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Welcome to the Mafia Discussion Thread! (the previous mafia threads) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrtl41oZxOA We have a discord server, an IRC Room (#mafia on irc.synirc.net) and a Skype room a lot of us hang out in. Mostly only the Discord server is active these days. The Something Awful Mafia Wiki: The SA collaborative project for all things mafia related! It has mafia rules, common role information, and lots more, including a comprehensive list of mafia games played on SA. If you make a game, you'll want an account so you can add it to the wiki when it's over. VoteFinder! Votefinder keeps a list of currently active games and automates the tallying process in games. The second post of this thread gives a little tutorial if you are modding your first game. If you have a problem with it, ask in the thread. It is being run by forum superstar Flying Leatherman who took it over from soru. The Mafia New Game Sandbox & Announcement Thread: This thread is for discussing anything mafia! Mafia setups, previous mafia games, helping prospective mods to craft their own game, announcing said games once they are recruiting, anything! It is not for off-topic chat with the larger mafia community, that is for this thread! =========================== What the hell is Mafia? dongsbot 9000 posted:how about everyone promises to try really hard in mafia and make posts and then we all join ecco's game which will have some delightful twist like a scum jailer- ninja juggernaut interaction and tmm and kash will get into a big argument about something dumb and then a bunch of people will lurk cuz theyre playing wow and then we'll no lynch d1/d2 and then ill say something like "mafia is dead " and ill mess up lylo and everyone will say "yeah mafia is doing great" mafia.txt For an actual answer, mafia was originally a party game, and is sometimes known as Werewolf, that has been adapted to a Play by Post system on the forums. In this game two factions battle each other to control the game. The Mafia (commonly called "scum" on SA) are an informed minority while the Town are the uninformed majority. Mafia players know the identities of each other and usually are able to communicate privately and secretly. Town players do not know who else is town and cannot communicate with anyone privately, but as a whole they outnumber the mafia players by roughly 3 to 1. The goal of the town is to eliminate all mafia, while the goal of the mafia players is reach parity with the number of town players. Both mafia and town often have special roles which will aide them in accomplishing their goals. There also may be players who are neither town nor mafia, called Third Party or 3P, who may have alternate win conditions such as surviving until the end of the game or being the only person left alive. Mafia games have a moderator who is in charge of creating the game's story and roles. They will post in the discussion thread and the New Game Announcement thread that they have opened a game for a certain number of signups. After the amount of people they want sign up they will private message each player with a role. This role contains information about that person's alignment (mafia, town, or 3P), any extra powers they have, and often some sort of information about their character in the story. Once the game begins it is divided into two phases: Day and Night. During the day phase, all players discuss in the game thread who they believe is a member of the mafia, and then vote for that person. Our forums has a vote bot which tallies votes that are formatted ##vote Playername. Once one person has received a majority of the votes, that player is hanged and removed from the game. They can no longer participate in the thread or in any private communications they had access to while alive. The moderator will post that person's alignment and role in the thread and end the day phase. Once in night phase, there is no voting, and conversation may or may not be prohibited depending on the moderator. During this phase, the mafia choose someone to kill. As well, any extra powers that a player may have can be used. There are many possible powers, and moderators often come up with new ones, but there are several common ones such as Cop, who can learn the alignment of one other player each night; Doctor, who can protect one player each night from being killed; or Tracker, who can track another player and learn about any targets they visit. Mafia may have powers such as roleblocker, who can prevent another player from using their special powers for a night. After all actions have been received by the moderator and processed, they will announce who has died during the night and begin the next day phase where the cycle begins again. This continues until one faction has reached their win condition and the game ends in victory for Town, mafia, and/or 3P. While these are standard rules, there can be a lot of variation in setup. Almost all of these can and have been broken in one game or another. Purpose of this thread This thread has a mix of on-topic and off-topic discussion. If you are looking for exclusively on-topic discussion about mafia mechanics, then check out the The Mafia New Game Sandbox & Announcement Thread. This thread is for discussing all things mafia! Talk about completed games you have played in, rules and roles you like or don't like, variations on the above rules you think would be interesting, strategies you saw or came up with, or conventions that you don't understand. This thread is also for general discussion within the SA Mafia community, and not necessarily related to mafia. We have a very active player base and despite what it may look like in games where we call each other idiots, we're all friends here. We do our best to leave any aggression from games in that game's thread. We are also very welcoming to newcomers, so feel free to hop in if you have questions or want to join a game. There are a number of offshoot projects like people playing other games using mafia players as characters, we had a virtual wrestling league, and we run a yearly Secret Santa. This is a very active thread and may appear daunting at first, but feel free to just jump right in wherever the conversation may be. There's no need to read back, just skip to the end and join in, or change the topic to something else if you want. It's very casual. One hard rule to remember is to never talk about ongoing games outside of that game. Most people in the discussion thread are in one, if not more, mafia games at any time. If you've just died in a game, don't come to the discussion thread to talk about your role or anything that happened in the thread. Wait until the game is over, there's usually discussion in the game thread after a game has ended. F.A.Q.
