Pick Their Power Mafia

We know the following about Torte de Lini

1) It is his first game
2) He has a role with a posting restriction, but massive roleblocking potential (3 targets one night)

A new town player is often appalled by the amounts of posts in a game of mafia. They are however eager to try the game, and often put a lot of effort into it. This is because every person naturally thinks he/she is special, and will make a difference. We all know that new town players are often misled, make a ton of mistakes, and can easily be more of a detriment to their team than an asset, but they are always eager to prove themselves. New town players wants to make an impact on the game. Often they fail at it, becomes tired of reading, gets very apologetic or self hating, but they always start out wanting to contribute.

TDL is in this game assigned a role with a posting limitation. We know this, because Meapak designed it, and he was green. If you know anything to TDL’s general posting habits on the forum, you know he is posting eagerly, border lining spammy. He can also write pages long blogs without problems. If he wants to ague, he is more than capable of it.

His posting in this game starts out by being short and meaningless. In his first post he fucks up by saying it’s an advantage that no one can tell his alignment, being a new player. Woops, the least a townie is concerned about when he start the game is his alignment. His next post tries to excuse that.

You can call that a noob mistake regardless of alignment. But what’s important is that 1) he is ignoring the current discussion in thread. 2) He has just wasted two of his precious posts on nothing. Both of these things goes against making an impact. New town players makes mistakes with their opinion. New mafia players, they just want to slip by.

His next post of the day (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=227186&currentpage=24#462) is the most condemning. Notice the repetition in the questions, and notice the missing words in the second sentence. The post shows sign of 1) extensive editing, where words and sentences gets mixed up, 2) being a “post and forget” type of post. Number 1 is a sign of mafia trying to make his contribution for the day, which eventually has to be fake. Number two is a sign of not actually wanting to follow up on the discussion, he just wants others to spend time answering them. Both are clear mafia signs, and should have raised huge red flags.

After getting called out on the above post he plays the noob card the rest of the day. His posts are filled with guilt however, you can tell that he is feeling pressured, even if he is just a name amongst many others. A stupid townie simply gets annoyed and shuts up, or goes offensive, TDL tries to look as small as possible.

A nice scumslip happens the day after (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=227186&currentpage=79#1571) . The post itself is characterized by being non substantial. Why would someone under a posting restriction post to say he should do something else before posting? But the funny thing is it is completely strapped of any suspicion. New players often see mafia everywhere, and don’t trust anyone. Torte doesn’t seem to be concerned with that at all, he is just fitting in. But notice the editing with regards to his vote. He has clearly not felt good about voting wiggles, and has tried to come up with a way to soften the impact... and failed, because he knows wiggles is guilty. This is such an obvious example of a newb scum struggling with himself to bus his own team mate that I can’t believe I haven’t noticed it sooner.

The day continues with more one liner spam that is completely uncharacteristic for a townie with a posting restriction. Since I don’t like repeating myself, you can read it yourself. He comes out to talk about his role and defend himself, but the main thing to notice is he is not at all concerned with finding mafia, and that he underlines how much of a noob he is. At this point his posting restriction is just a poor excuse for lurking his ass off.

Later in the day he put up a defence against redFF’s accusation (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=227186&currentpage=94#1873). This is a good post that finally shows us that TDL has the potential to be a very contributing player if he wants to. Just a pity that all he does with his time is to defend himself then, right? It doesn’t help that redFF’s case is bullshit. All in all TDL looks more town from this post than before, but it doesn’t tell us much of his alignment other than that he could contribute if he would. Rest of day is more of the same.

Conclusion:
From reading this analysis it should be clear that TDL is not playing to further the town goals. It is not his abilities that is lacking, it is his motives. There is several contradictions between his posting restriction and one line contributions. His posts are doing their best to avoid standing out. His contributions are post and forget contributions. And most importantly, he is not suspicious of anyone at all, and why would he be, he already knows the scum. All he is trying to do is to survive.