Newbie Game 1 (Mafia.gg) - Hospice Care Reunion!

Setup Info

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Newbie Setup

Each Newbie Game will be given a setup that incorporates one mafia role from the top of a column, and then two town roles from a row below the selected mafia role. The remaining six roles will be filled in by one mafia goon and five vanilla townies appropriately, to create a 2-mafia and 7-town setup.

Full Setups:



All Newbie games use the Natural Action Resolution system for determining Night action effects. Mafia Roleblocker action takes precedence over a Town Jailkeeper action should that apply.

Mafia are able to communicate in their Private Topic at all times.

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INTRODUCTION AND TIPS

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Thanks to Irrelephant11 and others for their contributions to these tips.

Here are some helpful links (a lot of them from our helpful wiki):
-> Forum Rules and Guidelines
-> The Glossary
-> Commonly Used Abbreviations
-> The Newbie Guide
-> Articles on How to Play Well (be sure to check the dates these were written/updated, as good advice changes over time)


Key Concepts and Tips

Activity

Try to check in at least once a day. Besides the activity requirements listed in the moderator's original post, it's just necessary for a fun and healthy game that everyone plays. If you post very rarely, or only post a little bit at a time, you may get scumread for lurking. Even if you are not scumread for it, what's the fun in playing a game where multiple people are hardly participating?

Site Meta

Meta is the description of how people on Mafiascum like to play mafia. Things can be different on other online mafia sites, or if you play IRL, so it's good to know what's expected of you on this site. These aren't "rules", per se, but if you don't follow these guidelines it is likely things will go poorly for you on MS. Some examples are...

Random Voting Stage (RVS)

Games on MafiaScum almost always begin with what we call the Random Voting Stage (RVS). At this point in the game, we are in a low information game state (except the mafia, which know everyone’s alignment). As a way to provoke reaction, start a discussion, and try to determine alignment, people will usually vote for non-serious reasons. As the discussion progresses, we will eventually get the game moving and progress out of RVS.

Voting, E-x, and Hammers

E-x is a way to convey how far away a player is away from elimination. For example, you should always announce that you are putting someone at E-1 (1 vote away from an elimination) so that someone doesn’t come along and accidentally vote for that player's elimination. This also prevents Mafia-aligned players from coming along and placing the final vote to eliminate (“hammer”) and claiming ignorance about doing so. You may also see E-2 and E-3 (2 votes away from elimination and 3 votes away from elimination, respectively).

Before you hammer a player, state your intent to hammer (usually done in bold) and ask the player to claim their role. This is done to prevent power roles from being eliminated, and can sometimes get Mafia-aligned players to be caught (via counter claiming). It's best to then allow other players to react and discuss the claim before hammering.

Claiming Your Role

It is almost always best to not claim your role unless you are at E-1 and have been asked to claim as part of an “intent to hammer.” This is because, as a town power role (“PR”), if you out prematurely, you are likely to be night-killed (“NK’d”). As a Vanilla Townie (“VT”), claiming early helps the mafia team narrow down the setup and possible PR candidates. An exception to this would be if a mafia player claimed your role, claiming early to counter the false claim (“CC”) would out the mafia player, and would be a benefit to the town.

Do not fake claim a power role as town! While it may help you avoid getting eliminated, you might cause a real PR to out themselves by counterclaiming - then the mafia will know who the PR is, and you will probably get eliminated for lying to town. Feel free to fake a claim as scum, though, if you think it would help.

ELo

ELo is the shortened representation of “Eliminate or Lose.” ELo in the Newbie Queue is when there are 3 remaining players, 2 of which are town and 1 is mafia; or when there are 5 remaining players, 3 of which are town and 2 are mafia. It is important in these situations that the town aligned players do not carelessly vote like is done during RVS or early days, as the mafia player(s) can organize and instantly provide the necessary votes to eliminate (“quickhammer”) and win the game.

