Mafia is an educated guessing game of epic proportions. The objective of the game is to lynch or kill all mafia members before they outnumber the rest of the town. It's much like a game of poker because mafia members are also part of the town during the day and may manipulate the vote to their liking. If the mafia at any time outnumber or equal the townspeople, they win. The town's goal is to lynch all the members of the mafia.
The game is typically very active, so the thread may grow large quickly. However, it is essential to read the thread to play the game. If you do not have the time or patience to read the whole thread, do not play.
Please note that all voting will be done within this game thread. There is no separate voting thread.
Rules:
Cheating: Cheating includes (but is not limited to):
Posting after death. You may have one polite goodbye post; but it may not contain any potentially game-changing information.
Ruining the game by doing something like hand out your mafia's member list to the town.
Logging on to someone else's account to get their role or looking over someone's shoulder to get their role.
Comparing role PM times to determine roles.
Posting screenshots of your inbox.
Posting any PM you receive from a host.
Getting yourself modkilled to help your team. Your non-majority-decided death may not be used as a bargaining chip.
Signing up more than once using smurf accounts.
Betting items outside of the game in exchange for in-game benefits.
Sharing accounts with other players. Only you may post on your account.
Posting the link to any QT's you have.
You may not reveal or hint about the identity of your coach. You may not refer to any idea, course of action, etc. as something that was suggested by your coach.
If you feel that any action you are considering may be against the spirit of the game, it is best to contact a host and ensure it is allowed before proceeding.
Posting:
Host Color: The color blue is reserved for the hosts of the game to make our posts easy to notice. Please do not use it.
Question Color: The color green is reserved for questions by players for the hosts. Use it to ask the game hosts questions about the rules. Please do us a favor and read the rules before you ask anything.
Smurfs: Smurfs must PM the host because TL doesn't allow multiple accounts otherwise. If the host is unaware of smurfs, you (and/or your smurf) can be banned for having multiple accounts
Spam: Spam is not tolerated, nor is any off-topic material. Do not discuss Proleague(RIP) here. Do not talk about Starcraft II here. Play Mafia here.
Editing: Editing is not allowed for any reason. Editing will result in a warning. After that, you will be modkilled. This is the one part of the site where it is okay to be double posting, even triple-posting. "Editing" includes indirect editing like linking an image, then editing the image. Editing your profile or signature are allowed, but if you edit them for any game-related reasons (ie, breadcrumbing, sending messages, etc) this will be considered out-of-thread posting and will be punished.
Inappropriate posts and use of the report post link: If you want to post something insulting or inappropriate and know the TL mods would have a problem with it elsewhere, don't post it here. If you do, a host will warn you or modkill you and request that you be banned from future games. The hosts have the final say on what is inappropriate. If you do not like how someone is talking to you, please PM a host, Flamewheel, or Mig before involving the TL moderation staff or using the report post link. If you are unsatisfied with how the situation is resolved, then you can appeal to the TL staff normally.
Ban discussions: Please wait until this game is over to talk about modkills and bans resulting from this game.
Play to win. This means you play your best to help your team win while you are alive and in the game. However, this does not mean that you should try to win by being a jerk to the other players so they all want to quit playing.
This also means that you cannot leave the game without a good reason without a ban. These situations will be dealt with on a case by case basis. PM your host if you need to leave the game.
Out of thread communication:
It is common for players whose roles permit out of thread communication (e.g. mafia, masons) to use a medium outside of TL such as QuickTopics or IRC to communicate during the game. Other players may not attempt to infiltrate such communication channels. Players who have not explicitly been given permission to communicate outside the thread are not allowed to do so.
Voting rules:
Voting is done in this thread. Do not PM your vote to the hosts, it will not be counted.
Please vote in the following format: ##Vote: cakepie or ##Vote cakepie. Votes must be in bold, and votes not written in the correct fashion will not be counted.
No conditional voting.
You may vote only for other living players in the thread. You may not vote for yourself.
