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RulesVotingEveryday we have a vote. During the vote, you can pick any person you want by simply typing
VOTE (NAME). Please bold the vote to make it noticeable and official. You can change your vote at any time. If you change your vote, please go back and unbold your previous vote or delete it. You can only cast one vote each day. If you have made two votes in the day, neither will be counted.
Each day, the deadline for voting will be mentioned in the announcements section. When this time occurs, the thread will be locked, thereby preventing any illegal vote changing. The vote you had up to that time will be counted. You are free to change or cast votes until the thread is locked even if the lock occurs a bit after the announced deadline.
You can talk to anyone in the game and can co-operate with anyone you want in the game. Sending private messages to others in the game is allowed and welcomed. All players regardless of their role can cast a vote. You can play your role however you want but I always recommend you play it to win as that will make things the most interesting in the game.
Night ActionsAfter the Day vote has ended, it is the time for night actions. If a player has a role that gives them a certain power, I.E. protection or a hit, this player must send their order for the action to the host in a private message. Afterwards, the host will go through all the orders, resolve them and carry them out and then start the next day's vote. This is done until a winner is declared.
Night actions can also be submitted during the day period but there will always be an hour given after a thread is locked for night actions to be submitted as a final deadline. You can change your night actions at anytime during the day and night period until the deadline is reached. The most recent action I receive will be the one I will use.
Voting tiesSometimes, the day vote comes down to the wire with two or more people tied in number of votes cast against. If the deadline comes and the vote is tied, it will be resolved in the following way. First, the role of Picard has the chance to break the tie. The power of that role allows the player to choose who they think should be voted out. They would send this decision to the host in private message. If Picard has not sent in a decision by the time the next day is about to begin, neither person is voted out. However, all night actions are still carried out. This could be damaging to the townies and would thus want to be avoided.
In the event that Picard is killed during the game, ties will be resolved the following way. After the deadline has been reached and there is a tie, the day vote will stay open a half hour longer to allow a tiebreak. This means that anyone who hasn't voted yet has a chance to cast a vote and break the tie or if someone has voted then they can change their vote or delete it. In the even of a tiebreak, a vote can only be cast or removed for one of the players tied in the vote. If at the end of the 30 extra minutes no tiebreak has occured, then both players remain alive and all night actions still go forth. Avoid ties townies. It will only hurt you.
Dead PlayersDead players are allowed to talk with one another or in a specially created Dead Thread. They are not allowed to talk to those still playing the game nor are they allowed to give out information regarding the game. Doing so will make you known as a scumbag and your cancerous reputation will spread among all other forum users so that they also can shun you.
Win ConditionsThe townies win by eliminating all mafia members as well as the Borg Queen and any Borg in the game. Picard, Data, Deanna and Beverly are townies and would win in a townie victory.
The Mafia would win by eliminating the Borg Queen and any Borg in the game and achieving at least a tie between the amount of townies and Mafia members left in the game if not a majority of more mafia members than townies.
The Borg Queen wins if all remaining players are assimilated and/or all non-Borg players are eliminated. Even if the Queen dies but the remaining collective wins then the Queen and all remaining Borg players alive share in the victory.
Now, I know that is a lot of reading and can look complicated but it isn't. And if you don't want to read everything here that's fine. Feel free to ask a question on whatever you want an answer for and I or someone else may quote the appropiate answer from here. After a day or two, you'll understand most of these rules anyways. Good luck and have fun.