Pick Your Power Interesting! - Page 5

Public IRC is just a horrible idea. If you're going to do PMs, you have to use them right. Using IRC just encourages people to go with the flow rather than play deliberately and strategically. The only reasons IRC should be used is to have a private group chat with people you trust, i.e. your mafia team, if you are working in a small town circle, etc.

Having a public IRC is just the worst idea ever. Since its public, it might as well be the thread. You can't expect to put any meaningful pressure on anyone in a public IRC any more than you can in the thread. Sure, people have to respond quickly, but if they're logged in to IRC, that means they're prepared to do that. Alternatively they could feign afk, so even that isnt reliable. Since people type line by line instead of in chunks, it is so difficult to keep track of who is saying what, even if everyone is logged in using their true identities. Trying to have a coherent conversation in IRC is just insanity.

Now compound that with unverifiable identities in IRC and now there is almost no excuse to justify using it. Unless you have a small group circle that needs to discuss things together, use PMs/IMs/private chats instead.

As to impersonation being illegal, well it isn't, and I don't see any reason why it should be. IRC is a public space, you can't just assume its safe to spill your knowledge. Its the players' responsibility to make sure they're talking to who they think they are talking to. The only exception to this would be impersonating someone who isn't playing the game. That is illegal.

After the game I will request bans for everyone who was breadcrumbing. Seriously it just happened last game and it wasn't ok. Mig was playing in that game too so there is no excuse.

On October 23 2011 13:35 kitaman27 wrote:
Electing a bullet bill and DT into office really put us in an awful position from the start. I think we would have felt a lot more comfortable able running if the elected roles were immune to checks. Really would have been nice to have a godfather, NRA. or framer. Even if it was pretty unlikely that I could have beaten out Mig or Radfield, I regret giving it a shot.

Also, Tudors suck for shooting me night one. Did I do something to tip you guys off?

On October 23 2011 13:37 sandroba wrote:
hahaha sorry chaoser for pressuring you out of office =P

You were complacent for a while, then when the pressure built up you freaked out and leaked scumtells everywhere. Your defense was really bad.

prplhz, the Tudor Vanilla is dead.

it was completely based on your meta (you don't push bad townies for lynch when you are a townie)

On October 23 2011 14:14 Ace wrote:
appeal to emotion isn't a scum tell though.

Lancaster
Kenpachi - NKVD
Cyber - Godfather
Wiggles - Medic
Chaoser - Pupeteer

Good roles if they hadn't been decimated. I think Kenpachi should have used NKVD to connect with other teams though. Not to buy town cred, especially since two of his team were dead.

On October 24 2011 07:51 Ace wrote:
Awesome. So this is no longer a game of Mafia but a game of seeing who can get closest to breaking the rules or taking advantage of silly players. Pathetic.

On October 24 2011 18:36 Cyber_Cheese wrote:


With two other mafia teams to compete with, grabbing kp was furthering their goals more than your own, because they could defence up and be at an advantage because your defenceless while you slaughter the town.