Game Cycles

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In a Mafia game, there are cycles of Days and Nights. The capitalized terms "Day" and "Night" refer to an in-game cycle, where as the lower case "day" and "night" refer to real life time. Most of the time, a specific day and time will be set for the end of a game cycle, but there is usually a mechanism to end the cycle sooner if certain conditions are met (unanimous lynch vote, all Night actions submitted, etc).

[edit] Days

During the Day, the town and scum factions are allowed to talk and strategize. As a whole, the town (including scum members) votes on a person to lynch in an effort to eliminate scum. Normally, a 12 or 24 hour countdown to end the Day early will begin when a threshold of votes is reached (usually, 50% or more). At the end of the Day, the player with the most votes is killed and his/her role information is revealed. There are a few power roles that have Day actions, but they are uncommon.

[edit] Nights

During the Night, the town is only allowed to talk for fun; no strategy discussion is allowed. The scum faction, however, is allowed to talk to each other on a separate private forum, where they decide on a player to kill. Night is also when most power roles get to submit their desired Night actions.