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The Wonderful World of Votefinder Votefinder is our tallying system on SA for mafia games and it has a whole bunch of very cool features! How to make a game 1) Make a thread in The Game Room with Mafia in the title. 2) Make an account or Log in to Votefinder. 3) Go to Add a Game 4) Votefinder should list all current Mafia games in TGR. Choose yours and click the link to assign you as the moderator. 5) Once you have a page that looks like this, you're all done! Important features Most of votefinder is pretty self-explanatory, but there are a few features to note for first time moderators How to change your playerlist When you first ask votefinder to find your thread it's going to list everyone who has posted in that thread as part of the player list. You'll want to take out people who aren't playing by dragging them to the spectator column. Also remember to move players from living to dead before opening the next day. Posting the Votecount On the votecount tab you will see the current votecount for that day. All players can see this tab and the box to manually copy and paste the current votecount, but only the moderator can use the "Post Votecount" button to make votefinder post. After this button has been pressed it will be unavailable for an hour. The post votecount button makes votefinder post what the current votecount is, but you can also have an automatically updating picture of the votecount by clicking this button at the top of the page. Put this in your OP (usually right at the top) so that your players can automatically check the votecount at any time without having to go to votefinder. Finally, always make sure to post the votecount at the end of the day after someone has been hammered (they have reached the threshold to be hanged) since votefinder resets the votecount at the beginning of a new day. Knowing how everyone was voting at the end of the day is very important to town. Making a playerlist Under "Tools" votefinder will automatically create a playerlist that links each name to that player's post history in the thread. This is an absolutely essential tool for your players as they will frequently be checking people's post histories. Replace your handmade player list during signups with this as soon as the game starts. Closing your game Always close your game!!! This will remove it from the active games list, so that list doesn't become cluttered and give you a wiki code for the victory. You'll need to register an account at the wiki to post it there. If for whatever reason you can't register, post the information in the thread and someone will add it for you. Just be sure to change (something) to whichever team won. Making a Template By default, votefinder posts look like this. If you want votefinder to say something different or give different information you can change how votefinder will post by making a template. To do so click on your name and go to "My Templates" From there you can go in and change text, how votes are displayed, what information is displayed, and so on. Click Show Instructions if you want to be sure you're not going to break it. That's basically all there is to know about votefinder. It's a simple but invaluable tool when moderating a game. Asiina fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Sep 22, 2015 |
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Modding A Game: Dos and Don'ts and What Am I Even Doing So you want to mod a game of mafia! The most important thing to know is the basics: how the mechanics of different roles work and how they affect each other in tandem. For instance, a Cop is a standard town role, as well as a Doctor. But if the Cop claims, the Doctor can protect the Cop while the Cop investigates and clears players, meaning the Mafia can only stop the Cop once they find and stop the Doctor! This makes the game a lot harder for the Mafia than the moderator might have otherwise intended. However, giving the Mafia a Roleblocker or Godfather are helpful ways to organize the game so that, in case the Cop and Doc team up, the Mafia aren't left totally high and dry. Ultimately you want a game that's balanced: a game where everyone has an equal chance of winning the game through roles alone, meaning players win or lose based solely on luck and skill. General pointers and balancing strategies:
- Retro Futurist - CapitalistPig - Asiina - MMM Whatchya Say - eccotheraven Good luck!! ============= here's a permanent discord link https://discord.gg/yPuEJgX EccoRaven fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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Community Stuff!! Discord Server - Our unofficial replacement for IRC and/or Skype because we can't make up our minds what platform we like. The link keeps expiring, so ask in the thread or PM me if you want to be added Our DJ Room - Come listen to music with other mafia players. Movie Fantasy League - Open a theatre, populate your screens, try to make the most money each week. League: SAMafia, Password: rollingstart Town of Salem - Sometimes people play this mafia game, although the rules are a little different. You can buy it on steam or play in your browser for free. A map of mafia players - Come place where you are, this is a little out of date, but still sorta useful. SA Mafia Fantasy Wrestling League - CPig made a wrestling league for us. It's done now, but still a good read. MAFIA SECRET SANTA 2014 - Every year we do a Secret Santa and it is great, here is last year's. Fantasy Mafia League - A metagame from a few years ago where people made a fantasy league of SA mafia players. Mafia Civ 5 - Several mafia goons play Civ5 together, coordinated through this thread. Asiina fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Feb 5, 2017 |
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Goddamn you Ecco! Thread ruined!
