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Geriatric Ruleset History
History
This page explains the reasoning / history behind the GR ruleset.
| Ruleset | History and Reasoning | Games Run w/ GR | Geriatric Players Club |
Site Meta in 2017
In June of 2017, Site Admin Zoraster posted a detailed thread analyzing the increasing trend of a site meta that involved, in his words "at least a portion of our population posting a lot. Often in a row". This site meta has become an issue for a number of reasons, including much longer games (both in time played, as well as length) and generally a culture of things like thread-spamming and posting in all caps. Essentially, the game has become a lot more about who can be the loudest than anything else. You can find more discussion on this in Zoraster's thread, "Mafia Game Posting Frequency Discussion".
Geriatric Player's Club
Also in June, Korts, a player from 2008 who was also unsatisfied with the current meta, created the thread "Geriatric Players Club", in which he began a conversation for creating a ruleset in which games could be shorter, more relaxed, and more of a slow burn. In October of 2017, the official ruleset was created along with a sizable group of interested players (old and new). As of December 2017, games with this ruleset are being tested in various of the site's Queues.