Spoiler [/HIDE] Yeah, the bar graph is pretty lopsided but that is how I see it. How I want to see it... Spoiler [/HIDE]
Spoiler Spoiler I see a lot more /startthemes than voting phases to be honest. Also /starttheme has been mentioned numerous times in mafia channel and it's right there in the /commands. If people don't use it, then maybe they don't want to.
People hardly ever read /commands though. Only time I recall doing so was when I heard of /starttheme to make sure it wasn't a joke...plus not everyone is in Project Mafia, where I think it's mentioned more often. Don't think I saw it mentioned in the channel itself...
When the channel gets filled with HOW YOU DO THAT, it starts getting spread around quite a bit. I'd say a vast majority of the regulars know it now.
Also I haven't been on since Friday but hte lack of borders around hte description when the theme started from a vote is very annoying. Would it be possible to make it so the borders still appear? Apologies if that has already been changed.
I tried to make it look like one phase essentially. The borders appear when the voting starts. When the theme starts, there's enough spam from the theme description...
Personally I think it looks horribly unneta nad it makes it not obv when the voting has actually ended while it would be obv if the border was there when the sign-ups actually started.
I actually like the new voting for a theme, now that we have both /starttheme and the voting option. I think mafia has become better with the option to vote, along with players starting. This is because not only do we get to choose what themes we want to play, we can start a vote and potentially play a theme 2 times in a row, especially if its a good theme. However, I do have a suggestion. Maybe, we could go to a system where at least one voting phase has to occur between each player started theme. If this is confusing, I'll provide an example: Game 1: GreenWater10 started the default theme! Game 2: voting phase (You can have as many voting phases as possible here. Can't have 2 player started themes in a row.) Game 3: Lamperi started the Fruit theme! I used to be opposed to the voting phase, but now its gotten better with the option to also include players starting the themes.
I liked the old version better. I fail to see why voting was implemented in the first place. If this is going to stay, make it so default is played every 3 games or something, as it's very rarely played.
I agree with profDeadpool, it's a bit hard to follow when the voting ended and the joining phase started. If more borders are too much, we could use some blank lines and a bold message announcing the winner theme. @Hobbes, about Default, at least to me it seems it's getting started more often. I've seen Default winning lots of Votings when there's lots of unpopular themes as voting options.
I pretty much agree with his post. I still think that recently played themes shouldn't be in the vote though, if it is still like that.
I like this new voting system, but I would make some changes. First of all, themes such as Mythology, default, SSBB(+) and FF shouldn't be available to vote for with /start. They should be started only with /starttheme, in order to not force this uber/most-liked themes to compete with the new/less-liked ones.
If the newer themes are never voted, they are never played. If they are never played, nobody would know how good they are, so they are never voted. VICIOUS CYCLE A few of my friends and I felt that having both the voting system and the /starttheme command was better. I think voting was implemented because some people wanted to start the same theme twice in a row. Or something. BUMP!
/starttheme is back guys! and i'm the first one to use it!!! [secret] (05:32:02) ±Murkrow: Mafia was reloaded, please start a new game! (05:32:06) *************************************************************************************** (05:32:06) ±Game: GreenWater10 started a voting for next game's theme!. You have 20 seconds to vote with /votetheme! (05:32:06) ±Game: Choose from these themes: default ! (05:32:06) *************************************************************************************** (05:32:06) ±Game: You can not vote this theme! (05:32:10) ±Game: GreenWater10 voted for default! (05:32:10) PolkaBot: ./starttheme should be back (05:32:26) ±Game: Theme default won with 1 votes! (05:32:26) ±Game: Type /Join to enter the game! (05:32:26) ±Game: Default mafia theme, the people of our fine village are being threatened by the mafia. .... (05:32:26) ±Game: GreenWater10 joined the game! (05:32:31) GreenWater10: so i'm gonna be the first person to use it! (05:32:36) ±Game: Hurry up, you only have 30 seconds more to join! (05:33:06) *************************************************************************************** (05:33:06) Times Up! : (05:33:06) Well, Not Enough Players! : (05:33:06) You need at least 5 players to join (Current; 1). (05:33:06) *************************************************************************************** (05:33:07) *************************************************************************************** (05:33:07) ±Game: GreenWater10 started a game! (05:33:07) ±Game: Type /Join to enter the game! (05:33:07) *************************************************************************************** (05:33:07) ±Game: Default mafia theme, the people of our fine village are being threatened by the mafia. .... (05:33:10) GreenWater10: yes!!!! (05:33:30) GreenWater10: WHAT NOW JIGGLES! (05:33:36) ±Game: Hurry up, you only have 30 seconds more to join! (05:33:40) GreenWater10: this is what i do when you're not around! (05:33:58) GreenWater10: yea, just because i'm the first, doesn't mean that people will start playing with me (05:34:07) *************************************************************************************** (05:34:07) Times Up! : (05:34:07) Well, Not Enough Players! : (05:34:07) You need at least 5 players to join (Current; 0). (05:34:07) *************************************************************************************** (05:34:07) GreenWater10: tysm polka bot (05:34:18) GreenWater10: i didnt even join myself... [/secret]
I wonder if we could have a random start command to start a random theme and if someone doesn't like it they can just not play...,