Mafia General Discussion

[Eternity]

Ah come on, I thought my game was balanced... I just didn't have any real motivation to write scenes. xD

[MizuMikomi]

Ah come on, I thought my game was balanced... I just didn't have any real motivation to write scenes. xD

I stopped following your's halfway, due to lolmoving.

[Prinapocalypse]

Pringles said to postpone his game for later, so I guess add him to the standby queue with Necro for now?

Jericho should start planning his if he hasn't already.

[darkclaymore]

So I just realized a while ago...

Instead typing in thread, scenes can be also be... written in Word and be later shared through DropBox link!

Writing in Word should make life easier (I bet some of you already do that nowadays), and eliminating the need to copy+adjust it to the forum makes it very efficient.

It's also especially useful for DDC, or any game in which the player needs to keep track over his status, where instead of updating each player's status through PMs, you could just make a Word or Power Point file for every player and update it every time.


What do you think of this alternative?

[MizuMikomi]

So I just realized a while ago...

Instead typing in thread, scenes can be also be... written in Word and be later shared through DropBox link!

Writing in Word should make life easier (I bet some of you already do that nowadays), and eliminating the need to copy+adjust it to the forum makes it very efficient.

It's also especially useful for DDC, or any game in which the player needs to keep track over his status, where instead of updating each player's status through PMs, you could just make a Word or Power Point file for every player and update it every time.


What do you think of this alternative?

My next game will rely on GoogleDocs actually. My first game did, but I never thought of:

"Why don't I just post a link to each scene, rather than copy pasting and adding relative forum related adjustments?"

[vampko]

I use GoogleDocs for planning, but nah. I'll still be posting in thread. It's not that hard to conform to the coding practices that are needed for the forum. And images are actually easier to handle in-thread than in Gdocs.

[darkclaymore]

And images are actually easier to handle in-thread than in Gdocs.

The thought came to me partially due to pics actually.
As I rely a lot on pics, I waste lots of time searching for a fitting pic every few minutes and furthermore got to deal with resizing them if they're too big (through reuploading them to Photobucket).
So yeah, copying a pic and resizing it on spot in the file should make my life easier.

Guess I gonna try that in my next DDC if no one points any major disadvantage I have missed.

[vampko]

And images are actually easier to handle in-thread than in Gdocs.

The thought came to me partially due to pics actually.
As I rely a lot on pics, I waste lots of time searching for a fitting pic every few minutes and furthermore got to deal with resizing them if they're too big (through reuploading them to Photobucket).
So yeah, copying a pic and resizing it on spot in the file should make my life easier.

Guess I gonna try that in my next DDC if no one points any major disadvantage I have missed.

Imgur has that beautiful auto-resize when posting function.

[MizuMikomi]

Oh, yeah, I'll still post in in thread. That's a given.

I like my awesome opening posts and the like, so there will be a story summary there and the like. I just mean for normal scenes, faction scenes, and the like... my game is going to be scene heavy. So GoogleDocs will just be simpler for me.

[darkclaymore]

Speaking of game planning...

Anybody got anything to say regarding DDC?
What should be improved/removed/added and the like in your opinion?

Playing Devil Summoner motivated me to do a fairly major makeover to various areas, so might as well get some extra input to see where I'm ultimately taking it.

[Ubiquitor]

Anybody got anything to say regarding DDC?
What should be improved/removed/added and the like in your opinion?

Only one thing comes to mind at the moment: the presence of promotion/demotion (unless extremely restricted) skills can easily break the game.

[darkclaymore]

Anybody got anything to say regarding DDC?
What should be improved/removed/added and the like in your opinion?

Only one thing comes to mind at the moment: the presence of promotion/demotion (unless extremely restricted) skills can easily break the game.

Hmm...

I considered restricting them only with high MP cost, somewhere between 25 to 40.
Though I'd admit they are fairly powerful, so perhaps I should add 'Double Clash' to the cost. Which means that in addition to costing MP (will be about 25 in this case I suppose), the skills will also require the player to be in Double Clash in order to be used. They'll also consume the whole Double Clash, meaning that it won't be possible to perform any additional action that turn (aside of Add-Ons).

What do you think?

[vampko]

seems fair enough to me.

[Ubiquitor]

The double clash restriction will certainly reduce the rate at which it can be used, so theoretically that could work.

[TheForeignGamer]

I don't mind the idea.