The ENTIRE DBZ roster.
No GT-mo.
Now that I think about it, I probably play Mafia just as much, if not more, than fighting games now.
I joined SRK to talk about fighting games, but now a large portion of my time is spent on Mafia games.
I’m okay with this.
I have not played a fighting game since November or December of last year.
It will take Elena in 4 to pull me back in, and Xrd on PS3 to keep me.
*A fellow Elena player? *
Is that the Werewolves/Town/Vampires game he was talking about? I propose replacing Town with DBZ. All in favor?
That’s because Mafia is more fun than the majority of fighting games out right now.
I’m so lost. Not really, just a little bit noob like in this type of game.
Basically there are two factions.
Civilian - Majority of players. Don’t know who each other are and aren’t allowed to communicate outside of the game thread. Common roles are UC (Investigate one player per night to see if they’re Civilian or Mafia) and Medic (Can pick one player to protect from kills each night)
Mafia - Minority of players. Know who each other are and can communicate in a PM conversation with the rest of the Mafia. They are allowed to kill one person every night.
Town - The sum of all players, Mafia + Civilian. Each day phase the Town as a group decides who to kill, if anyone. This is decided by either public voting in the game thread or private votes via PM to the game moderator. At the end of the day phase whoever has the most votes is killed. “No Lynch” is also usually an option, the choice where nobody is killed. Whenever a player dies their allegiance and role are revealed in the game thread. After someone is lynched the game switches to night phase. Everyone is still allowed to talk, but there can be no lynches until the next day phase. This is when most roles PM their special ability targets to the moderator and when the Mafia decides who to kill.
Also it doesn’t require an offline scene, it’s meant to be played online.
Oh, I see, kind of.
If you have any more questions feel free to ask them :tup:
Replace Werewolves/Vampires with Majins/Ginyu Force?
Spoiler
inb4 timelines. Fuck you, I wanna play as kid Goten.
Timeli-
Well sheeeeet.
The concept of the Ginyu Force forcibly recruiting is rather amusing. The Majin idea makes sense as well. At the same time though PW’s put a lot of thought and work into this so I don’t want to ask him to DBZ-ify his game cause someone wants to play as a small child (On that note @Kromo)
Just be careful of that vote input lag.
Or mafia PM execution error.
I want PW to make the game and run it how he wants. I was making a joke when I said I wanted to replace town with DBZ. I know it wasn’t my usual knee-slappin’ funny level of humour, but I thought it was fairly obvious.
I’d like to go on record saying that not all Australians are as perverted and/or pedophilic as Alpha appears to be.
I actually know almost nothing about DBZ, so I wouldn’t run one of those games.
I’ve been planning most of the year to do the 3 faction, werewolves vs vampires game at the end of the year (this ones a big game, 25-30 people). You have the werewolves (mafia), the Vampires (mafia), and the town (civilians). Vampires and werewolves start off small and with no real powers, just a leader and 2 initiates. Those initiates can be promoted to have powers (night kill, bite to recruit, follow somebody to learn their role, shapeshift to impersonate somebody, bodyguard, etc) once per night. Also, once you turn into a person with “Bite” skill, you can recruit other players to join (maximum of 5 per team I think?). That person is put into a private PM with the person that bit them, not necessarily the whole team unless that person wants them to, and are fed whatever info they want.
The thing is, there’s a civilian role (doctor) who can “cure” somebody, and if that person was bitten, they turn back into a civilian, armed with whatever knowledge they gained during that time (aka, the person that bit them, any inside info fed to them). Of course if they give the cure to a regular, non bitten person, they die.
There’s a lot of mechanics and roles in place… but it’s pretty advanced.
Maybe too advanced, I worry.
I’m still torn on if we should run it or not. Part of me wants to do a Breaking Bad game instead. If somebody else wanted to do a DBZ game instead, that’d be fine by me. (I’d like a Naruto game, myself, complete with edo tensei to raise people from the dead and get their insight or powers to help. But I digress).
I guess what I’m saying, is that I’d like to do the 3 faction werewolf vs mafia game, but I’m worried it will be too complicated for people to handle, possibly not very balanced, and would require a pretty sizeable roster (approaching 30ish people). Which we obviously can’t fill for this game. So, if we decide to run something smaller, that’s fine by me too
email is pretty easy, you just need access to a mail server, then you just literally do like "Email mail= new email(); mail.title = “Role generation”; mail.body=“Pimp Willy is Mafia!”; mailServer.send(mail);
Parsing websites is a little trickier, you can look at the java code I posted for the app that scans the threads and counts posts, if you haven’t seen it yet. I can post the link to the source code (it’s not the latest though) and you can see how I do it. Basically I treat the HTML as XML, and just parse through the XML, using hashmaps to keep tallies of posts and such. It’s done pretty brute force and it’s not super pretty, but it gets the job done. I’ve just been too lazy to update it in awhile.