Postgame
So this game was really,
really fucking hurt by general inactivity. Bass said during this game that mafia is what you make of it, and any villager who just did absolutely nothing could have teamed up with a few others and ended up having a lot more control than in other games. If they thought they had no power, that's what ended up happening though. The real result of this though is that the pacing was horrid, I think everyone would have liked the game better if it didn't take a month to play. I said before that mafia needs to get smaller with our current playerbase, and for 40 for a big game is small but I think bigs in general are just dead atm. I might have wanted to do another one soon but I sure as shit don't know.
So why did I make it big? Well to stuff it with neutrals that I had cool ideas for. But mostly because the more double roles I could fit onto the village, the safer the mafias could claim. Which, the mafia did not take advantage of at all so it was utterly pointless. As always in hindsight I'd make some numbers adjustments, but I made the village as big as I did because I thought Democracy would ultimately be a detriment to them (and... not wrong). Even then, with the numbers of the mafia and neutrals, they could have taken majority of the vote really quickly, and once zorbees started moling I don't think anyone thought there would be a village victory. I compared my game to Acklow's big when making this, and in Acklow's the mafia played almost perfectly with no crossfire, but still didn't have the numbers to win. In that same situation, the mafia would have stomped the village here. It's been said that the village didn't deserve to win, and you didn't in my opinion. But even though Oligarchy deserved to win, they still made some mistakes that led to this conclusion.
With the sheer amount of inactivity and subs I think it's pointless to talk about all the players in detail, so here is the
role pm document. I'll just talk a bit about each team.
Democracy
These guys won, most didn't deserve it. Most did absolutely nothing. I made Democracy with the intent of everyone at least being a shinyskarmory in terms of player level, but some newbies were just nothing. Couldn't use irc, couldn't figure out how to bold a vote on the forum, I'm not some actually speak English. I'm sorry, I'm not usually a rampant dick toward my players but I'm also not like c'mon.
Some players deserved to win more than others. Billy and ipl obviously put in an effort, and ipl didn't win at all. Flamestrike was a good sub. StevenSnype and Ace Emerald pulled themselves together at the last minute but should not have idled for so long as they did.
Fascism
UncleSam got luck screwed really early, and that pretty much defined his play for the game. Oddly for giving him low-mid level allies, I think only skarm did nothing to help out. It was generally a pretty competent team with a competent leader, but circumstance and Oligarchy screwed them over.
Oligarchy
These guys probably deserved to win more than anyone, and mostly functioned as advertised, but they did make some major mistakes. Jumpluff was the major planner of the group for most of the game, with Yeti helping a great deal as well. zorbees certainly moled the village really too damn well at start, but as they got clearly complacent so did he, doing obvious things like attacking players through the decoy multiple times in a row. He also hurt their end game by listing jumpluff as suspicious on the village sheet. Lightwolf did his job as the go between with neutrals and fascism, but as far as I know all he ever did was try to piss off Sam, a tactic that ultimately lost the game. askaninjask did almost nothing, I mean normally I'd say he didn't really hurt his team but given that they were predicated on being the best players around having one do nothing hurt more than usual. As a whole, they killed off wolves too quickly (esp Paperblade) and fought with Fascism too much. This is what let the village win in the end.
Anarchy
Well, I can't say you bet on the wrong horse, but you put your eggs all in one basket. I dare say if Sam hadn't outed you, the game still could have gone in any direction. However, it was clear to him that you were favoring the Oligarchy.
Capitalism
Paperblade actually did a really good job of gaining money, but I really don't understand why he used it the way he did. Saving up for a recruit made sense, but even then he only used his kill twice, and spent money on stealth multiple times where it was not needed. As the most reliable wolf kill, and with no real protection, Oligarchy really should have left him alive to whittle down the village some more.
Idiocracy
Did almost nothing.
Theocracy
This was a really fun wolf role with lots of utility and a very viable win condition. I don't know if Walrein ever really tried to get into that kingmaker scenario, he was by far the most elusive wolf throughout the game with his inspect protection confusing several players.
I'm giving MVP to a tie between
jumpluff and
Yeti. jumpluff did the most for her team but subbed out, and yeti did the second most. Normally I'd consider StevenSnype but he did dick all for most of the game.
Aight that's it. The forums are gonna be unlocked so everyone can see everything.