The Syndicate

The way I see a game may or may not allow role claiming.

The next two games I'm gonna host (both of which should be soon) will not allow it. Maybe sign up to them if you can.

But if a game does allow it, then there is nothing wrong with people doing it. It's part of the game.

I don't mean to bash you, btw. When I came into this site in 2015, all games banned role claiming. Things have changed so it's normal if you found them strange. And I don't think things necessarily have to change all the way, that's why I still make games that ban claiming now and then. Just letting you know that what some things that used to be socially unacceptable are now acceptable.

And claiming doesn't necessarily make a game less fun. If the game is well designed, it can add a whole new dimension to it (though if its badly designed it can break it).

Favorites is extremely hard to balance though. And it's a homage to role madness so that's usually not the priority.

But yeah I feel you.

Also NFers are lazy as hell and will abuse loopholes even when that is not strategically smart.

Generally a game should be designed so that revealing your role doesn't usually save you. And investigations are limited so town can't win with just them. Case in point: this game.

If you can't guarantee that, just ban claiming and call it a day.

I like being able to make a game where the good and evil roles are super obvious and being able to make it work by banning claiming.

But I also like challenging myself to come up with ways to allow it. Like in Hogwarts.

I'm talking about all those games I wanna host but I might get a job this month.

If that happens I have no idea how I'll host anything, with both work and uni.

I'm not sure if this is something that can really be solved by policy. My gripe was more with culture than policy, tbh. A lot of the time I just want to make a vote earlier then forget about the game, but people will often think that is "scummy" or "inactive". I wish we treated a 24 hour game as that: a 24 hour game. Not real time. Which means you can play at any moment of those 24 hours, depending on when you are available. If you want real time, play a burglary.

Sometimes I wonder if unchangeable votes weren't a good thing.

dunya wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 2:49 pm I thought NF was your home forum. What's you're home forum, novaselinenever ?

Apparently he started playing in NF, OJ and Syndicate at the same time.

I first met him when a guy named Crugyr started inviting people to play my game and I was full in sign ups, so I basically redirected them all to TS. So nova joined it here. But he already came from somewhere else.

juliets wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 3:28 pm Why is the site called Oro Jackson? Who is that?

https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Oro_Jackson

Epignosis wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 11:47 pm I hope everyone had a good time.

I hope everyone experienced frustration from time to time.

I hope everyone listened to at least one Steely Dan tune.

I hope I win a lot of money this week.

I listened to about 5 or so at once.

Not really my type of music but it was enjoyable.

Maybe I'll listren to some more now.