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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M123: Doomsday Mafia (Day 1)

« on: June 03, 2019, 02:08:16 pm »

Okay, here's an interesting tidbit I almost forgot about: D2 is MyLo. Or at least can be. Fun setup, right? Is it at all useful?

I don't think this is right.

If there's 2 Traitors it is.

Check your math again.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M123: Doomsday Mafia (Day 1)

« on: June 03, 2019, 01:59:35 pm »

Okay, here's an interesting tidbit I almost forgot about: D2 is MyLo. Or at least can be. Fun setup, right? Is it at all useful?

I don't think this is right.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M123: Doomsday Mafia (Day 1)

« on: June 03, 2019, 10:59:13 am »

Oh, like this?

Vote: MiX

Self voting is scummy, what started as a demonstration of the block I’m action now feels like an okay place for the block to rest in the early game.

As stupid as this is going to sound, acting scummy is a town tell for MiX.

And leaving me off the hook is a scum tell:

Vote: Glooble

More like a "almost lost the last game by tunneling you super hard when we were both town" tell.

But what's that old saying about generals always fighting the previous war?

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M123: Doomsday Mafia (Day 1)

« on: June 03, 2019, 10:51:11 am »

Oh, like this?

Vote: MiX

Self voting is scummy, what started as a demonstration of the block I’m action now feels like an okay place for the block to rest in the early game.

As stupid as this is going to sound, acting scummy is a town tell for MiX.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M123: Doomsday Mafia (Day 1)

« on: June 03, 2019, 10:26:59 am »

Setup talk is bad here, I think, so let's not.

This is a town tell for ADK, I suppose.

Or they're scum who learned from a recent mistake- but I doubt it, seeing as ADK got townread so hard that game they almost won it.

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Forum Games / Re: How to Balance a Mafia Game (A Community Project I Hope!)

« on: May 30, 2019, 11:36:21 am »

In terms of weighting the individual roles, I made a Google Form. Might be interesting to see where the consensuses and differences of opinion are:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScknY2r6gx28HdUNGt0VoH9D39He8fhu4M9H6UPk3fXQK8gGQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

I think 1 - 5 is a too small range to accurately depict my feelings, especially when you include actively anti-town roles like Lynchproof who need to be in their own category, leaving only 4 for the rest. Also you might need some clarifications... Rolestopper has a vastly different power level based on whether they can prevent kills.

PPE: It says for town on the first page.

Doh! Missed that.

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Forum Games / Re: How to Balance a Mafia Game (A Community Project I Hope!)

« on: May 30, 2019, 11:33:18 am »

In terms of weighting the individual roles, I made a Google Form. Might be interesting to see where the consensuses and differences of opinion are:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScknY2r6gx28HdUNGt0VoH9D39He8fhu4M9H6UPk3fXQK8gGQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Is there a way to evaluate the strength of the role as scum vs. its strength as town? Because that can very wildly. It's hard to assign a number to "rolecop" for example- much more useful for scum than for town.

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Forum Games / Re: How to Balance a Mafia Game (A Community Project I Hope!)

« on: May 29, 2019, 03:35:18 pm »

I would proceed as follows

1. A game with 9 town (8 VT + 1 cop) and 3 scum is arguably perfectly balanced. If your game has a similar number of players, compare your balance with that game. don't rely on intuition, make up numbers with intuition and then look at what the numbers say. (For example, if you give cop 4 utility points, you could give doctor 1)

Scum have some inherent powers - a nightkill and night chat. Town has numbers. These things seem obvious, but if one is going to try and assign point values to every advantage, it makes sense to keep this in mind.

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Forum Games / Re: How to Balance a Mafia Game (A Community Project I Hope!)

« on: May 29, 2019, 12:51:34 pm »

I think some discussion on the merits of open/closed/ semi-open would be helpful as well.

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Forum Games / Re: LynchPool.com - Mafia testers wanted

« on: May 28, 2019, 05:28:17 pm »

I’ll take a beta key. Then I can jump into one of these games.

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Forum Games / Re: Apparently this is where people talk when it's night

« on: May 28, 2019, 04:42:20 pm »

I'd join it, but I don't feel like playing VT in a game as big as 15 players. I'd join an RMM though.

I have a RMM setup I've been working on but given my experience with the last one I want to take more time to balance it. Though it is definitely less ambitious in terms of fundamental rule changes.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Game Over: Town wins)

« on: May 26, 2019, 02:19:10 pm »

I think the big mistake was not realizing how easy it would be for Volunteers to identify each other.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Game Over: Town wins)

« on: May 26, 2019, 01:52:52 pm »

Can I just take a moment to thank Ash for writing all his messages in verse even though he did not have to? That was great!

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Day 1)

« on: May 23, 2019, 04:43:49 pm »

"So you see," says Esma Squalor, cleverly disguised as officer Luciana, "It is clear it was this little girl who murdered Lemony Snicket!"

"Here Here!" yell the people of the Village of Fowl Devotees, waving their torches and pitchforks.

Esme looks down at Violet, a look of pure glee on her face. She lowers her harpoon gone and says "Orphans, my dear, are 'out' this season."

Just then, a crow swoops down and carries away her helmet. She turns in anger "You filthy bird, that helmet completed my entire ensemble!" She takes a shot and strikes the bird dead.

