TL Mafia XL - Page 6

On June 03 2011 00:38 Kairo wrote:
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On June 03 2011 00:13 Kairo wrote:
I have a few questions:

"Time Cycle:
This game will follow a 48 hour day cycle. In case I am not able to post around deadline, any votes after the 48 hour mark will not count and the game will be put on halt until the night post is up. Currently the deadline is 18:00 CEST (+02:00) but that is subject to change."

-Does this mean that there is 48 hours of daytime followed by 48 hours of nighttime, or 48d/24n or something else?

48 hour days 24 hour nights

-The coach role, are we noobies allowed to PM beforehand and ask questions along the lines of "what is the strategic value for town/mafia/Vigilante of doing X", or even further to say "I am X and I am thinking about doing Y, is this a decent move or am i shooting myself in the foot?". Making decisions that retroactively will seem stupid will be entertaining thou

This is exactly what coaches are for. As Varpulis said, they wont play the game for you however they will give you as much advice as they can. The scenario you offered would be an excellent format for asking questions.

-Are we allowed to edit our posts in this thread up to a certain point in time?

No editing what so ever once the game starts

-What is the "no edits/PM´s" trigger? The start of the role sendouts, when 40 people are signed up or what?

I'd like if no one PM'd each other period once they've signed up, believe it or not friendly PMing before a game can get you killed (happened to me). Absolutely no PMs once roles have been sent out. No editing after the first official game post.

-Can we please have the voting deadline at a time that is acceptable/decent for Europe as well as America?

May i humbly suggest something along the lines of:
Location Local time Time zone UTC offset
San Francisco (U.S.A. - California) 09:00:00 PDT UTC-7 hours
Stockholm (Sweden) 18:00:00 CEST UTC+2 hours
Corresponding UTC (GMT) 16:00:00
(From http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)

Or:
San Francisco (U.S.A. - California) 23:30:00 PDT UTC-7 hours
Stockholm (Sweden) 08:30:00 CEST UTC+2 hours
Corresponding UTC (GMT) 06:30:00

...which would work for Netherlands/Germany/Sweden as well as the Americans, which seems to be most of us. What do you spaniards/Australians think?

On June 03 2011 00:17 Kairo wrote:
Clarification on the second question: What are the purpose, possibilities and limitations of the communication between someone in the coach role and us noobies? Also, how can this kind person be used as a resource to improve us as players?

On June 03 2011 00:38 Kairo wrote:
From reading another mafia thread i got the impression that there is like one hour for Pardoner/Day vigi to respond between the vote finishes and "the hanging".

The one i refer to is the one where Bill Murray was draft no.1, and as soon as the voting was finished + Show Spoiler +

I do not want to be voted for lynch at 3:am, hanged at 4:am and miss the possibility to Day Vigi or use up my "one use only" invention; or if my German/Dutch friend wakes up and misses the opportunity to Pardon me. Such things will definitely be make-or-break for the lynchees team late game I believe.

Was about to ask "is there a source for abbreviations in TL Mafia?" and some other things, but i realized that i should use the search function and study the stickies at http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/index.php?show_part=31 before I try to move that basic information gathering workload on someone else


EDIT: Here it is:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=120729&currentpage=40

Also; this was the game that inspired me to join and I recommend it to other noobs for educational purposes and everybody for the exciting story. Modkills seems to be huge bummer thou, but apart from that it was entertaining. Also Bill Murray got his Mafia ban in this game when he posted after he died.
When I read his post at first I did not react that his post might be useful "game relevant" information at all, but I guess that the thing to do is to just post GG GL HF when getting killed.

EDIT2: removed possible spoilers for people that want to read that mafia game. Sorry for that.

Also: There seemed to be a lot of drama and discussions the hours before the deadline, and "if (s)he shows up before that" seemed to be a very important factor, not the least in situations where the votes are split and someone that voted early would have the option to change the vote to reach the lynch threshold.