Sign up for Mafia 3 (The Enemy Within)

Now that the second Mafia game has ended, I'm willing to run a third one. (I also have a little more time now.)

This one is titled: The Enemy Within, and the game has now started. If you're interested in acting as a "stand-by" in case a player drops out, please send me a PM to let me know. The game thread is here:

[thread]85871[/thread]

It is a little different to previous mafia games.

The general premise is this:

All players are doing a stint at a research base in Antarctica. It is winter, and you're all stuck there until the ships come back in spring. One night, a strange light is seen in the sky. It looks like a meteor or something, and it seems to land near the base. A team is sent out to check it out...

Players will be assigned either as Humans or Aliens. Initially, there will be a small number of aliens. But aliens will have the power to convert one person to an alien each night. Human players get to "kill" a suspected alien once each day. Play continues until either everybody left in the game is an alien, or all aliens are killed.

I will think about special roles etc. and let you know more details.

To ensure that players who sign up actually play the game, there is a rule that any player who does not post at least once in any 24 hour period will be automatically eliminated from the game. Days and nights will work similarly to the previous mafia games, but I will make each day at least 24 hours long.

If you have any other suggestions about game mechanics, please post them here.

If you want to participate, please post in this thread, like this:

Join game: Enmos

or whatever. Make it bold, so I can easily see these messages.

 

Asguard,

You're right. Having one alien kill and one conversion per day makes it impossible for the non-aliens to win.

I will think about how to balance things better.

It will probably mean introducing some special powers for the humans. But to keep things interesting I will probably also do so for (some of) the aliens.

Let me think about it. I'll try my best to balance things before starting the game.

I'm thinking that all powers will be published in advance, and like in game 1 roles will be public. I think public roles give the townies/innocents more to work with, whereas hidden roles make everybody a blank slate.

And, of course, the humans will start off with a whole heap of powers, relatively speaking, which will decrease as people are converted. I think I will make it so special non-alien powers are lost on conversion to an alien. But, on the other hand, special alien powers may be gained...

 

Players so far:

BlueMoose
BoH
CheskiChips
Asguard
11parcal
pheonix2634

That's six so far. Want more that 10, preferably, but we'll see how things go.

 

Asguard,

I don't see why the game would be "pure chance", any more than any of the other mafia games we've had so far. The aliens will still not want to vote one of their own out, same as mafia don't want their own voted out. Over time, voting patterns will potentially give away information. And I will probably arrange for other means of getting information too.

One thing I'd like to try to do, though, as I did in the first game, is have it all planned out before we start. Tweaking the game as it is played is unfair to the players, I think. They should all know up front how things are going to work. The only exception is any "hidden" powers, which I will also fix at the start. I will not be introducing new powers or rules half way through the game, unless absolutely necessary (and then I will clearly publish them so everybody knows).

 

inzomnia,

I'll put you down for it if you like. If you need to drop out half way through, I'll see if somebody can replace you.

 

I didn't intend it that way, Asguard.

I have been thinking, and I have some good "powers" in mind for both aliens and humans. I need to think some more about potential actions and votes to make sure things are balanced.

Alien "special powers" will be introduced gradually during the game, since initially there will be only one or two aliens (depending on total number of players). As aliens are added each night, added individual aliens will bring new powers to the game. There will also be opportunities for humans to "de-alienise" aliens, which should make things interesting.

I will think more about this. Hopefully, we'll have enough players by the time I log in again to start - I have to go now.