Mafia TBT Mafia General Thread 3.0 - Newbie Info/Hosting/Discussion

[Ace Marvel]

thank you for posting the rules vrisnem!



unrelated to rules and guidelines, can we begin to normalize locked thread nights? i feel that having the thread open during the night is stressful to both alignments. for town i find silent nights beneficial to preventing blues from unknowingly softing their roles and also allowing them to revisit old topics instead of catching up on new content made. as mafia i find silent nights as a good way to take a break from faking lynch reactions and reads, and focus purely on coordinating kills. in both cases, i find locking the thread just a nice way to allow all players a break when players can be in games for almost 2 weeks

thoughts on this? i know open nights have been the norm here but I’m liking games that lock it up

Maybe we can use the twilight hour, I like that. You can only talk one hour after EoD

 

[Geoni]

^I think it's becoming more and more normal lately to close the thread at night. It's a pretty standard practice across most mafia communities to do it though yeah. I think it should also help people step away from another player they've been getting heated with too.

Notes on Gamethrowing:

Gamethrowing/Playing against win condition has to show a level of awareness and be deliberate, can't just accuse someone who played terribly to the point where they helped mafia lynch a cleared PR (for example) because they were just that paranoid and maybe fed into the tinfoil.

Actual intentional gamethrowing is not something that commonly happens, it only does when there's usually a serious level of pettiness and antagonism when things haven't gone their way, and it's almost always obvious or blatantly stated anyways. Daniel can tell you all about a clear-cut instance of malicious gamethrowing if you need an example and how affecting it can be on the players.

Unintentional gamethrowing just happens sometimes and you have to discuss it afterwards and help the person understand what they did played against their win condition and move on. And just because someone isn't new and 'should know better' doesn't mean they did know better. People can sometimes have very poor judgement if they're panicking. The only time this becomes an issue where people get temp or permabanned is if they just keep...doing it and harm games repeatedly because they're not learning.

 

[Chris]

There are ways of disagreeing with a person without being rude to them. This is why a post in here, and those responding to it, have been deleted. Instead of saying "this is ridiculous" and resorting to mimicry (as was done in the deleted posts) it would have been more constructive to explain what you disagreed with and why.

Remember that you should treat all members of the forum with basic respect at all times and The Cellar is no exception.

 

[SensaiGallade]

This is like uber late but I had no idea all this went down after Vanessa's game last January lmaoo

 

[Dinosaurz]

Someone start a game I’m down for one soon

 

[voltairenism]

apparently i am not capable of sleeping so I thought abt this disaster of a setup. i am the worst with balancing btw. tell me how much of a bs this is. peace


Lover...thingy? - If visited, will fall in love with the person and the person will fall in love with them. If one of the couple dies, both die. They don't share a chat. If one is mafia, they win if mafia win. The person wont have acess to mafia chat and wont know the other mafias.

Watcher - can choose someone to watch at night and see who they visited. Town

Roleblocker - picks someone that will not be able to use their actions at night. Mafia

Actress - Can visit someone every night and if they die, their role will showed as the person they visited. Mafia (this prob makes it too mafia sided doesnt it)

Doctor - If they visit someone, this person won't die tonight. Town

Prince - If voted for chop, they wont be chopped and live to see another day (or Oracle)


Eveyone that visits (and watcher) can fall in love.


Prob 3 mafia and 4-5 vt max. 1kp. Just a "fun" quick thing

the point of this is being frustating for everyone i guess

 

[MyLifeIsCake]

-snip-

It sounds interesting but how would it work if multiple people visit the same person? And only PR roles could visit other players at night?

 

[voltairenism]

It sounds interesting but how would it work if multiple people visit the same person? And only PR roles could visit other players at night?

Prob I would rand between the people that visited, like let's say everyone visited the lover, so I rand who will fall in love, and I rand again if the watcher is watching the lover

 

[N e s s]

Is mafia dead

 

[Damniel]

Is mafia dead

i think we’re on a break and seeing other people

 

[N e s s]

i think we’re on a break and seeing other people

rip sweet prince

 

[Geoni]

Merry Crimeas to the mafia gang

 

[Biancasbotique]

Hi everyone!!

 

[Damniel]

Hi everyone!!

hi bianca

 

[Biancasbotique]

hi bianca

Hey daniel!!

 

[Geoni]

INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 8)

Ahoy there!

I’m very excited to invite your community to participate in Season 8 of the Mafia Championship.

The Mafia Championship is an annual forum-based tournament series that pits representatives from various online Mafia (aka Werewolf) communities against one another as they compete to determine the Internet’s greatest forum Mafia player. Each participating community democratically elects one person to represent them and be their “Champion”.

The tournament first started back in 2013. Since then, 320+ different communities and 50+ different nationalities have been represented.

