The Mod Is Mafia (Game Over)

Mulch · Post Post #3475 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:19 pm

In post 3474, Smocaine wrote:Mulch, I'm not sorry, you scummy.

I shouted RC+Stalfos scumteam the entire day 1

I did my job

Alisae · Post Post #3476 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:23 pm

In post 3470, Not_Mafia wrote:Oh cool I suck

the scum team was hand picked and you weren't told that

Kise · Post Post #3477 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:24 pm

why didn't y'all quicklynch Theta?

MathBlade · Post Post #3478 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:25 pm

At least I redeemed night and day.

Dear Lord I fucked up that game.

I am just glad Alisae carried me.

Yeah Smocaine kinda surprised you didn’t figure it out but you would have in lylo.

New math scumclaim if it is before lylo and Smocaine dies jk lol.

MathBlade · Post Post #3479 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:26 pm

In post 3477, Kise wrote: why didn't y'all quicklynch Theta?

Timing.

Keychain is on at midnight by time

Camn is on when I am at work.

So I ended up staying up til like 1 am to make the Lynch happen.

ISO · Post Post #3480 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:28 pm

Night Actions:

Night One Actions

:

mastina

Nightkills

Creature

. (Creature is set to die.)

Creature

Gunsmiths

Maestro

. (Result: Your Target Does Not have a Gun.)

CheekyTeeky

Neapolitans

Stalfos

. (Result: Your Target is Not a Vanilla Townie.)

Not_Mafia

Vig kills

CheekyTeeky

. (CheekyTeeky is set to die.)

DiamondSentinel

Aliens

Mathblade

. (Mathblade cannot take actions; all actions targeting Mathblade fail.)

grapes

Jailkeeps

Mathblade

.

(Fails, rolestopped.)

Creature dies.
CheekyTeeky dies.

Spoiler: Result PMs

Night Two Actions

:

mastina

Nightkills

massive

. (massive is set to die.)

grapes fails to submit a night action, thus, forfeits the right to one.
Not_Mafia fails to submit a night action, thus, forfeits the right to one.

massive dies.

Spoiler: Result PMs

Night Three Actions

:

camn

Nightkills

grapes

. (grapes is set to die.)

Not_Mafia

Vig kills

pisskop

. (pisskop is set to die.)

grapes

Jailkeeps

mastina

. (I am locked up!)

grapes dies.
pisskop dies.

Spoiler: Result PMs

Night Four Actions

:

mastina

Nightkills

Smocaine

. (Smocaine is set to die.)

Not_Mafia

Vig kills

Aronis

. (Aronis is set to die.)

Smocaine dies.
Aronis dies.

Spoiler: Result PMs

MathBlade · Post Post #3481 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:28 pm

You don’t suck Not Mafia.

The night shot n1 helped a lot but still. Overall town imho had a lot of ways to fuck with us but when the D1 kill went through and a jailkeeper claim was made against me I was just like really?

Then a second. I legit thought it was a fake claim.

MathBlade · Post Post #3482 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:31 pm

Gg all night actions aside.

Sorry it got lethargic.

ISO · Post Post #3483 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:32 pm

Game Private Topics

:

Mod PT.
Mafia PT.
Dead Thread.
Spoilered Dead Thread.

MathBlade · Post Post #3484 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:33 pm

Good to release scum PT btw.

Alisae · Post Post #3485 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:35 pm

In post 3478, MathBlade wrote:I am just glad Alisae carried me.

apparently winning as scum is easy in mastina games.

MathBlade · Post Post #3486 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:38 pm

Ugh and Bulba you were right it was totally fake me bussing Radiant.

Was going through RL shit and Radiant was strongly suggesting things the exact opposite of how I play as scum.

And as scum sometimes I bus sometimes I don’t.

