Make the lobby FFA

[Professor Plum]

I'll admit I'm partially making this post while raging but 5/8 of my games today have been ruined by parties, they were all being incredibly obvious by always voting together and trusting each other without saying a word in chat.

I know they could still just make the room themselves or try to join at the same time but at least it would take party chat away from them and make them have to work at it a bit more. I know people like to play with friends but it feels like far more people are using parties to cheat than to play fair with friends.

So what do other people think? Would losing parties be worth it to reduce the number of cheaters? And I also don't know if this would mess up any of the other scripting that relies on lobby like host assignment or if all being on the same team is needed somehow.

[Computer]

yea i just had a game where the 2 inves and sheriff was in a party and claimed who the bad guys were by day 3 and they admitted they were talking in a messenger program alt tabbing at night, they were quiet and didnt need to discuss anything....
This kind of stuff is hard to stop, defeats the purpose of the game too...

[Dark.Revenant]

Mafia would have a lobby 3 pages long, and would be the only Page 1 map to disallow party access.

[Zack]

Is it possible to display an alert at the start of the game? Like "ThisGuy SomeGuy and NoobGuy are in a party together!"

[Dark.Revenant]

No.

[styx0202]

Mafia would have a lobby 3 pages long, and would be the only Page 1 map to disallow party access.

you keep saying that, care you give an example? because i've got no clue what you mean by "lobby 3 pages long"
and so what if Mafia will be the only map to disallow party access? it's a map where party can ruin games for god sake.

[S.A.S.Cnl.Alpha]

People can still INDIVIDUALLY join by being invited / suggested to the same game while in a party.

And by pages, he mean you'd have to SCROLL DOWN to see the other players as you'd only see about three to five players at any given time.

[Dark.Revenant]

Mafia would have a lobby 3 pages long, and would be the only Page 1 map to disallow party access.

you keep saying that, care you give an example? because i've got no clue what you mean by "lobby 3 pages long"

Let's just say that the current size of the game setup lobby is less than half of what it would be if everyone was on their own team (to prevent party joins).

[Narks]

PHANTOM MODE managed to prevent party joins without bloating up their lobby

they also managed to make a terrain that looks like metal goatse

[Zack]

They probably did a clever thing there, and DR could possibly figure it out, but it will take him time and effort...

People can technically work around parties using a private chat channel or 3rd party chat programs. Though they won't have the easy way of just joining a game as a party, which is a plus.

I haven't run into that many cases of parties cheating, very few infact. Still, it sucks when it happens.

[LeaversGonnaLeave]

They probably did a clever thing there, and DR could possibly figure it out, but it will take him time and effort...

People can technically work around parties using a private chat channel or 3rd party chat programs. Though they won't have the easy way of just joining a game as a party, which is a plus.

I haven't run into that many cases of parties cheating, very few infact. Still, it sucks when it happens.

This right here. If somebody is intent on using party chat to cheat then they will no doubt use skype or a private channel very easily. All blocking a party does is hurt the honest people that just like to play with their friends. Removing the ability to party up would just cause many games to lose somebody right as they joined and the game autostarted but their friend got thrown into the next lobby instead.

Cheatersgonnacheat bro. Don't hurt the rest of us for it.