It’s a super fun event that has created many new friendships and close bonds between communities. I hope that you would be interested in taking part

1. DO YOU ACCEPT THE INVITATION?

If your community wishes to participate, please confirm your participation to Lissa as soon as you can to ensure yourselves a spot. Currently, the plan is to accommodate 150 communities this season. If there is further interest, additional communities may sign up as substitutes; generally there are some replacements needed both before and during games.

If your community agrees to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is May 7th, but the sooner the better.

The games will take place on Mafia Universe. If it’s okay, I can link directly to the general discussion thread regarding this topic on Mafia Universe.

Important notes

• You may decide yourselves how you want to elect your representative, but we highly recommend some sort of democratic process (public nominations followed by a poll usually works out well).
• In addition to electing a representative, you should also name an alternate who will be asked to step in if the first choice needs to back out.
• Your representative should be prepared for having to read upwards of 500-600 posts per 24 hours during the early stages of the game. Additionally, there’s a requirement that each player must make at least 10 posts per Game Day. Only active players should apply/participate. I repeat: Your chosen player needs to be able to promise a good amount of activity on a daily basis.

2. SEASON 8 FORMAT

The tournament structure

• 150 communities will participate, each sending one representative.
• QUALIFIERS: 10 Qualifier Games will be played, consisting of 15 players each. I.e. every representative plays in one Qualifier Game. The players themselves vote post-game to determine who is deserving of advancement. 1st and 2nd place will advance to the Semifinal Games.
• SEMIFINALS: A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 7 will select 25 additional players to advance to the three Semifinal Games. From each game, five players will advance to the Finale Game based on a post-game player vote, just like in the qualifying phase.
• THE FINALE: The Finale Game is played. Once it has completed, the players vote to determine who shall receive the title of Season 8 Champion and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia.

This year’s setup: Gold Rush 15er
The setup features 15 roles consisting of the following:

2x Mafia Goons
1x Mafia Roleblocker
1x Town Motion Detector
1x 1-Shot Town Vigilante (n2+)
1x Town Doctor
9x Vanilla Townie

Flips are alignment only.

Relevant mechanics info
- Day start.
- Majority elimination is enabled Day 2+, but majority is not required at any point for the elimination.
- Tied votes will result in a player being eliminated at random from among the tied players.
- No outside communication. I.e. you may not contact the other players outside of the thread (unless you are Mafia and wish to speak with your teammates).
- Phase Lengths and Deadlines will be up to the players themselves (I’ll organize your representative into a game with deadlines that suit their preferences).
- Thread is locked during Night Phases.
- Votes are automatically locked in at LYLO.
- Mafia factional kills are assigned. They can be tracked, watched, roleblocked, etc. (In this setup, that means they display as an action to the Motion Detector action.)
- Mafia share a factional Night Kill, which is a single standard shot for their faction. The mafia faction kill is mandatory.
- Mafia may communicate at any time.
- Each individual player may make a maximum of 150 posts per day phase (this restriction is lifted 2 hours before day end).
- The game will have a host to oversee everything and make sure everyone’s following the code of conduct, but otherwise the game is completely automated (automatic votecounts, thread locks and reveals alignments automatically, the bot receives and processes actions, etc.).

3. SEASON 8 TIMELINE

There will be 10 Qualifier Games, and your representative plays in just one of these. They will have start dates ranging from early May to the end of June. So in other words, as long as your representative can play sometime during that period, they should be good and I’ll make sure they get scheduled into a game that suits their schedule well. I.e. if your rep is busy until June, that isn’t a problem.

The Semifinal Games will be played in July/August, and the Finale Game sometime in August/September (whenever we can work out something that suits everyone).

If you want to get in contact with me ASAP, you can find me on Discord (Lissa#8083).

Kind regards,
Lissa

So I've recently discussed it with @Damniel who was our representative last year (myself the two years before that) and we've mulled over some of the players that have played here in the last year and come up with our nominees of @DinoTown as our representative and @shawo as our substitute. I think both of these players have shown their skills and abilities as both alignments in the past year and demonstrated the skills that would make them succeed in the championship format, not to mention I think they'll be able to navigate the big personalities they'll encounter there. If anyone disagrees with the picks we can hold a vote on it, however, as we both want to make sure there's community approval on these picks.

 

[illunie]

this mafia game thing seems cool do u guys play

 

[N e s s]

this mafia game thing seems cool do u guys play

No

 

[Damniel]

hello everyone. super pumped to see a game going on now! hoping we have an solid new player base (wink wink)! how does everyone feel about a main game in the near future?

 

[Damniel]

really great game that just ended! i’m curious on how people feel about playing a main game soon? i understand if the recent players want a little break, so let me know what you all think!