MathBlade · Post Post #3487 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:38 pm

While I suck as town I am kinda happy at my scumrecord.

camn · Post Post #3488 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:46 pm

In post 3475, Mulch wrote:I shouted RC+Stalfos scumteam the entire day 1

I did my job

That's only, like, 25% of a townies job, my sweet

Mulch · Post Post #3489 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:48 pm

In post 3488, camn wrote:
In post 3475, Mulch wrote:I shouted RC+Stalfos scumteam the entire day 1

I did my job
That's only, like, 25% of a townies job, my sweet

True

But I also didn't care about the game because of Smocaine and other idiots

If I cared I would put effort

But I knew I would never win a battle against RC so I resigned myself to not putting in effort and being able to gloat postgame

idiots like smocaine made it so I felt it wasn't worth it to try

I've never seen someone as bad as Smocaine was this game, literally mislynched every person at full confidence, (got mislynched themselves?), and then has the audacity to act like an ass postgame

At least I own up to my own faults; I was mislynched because I was scummy, i didn't try

There are personal goals I achieved here

RadiantCowbells · Post Post #3490 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:54 pm

In post 3475, Mulch wrote:
In post 3474, Smocaine wrote:Mulch, I'm not sorry, you scummy.
I shouted RC+Stalfos scumteam the entire day 1

I did my job

what did it do for town though

nancy · Post Post #3491 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:57 pm

Grats mafia/mastina!

Mulch · Post Post #3492 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:58 pm

In post 3490, RadiantCowbells wrote:
In post 3475, Mulch wrote:
In post 3474, Smocaine wrote:Mulch, I'm not sorry, you scummy.
I shouted RC+Stalfos scumteam the entire day 1

I did my job
what did it do for town though

I told you I didn't feel like working for a town with people like Smocaine

I have my own personal victory that I know how to read you+Prism

Specially because Prism likes to brag about their scum game

I'll work on the other aspects of my game later

Mulch · Post Post #3493 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:58 pm

Wp to scumteam though

Camn was goat

Mathblade was awesome too

ISO · Post Post #3494 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:02 pm

First off, I'd like to start off by apologizing for the quality of my moderation this game. People thought that it was because the mod was mafia, that it was "playing to my wincon" for me to not be modding the game.

I wish.

It'd be all too easy to blame the mechanic for that, but no!

That was just me sucking.

That was just me progressively degrading, worse and worse, as my mental health declined to the point where I was essentially unfit to moderate a game, and frankly, that's just unacceptable from a game moderator, mechanics be damned. In fact, in order to restore some semblance of playability in this game, I actually abandoned the promised mechanic of mod fuckery.

It would have been easy to have continued it, but I didn't, because an inherent premise of the mechanic was the assumption that I would still be carrying out all the moderator duties that I normally would be. That was an inherent part of the designed mechanic: my actual

official moderation

would never be compromised, and would continue throughout the game in spite of some degree of mod fuckery.

...However.

I didn't give the official moderation

. At least not to the capacity any mafiascum mod should.

It is absolutely shameful. Abysmally bad moderation on my part. I can only offer promises that this is not my normal level of moderation. When I moderate a Large Theme, this is the quality to which I strive to uphold the game. You can see it on the front page alone. The OP was kept up to date regularly, there are links to every aspect of the game, and those links are fully fleshed out. There are extras available readily for easy-access VCA. There's so much more than what I gave, and you can see on the front page ghosts of what SHOULD have been there but wasn't, in that I prepared the formatting for doing the same thing this game, yet didn't.

The reason I didn't wasn't because of the mechanic preventing me from doing so--quite the opposite, the mechanic OBLIGATED me to give you that information and I failed to readily provide it to you. On every level possible, this game was a failure in my moderation. I did not give votecounts per page, or even daily. When I did, it was often with great delay, and later in the game the details/extras I pride myself on were dropped in favor of just trying to get anything done whatsoever.

I didn't deliver prods in a timely manner, nor keep them as organized as I should have. I didn't obtain replacements in a timely manner, something which wasn't the fault of the mechanic I feel; I feel it was the fault of me as a moderator for not taking a more aggressive initiative with the replacements. I failed to provide flips in a timely manner. I failed to start days at the time I indicated days would start. I dragged Ginngie into a game which she should have only been involved in as a last resort, and when I did so it was arguably too little, too late.

I've never done a worse job of moderating a game than this game. I've had some questionable games where some shitty stuff happened, sure enough. Mod delays a plenty have plagued me in the past...but nothing like this game. This game was just a whole 'nother level of moderator negligence and I take full blame for everything. The very premise of the game

required

an active moderator. The game's basic promise was a moderator actively involved in the game and messing around.

Of course, yes. You can attribute some of this to my life having reached one of the lowest points it's been in...well, my entire life. I've been struggling HARD with hardcore depression like you wouldn't believe, and even checking in to mafiascum is a great difficulty since I just want to give up on most aspects of my life, here included, something which obviously has a negative influence on the quality of my moderation...