This game uses plurality voting, so whoever has the most votes at the end of the day is lynched. There is no minimum number of votes required to lynch someone. If there is a tie for most votes, whoever most recently had more votes than the other is the person who is up for the lynch.
The person who is up for the lynch is whoever has the most votes. Bringing another player up to that number of votes doesn't put him up for the lynch; s/he has to have the most votes.
Voting is mandatory. You may NOT abstain.
Signups:
5 spots in this game are reserved for new players*. The other 4 spots in this game are open to anyone, but new players still take priority and can possibly bump other players from these spots. These numbers are flexible, but the goal is to bring new members in and give them a chance to play. If you're a forum regular, please bear in mind there will be newbies in this game and act appropriately to introduce them to TL Mafia. * new player - played in 3 or fewer previous TL mafia games. That means if this would be your 4th game, you are eligible
Signup for the game by posting /in in the thread if you are new, or /in: Open if you are not.
You are responsible for being aware when the game begins. I will send a PM to players one (1) day before starting. If you learn you cannot play when I PM you, please let me know ASAP.
Game-specific rules:
Modkills: This game follows the TL Mafia Ban List. If you are modkilled, your punishment will go beyond being eliminated from this game. Please refer to it for questions about your punishment. If you want to use this game to sit out your ban, post in the Ban List.
If you break any rules, you will receive ONE (1) warning PM on your first offense. There will be no second warning. Please don't make me wield the hammer.
Replacements: This game uses replacements. Players who are inactive may be replaced by other players.
If you are unable to continue playing for a legitimate reason and require a replacement, inform the host(s) via PM. Do not post about it in the thread and do not contact the standby players on your own accord.
Clues: The role PMs and day/night posts are purely flavor text. There are no clues.
PMs: PMs and out of thread communication are not allowed in this game, unless your role explicitly allows them.
Activity: You are expected to keep up with the thread and participate in discussion daily. If for some reason you anticipate that you will not be available for a period longer than 24 hours, please notify a host ahead of time. If the host deems a player is inactive, they may be warned or removed from the game.
I will be looking for at least 3 posts per cycle, so 1 post every 24 hours. Failure to live up to this will result in you breaking the Activity requirements and thus being warned or removed from the game.
Time Cycle: This game will follow a 48 hour day/24 hour night cycle. Upon reaching the deadline, the game will be put on hold until the next day or night post is posted. Any votes or night actions timestamped up to and including XX:59 will count; those at or after XX:00 will not.
Once the deadline has been reached, you must not post in the thread until the game is resumed by the next daypost or nightpost. Do not wait until the very last moment to try to post!
The deadline for each cycle will be 5:59 PM UTC, or 17:59 GMT (+00:00) in your timezone.
Caution: Daylight Saving Time: The deadline is in UTC/GMT, which does not account for daylight saving time. The game will keep ticking at 48+24 hour cycles. If you are in a timezone that uses daylight saving time / summer time, the transition back to standard time will move the deadline by one hour on your local clock. Please be cognizant of this change!
Credits: Thanks to cohosts, coaches and players. Thanks to every active member of the TL mafia community.
Thanks to ZUN for Touhou. Thanks/apologies to musicians and artists whose music/art I’ll be shamelessly stealing for flavor.
Newbie-specific stuff
It's already in the rules, but remember, no editing. If you feel you must correct your post, please make a second post to clarify your statements. You may put EBWOP ("Edit by way of post," a handy acronym invented by semioldguy) at the beginning of your post to indicate that you are clearing up a point you made. If your EBWOP post is several posts after your original, please quote your original post in your EBWOP post for the sake of clarity.
Only sign up if you know you will have the time available to properly play the game. It is essential that players remain active in a newbie game, so only /in if you are able to play to your fullest.
If there is any sort of issue, you are unsure about some mechanic, or you are just wondering if your devilish scheme is even allowed, feel free to PM the host(s). Don't feel shy; these games are meant to be a place to learn and be open.
Behave as gentlemen (or ladies). Things get heated here, but personal attacks will not be acceptable, and will be dealt with accordingly. Remember, this is a game; have fun and happy scumhunting!
