Quote Originally Posted by Miriel View Post
It's different if you come into this thread going, "well I just received a PM letting me know who Mafia is, so I'm going to vote for..." Because at least then, the group as a whole knows that this is what's going on. And that can lead to interesting questions like who is sending those PMs? Is the person sending the PM Mafia or Cop or a citizen trying to be funny? It has the potential to make it interesting or get the ball rolling on conversation and investigation.

The part that is unfun is when a person comes into the thread saying, "I'm going to vote for so-and-so because I have a feeling they're Mafia" when in fact they're voting that way because of a private message they got from someone else informing them that so-and-so was Mafia.

YOU SEE?
I see your point, I do. It would suck if all discussion occured behind the scenes and this thread functioned as a voting thread with short posts such as "k, I'm gonna vote for this guy" and no discussion at all. I think the best would be a minimal amount of stuff occuring privately and then the majority of the discussion happening in this thread. That would be the most entertaining for everyone. But unfortunately, it's not the best tactic for the players. What do you think is easier for the cop? Trying to influence the voting in public where everyone can see it, including the mafia? or contacting a few people the cop has investigated and found to be "citizen"? The last option has the least risk involved. Least entertaining too probably, but then again, is he really a cop? DK's PM was posted here after his death, and it was a nice twist really, DK tried his best to survive a few rounds extra.

This game is usually much different in real life, since obviously there can't be any discussion without everybody hearing it, but this is the internet and it's hard to control that people don't interact privately, the best thing you could do as a moderator to avoid that would be encouraging everyone to not do it, and just hope they didn't.

We can't really compare the wiki on the other page with EoFF because of two things.

1. Their games always involve less than 10 players, we had 22. I'd probably not trust many if I were in a game with less than 10 people. I'd stick to myself.
2. They don't know eachother, they're all strangers to eachother. Most people in this game have friends also in this game, where some bonds are stronger than others. Some talking outside the thread is just bound to happen.

Of course, those talking outside the thread should still be very skeptical to eachother, you never know what's true or not, not much unlike the discussion in this thread. But still, if there's many people having a strong dislike against outside talk, then we'll have to do something about that in the next round of Mafia. I'll make a short survey when everything is finished here with a few questions about what they thought about the game, what could've been better etc. So definitely bring that up then if you feel that it sucks.