Mahjong

>>16413755
>mixed clear and solid tiles
Why does this feel like it would lead to cheating? Or making it easier to tell whats left on the wall.

>>16414031
There is no wall in Washizu mahjong.

>>16413755
Anybody playing tonight ?

>>16414031
Watch Akagi, it's fun.

>>16414031
What >>16414067 said

All the tiles in the game are basically drawn from a hole in the center of the table with gloves in order to prevent seeing what your draw would be.

The idea behind the game is to force players to be more creative with their waiting tiles because it can be easy to determine the exact tiles someone is waiting on depending on how many opaque and translucent tiles they have in hand.

>>16414105
Depends what you mean by "tonight". I'll be happy to hop on in six hours

>>16414921
Well, it's European tonight, right here it's 1:30 AM already.
In fact I just played my first game of the night because every time I check the lobby it's 0:4.
And I just missed a second game and I'm 1:4, fuck me.

>>16413758
Well I won although I probably shouldn't have called the nan on S4.

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017011505gm-0029-0000-1a979255&tw=3

Rest of the day has been pretty terrible though.

Well I got all the way through the ranks in the single player of mahjong tengokuhai but I'm still too scared to play tenhou.

>>16416098
It's fun Anon. Could always start in L7447 if ya don't want to hop right into the deep end. If there's anyone hanging out of course.

>>16416098
Ippan players are awful, you will be fine

>>16416098
You don't even really start playing mahjong until you hit the second room. Just hop in, you'll be fine.

>>16414067
>>16414701
Thrilling, i'll have to look into it.

3:0 friends, let's throw defense in the garbage and go all out!

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It's only a tertiary relation to Mahjong (at the moment) but since it's a FKMT work, I figured I'd mention that there's a Gin to Kin live adaption airing currently for those who didn't know already.

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>tfw you're a complete mess

>derank
>next game toimen gets yakuman
why am I still playing this kusoge
http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017011517gm-0089-0000-2dc527ea&tw=2

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>>16416854

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>this month
>6+4+5+10 = 25戦

>>16416423
Oh, it's already airing, and raws for the first two episodes are already out. Neat.

Where the hell is the final episode of Yoshihiko S3 though?

>>16416111
>>16416114
>>16416165
Thanks I will try it out! Still scared though.

>>16418134
Just use a throwaway ID and create a real one once you're comfortable with everything

>>16418134
this >>16418168
Make an ID to play something like two hundred games and when you'll know how to play decently like defense and tile efficiency, you make a new ID.

We've said it before, until you hit 4 dan, R means nothing. Just stick with your account until then. If you end up at 4 dan with R1600 then it's definitely time to restart.

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>Sit down for a game in the first time for a while
>This happens
Wake me up

2nd isn't bad though considering how rusty I am

>>16416955
>9+6+9+10 = 34戦
Could have been a whole lot worse. I stole 5 of those 3rds.

1:0

Let's play.

2:0 for sanma

>Two consecutive 4ths

Fuuuuuuck... One step forward one step back

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It feels good when you're not the one getting fucked for once.

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>>16422914

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>Win with a rinshan Kaihou from a kan over a pon
>Check the replay
>I'd have had dora4 from that kan if I hadn't gotten the rinshan

I ended up just barely winning that game but it was a bit sad seeing the dora 4 that could have ended it right there.

1:0, by the way.

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>>16424307
2:0

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All of a sudden I don't feel as bad about not hitting this hand.

Poor Starman drops to 3rd though.

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>>16413755
How do I actually get better at this game, just by grinding out more bot games?

I've been playing on and off for about a month on the single-player gamedesign site, and honestly I'm lucky if I actually manage to place 1st or 2nd in a round. I think I'm just awful at reading discards and always deal into the bot's hands as a result.

Should I just try moving onto tenhou for experience?

>>16424861
>Should I just try moving onto tenhou for experience?
I'd say go for it. Save for some good people making new accounts and whatnot, people in ippan are usually not particularly good, so you'll probably do just fine.

>>16424861
>Should I just try moving onto tenhou

Absolutely, it'll be more fun and you'll learn faster.

>>16424861
Don't bother reading discards until they riichi unless it's painfully obvious (like they make 3 calls). Just try to make a hand.

Ippan gives no reward for anything other than first so the players are already pretty aggressive, beyond the fact that they are filled with generally terrible players.

>>16424861
Make a Tenhou ID then crawl your way out from general lobby. You're forced to think with limited time and suffer the consequences from doing stupid calls and discards.

>>16424861
Realise that some lessons are hard learned. You will deal in and in hindsight hate yourself for it. This is normal but we're all in it together.

I've been playing (seriously) for a little over a year and still fuck up. Turn that rage into a desire to learn and grow.

If at all possible, try playing live. It'll make you even better

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>one of those nights in 0000

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Hey guys I want to play Saki on the Vita again and I forgot what each of the rules did. The Youtube video I use got deleted so I want to know what rules I should use to make it the most Japanese mahjong-like.

I'm used to Cantonese mahjong so some of the rules I set may seem weird.

Can anyone translate this image for me?

>>16426293
Top to bottom: game amount, game type (tonpuu/hanchan/1-hand), red dora, open tanyao Y/N, east round renchan (dunno/tenpai only/win only), south round renchan, bust, kiriage mangan (4 han 30 fu counts as mangan Y/N), skill, growth?, time per draw.

>>16426293
Number of matches: 1 | 2
Match form: Tonpuusen | Hanchan | Ikkyokusen (one round game)
Akadora: No | Yes
Kuitan: No | Yes
East round renchan: None | Tenpai | Win
South round renchan: None | Tenpai | Win
Bust: No | Yes
Kiriage mangan: No | Yes
Special abilities: No | Yes
Character training active: No | Yes
Time limit: None | 5 sec | 10 sec

Character training refers to the points you can put into characters to make them stronger.

>>16426309
>>16426317
Thanks guys. I should play with open tanyao disabled right?

>>16426334
Depends, do you want to be Achiga cheapslut?

>>16426334
No. Why would you do that? Kuitan nashi is not real mahjong.

>>16426338
>>16426339
Then I'll keep it. I'm not used to seeing how score is being calculated; Cantonese mahjong only has han multipliers and fu calculations throw me off.

Also, is red dora standard?

>>16426347
Common mahjong set usually has those tiles, but whether they're used or not depends on the ruleset. In case of Saki universe, the answer is yes.

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Long story short. Shit play last month, and even shittier play this month

Who's been in this position before?

>>16426846
Sounds like me every day.

>>16426846
Never made it that high, but I've gone from being 4dan to almost dropping to 2dan. Makes you want to stop playing.

Take a couple of days off, and come back trying to play for fun and not worrying much about R.

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You guys remember how bad everyone had it in January of last year? We all massely ate shit that time. I've been struggling myself, but for better or for worse I've been breaking even. I'm hoping to turn things around soon.

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For what purpose?

RON

>>16427535
I like to say "ron" in real life, even though I'm playing on Tenhou.

>>16427572
Oh yeah? Me too.

Frankly I yell out way more after getting ron'd

Here for gyakutening from 25k deficits because double uradora twice in a row and dealer positioning in oorasu.
http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017011804gm-0009-0000-0cd4ae2c&tw=2

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>>16427572
Me too and I blame a certain series for this

>>16428792
Weird for a bot to forgot a 2 han win in the hopes of a furiten 3 han win. I wonder what the program mindset is for that.

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>>16428792
The AI is really good at pretending to be retarded.

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>>16427535
>>16427572

>>16428792
Probably it hit an inside draw for just a tsumo, rather than a pinzumo. At that point going furiten riichi can makes sense, although I probably wouldn't do it after the first few draws.

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>>16428792

1:0 again.

>>16429672
3:0

>>16427498
He is bad.

>>16427498
He probably didn't think he had enough safe tiles to last until a draw so he might as well go for it and hope for ura dora. After the 7p I don't see anything that is going to work.

>>16432118
5m is also kinda safe against both too.

>>16432144
>Half-suji
Not really, especially since it's right by the dora. A 25m wait there is very normal.

>>16432156
Yeah you're right.
But even then, is it not right to try as much as possible to defend and hope you draw safe tiles later, when your hand is this cheap ? Or is it just a different line of thinking ?

>>16432181
It's a personal/playstyle choice. I don't really like it, but it's not a particularly bad play the way despite the OP getting screwed.

>>16432196
>the way
that way

>>16427498
that is such a bad push it's amazing

This is a really broad question and I'm not even sure it can have a solid answer, but how does one work on deciding which hand to go for? What I mean by that is a majority of my hands (maybe as much as 3/4ths) are only worth 1-2 han. It seems the only time I really go for a specific hand is if I'm aiming for toitoi or chiitoi, so usually any time I happen to get a mangan or higher it's because of lucky dora tiles or yakuhai as well. So I guess I'm having issues with distinguishing what kind of hand to focus on if it becomes realistically possible. It's probably just something I need to work on by actively striving for better hands, but I thought I'd just ask.

Also, are non round or seat winds useless outside of specific hands?

