his post.

Peta

over 9 years

admin says

we had this a year ago. then the competitive players wanted a merge because they felt like they were being excluded. now we've come full circle..

admin says

because they felt like they were being excluded

That's a new one hahaha

Peta

over 9 years

Just a lil idea for you.

Anna

over 9 years

Sims says

i'm going to speak personally and not for the mod team or anything, but I think your problem is with competitions in general and not competitive players in specific. i think you guys tend to forget that competitive players are real people and not some kind of hive mind where everyone tries to be as rude as possible

maybe I have a different view on it because the competition was a main part of why I used to come on here, but I think your issue is with the competitive mindset in general. once people start feeling like there's something at risk when you play a gold heart game, they're obviously going to start acting differently and taking the game more seriously. and that's completely okay. it's the nature of the game and the nature of competitions in general

a lot of competitive players are really nice people both on and off the site and it's really unfair and judgmental to assume a lot of them are "egotistical snobs." if you're not a competitive person, fine, but that's your problem, not everyone else's. just try to keep in mind that the people who play this game are actual people who, for the most part, aren't inherently mean

Good joke. Everyone who plays comp jerks off to their win statistics and you know it.

blacksnakemoan

over 9 years

Satan says

shamzy not everyone is cool enough to have enough friends for a cheating ring

hey i'm lonely too, wanna collaborate

Satan

over 9 years

shamzy not everyone is cool enough to have enough friends for a cheating ring

blacksnakemoan

over 9 years

jackyyip0211 says

i would have quitted the game if not for markus

he gave me an complete tutorial for goals and terms for the game

he cheated this one time, there was a whole investigation!

jackyyip0211

over 9 years

i would have quitted the game if not for markus

he gave me an complete tutorial for goals and terms for the game

Sims

over 9 years

i'm going to speak personally and not for the mod team or anything, but I think your problem is with competitions in general and not competitive players in specific. i think you guys tend to forget that competitive players are real people and not some kind of hive mind where everyone tries to be as rude as possible

maybe I have a different view on it because the competition was a main part of why I used to come on here, but I think your issue is with the competitive mindset in general. once people start feeling like there's something at risk when you play a gold heart game, they're obviously going to start acting differently and taking the game more seriously. and that's completely okay. it's the nature of the game and the nature of competitions in general

a lot of competitive players are really nice people both on and off the site and it's really unfair and judgmental to assume a lot of them are "egotistical snobs." if you're not a competitive person, fine, but that's your problem, not everyone else's. just try to keep in mind that the people who play this game are actual people who, for the most part, aren't inherently mean

Escurai

over 9 years

Piney says

Sims says

Piney says

Don't forget a lot of veterans are actually rude as heeeeck and ridicule the newer players for being noobs. Yeah, I'm really gonna want to stay and play a game with a bunch of complacent snobs who don't care about anyone other than themselves and their inflated egos.

it's shocking that people still feel like this

People only feel this because the issue was never resolved, because it CAN'T be.

Amen thread solved, can people stop pretending like this isn't a problem pls

Froce

over 9 years

I like this idea a lot. But for how long will they have to stay in Beginner Lobby? Or can they join Main when they feel they're ready?