I'm curious for the people on this site who have never stepped over to the ORG side why not? No interest? No real understanding of the how the games work? Never thought about it?
For me, the biggest reason I used to not play, and the biggest reason I don’t sign up for every game, is the difference in time commitment expectations between a mafia game and a survivor game. If you log on once a day every couple days in a mafia game you can perform pretty well. Try that in a survivor game and you’ll be lucky to make it past the first vote.
I'm curious for the people on this site who have never stepped over to the ORG side why not? No interest? No real understanding of the how the games work? Never thought about it?
I wanna know!
It's not social deduction - everyone's self-aligned, which I find less interesting than mafia.
In post 2, Dannflor wrote:
For me, the biggest reason I used to not play, and the biggest reason I don’t sign up for every game, is the difference in time commitment expectations between a mafia game and a survivor game. If you log on once a day every couple days in a mafia game you can perform pretty well. Try that in a survivor game and you’ll be lucky to make it past the first vote.
For me this was a big thing as well. I definitely feel like the commitment in mafia vs survivor is not even comparable. You simply can't be successful without fully committing to playing the game.
"You are the Joker of mafia players" - Oversoul
"last time I was scum with Firebringer
his first post in the scum PT was "yes I rolled scum!"
I decided to post "haha just don't post that in the main thread", but to get up to date on the main thread first.
His first post in the main thread was "yes I rolled scum!" -popsofctown
I remember this! You actually did beat four other people. Here's what you said as you left:
None of the challenges were fun (biggest issue is here)
I kind of tried to get into messaging people but I didn't message people enough, nor took any initiative to message the person first.
Anyways, not very surprised I got eliminated, but I was never able to keep track of the schedule to even know there was a tribal council the other day. I just logged on, found out I was eliminated.
It's possible that Survivor may not be for you, but we do have more challenge-focused games periodically that you should check out. You might thrive in a Big Brother or something like The Challenge/Hybrid/Clash of the Mash.
I swear i was voted out first? I don't remember participating in voting anyone out. But maybe I somehow missed those. Past me probably is more right than current me since that was like 2 or so years ago.
Yeah i think time commitment is pretty extensive for current me and the games weren't fun. There could be fun survivor games im missing out on but i really would need that time factor i don't have right now in my life.
"You are the Joker of mafia players" - Oversoul
"last time I was scum with Firebringer
his first post in the scum PT was "yes I rolled scum!"
I decided to post "haha just don't post that in the main thread", but to get up to date on the main thread first.
His first post in the main thread was "yes I rolled scum!" -popsofctown
Yeah if you're not proactive with the social aspect (messaging people, forming bonds with other players, etc) you're going to have a rough time. Challenges in survivor games in particular kinda mostly exist as a driver of action rather than a thing to do in their own right, though I did have some challenges I've really enjoyed both in the game I ran and in the games I played.
We're about to run a discord marathon game coming up which is one of the reasons I started this thread, because for me the long commitment time was a big deal. Do you think you would enjoy it more if the commitment was limited to a more discrete 3-5 hour time block on one day rather than the more extended formats of the forum games?
for me the issue has always been is that weekends are pretty bad for me
even when i do have time for a survivor game i pretty much cannot participate in challenges that happen over the weekend and tribal contributions are limited
I’d love games that like took breaks for the weekend but i recognize that is a pretty unique scheduling issue to have and unlikely to have enough people that that schedule works better for to happen
the marathon games are always scheduled for such times as well
In post 14, Dannflor wrote:I’d love games that like took breaks for the weekend but i recognize that is a pretty unique scheduling issue to have and unlikely to have enough people that that schedule works better for to happen
Funny you should mention that; one of the things that the other blues and myself have been discussing is the potential for the occasional game with a different schedule than the standard and one of the ideas bandied about was M/T/W/R being challenge/TC/challenge/TC with FSaSu being days off.
In post 14, Dannflor wrote:I’d love games that like took breaks for the weekend but i recognize that is a pretty unique scheduling issue to have and unlikely to have enough people that that schedule works better for to happen
Funny you should mention that; one of the things that the other blues and myself have been discussing is the potential for the occasional game with a different schedule than the standard and one of the ideas bandied about was M/T/W/R being challenge/TC/challenge/TC with FSaSu being days off.
i, for one, would be extremely interested in a schedule like that
I remember this! You actually did beat four other people. Here's what you said as you left:
None of the challenges were fun (biggest issue is here)
I kind of tried to get into messaging people but I didn't message people enough, nor took any initiative to message the person first.
Anyways, not very surprised I got eliminated, but I was never able to keep track of the schedule to even know there was a tribal council the other day. I just logged on, found out I was eliminated.
It's possible that Survivor may not be for you, but we do have more challenge-focused games periodically that you should check out. You might thrive in a Big Brother or something like The Challenge/Hybrid/Clash of the Mash.
Notably he made it the first swap.
Although I'm fairly sure the reasoning for that was the first tribe never went to tribal.
Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
Oh my god, I found my confessional from that game. I probably could have had an off-chance of surviving if I didn't engage in crazy newbie behavior. Post-game I was told that I was being really quiet but during the game I thought that I was being super social and talkative.
Yeah it is my experience that newbies are frequently extremely worried about being seen as too active or present when in fact there really is no such thing.
In post 13, Thestatusquo wrote:
We're about to run a discord marathon game coming up which is one of the reasons I started this thread, because for me the long commitment time was a big deal. Do you think you would enjoy it more if the commitment was limited to a more discrete 3-5 hour time block on one day rather than the more extended formats of the forum games?
I might be more interested in a one game 3-5 hour session but I am doing a lot of travel right now both for work and personal so its not likely for me to have a straight 3 hour session for the next two months, FML.
"You are the Joker of mafia players" - Oversoul
"last time I was scum with Firebringer
his first post in the scum PT was "yes I rolled scum!"
I decided to post "haha just don't post that in the main thread", but to get up to date on the main thread first.
His first post in the main thread was "yes I rolled scum!" -popsofctown
Format just doesn't really appeal to me, kind of same deal as furtive.
While I do play and have played non-social deduction games, I don't really play personal politicking games without a social deduction element also present. At that point it is pretty much just about charisma, of which I do not possess nearly enough to meaningfully compete.
Maybe the real Mafia was the friends we made along the way