>>16433295
As a rule, focus on pin fu and/or tanyao and adjust from there. Don't open your hand unless you are almost certain what yaku you are going for. Riichi pin fu tanyao is already 3 yaku and with any dora, iipeikou, ippatsu, etc. it's a mangan.

If you have a bunch of one suit aim for honitsu or chinitsu, but be prepared to abandon it if neccesary.

>Toitoi
If you have pairs don't call until you know for sure you aren't going chitoitsu. If you have a couple of closed sets or yakupai then sure.

Yakupai by themselves are ok, but as you get to higher ranking you can get punished for opening your hand for cheap wins. If you have some dora as well then go for it.

Other than that it's mainly just be aware of when to chase kokushi or other yakuman.

>>16433295
>Also, are non round or seat winds useless outside of specific hands?
If you have a pair it might bring you closer to tenpai (and riichi) and can give unusual waits. Single winds are usually worthless other than as safe discards when you need to betaori, although they can be good for chitoitsu waits.

if you aint rolling toitoi your better off going for goygoy

>>16433295
>how does one work on deciding which hand to go for?
Know the yaku, and the best way to attain them. By best, I mean "easiest".

After that, consider the dora. Sometimes, the dora will affect which yaku you decide upon. This includes the decision to open the hand, or remain closed.

>>16433337
>>16433349
>>16434005
Thanks guys, I really appreciate your help. I don't have much else to say but I'm going to keep all of it in mind and try and get more experienced to put it into effect.

>>16434349
If you play on tenhou you can post a replay so we can provide a practical example on what to aim for in each hand.

3:0

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post your greatest mahjong meme bullshit hands.

pic related.

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>>16434844
Not a good hand but still.

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>>16434844

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>>16434844
the best part is that I got another sanshoku doukou the day before this one

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>>16434945
I have a couple that aren't mine that should work.

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>>16434977

>>16434977
If Tenhou allowed for double yakuman that would have been a fucking QUINTUPLE YAKUMAN, worth 240k points.

What's that Yakuman you still can't get?

For me it is Chuuren poutou.
So fucking hard.

>>16435258
I've been in tenpai for it twice in the years I've later. Once in a room full of people. I quietly declared noten instead, unwilling to have my near godhand become a conversation point...

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>>16434844
My personal favorite. My 10th yakuman in Tenhou:

http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2013011715gm-0009-7447-0bef5c3f&tw=1&ts=10

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>>16434844
posted this in the last thread, but here's my ultra bullshit gyakuten.

>>16435487
Too bad y'didn't have pair 8m. But that's still a sexy hand.

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>>16434844
Rinshan tsumo to end 1st.

>>16429247
>>16413755
ok but who will win at the end??

>>16435707
go read the current chapter

I swear it's still good

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>been eating shit for 2 weeks straight
>This game will be different
>Start as east, simocha riichi's early in the round
>Guess I'll defend. No use in being stupid here
>Haneman tsumo
Of fucking course... Well not all is lost. One can easily recover
>Tsumo in early rounds for most players, shit starting hands and draws on my end, defending, biding my time
>Finally see hope, early tenpai for my own dealer haneman with a strong ryanmen wait on the 5th turn
>Riichi instantly, time for a comeback!
>Kamicha riichi's right after
W-what!?
>deal into mangan, no way to salvage the game

What's endlessly frustrating is how I've been beating myself up for dumb mistakes that cost me many games recently. I mentally drilled myself to stop with the beginner errors like hopeless riichi and not pushing against a ready hand unless really worth it. I applied the knowledge, made the objectively correct decisions and ended up in fucking fourth

I'm seething with rage at how much consecutive bullshit has been thrown my way in recent times considering how successful I've been in this lobby over the last two months. I can't accept "shit luck" as an excuse, I'm going back to basics...

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Just did this, feels good. The only other sanshoku doukou I ever did was also with the 8.

>>16437792
Post the replay, I'm curious.
Some games I couldn't do shit too and it feels bad when it's a streak.

>>16437792
Luck comes and goes, but skill is forever. Keep identifying your mistakes, but don't beat mind plain bad luck.

>>16437825
Tried to pull it but my phone flash browser didn't save it. Maybe when I get back later.

>>16437838
Thanks, I'm just venting. Hopefully I can turn things around before deranking

>>16437840
Okay.

>>16437870
If it's your 1st account, you'll have to make another one because the mistakes from when you were learning will take too much time to erase from your stats.

Also 1:4

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>1:0
I just want to win some hands

>>16437792
You can still get last place even in houou lobby, so what's the problem?

