Mutantdevle

Introduction

Howdy, I am mutantdevle. I joined MafiaScum on the 22nd of October 2017 but first started playing mafia games on the 6th of July 2017 on the Everybody Edits forums in the forum games section. You will often find me playing in Central Park, Coney Island and Theme Park, though I may join other games upon request. Normal games bore me as I prefer a little more mystery, flavour and setup spec within my play. Because of this, I will only typically play open games that have these aspects within their setup. My main interest in migrating to these forums is to mod games and I plan to do so consecutively (this doesn't mean I won't still be playing though).

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Everybody Edits

Everybody Edits is a live, multiplayer platform game, where you can build levels in a 2D sandbox environment. At its peak in 2012, it would have 2000 players online at any one time building and playing levels. However, due to neglectful ownership, it is now rare for the game to have any more than 100 players online at once. Despite this, the game still means a lot to many of its long-term players, including myself. As such, the forums of the game remains fairly active amongst our small community and a recent change of ownership means the future of the game is looking bright. One of the things that some of us did on the forum was host and play mafia games.

The culture of mafia was very different on this forum than it was here. First of all, every game was what would be considered blitz here. Day phases only lasted between 48 and 72 hours whereas nights were always 24 hours. Day chat was incredibly rare unless it was granted by a scum role. Additionally, barely anyone took the game seriously. Most games never went over 500 posts and most players were lurkers - due to this, giving lurkers a free pass is within my roots of mafia play. If you wanted to play, then the type of game you played was not optional. There was only ever one game at a time and if you didn't like what you were told about the game then it was tough luck. Due to such a small community, you would find yourself up against 'regulars' who joined every game. This meant that meta reading people was the main way to play and was also rather effective.

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