Mafiascum.net

November 1 to December 15th

option of adding an additional 45 days

How the Queue Will Run

24 hours

Requirements

The requirements to begin with will be the same as if you were running a theme of appropriate size: One game experience for games with 13 or fewer, two games experience with 14 or more. Additionally, we'll be requiring a reviewer to be listed. This person must sign off on the version of the setup. You may not run more than one Blitz game at once. With approval from a mod, your game may be approved as a third of a game of experience.

Blitz games are categorized as games that use Day deadlines of no more than and Night deadlines no longer than . However, subject to listmod approval, alternative deadline systems may be used that are in keeping with the nature of Blitz games. For example, a "time bank" kind of game might be appropriate.

Mods are absolutely to post vote counts at least once every 24 hours during the Day phase, preferably more. The only time this is not required is if a vote count is still present on a page. Mods should post Night and Day scenes as close as possible to the deadline or hammer vote. Inserting "VC" or other placeholders . Mods should not run games unless they have the time to do so. They should schedule deadlines around their own schedule.

FAQ

A: If it's a success determined by the questions above (and not just "were there a lot of games") then yes. Eventually in some form. But it shouldn't be expected that it will immediately do so as we figure out how to work it into the entire system, find the right listmod, etc. And it may require reorganizing the queue structure.


A: Primarily, this will be based on whether we want to see if interest in maintained in the game mode type throughout the trial's full run both on a mod and player basis. As such, if we've already determined that interest has flagged at the end of 45 days to the extent we don't need to keep testing, we will pull the experiment at this time. Extended periods where there is no game in sign ups or where games aren't filling will make it unlikely that the trial gets extended.


A: Yes. The mafia game forum will remain open for ongoing games. However, if your game is only in sign ups at the end of the trial period, it will not be run.


A: With such short deadlines, it's necessary that a mod be very active as well as his or her players.


A: We may change this in the future, but we want to try to avoid having these games be similar to Marathon games. We want the games to be of a similar high quality as our other offerings... just quicker.


A: Probably, though with truly huge games (25+) the listmod may not permit it or may require a number of pre-ins.


A: Yes, we will definitely want to weigh community opinion on how the trial went, and this will form a large part of whether we add the queue on a more permanent basis or not. We may survey those who played in the games.