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*marvellosity is helping me co-host this game. Any questions can be directed towards him or myself.
The coaches for this game are: TBD. Please consult them if you want advice on playing the game.
Newbie Mini XIV + Show Spoiler [Important Posts] +
Introduction: 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 will get big 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. I will not compensate for ignorance.
Rules: Cheating: Cheating includes (but is not limited to): 1. Posting after death. You may have one polite goodbye post, but it may not contain any potentially game-changing information. 2. Ruining the game by doing something like hand out your mafia's member list to the town. 3. Logging on to someone else's account to get their role or looking over someone's shoulder to get their role. 4. Comparing role PM times to determine roles. 5. Posting screenshots of your inbox. 6. Posting or sharing any PM you receive from a host. 7. Getting yourself modkilled to help your team. Your non-majority-decided death may not be used as a bargaining chip. 8. Signing up more than once using smurf accounts. 9. Betting items outside of the game in exchange for in-game benefits. 10. Sharing accounts with other players unless cleared by the host in advance. Otherwise, only you may post on your account. 11. Breadcrumbing the specific phrasing of your role PM. Do not compare the phrasing in your role PM to prove your alignment. You can claim the abilities you have, but you can't use the specific phrasing of your role PM. 12. Posting a false role PM phrased as if you received it from the host. You can still fake roleclaim, but you cannot make it look like you are posting a PM you received from the host. Cheating is not tolerated here. The punishment will be severe.
Posting: Mod Font: This is mod font. It is reserved for moderators. Please do not use it.
Question Font: This is question font. Use it to ask the moderators questions about the rules. Please do us a favor and read the rules before you ask anything.
Activity: You must post in this thread once per day/night cycle and vote every day while you are alive. If you fail to do so, you will be modkilled.
Smurfs:
On April 26 2011 13:22 mikeymoo wrote: 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 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. While I ask for everybody to post as concisely as possible, post again if you have to edit anything.
Inappropriate posts: 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 staff. If you are unsatisfied with how the situation is resolved, then you can appeal to the TL staff normally.
Reporting posts: The report button is a nice feature for regular TL, but not for this forum. We prefer to deal with things in house if possible to avoid confusion among the TL staff. If you have a problem with how someone is posting, talk to the host, co-host, Flamewheel, or Mig before using your report button. Please do not use your report button for anything other than inappropriate posts which you feel are not being dealt with adequately.
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.
You have been warned.
Out of thread communication: It is common for mafia (and town circles if PMs are allowed) to use a medium outside of TL such as QuickTopics or IRC to communicate during the game. Please be mindful that other players may be more tech savvy than you and they may attempt impersonate members of your team or attempt to infiltrate your chat. You use these media at your own risk.
Voting rules: 1. Voting is done IN THIS THREAD. Please vote only here. Do not PM me your vote. 2. Please vote in the following format: ##Vote Qatol. Votes not done in the correct fashion will not be counted. I will update vote counts whenever I get the chance. 3. No conditional voting. 4. You may vote for yourself. You may not vote for anyone dead or outside the game. 5. No Lynch is allowed. You may vote for No-Lynch using the same format. 6. Voting is mandatory. You may NOT abstain. 7. This game uses an Extended Majority Lynch ruleset, under which it will take half the players remaining +1 to lynch. If a player fails to have the required votes by the deadline, no lynch will occur. Players are allowed to change their vote up to the deadline, even if a Majority is reached before the deadline.
Signups: This game is open to Newbies Only. We define "newbie" as 3 games or less played on TL, though you'll feel like a "newbie" for much longer.
Do not sign up if you've played more than 3 games here.
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, please PM Flamewheel or post in the Ban List.
Replacements This game uses replacements. Replacements will be made in the game until the end of N2. If a player is modkilled during the designated time, then they will be replaced by a player on the replacement list.
Clues: There are no clues.
PMs PMs are NOT allowed in this game.
Time Cycle: This game will follow a (24 hour night/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 time, but that is subject to change. Actions/votes will be accepted up to and including the posted time, but not after.
Credits: Thanks to anyone who has ever hosted a game. This list grows ever longer. Thanks to everyone who helped balance this game.
If you have not read all the rules, go back and do so. I will not compensate for ignorance!
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Roles and Setup information
This is a semi-open setup, that is, exact role counts will not be known, but the possible roles will be known. All roles presented here are not necessarily in the game, but no roles not included here are present.
Town Roles Town Wincondition- The town wins when there are no mafia left in the game
Vanilla Townie - You are just an ordinary citizen of the town of Liquidia, you are terrified of the mafia, and must strive to weed them out before the exterminate you and your fellow citizens. Every day you may vote for who you want to see lynched. Your wits and your votes will carry the town to glorious victory or shameful defeat.
Detective - You are a incredible sleuth, using your keen powers of deduction and the awesome astral charts from the seer's academy, you have the ability to inspect a player every night. You will find out if they are Town or Mafia. You are guaranteed to be sane, but beware of millers, framers and the godfather.
Medic - You are a recent medical school graduate, still struggling to pay the bills. Fortunately you have found employment here in Liquidia. Every night, you may choose to visit a player for a check up, if they would be hit that night, you manage to save them from the first kill aimed at them. Neither you nor your target will be notified of a successful protection.
Jailkeeper - Equipped with chloroform and rope, you steal into the night to kidnap a random person and lock them in your basement “for safety”. Once per night, you may target a player to protect from 1kp and roleblock. You win with the town.
Vigilante - You are an armed and dangerous fellow! You have secured a gun and are going to use it to take justice into your own hands. During any night of the game you may choose to fire at a player, this works exactly like a mafia hit. If your shot stacks with a mafia kill or another vigilante, it will not be refunded, if you are roleblocked, you will not lose your shot, even if you intended to fire that night.
