The Syndicate

MovingPictures07 wrote:I'm rooting for our adopted Syndicateer / resident RYMer mafia extraordinaire JaggedJimmyJay.

GO JAY!

Turnip Head wrote:Thanks everyone for rooting me on! I loved seeing all the encouragement in here, it made me feel like I was playing for all the folks back home

I had a ton of fun but man was it intense. Over 4000 posts in less than two weeks 36 hour Days Not easy to keep up with and all the town players were very good, all players I'd love to see find their way over to The Syndicate.

I look forward to rooting for our representative in next year's competition!

Mongoose wrote:Make lots of friends and be zany is my mafia advice!

Mongoose wrote:Congrats, Turnip Head!

I hope you can "root" out all the baddies in the championships! You are totally tubular amongst the tubers.

Canucklehead wrote:My alltime biggest mafia crush! Swoon! Congratulations, Turnip Head. Well deserved.

G-Man wrote:I remember back when role-claiming and info dumping were common practice at LP. Usually one powerful civvie would role claim and the other civvies would try to plan in the thread how they would use their powers in conjunction to protect said powerful civ. I'm not sure when that changed. Baddies had the opportunity to false role-claim but they would either get lynched when the real civ challenged them or they would get lynched Day 2 if people believed them and lynched the real civ Day 1. Those were the days when Day 1 wasn't just 48 hours of waiting for a random lynch. I was a baddie once and got caught early but then offered up my teammates identities for immunity. That probably started the ball rolling on STV to ban role-claiming and info dumping.

I don't see the harm in role-claiming once it's obvious who you are- civ or baddie. Without role-claiming, it's hard to info dump without strongly-worded vagueness. But it also takes some of the mystery out of the game.

thellama73 wrote:

S~V~S wrote:I would be honored to go, but don;t think i would be the best ambassador for us. I would probably tell someone to go fuck themselves, lol. Sooo undiplomatic

I too am unnecessarily hateful and violent, especially towards outsiders (defend the fire!) so I get where you're coming from.

S~V~S wrote:I don't do well in different setting. My one game at Mafia Maniac, I got lynched Day one because I went balls to the walls (is there any other way to play Mafia?) and totally did all the things they thought were bad. They role hint, they info dump, I refused to vote for people based on that, and someone seriously asked me how we get info into the thread where we play if we don't just say it. Apparently they faux dump, and I can see the challenge in that, but once I got to that place in the learning curve, I was dead, lol.

I tried several games at K Site, and I could not wrap my head around their system. I would be honored to go, but don;t think i would be the best ambassador for us. I would probably tell someone to go fuck themselves, lol. Sooo undiplomatic

Thingyman wrote:

Epignosis wrote:Do you have a big thingy, man?

Haha

My name has evolved over the years. Started as Thing, then Thingy, but that was too short, so Thingyman. And now MrThingyman. I'm not sure I can add more to it.

Roxy wrote:Also when I first PM'ed Thingyman I told him we were a small community of drifters - reading the thread only proves that

G-Man wrote:Wow, the sheer size of some of those Mafia communities is intimidating.

I recall checking out a few of the big ones years ago when I was on LP, TP, and STV. I got scared away by all the tiers and rating systems some use. Can't remember which one it was but at least one of them required you to play in so many games before you could move into more complex games and another one required you to win so many games as civ and as baddie before you could even host a game. I like hosting more than playing, so...

I like to think that TP, RM, and now The Syndicate are nice little niche locales where people like to create intricate and fun-themed games. A plain Jane game has its place every now an again but it would need a good story building with the simple events to keep things captivating for me.

zeek wrote:Presumably there won't be a lot of overlap, so it's really interesting that so many unfamiliar players would be playing together.

I think sending Vomps would be a good move, k?

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Canucklehead wrote:I'm on Board Game Geek all the time browsing/reading ratings/trying to get good enough at board games to beat my damn gloaty BF. Had no idea they played mafia there! Will definitely have to look into it. I bet they're good!

Looking at the championship game from the first season, there were quite a few reps from BoardGameGeek.

I've not been to any of these sites except for MafiaScum, and really don't have any interest in going back there, lol.

Yeah, Mafiascum is intense. :P

Canucklehead wrote:I'm on Board Game Geek all the time browsing/reading ratings/trying to get good enough at board games to beat my damn gloaty BF. Had no idea they played mafia there! Will definitely have to look into it. I bet they're good!

Thingyman wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:I can do 500 posts of content per 24 hours in a themed large game no problem, but for a 12 player vanilla game, I don't know. Especially back-to-back-to-back-to-back-etc. of such games.

To be clear, you would be playing in just one of them. And then maybe one more, if you qualify for the finale.

Also, 13* :P

Ricochet wrote:mfw we send Marsh and he self-votes D1 in the quallies