I saw Aries make a post on Wg saying srm and his games are meant to showcase the creativity of the host and not necessarily about displaying the skill of the players or it always going down that way. No one is trying to restrictive host freedom unless it infringes on game being decided by player skill because that essentially becomes the essence of unranked.
“Our style” is just “no bullshit” so no
Well that's part of the shtick of being in charge; if you want stuff to be run optimally, made balanced, and works out fairly for the host and players and that it means the speculated STANDARD of how mafia games are supposed to be handled here, you might have to accept being part of the reviewers might mean a bit less game time. Nothing is perfect. There has to be give and take.
It’s nothing to do with being staff or not. It’s about whether they are trusted to put together a balanced game with no bullshit. I’m not really the one that goes over setups although I am available to do so, but we have a myriad of people that do it
I agree with this
I mean this is definitely falls into what Ekko was talking about different experiences and communities clashing on expectations on what mafia games are about. Also Aries was specifically talking about super-role madness and bastard set up games. I don't think anyone ever expects SRM or bastard games to be ranked, do they?
That's true.
We have a fair list of people that we consider “trusted” that can check games when they’re available to do so or otherwise won’t be available to play the game itself
Those don't sound like they'd ever be rooted in ranked games or queues though. Did they happen a lot on WS/WF? I think SRM and bastard games are generally considered banned from ranked games, on NF we've had quite a few role-madness "ranked" style games for official stats and contest points for user perks and rewards though. But unranked/role-madness and super-role madness games are also extremely popular from our neck of the woods.
Yeah we made an unranked system specifically so you guys could play this kind of stuff lol
Well I didn’t play your game, others can comment on how it went. I’m not the only one that can add to the list! It’s usually just generally agreed upon lol. Would usually have a minimum of 2 games as a bar tho
Because not everyone wants to solely play vanilla style games for ranked. I think that's what Ekko's point was. Or at least what he was trying to get at with the whole "select few" games being ranked being potentially RM style set ups.
Well as has been said, the point of ranked games is that they’re decided more by player skill than role usage/mechanics and they have that integrity to them. Because I mean the point of the ranking aspect is to showcase player skill… So obviously role madness doesn’t fit with that.
