To join a game, type "/in to play" or something along those lines and you'll be placed in the next game. If there are multiple games taking signups at once, you may specify which game you'd like to play in, like so: "/in for Open 362"
There is no experience requirement to sign up for an Open Game. However, playing through a Newbie Game first is recommended.
There is no overarching policy dictating how many games you can play at once, but please consider your availability when signing up for multiple games. Games can last upwards of months, so it's important not to overcommit yourself.
Moderators:
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to moderate an Open Game, you must have been active on the site for at least three months, and have completed at least one Mafia Game as a player.
To sign up as a moderator, please type "/in to mod" or something along those lines and you'll be added to the moderator queue.
Potential moderators can only be in a single modding queue (Open Game, Mini Normal, Mini Theme) at a time. Moderators must wait until the game they're running has completed before joining a queue again.
First time moderators will be offered a handful of Approved Open Setups to choose from to run as their first game. I pick setups based on the last time they were run and their popularity to ensure we don't have the same setups running over and over again, but also to feature enough of the setups players want to see.
Experienced mods (At least one game completed as a mod) may select from a wider range of setups on the catalogue or design and run a brand new setup.
If a mod wants to run their own setup it needs to be approved by myself to ensure it's balanced/not broken. These reviews occur in the Open Setups Review thread.
New setups that are successful may be added to the approved catalogue for rotation on a regular basis.
Open Games:
All flavour for Open Games must be public and entirely original. Flavour based on any source material are considered Theme Games.
All possible role PM's for the game must be listed in the opening post somewhere.
Flavour is permitted within role PM's to a degree. It must, however, not change the title of particular roles (Vanilla Townies must be called Vanilla Townies and not "Ghostbusters" etc.) and duplicate roles must have the same role PM.
Do you have a great idea for an Open Setup? Post it in the Open Setup Ideas and Discussion thread. There are a lot of members who will review your idea, and if it's well received you may run it yourself if you're an experienced mod or possibly someone else will on your behalf.
I will regularly update this thread during the week, with updated signup lists being posted in the following post as well as a new post.
If you have a question about the Queue or Open Games in general, feel free to ask here or send me a PM.
Open Setup Review thread - Once an idea snowballs and a mod has intent to run a particular setup, it can seek official approval to be run in this thread.
Archive of Open Games - This is the history of all previous Open Games run in Central Park.
I don't recall how deep into the game Open 379 was, but if you have the majority of your playerlist, I'm happy for it continue from where it was, or reset with new role assignments. You'll just have to give me a little while to make you up a new JK9++ wiki page, since we lost that too.
And what about the other 3? It is a 13 player game. Like, I said, if you can round up your players, let me know and you guys can start again. I'd suggest sending a mass PM again here to collect them all.
In post 17, Haze wrote:As Gila mentioned, she has kindly salvaged all of my game for me
Thanks.
I'll wait on PM reply and see if we're good to go.
That's fine. When you get a majority of players, feel free to start your game and seek replacements as usual for those missing.
In post 18, izakthegoomba wrote:I've PM'd my players about 373, but I'm leaning heavily towards abandoning it. We don't have much backed up at all.
How far into the game was Open 373? Would you like to take new signups and start again?
In post 19, Tajun wrote:I've PM'd my players about Open381. We were only about a page in, so I am going to see what the popular consensus is on restarting versus reopening. I have said page saved on my computer, can you explain how to post that here? I'm kind of a newbie at forums myself.
Thanks!
If you get most of your players back, feel free to continue/reset with the same roles. If you're missing a bunch of your players, let me know here, and I'll put you into a pseudo-signup phase, and fill the game that way - previous players that confirmed before can be considered pre-ins. From there, just redo role resolutions.
How far into the game were you? If you're missing a bunch of people, and it was early in the game, I'd consider filling the missing slots here and restarting.
Hmmm, I must have missed that one. Who were the players alive and what game was it?
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Open 373:
I'm calling this one off in light of what izak has told me. There is no point attempting to continue given how close it was to the end and that it was missing information. I think he modded enough of the game to earn the modding experience for it too.
Open 379:
Chevre's playerlist didn't all come back, but the ones that did were in favour of a restart. There are 9 players available, so I'm going to make a pseudo signup thing for Chevre to fill the rest of the game, which he will then generate new roles for.
Open 383:
Haze has 5 of 8 players available, and given it was very early in the game, I'm going to restart this one as well and give him signups to get three players.
In post 39, Trevor wrote:A majority of alive players in Open 380 have replied that they would like to continue the game. The game was at 5-way lylo with no power roles alive.
Mist Beauty has apparently received two players from her previous game, so I'm giving them the last two slots - she didn't tell me who they were, so she can figure it out. Sorry to those who tried to /in for this one.
Open 382
(Friends and Enemies) has filled for Mist Beauty with the following playerlist:
Pizzadudes7
Slandaar
Furcolow
Blueberry
Alicewondering
Rainbowdash
Rang Tangler
ManiacalLemon
Elmo TeH AzN
Kamikrazy
Kassadin
???
???
In post 135, Rainbowdash wrote:382 hast booted up yet and its been about a week... want to check on the status of that so I know what to do for other things
I'm aware - Mist was around all last week while we were talking about getting her game up and running, and now I have a message waiting unopened from about five days ago to her. If she doesn't come back soon, I'll start the game myself until she returns.
Speaking of which, I don't know which two players Mist Beauty wanted to sub into the last two slots of Open 382, so if they're reading this now, PM me so I can start the game. If not, I'll take two other interested players - PM me for that now.
Alright, sorgster has been away for at least two weeks now, with no response to my PM when I put his game into signups. Can I get an experienced mod to PM me if they're interested in backing up Open 389 in the event sorgster doesn't return?
In post 277, Korts wrote:Is there any way to make sorgster come back?
I've been trying to get assurance from him via PM that he is online enough to run a game, but he goes long periods without answering. So, unless something drastic happens soon, the answer is no.
As my last message is still sitting in my outbox to sorgster, I'm not going to risk another game being flaked upon. If he comes back soon, we can discuss ways to prove his activity and give him a chance. But alas, Nuwen gets this game:
