Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
Mr. Humalong
May 7, 2007

Natural 20 posted:

Fate Mafia: Soldiers needs a replacement if anyone's up for it. The game hasn't actually started yet so it's not so much a replacement as another signup!

Eh ok sure

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

merk
May 20, 2003

##interact
Ok.

merk
May 20, 2003

##interact
Nooooooooooooo

Asiina
Apr 26, 2011

No going back
Grimey Drawer
Last call for signups for Awful Big Brother. Closing tomorrow, so just want to give one last plug:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3905371&pagenumber=1&perpage=40

Jen X
Sep 29, 2014

To bring light to the darkness, whether that darkness be ignorance, injustice, apathy, or stagnation.

Asiina posted:

Last call for signups for Awful Big Brother. Closing tomorrow, so just want to give one last plug:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3905371&pagenumber=1&perpage=40

y'all should do this

Dick Bastardly
Aug 22, 2012

Muttley is SKYNET!!!
i'm worried that SA mafia is dead :(

Podima
Nov 4, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Dick Bastardly posted:

i'm worried that SA mafia is dead :(

lol my dude, c'mon. there are plenty of games, including a 42-person soldiers game starting in two days. It's FINE.

Tommu
Aug 4, 2019

O vanity of Sleep, Hope, Dream, endless Desire,
The Horses of Disaster plunge in the heavy clay

Dick Bastardly posted:

i'm worried that SA mafia is dead :(

Its dead

Meinberg
Oct 9, 2011

inspired by but legally distinct from CATS (2019)
Only the good die young, and so Mafia is filled with a necrotic resurgance of vitality. Mafia can never die for it has never lived, and in all of it existence, it has spread sin and pain and sorrow in its wake, strengthening its grip on the hearts of those who fall under its sway. The dread god SAMAF shall be known its ways and by its signs.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

Dick Bastardly posted:

i'm worried that SA mafia is dead :(

it's not dead you can just never play because you're constantly probated

Opopanax
Aug 8, 2007

I HEX YE!!!


It died years ago but the shambling corpse has been decent

Dick Bastardly
Aug 22, 2012

Muttley is SKYNET!!!
soldiers games scare me.. but I am glad to hear SA maf is ... arguably not dead :unsmith:


IcePhoenix posted:

it's not dead you can just never play because you're constantly probated

*begins having flashbacks of forums battle waged in distant lands, checks skies to make sure there aren't predator drones armed with 6er anti-shitpost missles*

GulagDolls
Jun 4, 2011

sa mafia isn't dead...it's...UNDEAD!!! :zombie: quote this on halloween

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post

GulagDolls posted:

sa mafia isn't dead...it's...UNDEAD!!! :zombie: quote this on halloween

GulagDolls
Jun 4, 2011

ah , no, very wrong, very bad

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post

GulagDolls posted:

ah , no, very wrong, very bad

???

Bifauxnen
Aug 12, 2010

Curses! Foiled again!


GulagDolls posted:

sa mafia isn't dead...it's...UNDEAD!!! :zombie: quote this on halloween

Quidthulhu
Dec 17, 2003

Stand down, men! It's only smooching!

Lmao nice

Mr. Humalong
May 7, 2007

Dick Bastardly posted:

soldiers games scare me.. but I am glad to hear SA maf is ... arguably not dead :unsmith:


*begins having flashbacks of forums battle waged in distant lands, checks skies to make sure there aren't predator drones armed with 6er anti-shitpost missles*

guess who just got made ik of the samaf thread 😈

Mr. F!
Sep 21, 2016

Who??

Mr. F!
Sep 21, 2016

Oh darn it wasn’t me

Mr. Humalong
May 7, 2007


Infinitum

Jump King
Aug 10, 2011

Dick Bastardly posted:

i'm worried that SA mafia is dead :(

Yeah it feels like it’s been slowly fading away for a while, going to votefinder and seeing only 2 games is a bit of a sorry state of affairs and I think it’s largely because people have moved on to better games.

But this is the type of thing that’s difficult for people to gauge and votefinder records are quite easy to access so maybe I’ll draw up a chart to look at this

Podima
Nov 4, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
I think the biggest shift from previous years is that people tend to only play in one game at a time these days, rather than signing up for multiple games at once. But there's a pretty steady stream of new games as previous ones end - please do make a chart though!

Dick Bastardly
Aug 22, 2012

Muttley is SKYNET!!!

