Mafia Phase Length Poll

[Callid]

I thought about making this poll for some time.
It basically is about the two ideas to run a one week per phase Mafia (parallel to the other one) for those who don't have enough time to participate in the 24h Mafia and/or to run a lighting Mafia with 10 min./phase, cause Mafia is normally played that way.
This poll is meant to show the interest for the respective ideas.

[Callid]

Voted for 03), 07), 08) and 09).

[xpon]

Just want to let you know, that you have a typo

11) Other (plaese specify).

it should be:

11) Other (please specify).

I'll try to play all variations, but I'm afraid that my timezone will fail me !

But 1 week @ phase.. is too damn long. 48 hours is better!

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[Kleene Onigiri]

10 min phase would be fun to test.
But problems are:
1) time zones, we need to find a time where everybody can come.
2) How long will a whole mafia game last? If it's too long, some people could have to go away because they calculated the game wrong
3) How to GM that round? There will be no story I guess? Just "xyz died" "xyz was lynched". Because writing a story, checking PMs etc takes some time too.

[xpon]

10 min phase would be fun to test.
But problems are:
1) time zones, we need to find a time where everybody can come.
2) How long will a whole mafia game last? If it's too long, some people could have to go away because they calculated the game wrong
3) How to GM that round? There will be no story I guess? Just "xyz died" "xyz was lynched". Because writing a story, checking PMs etc takes some time too.

4) no cross investigation or pm right? 10 minutes?

but that will be fun!

[Akonyl]

10 min mafia would be interesting, but yeah, there's always the problem in timezones to account for. Best time to do it would be a weekend, but as to what hours, dunno. :V

A week long mafia round, aside from being a nice roundish number, is a little too long imo. 3 days should really be enough for most, as it allows for multiple turns of the clock and it's not too long. Unless you really think you need 7 days.

[PT]

Agreed on a week being way too long. We've gone through like 22 phases this round; if this were week-long phases, that's 22 weeks. 5.5 months is crazy long for one game. Sure, most games wouldn't last that long, but there's always the chance it will.

As for the other options I'll have to read through them when I've got more time.

[Dus]

I'd like the phases to be a bit shorter actually. Mostly because I want round 14 to start already... I think real time would work just fine.

[Callid]

Agreed on a week being way too long. We've gone through like 22 phases this round; if this were week-long phases, that's 22 weeks. 5.5 months is crazy long for one game. Sure, most games wouldn't last that long, but there's always the chance it will.

As for the other options I'll have to read through them when I've got more time.

I actually thought to have these games with only about 10-15 players. Making any more than 10 phases very unlikely, and 10 phases = 2 months. On a side note: 22 weeks = 5 months, not 5.5.

[Abs.]

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.

[blurfbreg]

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.

[Edogawa4869]

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.

[Akonyl]

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.

[Eve]

Other (please specify).
24 hours if you want time that would work for everybody
If we want a short game, maybe just a limited number of people can join who guaranteed they can play for say 2-3 hours and finish one game....

[PT]

Agreed on a week being way too long. We've gone through like 22 phases this round; if this were week-long phases, that's 22 weeks. 5.5 months is crazy long for one game. Sure, most games wouldn't last that long, but there's always the chance it will.

As for the other options I'll have to read through them when I've got more time.

I actually thought to have these games with only about 10-15 players. Making any more than 10 phases very unlikely, and 10 phases = 2 months. On a side note: 22 weeks = 5 months, not 5.5.

Well, I was just estimating at 4 weeks = 1 month, I wasn't actually trying to calculate anything, so that's where the 5.5 came from. And 10-15 players would definitely be better than the 28 we have this round for the week-long phases. But yeah, I don't think I'd have the patience for that either.

10 minute phases would probably be fun to try out, though, as long as I'm around for it. But with my crazy schedule that may or may not happen, unless it's at night.

The only problem I have with playing a shorter-phase round and a longer-phase round would be keeping everything straight for the different rounds. But it would be fun to try it out, anyway.