He filed charges after that, didn't he?
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Mafia General Discussion: Ultra's Crucifixion
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Yep. I was his lawyer and dunno a damn thing about law, so we lost the trial and I became a hobo.
Oh Watson. You know I can't be caught by the police. They can't follow me after I've oiled myself up and slithered through your vent.
Silly rabbit always tryna turn new tricks thinkin' we ain't one step ahead of his shenanigans
He’s not even a mafia player. Get him out of here
It’s not that complicated lol, we’ve been doing it for years. We’ve subbed back in dead players for as long as I’ve played. You always take the reward of the alignment you sub in for. That’s the risk of subbing back in as you could be getting subbed in for a scum slot that’s completely fucked, or a town that’s gonna be lynched etc. In your award example, you’d give them MVP and that’s all that matters. Awards are just for people that had the most positive effect on the game, you don’t need to overthink it too much. Even if someone plays a hell of a game for town, subs in for a scum that’s fucked to help the host out and then dies early you can still give them a HM for their town performance.
I didn’t realise you were making an active choice to not sub back in dead players lol. Like you could have subbed me back in as I wasn’t lynched or killed by anybody so it wouldn’t have mattered. I just assumed you didn’t because you had people ready to sub. What do you think is worse? Subbing in a dead player to keep your game active or letting your game die a death because you’ve got 3-4 slots not playing at all?
Imo you just don’t give players that die early access to the dead qt unless they say they don’t want to sub in, or they died in such a circumstance that you know you won’t sub them back in. Or if they’re janitored ofc
Well that’s never how I did it. Mostly didn’t want to give people that needed to be subbed out points for winning. It ended up with a couple of harsh circumstances whereby people that played and then had to legit rep out not getting anything but that’s obv rarer than people needing to be repped out cos they’re just not posting
Making smaller games I don’t think is the solution on its own tho as it’s not gonna stop people signing up and then not playing. Like gram this game signed up and then couldn’t play by the time it started, so realistically could have done with a sub. But for the most part you’d have to combine it with hosts telling people that are high risk of being inactive that they can’t play which I feel opens up a bit of a slippery slope
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Yeah your slot was a perfect example of a prime sub back in candidate
We're not unfamiliar with the concept of resubbing, it's just gay and reminiscent of games we played where there was more cobbled together nonsense. It fosters a less competitive environment to give people retries unless it's absolutely necessary, it's only natural someone who is able to slot in another time will have a better chance of doing well. It also effects the risk reward incentive of play and starts becoming a meta expectation, like for the example I gave, let's say I'm mafia deciding the NK "Well let's see here Poysers a nuisance to us but he is obviously going to resub anyway, let's kill some inactive slots so no subs happen" etc.
From the individual player standpoint ofc I would obviously like to have subbed back into games that I was night 1'd. But my connotation and probably hime's as well is that it's a bush league relic. Probably passable in some cases, specifically yours last game into Magic, but mostly should be avoided up front by not trying to bite off more than what we can chew
Most cases of inactive players are serial inactives though, sometimes we get busy and that can't be helped but you'll usually find the same peeps needing a sub or just barely getting by. A simple "hey are you going to actually play" check imo helps bridge the gap between snubbing certain players and letting them in to do the same shit over and over again.
Agreed
Just make 30+ posts a requirement each day phase. People are less likely to be inactive when there‘s a set requirement like this and will try to at least post 30 times in that case out of a sense of obligation. If you didn’t meet them you get a prod/the host will be allowed to force sub you. 3 prods and it‘s a modkill regardless if subs are available.
30 is too steep, honestly 10 a day is fine but certain players don't even clear that. Could maybe be more strict about post requirements a
Do you think a prod system could work? I played on Discord and they have that and people are actually trying harder to meet requirements and it keeps people away from the Sign Ups who can't meet such requirements, so it would solve most of the issues you addressed above if done right.
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