11-16-2021, 11:59 AM
You might get to pack heat... in an intangible sense.
Glad to have each of you aboard. Seven more would bring us to a minimum. I'll explain the process a bit more:
As I said before, the game is comprised of an informed minority (mafia) and an uninformed majority (town). These are the teams. It's possible to have more complex setups than that, but we'll start with the most basic. If we have 9 players, it would look like this:
7 town members vs. 2 mafia members
The town's objective would be to discover who among the 9 players are the two mafia members. The mafia's objective would be to remain undiscovered. In this way, it's a game of investigation and deception. It plays out entirely within a single thread, where players converse with one another to try to sort out their own respective objectives.
The game takes place across cycles of phases: the Day Phase and the Night Phase.
During Day phases, players talk with each other in the thread and place votes, individually within the thread, for a single player to eliminate from the game. The player with the most votes is eliminated ("dead"), and is no longer permitted to take part in the thread until the game is over. When the player is eliminated, the host (me) will reveal their identity as either town or as mafia.
During Night phases, the thread is closed and nobody may speak in it. The mafia will use this time to communicate privately, usually via a separate resource such as a QuickTopic thread or a Discord server, about their strategy to survive the game. They will together choose a single town player to night kill, which removes that player from the game (just as the public vote does in the day phase). This is how the mafia eliminate threats to them.
These Day and Night phases repeat in cycles (e.g., Day 1, Night 1, Day 2, Night 2, Day 3, etc...) until the game ends. The game ends when either all mafia members have been eliminated (town wins), or the number of mafia members equals or surpasses the number town members (mafia wins).
The game takes place across numerous days, because everyone here has lives and can't sit around forever in a message board thread. Players would participate in the thread when they feel like it and when they can. The phases can last any amount of time, but let's say for the first game...
Day phases are 72 hours, and Night phases are 24. I might go with 48/24 instead if that's more agreeable.
Glad to have each of you aboard. Seven more would bring us to a minimum. I'll explain the process a bit more:
As I said before, the game is comprised of an informed minority (mafia) and an uninformed majority (town). These are the teams. It's possible to have more complex setups than that, but we'll start with the most basic. If we have 9 players, it would look like this:
7 town members vs. 2 mafia members
The town's objective would be to discover who among the 9 players are the two mafia members. The mafia's objective would be to remain undiscovered. In this way, it's a game of investigation and deception. It plays out entirely within a single thread, where players converse with one another to try to sort out their own respective objectives.
The game takes place across cycles of phases: the Day Phase and the Night Phase.
During Day phases, players talk with each other in the thread and place votes, individually within the thread, for a single player to eliminate from the game. The player with the most votes is eliminated ("dead"), and is no longer permitted to take part in the thread until the game is over. When the player is eliminated, the host (me) will reveal their identity as either town or as mafia.
During Night phases, the thread is closed and nobody may speak in it. The mafia will use this time to communicate privately, usually via a separate resource such as a QuickTopic thread or a Discord server, about their strategy to survive the game. They will together choose a single town player to night kill, which removes that player from the game (just as the public vote does in the day phase). This is how the mafia eliminate threats to them.
These Day and Night phases repeat in cycles (e.g., Day 1, Night 1, Day 2, Night 2, Day 3, etc...) until the game ends. The game ends when either all mafia members have been eliminated (town wins), or the number of mafia members equals or surpasses the number town members (mafia wins).
The game takes place across numerous days, because everyone here has lives and can't sit around forever in a message board thread. Players would participate in the thread when they feel like it and when they can. The phases can last any amount of time, but let's say for the first game...
Day phases are 72 hours, and Night phases are 24. I might go with 48/24 instead if that's more agreeable.
