Off Topic mafia 5 pre-game discussion (includes sign up stuff)

Classic Biscan deflection. I vote IBWT.

#mafiaeverytime

 

Typical German getting there first

 

An idea for how killing and converting might work:

Each innocent has a cost associated with them, e.g.
townsperson kill £1k
journalist kill £2k
investigator/cop £3k
#fakenumbers

Then the mafia choose their target and how much to spend. Too little and it fails and the money is wasted. This gives value to them working out who people are.

 

Typical Greez missing the fact that Astro already voted in post 7.

#nozzergoesthedistance

 

Is that page seven in fake page settings?

 

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Would make for a great theme

 

Yeah it would be

Quite like the artwork as well

 

If you have one post per page, yes

 

Trying to work out if The Subway Boys is a euphemism or not.

Good pic DR. They missed out Wimpy's though

 

Another random idea for giving people more involvement:

The newspaper contains a main article by the journalist then an advert section. All players can (if they choose) submit short messages to be published anonymously in the advert section each day.

As an example, the vigilante could announce his next target/s for discussion without revealing himself.

 

I like that, would have to be a word limit applied or something though. Last time (think it was Danilo) did a a full newspaper lol

The journalist (if there is one) should be allowed to write as much as they like though

 

That was funny. But he's the journalist so that's fine. The adverts should only be like twitter messages in length.

 

Slightly different angle, rather than journalist, how about making them the Editor instead. All players submit a report and the Editor decides how to use them.

 

What about the timing though? The journalist and players make submissions to MITO who just posts them, but you would need the players to submit to MITO who submits to the editor who then submits back?

 

Each player submits their report prior to nightfall. The Editor/Journalist report isn't released until 10am. In real tabloid world, everything is a day behind anyway.

 

Well the journalist's investigation report would be up to date but the other players like the investigator would have the delay

 

If Editor, I wouldn't give them investigation powers. Have cops in the game, these send reports to the editor too. Maybe release the paper a little later.

If more than one cop, will they be able to communicate with each other? If so, they could come up with a system to convince the Editor.

 

Then maybe the editor should know who sends what information so they can try to work out who has what role rather than just posting what they happen to like and ignoring whatever they don't like.

But there would need to be a reason not to reveal his sources identities, such as the different costs to kill different townspeople I thought about previously. And the editor wouldn't want to reveal their own identity unless they become a target.

Cops should have a private board IMO, that's more realistic.

 

A editor of a newspaper is generally well known so why not announce who the editor is from the start? Each person then PMs their report directly to that person (copying MITO in so he can see there is no cheating happening).

Mafia could convert that person but it would cost 65%+ of the starting budget to deter that action.