All sounds perfectly reasonable to me! And yeah, like Poppy, if the game hasn't started by the time I'm back then I would absolutely like to play.

thanks I got it


Regarding flabour; for this one I'm thinking EITHER:

- A meeting of Wizards (silly)
- A sailing ship (gritty)
- Haitian kanaval (spooky)

At the moment I'm leaning towards Haiti, but I've not finished my 'research' yet. But any of them or some new idea I come up with between now and when the game starts will be fine.

But if anybody's particularly inspired by one of these you can share your enthusiasm

I like it.
the short deadlines make me think of the russian roulette game bookwyrm mentioned that I just read and it was super fast and fun to read. But of course that's overdrive (they never even hit any deadline)...

Anyway since you mentioned the end of day 1 in game #53 What do you think about default lynching the player with the most votes at nightfall unlike defaulting to no-lynch if no majority is reached? it should make for faster games and if a majority wants no-lynch for whatever reason they can vote for it.

never really understood why that's not the default? is it a balance issue?

(hmm, I just thought what if two people have the same amount of votes at nightfall :/ no-lynch then? or random?)

Mostly the theme of the game: some general flavor and/or maybe some of the mechanical space you're considering. If it is an open or semi-open setup, then I'd strongly suggest posting the setup. Obviously the mechanical details of a closed setup shouldn't be posted.

Put out a teaser to help spark people's interest. Your current version is "It will be Door Number One or Door Number Two. I haven't decided yet, I just need twelve [strikethru] victims [/stirkethru] players".

Just keep in mind that you'll likely have players with significantly different RL day/night cycles. If you make the deadlines too short, people won't have a chance to reasonably interact with each other.

There was no true deadline. Once you took a shot, you were on a cool down before being able to take another shot (cool down ended if someone got shot, if everyone took a shot, or if a RL day passed (I think it was)). There was a lot of incentive not to sit around yapping.


I suspect it is mostly a case of culture, "It's always been that way" (a few games have specified majority lynch at deadline, but such is more the exception).

I believe maj lynch is the default at MU, and the bot randomly selects from among the relevant wagons in the event of a tie.

If the town screws up and reaches a no-lynch why should they be helped? Let them suffer the consequences.

I'm inclined to agree. The threat of a no-lynch is the motivation for people to sort shit out before the deadline. If it's an automatic lynch of the leading wagon then I think people will slack.

damn but he makes a good point.


I think I prefer letting them suffer no-lynch if they can't do it themselves. But I might change my mind.
If they're doing the opposite over at Marrakesh University you can bet I'm going to do the apposite!


McHack - are you going to sign up for the game?

Hey! In my personal experience I'm only scum in 50% of the games!

I think I'm with bookwyrm with this. I'd like to be teased into it ... and then get all hyped up throughout d1 then no-lynch (it's kinda traumatic but I think I played?/read? more games with no-lynch D1 than with a lynch at D1) then who knows?

anyway, I'm inclined to play even though I don't really have much free time. Guess I can't promise much more than 1 maybe 2 posts per day but then again frakk it, you people can always kill me off for being a lurker :D

so if you'll have me even though I might not be the most active player (hope I'll not be the least one either but who knows), then yes I'm in :D

*shrug* I'm just telling what I know. Another culture difference at MU is that first day always runs to the deadline; D2 and every Day after can end early once majority is reached, but Day 1 doesn't end early even if maj is reached.

Getting any old lynch is not necessarily good for town (what if only three people voted?). However, it IS a way of forcing people to be active about choosing who to vote, because SOMEONE is going to die.

I suppose. Though personally I'd see the threat of no one going to die a bigger incentive to be active.

[as Joe charges toward his destination his eye is caught by a shiny thing and he turns his head slightly]

but isn't that actually good for town in most cases? the chances of lynching scum are slim compared to town and especially D1 you'll likely won't have a scum pile on anyway so the majority lynch default would actually be helping mafia and not town, wouldn't it? so I'd think if the slackers want at least a chance of lynching scum they better do something because just slacking will kill the highest wagon and that's definitely not a scum wagon (noone busses D1, do they?)

EDIT: ok I think that was too convoluted.

a) majority lynch default should make town more active because there IS going to be a lynch and it's way easier for scum to manipulate the highest wagon to be on a townie than for scum to manipulate a real lynch.

b) majority lynch vs. no lynch as default should make no difference for analyzing D1 wagon as scum wouldn't pile on/ bus on D1 anyway? (yes it's sounds stupid to me now, too sorry :( )

don't really know what I was trying to say but I think it was something along those lines