I am evil and want post restriction ideas

[drealmerz7]

all nouns, verbs, and adjectives must be the word "smurf" (yep, seen it in a game, the person it was put on did a STELLAR JOB WITH IT)

[Creature]

Can only quote (and can't edit/delete/insert what's inside the quote).

[kuribo]

Ok real talk as someone who co modded a heavily PR game

If you make the post restrictions too difficult, people will either not follow them or stop posting and replace out.

You want them to be entertaining for everyone not just hard.

[kuribo]

Can only quote (and can't edit/delete/insert what's inside the quote).

One time I replaced into a game at LYLO where I had been silenced and could only use words quoted from other posts

Someone was nice enough to give me a list of words that included the word "murdercock"

[RadiantCowbells]

All posts must be in the form of rhyming couplets.

[callforjudgement]

I fakeclaimed a "can only quote and vote" as scum once (although my version allowed editing down quotes to just a few words, so if necessary I could write long posts via quoting a large number of posts but only a few words each). It's a lot of fun, but would have been rather less fun if I were town (also rather less fun if I weren't in a Neighbourhood, and thus could persuade the other members to tell the town what I was trying to say).

Incidentally, I think you can get a lot of mileage in a bastard game out of a post restriction that's unlikely to ever be broken by accident, because it'll leave players wondering what the reason is. (Tarhalindur once heavily implied to a player that they weren't allowed to say the word "butterfly", although this was actually a lie and nothing happened when the player did. This served no real purpose other than trying to make people paranoid about what the purpose was.)

[drealmerz7]

most common on my HS is to write in haikus

these words I must use
to help find the scum fuckers
it is all I have

[Gamma Emerald]

Further fun stuff: how can I tie them to the game?

[drealmerz7]

Further fun stuff: how can I tie them to the game?

oh well for my HS we have crappy forum software that merges posts and makes them look like "edits" if you make consecutive posts within 10 minutes of each other (meaning no one else makes a post between 2 posts of yours within 10 minutes) - and if you do that, it's apenalty, because no editing, and penalities are often posting restrictions

sooo, penalities for breaking rules

or mechanically triggered restrictions

someone makes an OMGUS vote (and define it as "anyone who votes for someone who has voted for them within 10 posts of the vote") or somesuch

[kuribo]

With uncouth mafia we came up with the post restrictions and the roles, then randomly mixed them with the player list

Modkills were an intended mechanic as they were in polite mafia, and had a four strikes rule.

If the moderator noticed your PR slip, OR if you were reported for four separate instances on the same day, you were mod-killed. The catch is that when someone reported you, they had to name your post restriction (which wasn't public) so before they could report you, they had to have guessed what your PR was. We had a few that weren't counted because someone got the PR wrong. A violation could only be reported by one player, so if that player didn't guess the PR correctly, no one else could report the post.

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=60471

[kuribo]

Uncouth mafia always makes me sad because it was the best flavor I ever wrote for a game and also because like four of the players have since been permbanned.

[callforjudgement]

That's clearly exploitable; you could incorrectly report the posts from other scumteam members to prevent anyone else reporting them. (I seem to remember that Polite Mafia had a similar issue, in which players didn't keep to their post restrictions at all to prevent anyone else figuring them out and reporting them.)

[kuribo]

That's clearly exploitable; you could incorrectly report the posts from other scumteam members to prevent anyone else reporting them. (I seem to remember that Polite Mafia had a similar issue, in which players didn't keep to their post restrictions at all to prevent anyone else figuring them out and reporting them.)

Except DGB intended the latter to be a part of the mechanic and we literally never figured out until the last day that if we never used our PRs we couldn't be reported

With uncouth there was talk of gaming the system but the players decided it was against the spirit of the game if I recall correctly

[mastina]

After what went down in 3, I don't think my sanity would survive a 4th.

That's what posting restrictions such as *twitch* are for!
(And, hey. If you play Stars Aligned, sanity aint exactly on the menu. Or, I suppose in a sense, you could say sanity's the ONLY thing on the menu, as it is slowly devoured.)

[callforjudgement]

I know there was someone who was planning to revive the Stars Aligned series; I was reviewing/codesigning it. The thread became inactive ages ago, though.

I'm not sure what the etiquette is on stealing a game series from someone else who's no longer active on the site (meaning that you can't just ask for permission), which is one of the reasons I haven't been working on it. But it should be possible to adapt the basic idea of the setup (which is very enjoyable) into something with fewer theoretical problems.

[Vi]

I know there was someone who was planning to revive the Stars Aligned series; I was reviewing/codesigning it. The thread became inactive ages ago, though.

I was one person who was thinking about this.

I'm not sure what the etiquette is on stealing a game series from someone else who's no longer active on the site (meaning that you can't just ask for permission), which is one of the reasons I haven't been working on it. But it should be possible to adapt the basic idea of the setup (which is very enjoyable) into something with fewer theoretical problems.

Just do it. Percy can complain if and when he gets back in.

The issue with Stars Aligned is that it's completely open, which
a) makes it hard to balance
b) makes it really tedious to play

[callforjudgement]

Well, it looks like it was vonflare I was working on it with. You could ask for PT access (not from me, I can't grant it). That said, one of the changes we were considering was to make it not *quite* Open (specifically, there's a theoretical reason to hide the details of some scum-only Insanities), so just posting it publicly is probably a bad idea.

[Titus]

Post restriction relating to volume.

[Andrius]

all nouns, verbs, and adjectives must be the word "smurf" (yep, seen it in a game, the person it was put on did a STELLAR JOB WITH IT)

Yeah it was used in QUIRKYTOWN and it was a pain to read.

Quirkytown, in general, is a good source of restrictions.

[Andrius]

The issue with Stars Aligned is that it's completely open, which
a) makes it hard to balance
b) makes it really tedious to play

Yeah if the game can be broken by an INVESTIGATOR'S PLAN then it needs some work.
Or a sitemeta where people willingly go murderer.
Because Murderers are Cultists' best friends in that game.

Two of the Cult's biggest problems were the Open nature (thus the PLAN) and the lack of Murderers.

[The MM]

I have an evil post restriction in mind.

"You must write down your name with the first letters of each line in your posts."

Example:

This post restriction I have is trash. Dis mod...
He even told me I had no right to clue you in to what it was.
Evil even for a bastard game.

My ability to enjoy this game is so limited by this post restriction.
My choice is obvious. VOTE: The MM Bai town.

The first letters of each line spell "The MM".

[drealmerz7]

yep, always stuff like that is hella fun

[LicketyQuickety]

You may not post any words you have previously used on site.

Kawaii. There goes the last word.

[BrainpanSonata]

A PR I've had to play with before was that every post had to have at least three instances of the word "butt" or its plural.

[The MM]

You must act as if you're two persons talking to one another.

I know someone has done that, but I don't think it was a post restriction - yet, that'd be one that'd be fun to use.