MS Time Capsule: Predict the future, impress your peers

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MS Time Capsule: Predict the future, impress your peers

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:04 pm

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This thread is dedicated to a five year journey. Five years from now, I will bump this thread, or if I'm not here, hopefully someone else will remember.

Where do you see MS in five years? Who will be here, who won't? What will have happened? What is the future like?

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My thoughts;

- Our membership numbers will spiral from 11,000 to 24,000
- Chesskid, drmyshottyizsik, CooLDoG, vezokpiraka will all be distant memories. animorpherv1 will still be posting noise, though.
- Vi and DGB will still be here. Neither will have scummy banners sitting against their names. Vi will have "retired" from playing.
- Fate will be the first person to hit 30,000 game posts, but will burn himself out and either ragequit the site or fizzle into obscurity. DGB will be the current post leader.
- There will be an extra game forum for speed games or maybe more competitive/ELO ranked games.
- Of our current list mods (Farside, Papa Zito, hasdgfas, StrangerCoug, Vel-Rahn Koon, Kinetic) only StrangerCoug and Papa Zito will be left. Everyone will still miss MeMe.
- There are currently 24 whitelisted roles for Normal Games. In the future there will be 35.
- Ythill will be teaching Obi how to play mafia and will very shortly be preparing for his first newbie game.
- Forum 62 will be going strong.
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:11 pm

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Otolia will become a strong scumhunter who would be the first to surpass the language barrier onsite.
CoLDoG will still be here, no longer a VI because he has asked for input in the past.
Hoopla will play a game or two. (Haven't seen you play much games recently)
Scum will start bussing in mid d2 instead of early or late.
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:13 pm

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>62 going strong

:/

i don't know if i'll be around....
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:15 pm

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-Glork will still be unsurpassed as Paragon of Mafia Hunters.
- MeMe will still be the best scumbag.
- DGB will still bge the best active player.
- There will ber a Mind Screw sequel in 2016.
- Almost everyone still here from 2007 will still be here at least sporadically.
- Almost everyone still here from 2010 & 2011 will be gone this includes Chesskid, drmyshottyizsik, CooLDoG, vezokpiraka
- Our active player base will rise only slightly.
- They number of game types will remain the same.
- The normal guidelines will be completely different.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:42 pm

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- Cults will be in allowed in Mini Normals. (I'm not even joking.)
- There will be a site wide Scum nerf. As a result two scum teams will be the norm.
- Fate will have left the site. He will come back for a game a few times each time he will vow never to play with idiots again. He will play with idiots again.
- Scum will never bus on Day 1 as a result of the current meta that is forming now.

I may post more later.

- Oh, Chesskid will retire from playing. He will become a full time game mod and eventually make list mod in about four years time. Watch it happen.
- F62 will fall.
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Sun Jun 12, 2011 9:15 pm

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- People will continue to nominate
Jumped The Shark
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:27 pm

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- People will think that a 2011 join date makes you old.
- I will have been on this site for half of my life.
- Mafia theory will be splintered on the idea of whether or not Serial Killers make a game 'mafia' or not.
- Multiple scum groups will be on the rise.
- Mini size will be sixteen.
- Newbie size will be ten.
- Arsonist, Serial Killer, and Psychologist will make a return.
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:45 pm

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5 years?
No more mafiascum due to energy crisis

uh, hydras become tridras with 3 per account
oh, and not just Listmods get fancy coloured usernames. I'm expecting a blue, purple, orange and ultraviolet
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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:49 pm

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This is pointless. 2012 anyone?
I'm joking obviously.
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:53 pm

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A massive schism will have divided the community. Most veterans of the site will leave and posting will diminish hugely. Despite the efforts of a handful of people, the site will die. About three other Mafia playing forums will spring up in its place with the userbase divided fairly unevenly between them. Only one of those forums will make it past a year and will slowly die due to strict rules and power abusing admins.
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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:54 pm

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until then holy shit we really need some sort of ranking system like chess
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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:26 am

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- Text based Mafia will decline. There will be a slow migration to video based live mafia games.
- The site will be divided into three groups - those who prefer playing the quick live video Mafia games, those who still play the old forum games (some because they still prefer the forum based play, others because they want to play games with deep complex mechanics which doesn't lend itself to live mafia) and the third group who fall somewhere in between.
- I can't really say who'll be here but people will still keep retiring from the game completely and keep coming back
- The term "Mind screw" would have become generic and will denote any type of game which involves complex mechanics & roles
- Deadlines for one day+night cycle will not exceed two weeks in all games

Got to agree that cults will be allowed in Mini normals ..
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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:34 am

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MafiaScum will have a site-wide game limit
There will be a new kind of game here (Like Mini Normal, Large Theme, Open and so on)
Most of the list-mods today won’t be listmods anymore (Although not necessarily left the site)
Multiple scum groups will be more common
There will be one point where at least 3 games with the same theme will be run simultaneously.
Games will generally be larger than they are today.

I can't even speculate on how many will still be active in 5 years
Hoping to make a comeback to mafia soon...

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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:48 am

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Mishmash will be divided into two subforums.

MishMash and Dice games.
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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:56 am

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Membership will increase to somewhere in the 30,000s I'll say about 35,000.

Site-wide game limits will be set and then changed multiple times by people who quickly whine about it until the limit is slowly accepted and largely forgotten about.