Conclusion

Mafia is hard! As town, it can be hard to figure things out, and stressful when people think you're scum. That's okay! Just share your thoughts on who you think is scum as they come to you, and don't be afraid to change your mind. As scum, it can be hard to lie convincingly, and stressful when people think you're scum. Don't let that scare you! Try to think of what you would post if you were town, and don't be afraid to "change your mind".

This is a game. Have fun!

Hi guys, I am bored before ~1 hour before the start of today, so I am going to just type out words on this word document that I pulled up. That word. Also I would like to say I hope we have like a typey thing at the bottom of the page when the mafia thing unlocks so I do not have to press the reply button all the time when I want to say something. I hope that this game wont be kinda zzz since like there is only like 9 of us lol.

So anyway like… does the (SE) thing next to ShellyC’s/Auryxx’s/T3’s name mean that all 3 of them are scum? Must be the case amirite? Imagine if this were a mafiagg mash how crazy would that be, like if we got like a bunch of decent mafgg players willing to play here, would have been sick.

Can’t believe grandpa made this game auto by pointing out all 3 of the scums for us by putting SE next to their name lol (/s). It is fine though since I am just going to target players without a profile picture anyway.

Okay I still have an hour. um. My profile picture is from Yoshi’s Story, 6-3 Ghost Castle. The thing is called a Ghost Rider as it is used as a platform and has literally only appeared once across the entire Yoshi franchise (and any video game for that matter).

Still have an hour… So uh, you all like Linkin Park? Lol. I guess that is not important. Right now I am listening to See No Evil by television but trust me I will see evil as soon as mafia starts speaking up, so mafia better stay quiet throughout this entire game :>. Also Hospice care? More like Hopsin care lmao I’m funny plz laugh.

15 likes on this post and I will do research on any particular topic of the 12 likers’ choosing and prepare a 5 page essay on said topic (as long as it is a safe topic to talk about) (joke).

“You may think that I’m out of hand, that I’m naive I’ll understand. On this occasion it’s not true, look at me, I’m not you” – New Order but lol gottem, get this ad hominem attack.

On a serious note, I hope everyone has a good game!

ahah couldnt get me hockey could you

Hello! I'm pretty excited about this game even though I didn't roll scum and I hope others are as stoked as I am too. This opening paragraph should give you a grasp on how I'll be playing the game and other miscellaneous things like.. meta.



I don't have a whole lot of experience with this playerlist besides a few players that know how I like to play so I'll be looking forward to learning the playstyles of players here who I haven't had the pleasure of playing with before.



For anyone that hasn't played with me or doesn't know my outlook on Mafia, I heavily prefer scumplay over townplay as a personal preference as I enjoy the manipulative side of Mafia much more than the solving side. Regardless of my personal preference, I am still able to exert incredible amounts of town energy when I do roll town albeit I'm able to do the same thing when I roll scum so it'd be a bit dishonest to say me being super townie is AI but that wont stop me from wallposting towncases on myself.



As far as playerlists are concerned, the only two Players here who I think I have pretty solid meta reads on are Froggo and Shelly so I apologize in advance if it looks as if I'm tunneling or solely interacting with these Players at times, it's just me trying to get an accurate read.



Since I've rolled Town, I'll expand upon my townplay a bit because I don't think it's subpar or bad compared to my scumplay and I don't want to give off that impression. My strengths as Town (imo & others can probably back me up here) are, Endgame solving, Obv!Towning, Setup Spec and Deepwolf hunting. I don't think my blanket reads are incredibly good but I think my accuracy for finding singular wolves is relatively high so you might see me pressuring a single player a lot at times while being very confident and don't want that to be mistaken as blind tunneling.



Anyway, that's enough about me, I'm looking forward to meeting my fellow townies and seeing how others approach the game, hf!



Vote: Shelly :)

Wait nvm Cape is town, he found 3 scum in a 2 scum game, truly a 500 IQ play

UNVOTE CAPE

Oh no, where'd did I go wrong?

how was the fall?

ive been free for practically the whole day and this mfer grandpamo started the game at the exact time at which I wouldn’t be so I will not post much

y’all like my pfp? lolololololololololol