Mafia Phase Length Poll

[Callid]

4, 7, 8, & 11.

Perhaps the phases should be shortened a little.  Maybe to 12 hour phases.  That way you actually get Mafia night and day phases in a RL night and day... (12:00 PM-12:00 AM-->Night 1, 12:00 AM-12:00 PM-->Day 1; just clarifying my POV).

I would be interested in playing a Lightning Round, but again, with timezones, I just want to make sure that everyone gets a chance in.

12 hours would be a horrible length, imo. There would be a lot of people that wouldn't even be able to get on during a certain type of phase then, either completely locking them out from lynch voting or from using their actions at all.

Exactly. That's why we use 24-hour phases (which have enough drawbacks on their own, like people being offline at phase change). For example, if the night phase went from 2:00 to 14:00 CET, I seldom had any chance to get online during it.

[nomemory]

I like the 24 hour phases, but to try something else might be fun once in a while to. But nothing to slow.

[Kleene Onigiri]

Pretty sure I wouldn't have the patience to play a Mafia game with week-long phases.

But depending on time coordination, I'd be willing to try the 10 minute one.

I don't think people would remember the week-long phases.

10 min phase games are cool. It only requires everyone to be online in the forum for 1.5 hours (9 phases; 4 days and nights with prep) to 2.5 hours (15 phases; 7 days and nights with prep). Not as many people are on when the 10-min games are played, so it should fit with a group of people's availability.

I think you'll need to add some mins (5min?) in between the phases for the GM to post/read the PMs? Or aren't we doing that in the forum?

And I think a 2-3 day long phase would be more liked than 1 wee phase D:

[Akonyl]

And I think a 2-3 day long phase would be more liked than 1 wee phase D:

I don't think a 1 week phase is very wee at all!

...*cough*

[Callid]

As both suggestions have now been tried / are currently tried, this thread has no longer relevance.