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Ver
Profile Joined October 2008
United States2186 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-21 07:05:27
January 21 2010 07:04 GMT
#481
Very interesting. Hope this keeps up.
Liquipedia
t_co
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States702 Posts
January 21 2010 07:07 GMT
#482
On January 21 2010 15:47 meeple wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 21 2010 15:43 t_co wrote:
All you guys had to do to stop the drama was to let me get elected. Was it worth it, Doctor Meeples? Now we have either a mafia victory via crippled town or mafia victory via having sheriff/mayor in their pocket. Instead we could have had me in that position actually forming a coherent strategy to lead the town the victory.


What's you coherent strategy? Lynch everyone who agrees with each other?


No--I only wanted to lynch you and DrH because you guys started agreeing with each other wayyy too early in the thread, and furthermore, you guys backed each others' runs for the mayor/sheriff awfully early too.

Anyhow, my strategy was:

Random Ordering

There are 7 mafia and 27 normal players + 2 extra mayor votes. In order for the mafia to win they must have a majority of survivor votes.

The mafia kill 3 people per night. That means we have a 5 night margin of wrong lynches before mafia win. Once we take down mafia, that margin of nights increases.

There is a simple solution, then, that can guarantee at least a 75% chance of success for the town.

Arrange everyone in a random order and execute the next one on the list each night. With the 5 night margin of wrong lynches and the 1/2 kp/# proportion and 1:4 mafia:town ratio the town has a 77.8% chance of victory.

This hinges on making sure the mayor is not mafia. If he is mafia then it becomes 9 mafia and 27 normal votes which means that the town only has a 3 night margin and the chances of victory for that plan go to 40%.

That was my strategy. Happy?
"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, so long as there is money to buy it." --Henry Kravis
t_co
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States702 Posts
January 21 2010 07:10 GMT
#483
It's either that strategy, or if we want to play mafia the usual way, then we need to kill the mayor.
"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, so long as there is money to buy it." --Henry Kravis
t_co
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States702 Posts
January 21 2010 07:24 GMT
#484
The above strategy requires the randomized list order to be kept secret from the public so that the mafia do not know its order. IF the mafia knew the order, they could just kill the lowest ranking player on the randomized list and that woudl tip the game in their favor.
"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, so long as there is money to buy it." --Henry Kravis
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
January 21 2010 07:35 GMT
#485
On January 21 2010 16:07 t_co wrote:

Arrange everyone in a random order and execute the next one on the list each night. With the 5 night margin of wrong lynches and the 1/2 kp/# proportion and 1:4 mafia:town ratio the town has a 77.8% chance of victory.



Can you expand on this? What were your calculations to get the result?
Bill Murray
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States9292 Posts
January 21 2010 07:36 GMT
#486
what would your plan be as mafia, t_co? run for sheriff and then estrange your competition throwing mud all over the place?
University of Kentucky Basketball #1
Bill Murray
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States9292 Posts
January 21 2010 08:14 GMT
#487
there are only 4 people who have yet to post on here, or are lurking (i'm assuming that because there are 3 people who have posted on the vote thread, who haven't posted here. there are also a few with only 1 post.)

the 4 inactives are: Ng5, ohN, phyujbaz, and JohannesH. Correct me if i'm wrong.
Many people will now say "Lynch them!", but do you kill stasised tanks first? Do you use feedback on a maelstromed defiler, or one that is running away towards your cannons?
University of Kentucky Basketball #1
Ser Aspi
Profile Joined January 2010
France84 Posts
January 21 2010 08:16 GMT
#488
On January 21 2010 17:14 Bill Murray wrote:
there are only 4 people who have yet to post on here, or are lurking (i'm assuming that because there are 3 people who have posted on the vote thread, who haven't posted here. there are also a few with only 1 post.)

the 4 inactives are: Ng5, ohN, phyujbaz, and JohannesH. Correct me if i'm wrong.
Many people will now say "Lynch them!", but do you kill stasised tanks first? Do you use feedback on a maelstromed defiler, or one that is running away towards your cannons?


haha cute analogy

I think right now that most mafia are sitting back and watching everyone argue lol

meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
January 21 2010 08:23 GMT
#489
On January 21 2010 17:14 Bill Murray wrote:
there are only 4 people who have yet to post on here, or are lurking (i'm assuming that because there are 3 people who have posted on the vote thread, who haven't posted here. there are also a few with only 1 post.)

the 4 inactives are: Ng5, ohN, phyujbaz, and JohannesH. Correct me if i'm wrong.
Many people will now say "Lynch them!", but do you kill stasised tanks first? Do you use feedback on a maelstromed defiler, or one that is running away towards your cannons?


lol... Ng5 isn't that active generally... but he's around (in his chess streaming thread), so I think he's lurking.

I wouldn't lynch them yet, some of them are probably totally inactive and they will be modkilled. Lynching someone who's inactive is a waste.

