JKJudgeX Posted January 9, 2016 Author Posted January 9, 2016 I would prefer just hiding the vote totals and keeping the round type as "Hidden" once the vote is completed, without announcing the outcome. Some people prefer not to play certain rounds. Varying from person to person, it can be something like nuke, secret, extended, or the rare voted-in changeling or cult. You're giving the middle finger to people who would prefer to avoid certain roundtypes because they aren't enjoyable to that person, and isn't the whole point of this all so people have fun and enjoy themselves? We don't need to know the roundtype, and knowing it spoils some of the fun, and can potentially ruin the whole round. Honestly, I think "Heavy" RP would pretty much imply that we wouldn't know the roundtype going in, since that's meta information, and having it could reduce the quality of RP and immersion...
hivefleetchicken Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 I would prefer just hiding the vote totals and keeping the round type as "Hidden" once the vote is completed, without announcing the outcome. Some people prefer not to play certain rounds. Varying from person to person, it can be something like nuke, secret, extended, or the rare voted-in changeling or cult. You're giving the middle finger to people who would prefer to avoid certain roundtypes because they aren't enjoyable to that person, and isn't the whole point of this all so people have fun and enjoy themselves? We don't need to know the roundtype, and knowing it spoils some of the fun, and can potentially ruin the whole round. Honestly, I think "Heavy" RP would pretty much imply that we wouldn't know the roundtype going in, since that's meta information, and having it could reduce the quality of RP and immersion... I think you might just not have enough faith in the playerbase (though I'm not surprised you probably have some damn good reasons with this bunch), and changing the game mode so that no one knows what it is seems a little unfair. I think we should just have stronger metagaming rules instead.
JKJudgeX Posted January 10, 2016 Author Posted January 10, 2016 I think you might just not have enough faith in the playerbase (though I'm not surprised you probably have some damn good reasons with this bunch), and changing the game mode so that no one knows what it is seems a little unfair. I think we should just have stronger metagaming rules instead. It's only partially about faith in the playerbase. I don't personally enjoy the round as much if I know what it is. The discovery of the roundtype can sometimes happen in interesting and surprising ways. However, I DID just leave a cortical borers event on Aurora because people were behaving in mildly meta ways from the beginning of the round... things not worth reporting but things they more than likely would not have done had they not known it was cortical borers... someone said "unknown biological entity in genetics" and was immediately told "smash it and we'll study it!" without any indicator of the size or nature of the entity. This and about 5 other things... I dunno. It just doesn't run as well... But that's just like, my opinion, man.
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