Advice for keeping your Forum Game active

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#1

This is a thread to share advice for hosts in order to keep your forum game from slowing to a crawl

  1. Keep posting vote counts, so long as even 1-2 votes have shifted no one is ever going to complain about too many vote counts

  2. Try to prod people on multiple platforms - poking someone on discord is a great way to draw their attention to the forums

  3. Blacklist memesky the typical inactives, or at least give active players a higher priority to join.

  4. Don’t start a pre-sign ups thread. People may sign up for it and forget it exists or not have time for it once it actually begins. Just wait until before you game starts to do signups!

  5. Make Marl a night immune class

If you have any advice to share in helping people keep games active, feel free to do so below. Keep 'ze list going

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#2

Make sure your players aren’t biting off more than they can chew. Your own activity is important, but running on a small site (like ours) concurrently with other large (or otherwise high-maintenance) games that most players of yours will be giving their attention to instead of your game can be a more deadly killer. On an individual basis, maybe try and ask players in more than two other games to chill out, unless they’re known to be active and positive when in a ton of games at once.

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#3

Just as a particular around Marl’s first rule is something I’ve picked up from my “professional” development as a co-host is to try and have someone be active during the last couple of hours that a day finishes for VCs and also you can never do too many VCs if someone is getting close to hammer.

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#4

Note to self: don’t host a 24 player game when there are also several FMs going on

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#5

Try and decide on interactions on classes/roles as early as possible - preferably before the game starts. You don’t want to be confronted with an odd situation you hadn’t decided on mid-game and have to make a panicy decision on it.

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#6

I’m sure @Pug loves this idea.

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#7

You know me too well

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#8
  1. Give PKR a convertable class so people may do the meta.
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#9

The moral of the story: Don’t host a Forum Game when there are many active game.

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#10

because the mods will lock your thread

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#11

Dare I challenge this? :^)

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#12
  1. Add slank vigs to the setup, especially in large games. Way too many people here as we’ve recently seen from AAFM and 6d6 tend to lurk as a means to go under the radar as wolves. Slank vigs here will heavily disencourage this.
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#13
  1. Make marl a lynch immune death immune guiltless prince with infinite exes
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#14

7a. If Marl is in game, give him ability to force execute his targets.

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#15
  1. Make Pug confirmed unkillable Town
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#16

8a. If Memesky is in game, give Pug one-shot Dayvig.

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#17
  1. If Memesky is MM/CL, make everyone convert immune
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#18

Im waiting for the game where I get converted by memesky

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#19

That SORTA happened to me, essentially.
I was a back-up for an FoL tournament, and someone left. I replaced him and they were converted the previous night and ragequit. Memesky was CL and was inactive. Also Frost was there and he tried. And Ici exed me while he was cult king which made me sad.
The rest is hazy. I tried to erase that game from my memory.

#20

Makes marl NK
Makes obs follow Marl N1

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