Please do not talk about any ongoing games either in-game or pre-game. This can affect other games and is unacceptable. Please do not refer to outside-of- thread activity of players in this thread.
If you receive coaching, don't tell town about it.
Please note that the theme is for flavor purposes only and having knowledge of the series and its wider fandom is not required. If you're unfamiliar with the theme and wish to learn more about it, the Touhou Wiki is a good starting point.
Game setup information
This game uses the Matrix6 setup with added flavor. This is a semi-open setup for ⑨ players; that is, all the possible roles are given but the number of each is not known. Not all of the roles will necessarily be present. Details are as follows.
Town Win Condition: Eliminate all of the anti-town players, leaving at least one town player alive. Mafia Win Condition: Eliminate all other players, or reach a scenario where nothing can stop this.
Vote races: In case the game would be decided by a vote race, the day is skipped and the endgame is resolved by the next set of night actions.
You are a generic Kappa or Tengu, a vanilla townie! You have no special abilities, but your voice and your vote are just as important as anyone else's. You win with the town.
You are Himekaidou Hatate, the Town Cop! Equipped with your flip-phone and your powers of Spirit Photography, you can snoop around and check the alignment of other players.
Each night phase, you may choose a player to investigate. You will visit the player and will receive an outcome of "Town", "Scum" or "No Result". Your results are guaranteed to be accurate. You win with the town.
You are Kagiyama Hina, the Town Doctor! Using your ability to gather misfortune, you can protect other players to prevent a terrible fate from befalling them.
Each night phase, you may choose a player other than yourself to protect. You will visit that player, and if someone attempts to kill them, you will be able to protect them from one KP. Neither you nor your target will be notified in the event of a successful save. You win with the town.
You are Shameimaru Aya, the Town Tracker! Armed with your trusty camera, you like to gather news from the frontlines, always following wherever the action is to be found.
Each night phase, you may choose a player to investigate. You will follow the player and learn who, if anybody, that they visited that same night (but not the action performed). You will receive a list of zero or more visited players, or "No Result". You win with the town.
You are Inubashiri Momiji, the Town Jailkeeper! As a Patrol Tengu, you can temporarily detain another player, preventing them from performing actions while also preventing others from harming them.
Each night phase, you may choose a player other than yourself to detain. Your target will be prevented from performing their intended action(s), if any, as well as be protected from KP. You win with the town.
You are Kawashiro Nitori, the Town 1-shot Bulletproof! Thanks to your optical camouflage suit, you are able to evade an attacker; however, your suit will be broken by the encounter.
You are passively protected from the first 1 KP targeted upon you at night. You will be informed when your protection has been used up. You win with the town.
You are <secret-name>, a mafia goon! <secret-flavor-text>
Every night, the mafia team may choose to send one of their members to kill a player. You may communicate with other members of your mafia team outside of the game thread at any time. A quicktopic has been provided for your team: <insert link>.
You win with the mafia. The mafia team is: <insert names>
You are <secret-name>, a mafia roleblocker! <secret-flavor-text>
Each night phase, you may choose a player to roleblock, which will prevent them from performing actions and visits that night.
Every night, the mafia team may choose to send one of their members to kill a player. You may communicate with other members of your mafia team outside of the game thread at any time. A quicktopic has been provided for your team: <insert link>.
You may perform both your roleblock and carry the mafia KP on the same night.
You win with the mafia. The mafia team is: <insert names>
Role Distribution: The distribution of roles will be randomized to one of the following configurations:
Mafia KP is always 1. KP is track/deliver and can self-target. - if mafia fail to specify an NK target, I will randomize the hit among all living players. - if mafia fail to specify who delivers the KP, I will flip a coin to decide.
The mafia roleblocker may roleblock and deliver the nightkill in the same night.
In this setup, the mafia roleblocker's action resolves before the jaikeeper's action.
Roleblocked targets are not notified; investigative roles will return "no result" if blocked.
Bulletproofing is passive and cannot be roleblocked.
