So I posted about this on an earlier thread and I wanted to hear what other people think. I'm planning on hosting a Survivor-like game this summer (that will actually hopefully finish), but I think this is a p. important topic just in general if we are thinking about the future of Smogmafia.
Do we even consider moving to Showdown? Does it even matter where game channels are located? I think the upside, as I put in the other thread is that it's really user friendly, no need to setup on IRC, and there's a higher chance that random users will discover mafia. I can't see what IRC really does better then PS other than nostalgia's sake (and maybe logs can't be saved on PS?? Dunno about that but we seem to moving away from that anyways). Of course, it may not really matter, but I figure for future games it may be worth a shot.
w.r.t integrating with PS mafia, I'm not so sure that's a great idea. I feel like forum mafia here is such a different animal than most mafias that keeping things separate might be best to keep people from getting confused and also respecting the PS people's space with regards to the mafia community they've created there. That's not to say that we can't work together or anything, but I think it might be better to start out by just having our own channel and seeing if that affects new users coming to play or anything like that and then deciding if we want to grow from there. It just feels to me that the direction smogon is moving is towards everything being on PS, with IRC seeming like it's being more and more left behind (but then again, I'm not really up-to-date with stuff, so feel free to correct any of this if I'm wrong).
Also if I forgot something/left a response out feel free to just reply with your thoughts.
Do we even consider moving to Showdown? Does it even matter where game channels are located? I think the upside, as I put in the other thread is that it's really user friendly, no need to setup on IRC, and there's a higher chance that random users will discover mafia. I can't see what IRC really does better then PS other than nostalgia's sake (and maybe logs can't be saved on PS?? Dunno about that but we seem to moving away from that anyways). Of course, it may not really matter, but I figure for future games it may be worth a shot.
w.r.t integrating with PS mafia, I'm not so sure that's a great idea. I feel like forum mafia here is such a different animal than most mafias that keeping things separate might be best to keep people from getting confused and also respecting the PS people's space with regards to the mafia community they've created there. That's not to say that we can't work together or anything, but I think it might be better to start out by just having our own channel and seeing if that affects new users coming to play or anything like that and then deciding if we want to grow from there. It just feels to me that the direction smogon is moving is towards everything being on PS, with IRC seeming like it's being more and more left behind (but then again, I'm not really up-to-date with stuff, so feel free to correct any of this if I'm wrong).
Also if I forgot something/left a response out feel free to just reply with your thoughts.