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>>16413755
>leading the game by a significant margin
>deal into a double ron for the very first time

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>>16438679
>dealing into a triple ron for the first time

Just as planned.

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>East 1: Toimen deals into Shimocha's Riichi for an ippatsu Haneman
>East 2: Shimocha tsumos for Haneman
>East 3: Start with a great iishanten at fist draw hand, lose it because Suufon renda and my dealership gets skipped
>East 4: Despite an early Shimocha riichi, Kamicha tsumos for 4000 points and sinks me to third

I mean, I guess this is what I get for playing tonpuusen. On seganet, no less.

After 40 games, I finally managed to get my rank up to 1550, and it only took 4 games to get it back down to 1450. Is the Ippan lobby usually this sporadic with ranking, or do I just eat ass? I don't think I played particularly poorly in those games, just some bad luck, which is to be expected, but it affected my rank much more negatively than playing decently affected my rank positively.

>>16439236
Don't worry too much about R until you're trying to get to Tokujou.

The R transfer formula factors in how many games you've played. It has a soft cap after about 400 games which greatly reduces how much R you win and lose.

But before that, your R will be pretty much a rollercoaster. I bet you could reach something ridiculous like 2000R before 3dan if you tried hard enough. Although I supposed playing against people who have hundreds of R less than you really limits how much you can gain.

>>16439372
I was around 1900 way back when I was 2 kyuu and was losing points every time I was even second.

Whooo finally got my ass kicked all the way down from 2 dan to 1 kyu. Anyone up for a game or two before I go off and sulk?

>>16439870
Chin up, man. I've lost count of how many times I deranked and now I'm in tokujou. You'll get there eventually.

3:0

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>>16439870
Let's drown our sorrows I'm booze and more mahjong

>>16440042
Super late for me, got a good match in though good enough for me.

>>16439372
That explains why I keep seeing utterly retarded 1800+ players.

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>>16434844
Good times senpai.

>>16442393
Why didn't he call a kan? He's already in tenpai.

>>16442457
Maybe he didn't want to give the dealer who called riichi more dora and uradora while at the same time risking chankan. Calling kan there wouldn't have been a good idea.

>>16442463
Yeah but that 7 is obviously risky, the dealer's hand looks like a souzu honitsu or something close.

>>16442490
And I agree he shouldn't have dealt it, but calling kan is the same as dealing it.

>>16434987
>a 2-man wait when he has a 2-man kan
What did he mean by this

>>16442498
I guess
Chankan is such a meme yaku

>when your opponents have the flow all game and you don't
http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017012108gm-0089-0000-30e7850d&tw=2

>>16443427
Me over the last 3 weeks

Dude NOOOOO

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I am never getting this again.

>13+8+15+16
FUCK EVERYTHING

>19+10+14+10
Life is good.

>>16444038
The thing about this is my points haven't gone down to a unrecoverable state, but I've lost 50R which is going to take forever to get back.

>5+4+4+4 in Tokujou
>2+4+1+1 in Joukyu

It works out to +225. I'm alright with it, I guess.

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>>16443537
Never say never. I was tenpai three times in 2014, only to not hit any of them. Likewise, I never got to see it again - until just a few months ago.

3:4

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Want to win mahjong stuff?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUrlNVtJqEk2lnWtiMdpOUPAUAMYixL7CU_36M08bfNv2FxA/viewform?c=0&w=1

NARMA Winter Open.

If you like mahjong and can play on Tenhou, feel free to sign up. See document for details.

>>16444429
Sweet, I'll sign up. I always do awful at tournaments, though.

>>16444429
Looks awesome. Dunno if that time works for me but I'll try

>>16444429
>Mexico.
Who would be playing there other than me?

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>>16444613

It's always satisfying watching a hououfag drop in and get destroyed in tokujou.

Every fucking time I'm done with this rigged game and want to drop it, I win, so I keep playing. Fuck mahjong.

>>16444962
It's even more funny to see a jokyuu drop by to ippan and getting destroyed.

That's it. I quit this semen slurping board game.
See you guys tomorrow.

>>16444429
Any planned stream for this? I want to know how good burgerfags play mahjong.

>>16445471
I don't know but NARMA has a Twitch channel, so if there is a stream it'd probably be there.

3:0

Jokes on you, you won't get that in L0. Great hand, good job.

>>16445005
Having seen both several times, Houou losing is far more entertaining. Most of the time someone drops from Joukyuu they weren't paying attention in the first place and just hit the button. With Houou they are deliberately trying to shit up the game and deserve to be punished.

