meta-knight
12th September 2008, 02:38 PM
I saw this on another forums and it looks really great! The game is called mafia and it goes on for a number of days (and it looks really fun). Read on to find out the rules, and to sign up. Hopefully this becomes popular, and then maybe we can make this an ongoing competition with rounds. Ok, here are the rules/guidlines: MAKE SURE YOU READ ALL OF THEM CAREFULLY
1. Players sign up for the game in this thread (Just post that you want to take part).
2. When we have enough people, (depending on level of interest), I'll start the game.
3. The game has two teams and a moderator. Each player is randomly assigned to either team by the moderator (which will be me). The two teams are the Mafia and the Townspeople. Members of the Mafia team will be informed by PM of the names of all other Mafia members. Townspeople will not know who is Mafia. The majority of people will be townspeople.
4. The Mafia team aims to kill all the townspeople, one by one, while the townspeople aim to arrest the Mafia. When a player is killed or arrested, he or she is out of the game. The game continues until either the 3 Mafia bosses (i will assigne the bosses by pm) are arrested or all the non-Mafia townspeople are dead.
5. The game alternates between night and day during play. The moderator (me) declares when it is night and day. Each phase will last for a certain amount of time.*(read at bottom for more)
6. Every day phase, all players (Mafia and Townspeople) have to decide amongst themselves which single player to arrest. They do this by free discussion in this thread. That is, all players can discuss who they think is Mafia, and vote for who they want arrested. The person with the most votes at the end of the day phase is arrested and removed from the game. The proper format of voting is:(eg) I VOTE FOR: Bottles98(keep it in bold)
Mafia members may also participate and vote in the general discussion and try to mislead the townspeople. They do their real voting by pm though.
7. During every night phase, the Townspeople are not allowed to communicate with each other at all (i.e. no posts allowed in this thread, or by PM between players
I'll trust you not to break the rules!)remember townspeople: you can only communicate on this thread, and only during the day. mafia can communicate on this thread during the day (pretending to be townspeople) and during pm at night. No pm for mafia during the day either. NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF TIME ZONE ISSUES, DAYS WILL BE LONGER THAN NORMAL. I WILL SPECIFY WHETHER IT IS DAY OR NIGHT (and how many days we have played) AT THE START OF THIS THREAD.
I will also keep a timeline of what happened every day (ie: who got voted out, who the travel agent picked*, etc) *read below
The Mafia, however, may communicate with each other by PM. The Mafia must decide amongst themselves which townsperson they wish to kill during the night. They then tell the moderator their decision by PM. When night turns to day again, the moderator will announce who has been killed by the Mafia during the night, and that person is then out of the game.
Now you probably are wondering how the townspeople are supposed to win? they dont know who the mafia are? what can they do? Well, to make things fair, townspeople are given some "powers" to help them out.
a. The Policeman can name one person each day that they want to investigate. The moderator will tell the Policeman (privately) for sure whether the investigated person is Mafia or not.
b. The Travel Agent can nominate one person each day to take a trip out of town, meaning that they cannot be killed by the Mafia that night.
c. The Doctor can choose to "save" two people over the entire course of the game. When a death is announced in the morning, the Doctor can optionally use one of his or her two "saves" to stop the person who would otherwise have been killed from being eliminated from the game.
e. The Mayor can choose twice during the entire game to reappoint a player in any of the other special roles. For example, the Mayor might choose to appoint a different person as the policeman, thus removing the original policeman's powers.
*because most of the players won't all be online at the same time, the "day" phases of the game will run either for 16 hours or until all (or most) players have voted on the arrest for the day (whichever happens first).
Night phases will take however long it takes for the Mafia to communicate to the moderator (i.e. me) who is next to be killed, but no longer than 16 hours. If no communication from the Mafia happens in that time, I will "kill" somebody at random.
When we have enough people i will assigne roles, teams and explain to everbody in detail exactly what they have to do. Remember to be cunning, and know when to lie, when to share info and who to trust.
another explanation of some stratergies
http://forums.utopiatemple.com/showthread.php?t=72871
Also
Do not talk to other players, dead or alive, about the game outside of the game thread, unless you are Mafia, in which case you can talk to other Mafia members by PM, but only at NIGHT.
Once dead, stop posting until the game is over. A single "Damn! I was killed/arrested" kind of post is ok, but you must not reveal anything you know to anybody after you're killed/arrested. Dead is dead. No cheating, please.
If you have any questions, please PM me, or post them in the thread.
Try to post at least once every 24 hours. If you go inactive for a long period of time, another person may be assigned to take your role.
Do not quote any PM you receive from the moderator or other players (or even fake that you have received such a PM)
Please don't cheat - it will spoil the game for everybody.
here is a link to a website that explains it better than i can
I understand that this is a complex game, and so i plan to make this very neat and organised, but if something is hard to find or you dont understand, please pm me and i will explain. On the first day of playing (after signup)i will post all the relavent information, as well as stratergies i have seen being employed on other forums.
remember post below if you want to play. I would like to see a large majority of the rwp playing this :) i dont think i left anything out for now, so:
Also note that i live in Australia, so dont expect to get a reply straight away:p i do visit the rwp everyday ussually, so you wont be waiting that long.
