# Mafia: Baker Street \[Game in progress\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 7, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752 "2014-02-07T14:39:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 60
**Author:** ![gnarlycharlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@gnarlycharlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarlycharlie)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1181 "2014-03-19T15:49:25Z")
i’m sorry to hear that some of us haven’t been around at all. do i understand correctly that we only have about ten minutes left? ---
**Author:** ![gnarlycharlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@gnarlycharlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarlycharlie)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1182 "2014-03-19T15:51:54Z")
\*\*Astral \*\*why does \*\*Darth \*\* become townie and **Idle** become scummy? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1183 "2014-03-19T15:53:27Z")
Day is ending, according to my clock, in about 8 minutes. If someone votes for me last minute and I’m lynched:\*\* I strongly suggest you look at both Astral and Inner Stickler tomorrow.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1184 "2014-03-19T15:57:31Z")
**Vote Mahaloth** ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1185 "2014-03-19T16:09:15Z")
Diggit, Rysto, Pleo and Lightfoot have no votes for them and they’ve with the possible exception of Diggit been pretty non-participatory. I didn’t even remember Lightfoot was playing. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1186 "2014-03-19T16:21:01Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Diggit, Rysto, Pleo and Lightfoot have no votes for them and they’ve with the possible exception of Diggit been pretty non-participatory. I didn’t even remember Lightfoot was playing. Pleo has been quite sick, so sick that he called off his game on Giraffe Boards. He may be scum, but I rather doubt he is strategically lurking. I also forgot that Lightfoot was playing. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1187 "2014-03-19T17:13:11Z")
_nonchalantly walks by thread_ f5 f5 f5 f5 ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1188 "2014-03-19T17:14:09Z")
\*\*All – Before I post today’s results, I need to poll the active participants. I am feeling like this game should be euthanized, or somehow changed. If modkilling is going to happen, it’s going to sweep away a fairly large percentage of the remaining game population; this is going to affect the balance of the game in a dramatic way regardless of the identities of the modkilled. However, doing nothing is not an option, nor (in my view) is substitution at so late a point in the game. As I see it, the choices are these: 1. Modkill the inactive players altogether, do nothing else. My view is that this will bork the game to some extent. 2. Modkill the inactive players, but make modest under-the-hood adjustments to try to preserve the integrity of the game for those who remain in it. 3. Declare the game a mistrial, and try again sometime in the future. 4. Something else? Please let me know what you think, ideally by PM but in this thread is OK too. I’m sorry for the awkwardness, but I’ve never encountered nonparticipation on such a large scale before.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1189 "2014-03-19T17:18:21Z")
I would prefer 1 then 2 but with shorter Days. ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1190 "2014-03-19T17:20:29Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I would prefer 1 then 2 but with shorter Days. This. ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1191 "2014-03-19T17:21:36Z")
> [@gnarlycharlie](#): > > \*\*Astral \*\*why does \*\*Darth \*\* become townie and **Idle** become scummy? Because I’m already leaning scum on Idle. If idle wanted a player dead one day, and doesn’t care at all the next after that player was saved from the lynch, that’s suspicious, right? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1192 "2014-03-19T17:22:01Z")
I guess I’d take 1 over anything else…although a possible 4 being “just let the inactives stay inactive and let the game run the course” might be okay too. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1193 "2014-03-19T17:22:45Z")
> [@Astral\_Rejection](#): > > Because I’m already leaning scum on Idle. If idle wanted a player dead one day, and doesn’t care at all the next after that player was saved from the lynch, that’s suspicious, right? What are you talking about? What does this apply to? Nothing that I can see. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1194 "2014-03-19T17:22:47Z")
I vote 2 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1195 "2014-03-19T17:22:49Z")
That is to say, I would prefer finishing what was started. But if that’s not an option then let’s put a bullet in its head. Basically, I want to find out how off-base I’ve been this game and everything that roadblocks reveals or slows the game up pisses me off. Totally spitballing here but what if there was a mafia game where every Day had a lynch and the poster with the lowest post count for the day died? If the two are the same then the second lowest dies. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1196 "2014-03-19T17:27:57Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Totally spitballing here but what if there was a mafia game where every Day had a lynch and the poster with the lowest post count for the day died? If the two are the same then the second lowest dies. It would be a cluster@?!@ and folks would post tons of pointless padding posts to stay alive. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1197 "2014-03-19T17:31:45Z")
My mouse has a scroll wheel. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1198 "2014-03-19T17:31:51Z")
I’d prefer 2. (perhaps with shorter Days), or 3. ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1199 "2014-03-19T17:56:56Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > What are you talking about? What does this apply to? Nothing that I can see. … what? I’m responding to gnarly’s question. If you click the arrow, you can see his question, and scrolling just a little above shows you the post he’s asking about. How can you possibly say this is about nothing? Did you really think my post was an utter non-sequitor? ---
**Author:** ![gnarlycharlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@gnarlycharlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarlycharlie)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752/1200 "2014-03-19T17:57:50Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I guess I’d take 1 over anything else…although a possible 4 being “just let the inactives stay inactive and let the game run the course” might be okay too. this sounds good to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-baker-street-game-in-progress/680752.md?page=61)