MoS-Faire 3.0 Invitational: GAME OVER

[BBmolla]

So bout TI4 thus far

Going pretty good. New format is seriously shit though. All the teams playing on the main stage is the best part, gonna suck ass with only 8.

[Titus]

Let's do a game of resistance in a game of mafia. /addict /cheap copy cat.

What is the site you are ferencing Mastina?

[AngryPidgeon]

My role card says "Team Neutral". Am I a spy or resistance?

[Le Cupcake]

So bout TI4 thus far

Going pretty good. New format is seriously shit though. All the teams playing on the main stage is the best part, gonna suck ass with only 8.

Mm, at least all 8 of the teams I wanted to make it made it. Guess they didn't want another MUFC at the main event.

[Titus]

My role card says "Team Neutral". Am I a spy or resistance?

You resist categorization until the last mission where you pull out a clutch victory.

[Iecerint]

I'll pull out a clutch victory, too! You can trust me!

[leviathan93]

I just want to say that BOOM!! told y'all so!

[leviathan93]

oh right. =P i mean. yeah. resistance. i'm totally town. forever an american citizen!

[Axxle]

Could we do Avalon instead?

[mastin2]

What is the site you are ferencing Mastina?

The site I host my webcomic on. (I don't cross the streams much.) Sadly, though, mafia over there is beginning to die out thanks to mass-apathy inducing vegging on a game-killing scale.

To give you an idea of how bad it is, we used to run 30-player games with little difficulty; we can barely manage half that now. In a 20-player game, we used to have 15-18 active on the first day; now we have at most 10. Getting worse with each day, of course. (Needless to say, mafia wins have become increasingly common.) Oh, and even hosts (including the effectively-listmod-host who is the site's equivalent of zoraster for running awesome games while keeping the queue running!) have been having difficulties. Days/nights are

supposed

to be 24 hours long, but are slipping to be 36, 48, even 72 hours long. Which is sad; they've been running games since 2009 (actually, might be early 2010 but close enough--technically started as Werewolf, but same thing) without pause or hesitation; at one point, they had two games running concurrently. (One mafia, one werewolf.) As one game ended, the next started signups, filled within a week (or in some cases, within days! At least some games filled in under 24 hours!), and ran to its conclusion. Now, it takes two weeks to get even close to that 15-player range. :/

So basically, the game's dead for the time being. I'm more reminiscing about the glory days. (That site is as much responsible for me being the me I am now as MS.net is. If not moreso.) You'd probably not be surprised to learn my reputation over there is mainly for walling, analysis, excessive usage of ":P", and masterful scum play. (I've not been there since the very beginning, but have been present for more than I have been absent, and was there near the beginning and have continued being there for the majority of games, performing fairly strongly in basically every game I wasn't lynched early. When I'm given the chance to do the analysis, I'm generally considered one of the strongest players on that site for town. But other than that, from my descriptions, where I die early be it lynch or nightkill, things I'm known for, and whatnot, I think it's fairly obvious--different name, different site, but oh so very much the same me. )

[BBmolla]

So bout TI4 thus far

Going pretty good. New format is seriously shit though. All the teams playing on the main stage is the best part, gonna suck ass with only 8.

Mm, at least all 8 of the teams I wanted to make it made it. Guess they didn't want another MUFC at the main event.

Even so, MUFC being at the event put on a good show. I mean safelane omni rushing force staff? LOL

I like the new money split. Wish it was old format.

[mastin2]

(Should be noted, though, that I'm actually beginning to take advice from the me-on-that-site.
There, I spent excessively-long amounts of time and effort on games, analyzing them to death and trying my hardest to win them even after my demise. It was stressful, and...frankly, I was a bit of an arrogant prick.
But way back in 2012, I managed to figure out that the game is much, much more healthily and easily played casually, and that it'd be good for fun. The analysis still got done, mainly privately in my head through mental calculations, but was not done as intensely as before. Yet my play didn't suffer from the change; I was about as accurate as I was before the change.

Now keep in mind the here and now in 2014, where I've [mostly] managed to take this approach for MS.net. Games where I spend excessively-long amounts of time and effort in tend to destroy my life, without giving me reward. Whereas by playing casually, I avoid the stress yet am just as accurate if not moreso. My 'analysis' is mostly done inside my head with subtle vague hints in-thread, which I can elaborate on if needed but mostly lazily choose note to. Plus, I've [mostly] lost my arrogance, making me an all-around much more fun player to be around. I was considered an elite veteran on that site back in my 2010 days, but I wasn't LIKED until the change in 2012; people didn't start liking me on here until I started being humble. Still not considered an elite scumhunter on here, but oh well. I do try.)

[mastin2]

(Oh, and it should really tell you something that there are only two sites in which I've revealed my gender.
MS.net is one, that site's the other.)

[AngryPidgeon]

I bet you go to meetups on that site : (

[BBmolla]

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[mastin2]

I bet you go to meetups on that site : (

You would

think

so, what with the whole Emerald City ComiCon and whatnot being so local, making it more realistic, but, well...it's a site full of Starving Artists, and arranging to meet at a convention like that is the closest we could get, and I've never been able to make it, thanks to money and/or time and/or lack of coordination.

Oh, and most of the people I know are Australian or German, with a side of Ontario-area Canadian. (Oh, and a decent number of the more arctic countries. Finland, Greenland, you get the idea. Oh, and a decent number from Mexico. And a large number from the Philippines. I think I only have maybe half a dozen American friends, the closest of which is in Las Vegas.)

[mastin2]

Oh, right. Also a fair amount from the UK.

[Nachomamma8]

Hai Nacho~ <3

Hello! How are you?

[Nachomamma8]

Axxle, I'm also so so so sorry for missing game weekend

[evilpacman18]

Manchester United Football Club?

[RachMarie]

I got good news

First of all, starting to feel a bit better in dealing with the diabetes and all the changes that were keeping me dizzy lightheaded and unable to focus and concentrate. It seems it takes a while for the body to get used doing without all those starchy based carbs.

Second of all, we were able to finally after a couple of days with tech support get my computer to go online with wireless on our ISP (power went out and since then was only able to connect to it via a wired connection on NS's desk and split online time with him.

[Iecerint]

It's OK we lynched scum anyway. <3

[RachMarie]

LOL I know good job

But I felt I owed ya all an idea of why I had basically been AWOL on site lately

[Axxle]

Axxle, I'm also so so so sorry for missing game weekend

No worries, I was pretty late getting you the information anyway.

[Axxle]

I got good news

First of all, starting to feel a bit better in dealing with the diabetes and all the changes that were keeping me dizzy lightheaded and unable to focus and concentrate. It seems it takes a while for the body to get used doing without all those starchy based carbs.

Second of all, we were able to finally after a couple of days with tech support get my computer to go online with wireless on our ISP (power went out and since then was only able to connect to it via a wired connection on NS's desk and split online time with him.

Glad it sounds like you're adjusting successfully!