The villagers turn their murderous gaze to her.

"You broke rule #1" says a village elder.

As the torches and pitchforks descend on Esme Squalor, Violet Baudelaire sneaks away unnoticed.

faust has died. He was Esme Squalor, the Arsonist-aligned Strongman Roleblocker.



Voting: Firestarter's Demise

faust (5): Awaclus, MiX, A Drowned Kernel, raerae, shraeye
MiX (1): faust

Not voting (2):  DatSwan, ashersky

With 8 alive, it took 5 to lynch! Night 4 begins now and will go until some time after 5:00 PM forum time on May 25th. It's a holiday weekend in the States and Glooble is travelling, so there is a pretty good chance Day 5 start will be delayed.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Day 1)

« on: May 22, 2019, 09:05:31 am »

It is me, the mod who can't actually update the thread.

Please update the thread.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Day 1)

« on: May 21, 2019, 09:56:05 pm »

Sorry, It takes 5 to lynch most players. Joth, please correct when you see this.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Day 1)

« on: May 21, 2019, 09:55:27 pm »

My research into the fate of the Baudelaire orphans led me to an island, and to an isolated birdcage on the far side of that island, which is where I discovered, thoroughly picked at by vultures, the bones of mcmcsalot. Conversations with the surviving castaways living on this island revealed that he had been Ismael, the Town-aligned Even Night Jailkeeper. The shelter on the far side of the island had been burned to the ground.

Voting: Fourth Day

Not voting (8 ): A Drowned Kernel, shraeye, MiX, Awaclus, raerae, DatSwan, ashersky, faust

With 8 alive, it takes 5 to lynch most players. Day 4 begins now and will go until 10:00 PM forum time on May 26th.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Day 1)

« on: May 19, 2019, 11:07:08 pm »

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Day 1)

« on: May 19, 2019, 10:59:44 pm »

Though it gives me no great pleasure to announce the death of yet another child, some comfort can be taken from the fact that this was an especially loathsome and horrible child, who having already fallen in with Count Olaf and was likely well on her way to a life of villainy which would have been quite hideous some day had it not been cut short. UncleEurope has been lynched. He was Carmelita Spatz, the Arsonist-Aligned Messenger.

Voting - Fast Day! 3.1

MiX (1): faust
UncleEurope (6) : A Drowned Kernel, MiX, raerae, Awaclus, shraeye, mcmcsalot
A Drowned Kernel (1): UncleEurope

Not voting (1):  DatSwan, ashersky,

With 10 players alive, it took 6 to lynch. Night 3 begins now and will end some time after 11:00 PM FT on May 21st.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Day 1)

« on: May 18, 2019, 10:41:35 pm »

[glooble is the drunk one if you didn’t figure that out]

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Day 1)

« on: May 18, 2019, 10:40:41 pm »

Unfortunately one of your mods is extremely drunk and the other is apparently busy or some suck so probably this thread will reopen some time tomorrow. We apologize for the delay.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Day 1)

« on: May 16, 2019, 07:07:25 pm »

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Day 1)

« on: May 16, 2019, 07:06:53 pm »

One term often used in literary conversations is "the death of the author", which typically refers to a movement which eschews any interpretation of a text based on biographical data and holds the writing and its creator as completely unrelated. "The death of the author" does not typically mean that the author has literally been killed.

In this case, however, I am sad to report the term is meant literally, not figuratively. pubby has been lynched. He wasLemony Snicket, the Town-Aligned Baudelaire Cop.

Voting - Fatal Denunciation 2.3

WestCoastDidds (1): UncleEurope
MiX (2): DatSwan, faust
pubby (7): Awaclus, MiX, WestCoastDidds, shraeye, A Drowned Kernel, mcmcsalot, ashersky
Awaclus (1): pubby

Not voting (1): raerae

With 12 players alive, it took 7 to lynch. Night 2 begins now and will end some time after 7:00 PM FT on May 18th.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Day 1)

« on: May 15, 2019, 12:05:02 pm »

I am fairly certain WCD is supposed to be voting me, btw.

You are correct. There were two votes for you right in a row and I missed hers. Joth will edit when he has time.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM53: A Series of Unfortunate Nightkills (Day 1)

« on: May 15, 2019, 11:25:08 am »

"I'm sorry that you lost both of your parents and your brother," sneers Vice Principal Nero, "But that's no excuse for missing my violin recital. I'm afraid It's going to be detention for both of you."

"Maybe you should focus on finding Count Olaf instead of-" Violet begins, but the Principal cuts her off.

"I told you already," he says, we have a very sophisticated computer keeping Count Olaf and he friends at bay."

"THIS IS NOT COUNT OLAF" says the computer.

"Blabrabubla*" babbles Sunny.

_____

*translation: Maybe you should use that computer to do a vote count every once in a while
 

Voting - Fairly Delayed 2.1

WestCoastDidds (3): raerae, faust, UncleEurope
MiX (3): A Drowned Kernel, DatSwan, pubby
UncleEurope (2): mcmcsalot, WestCoastDidds
pubby (2): Awaclus, MiX

Not voting (2): shraeye, ashersky

With 12 players alive, it takes 7 to lynch most players. Day 2 will end at 10:00 AM FT on May 19th.