The newbie setup will have been changed 3 more times and the 2 of 4 newbie setup will have long been forgotten.
Size for newbie games will probably increase, but the IC and SE slot system will remain largely the same.

IC requirements will double to 10 games and 6 months of site experience.

First time mods will need IC level experience to mod, will need to have their setups reviewed for normalcy and balance, will need to produce a birth certificate and 2 forms of ID along with their social security number before their game is cleared to mod. Despite these requirements the wait time for the mini queues will double.

Zachrulez will be considered an old timer, a thought which scares him.

The number of active users from 08-11 will shrink to about the size that the 03-06 active users are now.
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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:09 am

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LLD will start modding mini/large theme games instead of playing with them.
More newbies will overpopulate the site, creating a large mass of VIs.
Katsuki will beat Andrius in almost every game they play together.
I blame you for this.
For I have been awaiting for another heart pounding segment of
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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:47 am

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I'll have played in just two more mafia games between now and then.
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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:30 am

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Since I'm going to still be here in five years, according to Hoopla, I've bookmarked the topic.

- I agree with sitewide game limits, but they'll be useless to most, as the community will have bargained to make it like 20 + games/ person or whatever.

- The community will break apart into (at least) the following groups:

1. Mish Mashers
2. Mafia Players
3. The Trolls
4. GDers
5. Those who wish to bring the community back to where it was before

- A small handful will be in the 5th group, but despite that, the efforts will fail because the divide between the first four groups will be so big that they will look like a traitor and will be exiled from all groups.

- This obviously excludes said trolls. The trolls will be the reason that the site has been split apart.

- Each aforementioned group will have it's own Subforum, private to only those people.

- Moderation will be scarce.
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Post Post #18 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:46 am

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I'll be a list mod! =D
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Post Post #19 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:00 am

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I don't see any of the current listmods sticking around. In 5 years, I'll probably be a listmod, but won't be playing that much (only modding once or twice a year).

mith will have handed over the reigns of the site fully to Mr. Flay.

ReaperCharlie will be a tolerable member of the community.

Guys Pt. 2 will hit 1000 pages. People will still try "Guys, Pt 3" memes and fail.

Someone will host the first ever meetup in conjunction with a wedding.

The number of members on the site will hit 20,000, but activity will drop.

Vi will be a listmod and retired from playing.

RadioScum will be long dead and buried. A half-assed attempt at TVScum will happen, but fail to get off the ground.

The average day/night in a game will last a week, and most games will take far less than a month to complete.

More than half of all games will feature no VTs.
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Post Post #20 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:21 am

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This whole thread is scaring me, guys.
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Post Post #21 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:59 am

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most members with pine for the good old days of 2013
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Post Post #22 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:25 am

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xRECKONERx wrote:More than half of all games will feature no VTs.



I'd like to see this.
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Post Post #23 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:31 am

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*I can't argue with the "retiring from playing" predictions. I don't know if I'll be onsite though. This isn't really a place you can check into for a while and then leave.

*None of the current list mods will be on the site in any capacity (I think list modding is like the final stage of leaving the site). I agree with Hoopla that Papa Zito and StrangerCoug are potential exceptions, leaning more toward Papa Zito simply because of the SpyreX connection. Oman will not be the Title Fairy and his successor will either be on the verge of retirement or already gone.

*mith will not have completely left the site, but will maintain a minor presence. Mr. Flay will stop in about once every six months. Kison will take his place for a while but will also have taken an "indefinite hiatus" from the site.

*Yosarian2 will still be around. However, the people who were on the site prior to 2007 who did not "grow up with" the site will by and large only visit temporarily.

*Setup meta will continue to push toward giving Towns somewhat more power, but then start to rebound toward scum.

*Forum 62 will experience a not-long-enough period of glory before collapsing into a cesspool worse than it is now as it generates its own subculture. However, this will only happen if it is ever made public. Otherwise it will be... more or less as it is now, except more tired.

*Vote count automation will not have been implemented, but not for a lack of trying.

*MeMe will still be regarded as a legend by people who joined before the Scummies of this year. Very, very few of them will ever be able to say they did anything beyond get put into her queue though.

*Haylen will still be here. DrippingGoofball will probably still be here. Shea will intermittently be here. ZeroFang might still be here since he hasn't left yet. I want to make a decision about ReaperCharlie but I'm not sure if he'll stay or not - if he does leave, he'll still keep regular contact with about five scummers via online gaming. If ReaperCharlie leaves, he will keep contact with five scummers via online gaming specifically so the previous prediction will come true. Hoopla very well might have left due to lack of interest.

*@ooba: "Mind Screw" is already a generic phrase to describe any apparently player-toxic role or mechanic.

*There will be a brief resurgence of Cults, but it will die off long before the five-year mark.

*Scumchat will be as it is now, but somewhat smaller. Sorry Scumchat :(

*We will never find another (singular) Newbie setup we like.

*The pace of games onsite will increase and Instantaneous Night will become more common. However, Normal controls will not allow no-VT games and the average pace will not go beyond 10 days/Day.

*I will be surprised if the Micro Queue ever gets off the ground, has more than a dozen unique mods entering it, and sustains itself.

*@Quilford: I don't think there will be a schism here. There would have to be this gigantic flood of unpleasant people entering the userbase for that to happen, considering the moderation is about as light-handed as I've ever seen it anywhere.
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Post Post #24 (ISO) » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:36 am

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dont burst my bubble =_=
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