All rules listed in the Boilerplate Game Rules page apply to this game except where contradicted in the additional rules below:
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is reserved for the moderator. All other formatting is fair game.
Days will have a deadline of two weeks, and Nights will last 48 hours. Deadline adjustments may be made based on the pace of this game relative to the other five games and will be determined by the Team Mafia supervisor.
Prods will be issued to players if they have not posted within a 48-hour period. Players who have not posted within 7 days of their last post in the game, excluding days spent in Night, will be forcibly replaced and penalties will be assessed.
Lynches occur through simple majority (50% of living players + 1, rounded down). If no majority is reached at deadline or there is a majority of votes for No Lynch, the Day will end without a lynch. Once majority is reached, no further votes or unvotes will count.
All players, including the lynched player, are allowed to talk in twilight phase until the moderator locks the thread, at which point Day ends. Dead players may not post until the moderator declares that the thread is open for post-game discussion.
Actions not received by deadline will be considered forfeit. Actions may be submitted ahead of time and can be changed as many times as desired; at deadline, the last action that was submitted will be used. Actions may be submitted via PM or private topic.
Votes placed by accounts not present in the game will not be counted. Vote tricks will not be tolerated, and any judgment passed over the validity of any ambiguous votes is final.
Flavor is for entertainment purposes only and has no significance in the game.
Team Mafia Rules
The full set of rules governing Team Mafia 2015 and its games are available here. A condensed form can be found below. The sections from the full rules set pertaining to discussion of other Team Mafia 2015 games and of teammates are quoted within the spoiler for convenience.
Replacements are the responsibility of each team. If a player has to be replaced by a game mod (generally 7 days of active game), half a game penalty will be assessed. Teams may find their replacement anywhere, but the Sign Up Thread has a number of people who have volunteered to replace in.
Game deadlines, particularly Night deadlines, will be adjusted according to the speed of the other games. Twin trap in particular may have significant nights. Nightless will generally has shorter Day deadlines (and will use plurality lynch).
All mafia teams have Day Talk
All games have only two parties: a Mafia team and a Town team (or functionally similar teams in the case of theme games). There are no second Mafia teams, there are no third parties.
Discussing Other Games Is Prohibited
except in certain circumstances (please see the full Team Mafia Rules for more). Teams that violate this will be warned once, then penalties will be assessed against their team.
Teams will have access to all game PTs, but teammates should only post in those threads if they are the player actually in the game. Egoposts are not allowed.
Hydras, alt accounts, etc. will not be allowed in PTs.
Discussing Token allocation is allowed, but remember not to discuss things going on in other games (including any contradiction).
Because of the nature of this game, extended VLA should be avoided. If you have to be gone for longer than 7 days, your team should find a replacement -- either temporarily (you may replace back into the same slot -- or permanently.
Spoiler:
zoraster wrote:
Talking About Other Games
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.
To reiterate: speculation about other games is prohibited.
Any attempt to try to signal to another game what they should or should not do is against the rules.
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.
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.
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), knowing that all games are 10v3 or 9v3. You may talk as much as you wish about a game that is finished.
None of this applies to your team QT. You may post what you wish in there.
Your Teammates Are Always Innocent Until Proven Guilty
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.
Exception: You may talk about your teammates being scum if they have flipped scum in another game (i.e. are dead).
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 section. In other words, you may not speculate on a player's alignment in another game.
Any situations not covered above will be handled on an individual basis.
The 13-player White Flag open setup is a vanilla ("mountainous") setup consisting of 10 town and 3 mafia where the mafia will surrender to the town if they are reduced to one living mafioso. Day talk is enabled for this game.
Below are all of the possible role PMs.
Welcome to Team Mafia 2015: White Flag Mafia, XXX!
You are a
town vanilla
.
You have no special abilities beyond the right to vote.
You win when only one member of the mafia is still alive and at least one member of the town remains standing.
Welcome to Team Mafia 2015: White Flag Mafia, XXX!
You are a
mafia goon
with
YYY
and
ZZZ
, who are
mafia goons
.
You and your partners may talk in this private topic during Day and Night phases, and you may choose one player each Night to eliminate. You may not target yourself or your partners.
You win when all threats to the mafia have been eliminated, or when nothing can prevent such an occurrence, and at least two members of the mafia remain standing.
All role PMs are out! Confirmations are not necessary.
The Rules post (here) has been edited to include a condensed form of the Team Mafia 2015 rules and to place the rules regarding discussing ongoing Team Mafia games within a spoiler tag. Please make sure to look over the new rules.
Night 0 begins now. The deadline is on Monday, March 30, 2015, at 9:00 PM EDT (UTC-4), which is in (expired on 2015-03-30 21:00:00).
Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
Ika is scum with Cheery Dog. Doesn't matter who the third one is. Zach Oversoul Psyche can be town.
This seems like good reads for now.
VOTE: ika
Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
White Flag Mafia [TM2015] (Game Over)
