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Modkills:
Inactivity has been a problem in every mafia game so far. Inactivity is most easily defined as failure to vote. If you do miss a vote, you will be modkilled. Special consideration will be exercised if a player in danger of being modkilled by this manner has been an active contributor in the thread. If something comes up and you know you will miss the vote, PM me in advance about it to let me know and you will be spared. Remember again: abstaining votes are NOT allowed. And once again, flaming is not tolerated. Keep it civil, or else you will receive a quick lightning bolt to the back of the head. Furthermore, you must post at least once in this thread per game cycle (from the start of the night to the end of the next day) to avoid being modkilled. Simply voting doesn't work. This is to prevent lurkers from lurking.

On December 27 2010 17:46 Ryuu314 wrote:
Probably. I don't see how else the game could run otherwise.

7. Editing posts. Editing posts is not allowed for any reason. Anybody can see if you edited a post, and if you are caught, you will look suspicious. Editing will result in a warning. After that, you will be owned. I do have close connections to people who can check pre-edited material if you are truculent. Please do not edit; this is the one part of the site where it is okay to be double posting, even triple-posting. While I ask for everybody to post as concisely as possible, post again if you have to edit anything.

On December 27 2010 18:37 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
When were role PM's sent out? How soon before the day post were they?

On December 29 2010 12:52 Jackal58 wrote:
You stupid fucks.

On January 03 2011 12:42 Mr. Wiggles wrote:
Hmmm, why do you think the mafia would double-stack on RoL?

Wouldn't it make more sense that:
Opz hits RoL
Mafia hits RoL and Node
RoL takes two hits, dies.

Unless there's another vigi, or hits that aren't accounted for due to medics. I'm not sure how the mafia would know that RoL was a veteran and hit him twice, nor can I see a reason they'd want to stack hits unless they were sure he was going to get medic protected, they don't have much KP to spare it seems like with two members dead already.

On January 03 2011 13:59 Insanious wrote:
Well... RoL posted a list of inactives, and Node was on the list I can let that slide...

Btw, just for me, can we pick at least 1 lynch target(or both...) from these people:

- Meapak_Ziphh
- Brocket
- Jackal58

Mafia is not a game you can pick up and play. You need to stay focused on it until you're removed from the game. If you decide you don't want to play midway through, your options range from getting lynched to getting replaced to even getting modkilled. All of these are instances of you letting your team down, and rest assured everyone else playing doesn't appreciate it. Many people have tried to recover from burnout phases with a "nice easy game of Mafia" and found that it didn't work out.

Mafia is a competitive game, albeit unique in that players are not directly competing with each other individually. Playing to win is central to the game. On the Town's side, making light unrelated conversation with the other players, even if you like them outside the game, doesn't help the cause if it drags on for very long (especially since you may need to lynch them later). On the Mafia's side, it has been suggested that night-kills be tailored to keeping enjoyable players alive instead of making kills that will make it more likely that they will win. If that Mafia then loses, then it will come out that they essentially lost on purpose - and no victorious Town wants to hear that.

The bottom line is, Mafia is not for everyone. It's nothing personal if you don't like what you just read, but everyone will probably be happier if you stayed on the sidelines.

Note that this is NOT saying that Mafia shouldn't be fun. For Mafia, the fun comes more from the competition than the social aspects. You're more than welcome to talk to the players after the game and go from there.