New Mafia Hosting Queue

• games not getting the required amount of sign ups
• overwhelmed players
• problems with activity
• mafia burnout
• etc.

• The queue is organized in a "first come, first serve" manner for hosting spots.
• A person can have a maximum of two games on the queue, with at least five people between each game.
• The queue goes down in a strict list.
• The person on top of the queue has the first right to open sign-ups, then the second, third, etc. (If it is the time for a large game to open sign-ups, the first game on the queue will have the first choice. They can choose to either open sign-ups, pass to the second person, or go to the bottom of the queue. If the first passes, those three choices go to the second person, and so on.)
• If a game fails to start within two weeks after the previous game ends, it will be moved to the bottom of the queue.
• If you would like, you are allowed to reserve a spot in any number of upcoming games (listed below), and you will have a guaranteed spot in the game when it opens sign-ups (you are not, however, obligated to sign-up for that game). *Note that this is up to the host's discretion. Contact the host of the game you wish to reserve for. They have the right to refuse your reservation, or to make a reservation work differently than the way it is listed here.
• Once the current game gets down to 1/3 of the original players still living, the next game on the queue can (and is expected to) start sign-ups.

• The queue is organized in a "first come, first serve" manner for hosting spots.
• A person can have a maximum of two games on the queue, with at least five people between each game.
• The queue goes down in a strict list.
• The person on top of the queue has the first right to open sign-ups, then the second, third, etc. (If it is the time for a large game to open sign-ups, the first game on the queue will have the first choice. They can choose to either open sign-ups, pass to the second person, or go to the bottom of the queue. If the first passes, those three choices go to the second person, and so on.)
• If a game fails to start within two weeks after the previous game ends, it will be moved to the bottom of the queue.
• Once the current game gets down to 1/3 of the original players still living, the next game on the queue can (and is expected to) start sign-ups.

[CENTER][B][U][SIZE="3"][Game Name][/SIZE][/U][/B][/CENTER]


[B]Host:[/B] [Your Name (and co-host's name if there is one)]
[B]Type of Game:[/B] [Large, Small, or Clue]
[B]Number of Players:[/B] [Small: 20 or less; Large: 21 or more; Clue: unnecessary to specify here]
[B]First time host:[/B] [Yes or No]
[B]Progress:[/B] [preferably some sort of percentage]

[Setting and any other information]

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• Zack
• autolycus
• askthepizzaguy

• Fill in Column A with names of the CFC players (In this example: A, B, C, D, E, F)
• Fill in Column B with the character roles (In this example: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Fill in Column C with (this exactly, without the quotes) "=RAND()"
• Copy and paste "=RAND()" into however many rows you need (In this example: Rows 2-7)
• Highlight Columns B and C
• Click Tools -> Sort... (This is on the toolbar across the top)
• Check the box that says "Data has header row"
• Sort by Column C; A-> Z
• Click Sort

choxorn said:

Nice thread.

I don't have any games to add, but I would like to request that TF2 Mafia and Bloodlust trade places in the queue. I've talked with kill fire about this, and the current schedule would have TF2 Mafia happen likely in August-September 2012. We just want to move it back a couple of months because it will be far easier for us to co-host it if we're still living in the same house, and while I might not still be living here in September, I'll probably still be living here in June-July.

This won't affect anyone else's game but our own.

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Skwink said:

Damn, I just realized that my mafia was opening soon before we changed stuff up. Please change mine to TBA Story by Skwink

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Earthling said:

The Starcraft Mafia game will not be hosted any time soon - move it to the bottom of the queue or take it off, whichever is preferable.

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NinjaCow64 said:

I've put Pick Your Poison at the top of the Small Games list as it is a small game. I will forgive Cartharis for jumping the queue, as it was quite chaotic time when he made it, but future violations will not be tolerated and I will call in the Mods.

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Catharsis said:

The reason I 'jumped the queue' was because there had been so many cases of games opening signups and then being called off halfway through that procedure, and people just wanted to play something. I figured, instead of a week or two of wondering which game on the queue should open signups next, something should just be started straight away in order to keep people interested.

Verarde also said he was interested in starting a small game soon, so if he confirms it he should probably go on the queue as well.

To be honest, I don't think small games require a queue. There isn't enough current interest in hosting them to justify that. Also, it means that anyone who is interested in hosting one gets shunted into a slot that might well be six months or so later, and who can blame them if their interest hasn't stood for that long?

The four in the queue currently have, IIRC, been there for ages without ever getting too close to starting. I know I asked Zack to remove the Awesome Reginald one months ago. Earthling's no longer interested in hosting Starcraft. Has CivGeneral been seen around here recently, and is he demonstrably ready to host Fallout, should it be required of him?

As it is, all the small game queue is doing is making it more difficult for the people who actually do have the enthusiasm to host a game to do so.

(This post sounds too harsh. I do appreciate your taking over the thread, NinjaCow - we need enthusiastic people to host stickied threads as well as games )

EDIT: oh, whoops, I forgot that we're not supposed to post here unless we've got a game to announce. Umm, could you perhaps take Awesome Reginald off the queue?

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