MTG Salvation

The time has come for me to take my leave of the site. I no longer have the time nor interest level that I once did regarding mafia and this site in general. As such, I am also relinquishing my seat on the mafia council. To those of you that I've played with in the past, thanks so much because you're the ones that make this game fun. To those of you that I've never played with, I do regret missing the chance to get to know you as it is the community here that makes mafia what it is.

I may be back sometime in the future, but for now, *tips hat and walks out of door*.

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Down at the bottom left-hand side of the page, in the box labeled "Posting Rules", there is a link marked "Smilies". If you click that, it will bring you to a page: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/misc.php?do=showsmilies which has a listing of all available smilies.

Alright, the populace has spoken. We will keep nested quotes as the default for the mafia sub as well as attempt to add a pineapple ... er, make them optional.

While I happen to agree that they fit the mafia forum nicely, I've been a pretty big proponent of the optional nested quote option depending on how hard it would be to implement on the backend. Knowing what I do about forum design, I'd like to think it's not that hard to implement.

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Thanks for bringing this discussion into the mafia council thread, Iso. I'd love to hear your proposal; feel free to post it here so everyone can discuss it.

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Announcement: I now have the Xyre stamp of approval for reviewing Specialties/FTQs. Send 'em my way, kids!

I feel like I should start to make my opinions known on all of these queue things but I don't have the time to devote to all of the different proposals and the arguments for/against them.

I'll take this opportunity to make some positions known, however. I don't support eliminating the Specialty queue and rolling it into the FTQ, as proposed by Xyre above. I don't think that every Specialty-complexity game is FTQ-worthy, so there's that, but I also don't like any idea that makes "getting your game selected by a group of judges or arbitrators" the only way to get your game to run. There's a lot of material out there that probably would/will never successfully negotiate the FTQ - of recent specialties, for example, I would be very surprised if Magical Girl or Star Trek MU II had managed to make it through the FTQ process - and those games should have the same opportunity as every other game to run on a queue basis.

I intend to submit my next setup, Celestial Mafia, to the Specialty queue, not the FTQ. Could I get it to run faster by submitting it through the FTQ? Probably. I just don't particularly care for the idea of the FTQ becoming the playground of a group of talented and popular hosts - while the games that run that way are likely to be high-quality, which is good, I think that completely removing an "equal-opportunity" queue will be to the net detriment of the site. We should keep the queues as they are: a slow but reliable queue for people to test their skills at designing complex and interesting games, and a fast-track queue for some of the best designs available on MTGS.

(I also strenuously object to any League involvement in the FTQ, as I've already said ad nauseam. Definitely no to a "league finale" taking up an FTQ slot.)

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By the way, guys, we were finally able to do something I know you guys have wanted a long time:

From this day forwards, nested quotes are automatically on for Mafia.

Quote from KittyCupCake

Quote from Guardman

Mini: Any game with 13 or less players.
Normal: Any game with 14 to 17 players.
Grande: Any game with 18 or more players.

I think I like Guardman's original suggestion best. Thanks for the link, DRey.

Maybe running 2-2-1? And then letting the people who are currently signed up for Normals and Specialties decide if they want to be on the Normal or Grande list?

atlseal's player-cap based on previous games run is also a good idea.

Rejoice.

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