...But that's no excuse. That's still reprehensible. It's unacceptable on any level to treat the game the way I did, regardless of reason, regardless of excuse. Especially since this is not the first game where I have suffered from real-life difficulties. Perhaps the difficulties I'm suffering now have been the worst they've been in my entire modding career, but the simple fact is, across my entire modding career, I DEALT with the difficulties. I managed to mitigate the damage done by them, to the point where I still delivered a relatively smooth game experience to my players.

So it's NOT okay. I cannot accept what I did this game as ever being something which should be allowed.

I don't intend to retire permanently from moderating. God, I'm not sure I ever could. I love mafiascum too much. I love modding games too much. I have so many ideas that I just want to share with others. I feel like I can do a lot of good for the site by continuing to bring my moderation to players.
...But I cannot moderate at the level I modded at THIS game.

So I am taking a long, long,

long

hiatus from moderating until such a time as I feel I can competently moderate a game again, because I absolutely was abysmal this game and was in no way shape nor form any semblance of a competent mod. It is in no way something which is adequate. I've killed my own game and I have nobody to blame except myself. I've failed this game and I intend not to fail in future games. So what I need is to wait. To wait until I am absolutely positive that even if shit hits the fan it won't slow me down. I don't know how long of a break that will require. A few months, a few years, we'll have to see.

I just know that in order for me to succeed, I need to know I can succeed and right now I don't think I can.

Part of being a good moderator is knowing when you cannot be a good moderator.
And this trainwreck of a game demonstrates that right now, I CANNOT be a good moderator. I tried, and I failed. I take full responsibility for my failures and I try to learn from them, as to not repeat them.

When people play a mastina game. They should expect the best. They should expect the absolute highest quality a mafiascum moderator has to offer. Under normal circumstances, I'd say that I am expected to be one of--if not THE--best moderators in terms of moderating quality on mafiascum, with how much I devote to the game and my players to offer them an enjoyable, enriched, thorough experience.

VCs every day, with extras. Every page. Most of them page tops. Prods on time. Day start on the promised time. Flips given with minimal delays. Even poking players BEFORE the prod. And swift replacements. All things I normally offer and are expected of me to offer. All things I failed to deliver this game. It's not even that I cracked under the pressure of expectation, either. I didn't get too ambitious. I didn't set unrealistic expectations. I didn't set an unachievable bar which could never be reached. I just failed to live up to my par, and it's absolutely shameful.

I should always be able to deliver the quality content I promised. And not being able to do so means not being able for me to mod a game. Even if it were acceptable to my players, it wouldn't be acceptable to ME. Because *I* hold myself to those standards, too. I strive to be the absolute best moderator I possibly can. And given that right now I know I cannot be that, I can't deliver, I simply shouldn't be modding a game.

So my sincerest apologies; I am truly sorry for what happened this game.

It had so much potential, and I singlehandedly killed it.

MathBlade · Post Post #3495 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:02 pm

Thank you. Still made some mistakes though :/ Pretty sure I noted them in the PT.

RadiantCowbells · Post Post #3496 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:06 pm

In post 3492, Mulch wrote:
In post 3490, RadiantCowbells wrote:
In post 3475, Mulch wrote:
In post 3474, Smocaine wrote:Mulch, I'm not sorry, you scummy.
I shouted RC+Stalfos scumteam the entire day 1

I did my job
what did it do for town though
I told you I didn't feel like working for a town with people like Smocaine

I have my own personal victory that I know how to read you+Prism

Specially because Prism likes to brag about their scum game

I'll work on the other aspects of my game later

do you though cuz I seem to recall you townreading me in our last game where I was scum and trying hard to mislynch me last time I was town

Keychain · Post Post #3497 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:07 pm

GG town! Off to read dead threads now.

mastina, please don't tear yourself to shreds over it.

MathBlade · Post Post #3498 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:08 pm

I responded more to mastina privately but even in her shitty state she did more than some mods here.

I did not ask mastina to flake if it matters. I will defend her honor I just needed VCs to operate til I got a foothold.

It was entirely selfish.

MathBlade · Post Post #3499 (ISO) » Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:08 pm

I freaking love mastina like a sister and seeing her that bad hurt. Like I didn’t know how to help