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Post #1 (isolation #1) » Mon Jul 26, 2010 4:56 am
Postby Hoopla »
The Rules - Please read them!
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Fundamental
1)
The site-wide rules apply, please read them and don't do anything stupid.
2)
Please do not talk about this game outside of the game thread and official Quicktopics (if applicable).
3)
Do not quote/screenshot any external communication you have with me, the moderator of the game.
4)
Be courteous to your fellow player. This is just a game - please don't bring any personal grudges in. Lets have fun, okay!
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Voting, Lynching & Death
5)
For your vote to be counted, it must be bold, and in the form
Vote: Hoopla
. Caps and colons are optional, but it does need to be bolded.
6)
Unvoting when switching your vote isn't necessary, but will be appreciated.
7)
A lynch will occur when a player achieves 50% +1 of the votes. When this has happened, any subsequent votes and unvotes will not be counted, and the game will enter twilight. Night will begin as soon as I have declared the lynch.
8)
The town may opt to 'no lynch' in lieu of lynching a player on any day.
Vote: No Lynch
is the format for this. No lynching requires only 50% of the town's votes to go through, as opposed to a majority.
9)
Once you're dead, you are dead. Do not post in the thread until the game is over, not even a 'bah' post, for real.
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Activity & Deadlines
10)
Prods will be issued after 48 hours in a row without posting (weekends count as one day) or under request from players. Multiple prods will probably lead to your replacement.
11)
Things come up in life. If you need time off for something, please let myself and the players know in-thread for V/LA purposes. I will be flexible, but if you can't be here for a signifigant amount of time I will replace you.
12)
This game is using bankable deadlines. This means that any unused time from a Day Phase carries over to the next day.
13)
Day 1 deadline is set for 21 days, Day 2 is set for 15 days, Day 3 is set for 12 days, while every Day Phase thereafter is set for 9 days (before adding any banked time).
14)
In the event of a deadline ending without a player gaining a majority of votes, there will be no lynch.
15)
Nights will have a 72 hour deadline. If you fail to send in a nightaction, you will automatically default to 'no action' for that night, and you will do nothing.
16)
In the event of replacements or any other disturbances, I will grant a deadline extension. Laziness isn't an excuse though.
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Miscellaneous
17)
Please do not use small/invisible text, stenography or advanced forms of coding/cryptography. Breadcrumbing is an acceptable form of basic coding. Please contact me via PM if you're unsure about where the line is.
18)
Blue is my colour I will use for modly purposes. All other colours are fair game.
19)
Do not try to exploit any loopholes there may be in this rule-set. I reserve the right to add, remove or modify existing rules at any time. If this happens, I will let everyone know.
Set-up FAQ:
What result does the Gunsmith get if she investigates the Vigilante, and the Vigilante kills the Vanillizer in the same night?
I will take this opportunity to point out the Order of Operations I will be using for the night phase;
'Vanillize' isn't listed here, because it is a triggered role that
simulantaneously
Vanillizes whoever targets her. Wherever the person's action falls in this order, determines when the Vanillizing will take place. So, the Vigilante targeting the Vanillizer, turns her into a Vanilla Townie on level 3. A gunsmith investigation happens after this event, and would receive 'no gun' on this player because she is now a Vanilla Townie.
Does the Redirector become Vanillized when she directs power roles to this player?
No. Only if the Redirector targets the Vanillizer
first.
Any player she diverts to the Vanillizer causes
them
to become Vanilla
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If a power role submits no action, can it be redirected?
No. Power roles must use their actions in order to be redirected. As such, 'No Action' is a choice for all power roles.
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Post #3 (isolation #3) » Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:59 am
Postby Hoopla »
Thank you everyone for such a speedy confirmation period. We are only missing RayFrost, Jack and Ellibereth at the moment, so I'm going to go ahead and start Day 1 now, since the bulk of us are here.
