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Afaik games were still running at a fairly good pace for like a year or two after I graduated undergrad in 2012, so I doubt it had anything to do with my waning activity =P
Many vets did start fading away though and that certainly mustve contributed to the slow down.
You're right though, playing mafia isn't hard to pick up again, but I think strong scum hunting skills atrophy without flexing those muscles. I definitely have been finding it tough to develop good reads on people.
What's the best career then? Spy? Undercover cop? lolFACT: Rapid chain teleportation is like having all of your matter instantaneously squeezed through a hole the size of a photon uphill both ways simultaneously.- FrozenFlame
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while i dont disagree with thisIn post 3226, FrozenFlame wrote:You're right though, playing mafia isn't hard to pick up again, but I think strong scum hunting skills atrophy without flexing those muscles. I definitely have been finding it tough to develop good reads on people.
to b completely fair you have jumped into games in brand new meta. so its kind of like a readjusting phase where youre familiarizing yourself with new people. the more you play with em the easier it gets imo. so im not discouraged after losing back to back games on sites i am not too acquainted with- Ryker
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Amen to atrophy on the scum hunting muscles. Im soooooo much better at scum than town now. I started being allowed to just rest on roles and reputation and I let everything rot.In post 3226, FrozenFlame wrote:Afaik games were still running at a fairly good pace for like a year or two after I graduated undergrad in 2012, so I doubt it had anything to do with my waning activity =P
Many vets did start fading away though and that certainly mustve contributed to the slow down.
You're right though, playing mafia isn't hard to pick up again, but I think strong scum hunting skills atrophy without flexing those muscles. I definitely have been finding it tough to develop good reads on people.
What's the best career then? Spy? Undercover cop? lol
Trying to fix it though. Enjoying playing again.- Ryker
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In its heyday, SWF had by FAR the highest average player level of any community I've played in and I think I'm spoiled as a result.In post 3224, FrozenFlame wrote:Smash World Forums, the original name of what is now actually named SmashBoards. It's the central online hub for all things competitive Smash Bros. We had an incredibly robust mafia sub-community there from about 2007 - 2012ish or so I'd say. It's mostly a ghost town now though =(
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Couldn't agree more. SWF leading up to the creation of Dgames as a separate subforum from Forum Games and then for a couple years thereafter was by far the most competitive mafia community I've ever played in. Not that MS here doesn't have quality players, but on SWF there was very little low level play and thus the overall quality of play was not at all diluted. Unfortunately, just by virtue of the much larger community size here, that dilution phenomenon takes place here and in many other communities.In post 3232, Ryker wrote:In its heyday, SWF had by FAR the highest average player level of any community I've played in and I think I'm spoiled as a result.
SWF just had sooooo many heavy hitters and they would always be in games together by virtue of the fact that high level players were the plurality of players. I remember the golden age of Dgames very fondly. So many great personalities with intellect and a competitive mindset to boot. Not all that surprising considering most people who take smash bros games seriously enough to join and actively post on a site devoted almost entirely to competitive play are going to bring that same mindset to mafia. The nature of smashboards itself was self selecting for people who enjoy learning games with depth and take playing to wincon seriously.FACT: Rapid chain teleportation is like having all of your matter instantaneously squeezed through a hole the size of a photon uphill both ways simultaneously.- AdumbroDeus
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