>>16444134
Damn nice, it was only my 1st chuuren tenpai.
Actually there are quite a lot of yakuman I never got the chance to attempt but I got the easier ones several times already.

>3:0
Come play.

>First game of the day, barely miss 2nd place and end up 3rd
>Second game barely claw my way into 3rd place
>third game I end up tied for 4th but wind order saves my ass and puts me in 3rd place

I don't like where this tendency is going.

2:0

who the fuck was that noname who was AFK the entire fucking game?

>>16448759
Kek I don't know. It screwed the game.

>>16448772
He wasn't even DC'd he was just AFK or something

>>16448759
>>16448772
I adjusted my play immediately and ended up dealing into other players a couple times because of it, thought I was going to end up 3rd there.

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http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017012209gm-0029-0000-24442957&tw=1

My poor heart.

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>>16449354
Not trying to rub it it, there was hardly anything you could do in the other rounds, but you really fucked it up in S4.

You had two options, a 1-4s wait by dealing a risky 6s. You could see all of the 1s and two of the 4s, so you only had 2 winning tiles left, and not very good ones at that.

Or deal a safe 1s and go on a 6-9s wait, which had two of the 9s and three of the 6s left. It was objectively the better choice and you got punished immediately for not taking it. Sorry about it, man.

>>16449500
I hadn't realized there weren't any 1s left until you said something. I completely missed the one from D even after watching it several times.

3:0

2:0

1:8

>it's a "NoName disconnects" episode
When can we ban NoNames from existing

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>Guy gets double ronned by two perfect non-dealer mangans and ends up exactly at 0 points

Luckily he didn't bust and I finally got a rinshan with Saki

>>16450753
I always wanted to try playing on there, but doesn't it require you to pay real money to play ranked games?

>>16451188
You have to earn "chips" - aka - fake money.

>>16451196
So you mean from playing the free mode and winning you earn fake money that can be used in place of real money to play ranked? Seems like a bit of a grind but might be worth a try.

>>16451213
At least it's not JRM.

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>>16451430
Don't remind me, I was so excited for that update without knowing it would introduce that bullshit.

>>16451188
>>16451196
What are you guys talking about

>>16451615
https://sites.google.com/site/mjnetguide/home

Some info there, but I don't know how up to date some specifics are

>>16451615

What this guy said.

>>16451213

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I don't get how you guys can get so angry at this game. Maybe I'm really new and fresh on the block (just started last week, playing with some buddies on and off in Tenhou), but with your hands all being randomized from the start, and the draws also being random (though I'm guessing you can make an educated guess on what you could possibly draw based on discards), it doesn't really feel like a big deal when I lose.

When I win, that's great! But I already have some pretty cathartic fun by turning off my brain, putting something in the background, and trying to get my four triplets and pair. Maybe I live in a simpler world and if I play too much of this I'll become jaded, but I don't really understand the alcoholic pessimism about this game.

I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm legitimately curious. It feels like it's the same thing as getting angry at card games or gambling when your draws are random and pretty much out of your control.

At least, when I play, I try to get comfy and that's the reward in itself.

>>16452057
When I was new I also had the same opinion. But as I set a goal (striving to get into the Houou lobby) I became more serious about the game and would get upset for hours after I lost. I'm a perfectionist so this is pretty much one of the worst games for me to play.

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>>16452057
A lot changes when you get to higher ranks. Downranking is completely demoralizing because of how much work it is to climb up and you have no one to blame but yourself.

It gets noticeable around 3 dan where if you don't have all the basics down you won't advance (primarily learning defense).

4 dan specifically is harsh because either you just stepped into Tokujou and player skill skyrocketed, or more likely you have to grind up to R1800 and even getting third drags you farther away from it. Every time someone hits a cheap hand to stop your big ones that risk increases, because you can't hit big hands even half the time.

The penalties for fourth get progressively harsher, but the points you can earn stay the same until you advance a room and the players are significantly better. It will wear you down since you don't have control over most of the game in the first place.

>>16452057
Mainly because while Tenhou is a competitive platform for mahjong, it's still essentially a gambling game.
Your most optimal discards can still backfire, your good shaped hand can still result in nothing, and even with all the best decisions you do in the game, the other 3 players can still outluck it.
It's not blaming for bad luck, just that the higher you put your expectation, the worse it can (and will) crash down.

