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I find your games are among the best games so I would encourage you to keep hosting if you enjoy it. Maybe you should try hosting on MU where there are more people?

Maybe we should make an effort to make more games that are themed to topical things? I often feel like doing that. For instance while Squid Game was on I was sorta hoping to see a Squid Game mafia here. It's a challenge though cuz the queue is so long.

Also lastly, and this might hurt to read but the MU technology makes playing mafia a lot easier. Modbot, voting history, postcounts etc. There's no sugar coating the fact that if you ran a game here vs. MU that the user experience is just flat out better there. The only thing TS has going for it is the people and a very large portion of the people here are now playing all over the place.

Nostalgia is great, and I am sure someone is gonna get mad at me for saying this but I feel like this community is destined to become an MU subforum one day.

I'll also add that when I run games I do actively ask people to play them. I don't really feel like putting a sign-up thread up and then just sorta waiting for it to fill works on here really (especially when your game is a setup that requires more than double digits of players).

fingersplints wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 5:23 pm For me it’s busy with new baby but it’s also a little bit of this:

Syn wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 6:37 pm
Specific to TS, the setups have recently been nonstandard, bastard, or role madness, or a mixture of the three, and that just doesn't interest me. However, this hasn't ended up impacting my willingness to play; I haven't played on MU either.
I can’t keep up with the crazy games, so a mafia game that would entice me to play would need to be a small game with no crazy role stuff preferably but not necessarily in a theme I love.

You mean like Bluey. That's kinda why I ran that game. I thought that running a game with a pretty simple setup, small with a light flavour would be worthwhile. I totally feel the sentiment of wanting more "normal games".

I think that perhaps we should have a conversation about "standard setups" and have some pre-approved ones that fit that mold. It does seem like every game is either bastard or hyper unusual here. Which I think discourages some people from playing here or playing at all.

G-Man wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 5:05 pm Other: In X number of games, I plan on retiring from playing mafia altogether. I have a vague sense of the value of X, but it’s not locked in just yet.

Reasons for retiring:
1) I’m busy.

2a) I can’t keep pace with the game as it is currently played.

2b) I don’t derive as much joy from playing as I used to.

2c) I’m nostalgic for a style, tempo, and tone of play that is never coming back.

Because my number of games are limited to X, I’m even choosier than I used to be. Full-size Jobs are out due to 2a. Those games tend to be the ‘most creative’ in that they typically have the most appealing combination of interesting roles and interesting flavor. I seek both in the games that I play when possible.

That leaves me with Heists and Rackets. Sometimes it’s just bad timing that keeps me from signing up for a Heist or Racket that I would otherwise like to. Sometimes I have availability, but the games in sign-ups aren’t my thing for whatever reason. I also will not play while I am hosting.

@G-Man can you articulate the bolded? I am sure that we can accommodate this.

I will always play games to try to get the site moving (ie I signed up to the most recent two just so they'd get started). But I kind of agree with Guillo. When there are games stuck in signups purgatory for ages and not getting sign-ups, it's probably because the game (or dare I say the host, or some of the other players signed up) are unattractive to me. I can't help that.

I think a simple way to fix it would be to have a limit on how long a game can be in the sign-up (if we are always going to limit the amount of games that are run) stage. I find that once they get to a certain point they end up filling fast so maybe like if they don't get to 50% full within a week then the another game enters sign-ups instead. Or maybe you can put multiple games in sign-up at once and the one that fills up to 50% first stays and the others go back into the queue.

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