Pick Your Power Interesting! - Page 2

On October 14 2011 07:38 Radfield wrote:
Here's the thing with the mayor. In a normal set-up. one scum HAS to run for mayor, as not competing for the elected roles leaves you at a serious disadvantage. However, running for mayor also comes at a cost to mafia, as they have to spotlight themselves. Increased scrutiny goes hand in hand with running for mayor.

It is very viable for any single mafia team to simply not run, and hope that some other scum team competes and spotlights themselves. Discussion will center around every candidate running, so the ability to stay out of the spotlight while still splitting up the elected roles between multiple teams is a tempting prospect.

A couple guidelines for running for mayor as i see them:

* Do not run for mayor if you are dreamflower or Doctor
* Do not run for mayor if you are vanilla townie, unless you are a solid scumhunter(or have zero faith in any of the other options)


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Framer+ NRA member poses an interesting problem. If a town player takes NRA member, the optimal play is to claim, but only if the framer has also claimed. An NRA member can absolutely NOT CLAIM if the framer is hidden. As pointed out by others, the framer could simply direct any claimed blues into the NRA member.

For this reason, I think it makes sense for Dropbear to go for Framer. I haven't fully thought of all the possibilities, but in my current wine-addled state this makes a lot of sense. There exists the possibility for Dropbear to be mafia, but I don't think there is very much mischief he can cause to us by lying, especially compared with the amount of attention he would draw on himself. Cost benefit analysis says he should draft Framer.

However, the thief/roleswapper is a problem as they could swipe the power. Dropbear can't simply come out into the thread and claim he got it. This is where Chaosers Qatol plan comes in. If a player lower down takes Qatol, they can PM Dropbear and ask him if he got framer, then ban him if he did. This nullifies the power, and leaves us in good shape.

This is a bit convoluted I admit, but I do like the idea of Dropbear going for Framer. Not much risk vs moderate reward.

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Kenpachi, you have the second overall pick. I'd love to hear your overall thoughts on the game so far.

Mig, I'd like to hear your thoughts too. Is our current townie picking plan a good one? What are potential downfalls? Are there any roles that should be on the tier list? Etc.



Protact, I think you missed this question when i asked it earlier:

If cupid tries to tie the NRA member to another player, will cupid be killed?

also

What order are actions performed in. If a role swapper and thief both target the same player, which person gets the role? First player to send in their action I presume?

On October 14 2011 08:12 Jackal58 wrote:
Qatol can ban daily. It's not a one off power.

On October 14 2011 13:49 chaoser wrote:


Obviously you should vote me since I am both in the middle of the order (albeit low middle) and also have a lynch target. Also, I put up a picture of Mike Haggar. And he is awesome. He can beat up any stupid stick figures and numbers mean nothing to him.

On October 15 2011 06:22 hiro protagonist wrote:


I'll let you think about it for awhile...

On October 15 2011 06:54 hiro protagonist wrote:


they can both die by lynch.

On October 15 2011 15:50 Cyber_Cheese wrote:
I'm up for putting Greymist in office, If his answer these is satisfactory I think he'd be best as pardoner, because that's the more powerful role of the two.





As for mayor. It's still between wiggles/radfield/jimbo, leaning on wiggles because he's the only one to have answered to both of these posts in the thread, and against jimbo because of his high spot in the drafting.

On October 15 2011 16:15 Scamp wrote:
Oh sweet. In PMs he's town. Yes that's convincing.

Greymist what did WBG PM you about?

On October 14 2011 11:49 Scamp wrote:
Jimbo is exactly right. Luckily there's not much time left so everyone's prolly sent in their picks already.

The reality is that there are 12 mafia and 16 townies. That is an absurdly ridiculous ratio. If I were mafia I'd take whatever kills as much as possible and just start massacring everything.

The only way the town can win is if the mafia shoot each other. If the mafia families suck then the town is screwed. (Actually, the last multiple-mafia-family game I was in ended in a tie thanks to late modkills and my medical prowess.)

I really hope the discussion caused mafia members to try to take investigative roles.

On October 16 2011 04:06 kitaman27 wrote:
By the way, I tracked chaoser to a kill tonight.

On October 16 2011 04:41 chaoser wrote:
Aside from sandroba I'd like to make a case against Prphlz:

The first post of his that stood out to me was:



What??? But from playing with him in LOTR I understand that he has word vomit so I understand if he's just being stupid but...

not only does he ask for a coach before the game started:



but he also jsut agrees with everyone and says nothing original:







When it was said wayyy earlier



All of these have been said by many many other people.

Finally, prphlz was townie in LOTR which was last game. If you read over his posts you'll notice that he tunnels everyone he feels like mafia, being very active about expressing his opinions on who he thinks is mafia.

In this game?



Never does any scum hunting.

On October 16 2011 04:50 hiro protagonist wrote:
lol, Im always suspicious day 1 when Im town. I think I am the opposite of Mig in that regard, because I am great at being scum, but Im terrible at playing townie

Scum hiro would have never said the things that I have said so far this game. PM me if anyone wants to chat.