Token System: Game and Side Selection
There are three stages for random generation. First, to decide which three of the five non-mandatory games each team is placed in. Second, to decide which SIDE each player is placed on. Third, to decide which (if any) players get power roles. The token system applies to the first two.
1. Each team starts with 5 tokens.
2. During the game selection phase, each team will have listed their preference of games (1 through 5). for every game but the large theme Each team may place between 0 and 5 tokens on the game selection phase. The team that places the most tokens on this phase will get their top 3 picks automatically. The second most will also do this, until this is no longer possible, after which the mods will fill the remaining games based on the token order as best we can. In the event of a tie that makes a difference, the moderators will use their best judgment to place teams. For each game that a team is placed into that was not in their top 3, a token will be refunded for use in the Side selection (but no team may enter the side selection with more than 5 tokens).
3. After this is done, each team will pick which player they wish to place in which game (note: this is BEFORE side choice is chosen)
4. During the side selection phase, each team may place the remaining tokens on the games they are in, selecting which side they'd prefer. This will influence what side a player is on as described below
5. Power role (if applicable) selection is unaltered by the token system.
Side Selection
If unaltered by tokens, each player in the game has a random number generated between 500 and 600. The lowest X numbers are Mafia (where X is the number of Mafia in the game).
Each token put on Mafia on the game lowers the lower bound by 65. Each token put on Town on the game raises the upper bound by 50.
Winner Selection
If one team wins more games than any other team, they will be champion.
Tie Breaker
If two or more teams have the most games won, the winner will be selected from those teams using the following criteria, each given one point of weighting:
1. Winning the 20 player game.
2. Having a higher rating on player surveys.
3. The Team Mafia moderators' selection of the most valuable team.
It is possible that two or more teams will tie based on these criteria. If this is the case, the Team Mafia moderators' choice will break the tie.
Team Surveys
Each player will get a survey at the end of the game asking to rank the players on the winning side. Please answer as honestly as possible, and don't try to game the system. Please DO place yourself first.
Dynamic Deadlines
Each game will use its own deadline system. The Nightless game will have generally 1-week deadlines, while the rest will have generally 2-week deadlines. Nights will generally be 48-72 hours. However, if a game is starting to get ahead or behind other games, the deadlines may be adjusted.
Daytalk
All games will have Day Talk between Mafia members.
Team Private Topics
1.Your team will have a Team Private Topic.
2. You may copy and paste whatever you want INTO the team PT. You may
not
copy and paste text OUT OF the PT.
3. You may continue to post in this PT even when you are dead.
4. You have nearly complete freedom on what you can post in your PT with regards to the game. Most restrictions are about what you can post in game threads. Site rules still apply.
Alternate Methods of Communication
1. Your team members may communicate through use of text-based communication such as IM programs (AIM, Gchat, the text part of Skype, etc.) so long as you are able to copy and paste in a readable form into a PT.
2. If you do so, you must copy ALL of the transcript where you talk about anything relating to the game into your PT. Make sure your logging is ON so that if you get disconnected you still have the transcript.
3. Please try to make this readable. Please turn off timestamps as they make it pretty hard to read in a quick topic.
4. Please edit out completely unrelated chat. You can leave in small talk when you IM someone or whatever, but the mods don't need to pour through a dozen lines talking about how drunk you got last weekend, how well you're doing with LoL, etc. unless it somehow relates to the game.
5. For all other purposes, consider this IM chat just an extension of your PT. Any rules that apply there also apply to your IM conversations. For example, no player may paste from an IM conversation into a game thread.
6. You should paste the transcript in immediately after you finish your conversation.
Talking About Other Games
1. Players may mention other games within Team Mafia only to talk about things that have been mod confirmed such as what a player flipped when they were killed. They may not speculate about another game’s players (such as who is scummy and so forth). You may not talk about how bad a wagon was, etc. You must keep it to only the information provided by the moderator.
2. To reiterate: speculation about other games is prohibited.
3. Any attempt to try to signal to another game what they should or should not do is against the rules.
4. Attempts to be “clever” and circumvent these rules will be treated harshly. We will “pierce” hypothetical questions or answers, ignoring the hypothetical nature and assume that it is meant to be a factual statement.
5. A major violation is defined as one that has the potential to be game breaking. For example, if your teammate is dead and flipped town, posting about who is scummy in that game will be a major violation.
6. Explicitly Allowed: You may mention who is on each team. You may mention what stage (e.g. Day 2) a game is in. You may mention how many players are left alive from a team, including your own. You may mention how many scum have been killed/alive in a particular game (or town alive/killed). You may talk as much as you wish about a game that is finished. You may also speculate on how a team may have allocated their tokens, but may not do so to try to speculate on the actual alignment of a player in another game.
7. None of this applies to your team PT. You may post what you wish in there.
Your Teammates are Always Innocent Until Proven Guilty
1. You may at no time say, indicate, insinuate, etc. that your Team Mafia teammates are or might be anything other than town. This includes in any hypothetical situation.
2. Exception: You may talk about your teammates being scum if they have flipped scum in another game (i.e. are dead).
3. If a player is NOT on your team and is still alive in another game, you must follow the rules in the Talking About Other Games thread. In other words, you may not speculate on a player's alignment in another game.
Replacements
1. It is your job to replace team members who are not active. If a moderator has to take action, there will be a penalty.
2. To replace a team member, you must PM Zoraster AND the moderator of your subgame.
3. You may replace with anyone who is not currently on a Team Mafia team. However, only four people may be involved in the PT at any time. A replaced team member may not participate in any way unless he is replaced back in.
4. A teammate who died in one game may replace another player so long as (a) he does not mention that game at all and (b) his team has not used their swap. This may occur after Day 2.
5. A dead player may still be replaced so long as the team follows 3.
6. You may switch two players who are alive in games ONCE for the duration of Team Mafia 2015. It must be done in D1 or D2.
7. The mod will force replace any player who has not posted within a week of his last post (not including Night). This will come at a penalty to the team.
) until the 2015 scummies are given out. They will also automatically get a chance to defend their title in the subsequent Team Mafia.