Imagine a random number between 1 and 15.
Don't tell it. Write it down. Stuff it in a box leave it at a table at your next fast-food restaurant visit. The one who finds it may have more use for it than gamers have use of the numbers people type at the beginning of a game. I know where they get it. I don't know how that number is created, but by now most players know it is wrong!
Maybe it's the number of people ingame in that moment, but most times it is lower than the actual number when game is about to be created. So.... what is the fuc**** point in writing down that false number???
I really don't get it. It looks totally retarded when someone writes "10, rmk" and leaves when the host already set up roles and it clearly said it was 12. Result: retard writes false number and leaves, others leave with only 11 people left (I think 12 should be minimum) and the game really has to be remade. I thought it over and over, creating dozens of situations. In not a single one was it a help if someone wrote down a number that was never certain. Is there a secret ranking system where people earn points when they are the first to throw a number into the room? Because otherwise it makes 0 (another weird number) sense. If i were some raging nerd, I would say the only reason this would ever make sense was, when you consider that people always want to be the first to state the obvious. Stupid people, to be fair. Only utterly stupid people write "12+" and when the first one leaves because he does not want to play with only 12 people, he claims the leaver is a retard. Now I am waiting for answers like "but it's good to know if it makes sense to stay in game...". To be true, I won't be mad. I will take up the phone, get my girlfriend to come over and think about how hard life must suck when you never get laid and have to type random numbers (most people know are wrong) to look important.