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[Who should represent Wintreath in the Mafia Championship?]

Who should represent Wintreath in the Mafia Championship?

Laurentus

5 (83.3%)

Pengu

1 (16.7%)

Total Members Voted: 6

Voting closed: April 23, 2019, 03:54:05 PM

That actually sounds really amazing.

There's also a tool ("Multi ISO") to search the thread by a particular user or group of users and see all their posts, which has been super convenient for keeping up with Lau's activities in this game.

So yeah. The Wolves killed me. On night 2. At least I didn't get lynched.

@Wintermoot, is it possible to bring the following features onto the forums for Werewolf?

1. Multi ISO (super useful because you can filter out everyone's posts except for the players you ticked from a drop down list, which can help you isolate and analyse just one person/a few people.

2. A system to vote for players from a drop-down menu, or by using this code [V] xxx [/V].

3. A system that keeps track of your votes, and automatically removes players from the game once they're dead. This system also keeps track of the time for each phase, which avoids situations where the host cannot get online in time to end sessions.

4. The option to submit your Night action by also choosing a person to apply it to from the bottom of the game thread.

That's all I can think of for now.

1. Multi ISO (super useful because you can filter out everyone's posts except for the players you ticked from a drop down list, which can help you isolate and analyse just one person/a few people.

And/or (and this might be better for forum threads in general), a general search by thread option, including searching by author.

So yeah. The Wolves killed me. On night 2. At least I didn't get lynched.

@Wintermoot

2. A system to vote for players from a drop-down menu, or by using this code [V] xxx [/V].

3. A system that keeps track of your votes, and automatically removes players from the game once they're dead. This system also keeps track of the time for each phase, which avoids situations where the host cannot get online in time to end sessions.

4. The option to submit your Night action by also choosing a person to apply it to from the bottom of the game thread.

I feel like these specifically would be greatly beneficial (the ISO one is nice, but not incredibly beneficial until our games get bigger in activity).  A system to choose via drop down menus for votes that places it in the post big and beautifully bolded would automatically remove the issue of people going on long tangents but forgetting to vote (they can just click their vote before typing) as well as forgetting to bold the votes, making them easy to get lost.

Likewise, a system that makes it easier for people to do night actions (since remembering a PM each night can be difficult for some people) is a pretty great idea.  And I'd be completely down with the idea of locking the thread for each night phase like they do to get those actions taken care of (and not padding out the thread too much with night talk).

But I especially love their system for keeping track of both the votes and time.  Out of all of their unique features, that's by far my favorite simply because it makes it easy to know who's the majority person on the chopping block (and not having to take time away to count votes or designate a random player to do it), but also like Laurentus stated, it makes it so that if the time does expire, it avoids any post votes beyond the time as it automatically ends the phase right there with the result.

The way they have things is incredibly efficient, and I'd definitely love to see some of those mechanics mixed in here.

Those sorts of major things probably won't be implemented into the forum code until the next version of SMF is released and we're on it...else I'm afraid I'd be stuck recoding the things I just coded. It's possible I could do some of those things as outside code that ties into the forums (like Clickwar), but honestly Clickwar is higher on my list of priorities, and I want to look at doing something similar with Arena too.

tl;dr it's on the list, but don't expect it anytime soon.