Total posts: 8,236
Posted in:
-->
@SirAnonymous
Yeah lol... I knew I needed some help making a good setup after RNG Mafia, so I DM'd Lunatic and got his help.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@SirAnonymous
Lunatic helped me make the game. He can't play in this one.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Double_R
Just go back and screenshot what you need. It might take a lot of your time for the next couple days, but it's not bad. Just crank up Spotify and get to clicking.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@badger
@USBurning
Legend has it that the spirit of Imabench’s account still lurks these forums…
I doubt it though.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@thett3
the site was probably still pulling in a ton of ad revenue from old content before Google changed their search algorithm.
Definitely. You go on DDO now and there’s more ads per page than ever. When I first joined, the site had a banner ad at the top and bottom, and two on the sides. That was it and I think it remained that way until I left for DART. Now you can see debate arguments interrupted midway through the text by ad spaces, so they clearly decided they just wanted to make more profit per click instead of saving the site.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@thett3
Interesting…I had a suspicion that whatever entity owned the property at this point simply forgot about it. Wonder if your message is what reminded them that they owned what has to be a pretty valuable domain name
I wonder if deleting DDO's data makes the domain name more valuable. One wouldn't want to sell a site domain name when it has a known history of controversy (not to mention the whole Ethang vs. Harikrish thing that any potential buyer who may visit the site can see).
Might be a bit of a tinfoil hat theory here though- they might just want to scrap everything altogether and let it die. Especially since I don't know who they could even sell it to for their desired price- clearly they weren't interested in USBurning's offer, whatever it was.
I wonder what Phil and Crystal would ever think if they saw what happened to their site 14 years later. Would they care at all?
Created:
Posted in:
1. Whiteflame
2. Earth
3. Pie
4. Badger
5. Greyparrot
6. That2
7. SirAnon
8. Barney
9. MisterChris
10. Oromagi
11.
12.
Created:
Posted in:
1. Whiteflame
2. Earth
3. Pie
4. Badger
5. Greyparrot
6. That2
7. SirAnon
8. Barney
9. MisterChris
10.
11.
12.
Created:
Posted in:
Imma call it here tho: if i can't make 12 in three days I'll modify to 9 players
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@thett3
So Juggle stopped filtering out bad debates and I'm guessing new users didn't find it worthwhile to stick around, resulting in a slow decline as older users continued to grow more frustrated by Juggle and quit one by one.
Honestly gives a lot of perspective. I remember when I first joined the site, I mostly associated myself with other newbies, and many of them did not stick around for long. I was one of the few and the only other ones that stuck around with me were Pie and Supa.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Barney
When I joined DDO in 2016, people were already saying the site was dead.
So this leads me to a question for the older users: What exactly was DDO like in its heyday?
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Bones
It’s pretty sad really. Day in and day out those two are going at it. And for what point? Seems like a waste of time.
Created:
Posted in:
In the meantime, I’m going to pull some data from the old mafia games until they get deleted.
Created:
Posted in:
1. Whiteflame
2. Earth
3. Pie
4. Badger
5. Greyparrot
6. That2
7. SirAnon
8. Barney
9.
10.
11.
12.
Created:
Posted in:
1. Whiteflame
2. Earth
3. Pie
4. Badger
5. Greyparrot
6. That2
7. SirAnon
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
Created:
Posted in:
1. Whiteflame
2. Earth
3. Pie
4. Badger
5. Greyparrot
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@RationalMadman
@coal
@whiteflame
@oromagi
@That2User
in?
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@warren42
@sui_generis
@Discipulus_Didicit
@Speedrace
@Mikal
wanna join?
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Earth
@Bullish
@WaterPhoenix
@Crocodile
@ComputerNerd
You down?
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Danielle
@Greyparrot
@Vader
@ILikePie5
@badger
interested?
Created:
Posted in:
Current Mafia:
None
Signups:
Mharman - NFL Mafia
In the Hopper:
None
On Hold:
Earth - Internet Culture Mafia
Created:
Posted in:
Welcome to NFL Mafia! This game setup was made with help from Lunatic.
