Jail Rule: Banning Trivia Vote

Should trivia be banned from the Jail Server?

  • Ban Trivia!

    Points: 78 56.9%

  • Keep Trivia!

    Points: 59 43.1%
  • Total voters
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Trivia has been a large part of the jail server for a long time now, and leadership has been debating whether to eliminate it entirely. We have created severe restrictions on trivia, allowing it only once per round, but it is still the most controversial and complained about aspect of jail.

The fact is that no prisoner enjoys standing in cell block for trivia, and it is used by wardens as a crutch to avoid having to be creative in their orders. We have an interest in eliminating the unpleasant portions of game play, and trivia is number one on the chopping block. This game causes unrest and impatience among the prisoners, and has led many to complain of favoritism.

Before making such a major change to the rules, we decided to check with the player base and get a feel for how everyone stands on this issue.

Everyone who wishes to vote on this may do so, and may post regarding the status of their vote. Please do not turn this into a debate thread, this is to be a straight up or down vote. The voting will be anonymous, and we ask that you respect everyone's opinion. If your post does not contribute in a meaningful way or disrespects another member, it will be moderated.

Thank you,
CS:S Leadership
 
I hate trivia, and voted to ban it, but it is an effective way to remove Ts quickly, although it can lead to controversy of bias, or all Ts making sure a player is killed from trivia every round. It is abused, and CTs need to find more creative games, and more original first orders.

vote ban trivia
:)
 
I always love trivia, because it's actually fun, if you had to ban something, it should be the couch game. And as lion said, it is effective and a quick way to remove t's. This is helpful because I can not think of any other way of removing t's as quickly as this and shortening it down, without causing some sort of problem. I also like trivia, because it gives us chances to get the deagles on the canyon map!
 
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Theres only so much you can do with Ts, trivia is one way to lessen the numbers so other games can be played. I say keep it, but require the questions to be trivia instead of silly math.

ESPECIALLY since you guys have banned so many of the fun games of past Jail
 
personally Trivia is a downer for Jail servers... mostly waiting for someone to come up with an answer and typing it out
 
Out of the games which are the least enjoyable for me (couch game, odd man in/out, russian roulette) I prefer trivia the most, mainly because it is the only one that requires skill/intelligence and gives the player control over whether or not they die. I vote keep.
 
Jackie said:
Yes , Keep Trivia, But use it for something other than killing the T's.
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Agreed.

And I would be all for banning math trivia. It's so typical and boring. How about some history, movies, state capitals, etc.
 
Ban it.
  • Everyone complains about it
  • Some times it takes outrageous amounts of time
  • Its boring
  • Theres favoritism behind it because some questions are in a way directed to certain people. Or have been used previously, therefore some players will get it quicker.
  • Lack of creativity. Its an excuse to be unoriginal.

Personally i dont play jail any more because of all the restrictions, but this would help to make the player base happier.
 
I prefer trivia over couch game, but the trivia questions that involve being able to type something the fastest (ie. math trivia) I just can't stand.

I'd keep trivia, but ban math trivia and all related "non-trivia" trivia.


^BTW Shadow I'm liking the sig ;p
 
Look, there is not way to admin this or anything, but get rid of the rediculous questions like1+1, 2+2, 1+2, etc. This is practically a game of first reaction, or luck of the press if you have rediculous pings.

I like what Nighthawk said though, about for not killing T's, maybe as an ST or division method.

Keep trivia, it is a base game in the Jail system, there is a restriction on once per round, if you don't like it, then you don't have to answer the question. I've personally given up trying to answer trivia unless it is obscure or very few T's.

I'm going on now but trivia is fundamental on some maps, like prison break map. List 3 things that isn't trivia on that map, that you can play with at least 7 or more T's(spray contest is too hard with too many). For a map that has little in the way for map specific activities, trivia is the only option.
 
For the CTs, Trivia can be fundamental in thinning the T ranks to a controllable number, which is necessary in high pop times. However it is easily abused; An intensely obscure question will be MIRACULOUSLY gotten by a close friend of the warden who totally didnt steam chat him at all what are you talking about.

For the Ts, trivia is boring. Wardens will constantly ask the same question, and players who have been here longer know their questions. These players are, 9/10, eGO members. And 9/10, it will be a batch of pubs dead after the dust has cleared. It is also very boring - Math is not trivia.

Im betting you guys have seen a lot of "Thats not fair, what if they dont know that?" complaints. The game is called Trivia. As in, trivial knowledge. The entire point of the game is to ask a question that not everyone will get. As long as the subject in question is changed, everyone stands a fair chance. So stop asking math questions kthx.

If you could implement rules that say Trivia must be trivia, no two alike topics are to be asked within five rounds of each other, and somehow assure us that magical fairies wont carry the answer to certain Ts, then by all means, keep it. However I voted to ban it, because it is all in all just a bad game.
 
Yes trivia does get boring and is becoming much too unoriginal. However I believe it is part of jail, if we take out trivia what happens to roulette? Or couch game? or odd man in?

There is favouritism and things which is a part of why quite a few pubs WANT to join eGO. They don't want to keep dying from trivia and therefore join our community so they can not be singled out and killed every time they play trivia.

However trivia SHOULD NOT be used as a tool for mass killing which means put a lower maximum or percentage of people who may be killed. e.g 1-3. This way, the selection process of trivia is indeed shortened and some wardens may not like to waste time with this game while there are other more efficient and fun ways to kill off the t's.

Trivia is only made boring by the warden and waiting. However this could be made fun with creative riddles or jokes and a gripping suspense of: Should I rebel because he might pick me. Believe it or not things like these strengthens loyalty and friendship between familiar gamers.

I can understand why you may not want to take it away but I do not believe that trivia is the problem here. Maybe stipulations and rules could bew added to tighten it up but most certainly in my opinion:

DON'T TAKE AWAY TRIVIA
 
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Keep it, but make it limited to once a round and no dumb questions like that stuff where they have multiple people ask questions and you have to figure out which one to answer.

or make it so its not used for killing T's, but more for ST or otherthings.
 
Lets not ban trivia altogether, but ban certain questions that can be asked.

Im sure nobody likes the obvious question (no matter how you write it) that always involves people spamming the #4.

Keep, but do away with certain trivia questions that CTs usually focus on.
 
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