1. Players sign up for the game in this thread (Just post that you want to take part).
2. When we have enough people, (depending on level of interest), I'll start the game.
3. The game has two teams and a moderator. Each player is randomly assigned to either team by the moderator (which will be me). The two teams are the Mafia and the Townspeople. Members of the Mafia team will be informed by PM of the names of all other Mafia members. Townspeople will not know who is Mafia. The majority of people will be townspeople.
4. The Mafia team aims to kill all the townspeople, one by one, while the townspeople aim to arrest the Mafia. When a player is killed or arrested, he or she is out of the game. The game continues until either the 3 Mafia bosses (i will assigne the bosses by pm) are arrested or all the non-Mafia townspeople are dead.
5. The game alternates between night and day during play. The moderator (me) declares when it is night and day. Each phase will last for a certain amount of time.*(read at bottom for more)
6. Every day phase, all players (Mafia and Townspeople) have to decide amongst themselves which single player to arrest. They do this by free discussion in this thread. That is, all players can discuss who they think is Mafia, and vote for who they want arrested. The person with the most votes at the end of the day phase is arrested and removed from the game. The proper format of voting is:(eg) I VOTE FOR: Bottles98(keep it in bold)
Mafia members may also participate and vote in the general discussion and try to mislead the townspeople. They do their real voting by pm though.
7. During every night phase, the Townspeople are not allowed to communicate with each other at all (i.e. no posts allowed in this thread, or by PM between players
I'll trust you not to break the rules!)remember townspeople: you can only communicate on this thread, and only during the day. mafia can communicate on this thread during the day (pretending to be townspeople) and during pm at night. No pm for mafia during the day either. NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF TIME ZONE ISSUES, DAYS WILL BE LONGER THAN NORMAL. I WILL SPECIFY WHETHER IT IS DAY OR NIGHT (and how many days we have played) AT THE START OF THIS THREAD.
I will also keep a timeline of what happened every day (ie: who got voted out, who the travel agent picked*, etc) *read below
The Mafia, however, may communicate with each other by PM. The Mafia must decide amongst themselves which townsperson they wish to kill during the night. They then tell the moderator their decision by PM. When night turns to day again, the moderator will announce who has been killed by the Mafia during the night, and that person is then out of the game.
Now you probably are wondering how the townspeople are supposed to win? they dont know who the mafia are? what can they do? Well, to make things fair, townspeople are given some "powers" to help them out.
a. The Policeman can name one person each day that they want to investigate. The moderator will tell the Policeman (privately) for sure whether the investigated person is Mafia or not.
b. The Travel Agent can nominate one person each day to take a trip out of town, meaning that they cannot be killed by the Mafia that night.
c. The Doctor can choose to "save" two people over the entire course of the game. When a death is announced in the morning, the Doctor can optionally use one of his or her two "saves" to stop the person who would otherwise have been killed from being eliminated from the game.
e. The Mayor can choose twice during the entire game to reappoint a player in any of the other special roles. For example, the Mayor might choose to appoint a different person as the policeman, thus removing the original policeman's powers.
*because most of the players won't all be online at the same time, the "day" phases of the game will run either for 16 hours or until all (or most) players have voted on the arrest for the day (whichever happens first).
Night phases will take however long it takes for the Mafia to communicate to the moderator (i.e. me) who is next to be killed, but no longer than 16 hours. If no communication from the Mafia happens in that time, I will "kill" somebody at random.
When we have enough people i will assigne roles, teams and explain to everbody in detail exactly what they have to do. Remember to be cunning, and know when to lie, when to share info and who to trust.
another explanation of some stratergies
http://forums.utopiatemple.com/showthread.php?t=72871
Also
Do not talk to other players, dead or alive, about the game outside of the game thread, unless you are Mafia, in which case you can talk to other Mafia members by PM, but only at NIGHT.
Once dead, stop posting until the game is over. A single "Damn! I was killed/arrested" kind of post is ok, but you must not reveal anything you know to anybody after you're killed/arrested. Dead is dead. No cheating, please.
If you have any questions, please PM me, or post them in the thread.
Try to post at least once every 24 hours. If you go inactive for a long period of time, another person may be assigned to take your role.
Do not quote any PM you receive from the moderator or other players (or even fake that you have received such a PM)
Please don't cheat - it will spoil the game for everybody.
here is a link to a website that explains it better than i can
I understand that this is a complex game, and so i plan to make this very neat and organised, but if something is hard to find or you dont understand, please pm me and i will explain. On the first day of playing (after signup)i will post all the relavent information, as well as stratergies i have seen being employed on other forums.
remember post below if you want to play. I would like to see a large majority of the rwp playing this :) i dont think i left anything out for now, so:
Also note that i live in Australia, so dont expect to get a reply straight away:p i do visit the rwp everyday ussually, so you wont be waiting that long.