Actually, I was asking the OP. Why would he come to a forum with a formed community, regularly organized highly complex games and a good platform for them and tell them to move to the unholy shitfuckness that is Shitbook and play the most stripped-down version imaginable?
Well thanks for not raging much appreciated. It was for the discussion of it. Because I wanted some feedback on an idea and I figured "why not post it on bay12, they're usually pretty cool and smart people to give advice in an area that I might need it, and seeing as how I started playing Mafia because of them, someone should have something good to say!". I can see I grossly mistrusted today's generation of bay12 user.
He's not asking us to play, he's playing with his friends.
I've also tried this approach and these were the main problems (that I remember):
1. Threads get really hard to read.
2. No quotes.
3. Deleting posts is really easy.
4. Hard to do vote counts.
5. Lurking. This is probably just because all my friends were pretty busy.
Thank you.
Yes these are all ways that it differs from a forum setting.
1. What made up a "thread" for you? I made sure to have a "Game 1 Day 1" post and made sure everyone only commented on that. Recently a friend ran it and came up with a separate "votes-only" thread. Which I don't like, as it makes chronology funny. If players made sure to vote in both, maybe it wouldn't be so bad. (Sorry for rambling, I'm just thinking the ideas out
It's nice to have a friendly sounding board, thank you zombie urist.
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2. My friends haven't really gotten into the game very much. They're used to playing it in a camp-fire real life type setting, so they aren't very into re-reading or countering super word-specific quotes. My friends have short attention spans. I tried to speed the game up to address that, and even at what I would consider a blinding pace(a day and a night every 24 hours) there is not a whole lot of conversation unless someone very overtly reveals something. Again they started Mafia as hour-long games around a fire so they're used to arguing face-to-face.
3. Haven't had anyone try to yet... But if they did I'm sure they'd catch shit for it and it would become part of the game. Someone would realize they're deleting posts
4. True. It was a tad easier with the separate vote thread but it was funky.
5. Yep. Busy or lazy or short attention spans.