this literally happened to me in my last scum-play. In scum PT we were like "maru: IDK what to do. Other person: I know this setup we do X, Y, then Z. M: Okay. Other person: do you want me to bus you or you to bus me? me" you should probably do all the heavy lifting idfk what I'm doing here..."In post 820, BBmolla wrote:It’s like someone saying “team mafia will ruin the site,” it’s absolute nonsense.
Any arguments about people using it to show off or whatever are dumb arguments anyway. Any of us who have played league or over watch or whatever games know the “my stats are better, you play support.” But that shouldn’t stop ranked games it’s really not that big of a deal and that sort of thing happens at this site already so it won’t be any different.
so make a queue where the w/l record in that queue is tracked, and don't track it site-wide. Sometimes people play in some off-the-wall setups or some CRAZY mechanics and take some gambles they wouldn't take in a normal or in a oft-used setup, because it's a unique game or a unique mechanic. Those games shouldn't count against any form of officially recognized status (ranking, w/l record, etc)In post 827, GreyICE wrote:Again, I feel like W/L record is better. W/L record accomplishes the same goal of giving meaning to the games, without all the horror of a ranking system. Plus it matches what people are currently doing. Not reinventing the wheel is good!
Seriously, to start with, any ranking system for a team game has to approximately determine the strength of the team. Methods for doing this could probably fill a book, and are in all respects slightly arbitrary, as it's very hard to develop a methodology of quantifying both how much individual player skill contributes to team win, and how much a lack of other player skill contributes to team loss.
If I play that one variant with 50 people all given unlimited dayvigs and a dayvig ends the day and rolls to d2 with a 24 hour delay on their dayvig usage, and i get shot in first day first post, then my team goes on to lose, do I want that in my "official" stats? Nah. I "played that game to have fun" not "played that game to win". Sure I wanted to win going into it, who doesn't? But nobody expects to go into a game like that and have a level of seriousness found in games like chess mafia, strategy mafia, or team mafia. And wouldn't want it compared to those types of games in an arbitrary stat.
if there is any form of officially-tracked stat (w/l, rank, skill, etc, whateverthefuck) it should be in it's own queue, or have theme queues or micro queue or SOMETHING be immune to it, so people can go there for the more whimsical less serious games (like my last Grand Idea uPick. Would you want a game where you changed roles three times, died twice, then deadlocked the voting pool from the grave on your third role to count against an officially tracked stat? lolno)
Could we add to the mafiascum.net Page Title appended to every page to make it "mafiascum.net party game" to grab the mafia party game and the mafia game searches?In post 852, Kison wrote:I usually track SEO at the start of the month. Figured there's no reason not to share this here. Low numbers are better:
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