Zombies ate my neighbours mafia (zombies devour all)

[Sméagol]

Thanks for the positive comments at least. Any particular suggestions?

Have there been any similar games in the past? With similar mechanics?

[Who]

Wait nevermind, zombie would have been kingmaker in f2

[pisskop]

Oh sure, Bert wins too.

and piss, Im sure.

[Who]

Oh sure, Bert wins too.

and piss, Im sure.

You weren't a zombie yet.

[Wisdom]

Maybe I should "degrade" zombies, and don't give them wa win condition.. Making sure people play to win.

people "not playing to win" has more to do with this being late for most of the players plus this being a marathon and therefore not something to take very seriously. In a normal game such a thing doesn't happen.

[Sméagol]

Oh sure, Bert wins too.

and piss, Im sure.

Yup. Would have risen eventually.

Maybe this needs to be 13 players.. 3 vigilantes.
I was also considering giving the vigilante enabler the ability to create vigilantes, but I thought that was too much for a 9p game.

[Who]

I miscalculated. I should have killed a zombie last night. (But not before)

[Sméagol]

Maybe I should "degrade" zombies, and don't give them wa win condition.. Making sure people play to win.

people "not playing to win" has more to do with this being late for most of the players plus this being a marathon and therefore not something to take very seriously. In a normal game such a thing doesn't happen.

Yeah, probably. Maybe should've ran another mexican standoff, but I wanted to try this, and I had fun modding this nonetheless. Even though I'm a bit slow. This is hard work in 30m '/ 15m day night cycles! Respect for the other mods in the marathon.

[Who]

It was my fault for being unsure of whether or not OGML was me. I aimed at him then took it back, I wasn't sure if the takeback was allowed.

[Ms Marangal]

Also, zombies, if you kill me you lose. So don't.

don't really understand this. was this just a scare tactic?

[KittyMo]

I wish it was worded more clearly in the OP that every player that dies becomes a zombie - I was under the mistaken impression that only some would, which is what I thought was the balancing factor for the town power being relatively week.

[KittyMo]

*weak

[Who]

Also, zombies, if you kill me you lose. So don't.

don't really understand this. was this just a scare tactic?

This was me forgetting that dead players become zombies.

[Who]

I was thinking of zombies as mafia when it was actually a delayed cult.

[Sméagol]

Oh, and not terribly interesting, but:

night 1

who kills pirate mollie
pirate mollie buys shot - already dead

night 2

who Kill: OhGodMyLife

ms mara KILL:OhGodMyLife

night 3

mafia no action

[Wisdom]

I wish it was worded more clearly in the OP that every player that dies becomes a zombie - I was under the mistaken impression that only some would, which is what I thought was the balancing factor for the town power being relatively week.

that was pretty clear to me

[Who]

A delayed cult with no leader.

[Wisdom]

Players who die, skip a phase, then get resurrected as zombies.

[Sméagol]

I was going to post that yeah. Normal games will have more elaborate opening posts, but I thought I was pretty clear.

[KittyMo]

Sorry, my reaction to that interpretation was "there's no possible way that's balanced." Guess I'm just wrong

[Who]

Sorry, my reaction to that interpretation was "there's no possible way that's balanced." Guess I'm just wrong

I don't think there is any possible way it's balanced.

[Sméagol]

Anyway, finally, my thought on balance:

Town and mafia both have a need to manage the zombie horde.
Mafia needs the town vigilantes, town needs the mafia vigilante enabler.
They can gamble that the other faction will take care of it, but if they guess wrong, the zombies grow in numbers.
I've added 2 vigilantes so you could get one killed early. They start with 0 shots, because I didn't want them to take out the mafia night 1, no matter how small that chance is.. You start with 0 zombies, so you don't need vigilantes right away.
But with both vigilantes gone, the lynch and mafia kill are the last resort. if you have 1 zombie alive at a time, you can manage this.
Obviously, you need to send in kills actions to kill them.. Or lynch them.
Preferrably you lynch players to get rid of them, killing players at night will give them a guaranteed kill the following night.

In short: the idea behid the game is zombie management.

Anyway, those were my thoughts.

[Sméagol]

I think smeagol is a faraday alt

Ooh, last thing.. Now I have 12 pages I can read at a leisurely pace, and then I'm off to bed myself.

But no. I have no idea who this guy is. I only have one account here.