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We also did a fantasy mafia league which Mills ran! And we do the Civilization thing, Asii!
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ecco ruined thread, voted 1, recommend restarting.
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GulagDolls posted:ecco ruined thread, voted 1, recommend restarting.
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I am the best
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Ernie. posted:We also did a fantasy mafia league which Mills ran! And we do the Civilization thing, Asii! Link those and I'll add them.
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It's a new day.
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GulagDolls posted:ecco ruined thread, voted 1, recommend restarting.
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Met posted:Ecco, since you have the first and last post in the last thread, mind tossing some links on either end of the thread to this one? I edited my last post with the link. Also I am gonna edit my (personally hilarious but objectively inappropriate) third-post sniper with something substantive.
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hello new thread
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I didn't read the last 4000 posts in the old thread. Did I miss anything other than pizza chat?
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i am v excited for this thread quote this post and i will vindicate your existence by telling you which us president you remind me of in honor of the 4th of july
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fiery_valkyrie posted:I didn't read the last 4000 posts in the old thread. Did I miss anything other than pizza chat? Asiina and I talked about nuclear holocausts and pre-apocalyptic fiction. Otherwise, no.
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Don't play mafia, it's a trap!
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we should do tabletop simulator nights, but not invite capps
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ground floor of the new thread!
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QuoProQuid posted:i am v excited for this thread Please be Nixon
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I am going to say hi and then disappear for another year that sounds fun
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Dexanth posted:I am going to say hi and then disappear for another year that sounds fun hi!
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QuoProQuid posted:i am v excited for this thread I hope you get it right.
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Ernie. posted:we should do tabletop simulator nights, but not invite capps Would play. Also hi new thread. I'm Little Mac. I'm the best/worst mod and also the best/worst player and also the best/worst person. I love you.
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QuoProQuid posted:i am v excited for this thread Yes, let's buzzfeed this thread up immediately.
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Dexanth posted:I am going to say hi and then disappear for another year that sounds fun Counterpoint: sign up for my game I just opened a few days ago it needs one player. Also mafia thread! If you are someone who wants to field questions from newer players about modding games, post here or send me a PM saying as such and I will add you to my newly-updated third-post-sniper post about modding!
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QuoProQuid posted:i am v excited for this thread france sim
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Woo! Mafia! Shank 2!
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Hello what is this...Ma-Fi-A?
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Mmm, smell that new thread smell
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Ground floor of an awful thread for awful people
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I'm a pillar of this community.
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I invite people to join me for an "America" themed evening in the DJ room, and to update your spots on the Mafia Map! I know I'm not where I was a year ago, and have updated it appropriately.
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The password is: kangaroo
Asiina fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Nov 28, 2015 |
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Hi new thread
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Buddies
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Tremendous Taste posted:Ground floor of an awful thread for awful people hey! gently caress you! I'm just mediocre!
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I'm eating ribs and pork loin and wishing I had pineapple pizza.
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