Now that the list of players is finalized, I thought it might be nice if we all shared our background with mafia just so we can have some sort of prior from which to understand where people are coming from when the game starts. So I can start.
I have never played mafia online. However, I was a counselor at a math camp last summer, and the kids were obsessed with mafia, so I played a lot there. For that reason, I've probably played 50 or so face to face games, all with analytically minded 16 and 17 years olds. I'm not sure how that will translate, as it seemed to me that in those games the best thing to do was sort of buddy up with people sitting near you and form voting blocs, at least to start, which was obviously kind of a train wreck in the first mafia game on this site.
It's also the case that the go-to game in my dorm if we want to play a board game is Resistance and/or Avalon, which are very similar to mafia, with the exception that it is mission based rather than having someone die each night. I've probably played these games >100 times. In those games, the best strategy is something close to being very controversial and aggressive and make a lot of (false) hard claims, as it makes it easier to make reads that way and it's not possible to get killed. It is also more logic driven (rather than read driven) than mafia, I think. Not sure exactly how that all will translate to mafia on the internet.
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Feature: Min/Max DipPoints for New Games
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