Long term health of mafiascum

[Psyche]

now the whole forum finally knows you're 13

[Junpei]

the idea of creating a meta (let alone based on being a spastic neurotic fuck) is just sad. It's not like Om and the people he's playing with are so godlike at mafia that the art of the game has now come down to peoples' personal metas. In other words having a certain 'meta' doesn't do anything... at that point its just a fake personality you use and its only effect on the game is how much of a shitposter you are going to be. It seems like a lot of the newer/younger players who aren't very good were always talking about meta. As if it was actually significant.

Good players don't have to worry about their meta, and good players don't have to think about other peoples' meta. I don't mean regfan good, I mean at least decent at mafia good. Om was spamming the game thread that game, and it is not justifiable. It's just obnoxious, it's the kind of thing that people policy lynch early on just to be able to have a more mature conversation

[Om of the Nom]

ok junpei
now im kindly asking you to stop criticizing my past self for whatever gains you might get from it :)

[Cheetory6]

I find it easier to read people in a game in which I'm enjoying myself.

Spoiler: Junpei's dreams of what mafia should be

Robot 1: Employing vote on Player 03 for pressure.

Robot 2: Pressure received. Analyzing.

Robot 1: Analyzing.

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Robot 1: Analysis complete. Retracting vote. Player 03 has a 54% probability of being town due to statistics based on how long their vote analysis took.

Robot 2: Analyzing.

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[Junpei]

good play
http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... er_sort=Go

bad play
http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... er_sort=Go

good play
http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... er_sort=Go

bad play
http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... er_sort=Go

I don't know why people seem to think that serious, logical play = following a mechanical flow chart. Mafia isn't the first 10 moves of a chess game.

[zMuffinMan]

Cyclic was fun. Pity about the tigers.

[tn5421]

@junpei: the links are broken in half on mobile, I'll look the next time I'm on my desktop.

[SleepyKrew]

Can't link ISOs.

[zMuffinMan]

you just need to do it properly

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... B%5D=12987

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... B%5D=11384

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... B%5D=15955

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... B%5D=15569

[tn5421]

Thanks muffinman

[Tammy]

I miss crypto. He made me laugh.

[Tere]

This board needs more smilies

[wgeurts]

That not enough?

Pr-edit:
Lol, I wasn't allowed to post all the smilies, max is 12.

[divacat]

This board needs more smilies

its cos you are spoiled

use this:

http://imgur.com/EKGtF0y

and drag and drop smilies from other sites

[Majiffy]

That is a terrifying hydra.

And that cat stares into my soul.

[Porochaz]

There have been increasing worries once again over the long term health of mafiascum and without being able to add anything new on to this conversation beyond being dismayed at the fact that the main site is not in the first 10 pages of the search "mafia game" and wondering with the popularity of one night werewolf or whatever its called, looking at maybe rebranding slightly to incorporate that/buying and redirecting a domain name to this site. (yeah, Im betting my lack of website building knowledge is showing through already) I don't know, but this does feel like a conversation that should be looked at more. Because whilst I am not particularly worried about the site not lasting beyond a certain time. I do think, as chamber said in the first post, we need to look at how we evolve as a site to be able to maintain it's usage into the future.

[quadz08]

fwiw, our wiki is on the first page of that search, which is how most people tend to find us anyway, iirc.

also, 'forum mafia' we're the first result. 'online mafia' we're the second result. *shrug*

[Porochaz]

I searched mafia forum which weirdly gave me vastly different results from forum mafia, but I am on a different computer now, so...

online mafia puts me 4th on this computer, but underneath epic mafia, who I am currently viewing as our mortal enemies.

Even so, as membership has been down, it's still something to look at.

[saulres]

'forum mafia' we're the first result. 'online mafia' we're the second result.

Other searches, not so much, as I said earlier in the thread.

Werewolf searches, as I believe most people who are looking for an online community to play the games that are currently out in stores, we come up much worse.

[wgeurts]

Well, the wiki comes up 5th for "forum werewolf".
The site doesn't.

[esuriospiritus]

werewolf is kind of a totally different game though

I mean some of the elements are the same but one-night ultimate werewolf, the one that's so popular IME, is very focused on power roles and figuring things out with the info you've been given rather than sleuthing stuff and also sometimes you aren't even the same alignment as you thought you were because ~SHENANIGANS~

[esuriospiritus]

it also lasts like 5 minutes vs 3 months soooooooooo yeah

[quadz08]

Werewolf (as opposed to one-night-ultimate-werewolf) is literally the exact same game with werewolf flavor (seer instead of cop, angel instead of doc, etc)

[xRECKONERx]

Yeah. One-Night Ultimate Werewolf is not Werewolf.

[Porochaz]

They are similar though, so it might be worth taking advantage of.