Jugan
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States1566 Posts
January 21 2010 08:44 GMT
#490
I'm glad I didn't vote for you t_co, your method is a little ridiculous. Your speech about experience basically shows that it amounts to nothing. The game can and should be won by analyzing the clues, not by trying to randomly stab every single time and hoping you don't get owned. I'm not going to take jabs at the obvious flaws in your strategy. I'm just going to say that bottom line, this is a game. We're meant to enjoy it. If we just roll a die every day who's going to even bother COMING to this thread. Why even put up the story? no one will bother about the clues.

Now let's move on to a different topic.
Even a Savior couldn't fix all problems. www.twitch.tv/xJugan
t_co
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States702 Posts
January 21 2010 09:02 GMT
#491
On January 21 2010 16:35 meeple wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 21 2010 16:07 t_co wrote:

Arrange everyone in a random order and execute the next one on the list each night. With the 5 night margin of wrong lynches and the 1/2 kp/# proportion and 1:4 mafia:town ratio the town has a 77.8% chance of victory.



Can you expand on this? What were your calculations to get the result?


Here's the python script
+ Show Spoiler +

#!/usr/bin/env python

import random

TRIALS = 100000
MAFIA_FRACTION = 0.25
MIN_POP = 6
MAX_POP = 30
HIT_VARIANT = 0

COMMONER = 0
MAFIA = 1

maf_wins = 0
com_wins = 0

def init_town():
popsize = random.randint(MIN_POP,MAX_POP)
town = [COMMONER for j in range(0,popsize)]
maf_count = int(MAFIA_FRACTION * popsize)
for j in range(maf_count):
while 1:
idx = random.randint(0,popsize-1)
if town[idx] != MAFIA: break
town[idx] = MAFIA
return town

def hit_commoner(town):
if COMMONER not in town:
return town
else:
com = town.index(COMMONER)
return town[:com] + town[com+1

for i in range(TRIALS):
town = init_town()
while len(town) > 0:
town = town[1
if HIT_VARIANT: town = hit_commoner(town)
maf_left = town.count(MAFIA)
pop_left = len(town)
if maf_left > (pop_left/2):
maf_wins += 1
break
elif maf_left == 0:
com_wins += 1
break

print "Commoner wins : " + str(com_wins)
print "Mafia wins : " + str(maf_wins)
print ("Mafia fraction : " +
str(float(maf_wins)/float(maf_wins+com_wins)))
"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, so long as there is money to buy it." --Henry Kravis
Ace
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States16096 Posts
January 21 2010 09:09 GMT
#492
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Math me up, scumboi. - Acrofales
Moloch
Profile Joined June 2008
Canada222 Posts
January 21 2010 09:14 GMT
#493
I must say, t_co just made the most amazing post I have ever seen.
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
January 21 2010 09:20 GMT
#494
That... is so fucking awesome...

t_co
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States702 Posts
January 21 2010 09:44 GMT
#495
K... I'm off to sleep.

Gah, how did I go through the reverse of a Gandhi quote?

Gandhi: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Me: First I was winning, then they fought me, then they laughed at me, now they'll ignore me, and I'll get hit/lynched.
"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, so long as there is money to buy it." --Henry Kravis
citi.zen
Profile Joined April 2009
2509 Posts
January 21 2010 12:40 GMT
#496
T_co, youbring this on yourself with every additional post. Also, what happened to accusing me? I am the one who called you out, not meeple or DH. Is it because you are devoting all your efforts to shedding doubt on the elected officials??? After you lost the election, that is?

Look, I have no reason now to trust anyone. However, you t_co just make nonsensical arguments and change your story every paragraph. I find it really hard to belive this is accidental, as opposed to deliberate misinformation. Either way I find you hard to work with, despite your 13 post "experience" from the red mafia.
Aut viam inveniam, aut faciam.
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
January 21 2010 12:45 GMT
#497
Eh... I think its time to do what he said and just ignore him. He's already gotten more than enough attention that he really deserved.
citi.zen
Profile Joined April 2009
2509 Posts
January 21 2010 12:53 GMT
#498
I still say Lynch.
Aut viam inveniam, aut faciam.
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
January 21 2010 13:07 GMT
#499
I'd hate to come out in support of him... but you think a person who's willing to go through the trouble of programming the choices into Python is Mafia?

Regardless he's made himself pretty suspicious and I'd love to be sure.
citi.zen
Profile Joined April 2009
2509 Posts
January 21 2010 13:29 GMT
#500
Good point on the programing, but it could fall into this theme of spreading misinformation and confusion. I still make t_co my no.1 choice, hobbes is a distant 2nd. I find it hard to reconcile the running for office with later calling for the head of the mayor, when he wasn't getting many votes. If he is an experienced and calculated player who believed that theory, why would he run in the 1st place? Why not sit back waiting to share his theory and wonderful algorythms??? I can't square it.
Aut viam inveniam, aut faciam.
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