I‘ve been told that several people are planning to host games, so to avoid any problems like people cutting into each other‘s game signups and other things we may need a schedule of games.
For anyone who plans to host a game, you can either write in this thread for what month/day you‘re planning a game or edit it in the schedule yourself if you can.
Note that there‘s no limit to how many games can be had per month, but try not to have 2 games running at the same time.
Sign-ups!
To everyone who usually plays MG or those that don‘t want to miss signups, we‘re testing a new way to alert everyone to a new game instead of mass tags before each game.
All you have to do is go to>>this thread<<and press Watch on the top corner of the thread. I or a host will post there and notify everyone like this whenever a new game starts.
While hosting overall isn't necessarily hard, it's very easy to mess things up as we have seen plenty of times already. This naturally happens more often with newer hosts.
In order to get these new hosts familiar with how the game works behind the scenes and make it a smoother experience for everyone (no one wants a cancelled game!), we are establishing these sets of rules that follow the methods that have been used in the last 50 games:
-If it's your first time hosting, it's MANDATORY to have the help of someone that has hosted before. As long as they aren't banned, it doesn't matter if this person hosted twenty times or just once. This experienced host will be the "Main Host", while the new one assumes the role of "co-host".
-Tasks will be split in a rather equal manner so that the Main Host can keep things in check while the Co-host gets hands-on experience to learn properly.
-The Main Host has the final say when it comes to decisions (ideally, this won't need to be enforced heavily, it's mostly to avoid possible issues).
Once the game is over, the co-host can host on their own and even take the role of "experienced host" for a new host in need!
Well, Evil didn't post about it yet, but as some may or may not have noticed, we're switching forum software and it's been in the works for some months. So hopefully it'll be started during the next night phase (evening european time) and be done within 24 hours after that. With these types of things, problems can potentially arise, regardless of how much you prepare for it. Worst case scenario is it might take the entire weekend, so the game will need to be paused in that case. The best case scenario is maybe a slightly longer night phase tomorrow and a return to normal operations on the 26th. Like the link states, check our Facebook and Twitter for more info/updates.
Alien-Avatars FTW!!! Eat up thise silly human Avatars! Melt their flesh! Break their bones! Crunch their kidneys and rip out their hearts! Alien's best Mafia ever!!!
You know, being dead is not a bad thing, now I can write lots of new roles having much more time to think about them. xD
Yeah, I was the same way at first, but I grew into it. We also have the option of having "Conversations" in the form of the new PMs and can include everyone in a Mason/Mafia/Mentor group in them. Not as fast pace as typing on a pad, but not as slow as cc'ing a bunch of people either.