Mass Effect Mafia: Game Thread

1 credit for my own identity

 

It's not me thinking I'm superior. It's just the indecisiveness and flimsy bandwagon voting that some people are getting away with.

And no, it was 8 to Farhat, 9 to Arheiner. My vote mattered little in the end.

 

I also made that statement because I knew the deadline had already passed and we were already stuck with the no lynch.

It turns out Farhat was much more revealing with his role claim than Arheiner's "I don't want to reveal anything since I'll be less useful if I did" even though being lynched (which was a real possibility at the time of his claim) would make him infinitely less useful than if he just told us what he did.

 

That's what I'm criticising. It's something anyone can say and if we let them get away with it nobody needs to put any effort into claiming.

 

This is why I don't think we should have fixed day deadlines. Deadlines should be used to keep the game moving and if there is already sufficient discussion players should be able to continue the discussion freely

 

It is so, so much easier for "good" mafia play to draw inaction than it is for "good" town play to draw action, particularly with a game of this size where you have a lot of people who aren't typically mafia players or are usually quiet. A majority, even mixed in with mafia, with the natural numbers of inactive players is hard enough. Put in the fact that one, you have a deadline of 48 hours or whatever and two, the majority will probably need to be town driven for it be successful and you're already putting town at a huge disadvantage.

Even if there was no fixed deadline you are really only balancing the odds when it comes to this aspect of play. A "good" mafia play could still cause discussion to die down, leading to an eventual deadline, but the status quo shouldn't just be that you can wait out a fixed period of time as mafia; both sides should need to at least try to steer the discussion in their favour. Put into the context of a 48 hour fixed deadline it is all too easy for mafia to not contribute at all as there will naturally be enough townies who can't contribute because they don't have the time to keep up and formulate their thoughts in that 48 period. However, if the deadline wasn't fixed then the townies who are contributing may keep the discussion long enough for it be to expected that everyone should be able to contribute something with any mafia choosing not to participate able to be called out on.

 

48 hours is barely enough to give people a chance to vote let alone to give people a chance to discuss who to vote for.

Just say "no, it's enough" doesn't make it enough.

 

Why are nights allowed to go over the 24 hours but days aren't allowed to go over 48 hours then?