(Sign up) Priority

[Mekkah]

Seriously guys, it's the week before Christmas. It wasn't best time to have any sign-ups, let alone all three at once.

Iono what you're all implying but we don't tell everyone to start their sign-ups all at once, it just happens when it happens.

 

[Blue_Tornado]

voicing my support for negative handpick

 

[vonFiedler]

Iono what you're all implying but we don't tell everyone to start their sign-ups all at once, it just happens when it happens.

I'm sure you don't, but yeti and especially jig could have decided to postpone their sign-ups by a day or two. Then when less people sign-up its not as if the sky is falling, and when some people have less time this week anyway...

 

[jigglypuffers42]

remove the priority requirement altoghter for beginner mafia and let the host handpick people he has never heard of before, basically the opposite of expert.

that would make a lot more sense and people would actually join them more because they wouldnt be a "hindrance".

No one wants to join beginner because it lowers your priority for standard.

 

[dak]

which is precisely my point

 

[Engineer Pikachu]

No one wants to join beginner because it lowers your priority for standard.

This. Why can't we have a 75% first-come-first-serve and 25% randomized for beginner sign-ups? Many people I know and have talked to said that they decided to lower their own priority or even not sign up for the Beginner game so they could have a higher chance of being in the Standard game. By using arbitrary% FCFS and 100-arbitrary% randomized after that, you won't have this priority issue.

 

[wickdaggler]

or you could just use the negative handpick concept, which, in my opinion anyway, is brilliant

 

[Engineer Pikachu]

or you could just use the negative handpick concept, which, in my opinion anyway, is brilliant

I personally like the idea, but what is the point of handpicking people you have never heard of?

 

[MK Ultra]

It makes sure they are beginners - anyone who the host of an expert game has heard of and has a decent reputation gets in, it should be the opposite for a beginner game.

 

[Raikage]

Handpicking is fine as long as hosts remember to check the other games so that the players he picks aren't in other games

 

[Shiny Celebi]

I need to get good at Mafia, but there arent enough beginner ones it seems