>>16454320
What's especially frustrating are the times where completely unlikely events keep happening and fucking you over

>>16452057
>It feels like it's the same thing as getting angry at card games or gambling when your draws are random and pretty much out of your control.
Because it's not pure gambling. If you're just playing poker and you lose, that's fine because it's pure luck. Bluffing and all sure but there's little in terms of skill with the actual game - it's more human interaction and you can either say "my hand was bad" or "I was just outplayed and outbluffed". Those are the only two ways to lose in poker, either luck OR skill - not both, usually.
In Mahjong you can do literally everything right but still lose because TSUMO, RIICHI IPPATSU SANSHOKU PINFU JUNCHAN DORA 3 URA 3.

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You guys are too focused on the short term, the only way to gauge skill in mahjong is by your stats over hundreds of games, so just stick to your playing style and what comes out of it will eventually reflect how viable your playstyle is against the opponents you face. But I won't deny pic related in the short term. You gotta stick it out until it balances out.

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http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2017012310gm-0029-0000-caa99793&tw=0

Unleashed the fucking fury.

2:0

>>16454557
2:4

>tfw already 0:4

Well, 1:4 I guess. Come play.

>>16454463
jesus fuck

>2:4

Does anyone have that empty queue pictures with suddenly full at 3:0?

>never deal in
>still end up in 4th by a huge margin
Kill me

>>16454716
Worst feeling.

>it just had to be my turn to be dealer when someone hit a baiman tsumo

>>16454759
Yeah this, also
>everyone was still at 25000 in East 4

>>16454812
Could have been a lot worse if he had hit the sex button, as that adds a han and 2 more dora indicators.

>>16454823
He'd need to have gotten at least two more dora to get any more points outta that, although considering it could've easily been a counted yakuman

>7d R1843 guy in joukyu
Why would he do this to himself?

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>>16454679

>>16454848
He's looking for "easy" rating. As much as we bitch about 4 dan hell, that's an absolutely brutal 7 dan hell.

>>16454867
Rate changes are based on the rate of the other players at the table. There is no easy rating.

>>16454873
In fact, looking at his stats, he's played all of 4 games in tokujou.

>>16454873
Hence the quotes. The more I think about it, the more I expect he's about to downrank and is desperate for points. You simply can't be that low and maintain 7 dan. 1920 seems like about as low as would be possible.

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>>16454887
Oh so he's just a faggot.

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[screams internally]

>>16455116
I don't get it

>>16455116
There is no Pei round, you made it to the edge of the mahjong abyss.

>>16455213
Adding to this, had he not gotten that bullshit haitei, you'd have won by default.

>>16455223
If he didn't get a haitai and discarded that the other guy would've gotten houtei, there's no escape.

>>16455246
What other guy? Toimen and Kamicha aren't in tenpai.

>>16455259
somehow I thought kamicha had two 6s

>>16454863
Cheers.

>>16455203
Player to the right won the game.

Nobody told me Corak is back.

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>it's a '2 players bully the 4th and I am left doing nothing' episode

>>16456195
>complaining even when not losing

>>16454759
Felt good to make a baiman without any dora and a rinshan at that.

>>16456242
I want to be involved.

>>16456474
I literally just got out of furiten too
It wasn't very nice of you

>>16456490
Heh sorry, I even took like 3 seconds to realize I had tsumo.

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>>16454463
tenhou.net/0/?log=2017012403gm-0029-0000-da9ac74a&tw=3&ts=13

Early riichi into a dragon tanki works so well. I love it.

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my first yakuman hand
ryuuiisou

>>16457804
I've been wanting that yakuman for years...

>>16455827
Well, he IS Comeback Corak.

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>>16452057
>I don't get how you guys can get so angry at this game
Well, there are times when we want certain things to happen in this game; but it doesn't happen as expected. As a result, we get mad. That's human nature.

>your draws are random and pretty much out of your control
That is true, but it doesn't stop us from having expectations.

>>16457923
That's seriously tough. Toimen probably has a kanchan or penchan wait, as is the case with early riichi, but your kamicha is probably waiting on either high souzu or the ura sujis for 5 pin. Which means all pinzu are risky as fuck. Add to that toimen's wildcard statis and your complete lack of safe tiles, I'd toss 2sou

How'd it play out?

>>16457923
Your hand's a minefield. I'd go with either the 2s or 7m.

>>16457923
Gonna guess 2s is gonna get you ronned. I'd go for 3p since I'm the stupid guy that likes to know what people are waiting on. Smart choice is probably 1m and then hope that 4m can also pass and the round ends there. That's definitely a tough spot though, I'd deal in for sure knowing my luck and tendency to do stupid things.

>>16457923
6pin

>>16458017
I bet he's on a 6-3pin wait

>>16458026
yes, that's probably one good guess, but 3 5pin are out,as well as 2 4pin

>>16458039
incomplete kabe has fucked me over too many times for me to trust it with a dora. Just because there's only one left doesn't mean that D doesn't have it.