In other announcements,
xRECKONERx
has won the raffle of being chosen as the
Innocent Child Vanillizer
. He is confirmed town - treat him well. Good luck to both teams. Day 1 begins now!
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Post #206 (isolation #8) » Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:30 am
Postby Hoopla »
Seraphim wrote:
Mod: prod Jack plz
To be fair, D1 has only been running for about 45 hours.
He's yet to pick up his role PM, so I'm not sure what good a prod will do right now. I remember seeing somewhere that he had gone on V/LA - though he never announced anything to me. Does anyone know when he is supposed to return? That would help my decision making process a lot.
preview edit: thanks Elli. I will trust that information.
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Post #251 (isolation #10) » Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:51 pm
Postby Hoopla »
In other news, Incognito has sent me a very appologetic PM saying he needs to replace out. I have irons in the fire as far as replacements go, but if any of you lot know someone who wants to replace in, let me know and we'll tackle it from multiple angles.
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Post #495 (isolation #26) » Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:44 am
Postby Hoopla »
Korts
is being replaced now. Expect his position to be filled shortly. In the mean time, I am pretty disappointed with the lack of activity here, so I'm going to be giving out a round of prods very shortly for those that need them. Play the game please!
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Post #637 (isolation #37) » Sat Aug 21, 2010 12:00 pm
Postby Hoopla »
So, you guys banked 28 days to be added to tomorrow's deadline (like it matters).
You have lynched
vezokpiraka
on Day 3. He was a
Vanilla Townie.
Night 3 begins now, and will end 48 hours from this post - I hope none of you have any complaints about slightly abbreviated nights to match our days. If so, well, too bad.
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Post #719 (isolation #45) » Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:14 pm
Postby Hoopla »
Mr. Flay wrote:I don't understand the decision to have a
public
Vanillizer and a Mafia Redirector. What did you expect Mafia to do except throw people into the Vanillizer's maw? Seems overpowered to me... not to take away from their win in any way.
That was mostly the point - my goal in crafting this game was to produce a truly open set-up (no multiple set-ups or X% chance of roles existing), yet still enable scum to be able to fakeclaim, or accuse town power roles of fakeclaiming by allowing them to remove information. Initially, I was going to have the Vanillizer hidden, but then it would have been very difficult for mafia to actually figure out who this role is, and then find a powerrole to redirect to the Vanillizer.
The concept of an Innocent Child Vanillizer was a good way to improve scums chances of producing a fakeclaim because it gave them one half of the two ingredients they needed (The ICV and a PR), whilst to kill the IC (which they would have needed to do at some point if it was a closer game) they'd have to lose one of their PR's which all sort of worked together, really. The role-cop finds the PR's, the Redirector diverts them to the Vanillizer, and the Encryptor allows scum to share these results and talk during the day. It also makes for an interesting Day 1 with potential talks of lynching the IC, which means it guarentees scum can't fakeclaim powerroles, which might have been an avenue worth looking down.
It might be worthwhile removing the Godfather aspect of the Encryptor role, because I agree, it felt mafia biased still - they didn't need this extra role. My reviewers (Yosarian mostly) were strong advocates for the Godfather role though, so I persisted with this. I also thought, giving the town two more players than the standard 3:9 mini normal would be enough to offset the mafia bias - as this gives town an extra mislynch and even a free vig kill without reducing the lynch count (though the vig dying D1 certainly didn't help town's cause).
xRECKONERx didn't utilise his power of being confirmed innocent
at all
. He played quite poorly and didn't give much attention to the game, which I think was a more significant pitfall for town than they realised. Confirmed townies who won't be killed for at least the first night or two have so much opportunity to influence the game and start wagons and basically run the show and put scum under pressure - but he did very little of it. What was even more damaging is town didn't get down to odd numbers until Night 4 - they needed that initial vig shot Night 1, even if it was on a townie, which would have made the IC more valuable because the pool for mislynches closes down slightly for scum.
