Team Mafia 2020 (YOADSG Wins!)

[Firebringer]

We will be the fire ferrets

[Ellibereth]

If someone swaps they're inherently drawing attention to their slot which is a decision they can choose to make or not.
If everyone gets to pick who gets which PM the game is just going to be meta about every slot rather than the few who decide to swap games for some reason.
Wherein the reasoning for swapping games could be a variety of reasons and less distracting from the game.

I mean it's not distracting from the game - it'll be part of the game.

The actual reason for swapping hardly matters, it just depends on what percent of the conversation y'all would want to be about some sort of selection meta. If the answer is some small nonzero positive number then yeah swaps work.

The primary concern I'd imagine is it'd be fairly trivial for a player to pseudo-clear themself without downside via swap. (It becomes optimal for the hypothetical lopsided player to always swap into a town game regardless of the rest of their team's distribution and their original role just to reinforce the non-randomness of their choice). If that's not undesirable then :shrug:

(If swaps are announced simultaneously and there are sufficiently many lopsided players they can even use swap ordering to weigh games as desired).

[Flavor Leaf]

Hype.

[Cheetory6]

The primary concern I'd imagine is it'd be fairly trivial for a player to pseudo-clear themself without downside via swap. (It becomes optimal for the hypothetical lopsided player to always swap into a town game regardless of the rest of their team's distribution and their original role just to reinforce the non-randomness of their choice). If that's not undesirable then :shrug:

Wouldn't doing that inherently draw attention to the other slot though?

[Ellibereth]

No because the original role of the lopsided player doesn't matter.
They're not swapping if scum, they're ALWAYS swapping to town just to be able to say they selected town.

[Untrod Tripod]

Regardless, there is no swap mechanic in place currently and I will be allowing people to submit personal blacklists when we do the game selection. That will eliminate the need for blacklist-related swaps.

[Cheetory6]

I had a post written
but if there's blacklist stuff in play already then could probably just not do swaps lol.

[chamber]

My experience trying to deal with player preferences in the /invitational leads me to believe blacklists for this, if people are too aggressive, is going to lead to a game with all the disliked players in it that no one enjoys. Just something to watch out for with your implementation if you hadn't already considered it.

[Jingle]

/in to be in the game with awful players that no one enjoys.



If necessary, I'll blacklist every likeable player from every team.

[zoraster]

The winning team will receive a banner for their accounts that will be displayed until the next Team Mafia event.

Until the next Scummies banners are given out the following year (i.e. 2019 scummies given out in 2020) or the next team mafia starts, whichever is earlier.

[Untrod Tripod]

The winning team will receive a banner for their accounts that will be displayed until the next Team Mafia event.

Until the next Scummies banners are given out the following year (i.e. 2019 scummies given out in 2020) or the next team mafia starts, whichever is earlier.

Team Mafia will happen every month of every year fite me

[Flavor Leaf]

I also think switching after is fine and exciting. I think it keeps it fresh changing specific stuff like that from different years.

I’m a free agent.

[the worst]

Spicy. I'm interested in this.

[Aristophanes]

I will join if asked but for the record got overwhelmed last time around and was the weak link of my team. Take that as you may.

Also I refuse to play a large in this tho

[wgeurts]

Okay I will come out of hiatus for this.

[Enter]

/in to be in the game with awful players that no one enjoys.



If necessary, I'll blacklist every likeable player from every team.

PLaying by yourself sounds too easy, though

[Gamma Emerald]

What will team size be?
Might stick with my old crew from 2018 might not.

[MariaR]

Wow do I feel left out of the hosting ring

[Gamma Emerald]

Btw I personally agree teams shouldn't get to pick their role after randing, that probably affected my team the most out of any last time because I feel like everyone there to start was at least marginally better at town over scum.

[PenguinPower]

What will team size be?

Currently:

Teams of four players will be given the opportunity to choose four out of the five games to be placed in, and will work together to win their chosen games.

[Enter]

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Guess who my teammates are

[the worst]

I have a theory.

[Dannflor]

that it's a demon

[Enter]

you're either wrong or right