I would like to point out to the offboarders that all the games we are talking about, for the most part, are games that I linked to early on. We have played a lot of games, but these ones keep coming up because they provide a touchstone for our culture in some way. You want to understand us better? Go take a look at them.
While I am on it, if you want to see a game that was designed with no Seer, check out You-Solve-It. Not just because it was my game, but because it was built in response to the idea that we were all becoming a little to reliant on power roles. It was an attempt to design a pure mafia game that was still balanced. It think it turned out fairly well, all things considered.
We have reasons for why we play the way we do, it’s not because we are naive.
Ah, fond memories. Other than all the time I had to spend catching up as a sub, and despite that we lost (the bad guys won, right?), it was probably the most fun I’ve ever had as scum. That actually claiming Godfather avoided a lynch and then, later, claiming yet another scum role and avoiding lynch again was just bizarre and awesome.
Yeah, longer nights lead to chatter as a way to keep people engaged. Usually no game talk is allowed, sometimes game talk is allowed. Not everyone participates either way. It’s a social game, we like to be social.
The “it’s ok to keep your vote on a wagon near eod that clearly isn’t a candidate to be lynched” strategy is vastly different than what we are used to. Are we allowed to compare/contrast those two strategies Gad?
Also, I kind of like the talk at night just not about the game thing. Lets you chat with people without having to be worrying about if others have ulterior motives etc
Links to a whole heck of a lot of games, chronologically by board. It’s a smallish group so any of the recent games should have a lot of the same people playing in them.
Other than Batman, Cult of Seekham, Ragnarock and You-Solve-It I would look at any of the Conspiracy games, Crimson Glyph, Evil Dead, or Marvel Civil War.
I took a long-ish break recently and had slowed down my playing a lot before I officially took a break, so someone else can help you out with the most recent games.
Look at the earliest SDMB and Idlemafia games for a feeling of how a lot of the stuff we do came to be.
Gatman was one of my first ever games. For example of actual GOOD play on my part, check out Colorless Mafia, otherwise known as Why Peeker Should Never Be Vig.
I was Scum in that game, but it’s hard for me to find a previous game that I wasn’t Scum in. The last time I remember being Town, I was killed the first Night. The time before that was the Cecil Pond debacle, I think. I always joke about roleblockers because I think I’ve played a roleblocker in pretty much every game over on Idle, including being Scum roleblocker three games in a row.
That was so hilarious and terrible. Village still won, though (I was Neville! Go me!). And both Snape (who’s Silman here) and Voldem*rt had some of the most powerful roles I’ve ever seen; kudos to the mods for designing them.
As I’ve said, this is my first mafia game not on that forum so the “you better vote someone who is a possibility to be lynched” method has been beaten over my head for as long as I’ve played. I’ve never really asked for an in-depth explanation as of why - though what I’ve essentially been told is it forcing people to make votes in turn giving more information to analyze.
I think this cultural difference from the two boards is just as interesting as the fakepeek one.
Since we got the all clear. I don’t know that I would say it’s ok, just that is isn’t terrible depending on circumstance. You have to be prepaired to stand by your vote, and I for one am not going to vote for someone I don’t want to see lynched. If none of the lynch candidates look like a good lynch to me then I will happily place a one off vote for who I think should be lynched. I think this provides better more easily readable data over the course of several Days than everyone being forced onto one wagon or another. If someone never gets on a wagon that looks bad for them too. One of the first things I look at when doing voting analysis is who has been consistently placing “safe” votes.
It’s easier to hide in a large bandwagon, and I don’t mind the occasional townie being lynched because if it was done via scum manipulation that almost always ends up coming out in the end. Townies die, it’s part of their job and it’s part of the game. The best thing they can do is leave as clear and transparent a record as possible so we have useful data to sort out when the game gets to the end stages.
I talked to Dean and Monkey about that. We all agree Silman’s role was the most broken thing in the history of things.
For those on this board, Silman was Severus Snape. He was a cop who ALSO tracked/watched his target AND was unable to be investigated by the scum team.
I found humor in the Poisonous Godfather Seer Vig role (Voldemort) complaining about it though haha