This is a game based on the National Football League, an American league that plays football (duh)! Each character will be a team that currently plays in the league and will have a theme that divides the team into two categories, with stated reasons for roles based on the team as well. Scum team will have a fake claim pool (with some better than others) and may also go outside of the pool for fake claims. There is no Jester.
Standard rules of game format and mechanics apply to this 12-player game. I can adjust to 9 players if need be, but I am going to try really hard not to have to do that.
Rules: (Expect a lot of obvious mafia game rules that you already know about here.)
Players may not contact each other about the game aside from in-thread and game-approved PMs. Dead players contacting the living players to better spectate the game is acceptable as long as no information is revealed or hints/tips are given to the living player. However, I strongly prefer dead players contact me for information if they want to spectate. Dead players may contact other dead players.
Players may not reveal information about information about this game (roles, characters, etc.) since all players can see it.
Once a player is dead they may not communicate in-thread. They may still communicate in game approved PMs, however. Also, players may not talk after the DP has ended. During twilight it is fine to talk, but not after final vote count and flip are posted.
No players may C/P their role PM or fake doing so. All role PMs must be paraphrased.
All questions to me about the game will be answered wherever they were posted as long as they can be answered without ruining the game. I can and will answer all hypotheticals, but cannot answer questions about unrevealed information, with a few exceptions that will already be specified at the start of the game without the need for players to ask about. Example: If a player asks if there is a cop in the game, I cannot confirm or deny that. I can, however, answer questions about how a cop would work if it were to be in the game, since that is a hypothetical.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
GLHF!
Created:
Posted in:
Current Mafia:
None
Signups:
None
In the Hopper:
Mharman - NFL Mafia
On Hold:
Earth - Internet Culture Mafia
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@badger
Working on signup thread. we'll see if I can pull the players for it
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Earth
That's why it's such a pit. We need to scrape together whoever we can find just to get a good game going. While ramping up efforts to get the site searched on Google and the like.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@oromagi
Yeah, it is a pretty steep climb for new players. But I honestly would not want to constantly play Cop9ers. It gets stale after a while. The creative explosion of mafia got the game pretty popular across the internet, from here to MU to the Bulbagarden forums. I honestly think mafia needs to stay creative to survive. To me it seems like the lack of participation here comes from 1) A lack of new users finding and staying on this site, 2) Poor modding becoming more common (partially my fault) and 3) The existing inactivity feeding into the second of these issues. When old players leave, new players to easily welcomed into modding games without having been a co-mod for a more experienced mod.
If I recall on DDO, there was a number of games played requirement to mod a game. Honestly, I wonder if we should bring that back to up the standard for average game quality. Now we just need the site to attract enough new members (and reclaim old members) for a good mod (or a mod with some help from a good mod) to get a game going, which goes back to the issue of site inactivity. It's a slow effort to climb out of the pit mafia is in right now, but it's still possible.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@badger
I have a game Lunatic helped me make with a setup and NFL theme ready but I don’t know if I can pull 12 people for it. We can try but we’ll probably need some of the old school players just to fill the spots.
I promise the setup is good and that modding will be consistent.
You down?
Created:
Posted in:
Looking into DS capture cards. Wanna upload the Elite 4 + Cynthia fights to YouTube because it’s more interesting than posting in a forum
Created:
Posted in:
UPDATE:
Sandy has reached Level 60.
Now to come up with grinding strats for the other members of the team.
Created:
There always will be as long as this site lasts.
Created:
Posted in:
Grinding again. Found some grinding strats online that should speed up the process.
Created:
Posted in:
I used to make threads like these. I stopped when I realized this site was a cycle of leaving and returning for periods of time and every departure and return wasn’t worth a new thread.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@warren42
I guess go for Lunatic and if not, yourself then.
Created:
Posted in:
Do we need a site stance on this? We are all individual users. We all have our own stances. My stance is that what Putin is doing is obviously wrong, but why do we need the whole site to unite on this? We can try to get as many people to our side as possible, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion on a debate website.
To bring up Mike’s nationality is irrelevant, and call me crazy, but I missed when companies just advertised their product instead of some trending cause in the news cycle. There is no need or reason to pressure an official statement out of him or any company or business owner.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Barney
Just one tread in the misc forum for messing around. Like DDO’s “record attempt at most posts” thread or something.
Created: