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Post #0 (isolation #0) » Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:57 am
Postby T-Bone »
Team Mafia
is a sitewide event spanning five games. Teams of four players will be given the opportunity to choose four out of the five games to be placed in, and will work together to win their chosen games. Scoring, based on whether or not your team was in winning games, will determine the overall winners of the event. The winning team will receive a banner for their accounts that will be displayed until the next Team Mafia event or the next Scummies, whichever comes first. The tentative plan for the five games will be
1. A 15p large theme, run by T-Bone
2. A 13p open, run by implosion
3. A 13p mini normal, run by PenguinPower
4. An 10p mini theme, run by SirCakez
5. A 9p micro theme, run by Lilith
These games will be moderated by members of the Listmod team. Each team will be required to put a player in the large theme.
We are planning for 15 teams of 4 this year. Sign ups are first come, first served.
If you wish to sign-up grab three friends and have ONE person act as Team Captain and send me a PM with the following. (You may also post in the thread that you're in but I obviously need Discord sent privately)
A note on Discords. I will leave it up to you to make a Team Discord. You will need to send me an invite link and make me an admin for transparency. You can take away my admin rights/kick me after the event is over if you want.
I will make Team PTs for the event.
We anticipate using 7 day deadlines to keep game lengths manageable, and finishing up all games by the end of April. We would prefer that you sign-up planning on playing through the first week of May, as replacements on an event this size are tough. With that said, we will make every effort to facilitate replacements as needed.
A note on Blacklists: We understand that some players do not wish to play with other players, and you will be invited to submit a list of players you do not wish to play with and we will do our best to honor the request. With an event this size we cannot guarantee that you won't be put into a game with players you do not want to play with. Generally the larger your blacklist the more likely you will end up in a game with them, (or end up in a set-up you do not prefer) so I invite you to consider long and hard if you can play with everyone signing up for Team Mafia or if it would be better for you to skip the event.
If you do not have a team please post that you are
looking for a team
in this thread to indicate to others that are also looking for a team. I will maintain a list of players looking for a team, and I will make teams for those players when sign-ups end if need be. Priority will be given to teams that do sign-up however, so I encourage you to make some new friends!
If you are unsure if you can join a team right now we will need replacements! Just post
/in to replace
in this thread! We will contact you as needed once the games begin.
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Post #1 (isolation #1) » Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:57 am
Postby T-Bone »
Rules and Scoring
ALL SITE RULES, INCLUDING THOSE PROHIBITING TALKING ABOUT NON TEAM MAFIA GAMES, STILL APPLY.
I reserve the right to append these rules should it become necessary. If this happens, all players will be notified.
If you have any doubt about whether something is against the rules or not, pm a Listmod and ask.
Team Communication
1. Each team will be provided a Private Topic (PT).
2. Each team may also utilize a Team Discord, adding me as an admin for transparency.
3. Players may copy and paste whatever they want into their PT/DC.
They may not copy and paste text OUT of their PT/DC into game threads.
4. Players may continue to communicate with their team after in-game death in their provided PT/DC.
5. There are no restrictions for what players can post in their PT/DC's outside of not breaking site rules.
6. We'd prefer if teams used the provided means of communication. If your team really wants/needs to user another, please contact me. The organizing team will need to be able to access any means of communication in an emergency.
7. Team PT/DC's will only be made public after the game if all players on the team consent to their release.
8. All Game PT's including all scum PT's will automatically be released after Team Mafia.
9. There will not be Spectator/Dead PT's.
Talking About Other Games
1. There are no restrictions for what players can post in their PT/DC's outside of not breaking site rules. The rules for this section refer to what players can talk about in their ongoing games and ongoing game PT's.
2. Players are only allowed to talk about mod-confirmed things from other ongoing Team Mafia games.
3. Any public speculation about other ongoing games is prohibited.
4. Any attempt to publicly signal players from other ongoing games, pass messages to players from other games, or otherwise communicate through the use of cryptography is prohibited.
5. Do not try to loophole these rules. If anyone has questions at any point about what is allowed or not allowed please message me.
6. To repeat: If you have any doubt about whether something is against the rules or not, PM your Listmod and ask.
Your Teammates are Always Innocent Until Proven Guilty
1. You may at no time say, indicate, insinuate, etc. that your Team Mafia teammates are or might be anything other than town. This includes in any hypothetical situation.
2. Exception: You may talk about your teammates being scum if they have flipped scum in another game (i.e. are dead).
3. If a player is NOT on your team and is still alive in another game, you must follow the rules in the Talking About Other Games thread.
Replacements
1. It is your job to replace team members who are not active. If you require assistance from the moderator or any event organizer, there will be a tiebreak penalty.
2. To replace a team member, you must PM T-Bone AND the moderator of your game. We have a list of replacements that you will be able to choose from.
3. You may replace with anyone who is not currently on a Team Mafia team, has not previously been on a different Team Mafia team, is and has not been part of the Team Mafia Organizing team (Moderators, Balance-checkers, players in tiebreak game), and is eligible to play in mafia games. However, only 4 people may be involved in the PT at any time. A replaced team member may not participate in any way unless they are replaced back in.
4. The mod will force replace any player who has not posted within 3 days (Prodded after 2 days, no response for 1 more) of their last post (not including Night). This will come at a penalty to the team.
5. If a player must be replaced due to mod errors or another outside influence (such as gaining information that they should not be able to have), the mods may assist in finding a replacement without assessing a penalty.
Scoring
Team Mafia is, chiefly, a competition between teams. Therefore, there is a scoring system.
1. Each team will be rewarded 1 point for being on the winning side of a finished game, even if they died before the game ended.
2. The team with the most points wins.
At the end of each game and at the end of the whole event, there will be a survey distributed to the teams. For the games the survey will require each player to vote, on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the least important 10 being the most important, how important a player was in their side winning the game. For the Team Survey, each player will be required to vote how deserving each team is of winning the event on a scale from 1 to 10.
In the event of a tie, there is a tiebreaker. In order of importance:
1. Being on the winning side of the Large Theme.
2. Having the best average score in the Game Survey.
3. Having the best score in the Team Survey.
4. The TM2023 Mods vote on a winner.
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Post #121 (isolation #11) » Wed Mar 22, 2023 1:53 am
Postby T-Bone »
More importantly here are people still looking for a team. I also tried to capture any incomplete teams that have indicated themselves here. There's enough for (almost) 3 more teams here. I can happily assign some teams at the end of the work week so that we can lock in the participants.
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Post #177 (isolation #18) » Wed Mar 29, 2023 7:26 am
Postby T-Bone »
I am going to ask that teams finish forming themselves this weekend. Please if you are a person who hasn't found a team yet, use the guideline I posted on the last page and CONTACT those people. I cannot do that step for you I'm afraid. If you want to team with someone else instead that's fine. I can make suggestions but I cannot get you to start talking to potential teammates. Send a PM today!
In post 178, Feysal wrote:
Since the situation of the final teams might be confusing after the last pages, here is what I gathered. It looks like we have just enough players signed up, just need to decide who goes on which team.
Fate, Staeg, Feysal, DrippingGoofball
DGB has yet to show up in our Discord, then we can finalize the team name.
HighPrincessErinys, KawaiiKame, BlueSnakelet
ChatGPT suggested ArcAngel9 as fourth.
Yume, Drixx, Cerberus
ChatGPT suggested Little Green Wheels or ItalianoVD.
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Post #216 (isolation #23) » Mon Apr 03, 2023 5:44 am
Postby T-Bone »
Please one person from your team take this form and post it in your Team PT. If you need help finding your Team PT, please send me a PM. Feel free to discuss your selections in your Discord or PT prior to posting this list, but please be clear and make a separate post once you've determined all your selections.
Your game choices are...
15p Large Theme - T-Bone
13p Open - implosion
13p Mini Normal - PenguinPower
10p Mini Theme - SirCakez
9p Micro Theme - Lilith
We won't be revealing themes or mechanics prior to playerlist selection.
We will be using the information below to generate playerlists. The script we use takes these three things into consideration (game preference, blacklists, and game exceptions). I would caution everyone to be as flexible as possible, as there are 60 players playing, and the more blacklist and game exception selections these 60 players make, the less likely we will be able to generate perfect playerlists that accommodate all your preferences. We will prioritize blacklists over game exceptions, but we can't guarantee that we'll be able to craft the perfect playerlist that honors every blacklist or game exception. We will try our best, so please know if your preferences aren't matched with 100% we did not target you, it is ultimately what the formula spit out.
Deadline is Saturday. We plan to launch games soon after we receive all the information. If your team does not submit by deadline we will run the formula without your choices and you get what you get.
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Post #249 (isolation #32) » Tue Apr 11, 2023 12:27 am
Postby T-Bone »
Hey some of you teams have some version of "Team Mafia" as your discord server name and when I'm going through a dozen servers it's hard to tell which is which at a glance. If you haven't already can you rename your discord servers as your team name??
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Post #276 (isolation #35) » Wed Apr 12, 2023 12:48 pm
Postby T-Bone »
Thanks to everyone!
Here's our plan.
I'll announce the playerlists in the next post.
We're intending to begin Night 0 on all games on Friday evening. Day deadlines will be 10 days. This is a little shorter than games on the site normally are, but we also don't want people to be locked into Team Mafia for three to four months.
In regards to the playerlists...I have mostly positive news. We were able to sort the playerlists without compromising any blacklists or game exceptions. Most players will get their first game choice, but not every player will. At least one team had not specified second or third choices so those players might find they got what they got. At least one team had multiple members list the same game as their first choice which meant someone wasn't getting it. If you got your 2nd or 3rd choice it is just how it ended up, and I won't be able to explain individually why you got those choices since the program we used considers many factors when assigning playerlists.
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Post #314 (isolation #38) » Fri Apr 14, 2023 9:20 am
Postby T-Bone »
We'll be sending Role PMs in the evening AND editing them into the OP of your Team PT. If you get a role that has access to a PT only that player will be granted access.
We will not be doing this all at the same time, it'll probably happen over the course of the evening.
I can't speak for the other games, but the Large Theme will start Day 1 once all the players have replied to their Role PM to confirm they received it.
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Post #322 (isolation #39) » Sat Apr 15, 2023 9:53 am
Postby T-Bone »
Games are starting!
Please do not ego post in a game that you are not a player in. Utilize a tool like bookmarks or subscriptions instead if you want to follow along.
We will not have a dead or spectators PT anywhere. Please do not ask us to create additional PTs. Dead players may continue to play with their teams in their PT or Discord.