He pursued a dealer riichi with a risky 5pin discard, even though he was on second place. It's not a stretch to think he could have the last 5pin and waiting on a 36p or a tanki/shanpon wait involving the dora. I'd rather avoid the pinzu tiles in this case.

>>16457923
WELL!? WHAT IS IT?

>>16457923
I'd go for 1m here, I have a feeling souzu is the most risky suit.

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>>16457976
>>16458009
>>16458011
>>16458017
>>16458124
>>16458205
In the end kamicha ronned into toimen.

>>16457923
It's S3 and I'm last place, feels bad. Maybe I wouldn't have played it safe in the beginning.
Well whatever, right now we're full betaori mode.
No safe tiles, half-suji 6p and 4s. But 6p is near the dora so it's out. 4s doesn't seem safe at all anyway. Only dangerous suji remain.
But 6m looks safer than the rest because usually, early tanyaohai discards means they don't need the tiles around them.
So I guess I go with 7m.

>>16458611
You're dead son.
>is near the dora
This doesn't matter unless it's the suji of the dora, in which this case it is.

>>16458627
Oh okay I see what you mean. But what about 557p ? Or it's too contrived ?
I only know about basic defense like suji and kabe desu.

>>16458652
D called riichi on the 5p, a normal formation there is 455. The 6p is very dangerous to both players. There isn't anything that's actually safe, and the 1m discard is the least terrible option because if nothing else it means that if you do deal in it won't be tanyao on top of everything else.

2:0

>>16459745
3:0

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Yakuman are one thing. Attaining plus 100 is another. Here I failed. Much sadness.

To get plus 100, your target score is 89500 or more. Oh so hard.

3:0 again

>>16459950
I almost made it to +150 once, but fell short at +146.

>>16457875
>demoted
lmao he is COMING BACK DOWN TO EARTH Corak now!

>>16460092
Nice. It takes a double yakuman to go that far.

>1:0

>2:4

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I know I should have been riichi'd or at least kept tenpai because I drew 7m right after this draw, but how big is the chance of any of those 3 waiting on chun, judging from this information?

>>16461078
Wow only a single haku was discarded. Seems dangerous.

>>16461078
>east 4th round in a low-stakes match
>2 doras in your hand
I'd try my luck even though I will probably be ronned by shimo cha.

>>16461078
Pretty decent chance, even if this is ippan

>>16461078
>not a single chun discarded
Either someone is waiting on Chun or they used it as a pair so it's pretty risky regardless
Did you bail out of that?

>>16461078
Why do you even have a chun this late in the game

>>16461474
It's a meme. People love to keep a single yakuhai tile and hope a second one will come their way so they can pon it when the third one is dropped.

>>16461474
He kept it so he could deal into that shou/daisangen late-round. What a thoughtful guy.

>>16461078
>Kawajima Misaki
What kind of name is that

>>16461471
I bailed out by 8m discard. Maybe 1p was safer, but it passed through.
>>16461474
I drew it at 11th turn. I was afraid something from my toimen's 1m early pon (forgot to mention it's from 3rd turn). I expected at least honitsu hand. Is that justified?

>>16461622
Show the open hands now. I want to know the answer.

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>>16461678
My shimocha drew hatsu 2 turns after I drew chun, we both came to same decision.

>>16461694
Did you check whether he was already in tenpai on the 11th turn?

>>16461709
He had pair for all three. He then self-drew 3rd hatsu and decided to commit for daisangen (7m discard instead of 5m tenpai)

>>16461728
Fuck, not hatsu, but haku. I'm tilting now.

>>16444429
Just to make sure, but this would be exactly 4 hours and 30 minutes from now, right?

>>16462294
No. it's at 10am PST, which is 15 minutes from now.

This Saturday at around this time in whatever time zone you are

>>16462349
Ah, yeah, meant to say 4 days, not 4 hours. Thanks.

Anyone here participating?

>>16462354
Would love to, but I'll probably be on the road.

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from the early days of me playing mahjong (around 2011) i made ぱいろん my home for many years and got quite a few yakuman... you guys dont know how hard it was when the server shut down last summer... ;_; i miss the cozy comfy atmosphere of playing as cute 2d girls against useless NEETs all day and there will never be an alternative to it .. RIP

>>16462775
I dunno what it's about but it's not that hard to program a mahjong game, especially one that's perfectly fair (i.e. the tile positions are generated before anyone draws), and even easier to add in pictures. The hard part is getting people to use it

>>16462354
I kinda want to but I'd hate to be a no show or mess things up somehow.

