The Mafia Discussion Thread

[Ruki]

I am for this.

[Sousa]

Maybe a smaller, more streamlined You Pick?

...maybe I can combine the concepts?

[Josh]

To me, You Pick is best when it's as ostentatious as possible and that effects the numbers as well. Hold off until the time is right to do a ridiculously big game again.

[naiwf]

Games with 19 or fewer players would be awesome. Lurking wouldn't be a strategy and we wouldn't need these massive breaks during phases trying to get one or two people to speak up all the time.

EDIT: I also prefer 12-15, but 19 is doable. The day phases where it takes 12+ votes to lynch someone kill games because certain people don't want to vote or speak up until half the field is dead.

Edited August 19, 2010 by naiwf

[Pesci]

I prefer games of 15 or less to games of 19 or less - somewhere between 12 and 15 is ideal for me. But I can still play the larger games without getting too pissed off. Once we get to 30+ it just gets stupid with the lurking.

[Sousa]

You Pick's tabled for now. But it will return!

[Josh]

You Pick's tabled for now. But it will return!

"You Pick will return in For You Pick Only."

And I feel like games that have roughly 30 players are fine, so long as they're done when general interest in mafia is quite high at the time. The trouble is that interest is only that high once or twice a year at best.

[Sousa]

John Morrison just took the reins of the alternate reality. Like we can just leave that thread hanging.

[Josh]

Exactly. But this a major angle. It's gotta run for at least a year before the payoff.

[theburninator77]

Just to let GMs of games I'm in to know I am in the process of moving and my activity will be hit and miss for the next 5-7 days.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

So business as usual then?

[oldskool]

We need a New Talent Initiative. Where's TEOL & his rookie game?

[TEOL]

I'm waiting to run a new Kingmaker game atm.

[Pizza]

I'll run a newbie game using the same format as -A- did if TEOL's ok with it.

[Nick Adams]

DJ Ice has asked to be taken out of the game, so if anybody wants to replace him...

[TGC]

I might suggest we run fewer games at the same time too. Just as the inactivity level is so high.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

It doesn't help that we have night periods that, if not delayed further, are scheduled to last a few minutes short of half a week.

[TGC]

I am looking at Ace.

I don't know why we have such lengthy night periods. Really, 24 hours seems sufficient. If you can't get your action in in 24 hours oh well.

I suspect it will pick up again in the fall though.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

I am looking at Ace.

I don't know why we have such lengthy night periods. Really, 24 hours seems sufficient. If you can't get your action in in 24 hours oh well.

I suspect it will pick up again in the fall though.

I meant Nick Adams...

And yes I agree about 24 hours. If you can't get a night action in in 24 hours, you probably won't be contributing to a day phase ever 24 hours either, and really one post a day is not too much to ask.

[naiwf]

Yeah, 84 hours is a bit much.