I favor a Night start because a Day start is pretty much useless. Assuming the game doesn’t prematurely end with a lynch of the Boss, the Town is going to get no information from voting patterns. With the exception of the Masons, it’s everyone for themself. There’s simply no reason not to go with No Lynch.
I guess a Day start could allow us some time to introduce ourselves and chat.
A Night start with the Boss required to recruit and letting the Town power roles do their thing is a better way to go. No one will get killed on the first turn. The interactions on the first Day will have implications. There’ll be two Mafia. Power roles will have some information to work with.
Anyone else care to comment?
On preview: good to see so many new players. This game will be fun just because of that!
You make some decent points, Pleonast, but I tend to think that there is too much going on at night to start then. Plus, I’d like to give people a baseline reading for everyone in their normal roles. I’m going to try starting it during the Day (though I may do a slightly abbreviated day to get the game going).
Menocchio, I’ll be PMing everyone with their roles and asking for confirmation rather than using email (I don’t really want to use moderator power to check emails if they aren’t normally visible). I’d like a few more players to start with.
I’ve never played before, but I’d like to get in. I’ve read the rules and think I understand the roles and such, but I don’t think I quite get the gameplay or strategy yet. I’m sure I’ll pick it up though. I’ll go read one of the other mafia threads and it should become evident, right?
Glad to have a bunch of new people this game! Don’t worry too much yet. The rules for each Mafia game are a little different, but generally, Townspeople want to kill Mafia, and Mafia want to outnumber Townspeople. Your role in the game will be sent to you in a personal message, and will effect your strategy for the game.
Woo whoo! Glad to see all the new blood! I’ll stand in line to be a sub if necessary, to get some of the new players in (unless you’re going to give me the Boss role. In that case, deal’s off!)
This seems like a good starting list, so I’m going to close out now. It’s going to be a bit larger game, to allow room for the special roles and to make sure the game doesn’t end too fast.
I’ll work on getting roles out shortly. If you want to ask any questions prior to receiving your role, ask now!
Once the ranks thin out a bit here, I’ll see how much interest there would be.
Ironically, the creation of the gaming forum created a new problem for getting new blood in here. There will be a significant number of people who might enjoy Mafia, but will never know about it if they avoid this forum.
Everyone should now have a private message with their role, with the following exceptions:
Darth Sensitive: I sent an email to you as you have PMs turned off.
hotflungwok: You have PMs off and no public email. Please message me or post here ASAP with a way to reach you.
I’d prefer if you both could turn on personal messages… if that’s not possible, please email me. fluiddruid AT gmail DOT com.
I’d recommend, before we officially begin, to make decisions on issues that caused problems in the You Solve It game. For example, have a set policy if there is an outage on the last part of a day, so no one thinks a ruling is unfair to one side or the other.
Fair enough. If there is a significant outage in the last 8 hours of a Day, the game will be extended for another 8 hours starting at the normal end of the day (if the board is up) or, if the board is down at the end of the day, starting when the board is back up. However, we will shorten the next Day to get back on schedule.
If there are truly exceptional circumstances, like a multi-day outage, I reserve the right to revise this plan.