FAQs:
Q: Can good guys communicate outside of the thread? What about just the Cop / Detective? A: The good guys can't communicate outside of the thread. This includes the Cop.
Q: I'm confused about some role names that are used interchangeably. A: VT = Vanilla Townie = Town Vanilla. Cop = DT = Detective. Medic = Doc = Doctor = Angel. Scum = Mafia. RB = Roleblocker
Q: Does something extra bad happen to the Doctor if s/he visits a mafia player? A: The Doctor has no penalty for saving a mafia player
Q: I want to talk about coaching, or have a question about coaching. Where should I ask this? A: PM me. Do not post in the thread about coaching.
Q: Should I talk about this game anywhere other than this thread? A: No. You can talk in your assigned Quicktopic if you are Mafia. You can also talk with your coach. Otherwise, do not mention this game. Don't mention it in passing. Don't mention that you're alive. Don't mention that you think your case is good. People in this game read all parts of the forums here on TL, so if you go over the Sc2 Strategy and say "I'm a bad mafia dude in this game" you will get found out.
Q: Should I talk about this game anywhere other than this thread if I'm dead? A: When you die I will provide you with a quicktopic for dead players to hang out in and discuss the game.
Q: Can town decide to "sleep" or vote for a no-lynch? A: You are allowed to vote for a no-lynch.
Q: The deadline passed and the Host hasn't finished writing the Day post or Night post. During these minutes between the lynch ending, or between the night ending, and the start of the next phase, can I talk? A: Do not talk if the day or night post is late. After the lynch or the night kills have been 100% determined, in theory the next day should start instantly. In practice, it takes me some time to compose the new post, and during this time you should quietly wait for the flip. Typically there's a delay of between 1 and 10 minutes.
Q: Can we claim our roles or night actions and their results? A: You may claim anything you want to, including fake claims. It is up to the other players whether they will believe your claim.
Q: Can I post a screenshot of my role PM? Can we compare formatting or timestamps of messages from the hosts? A: You may not directly quote or screenshot anything from outside the thread. This also implies that things like comparing PM timestamps or formatting are disallowed. You may not ask things like "was your role PM colored green?".
Q: Why is town talking in thread during the night phase? A: Games on TL mafia generally do not use silent night mechanics (unless explicitly stated otherwise).
Q: Are the teams balanced based on newbie/vet status? A: Nope, they are assigned at random.
This game, I'd like to invite everyone to participate in a test of a scoring system for rating the quality of town/scum reads, so that we can see if having a metric like this is meaningful / useful for player improvement, etc.
This will involve you sending me your reads regularly, so that I can track how far you are from the true scum team as the game progresses. (Of course, your reads will be kept secret.) At the end of the game, I aim to produce scores/graphs to show how everyone did with their reads, compared to a baseline standard. Conversely, we will also be able to assess the mafia players on how well they were able to deceive everyone else.
All town players, town coaches and observers are invited to participate! Participation is optional but would be greatly appreciated.
Instructions To send me your reads:
List all the living players in the game, with your scummiest reads at the top, and towniest at the bottom. If you read two players equally, put them on the same line. You may use as few or as many lines as you wish. There is no need to apply labels such as "null", "scumlean", etc. Example:
Please send your reads to me by PM with the subject "NSM24 MafiaMetric". Doing this properly will be very helpful to me as I need to give higher priority to actual game-relevant PMs. Observers and dead townies can also simply post their reads in the Obs QT using the format given.
For this trial run, I will collect data at 24h intervals, so send in your reads by "midday", EoD, and EoN. I won't be too strict about this, but obviously please try to get your PMs in before the day/night post. EDIT: Feel free to send me fresh reads whenever you feel that there has been a major change in your reads, or you've just completed a full review/reassessment of all players. Just don't spam me too frequently (i.e., your reads shouldn't change massively more than a couple of times within an hour unless shit goes down in the thread.) Also please don't let this distract you from the game. The reads you send me should be a natural by-product of gameplay, not something you do especially for this experiment. Thanks.
