Re: TWG CXLVII - Host Signups
To be 100% blunt, i'm not trying to be mean, just trying to be real with you
so you're saying that it's an unbalanced mystery game that you're putting up then? If so, it'd be better to specify that. People would like to know the teensiest bit of what they're getting into. For example, if you say it's host vs. host, then maybe I'll assume that there's 2 teams. What's to stop the host from telling their whole "team" who all the members are, so that they can mess up the other team? It becomes less mafia than a forum game (which is not a bad thing), however if the imbalance causes people to have less fun, then there's a problem. Given the setups that you've sent along and proposed before, I think I'd personally doubt your setup choices.
more being 100% honest with how i feel about what you said
people submit games that they believe people want to play. I picked the 3 setups i submitted for reasons -
matrix 6 has always been popular with FFR, so potentially a "matrix 12" setup would also be cool.
dreamers is a bullshit fun suggestion that probably wasn't going to happen because 2 bastard games in a row probably wouldn't be very well accepted, but the suggestion was more to get the idea out there that i'd totally host a dreamers game
The final game looks like something that I originally did with my flame wars setup - hide flips behind color (except this is like hiding flips altogether) and overall i thought was a unique mechanic that people would find interest in trying to figure out how to play around.
Zenith's JK9++ is a good submission as well, because FFR (at least seems to) like the ++ suite of games.
So yes, it's a popularity contest in that the popular games will get chosen. However, the way you're phrasing it, you're making it seem like people will vote for hosts over games. and that's really not true.
To be 100% blunt, i'm not trying to be mean, just trying to be real with you
so you're saying that it's an unbalanced mystery game that you're putting up then? If so, it'd be better to specify that. People would like to know the teensiest bit of what they're getting into. For example, if you say it's host vs. host, then maybe I'll assume that there's 2 teams. What's to stop the host from telling their whole "team" who all the members are, so that they can mess up the other team? It becomes less mafia than a forum game (which is not a bad thing), however if the imbalance causes people to have less fun, then there's a problem. Given the setups that you've sent along and proposed before, I think I'd personally doubt your setup choices.
more being 100% honest with how i feel about what you said
people submit games that they believe people want to play. I picked the 3 setups i submitted for reasons -
matrix 6 has always been popular with FFR, so potentially a "matrix 12" setup would also be cool.
dreamers is a bullshit fun suggestion that probably wasn't going to happen because 2 bastard games in a row probably wouldn't be very well accepted, but the suggestion was more to get the idea out there that i'd totally host a dreamers game
The final game looks like something that I originally did with my flame wars setup - hide flips behind color (except this is like hiding flips altogether) and overall i thought was a unique mechanic that people would find interest in trying to figure out how to play around.
Zenith's JK9++ is a good submission as well, because FFR (at least seems to) like the ++ suite of games.
So yes, it's a popularity contest in that the popular games will get chosen. However, the way you're phrasing it, you're making it seem like people will vote for hosts over games. and that's really not true.
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