So I love most of the changes with the new patch, but one thing that really bothers me is the overactive autocorrect. It automatically changes things like “role” to “class” and “town” to “BD”. I can understand wanting to limit profanity, but “role” and “town” are not dirty words. It’s more than a little annoying that you’ve decided what I should be forced to call bits of the game, especially a game that’s all about communication and deception, where the specific things that I type determine how well I do in the game. I feel that a game like this pretty much requires full freedom in what we type, aside from things like profanity or slurs and the like.
From their explanations on the steam forums, basically the dev’s are saying they’ve seen a boatload of games in which new players are getting killed in jail etc… because they don’t understand what it means when the prince asks them role and logs. As the tutorial pretty exclusively uses the term journal and class, basically there’s no way for the new player to understand what they are asking for, and many of them are killed in jail before getting a good explanation, which leads to a really crappy first impression of the game.
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That’s actually a great change
I can just type as normal and the game will fix my words for me lol
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Logs is now journal too. which i kinda like becuase its actually a journal but i dont wanna spend the time writing journal when logs is so quick.
I personally think it’s a good change because
A. it improves communication
and B. it alerts people as to the correct terminology :3
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New players are still going to be killed, though, because they’re still going to make new player mistakes. Like not even keeping logs, for one, among any number of other newbie mistakes people make. I guess I just don’t see why new players can’t learn the same way the rest of us did, by playing.
As for logs, “logs” and “journal” are not the same thing. When I ask for your logs, I don’t want your whole journal, I want specifically your logs of what you did each night. So it’s not even correct terminology there.
I dunno, maybe it’s just the individualist in me, but I just don’t like people trying to tell me what I can and can’t say when it’s not related to things like profanity. If you’re really worried about people not understanding what “role” means, add a line in the tutorial saying “Some players refer to your class as a role.”, and maybe even explain the difference between your logs and your journal. That is, I think, a far better option than forcing my language to conform to how you want me to say things.
Yeah, good point. Didn’t look at it like that. Basically you’re saying you have a journal that you write everything that you’re thinking into, and part of that journal (The part where you write what you actually did) is the informal “logs” section of the journal you’re keeping.
Yes, exactly. That’s not the entirety of my argument, but on that specific point, that’s exactly what I meant.
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step 1: name yourself mafia
step 2: get called out as unseen
“Evil is a member of the unseen!”
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Not everyone uses numbers, most people use numbers but some insist on names.
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Rope actually proposed a really great idea. Definitely not foolproof, but could cause a few seconds of confusion for day time to run out. Interesting.
someone kept saying someone is rbing me .
I was like
Whats occupy?
if you type "whats rb " it auto corrects to whats “occupy”
actually I think the biggest threat is non-ToS new players, that don’t know ToS’s terms so they have no idea what people are saying when they use them.
I liked how the word Doc is now auto corrected into Physician.
Because I am always Physician!
Wait what if you are trying to say you are alch? He is basically doc in this game.