Mafia Roles Mafia Win condition- The mafia wins when they equal or outnumber the remaining townies or nothing can keep that from happening.
Mafia Powers - (all mafia have these, unless specifically stated otherwise) All mafia may vote, as ordinary citizens of liquidia. All mafia may communicate with each other outside the thread, by any means they wish, and know who the other mafia are. As a group, the mafia team have kp equal one, each night, which they may use however they want.
Mafia Goon- One of the newest recruits to the mafia, you are here to visit vengeance on the town. You have no special powers outside the regular mafia powers. Now destroy these fledgling fools, make them see the power of the mafia!
Mafia Roleblocker - An expert in the use of the terrible drug Nocando, in addition to the usual mafia powers, you can choose to visit a player each night and drug them, keeping them from performing any night actions. Regardless of their role, they will be notified that they were knocked out in the morning.
Mafia Framer - An ex-detective, you know exactly what those schmucks look for when investigating people. In addition to the normal mafia powers, you may choose to frame a player each night, making them return the opposite of what they should to detectives, that is a framed mafia goon returns Town and a framed Vanilla Townie returns Mafia
Mafia Godfather - The regional leader of the mafia, you know exactly what it takes to look innocent. In addition to the normal mafia powers, you return Town to any detective that investigates you.
Mafia Rolecop - An astrologist and soothslayer turned to crime, in addition to the usual mafia powers, you may investigate a player each night and find out their role.
Additionally, the mafia will receive copies of the Vanilla Townie PM and of each blue role, in order to prevent things like PM based closed ciphers.
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Player List
1.) Release 2.) Miltonkram 3.) Mordanis 4.) Mufaa skware 5.) s0Lstice, Vanilla Townie Killed N2 6.) sciberbia, Vanilla Townie Killed N1 7.) O.Golden_ne, Vanilla Townie Lynched D2 8.) hegeo, Town Doctor Lynched D1 9.) ShiaoPi
Replacements
1.) skware 2.) Inigmaticalism 3.) austinmcc 4.)
2/2 Mafia Remaining Mafia KP currently equals 1
3/7 Town Remaining
PM me for the observer QT, or if you wish to be listed as an official coach
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I want to play in a 9man mini sometime, have never had the chance. Will be obsing this one closely ^^
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I'll take a stab at it. I've never played before and have no idea how these things will go.
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On May 16 2012 12:32 Release wrote: I'll take a stab at it. I've never played before and have no idea how these things will go. "/in" is the standard request for participation, for future reference.
There are several resources available for new players here in the sub-forum, but I suggest you start just by reading a newbie game or two. There's no set way to play as you'll find out, and it's going to take you more than three games to be considered "good" at the game, so just focus on learning your first couple of times.
Welcome /in sir.
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which voting system gets used? there are 3 options (i read somewhere, can't find it in this thread) but i don't remember reading on which specific voting system gets used for a particular game. Also, do the mafia know who is mafia, but the townies don't know who is townie?
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is it ok to edit before the game starts? editted the last one, but don't want to edit any more before clarification
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/in This will be my first mafia game after lurking in this forum for a while. I'm excited to become a part of the action!
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United Kingdom36156 Posts
Edit is fine before the game starts. Do so once it starts and you are doomed. VE will clarify voting systems in the near future.
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I'm gonna be really mad if anyone leaves before they die... It'll be fun though with Marv cohosting :D:D:D:D:D
+ Show Spoiler +hahahahahahahaha I'm editing for the sake of editing - In a mafia thread. hahahahahahahahahahahaha
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/in (if I'm allowed). Played in XIII but I was nightkilled so I'm out of it even though the game is going on.
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"All mafia may communicate with each other outside the thread, by any means they wish" does that include PM?
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On May 16 2012 14:58 Release wrote: which voting system gets used? there are 3 options (i read somewhere, can't find it in this thread) but i don't remember reading on which specific voting system gets used for a particular game. Also, do the mafia know who is mafia, but the townies don't know who is townie?
I'll update the OP, but Extended-Majority lynch is going to be the model we use in this game - it will take half the remaining players +1 to lynch someone or the result will be no lynch...and players will have until the deadline to vote.
Mafia (informed minority) always know who their teammates are, but townies (uninformed majoirty) never know who's who.
On May 16 2012 15:26 Release wrote: is it ok to edit before the game starts? editted the last one, but don't want to edit any more before clarification
It's fine, but because this question was asked, I'm considering this the warning for ALL players once the game starts. No edits once the game has commenced (the Day 1 post) or it WILL result in a modkill.
On May 17 2012 13:52 Release wrote: "All mafia may communicate with each other outside the thread, by any means they wish" does that include PM?
That includes site-PMs, the provided quicktopic or any other means they wish. However, if the mafia team chooses to use IRC, beware that shennanigans HAVE been known to occur in IRC in an effort to cheat. This is very not cool, so it's suggested that mafia use EXTREME CAUTION when using IRC for discussion.
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Hello TL Mafia, this will be my first game
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Regarding the activity requirements...is it one post for each day and each night, or one post for the 72 hour day+night period?
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48 hour day +night i'm pretty sure. 24 for day, 24 for night.
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On May 19 2012 09:53 s0Lstice wrote: Regarding the activity requirements...is it one post for each day and each night, or one post for the 72 hour day+night period?
In order to meet the (very lenient) activity requirements, you must post at least once during each cycle, where a cycle is defined as both the 48hr Day phase and the 24hr Night phase combined.
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agree that they are very lenient, i hope nobody skirts that line
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Hi all. This will be my first time playing on a forum. Can't wait to start :D
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