April Foolishness Haggle. [Game in progress]

[Meeko]

Chris I truly had ideas for a Haggle game. I got over whelmed with what I had to do with it. But the idea would not die.

But, I think, knowing what I know now about MAFIA, that a Mafia / Haggle Hybrid could happen. It would need to be themed, but Trading and Rules slips from haggle will be used. Time of Day and “Day actions” and “Night Actions” from Mafia would need to be used also.

I was thinking up the idea, and at the time I had no Idea I Was basically re-inventing Mafia.

I got in on the Mafia game mentioned in here, and I immediately began to see that 40% of the work I needed to do was already done.

[Meeko]

JSG :

I DID do the exact same thing with another rule in the previous Haggle game.

I “dropped” 8 in for public viewing to freeze digger. That was the fastest, most assured way I could thing off.

Unfortunately, it is a HUGE shot in the foot, for a 90% guarantee. However I Think it is STILL worth doing. Heh. Heh. heh.

[NAF1138]

@chrisk

Hmm… okay, so basically each round is a seperate event, with the scoring just added up to try and eliminate unfair distributions in any particular round by averaging? Like playing a rubber of Bridge or a first-to-ten match of Euchre? Sounds possible?

Or will all the rounds use the same trading counters - so after you’ve been scored for round 1, you get new rule slips for round 2, but start with the same counters you’ve just been scored on, which suddenly have new values?

Either way could work, but would be a LOT of work to organize. I’d be more interested in trying a blitz game, where we agree on 6 hours, say, and all participants check to make sure that they’ll be online and ready to trade for a significant portion of that agreed-on time.

Any of those ideas could be fun. All would be a lot of work, even the 6 hour blitz. But that looks like the next years worth of haggle games to me.

PM me when you get the next one set up.

[chrisk]

@Meeko

I thought you had seen 8 before I did it. Even so, I don’t believe you had to “activate” 8. Chrisk, one could havve gotten 5 quarters, and still have gotten the bonus, without ever seeing 8. Correct?

True. I interpreted Oredigger’s comment in 1757 to mean, “If I had not seen the rule, I would not likely have ended up with five or more quarters.” But we never know.

@Meeko

Chris I truly had ideas for a Haggle game. I got over whelmed with what I had to do with it. But the idea would not die.

But, I think, knowing what I know now about MAFIA, that a Mafia / Haggle Hybrid could happen. It would need to be themed, but Trading and Rules slips from haggle will be used. Time of Day and “Day actions” and “Night Actions” from Mafia would need to be used also.

I was thinking up the idea, and at the time I had no Idea I Was basically re-inventing Mafia.

I got in on the Mafia game mentioned in here, and I immediately began to see that 40% of the work I needed to do was already done.

I’m interested, but from my own experience with Mafia I’m not sure that I can see the fit. On the other hand, Haggle is a natural fit or meta-game for many other games of chance or skill, like card games or ‘the feud’ - the winners of specific smaller games can win Haggle items.

[chrisk]

@NAF1138

Any of those ideas could be fun. All would be a lot of work, even the 6 hour blitz. But that looks like the next years worth of haggle games to me.

PM me when you get the next one set up.

Yes. So many possibilities, so little time. I’m also wondering about a scheme where ‘red’ and ‘green’ rules circulate from the beginning, with the understanding that everybody’s portfolios are scored according to red rules at the end of day 1, and green rules at the end of day 2.

Would people here be interested in playing a short ‘haggle blitz’ game before the 3 month wait mentioned earlier had run out?

[Meeko]

@chrisk

I’m interested, but from my own experience with Mafia I’m not sure that I can see the fit.

Ok. As I understand it, the current mafia game will take a long time to complete. After it is over, I intend to PM you, and the Mod over there.

To form the game, and I do believe, to help run it, we will need 3 mods. I have no problem stepping in as a liaison between Haggle and Mafia. (As well as providing the Theme and a few of the rulesets. – I have a GOOD theme in place already. I would think that, that is half the battle.)

Obviously, I would have to recuse myself and not play theactual game. That is to be expected, and I’m not going to argue. I would be too busy running the game as it was to play,** IF I COULD. **

Then again, if ChrisK would suspend me from playing in his Haggle games for a while, I would fully expect that as well. Frankly.

I seriously understand why you Mod Chrisk. You see EVERYTHING, and the … masochistic glee* we get from making a Snafu must come over in spades for those behind the scenes.

For that level of the game, I want in. If We can extend what Mafia is, AND also get more people playing Haggle, that would be better.

Getting at a new Mafia Type that I could help create, even better.

Chris, once the current mafia game is over, I read your comments as permission to runy my idea by you. Correct?

*perhaps not the best word choice here, but I think we all understand what I mean.

[Oredigger77]

I think I could spend a day playing a blitz game before the 3 montsh had elapsed but not for at least a couple of weeks I’ve got a catching up to do.

I had no interest in quarters when Meeko dropped 8 in fact I hadn’t seen a single rule that gave them any value in fact I was looking for pennies based on the reverse valuation in rule 5.