The Mafia Discussion Thread

[LittleDaniel]

Poll is up for the first game of the new year!

[MalaCloudy Black]

Would it be possible to run a game of One Night Ultimate Werewolf online? What kind of tweaking would need to be done? Has anyone else played it? I played it last night with some friends and we wound up playing for nearly 2 hours. Games really flew by because we had our deliberation/discussion phase set to 5 minutes. @The Evil Kokichi Omalord have you ever played it?

https://www.amazon.com/Bezier-Games-ONUWBEZ-Ultimate-Werewolf/dp/B00HS7GG5G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516123588&sr=8-1&keywords=one+night+as+a+werewolf

[TEOL]

Yeah I've played it. Not sure how well suited to forum play it would be. Might be easier with some sort of immediate response message system... though we can only speculate as to how such a thing could be achieved.

 

[MalaCloudy Black]

Are you suggesting it be played on some sort of messaging application? Maybe one that has VoIP capabilities? 

[TEOL]

If only there was such a thing. But perhaps it's best left to the realm of science fiction, lest man gain knowledge he was simply not meant to have.

[HarshMillennium]

17 minutes ago, The Evil Kokichi Omalord said:

Yeah I've played it. Not sure how well suited to forum play it would be. Might be easier with some sort of immediate response message system... though we can only speculate as to how such a thing could be achieved.

 

Careful. Talk like that may cause some discord here.

[Thingyman]

INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 5)

Hello there!

It is with great pleasure that I hereby invite your community to take part in Season 5 of the Mafia Championship.

The Mafia Championship is an annual forum tournament series that pits representatives from various online Mafia (aka Werewolf) communities against one another as they compete to determine the Internet’s greatest forum Mafia player. Each participating community democratically elects one person to represent them and be their “Champion”.

The whole thing started back in 2013, and since then more than 225+ different communities and 50+ different nationalities have been represented.

I hope it sounds like a fun and exciting event

You guys might recall that TEOL repped you last year.

1. DO YOU ACCEPT THE INVITE?

If you agree to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is May 1. All it takes is at least one volunteer, so hopefully you guys are in again this year  However, If this is too soon for you to decide on anyone, let me know and we can work something out.

The games will take place on Mafia Universe. If it’s okay, I can link directly to the general discussion thread regarding this topic on Mafia Universe.

Important notes

• You may decide yourselves how you want to elect your representative, but we highly recommend some sort of democratic process (public nominations followed by a poll usually works out well).
• In addition to electing a representative, you should also name an alternate who will be asked to step in if the first choice needs to back out.
• Your representative should be prepared for having to read upwards of 500 posts per 24 hours during the early stages of the game. Additionally, there’s a requirement that each player must make at least 10 posts per Game Day. Only active players should apply/participate. I repeat: Your chosen player needs to be able to promise a good amount of activity on a daily basis.

2. SEASON 5 FORMAT

The tournament structure

• 170 communities will participate, each sending one representative.
• 10 Qualifying Games will be played, consisting of 17 players each. I.e. every representative plays in one Qualifying Game. The players themselves vote post-game to determine who is deserving of advancement. 1st place will advance directly to the Finale Game (i.e. 10 of the 17 finalists are found this way), while the 2nd places will advance directly to one of the two Wildcard Games.
• A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 4 will discuss and vote to determine 25 players in total deserving of a second chance: 1 will advance directly to the finale, and the 24 other players will play in 2 Wildcard Games along with the 2nd places that advanced directly to these. From each game, three players will directly advance to the Finale Game based on a post-game player vote.
• The Finale Game is played. Once it has completed, the players vote to determine who shall receive the title of Season 5 Champion and a winner’s certificate signed by Dmitry Davidoff, the creator of mafia.

The setup explained very briefly (more details on host site)
This is a semi-open grid setup meant for 17 players: 4 mafia versus 13 townies. First you randomly select a number to decide the mafia team's composition of Power Roles (1-2), then you randomly select a letter to decide the town's composition of Power Roles (A-E). Fill in the number of Vanilla Townies needed to make the town team have 13 members total, and you have your setup. 

 

*Town Jack of All Trades: 1x Vigilante, 1x Roleblocker, 1x Tracker.

3. SEASON 5 TIMELINE

There will be 10 Qualifying Games, and your representative plays in just one of these. They will have start dates during the months of May and June. So in other words, as long as your representative can play sometime during that period, they should be good and I’ll make sure they get scheduled into a game that suits their schedule well. I.e. if your rep is busy until June, that isn’t a problem.

