Mafia Podcast! - Page 7

On March 08 2013 10:12 DoctorHelvetica wrote:

In about 4-5 hours.

Do you feel comfortable enough with your english to do this kind of thing?

On March 08 2013 10:28 MilkSuckler wrote:

I am not sure what you mean by that?

+ With that timing, I cant dial in (I only wanted to listen)

But yeah, I live in an English =native language country...

On March 08 2013 10:28 MilkSuckler wrote:

I am not sure what you mean by that?

+ With that timing, I cant dial in (I only wanted to listen)

But yeah, I live in an English =native language country...

On March 08 2013 10:38 VisceraEyes wrote:
I want in on this but not sure if I have a mic.

On March 08 2013 11:04 Oatsmaster wrote:
Another question:

It seems like town has been stomping lately, Is scum play gettting worse? Or town play getting better? How would you try and solve this 'problem'.

On March 08 2013 11:27 cDgCorazon wrote:


I don't think this is necessarily true.

Compare NMM 37 to Duel Mafia. One-sided wins for both sides.

NMM 33-37 was 3 town wins and 2 mafia wins if I recall correctly.

On March 09 2013 00:15 marvellosity wrote:
There have been a lot of one-sided town wins recently. And a one-sided mafia win (LVIII).

The best games are the close games. Like Hero Mini Mafia, where both sides played pretty well and it was a genuine battle.

On March 09 2013 01:38 Toadesstern wrote:

yeah think so too. Out of the last 5 games I had 4 ended up with a mafia lynch on d1 I think. Or 3 out of 4, I only know the one where I sheeped palmar d1 was the only one that didn't actually get mafia d1 in a loooong time. And before the pause I had we had the game with Matt claiming self-aware miller in a game without self-aware millers, so another d1 mafia lynch (though it's not in a row for you guys because as mentioned I was away from mafia for a bit after that).

The one game I mentioned, with palmar mislynching d1 and Supersoft being mafia really was the only decent game for mafia I saw in a long long time. So yeah, we probably need some more advice for mafias. After each and every game you're told what you did wrong as town and you can reflect on those things. It's hard to get those advices for mafias, especially considering that from a mafias point of view it highly depends on the situation you're in in that specific moment about wether the calls you're making are right, without the knowledge you have postgame. That makes it hard to reflect upon yourself as mafia even with advice because it's rarely applicable outside the vacum-situation you have when reading advices. Because again, it's usually not about making the right or wrong calls as mafia but more about wether you're able to make them in the situation you're in and that's just really hard to give advice for unless you're doing it live I guess.

On March 09 2013 01:58 marvellosity wrote:


yeah I pretty much agree. Playing mafia like you say is very situation-dependent. A lot of playing good scum, I think, is sensing where the thread is or what the thread sentiment is, or even more importantly maybe, is going to be shortly in the future. This is especially true for bussing decisions. Your mafiabuddy only has one or two votes. Question is, are you going to be able to save him, either with defence or a good case on someone else? The sooner you decide the better. And sometimes after the game you don't even know if you made the right choice!

Generally speaking mafia need to post more. Mafia need to grab some thread presence Day 1. Day 1 is really important. If you're not impactful in any way on Day 1, it's really really hard to grab influence later. And if a mafia team has no influence, then when things start going wrong (as they often do) you have no way to combat it because you're all unimportant. Far too many mafia teams these days are unable to push their agendas because none of them have any thread presence.