To Host:
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Start a topic in the active signups category.
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In your topic, make clear what players should expect from your game in terms of deadlines, roles, craziness, balance, any restrictions/pregame play agreements etc. etc.
Any games are allowed on site - just please make it clear to everyone what they’d be signing up for. -
When you’re ready to start your game make a game topic in ongoing games. Send everyone their role and make sure that they confirm.
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When the game starts you can click on the wrench at a bottom of a topic to set a topic timer that automatically closes the game at a designated deadline. You can insert a date that’s automatically in a user’s time zone by clicking on the calendar symbol in the post composer.
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Make liberal use of @Username to get players’ attention for important events. When you need to reset the vote-count (e.g. new day) put
[reset][/reset]in your post. Who’s voting who at a time of a post is displayed by clicking on the gavel symbol in the post toolbar.
Some Recommendations:
These are recommendations, not policies.
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Host games with smaller (13 or less) player-lists. Most communities have trouble getting through larger games without replacements and we hate replacements. If you have a larger game with a bunch of friends that you’re sure won’t replace out that’s fine, go ahead and run it - but in our experience that’s the exception and not the rule.
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Our forum tech at the time of writing works best with games that end up having less than 10,000 posts total. We’re working on things to increase that number.