>>16462866
>The hard part is getting people to use it
And this stems on whether said mahjong program is a good one.

>>16462354
I signed up.

>>16462354
Will be here.

3:0

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>>16459950
So close, yet so far.

>>16462354
>5am
Maybe if I was American.

>>16464372
Sleep is for the weak.

>>16464202
This again

>>16464384
I'm weak.

>>16464332
I weep for your soul

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>>16464332
>100
Reminded me of this

>>16459950
I got +100 once but of course I didn't screenshot it.

Since the effective demise of Osamuko, I and a few others have begun putting together a new site to collect information and publish new articles.

http://www.mahjong.guide/

>>16466260
Awesome! Things like these help promote the game in the English speaking world

>hit kamicha with dealer haneman
>Busts out
>As an added insult, toimen also Ron's, just to teabag him

>Get nagashi mangan for the first time
Against two riichi's to boot. The irony is that I was defending and would have sued those terminals no matter what. Toimen could have called a few times to break it, but he never did. Guess it took them by surprise

what's the best mahjong game i can play using retroarch

Anyone know how to enter a tournament lobby via the windows client?

>>16472025
Same way you enter any other lobby.

No one play ranked in Tenhou right now. The servers are shit right now. Everyone in my game has disconnected multiple times.

>>16472060
thanks for the warning

>>16472053
But the OK button gets grayed out if there's more than 4 characters, and the tournament lobbies seem to be 8 characters long

>>16472060
Wew just finished a game earlier, dodged a bullet.

>>16472100
It accepts eight characters as well. Are you sure you've got the right lobby number? Don't include the C at the start.

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Fuuuuck me. I didn't know renhou wasn't a yaku on Tenhou. I could've gone so much further with this hand.

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>>16472100
>go to \AppData\Local\C-EGG\tenhou\130
>config.ini
>see pic related, should be on top
>add the lobby
>open the client, it should be on lobby list

>>16472173
Thanks that worked! I guess you have to add tournament lobbies manually to the config file for some reason?

>>16472146
And sorry forgot to respond but yeah I was entering it correctly, no idea why it only worked by putting it straight into the config file.

>>16472158
Sucks, doesn't it? You could've had a chiihou or a double riichi iitsu.

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>>16472250
I hate everything.

>>16472250
Now, it's time to check the wall

3:0

3:0 again

http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv287550138

Four tenhoui will be playing against each other tonight as part of a tournament that Kihara's running.

>>16475487
Starting.

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>2:0

>3:0

>reading Akagi
>get up to Washizu R6
>get mad again
Fuck I hate his underlings

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7447 yakuman

This is a small project I've been working on for fun, since I've seen some of the already translated stuff for Buu Mahjong is conflicting and doesn't make a lot of sense, or seems partially incomplete. I figure that you guys might find it interesting. I tried my best to be as thorough as possible in regards to the rules.

http://2peikou.blogspot.com/2017/01/Buu-Mahjong.html

can someone upload the tenhou lobby menu music on mixtape

>>16481085
https://my.mixtape.moe/usbzlw.wav

>>16481089
much appreciated

this track is godlike

http://tenhou.net/cs/2017/01sk/

The Saki tournament on Tenhou has started. Open entry, best of five consecutive tonpuusen. The lobby is 00112233.

>>16481089
Reminds me that I have to share ripoff from Kindai Mahjong Allstars.
https://my.mixtape.moe/solihk.wav
https://my.mixtape.moe/jndmzi.wav

>>16444429
This starts in a few hours

1 hour and 40 minutes to go.

>>16481327
didn't know that at all, and now it's 1:22 in JST.

How can we manage 5 games by the deadline...

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>>16482749

He just paid for what he said.
R.I.P

How many people here have signed up for the NARMA tournament?

>>16482907
You won't get a good answer to that. I already see a couple names I recognize in the lobby 50 minutes early.

Also we need a new thread, since we are on page 10 and a tournament is about to start.

>>16482907
Is it too late to sign up?

>>16482937
Registration closed a couple days ago. Per the director there were 55 registered, 2 dropped out, and a 3rd is an alternate. We are at 52.

>>16482937
Tournament's about to start in less than one hour, so yes it is. Unless you talk to the guy and he lets you sub for a no-show.

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>80% of the chat in the lobby is from /jp/ and almost all the rest is the director

>>16482947
>>16482942
Thx. Was unsure of availability so I didn't register. Spectating works fine too

Go home, everyone with moonrune names is automatically disqualified.

New thread

>>16482993
>>16482993