I don't think the fellas at mafiascum would take to this particular scenario all that strongly. Perhaps I judge them unfairly...

Any games coming up soon? I need a good quick sharp game to shake off the hell that was game 11...

I have to shoulder a small part of the blame for that - all through Day 1 and 2 I had a personal upheaval in RL, and that meant i was always playing catch up, and when it gets to the size it got to, the last thing you wanted to do was read through it all....

But all that is behind me now..bring it on someone..;)

I'll do it! Something mechanically simple and mindblowing in style? I can do that

I asm looking forward to new game. :-)

Oooh, is the theme you mentioned to me? There were no spoilers and I'm still eligible to play, right?

Nope! It's a supersecret one! Should I start something hey? Yeah? If anyone else wants to start something and is all "No I want to start it Joe you wait" I'm fine with waiting someone tell me.
I've been on holiday and forgot to tell everyone only I wasn't playing any games so I had no obligation to tell anyone.

I request that you wait a little bit, because I have to go back on holiday for a little bit to help pack up the tent and so on. I don't want to miss the signups!

I'm all for new games (I've calmed down a bit since I got a chance to step away after 11 finished), but I think we need to stay simple, yet exciting. At least for a while. 11 was fairly newbie unfriendly, and we had a few newbies in there who might have gotten scared off because they were in over their heads (Hell, I feel like I was in over my head at times). And warnings when running games that are really assuming you have experience in this.

As far as deadlines...I'd like to push out the idea of flexable deadlines. This is a two-fold thing, it prevents the abuse of the deadline by town and mafia (Mafia knowing how long they have to hide, and town over analyzing everything), and it requires an active Mod who is following the game.

What do I mean? Well, Say, I start game 14, Day 1 passed (and I'm passing it because that's the biggest headache in my plan), no Mafia killed, 2 townies dead. There's 10 people left. When I start the day, I don't give a deadline. As the day goes on, I watch the activity. If it starts dropping...they get a week to finish things up. If they're obviously beating around the bush and trying to let things go on for as long as possible without going anywhere, boom, deadline.

The ultimate deadline doesn't appear unless the game is really moving. And yes, there is one. Maybe, 3 weeks for 10 people, I don't know, just throwing numbers out there. As the second week comes to an end, I announce the deadline.

I'm just tossing the idea out there, feel free to pick at it and maybe we can get something workable.

I'd be interested in joining when the next game picks up.

Sure. That works.

Bonjour folks, quick note to crawl in and apologise for going MIA in #11... I'm sorry about that. It was a internet-leaching combination of being properly home for the first time in months, an X-box, several trips off to far-off places, and I'm afraid to say, apathy. Won't happen again. *salute*

Also, several avatars have changed and now I'm confused...