Mahjong Fix

[SpiderLily]

My replies to the OP post:

- There should be three queues, not two. Ranked, Advanced Ranked, and normal. Some people would like to play without all the ranking stuff.

It's already somewhat of a struggle to find players in some more unpopular hours even with basically only one queue (Novice Quick). Casual players can simply play without paying mind to the MMR system it they would like. Ranked players who wish to play in a more "troll"-ish way have other platforms for that.

- Ranked queue should be left as it is. Hints off. Dangerous tile could be still left on.

I honestly can get behind this, but Advanced games are unicorns already compared to Novice queues, so I support simply disabling tips and danger tiles for all.

- Advanced ranked queue should have "open hand tanyao" turned off. As it is not very "advanced" yaku. Also hints and dangerous tiles off.

Where do you draw the line? Is "my only yaku is riichi" advanced? Is yakuhai advanced enough? Is all pons, even if it is harder to attain than "open hand 1 han hand lol"? Because it's really simply to understand all pons.

Is it because tanyao is the most played yaku? Because it isn't. According to tenhou, Riichi is.



Second, open hand tanyao is a strategy. Yes, it's frustrating to see someone rushing it mindlessly, be it either a novice who does not know any better or someone interrupting your riichi on purpose. But that's exactly the point. Open hand tanyao is only a tool in your box. It sacrifices all scores for speed. Do you want to keep your score above your peers and end this game quickly? Open hand tanyao. Are you a dealer? Open hand tanyao. Is a player with an absurdly high rank the dealer? Open hand tanyao. Do you think someone's riichi has a bad wait? Open hand tanyao. Do you want to prevent Ippatsu? Chi/pon at your earliest convenience, and then maybe open hand tanyao.

About the novices? They don't know how to score any better. On one of my games last week I saw a little guy, 3000 points under me, calling ron on my discard when there were 40 tiles left on pile. I was a dealer, he had an open hand yakuhai, and the game ended with still me on first place and he on second. He then complained when he saw that the game ended and I was still above him in the scoreboard. I found him in the next game and gently lectured on "if you had waited only a bit to get 2 han, you would have won."

As well, you'll interrupt pretty quickly a table of novices mindlessly 1-han ron'ing when you do a similarly fast but better built hand.