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Forum Games / Mafia - The forum game! Let the post-game brown townysis commence!
« on: August 19, 2013, 09:52:32 AM »
Hey, you guys remember Mafia Madness? No? Good, because this isn't the same thing.
Mafia Madness, as some of you may be aware, was actually based off of a forum/party game known as Mafia, or Werewolf in some places. Mafia is a much simpler game which runs at a slower pace, making it often more fair and far more focused on thought and reasoning than its run-and-shooty gamemode counterpart. Some of you may even have played this game before! That's fantastic.
Interested? Great. I'll try to explain the rules for those of you who haven't played before.
The basic strategy of the game is as follows: There are two teams, Mafia and Innocent. There will be 2 mafia, who know who each other are, but the Innocents will not know who each other are or who the Mafia are. The mafia pretend to be innocents, and try to avoid being lynched while killing the Innocents. The Innocents try to find out who the mafia are and lynch them. Once a player is night-killed or lynched, they are removed from the game, and may not post in the thread, discuss the game with living players, or otherwise participate.
There are two phases: Day and Night. The game will start on a Night phase.
Night phase: During the night, the topic will be locked, and the Mafia will collectively decide who to Night-Kill in private messages. Based on the mafia's decision, one person will die, their role will be announced, and the day will begin. Night phase will last a maximum of 24 hours.
Day phase: During the day, all players will vote on who to Lynch. Once a 50% majority is reached or 48 hours pass, the player with the most votes will die, their role will be revealed, and Night will begin. Day phase will last a maximum of 48 hours.
But Innocents and Mafia aren't the only roles in this game! Let's take a look at the roles list...
Mafia: Mafia-aligned. At night, they vote on who to kill. They may also choose to kill nobody.
Innocent: Innocent-aligned. No special powers.
Cop: Innocent-aligned. At night, chooses one player to investigate, and learns whether that player is innocent or mafia at the start of day.
Doctor: Innocent-aligned. At night, chooses one player to protect. If that person is targeted by the mafia during that night, they will not die. Protection applies only during that night. Cannot protect self.
WIN CONDITIONS:
Mafia team: Wins when the number of Mafia-Aligned players left alive is equal to or greater than the number of Innocent-Aligned players alive. This is because, at that point, the mafia controls the lynches! Innos have no chance.
Innocent team: Wins when all Mafia are dead.
So there you have it! Fun and intrigue all around. Now, here's some extra, specific rules. If I didn't clarify anything, let me know:
1. To vote, you must have Vote: Name in bold and red somewhere in your post. E.G, to vote me, you would put Vote: []----[] in your post. Capitalization of the VOTE does not matter, so it could be vote: []----[] or VOTE: []----[], but spelling does, so no VOT: []----[]. Please use the target's forum name, and not any nicknames or their in-game name for your vote. So no VOTE: Brackets, okay?
2. Please please do not edit posts, period. No changing your vote by editing, no quickly making secret messages, no correcting spelling errors, no adding things or clarifying things. Please, double-post. The reason why you are not allowed to edit posts will become clear shortly. If you edit your post, you will be removed from the game. If you wish to unvote someone without voting someone else, use Unvote: Name. The name is not required, but it helps me out if you put it.
3. If over 50% of the living players are voting the same person at the same time, the day immediately ends, and that person is lynched. I may not notice it immediately, but I won't be counting any votes or unvotes after the point at which there's a 50% majority. That's why it's so important that no-one edits posts! If this setup really doesn't work, then I'll change it if we have any future games, but I like it. This is called the "hammer rule", and reaching the vote to 50% on a person is called "hammering".
4. If you wish for the town not to lynch anyone on that day, you may vote for No Lynch by using Vote: No Lynch, Vote: NL, Vote: Nothing, or something similar. (Unless there's some forum user named Nothing or NL playing.) As long as I can tell you're voting for No Lynch, you're good. If No Lynch has the majority, no-one will die and night will begin. The hammer rule applies to no-lynching.
5. If no-one has at least 25% of the living players voting for them at the end of the day, no-one will die. In other words, you need at least a 25% vote to lynch. Not that this'll probably be a problem, we won't have that many players.
6. In case of a tie vote in which multiple people have over 25% of the living vote, but none have over 50%, the one to be lynched will be whoever reached their majority first. E.G, if there are 7 players alive, two players voting Darren and two players voting Electrk, then a third person votes Darren, and then a third person votes Electrk, Darren will be lynched at the end of the day, because he reached 3 votes first. However, if someone unvotes Darren, then Electrk will be lynched at the end of the day, even if they change their vote back to Darren afterwards.
