Active List of Mafia Games - Page 55

On November 27 2011 18:39 Incognito wrote:


49 is a lame number. Lets skip it.

On November 27 2011 18:32 wherebugsgo wrote:
rofl 5 players

that setup looks so ridiculously town favored

On November 29 2011 06:19 Forumite wrote:
I´m interested in cohosting if anyone need some help to run a medium-to-small game.

I want to get some practice before I try to run a Resistance game.

---The Queue---
Queue is on hold until further notice. No new games may join
[N] Ver's Virtuoso Mafia - Due to start after XLVII (Ver is host)
[T] Election mafia - Due to start sometime (kitaman27 is host; Cyber_Cheese is cohost)
[M] Miss Marple Mafia - Due to start after Mini Mafia X (Tackster is host; Deconduo is cohost)

On November 30 2011 05:28 Blazinghand wrote:
I'm new to TL Mafia.

I've been reading this: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=274334#6

I have decided that Mafia sounds super awesome. I'd like to play. I see that this is currently the queue:


And the upcoming games list is empty. Does this mean that there are no games currently being formed, and I should wait until a queue game becomes an upcoming game? Or is there somewhere else I should go to get started?

Thanks for your help.

On November 30 2011 05:38 Foolishness wrote:

What you said is correct. Currently there is a massive 80 player game going on, so we are waiting for people to die off before we put up a new game. Within this week the plan is to put up a newbie game (for players with 3 games experience or less) so that would be the game for you to join, so be on the look out for that. Our activity on the forum hit a trough recently so the queue got a little out of whack (rightfully so as this was the first time since the formation of the queue that this happened).

On November 30 2011 06:09 Palmar wrote:
About the newbie games.

Is there a reason to involve more experienced players in them? Like 2-3 people who know what they're doing in a 12 player game. Instead of the coaching system which seems to me to be not working all that well, we just stick 2 people who know what they're doing (and promise to behave) in the game to raise the overall skill level.

I know they do something similar over on Mafiascum.

On November 30 2011 03:57 Zona wrote:

Since there's people asking in another thread about the next newcomer game, why don't Forumite and I host one? I can start anytime.

+ Show Spoiler +

On November 30 2011 06:15 Blazinghand wrote:
Could be dangerous; if there are 2-3 people who have serious analysis skills or a good eye for behavior and the experience to back it up, how they're distributed between scum, town and blue could be the determining factor in the game's outcome. Although this sounds like it would increase the level of play in the game, if you have 2 veterans and they're both scum, the townies are probably boned. Manually splitting them between scum and town is bad, too, since that reveals a lot of information. It might make more sense to have like 6 new players and 6 experienced players, so that regardless of distribution, there will be enough experienced players in a group to have a positive impact, and you can randomize their roles in a more meaningful fashion without unbalancing the game.

That being said, it's possible that having newbies in the game will reduce the quality of the game enough that I think it's best to just roll with it and let the newbies get a chance to acquaint themselves with the format and mechanics of mafia, and have experienced players help rather than participate.

On November 30 2011 09:56 wherebugsgo wrote:


tbh I think it's best we don't actually have newbie games, and just have regular minis.

When only 20-30% of the playerbase doesn't know what's going on they can follow the vets who lead by example and learn through experience. When 100% of the playerbase doesn't know what's going on even coaching won't help.

Personally I think newbie games tend to be hugely scum favored simply because new townies become bored easily and they start out at such a huge information disadvantage that they can't learn the game and find scum at the same time.

In addition, all their playstyles will be similar (like timid, mostly) and so they won't learn much because there is usually a distinct lack of variety of playstyles in newbie games.

That's just my opinion though. I'm sure new players would like to play with other new players and the tradition of hosting newbie games won't end any time soon, but I think it's better if new players just go play with everyone else instead of creating a segregated sandbox in which we baby them.