Rules:
Because Rules are there to CONTAIN the FUN!
The Basics:
1] Play to win. Nobody wants to be a loser.
2] Do not take screenshots or directly quote any of the PMs that I send you. Doing so will result in a mod-kill. Pretending to break this rule is the same as actually breaking it. You may paraphrase, but use caution. When in doubt, run it by me first.
3] Do not edit any of your posts, if you have the ability to do so.
4] Do not use encrypted text, hidden text, small text, or any other hard-to-read text when posting.
5] Once you have been lynched or killed, you are out of the game. “Bah!” post if you must, but meh.
6] Do not talk about this game with anybody else outside of this thread unless your role PM explicitly says that you can.
7] Heated discussion is fine, but personal attacks, insults, flaming, and poor sportsmanship are not. Please don't be a jerk to your fellow players. If I feel that your behavior is preventing other players from enjoying the game, I reserve the right to force-replace or ask the list mods if I can be granted the ability to Mod-kill you.
8] Do not talk about ongoing games. Like really, come on...
Day, Night, and Twilight:
9] Each Day phase will last for two weeks apiece and each Night phase will last for two days. I will post specific deadlines in the game thread at the start of every Day and Night phase.
10] Players may continue to talk during Twilight, including the player that has been lynched.
11] If you do not send me your Night action before the specified deadline, I will assume that you are not performing an action on that Night.
12] If you know you will be unavailable during a Night phase, you may send me your night action during the preceding Day phase if you so desire.
13] Deadline extension requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Voting:
14] Please post all votes and unvotes using either the bold tag or the vote tag. Nicknames are fine, as long as I can understand them. Votes should look like this:
Vote: Pretentious
or VOTE: Pretentious.
15] Unvotes are helpful, but not necessary.
16] Please refrain from engaging in any kind of voting trickery. If it looks like a vote, I'm counting it as a vote.
17] A lynch will only occur when a majority (more than 50% of all possible votes) is reached. The number of votes needed to hammer will be included with every vote count.
18] If a majority is not reached by the deadline, there will be no lynch on that Day.
19] Once a hammer occurs, no votes or unvotes will prevent the lynch from happening.
20] Additional votes include VOTE: No Lynch to end the Day with no lynch (which will also require a majority) and VOTE: Draw to end the game in a draw (which will require 100% agreement from all living players).
Activity:
21] You will be expected to post at least once every 48 hours. If you go more than 48 hours without posting, you will be prodded.
22] If you receive a prod, you will have 24 hours to post in the game thread. If you do not respond to your prod within 24 hours, you will be replaced. Additionally, if I have to prod you more than three times, you will be replaced.
23] If you know that you will have limited access to the game for more than a few days, please let me know either in the thread or via PM.
Communication with the Moderator:
24] I may be pretty close to perfect, but I do still make mistakes every now and then. If you notice an error with the vote counts, deadlines, or anything else related to the game, please let me know and I will correct the issue.
25] I will not answer any role-related questions in the game thread. If you have any questions about your role, the (theoretical) roles of any other players in the game, or (theoretical) role interactions, send me a PM. Do not try to trick me into confirming a player's role. I will not be amused.
26] If you need to get my attention, just include @Mod or @Pret in your post. Also, bolding will help catch my eye.
Miscellaneous:
27] If you have any problems with another player, send me a PM and I will do my best to resolve the issue.
28] If a player is mod-killed during the Day phase, then that Day will end immediately.
29] My color is Light Blue (#0080FF)
30] The flavor text is for entertainment purposes only. Analyze it at your own risk.
31] Do not ask me to mod-kill, force-replace, or discipline any other player in the game. That is my decision to make, not yours.
32] As the moderator, my word is final. Please respect my instructions and my decisions.
33] I reserve the right to change these rules during the game if necessary. If this happens, I will inform everybody of the rule change in the thread.
34] In addition to these rules, all site-wide rules also apply.
35] Claiming color code is prohibited.
36] I live in California, and have Pacific Standard Time.
37] The Mafia do not have day talk by default.
Sample Vanilla Townie:
38] At least one person will receive this PM.
Last edited by Pretentious on Thu Feb 06, 2020 11:16 am, edited 1 time in total.
Hey, guys! Great game to watch. Very enjoyable to see everything come across. My favorite part of the setup was watching the pair of Neighbors, Masons, and Mafia through Day 1, not having been able to talk to each other based on No DayTalk. I wanted a rather simple/mountainous game, and this played exactly how I wanted my return to Normal modding to be.
I thought the Luca mason claim was strong, however, I don’t think both Masons needed to be outed. That being said, outing both Masons also made it so scum couldn’t fake claim to be the other mason, but that’s just a gambit they’d have had to take.
Both Masons being outed, caused Insomnia going down Day 1, but at the cost of the best night kills for the game, but that meant Hectic had to get 3 mislynches on his own to win. Which he ended up doing well. Hectic started controlling the game state completely. He pushed through Karnage, everyone followed fast, which got Emperor flippyNips conftown killed fast too.
Final 3p lylo was insane here. That’s what mafia’s all about. Hectic played up his relationship with AF this game to lynch through to victory. I think he made a dirty play, but I think that as scum, it’s okay to make a dirty play, because you gotta do what you can to win. It will affect his future town and scum games, however, as meta in Mafia is like a tattoo you wear on your arm. Sometimes you can hide them with a long button up shirt.
I think Hectic played very well here, and Dsjstr was almost glaringly town from the outside perspective, but that goes to show that it doesn’t matter what the outside thinks, it matters what the people in the game think.