7. You are allowed to PM each other about the game, even if you're not Mafia, or use any other method to discuss the game. This does not apply to dead players! If you're dead, please keep things fair and don't post in the thread or discuss the game with living players.
8. Please don't take screencaptures or copypastes of PMs I've sent you, or forge them. Let's just... avoid that field altogether, okay? If I really have to prevent this, I can post in the topic a copy of each type of PM I send to everyone.
9. This isn't an RP game! You can still RP if you want to, but the game comes first. Don't reveal that you're mafia or backstab your teammate because you're RPing a crazy person. Game first.
10. Remember, it's just a game! Please don't flame, insult, or be a richard to other players, even if they screw up or act stupidly. Let's try to have at least one civil thread here.
Some strategy/basic terms:
LYLO: LYnch or LOse. This occurs when the number of Innocents left alive is one greater than the number of Mafia left alive. If Innocents don't lynch, Mafia wins in the night when they do their night-kill! No point in no-lynching today!
MYLO/MILO: MislYnch and LOse. This occurs when the number of Innocents left alive is two greater than the number of Mafia left alive. If Innocents lynch an Innocent on this day, they lose the night after! Most of the time, Innocents no-lynch on this day.
Now, this is an awfully tiny game size normally, but since this is probably the first time on this forum, we'll be running this game with 7 players. (3 Innocents, 2 Mafia, 1 Cop, 1 Doctor.) If it works out well, we can do it again with more! That'll be great.
If I get more sign-ups than I have slots, I'll remember extras as substitutes in case a player has to quit mid-game.
If you're interested, sign up by posting that you'd like to join! But keep in mind that it could take a bit, so maybe wait for next time if you're going to lose your internet in 2 days. If I try to contact you and don't hear from you for 24 hours, I'll try to replace you.
I don't know how quickly we'll get players, so I don't know when the game will start, but I'll send out confirmation PMs to all players once we have enough to start. If we don't get enough players, I'll probably give up after a while, so get those sign-ups in!
If I haven't been clear enough with any of this, just let me know, and I'll try to fix it!
Player List:
Cybertails1998
CharlesSpeaking
childofdarkness016
The Resonte!
Gojira
Cuddles le Bear
Kingdaro
Last slot filled! Fantastic time! I'll start sending out confirmation PMs to make sure everyone's still here. If you missed it but you're still interested, let me know and I'll register you as a replacement in case one of the players is inactive.
Edit: One player may have gone inactive, so if you'd like to replace him, there's still a slot open! Now's your chance! Hurry!
Filled! Great! Let's see if it takes this time.
Mafia Madness, as some of you may be aware, was actually based off of a forum/party game known as Mafia, or Werewolf in some places. Mafia is a much simpler game which runs at a slower pace, making it often more fair and far more focused on thought and reasoning than its run-and-shooty gamemode counterpart. Some of you may even have played this game before! That's fantastic.
Interested? Great. I'll try to explain the rules for those of you who haven't played before.
The basic strategy of the game is as follows: There are two teams, Mafia and Innocent. There will be 2 mafia, who know who each other are, but the Innocents will not know who each other are or who the Mafia are. The mafia pretend to be innocents, and try to avoid being lynched while killing the Innocents. The Innocents try to find out who the mafia are and lynch them. Once a player is night-killed or lynched, they are removed from the game, and may not post in the thread, discuss the game with living players, or otherwise participate.
There are two phases: Day and Night. The game will start on a Night phase.
Night phase: During the night, the topic will be locked, and the Mafia will collectively decide who to Night-Kill in private messages. Based on the mafia's decision, one person will die, their role will be announced, and the day will begin. Night phase will last a maximum of 24 hours.
Day phase: During the day, all players will vote on who to Lynch. Once a 50% majority is reached or 48 hours pass, the player with the most votes will die, their role will be revealed, and Night will begin. Day phase will last a maximum of 48 hours.
But Innocents and Mafia aren't the only roles in this game! Let's take a look at the roles list...
Mafia: Mafia-aligned. At night, they vote on who to kill. They may also choose to kill nobody.
Innocent: Innocent-aligned. No special powers.
Cop: Innocent-aligned. At night, chooses one player to investigate, and learns whether that player is innocent or mafia at the start of day.
Doctor: Innocent-aligned. At night, chooses one player to protect. If that person is targeted by the mafia during that night, they will not die. Protection applies only during that night. Cannot protect self.
WIN CONDITIONS:
Mafia team: Wins when the number of Mafia-Aligned players left alive is equal to or greater than the number of Innocent-Aligned players alive. This is because, at that point, the mafia controls the lynches! Innos have no chance.
Innocent team: Wins when all Mafia are dead.
