TWG XLII Host Voting

[Afrobean]

Re: TWG XLII Host Voting

What is it you people like about crazy new **** that has little connection to real TWG? Items and ****... there's a reason why Infiltration was run as a seperate game from TWG. It's not even the same game when you bring in things like that.

[StoicRoivaS]

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Maybe it's just me, but part of the game is trying to come up with the best course of action for you and your team given various situations. This is quite difficult when you're playing the exact same game layout with other people who have played the exact same game layout 20 times or more. I don't particularly appreciate people saying "No, this is what we do when a second seer comes out" or similar things. To me, as others have expressed, a large part of the fun is on D1 when you have a finalized game layout from the host, and you have to sit down and pick it apart before someone dies the following night.

Anyways, there isn't a whole lot more to finalize with my idea. When I get back from classes today, I'll decide a logical "order of operations", if you will. As far as using something that you don't know what it does, if I finishes Tales of Symphonia before this game kicks off, I'll be attempting to give the game a similar feel to my Time Travel TWG, that is, public story as well as mini private story in the PMs. The mini story in the PMs will attempt to guide you in what to do with the specific artifact you have. You'll notice they all have names, as will your villager if he/she finds one, and you should be able to somewhat guess who to use them on based on their name. Not that I want to spoil too much of the surprise, but someone of them don't even need to be "used" on someone, as you will find out.

I'm thinking the order will tentatively be:

Game Start
Artifacts distributed
Night actions (including artifacts)
Resolution as next day starts
First lynch
Artifact exchanging (with story lol)
Night actions (including artifacts)
Repeat...

I'll have to sit down and consider all the cases, but I think that'll work. That way everyone will always be able to use the artifact they get at least once before it's stolen or lost.

PS/Edit: If only we had known Afro had "stopped following this thread", we could have done wwaaaayyyyy more crazy things behind his back. I'm ashamed guys. The best we could think of is to make a non-traditional TWG. Lame.

[sertman]

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Stoic

Will there be night posting?

[StoicRoivaS]

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Stoic

Will there be night posting?

It depends on how much people care about information coming out and the order in which things happen. Lets say a seer hits a wolf, but they're also targeted to be killed that night, since no set rules have ever been implemented on what happens when, it's really up to the host to determine if the seer gets their result and if they have the time to spread the word before they're dead the next morning. I frankly don't see why night posting was ever not allowed. It might fit the story a bit better if people aren't communicating in their sleep, but I really don't care. If it will somehow inspire more activity, I'm all for it.

[rioting]

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ooo if I vote stoic does that make it insta?

[roundbox]

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Stoic.
Maybe insta now.

[iggymatrixcounter]

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Hey if one of two of my activity rivals doesn't want to play that works for me (<3 afro)

On a serious note, stating your opinion is good and all but I want to be a proactive solution instead of a regressive one.

[StoicRoivaS]

Re: TWG XLII Host Voting

On a serious note, stating your opinion is good and all but I want to be a proactive solution instead of a regressive one.

Who/what is this aimed at?

If you're referring to sert's question about night posting, the answer was an "I don't care" or in a word "yes".

Edit: If we all agree, I'll run signups tomorrow/Sunday so we can get started, up to you guys.

[StoicRoivaS]

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Actually, now that I think about it a bit more, considering the thieves, the order will have to go something like this:

Game Start
Roles PMed/Artifacts distributed (in PM)
N1 actions (including artifact recipients & thieves)
N1 actions (artifacts stolen, artifacts lost)
Resolution as next day starts (PMs where needed)
First lynch
N2 actions (including artifact holders & thieves)
N2 actions (artifacts stolen, artifacts lost)
Repeat...

This way I won't have to wait for PMs from the thieves, and then coordinate who gets what and then wait for more PMs (in the event the artifact requires one). Whoever has an artifact during the day will be the one to use it the following night, and after all "useable" ones have been used, they change hands if necessary. Resolution PMs will be sent to everyone who needs them, and the next day will start. It'll help speed up the nights that way.

If there are no major objections to the signups being "soon" (over 24 hours away) I'll go ahead and plan on them being tomorrow at 8pm and 10pm. Let me know what you think.

[talisman]

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stoic but I want the decipherer thing clarified. aka will artifacts be unusable if unidentifiable to the owner? How will artifacts then be labeled, etc?

[StoicRoivaS]

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I guess I wasn't as clear as I thought. Upon getting your role, you may receive an artifact as well. The artifact will be referred to by name at all times (the names listed above). Upon getting the PM that you have stolen/discovered/can't tell/found the artifact, you'll be led in the right direction (as to how to use it) as I hinted at above. The names of the artifacts are relevant, and it shouldn't be terribly difficult to know when to use it on a teammate and when not to. Upon receiving an artifact, the decipherers will immediately recognize it and know it's exact function. This doesn't mean that it has to be deciphered first, it merely means that the decipherers know exactly what it does, and everyone else doesn't. Like I mentioned earlier, I'm hoping to have enough time to include a little story with each PM like my Time Travel game, not just "RED LOL". Between the names of the artifacts and the PMs, you won't be doing anything crazy on accident.

Objections to signups tomorrow night?

[iggymatrixcounter]

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If no one contests you, do the signups tomorrow night.

[StoicRoivaS]

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Sign-ups will be tomorrow, Sunday February 11th, at 6:00pm and 10:00pm. Please comment in the sign-up thread whether or not you'd like reverse voting/multiple lynches or not. If we don't get enough players I'll drop the max lynches per day by 1. 3-2-1-1...