Questions? Before game start: ask in thread After game start: ask in obs or by PM
Help me decide how much flavor to put in the game:
Flavor? 8: I don't care about flavor, just want to play mafia. 1: I don't know the theme, but would enjoy some flavor. 0: I know a little bit about the theme and would understand some references. 0: I know the theme well enough to get most of the in-jokes. 1: I know all the dank memes. Shitpost away! - poll #87478
I think we should be okay. If you analyze one configuration or other by itself it may look unbalanced, but the thing with RNG semi-open setups like this is that they are balanced in part by the uncertainty over which particular sub-setup is actually in play, so looking at any one in isolation may not be the best way to judge them.
MS has some stats for their games and you might be surprised to discover that these perceived-town-favored configs actually have the most scum-favored results from among the 6 possibilities. MS have recorded an overall ~46% town wins in aggregate across all 6 sub-setups, though granted, site meta may differ.
A quick TL search yields these games: - Newbie 58 (rb + 1bp + jk) scum win -- even with one extra vt (10 players) - Newbie 59 (1bp + tracker) scum win (those modkills tho.)
On October 31 2016 05:33 Shapelog wrote: Also please pair me up with hina Cakepie :D!
I make no promises. For that, you'll need to pray to RNG. Or better yet, pray to Hina.
On October 31 2016 09:19 ExO_ wrote: /in can I play? I don't think I'm really a newbie anymore
Yeah I'll put you down as /in:Open into a non-newbie slot.
On October 31 2016 09:28 ExO_ wrote: There's a distinct lack of Marisa/Patchy/Alice here hmnmm
No MariAliPatchy for you.
I was hoping to be lazier with flavor this time if no one actually cared, but looks like I actually have to put in some effort. XÞ No huge chunks of narrative though, I swore never to do that again after last time.
Waiting on: - One more player. I'm willing to open the newbie slot to non-newbies in the interest of getting things moving. - One more coach (maybe two) would be nice, for 1-to-1 coaches to newbies ratio - One more cohost needed to cover for beentheredonethat's planned absence.
Game does its best now and is preparing. Please watch warmly until it is ready.
彩音 〜xi-on〜 封印されし神々 / 風彩旋律 [comiket83] Original: 封印されし神々 / 東方風神録 ～ Mountain of Faith / Title theme
Game is now full. Confirmation PMs will go out shortly. Roles will go out once everyone has confirmed. If everyone responds very promptly, we can try to start at Tuesday, Nov 01 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00), otherwise Game start is now targeted for Wednesday, Nov 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00).
Still accepting replacements to stand by. /replace and /obs requests in thread please.
On November 01 2016 19:45 Skynx wrote: modkill or warning on no-vote?
For all rule infractions, I warn once, then hammer.
Note that there is also a 3 posts per cycle activity requirement in this game as specified in OP. It is my custom to send a reminder/warning PM at day-phase "midday" if a player has not participated in thread. This counts as a warning, so if they still have not posted by EoD, they can expect the hammer.
On November 01 2016 19:45 Skynx wrote: Can mafia hold their shot?
Mafia NKP rules now clarified in setup post under "Additional Notes".
Still awaiting one confirmation. Game start is now targeted for Wednesday, Nov 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00).
Also still open for replacements, please /replace in thread. Replacements: you may be needed at game start in case of player no-show, please be on stand by.
Now entering silent pregame. No posting anything except popcorn in the thread, please. Role PMs will go out shortly before deadline. Scum and coaching QTs, where applicable, are open for business. A gentle reminder: do not mention coaching in the thread.
Any questions about the game at this point should be handled by PM to hosts. Discussions about modkills and/or other host actions, please wait until after the game.
Still accepting replacements and obses via PM; please do not post in thread.
Day 1 will start in at Wednesday, Nov 02 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00).
All town players, coaches and obs are invited to participate in a trial of MafiaMetric read tracking and evaluation! Details here.
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shanghaied ptmc into being the backup (thanks ptmc!), but he'd prefer to give the spot to someone else.![[image loading]](https://i.imgsafe.org/8d31ea91fc.png)