So there you have it! Fun and intrigue all around. Now, here's some extra, specific rules. If I didn't clarify anything, let me know:
1. To vote, you must have Vote: Name in bold and red somewhere in your post. E.G, to vote me, you would put Vote: []----[] in your post. Capitalization of the VOTE does not matter, so it could be vote: []----[] or VOTE: []----[], but spelling does, so no VOT: []----[]. Please use the target's forum name, and not any nicknames or their in-game name for your vote. So no VOTE: Brackets, okay?
2. Please please do not edit posts, period. No changing your vote by editing, no quickly making secret messages, no correcting spelling errors, no adding things or clarifying things. Please, double-post. The reason why you are not allowed to edit posts will become clear shortly. If you edit your post, you will be removed from the game. If you wish to unvote someone without voting someone else, use Unvote: Name. The name is not required, but it helps me out if you put it.
3. If over 50% of the living players are voting the same person at the same time, the day immediately ends, and that person is lynched. I may not notice it immediately, but I won't be counting any votes or unvotes after the point at which there's a 50% majority. That's why it's so important that no-one edits posts! If this setup really doesn't work, then I'll change it if we have any future games, but I like it. This is called the "hammer rule", and reaching the vote to 50% on a person is called "hammering".
4. If you wish for the town not to lynch anyone on that day, you may vote for No Lynch by using Vote: No Lynch, Vote: NL, Vote: Nothing, or something similar. (Unless there's some forum user named Nothing or NL playing.) As long as I can tell you're voting for No Lynch, you're good. If No Lynch has the majority, no-one will die and night will begin. The hammer rule applies to no-lynching.
5. If no-one has at least 25% of the living players voting for them at the end of the day, no-one will die. In other words, you need at least a 25% vote to lynch. Not that this'll probably be a problem, we won't have that many players.
6. In case of a tie vote in which multiple people have over 25% of the living vote, but none have over 50%, the one to be lynched will be whoever reached their majority first. E.G, if there are 7 players alive, two players voting Darren and two players voting Electrk, then a third person votes Darren, and then a third person votes Electrk, Darren will be lynched at the end of the day, because he reached 3 votes first. However, if someone unvotes Darren, then Electrk will be lynched at the end of the day, even if they change their vote back to Darren afterwards.
7. You are allowed to PM each other about the game, even if you're not Mafia, or use any other method to discuss the game. This does not apply to dead players! If you're dead, please keep things fair and don't post in the thread or discuss the game with living players.
8. Please don't take screencaptures or copypastes of PMs I've sent you, or forge them. Let's just... avoid that field altogether, okay? If I really have to prevent this, I can post in the topic a copy of each type of PM I send to everyone.
9. This isn't an RP game! You can still RP if you want to, but the game comes first. Don't reveal that you're mafia or backstab your teammate because you're RPing a crazy person. Game first.
10. Remember, it's just a game! Please don't flame, insult, or be a richard to other players, even if they screw up or act stupidly. Let's try to have at least one civil thread here.
Some strategy/basic terms:
LYLO: LYnch or LOse. This occurs when the number of Innocents left alive is one greater than the number of Mafia left alive. If Innocents don't lynch, Mafia wins in the night when they do their night-kill! No point in no-lynching today!
MYLO/MILO: MislYnch and LOse. This occurs when the number of Innocents left alive is two greater than the number of Mafia left alive. If Innocents lynch an Innocent on this day, they lose the night after! Most of the time, Innocents no-lynch on this day.
Now, this is an awfully tiny game size normally, but since this is probably the first time on this forum, we'll be running this game with 7 players. (3 Innocents, 2 Mafia, 1 Cop, 1 Doctor.) If it works out well, we can do it again with more! That'll be great.
If I get more sign-ups than I have slots, I'll remember extras as substitutes in case a player has to quit mid-game.
If you're interested, sign up by posting that you'd like to join! But keep in mind that it could take a bit, so maybe wait for next time if you're going to lose your internet in 2 days. If I try to contact you and don't hear from you for 24 hours, I'll try to replace you.
I don't know how quickly we'll get players, so I don't know when the game will start, but I'll send out confirmation PMs to all players once we have enough to start. If we don't get enough players, I'll probably give up after a while, so get those sign-ups in!
If I haven't been clear enough with any of this, just let me know, and I'll try to fix it!
Player List:
Cybertails1998
CharlesSpeaking
childofdarkness016
The Resonte!
Gojira
Cuddles le Bear
Kingdaro
Last slot filled! Fantastic time! I'll start sending out confirmation PMs to make sure everyone's still here. If you missed it but you're still interested, let me know and I'll register you as a replacement in case one of the players is inactive.
Filled! Great! Let's see if it takes this time.
ated them all hahahahahaha
