Dyson Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 http://www.n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20811 And people thought I was crazy..
Gizmo Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 Unfortunately other people lost interest in the games while they were still fun for alot of us. But continued to join them. Thus we are all now bored of them due to lack of interest from 50% of the people playing slowing it down. I also don't think it helped that we had hosts too busy/forgetful to keep up to date with them :p
Tellyn Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 Here's an idea. Can we leave the mafia games to Chairdriver? Having several on at once didn't work, and chair's games were always special. He also never neglected it (no offense to anyone since I did this).
Zell Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 Here's what I feel needs to be done: -Finish these ones, have a break (like 3 months) then bring them back. -Sign ups should happen only 1 week before they start. It's ridiculous signing up to something that's not going to happen for months, in that time people lose interest and forget they're playing. If people want to "queue up" then they should just post in the progress thread and only post a sign-up thread when their turn comes around. -The GM needs to stop waiting on people for getting PMs in and just start the next day.
jayseven Posted July 10, 2008 Posted July 10, 2008 http://www.n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20811 And people thought I was crazy.. And I said that we shouldn't have more than one-at-a-time. That's the main reason for the downfall, if you ask me. It leads to confusion.
Ellmeister Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 I think Chairdriver should be left to do it =] I thought the queueing up would work but obviously it hasn't
darksnowman Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 What we need is a game like the second one again. It was vanilla, but not bare bones, and its been my favourite so far. No worries about finding out who your character is, about finding out who other peoples characters were... just townspeople who were easy to imagine versus the mafia. It was class.
MadDog Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 Here's what I feel needs to be done: -Finish these ones, have a break (like 3 months) then bring them back. -Sign ups should happen only 1 week before they start. It's ridiculous signing up to something that's not going to happen for months, in that time people lose interest and forget they're playing. If people want to "queue up" then they should just post in the progress thread and only post a sign-up thread when their turn comes around. -The GM needs to stop waiting on people for getting PMs in and just start the next day. Thats pretty much exactly were i stand. The main problem imo is the lack/speed of PMs being sent to the Host. People just get bored then eventually lose interest if nights go on for 3/4 days and forget about them.
Jonnas Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 I'm for Zell's ideas. This post has his ideas in mind. What we need is a game like the second one again. It was vanilla, but not bare bones, and its been my favourite so far. No worries about finding out who your character is, about finding out who other peoples characters were... just townspeople who were easy to imagine versus the mafia. It was class. I've been thinking, and you're 100% right. Notice how, in most games, the mafia is made up of villans. Just find out a characteristic about one, and there's a good chance you'll find him. This leads to people finding out who's good or evil fast. I would like to fix this kind of thing up. I'm not so much into "Vanilla" towns, though. Maybe I'll try a DYI, though. And the mafia will be made up of completely random players (which means Jesus may become a mafioso, along with Jack Bauer, C.Ronaldo and Dr. Doom. This could be fun...). Anyway, put me in the queue. As it stands, I'm willing to try. If, when my time comes, I'm not ready to do it, I'll skip my "turn". (Or is it too soon...? )
MadDog Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 I loved the DIY games, they was always fun, and it would be great for another one of them to be started.
Dyson Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 I'd like it if chairdriver would run it to be honest Jonnas
Jonnas Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 I'd like it if chairdriver would run it to be honest Jonnas Doesn't he already have a DC comics mafia on the queue?
MadDog Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Doesn't he already have a DC comics mafia on the queue? Yeh he does, i don't mind who runs them as long as there not neglected.
Jonnas Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Yeh he does, i don't mind who runs them as long as there not neglected. If I think I won't have time to run the game. I'll skip my turn. My Animafia, for the flaws it had, ran at a steady pace, right? Anyway, it' still a long time until we get there.
MadDog Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 All the games up to the Thriller game, ran fine, they went along at a good pace. But since then most have been too slow, thats why people don't wanna take part i them.
Mundi Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 I would suggest for future mafia games to have the nights circa a day and a half, after that if you didn´t send in a target then sucks for you. I made the first day an exception to that rule.
jayseven Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 To be honest, if there's only one mafia game running at a time the need to end the days at a specific time shouldn't be an issue, as I'd imagine the discussion would be more focused and a majority would be reached... What I mean is future games ought to be more organic and flexible, and that there's no reason to immediately begin with restrictions and boundaries. Just we should have one running at a time once sci-fi/forum mafia are done.
Guest Maase Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 Some rules i think should be used. 1 - One night without PM'ing and the user who didn't PM gets his role discovered by everyone. That way, we'l know if they are usefull keeping or killing 2 - The Day should take 2 days and the Night should take one day at maximum, or until every PM is made. 3 - We should make one Mafia per turn, wich means, after ending this Mafia's, we should have only one... 4 - I think that it would be great for the users out of the game to post anyway at the thread, that would be awesome, like, giving thoughts, suspicing about anyone, of course, the dead would not be able to speak tough. 5 - We should have all the Mafia's DYI, with a theme. Like: "Give us your character, it has to do with the theme, tough..." Also, it would be random their alligment anyway, like... "DC Themed", Batman is the Don, etc. ------------------------ What do you think?
Tellyn Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 Blowing your own horn a bit, aren't we? What was wrong with the other thread you made publically declaring you don't like mafia games any more where everyone else was using it for suggestions?
Guest Maase Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 D'oh, didn't notice the thread, sorry You may merge/block/whatever
Mundi Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 The problem I have with this thread is that you don´t have experience with GM-ing. If a thread like this appears it should at least be someone with experience.
Tellyn Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 D'oh, didn't notice the thread, sorry You may merge/block/whatever You made the thread. I don't really think anything needs to be changed, it was fine when we just anticipated Chairdriver's next game rather than everyone jumping on and going "me too!"
Cube Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 1 is a terrible idea. Some people may miss one night because they have a life. Just have it so when the time is out, their PM doesn't count - but have a limit for the game that if they don't post/send PMs for so many days then they're out. And 4 would just ruin the game.
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