Wildcard games will be played in July, and the Finale Game sometime in August/September (whenever we can work out something that suits everyone).

If you want to get in contact with me ASAP, you can find me on Discord (Thingyman#6075).

Kind regards,
Thingyman

[Thingyman]

If anyone is interested in repping EWB this year, please let me know before the week is over.

A little video to hopefully get you hyped about this season - would love to add your community's name to it

 

[kurgan]

So... I'm not gonna lie.  I spent all day at work on Friday poking around this place.  Always saw the Mafia stuff, and wanted to get more involved, and started reading some stuff.

Then I spent 4 HOURS going through Pastamafia, and it was FUCKING brilliant!!!  OMG, what a roller coaster ride.  Holy shit.

May try to tackle GLOW next, but that might take longer, lol.

 

Anyway, then I saw that this forum is not very active, and that there are not really any games or anything popping up, especially for newbies.  But, I did want to stop by and show my gratitude and respect.

[HarshMillennium]

6 minutes ago, kurgan said:

So... I'm not gonna lie.  I spent all day at work on Friday poking around this place.  Always saw the Mafia stuff, and wanted to get more involved, and started reading some stuff.

Then I spent 4 HOURS going through Pastamafia, and it was FUCKING brilliant!!!  OMG, what a roller coaster ride.  Holy shit.

May try to tackle GLOW next, but that might take longer, lol.

 

Anyway, then I saw that this forum is not very active, and that there are not really any games or anything popping up, especially for newbies.  But, I did want to stop by and show my gratitude and respect.

Yeah mafia games were fun. Check out Westworld and The Thing mafia games, I had a lot of fun in them. 

My hope is that after a few months interest might pick up and I'd be the first to run or sign up for a game.

[Azazel]

11 minutes ago, HarshMillennium said:

Yeah mafia games were fun. Check out Westworld and The Thing mafia games, I had a lot of fun in them. 

My hope is that after a few months interest might pick up and I'd be the first to run or sign up for a game.

I still want to do my Futurama game!  I have some super fun ideas, dammit!

[HarshMillennium]

This talk made me read through the Thing again. That was an awesome game. The paranoia and mistrust were palpable. Reading back I didn't play very well so here's hoping we get another game with similar mechanics in future.

I also wanted to run a really crazy mafia idea past someone if we get back to it. Can I message someone who knows mafia?

[Azazel]

13 hours ago, HarshMillennium said:

This talk made me read through the Thing again. That was an awesome game. The paranoia and mistrust were palpable. Reading back I didn't play very well so here's hoping we get another game with similar mechanics in future.

I also wanted to run a really crazy mafia idea past someone if we get back to it. Can I message someone who knows mafia?

This made me decide to go back and look at The Thing.  I still love how everyone was trying to find the best day 1 plan and Mick just went with a Random Number Generator so everybody turned on him.  Of course it's only hilarious because Mick's RNG actually caught one of The Thing's.

[Noah]

 

[HarshMillennium]

@Azazel

[Molly]

Epic Mafia is moderated by epic tools.

Just so you know. 

[Maxx]

On 07/05/2018 at 08:10, kurgan said:

So... I'm not gonna lie.  I spent all day at work on Friday poking around this place.  Always saw the Mafia stuff, and wanted to get more involved, and started reading some stuff.

Then I spent 4 HOURS going through Pastamafia, and it was FUCKING brilliant!!!  OMG, what a roller coaster ride.  Holy shit.

May try to tackle GLOW next, but that might take longer, lol.

 

Anyway, then I saw that this forum is not very active, and that there are not really any games or anything popping up, especially for newbies.  But, I did want to stop by and show my gratitude and respect.

Just coming across this now, but thanks, it was fun to see a game idea I had kicking around in my head for years finally happen.  And everyone seemed to enjoy it who played it, so that was cool too.  To see people enjoyed just reading through it, is also great.

[Molly]

On 08/05/2018 at 16:37, HarshMillennium said:

This talk made me read through the Thing again. That was an awesome game. The paranoia and mistrust were palpable. Reading back I didn't play very well so here's hoping we get another game with similar mechanics in future.

I also wanted to run a really crazy mafia idea past someone if we get back to it. Can I message someone who knows mafia?

I was in a Thing like game based around Aliens but it died before it went anywhere.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Sometimes I miss mafia. But only mafias where I'm the sole serial killer and everyone else is trying to figure out not just who the killer is, but who the dead are because they don't come up with alignments when they die.

[C-MIL]

I have some time and an idea for a game, but I don't want anybody to get mad about me jumping the line if I tried to run something.