So the currently running mafia games, and soon to start Mafia games look like this:
Running Games
ZM3 - Day 2 -
Mafia XI: - Day 4
Mafia XIII: - Day 1
Bastard Mafia VI - Day 2
RMM3: - Day 4
Mafia XIV - Day 3
Sign Ups
Mafia XV - Fires Monday 5th
RMM5 (Shakespeare Mafia) - Sign Up
Mafia XVI - Sign Up (launches when XV is at day 2)
Domafia I: - Sign Up
<Plus lots more in queue>
Other Games
Hanabi 1
Resistance IV
Diplomacy 2 (Stalled?)
Forum Megaminion (Stalled?)
Cosmic Encounter IV
Cosmic Encounter III
I read most of the games and the one thing that has struck me over the last month is that participation is waaaay down, and the number of calling out lurkers is waaaay up. In quite a few of the past or current games its being held up by a few people only causing conversation for others.
There are also pretty much DEAD spectator threads. (what are the dead player threads like?)
This is down mostly (but not all of course, it could be Goko....*snigger*) to the sheer number of games, plus, the number of games in sign ups.
As Galz pointed out, the most exciting part of Mafia is recieving your role. Once you have that and the initial game excitement has worn off, then all of a sudden all those fancy sign ups look a LOT more interesting. Unless you got some sort of super role, a game where you could potentially get a super role is much more appealing than your VT in the current game!
I think we need to put some sort of mod control on this board so as to limit the number of games open at once.
My personal preference is that we have the number of players on this board to have:
One Large Game: 13+ players
One Normal Size: 12 and under
One Quick Game: 9-12 with much shorter deadlines
One Role Madness or Bastard Game (as they are pretty interchangeable these days)
One Newbie game: 9 players (only 3 people who have player more than 2 games)
Have a separate Mod queue (possibly run by a forum moderator) for each one, signs ups are launched when game reaches Day 3 for normal size or short. Or Day 4/5 for Late/RM/BM, depending on number of players.
What do people think?