Mafia Question & Answer Thread

Discussion in 'Mafia' started by Roy Mustang, Dec 9, 2011.

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  1. Demonic Cake

    Demonic Cake The cake is not a lie...

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    How can this be fixed?
    The theme coding

    That happened to Mushroom Kingdom the other day, says BM, but he doesn't know how it was fixed - if anyone does, could they help?
     
  2. Thrighragon

    Thrighragon To Slay a Samurai

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    Get a MA to fix it.

    Oh, and i vote to make this a sticky thread!
     
  3. Demonic Cake

    Demonic Cake The cake is not a lie...

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    That's one route...I vote with you, also.
     
  4. Yttrium

    Yttrium Well-Known Member Developer Developer

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    Warnings and suggestions in theme script

    Your theme has an extra attribute "author"
    Your theme has an extra attribute "summary"
    Your theme has an extra attribute "roles3"
    Your role "gigas" has extra attribute "night".
    Your role "gigas" has extra attribute "distract".
    Your role "gigas" has extra attribute "startup".
    Is what came up when I put it into Lamperi's mafia checker. You probably missed a parenthesis somewhere in Regigigas's coding.
    The other things aren't really noteworthy errors.
     
  5. Xinc

    Xinc Time for Oras?

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    Glitch? I was don and I tried killing, but my partner got pl'ed

    (20:40:12) ±Game: You are a Don Italian Mafia!
    (20:40:12) ±Game: Type /Kill [name] to kill someone! You can't be distracted!

    (20:44:02) ±Game: You have chosen to kill Elliot.!
    (20:44:03) Zzyzx Road: Elliot ysopro
    (20:44:04) *** ************************************************************************************
    (20:44:04) Times Up! :
    (20:44:04) ±Game: Your teammate was too busy with the Pretty Lady during the night, you decided not to kill anyone during the night! [/HIDE]
     
  6. IceKirby

    IceKirby A.K.A. RiceKirby

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    I've been trying to get people to understand that for a while and nobody hears me, but let's try again:

    Distract is not about who types the /kill; it's about who PL targets. So if PL gets on Don and regular IM type /kill, IM will kill. If PL gets on regular IM and Don type /kill, IM will NOT kill.
     
  7. Yttrium

    Yttrium Well-Known Member Developer Developer

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    Is it possible to use "AnyBut(Role)" as a "Target" for an action? I saw that in Internet Moderator and Administrator had "AnyButInspector" but I don't know if that ended up working out...
     
  8. A Moon Gust

    A Moon Gust dot

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    2 questions:
    1. Why does random people rand, when Inspector is still alive?
    2. Why does Inspector usually rand their own PRs even though we clearly PMed them. This has happened to me like twice, if not like 3 times ;-;.
     
  9. Demonic Cake

    Demonic Cake The cake is not a lie...

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    Because they feel like it and/or are Serp, and sometimes they don't see PMs...
     
  10. Yttrium

    Yttrium Well-Known Member Developer Developer

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    Because some people actually have an educated guess on who's mafia - randing shouldn't actually be pick a random name out of the hat.
     
  11. Thrighragon

    Thrighragon To Slay a Samurai

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    3 questions.

    WHY do people claim villy without knowing the risks, and I even MADE AN ENTIRE THREAD ON IT.

    Can you revenge daykills (like bomb w/ nightkill)?

    Why do ppl still use gay PL stall? Ive been stalled atleast 14 times so far and even saced myself to get someone else out of PL stall. Trust me, it hurts. They would even tie it up/vote a villy when i try to suicide. Honestly, I would vote "ban" if a poll about PL stall. For those that constantly use PL stall, screw you. Ive been randed off as a claimed villy for voting for the stalled mafia, too.
     
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  12. profDEADPOOL

    profDEADPOOL INSANE Professer

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    First Question is they don't think it is a bad idea. People will do it and you just have to deal with that.
    No idea on second question.
    Third is cause it helps the village win when they PL stall. Why on earth would you want to limit yourself as the village by not letting your team pl stall. What if that mafia team kills bg the night after a person on that team is voted and etc. It is like saying the Vigi can't kill someone he knows is mafia because of spy but can if it is the inspector who found him.
     
  13. GreenWater10

    GreenWater10 GreenWater10

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    Gold,
    1. Maybe they didn't read ur thread or don't go to the fourms.
    2. Not that I know of.
    3. Try asking the other mafia to kill u if u r being pled stalled on, or asking to vote yourself off, because you are mafia. I think pl stalling is stupid unless if there are over 3 kills a night. Also, you can't force strategy on others.
     
  14. Demonic Cake

    Demonic Cake The cake is not a lie...

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    A random question: Would switching the roles of two commonly-known characters in a different theme count as trolling because people wouldn't know? I'm considering doing it for Cakefka and Ceiling Kuja in my theme, but I don't want to do it if it won't be allowed. It can be mentioned in the description, but...I just need opinions x3

    and not everyone reads the description, the FIRST LINE of Pokemon II's description says that the legends are all bad except Celebi (in different wording) and I still get people asking me -_-


    EDIT: Also, two theoretical questions:
    What would happen if a bomb role with a nightkill kills another bomb role?
    And what would happen if a role who can't be nightkilled kills a bomb?
     
