Mafia Scoreboard?--> The discussion thread

[Dark Justice]

Well. Like Wes commented. The reasons the evils win, is cause the finder & healer reveals so early. And there has usually been an experienced amongst the mafia. This makes it so much more easy for them to be a good team, wheras all the townies runs around in circles... Thats how i see it anyway.

[Alys Kinch]

townies are being too easily led.

[bcxanth]

Yeah, the new people are way too willing to let the advanced players take the lead. They talk about what the mafia members "always" do, the newbies are swayed, and next thing you know they've lynched three innocents in a row.

 

Honestly, despite the fact that I signed up to play in the latest newbie game, I kinda feel bad for doing so. I think that a real newbie game should be smaller, and should have only people that qualify for newbie status in it. Maybe that would help?

 

I don't know, just a suggestion. :)

[ilgross]

We are kinda running out of Noobies to fill Noobie Games.

[Kryos]

My main opinion on the newbie games as they stand are to be a quick simple game more than anything else now since it is hard to find newer players all the time to keep newbie games filled with newbies. It's more of a simple 3 mafia, a finder, and a healer game with no tricks up its sleeves as a lot of the more experienced games can become quite confusing very quickly because of out extensive the roles are that are used in them.

[ilgross]

I think the vig is not a good a idea, as they can quite often be just as bad for the town as for the mafia.

 

I think the newbie games should be allowed a greater degree of freedom, in what roles they introduce.

 

Or better yet, themes should be introduced. For example you could have a Harry Potter theme, where all the townies are Harry, Ron Dumbledore...etc and the Baddies are Voldmort, Malfoy etc...

 

That way there is more infomation available to the town, they can ask "What character are you?", to see if they are evil or not. The mafia will usually lie of course, but it actually gives the innocent townies to defend themselves, for example don't kill me I am Ron!

 

This would enable the innocent townies a way to defend themselves other then fake claiming healer, or just saying I am innocent. 'Cause at the moment the only way to defend yourself is to claim a role...

[Kryos]

I like that thought Ilgross, in fact, a harry potter themed Mafia game sounds like it would be awesome. lol

[Toy and Minion]

I like that idea as well, ilgross.

[ilgross]

You could extend the theme to anything, say you could even do a Heroes theme, or something...

[Toy and Minion]

The possibilities are almost endless!

[Kryos]

Yeah. Something I was thinking of doing was making an entire web interface and site dedicated to Mafia playing so that it is easier to keep track of things and it is setup specifically for mafia games and such and keeps track of people's stats throughout the game of Mafia. I might have to take some of these ideas and incorporate them nicely into it. And if I get something working, everyone is free to help test the setup. Granted, these forums work and all, but having something dedicated for it where with a push of the button you can see who's still alive and how many votes someone has on them rather than going through each and every post counting by hand. :)

[False Dragon]

Oh man!  I would totally join and test it out!  Cool beans, seriously!

[Toy and Minion]

I agree FD!

 

How cool.  Sounds awesome!  I'd be there to test it as well.  No doubt.

[Kryos]

Alright, I'll be working on it over the next couple weeks. I'll be sure to keep you guys updated, also thinking of making a simple program to interface with the site as well so you can do more fancy things and such going through the program than you can with the web interface like have pop up windows you can keep up while going through things to keep track of all voting statistics and patterns, and isolate just certain people and have all their posts and such listed as opposed to having to go through everyone's. Could possibly get it all setup via the web site as well, but we'll see. I'll hopefully have something to show next month though.

[Toy and Minion]

I guess you could have like a vote button and unvote button at the bottom of your post.  People would push your button to vote you or something.  Then they have to post "I vote..."

 

I dunno.  I'm not very smart when it comes to creating websites.  In fact, I'm a stillborn when it comes to that.  No freaking clue.

 

But I'm going off on a tangent now...

[Kryos]

Actually, the way it would work would be similar to a poll system. You can change your vote at any time. At the top of every page of the thread so to speak is a poll with everyone's name available to choose from. Behind the person's name in parenthesis it would put anyone who has voted for that person. Under the list of names it would have a vote button and an unvote button. That'd be the simplest way to set it up. Either that or have it keep track at the top of the thread who's voted for, how many votes, and who has voted for that person and and at the bottom of a new post you have the option to vote for a person in the game and can choose the person from a drop down choice and it highlights it at the bottom of your post so people can see when you chose to vote for someone. Or to unvote as well.

[loki redfern]

wow that does sound like a brill idea 8) definately keep us posted on that

[False Dragon]

Yeah, that makes sense.  I can't wait.  :)

[Alys Kinch]

*gasp* someone is an idea stealer!

 

actually, love the sig, sagey.

[Toy and Minion]

Was waiting for someone to bring that up.  hehe.  That's what happens when you talk about sig ideas in my Game when I'm constructing my sig.

 

And no one called dibs, so I took it! *weg*

[Alys Kinch]

oh, it's fine. i even had to tell loki that i wasn't going to use it since i just made that new one...

[DPR]

 

Is anyone going to pick this up?  What happened to ilgross?

[Alys Kinch]

i haven't had time to think about this in a while. ilgross hasn't been around in nearly five months, so if anyone else wants to volunteer, and can understand the system, i'm up for listening. just pm me or barms or respond here and one of us will get back to you.