(minor) Magic-League Changes/Suggestions/Bug Fixes

Jerry_Christ · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 17

Trial Times. I think that If you change the trial times to somethinkg between 2-6 P.M. (Est) You would get more people. Or adjust it around school. I mean you would have alot more people playing if you adjusted it around school. What I am trying to say is 9 a.m. Is just way to early. I usually dont get to sleep until 2 a.m. (cst) so getting up for that tourney is just insane.

MetalArsenal · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 11

Laplie · League Staff Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 547

NahHolmes · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 588

1: I know you said dead horse and all, but you should really allow judges to use discression with the flip rule. Sometimes things come up that it's just easier for one person to let the other win on flips then to be a dick and waste everyones time getting a ruling on something stupid like a technical error. Since it would be judges discression it would be easy to see someone abusing it.
2: Don't allow people to play in more then 1 mini. People always complain that there are not enough minis, you should only join 1 at a time so people can get into them who are not playing. Also it is incredibly obnoxious to play vs. someone juggling another mini. It is almost always extreme stalling and very not fun.
3: Start banning people for saying extremely racist things, so uncalled for and many of the players here are still young.
4: Bring back BYOB, BYOT2, and Block Party!!!!!!! Also Peasant.
5: Put the timer for rounds on the main page for those in a mini/trial, sometimes the TC timer breaks or something (prolly not an easy thing to do though).

Wiley · Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 136

Erebus- · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 93

Why should race exist in a faceless, online community?

Laplie · League Staff Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 547

Wiley · Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 136

EDIT: This is in response to the post before Laplie's; also Laplie thank you for clarifying that for me. On that note though, shouldn't Koen use print runs?

Precisely, why acknowledge it? Do you think anyone says the word 'nigger' on M-L in reference to blacks? Or because they want to express hatred towards black people? They say it because the word is funny and controversial. I can recall several instances of r4ndom saying 'hmm i feel like getting banned' before he'd say the word; banning people for dropping the N bomb only adds fuel to the fire.

While the word is often associated with racism, it can't be racist if you aren't actually a racist person. Banning people for expressing themselves on the basis that 'many of the players here are young' is ridiculous because first of all, it's trivialising the whole issue by saying 'oh racism is bad because we might offend the youngins' (you know, as opposed to offending BLACK PEOPLE) and second of all, we can't fuck over the mature population by restricting their freedom of speech just because a few people on the site might bitch to their parents. I've heard this same line of argument from Nico; pray tell me why you're trying to appeal to an invisible demographic? As far as I know the youngest person here is Gerrardfo.

ZeMuppet · Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 33

Well, if a child is that sheltered to freak out at a curse word, then his parents aren't going to allow him to browse the net on his own and he most likely will not be playing Magic. Broad generalizations aside...

There is no real good way to do the sealed pools any more faster and still make the server reliable. SQL is crappy stuff, and it took you guys a while to finally get it down. Way to go.

Off the top of my head, I think it would be better to maybe reorganize everything in the card database. Like, all TSP is one group. All RAV, DIS, and such are in different groups...and a TC could have options on whatever he uses to make minis and such, therefore, the cards are stored on server, but are never used unless an option is indicated.

If you want a clearer explanation of that, I would be happy to ablidge, but that will alleviate the server stress of searching over 2,000 entries in a database while still offering other sets for sealed events.

Jerry_Christ · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 17

O and another thing, I think there should be some thing that examins the decks (that is given when joining a tourny) to make sure no-one is using banned (or to many restricted, etc) cards. I personally love t2 but i also love playing other formats (byob, Byot2, t1, etc.) But I dont know all the cards that are banned and or restricted in certain formats, (I do know most of them) but for the noobys who dont, it would sure help them to know that there opp are not use illegal cars. Should be it, I will sleep on this thread and maybe get more bugs and such, jk.

iKe · Joined: 14 Dec 2005 Posts: 524 Location: New York

I think team trials would be great. You could use that DCI-r system to pair the teams and there will be Man A,B,C and they would play each other. You could give points however you want (Team points + rating points for wins etc...). Team minis would probably too much of a pain in the ass to deal with but I think a few trials maybe a master would be really cool.

Laplie · League Staff Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 547

An anonymous suggestion:

whe you try the "Find the Magic-League rating history of a player:" you cant find Other, and when you are looking at someoens rating, you cant find directly the Other, like a direct link "player x's Constructed Rating History". And I dont know if its big but a composite list would be nice

Apocalypser · Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 62

NahHolmes · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 588

Freedom of speech... This is a website for playing Magic, your "freedom of speech" here ends where ever the owners of the website want it to. I don't care about a joke every once in a while, but some people just nonstop say incredibly racist shit and only once have I seen anything done about it. Two years ago you would get a warning for saying anything from fag to shit in the channel then the 2nd time you got a kick/ban, now it seems like absolutely anything goes. My roommate started playing on here and he said something about it too so I know it turns a lot of people off to the site. He was checking out the top 4 decks for a trial and the comments were all like "Yeah niggers eat shit" and "Fucking stupid niggers". I mean maybe you all live in Canada or something, but around where I live the Klan still rides and people still get killed and beaten over words. I used to live with 3 black roommates in college and had people ride by in trucks and yell "Niggers!!!!" out their window as we walked down the street, so yeah it may just be a joke to say to you but to lots of people it's a word that means a lot more then you will ever understand apparently, so grow the fuck up with all that.

Anyways though back to topic bring back the Other formats, so fun.

Jerry_Christ · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 17