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  15. profDEADPOOL

    profDEADPOOL INSANE Professer

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    As long as the description says otherwise I would say it doesn't count as trolling cake. There fault for not reading it.
     
  16. Demonic Cake

    Demonic Cake The cake is not a lie...

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    Alright...and it IS meant to be a parallel universe where I got driven insane, so XD
     
  17. Yttrium

    Yttrium Well-Known Member Developer Developer

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    Didn't you figure that out the hard way when you were Uranium and Nitrogen killed its attacker?
     
  18. Demonic Cake

    Demonic Cake The cake is not a lie...

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    ...good point. I forgot that time. The other question, though, I'd like to know so I know if Suicune should get a kill or not.
     
  19. Dark Law

    Dark Law New Member

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    Hey, how do you use tab to write someone name faster when voting? I tried asking in between games but I don't get a reply.
     
  20. IceKirby

    IceKirby A.K.A. RiceKirby

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    First go to Options > Sort Players and make sure "Sort players by tiers" is not enabled. Then, on the chat input field, type the name's first characters and press Tab until you get the name you want.
    You can type more characters to filter it better (for example, if you type R and press Tab you'll get all players whose name begins with "R"; if you type Ri, you will only get those whose name begins with "Ri")
     
  21. Dark Law

    Dark Law New Member

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    Sweet, it works. Thanks a lot.
     
  22. QueenNJ

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    I have a question. Firstly, I need the original entire clanwar script, I just need to change it to pokemon variables for theme approving. So can you like just post it right here?
    Secondly, isn't it stupid to be banned from PO for life? I mean not only can I not come online, but also I can't access the same server with a similar name, from my friends house! Automated systems aren't this strict y'know and no crime I committed can be grudged this much. I know this wasnt a mafia question, but I'd like you to answer it anyway. The first one was.
     
  23. Lightwind

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    You're asking in the wrong place about that second one. You'll probably want to go talk go a staff member about that~.

    As for your first question, I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're asking. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you asked for the ClanWar script to change the names and variables and resubmit it, I'm pretty sure that falls under the category of reskin. Which isn't allowed.
     
  24. QueenNJ

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    ohhhhh okay... Am I allowed to do "almost a reskin", which is reskin with some character changes. Help me know where to post first question
     
  25. Shiny Rayquaza

    Shiny Rayquaza Your nightmare!

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    I would still think that is not allowed.
     
  26. Demonic Cake

    Demonic Cake The cake is not a lie...

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    Question: What is a 'mole' in Mafia? Someone put it as the role they'd like to be in my form (which implies they just came across it randomly, too; I don't recognise the name) and I don't know what it is.
     
  27. Crystal Moogle

    Crystal Moogle Ayaya~ Administrator Administrator

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    Perhaps they mean the conspirator?
    Sort of a reverse miller. They're bad, but reveal as good. Very rarely used though.
     
  28. Fegelein

    Fegelein The Mechanic

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    So similar to Medusa in Mythology?
     
  29. Demonic Cake

    Demonic Cake The cake is not a lie...

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    Oh, I see...they also put themself down as Mafian aka GOOD SIDE. .-. You can't be a conspirator if you're not on the mafia...
    Thanks for explaining though.

    (also, whoever that was, please PM me if you're reading this so I know who you are ;_; )
     
  30. Yttrium

    Yttrium Well-Known Member Developer Developer

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    ClanWar used to have moles :x
     
  31. Hobbes2

    Hobbes2 Aren't I dead or something

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    Nothing was good in ClanWar, so it wasn't really a mole, more of a mindfuck
     
  32. LördKX

    LördKX Archivist of Memories

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    How would you suggest somebody who knows nothing of playing Mafia get into it? Obviously read the rules first, but after that would one just start playing, or would it be better to read war stories, observe games, ask players for help, ect before actually playing?
     
  33. Crystal Moogle

    Crystal Moogle Ayaya~ Administrator Administrator

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    There's some mafia tutoring going on in #Mafia Tutoring on the server. Also some guides are being written up for new players, but I don't think they're ready yet.
    Observing games is a good start and maybe joining in on the default games, since it's a nice beginner theme with no too much going on.
     
  34. Xinc

    Xinc Time for Oras?

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    Yiran's guide, though outdated, is helpful. I think Magmarex's... iirc he has one, isn't that bad either
     
  35. Chinchou

    Chinchou Endangered Species

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    Question - What does "Hax on startup" do?
     
  36. Demonic Cake

    Demonic Cake The cake is not a lie...

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    I think it's a coding fail.
     
  37. GreenWater10

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    Can anyone provide me with a list of reskins (or tell me where i can find reskin themes)? i'm planning on making a theme called reskin wars, which will not be a reskin itself, lol, and i need all the reskins. thx.
     
  38. Demonic Cake

    Demonic Cake The cake is not a lie...

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    Wouldn't the reskins have gotten deleted and/or not uploaded at all?
     
  39. Shiny Rayquaza

    Shiny Rayquaza Your nightmare!

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    I would guess, that most reskins are deleted by now.
     
  40. GreenWater10

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    i'm just guessing that some would remember. i think chess, pokemon, drugs, and oot were reskins. thats all i remember so far.
     
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