MAFIA GUIDE; HOSTING, SUGGESTIONS, AND DISCUSSION

Xoe is a 7 time offender? That's more than a fair shake. Sometimes I admittedly sign up when I can't play, but I've tried to cut back substantially, to the point that I make sure I have availability for the game in some capacity.
Like LockeZ etc says, it's not fair to everyone else. The people making these games balance the game mechanics before tossing it out there. It's not willy nilly. So, #alllivesmatter (sorryiamashamed)

LockeZ
Why the fuck not? If you drop out, you've proven you're a risk case. It's better to remove all the risk cases.

Well, it does happen from time to time, and eventually everyone has something come up. Liberty had to drop out of the current McBacon Jam, and she's not the unreliable sort. Cases like XoeisCool is definitely something that applies here, but as for most, everyone fucks up. All I'm saying is, for the love of whatever god you worship, give people some notice, if you can, for fuck's sake.

imo the three strikes rule is generous enough for me. if you've had to have been modkilled due to inactivity three times, you're gooooneee. sometimes stuff crops up, and not every new player 'gets' how bad inactivity can be

it sucks 2 get blacklisted, but it doesn't suck as much as it does for everyone else playing when you sign up and dont post. obviously real life stuff comes up, but if you know you won't have time to play, don't sign up, and if something comes up, just give some heads up, since the mod does have the ability to replace people.
if you've got so much rl stuff coming up that you have to get modkilled 7 times then you must live in Syria or something

author=LockeZ
Why the fuck not? If you drop out, you've proven you're a risk case. It's better to remove all the risk cases.

because shit happens irl and then we wouldnt have any players. not here, but on another forum I've had to drop out before. given enough time, everyone here would eventually have to drop out of a game.

Woooo, Puppy the voice of reason, I agree

I think a good rule for determining 'inactivity' is just

Q: Do you have less game-related posts than the mod at the end of a dayphase? (I specify game-related because the mod is gonna have a bunch of setup posts or w/e) If you do, then there's a problem.

This is kind of a self-regulating rule, in that the number of posts the mod has to make counting votes and such is going to be mostly determined by the overall activity of the game. The mod will (in theory) have to post more if there're a lot of votes being thrown around, so the minimal hurdle you have to jump over is determined by active the other players in the game are.

or maybe not. either way, I think the small amount of posts a mod has to make is not difficult to match and not an unreasonable demand to make.

author=CAVE_DOG_IS_BACK
I think a good rule for determining 'inactivity' is just

Q: Do you have less game-related posts than the mod at the end of a dayphase? (I specify game-related because the mod is gonna have a bunch of setup posts or w/e) If you do, then there's a problem.

This is kind of a self-regulating rule, in that the number of posts the mod has to make counting votes and such is going to be mostly determined by the overall activity of the game. The mod will (in theory) have to post more if there're a lot of votes being thrown around, so the minimal hurdle you have to jump over is determined by active the other players in the game are.

or maybe not. either way, I think the small amount of posts a mod has to make is not difficult to match and not an unreasonable demand to make.

There are cases of people being quiet the first day or two due to irl (though they post, just not much) who then are a burst of activity when the suddenly-arisen issue was resolved, and it made it more interesting because they suddenly threw themselves into the game creating a discrepency between their past posts and current posts.

Then again, I've played a game as mafia (on another site) where my partner was EMT and never there. It wasn't his fault but it was so fucking annoying trying to work out any plans when he was completely out of it. It's not just the host who gets fucked over in that aspect, especially when the player has speciality roles where they have to work in a team (mafia, third party, miller, lovers).

It's understandable that being in a highly-demanding work like that you'd have little time for playing games, and I will give him credit for trying but he probably should have dropped out when the first triple shift happened, if only so I'd have known that I was on my own and planned accordingly. And so that the blow-up he had at me for pressuring him about his head being in the noose wouldn't have happened. :/

Then again, I've been the one with my internet cut out in the middle of an interesting game before - shit does happen when you don't expect it and you can't help that sometimes. If you know that something is going down in your life you can at least let people know, but stuff that comes out of the blue shouldn't get you banned.

So yeah, the three-strikes rule is fine, I think. Three strikes = no playing mafia for a month or two. Or maybe just no-x-games.

sign me up to host a game after whoever's last in line. also if anyone wants a co-mod for their game/someone to work on the setup, i'll hop on.

Though, I would like some feedback to the Mafia game I suggested.

Infiltrator Mafia.

For the record, mine will require a little work by the players before it starts (it's basically creating a character based on the world - I'll explain in the thread when it's time, and will post that some time after the current game starts, so there's not too much waiting).