Mafia reaches the SDMB

Dragon Phoenix · Post Post #0 (ISO) » Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:32 pm

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sho ... did=208327

Antrax · Post Post #1 (ISO) » Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:35 pm

Blimey, and it's not even by you.
Antrax

Fletcher · Post Post #2 (ISO) » Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:24 am

Cool!

mole · Post Post #3 (ISO) » Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:37 am

So where do we go from here? I don't visit any other boards.

Dragon Phoenix · Post Post #4 (ISO) » Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:51 am

They already linked to this site.

I have always been wary of doing this, because they get a large number of trolls and other idiots on that site.

Antrax · Post Post #5 (ISO) » Thu Sep 04, 2003 2:00 am

That makes sense. Aren't they like millions of users there?

~ponders 100-player mafia games~
Antrax

Dragon Slayer · Post Post #6 (ISO) » Thu Sep 04, 2003 8:43 am

~refuses to ponder 100-player games~

gslamm · Post Post #7 (ISO) » Thu Sep 04, 2003 8:57 am

~ Starts trimmiing Heinlin Mafia down to be played by less than 200 players~

bloojay · Post Post #8 (ISO) » Tue Sep 09, 2003 3:09 pm

does this

and this

in the face of 100+ player mafia

Night Stalker · Post Post #9 (ISO) » Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:51 pm

I can see it now:

Day 1. 50 to lynch.

Vote list:

1 (antrax) Porro
1 (darkblade) Mith
1 (mole) Dragon Phoniex

[repeat 97 more times]

Dragon Phoenix · Post Post #10 (ISO) » Tue Sep 09, 2003 6:50 pm

Night Stalker wrote: Dragon Phoniex

Hey, that's a new one!

PolarBoy · Post Post #11 (ISO) » Thu Sep 11, 2003 10:07 pm

You've gotta admit though that it'd be really cool having an evil group big enough to populate a mafia game on it's own. Can you imagine a 40 player endgame? The thread would be 4-5 pages long just with confirmations. This is beginning to sound like those tall tales about people like Paul Bunyan.

shadyforce · Post Post #12 (ISO) » Fri Sep 12, 2003 3:34 am

The bigger the game, the worse the inactivity.

mathcam · Post Post #13 (ISO) » Fri Sep 12, 2003 3:38 am

If there's 40 players left, how would that be an endgame?

Cam

Fishbulb · Post Post #14 (ISO) » Fri Sep 12, 2003 3:41 am

With 100 players, you could have 20 mafia. If none of them had been lynched yet, there would be a mafia majority when it got past 40 players left.

mathcam · Post Post #15 (ISO) » Fri Sep 12, 2003 3:43 am

Isn't that "Game over" rather than "Endagme"?

Cam

shadyforce · Post Post #16 (ISO) » Fri Sep 12, 2003 3:43 am

With a 10 man game and 2 mafia the towns chances are good. With a 100 man game with 20 mafiathe town's chances are very slim.

Fishbulb · Post Post #17 (ISO) » Fri Sep 12, 2003 3:46 am

mathcam wrote:Isn't that "Game over" rather than "Endagme"?

Well, yeah.

*shrug*

You're on your own PolarBoy.

Dourgrim · Post Post #18 (ISO) » Fri Sep 12, 2003 6:03 am

If there was a way to both ensure that everyone would actually play the damn game they signed up for (insert frustration re: Mafia 14 here) ~and~ it were possible to keep up with a game with that much posting, I think it'd be a lot of fun and a heck of a challenge.

I wouldn't want to be the SK in a game like that, though...

Stewie · Post Post #19 (ISO) » Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:19 am

I could run a game like that, eventhough it would be frustating. and night stalker is right: day one, 50 to lynch

mathcam · Post Post #20 (ISO) » Mon Sep 15, 2003 4:06 am

If there was a way to both ensure that everyone would actually play the damn game they signed up for...

Ooh! How about tasers?

Cam

PolarBoy · Post Post #21 (ISO) » Mon Sep 15, 2003 8:13 am

I've heard the term endgame used in a lot of ways, and I'm sure I've heard it used in reference to the last night of a game, which can come very early if no mafs are dead.

mole · Post Post #22 (ISO) » Mon Sep 15, 2003 4:56 pm

Watch the game here:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sho ... did=210276

I really like the roleplaying thing they'g got going. I think there should be more of that here, though not in theme games if it will give away the character you have of course...

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I'd use the term "endgame" to mean "the game's almost over -

and the town knows it

" A day with 40 players might have only one mafia member left, but there's no way the town's going to do a mass roleclaim to win the game immediately. Similarly, they're not going to play in "lynch-or-lose" mode (unless there really are 20 mafia around, that is).

Norinel · Post Post #23 (ISO) » Mon Sep 15, 2003 11:27 pm

The roleplaying thing would be interesting in a mini or something, but I found it a bit on the confusing side reading their Day 1. But maybe I just need to get used to reading it.

Dourgrim · Post Post #24 (ISO) » Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:21 am

I am a RP'er from way back, and I've participated in many RPGs in the past with enthusiasm... but what they're doing in that game detracts too much from the logic of the game, instead placing lots of emphasis on telling a story. To be blunt, I found that thread extremely unreadable. More power to 'em for having fun with it, but I don't think I'd enjoy trying to play Mafia like that. Now, if anyone wants to see a RPG get started up on here, that'd be just fine, and I'll be the first one to sign up to play (or mod, for that matter). 8)