Mafia: general discussions.

Okay. I said that if Revan and Zubr clash, a nuclear winter will ensue. It's a pity.
Personally, I don't see any grounds for awarding points for insults in his post, but these are my personal criteria – what I consider an insult and what I don't. I wouldn't give any points.

In general, this whole topic about merging with the Workshop has long turned into a feeding ground for trolls, so I'm not commenting on it and won't be. But I would like to respond to something in Revan's post:

Oh yes, almost forgot. It's very mean to recruit players in private messages, without registration. "Only players who please me will play in my game!" and who cares if someone might have wanted to play.
I'm all for the GM having complete control over their own game and the topic related to it, but in this case, if they really wanted to see only specific people in their game, they could have created one on some forum like Yuku, or somewhere else, instead of clogging up the queue here.

This is not the first person to say that recruiting players by invitation is unfair. Maybe. But the point is that the usual "first come, first served" registration also has nothing to do with fairness. This is Mafia, not a 100-meter dash. How many people also "wanted to play," but there wasn't enough room for them? I think everyone remembers examples from different settings.
Recently, it has also become fashionable to show up in the topic with a bunch of business cards and take places for an entire group at once: "I want this number, my friend wants that one, and also my friend's friend and the friend of my friend's friend."
If, back in the days of 25 (if I'm not mistaken), Neyra's attempt to reserve a spot in advance was discussed and condemned, now it has turned into something like an attack of old ladies with bags on a bus: you come in five minutes later, and there are no places left, and bags are standing on the free spots, it's occupied.

But spending the night with a pillow by the monitor and guarding the opening of the game in the hope of being able to sign up – that's not very convenient, at least for me. By the way, I personally invited Kyle to my last game, but he simply didn't have time to sign up – the places were taken in less than a day. Kyle wanted to play and replied to me as soon as he could – please forgive him, he also works. Is this an example of fairness?

I can even appeal to logic and prove, albeit with some paradoxes, that "first come, first served" registration (which is what open registration has turned into) is the least "fair" way to register for Mafia.
So.
Those who spend all day on the forum sign up the fastest, that is, they don't work or study, that is, they are lazy, that is, they don't have high intelligence, and therefore have the least right to priority registration in an intellectual game.
Isn't that logical? :)

This was a joke, just for the troll-inclined. The point is that both ways of recruiting players for the game are debatable from the point of view of impeccability, so let it be up to the GM. At least, it is the GM who works while we play, so they have the right to this bonus.