I personally didn't like the time flow of this game. The time was way too long. I was playing another Mafia forum game, 24 hour day, 24 hour night, open to PMs and IRC chatting. Joined up with this one to learn some moves. By the time the
first day of this game was over, half of that other game was over. Hell, I even played around 20-50 real-time games on epicmafia.
So, personally, I didn't like the pace at all. On town's side, it gave a lot of time to go around and interrogate everyone. On scum's side, it gives someone half a day and a nap to calm down and think of a good response after a sharp accusation. I thought that poking lordnincompoop1 was hard because there was no actual pressure for most of the week, only when it reached the deadline did he crack and appear non-scummy.
I'm going to stick to mafia games with 1 day timespans and allowing real-time discussion. The long term games seem a bit heavy on time and I'm just not eager to log onto the forums 10 times a day and see nothing going on half the time and extreme finger pointing after a few days.
Heh, I was playing cop in the game before this too, and found the doctor. Was lynched for tossing an accusation out and the mafia bandwagoned on killing me half an hour before voting ended, which was why I hate late voting. The bright side to that was that I kept the doctor alive until the end of the game and everyone spotted the maf mid-game for the bandwagon votes.
Argembarger was a good moderator, barring a few mistakes, but overall made it fun and helped take the stress off the game.
So... wait. Rather than back down from a lynch he wasn't sure of and Investigating me that night, the Cop chose to just let me die? : /
Akigagak, you were acting very scummy, lurking until prodded. I was convinced it was either you or warhammer (had the suspicion off lordnin, but warhammer was just being too nice). Like lordnin1, you started appearing less scummy after a few prods, I wanted to keep it going but fell asleep while refreshing the page. Which was why you should've been more active
Also, the votes were even so leaving the vote on you would make it a no lynch. If I unvoted, I'd be dead, but Mindmaker unvoted for me when I went to bed.
warhammer, rather poor throughout the game, but the godfather thing saved you from suspicion. I would've stuck up in defense of you late in the game because I didn't expect a godfather to be playing in this game, and I certainly didn't expect him to be defending you. Great ploy in killing lordnin at the start too to look innocent as I had linked you two.
Taco Dan, IMO, great playing, at least on the first day. Good move turning more aggressive against the scumhunter on the second day too without appearing too suspicious. A few mistakes from the second day on, but good enough to stay safe.
KaminaSquirtle was probably the best town player starting from day 2. I agree with everything he's commented on the game.
Mindmaker was good from the start, good at pinning everyone without being too suspicious.
lordnincompoop should have scumhunted more. Zombie lordnin/mindmaker was a lot better than the first incarnation, and good job continuing from Mindmaker's in-game personality.
Ottofar should have been much more active. Honestly, you'd be my 3rd suspicion just for popping in so rarely and not contributing much to the scumhunting.
Zrk2, you are a complete freaking idiot. I'd fully think you were a scum who ran out of defense mechanisms and just went out to be annoying to everyone. The best way to get killed is to act all "oh, i cant defend myself, you guys are going to kill me anyway". Even a blatant "I'm innocent guys, really!" speech works better. Besides, you had the big fat Cop card. Just admit you were a cop, expose everyone who you found innocent. If you went down, you'd be releasing some information for people to work with (even if one of that info was false).
But your playing was just so fricking horrible that I'd report you to future moderators as a troll and refuse to play any games with you. It's forgivable as it's a Beginner's Mafia, but still horrible.
Normally the power roles are harder to play because the maf will be trying to sniff you out and hit you and it's hard to get information onto the table. I liked the beginner's mafia in that most of the power roles might not exist, making the cop and doctor roles a gamble if you reveal them and unlikely enough that scum wouldn't actively look for them. Cop was nice to get because revealing every investigation result would give a 'second life' or even a third life if the doctor protected him.