Operating Maru-Jan

When you login to Maru-Jan, You are brought to the lobby. This is where you'll be queuing up for matches. The different Lobbies are labeled above. When you click on one of the rooms, Maru-Jan will take your fee for the room and put you into the queue.

East Only games -- 80points

Three Player games -- 100points

East-South games -- 150points

League games -- 200points*

Most lobbies will refund your table fee if you come in first. League games refund 200 for 1st, 100 for 2nd, 50 for 3rd, and 0 for 4th.

The Royal Lobby brings up several more lobbies to queue for, where you'll actually be playing for points. There is one east lobby, 2 South, and one Three Player. The Tenjo Weekly Tournament Options trigger the qualifiers on all lobbies (there will be a small icon next to the lobby names) once you've paid your qualifier fee.

You can also see your name, rank, how many flags you have, points, chips and the title and achievements you currently have equipped.

The bottom buttons take you to different profile pages.

PROFILE PAGE: You can check a lot of stats on this page. The Ranking stats are at the top, and the detailed stats are below

MJ 6 TACTICS PAGE: This is where you can check your basic individual stats, what your MJ spirit animal is, and how many other animals you've killed. MJ Tactics is covered in more detail here.

TRAVEL MAP: This takes you to the Travel Map, where you can see your virtual stick man's journey around Japan, as well as check whether there's an opportunity to score more points in your next few games. The Travel Map is covered in more detail here.

MESSAGE BOARD: This takes you to some sort of Message board where you can leave small comments. You can also check who's currently queued in various lobbies, which can come in handy when you're trying to find people of specific skill or locale to play against.

LOGOUT: Log out of Maru-Jan. See you again soon!

GAME SCREEN

When you click on a lobby, you are taken to the game screen. While you wait for other players to join, you can play a little mahjong solitaire where you have 18 draws to make a hand.

After the game starts, you'll be drawing for your seat, and then after that, you'll start the game. Remember, if you are east, you have to "push the button" to roll the dice.

Gameplay runs like most other mahjong clients. Double Click the tile you want to discard. If you have Autosort off, you can move your tiles around. Any manipulation of your tiles is seen by other players as well. If you get too unsorted, you can toggle the auto sort option back on and it will sort your tiles after your next discard.

Autopilot works differently in Maru-Jan than in Tenhou. More accurate to how it works at a jansou, calling someone to play for you while you go to the bathroom for instance, the autopilot WILL deal out of your hand, potentially ruining whatever shape you wanted your hand to keep. It will try to not lose, but it's not very good at that, and it will not try to win. If you get disconnected, autopilot will be turned on. Hit F5 to turn it on or off.

VERY IMPORTANT: CALLING TILES IS TURNED OFF BY DEFAULT.

This is the opposite of Tenhou, so make sure that if you want to call tiles, you hit F7 or toggle the option. By right clicking tiles in your hand, you can also enter a "psuedo call" mode, where the program won't call unless it's the first discard, second discard, or red 5 to complete your meld. Maru-Jan does NOT install random pauses after discard, so if you hesitate on calling honors, people will know someone's got them. When you reach, just like if you were playing IRL you must manually deal the tiles that aren't your winner. Full immersion!

There are neat little functions too. if you hit ctrl click, you will slam a tile discarded. shift click will set it down nice. there is full keyboard operation as well. One of the most important keys is the D key, as it will let you check how far ahead or behind you are in comparison to the other players, as well as seeing what kind of Mahjong Spirit Animal your opponents are. Mahjong Six Tactics is described more in detail here.