Mr. Humalong posted:

guess who just got made ik of the samaf thread 😈


*cackles with delight*

Opopanax
Aug 8, 2007

I HEX YE!!!


Jump King posted:

Yeah it feels like it’s been slowly fading away for a while, going to votefinder and seeing only 2 games is a bit of a sorry state of affairs and I think it’s largely because people have moved on to better games.

But this is the type of thing that’s difficult for people to gauge and votefinder records are quite easy to access so maybe I’ll draw up a chart to look at this

It's the first week of January.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Here's how many games you would have seen open if you'd browsed on over to vote finder dot org on January 4th in past years

2011: 11
2012: 3
2013: 4
2014: 3
2015: 4
2016: 4 (excluding cool hang out mafia)
2017: 4
2018: 6
2019: 1

death cob for cutie
Dec 30, 2006

dwarves won't delve no more
too much splatting down on Zot:4
so one of you run a game, then

Opopanax
Aug 8, 2007

I HEX YE!!!


Fine.

Actually join this time. I'm wiping it clean for all new sign ups.

Mr. Steak
May 9, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Retro Futurist posted:

Fine.


Actually join this time. I'm wiping it clean for all new sign ups.

keep me signed up for this.

also im part of the solution here cuz i join literally every mafia game. be like me, folks

Mr. Humalong
May 7, 2007

Pinterest Mom posted:

Here's how many games you would have seen open if you'd browsed on over to vote finder dot org on January 4th in past years

2011: 11
2012: 3
2013: 4
2014: 3
2015: 4
2016: 4 (excluding cool hang out mafia)
2017: 4
2018: 6
2019: 1

Looks like a bunch of people stopped being miserable recluses since 2018 grats on personal growth everyone

Jump King
Aug 10, 2011

The State Of Mafia

I'm trying to a pleasing way to lay out this information visually but I have some information about mafia.

I've cut games that closed without any players and a few others that got canned before they started but I didn't comb through all 1000+ entries to verify everything so there's a few joke games and other non mafia projects included in here.

I counted every mafia game for each year, as well as the number of players each game had. I'll be presenting this in the form "the year 20XX had Y mafia games with Z players"

2010 had 107 games with 1564 players
2011 had 145 games with 2170 players
2012 had 115 games with 1860 players
2013 had 145 games with 2183 players
2014 had 127 games with 1827 players
2015 had 164 games with 2484 players
2016 had 149 games with 2060 players
2017 had 77 games with 1197 players
2018 had 61 games with 1017 players
2019 had 44 games with 605 players

This information again but in a table:
pre:
Year	Games	Players
2010	107 	1564
2011	145 	2170
2012	115 	1860
2013	145 	2183
2014	127 	1827
2015	164 	2484
2016	149 	2060
2017	77   	1197
2018	61   	1017
2019	44   	605
Conclusion: Mafia died and it died in 2017. This is a bit counter to what I actually thought was going to come out in the data which would be a slow decline in the number of games leading to now, but instead the numbers stayed pretty consistent and even seemed to be increasing towards the middle of the decade, but then there was a hard drop off in 2017, with about half the number of games run than the previous year. 2019 had the fewest games on record, with about 1/3 of the games that the community had in it's heyday.

Jump King fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jan 4, 2020

GulagDolls
Jun 4, 2011

2020 hasn't even had one game. this is the end

Natural 20
Sep 17, 2007

Wearer of Compasses. Slayer of Gods. Champion of the Colosseum. Heart of the Void.
Saviour of Hallownest.
Wait did I kill mafia.

t a s t e
Sep 6, 2010

That data confirms what I’ve felt, jump king

Mr. Steak
May 9, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
i believe the last gbs mafia game was in 2016 or 2017. id be interested to see how that may have affected the numbers.

Mr. Steak
May 9, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
relatedly, does anyone want to help me design a neet-based mafia game for gbs?

Jump King
Aug 10, 2011

Here's a visualization, it's a garbage visualization and I'd like to a better one but I've been having a bit of trouble with it so here's this bad version:



The Y axis is the number of players in a game, each dot is a game and the X axis is the date the game was created.

You can see a pretty consistent string of games at the 13 and 15 player marks but they just fade out in 2017. Tellingly, the 11 player line is more distinct in the past two years.

Jump King fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jan 4, 2020

flerp
Feb 25, 2014
the real question is not if mafia is dead but rather who killed it

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
do games in other forums but do some outside of GBS this time imo

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply