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phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 08 2012 17:32 GMT
#43
Oh, who am i kidding?

/in
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 11 2012 02:07 GMT
#74
Unfortunately, it's 3 am over here and I am drunk, going to bed. Do not expect any posts from me in the next 20 hours
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 11 2012 17:02 GMT
#101
- We should lynch every day.
- no policy lynching lurkers, but if we can not find a better target, a lurker lynch is acceptable. however, as long as the first 24 hours have not passed, i will not accuse anyone of lurking
- posting from a mobile sucks.
- TerraNova is really eager to FoS
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 12 2012 08:44 GMT
#133
Hosts, can you please add filter-links to the player list?
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 12 2012 09:33 GMT
#134
Where is FirmTofu? He posted a lurker list 5 hours into the game (which is VERY early for a lurkerlist) and has not posted since then. If we would hold him up to his own standard, he is lurking very hard. You can see his filter here

I read through all the filters, and besides FirmTofu the following people are rather suspicious to me:

- Eleanthas (Only posted a one liner)
- koritora (not posting anything of value)
- sbrubbles (only two posts in rapid succession where he basically calls out lurkers and fluff, only to disappear again).

IMO, if there is a DT out there, these four would be possible check targets. What do you guys think about it?

Also, if none of them adds anyhting significant in the next 6 hours, my vote will go to one of these four.

Soft deadline 8 hours before is ok with me. Also, as a heads up, I generally won't be around on deadline, as it is at 3 am in my timezone. By final vote will normally be casted around 5 to 3 hours before deadline.
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 12 2012 11:25 GMT
#139
On March 12 2012 19:56 koritora wrote:

Well to answer your first question, the one liner is not exactly foretelling as to whether or not Eleanthas is part of the mafia or not. However, it is suspicious that he hasn't posted anything since--means to try to draw suspicion away or something.


I agree. Lynching lurkers only makes sense when they are still participating in the game (means voting every day). Else their lurking is probably related to real life issues and don't say anything about their alignement, so it's probably better to just get them modkilled/replaced.

On March 12 2012 19:56 koritora wrote:
In reference to Cosine, well it's hard to read what his motives are. His words are a little contradictory in my opinion. He was all for lynching without a cause since no lynch would be bad, then a few posts later he says that people misunderstood.


I disagree. I read it that he does want to lynch on day 1, but does not want to lynch a lurker on day 1. I understand his position, as I had a similar one last game. So he does want to lynch every day, and is not contradicting himself IMO.

"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 12 2012 12:51 GMT
#140
Ehm, is there a voting thread already? Because I don't see one linked in the OP. Or do we vote in this thread here?
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 12 2012 15:39 GMT
#147
Concerning InfernOokami7: I was not aware that all his posts were already written quite early. I share the suspicioun towards him that was brought up by others.

Also, a small correction: The vote deadline is at 4 am in my Timezone, so I will normally cast my final vote 6 to 4 hours before the deadline.



I might not be online before the 8 hour soft deadline, so I vote now. I will be online again before the real deadline, so I will have time to adjust should something substantial happen.

FirmTofu is my choice because I feel that he tried to establish activity with 2 fast posts and then disappeared. The posts don't have any real content, the first one is just fluff and the second one is an invalid list.

##Vote FirmTofu
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 12 2012 21:14 GMT
#163
I agree that the vote is going a bit easy. However, the following 5 people have not yet voted:

4.) Seviro
5.) FirmTofu
6.) InfernOokami7
7.) koritora
10.) cosine

So it is hard to tell if scum just missed the chance to defend him or if he is indeed town.

I would also like that you all consider the possibility that real life caught up with FirmTofu and he won't be voting, meaning he will be replaced. In that case i would not want to lynch him. However, as I wrote earlier, I won't be around lynchtime (in fact, I'll go offline in about 20 minutes), so I wont have a chance to react accordingly.

For now, my vote stays on him. And in case that a colon is indeed needed in the vote:

##Vote: FirmTofu
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 13 2012 13:48 GMT
#185
So, the bandwagon on FirmTofu was rolling to easy. There was no opposition. As scum profits from mislynches, I am sure we will find at least 1 if not 2 scum on the voters of FirmTofu.

Here's the final voting stand on FirmTofu again:
FirmTofu (7): phagga, Eleanthas, Janaan, Gossemerr, Mementoss, Seviro, cosine,

Janaan: He agrees on FirmTofu, and brings up Koritora as new suspect after the lynch with good reason. Does not look suspicious.

Gossemerr: Trying to be active and helpful, lacking some content. Went a bit overboard with the "specific scenario" argument vs Nova_Tera IMO, but I think that's not an issue. Also brought up that noone is defending FirmTofu, although he again was not the first one to do so. I hope to get some analysis from him soon, currently a null read.

Mementoss: Very active, posting analysis. Brought up Eleanthas, stated his position on several players. Does not look suspicious.

Seviro: another rather active player, although content may be debatable. I hope to get some analysis from him soon, currently a null read.

cosine: He speaks out several times vs a lurker lynch on Day1, but then jumps easily on the FirmTofu bandwagon to lynch a lurker. Besides defending himself, he did not add anything substantial. I don't like that.

Eleanthas: His posting is still lacking, he actually only reiterated the wordings of others. His only longer post is this one:

On March 13 2012 01:57 Eleanthas wrote:
Ok. Sorry for not responding. Saw discussion towards me at school with my phone, but really hard to write anything with it so decided to wait untill I come home. Anyway have been busy atm. Will change now.1

So what Can i say about first post. It was really just a post to tell people I'm alive. In some forums, you get replaced if you don't speak on first half of day, so I guess I followed that rule there. Had really nothing to say. Just plain stupid first post from me.2

About Nova_Terra:
He seems eager to accuse anybody scum if given even a small chance. I guess he is trying to presure players to talk to get discussion going on. Doesn't seem too scummy for me, but have to keep eye on him.3

So what I think about InfernOokami7:

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On March 12 2012 08:40 InfernOokami7 wrote:
I'm not 100% in favor of a no lynch on day 1 as long as there is a reasonable amount of suspicion for someone. I just didn't see the point in voting to lynch someone if the reason wasn't there because instead of just giving the mafia a free pass for the night, you're giving them a 2 for 1 deal instead.


beside that post he has 4 post saying pretty much same. I guess he is trying to lurk by stating same thing in many posts. Would like to hear about him.4

And lastly about FirmTofu: Like many others pointed out FirmTofu posted 2 fast posts. Seems kinda suspicous to me. Telling to pick one of the lurkers and listing them and then vanishing. If we don't hear about him, my vote is gonna go for him.5

##Vote FirmTofu



1 + 2 Apologizes for not posting earlier, then calls his own first post stupid, although the post itself was not that bad. The fact that he did not post more after this short oneliner was bad.

3 Seviro, Mementoss and Sbrubbles already pointed out the exact same thing. Actually, just take a look at Mementoss phrase:
On March 12 2012 02:33 Mementoss wrote:
I agree with this post, it seems NovaTerra is eager to FoS despite how early in the game it was, which seems a little suspicious. But, it is most likely just a pressure play, to get the discussion rolling, and people talking.

Eleanthas post is the same content with different wording.

4 Was brought up in a similar form by Mementoss.

5 Was brought up by pretty much everyone active in the thread at that time.

So, he actually said nothing. The comments on each of his 3 "suspects" are really short and only repeat thoughts brought up by others. For me, he is one of the more suspect persons in the game.

##FoS: Eleanthas
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 13 2012 16:21 GMT
#186
So, if there is a DT in this game, and he does not know who he should check, I would propose that he chose someone from this list:

- Eleanthas
- koritora
- cosine

What does everyone else think?
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 13 2012 22:24 GMT
#193
On March 14 2012 03:03 Eleanthas wrote:
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On March 13 2012 22:48 phagga wrote:
Eleanthas: His posting is still lacking, he actually only reiterated the wordings of others. His only longer post is this one:


Is it wrong that you agree with people? I really think that there was nothing new anybody could have risen up.
Besides. It was pretty much case of ''If you don't speak, we lynch you.'', so decided to post my view of the game that point (wich agreed with many people), than being lynched for saying nothing.


It is not wrong to agree with people. It is, however, suspicious if you only agree with people and never bring up anything substantial by yourself.

On March 14 2012 03:05 Eleanthas wrote:
EBWOP

I don't really like putting list of guys who should be checked and tell DT to check one of them. If mafia has framer, it makes it too easy to make someone appear as mafia.


Good point. However, the DT is up to check whoever he wants. The list I made is here to give the DT options in case he feels unsure, and to spark discussion. And we really need discussion, because this game is pretty dead, and that makes it easy for the mafia.

But how about you tell us what you think of Koritora and Cosine?
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 14 2012 09:47 GMT
#201
Seviro, while I like your analysis on a first glance, I would like to note that you start your case with some heavy WIFOM.

We have no idea what the motives of the mafia are for killing sbrubbles. We can only speculate. And if we speculate wrong, we might start hunting and lynching people for the wrong reasons, we will get WIFOM, it will create more uncertainty than facts. The only ones profiting from it will be the mafia.

There is no benefit in guessing what the mafia is up to. Also, it does not matter. Whatever the mafia wanted to achieve, we just need to make sure that we can lynch them, then we win.

However, I think your case is not only base on WIFOM, so I will go through it later when I have more time.
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 14 2012 09:49 GMT
#202
The following three people have not yet posted anything since the night post (roughly 30 hours ago)

- InfernOokami7
- cosine
- koritora


"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 14 2012 16:32 GMT
#212
Ok, I've read through your analysis, and there is some good stuff in it. For now I am just going to point out one or two things.

On March 14 2012 14:13 Seviro wrote:
GG sbrubbles, be sure that we'll avenge your death.

At first I was like why kill him, he was not really active, did not really help the town the first day and I didn't see him being a threat for anyone.

Now after looking at his filter, his death give me some pointers.


As I said before, this is WIFOM. We really should not be basing any cases on such speculation. However, there are still some good points following.

On March 14 2012 14:13 Seviro wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On March 12 2012 17:09 Nova_Terra wrote:

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On March 12 2012 10:45 Sbrubbles wrote:
Sup guys! My first post in this game, sorry it took so late!

It's hard to read someone based on the first half of the first day. On this whole Nova Terra/Cosine discussion, the only thing that stood out to me was Nova Terra's behavior, accusing and pushing on cosine (in a somewhat impatient manner), turning defensive when he's called out on it and then forgiving cosine after his post, seeming willing to go to the next topic. Being overly aggressive is not a usual day 1 mafia trait, but quickly turning defensive if called out some something is. Still, he is being active, so time will tell whether it was just a bit of town inexperience/carelessness or something more.



I just want to point out like posts like this are scummy. Not making any “accusations” or anything.
1. Throws the blame onto others, as if I was the scummy acting one, whereas this was his first post and the point of it was to throw suspicion onto me.
2. Seemingly purposely not understanding my argument to provoke meaningless discussion
3. Discrediting posts by calling it inexperience/carelessness
4. Not wanting to actually point a finger at me or to throw enough blame that anyone would be suspicious.

As you can see, these are all things that one may notice when reading a guide as to how scum should play.



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1. Throws the blame onto others, as if I was the scummy acting one, whereas this was his first post and the point of it was to throw suspicion onto me.


Why would Scrubbles throw the blame on him when he was not even targetted at all. I mean it's not like Scrubbles was our main target and he wanted to put the spot on another one whereas it is exactly waht Nova_Terra is doing by turning his post against him.

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2. Seemingly purposely not understanding my argument to provoke meaningless discussion.


He is dodging the fact that Scrubbles want more explanation about his early FOS by implying that there is nothing more to add and that Scrubbles is just wanting to bring up old discussion whereas it was legitimate of him to want some more since he was not convince of his innocence yet.

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3. Discrediting posts by calling it inexperience/carelessness


See point 2, that is exactly what Nova do.

Show nested quote +
4. Not wanting to actually point a finger at me or to throw enough blame that anyone would be suspicious.


What he did before on Eleanthas. Also, that was not what Scrubbles was doing he just happen to have come online after the veil of suspicion was lifted on Nova and he just wanted some clarification.

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As you can see, these are all things that one may notice when reading a guide as to how scum should play.


So well at this point pretty self-explanatory.


These are some good finds, specially points 2 to 4. They may come from just being very eager to participate, but it is something to keep in mind.

On March 14 2012 14:13 Seviro wrote:
in his post Phagga write a global analysis of everyone that vote for the lynch without touching to those who didn't. If I'm correct, that was quite a nice play from Nova.


It is something I considered when writing my post, which is why I kept Nova_Tera and sbrubbles in the back of my head. But as sbrubbles move showed, it is not necessarly a scum move to do.
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 14 2012 17:35 GMT
#213
I am cutting down to the part that is about me.

On March 14 2012 21:52 Mementoss wrote:

Also I noticed something else that was a bit weird. Maybe just a coincidence. The connection between Phagga and Nova_Terra

1. Only 2 people to have suspicion on Sbrubbles. Phagga and Nova_Terra. I've already shown Nova's so here is Phaggas post.

+ Show Spoiler +
On March 12 2012 18:33 phagga wrote:
Where is FirmTofu? He posted a lurker list 5 hours into the game (which is VERY early for a lurkerlist) and has not posted since then. If we would hold him up to his own standard, he is lurking very hard. You can see his filter here

I read through all the filters, and besides FirmTofu the following people are rather suspicious to me:

- Eleanthas (Only posted a one liner)
- koritora (not posting anything of value)
- sbrubbles (only two posts in rapid succession where he basically calls out lurkers and fluff, only to disappear again).

IMO, if there is a DT out there, these four would be possible check targets. What do you guys think about it?

Also, if none of them adds anyhting significant in the next 6 hours, my vote will go to one of these four.

Soft deadline 8 hours before is ok with me. Also, as a heads up, I generally won't be around on deadline, as it is at 3 am in my timezone. By final vote will normally be casted around 5 to 3 hours before deadline.



--> Also maybe trying to push a waste of DT check onto Sbrubbles?

2. Another agreeance on the DT check, again maybe trying to lure out a Blue or waste a check?

+ Show Spoiler +
On March 14 2012 02:30 Nova_Terra wrote:
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On March 14 2012 01:21 phagga wrote:
So, if there is a DT in this game, and he does not know who he should check, I would propose that he chose someone from this list:

- Eleanthas
- koritora
- cosine

What does everyone else think?

I am in agreement with those three being good suspects for a dt to check.
I want them (as well as everyone else) to come and post more. The trend seems to be posting some excuse for not posting and then not posting again.

I have a couple other minor suspicions right now, but nothing worth noting, until i have a bit more to work with.


1.) Making DT check lists is a way to get town more active. It is even mentioned in BloodyC0bblers Post "TL Town Breakdown / Analysis".

+ Show Spoiler +
Towns lately talk too many generalities, and not enough specifics. People will open day 1 with discussion of how their blues could or could not perform that game. While this isn’t a bad place to start, as specifics are never mentioned it lets the mafia easily blend in. Every player roughly knows what the players should be doing with x blue role.

However, if you instead bring in specifics:
Detective checklists
Medic lists
Make watch lists of players

These sort of topics put names down. As soon as a name hits a list discussion should ultimately start on “why is x there, why isn’t y?” “If I’m on a detective check list or watch list does that mean I’m suspected of being red?” etc…

It means people have to get personally involved and risk giving up their alignment. Does someone soft defend or hard defend someone being put on a watch list or the like is something to watch for.

The more discussion you can generate via lists like this the more likely reds will slip up. If everyone but player x is talking about these topics, player x could be a) red b) inactive.

Either or he’s not helping and voila day 1 lynch.


This is exactly the reason why I made these lists: To give people something to discuss. This game is a ghost town, we are currently 6 people participating, while 3 people have not posted at all in the last 36 hours and another one is dodging us with defense and counter questions. We need more activity. That is the main reason why I made these lists.

2.) I am not fishing for blue roles or make them waste their checks. As I stated earlier, the blues are up to do whatever they want to. I also never asked any blue to share their findings, or breadcrumb anything into the thread.

On March 14 2012 21:52 Mementoss wrote:
3. First to defend Nova_Terra

+ Show Spoiler +
On March 14 2012 18:47 phagga wrote:
Seviro, while I like your analysis on a first glance, I would like to note that you start your case with some heavy WIFOM.

We have no idea what the motives of the mafia are for killing sbrubbles. We can only speculate. And if we speculate wrong, we might start hunting and lynching people for the wrong reasons, we will get WIFOM, it will create more uncertainty than facts. The only ones profiting from it will be the mafia.

There is no benefit in guessing what the mafia is up to. Also, it does not matter. Whatever the mafia wanted to achieve, we just need to make sure that we can lynch them, then we win.

However, I think your case is not only base on WIFOM, so I will go through it later when I have more time.


--> Doesn't really go into the case, just dis regards it because it has some WIFOM1. When really, there was a lot of WIFOM but there were some other good points too, that he didn't post his opinion on. Adds some fluff about trying to guess what the mafia is up to is useless. Well usually finding what the mafia are up to leads to them, and it all starts making sense. Or you find a mafia, then you find what they were up to and make a connection that way. 2So yes eventually mafia motives are relevant.


Are you serious? I get the feeling you did this on purpose.

1 I wrote in this very post you are quoting that:
- "while I like your analysis on a first glance[...]"
- "I think your case is not only base on WIFOM, so I will go through it later when I have more time."

How you can interprete this as "disregarding the post" is beyond me.

2 Finding a mafia may lead to the rest of mafia, agreed. But finding out why the mafia did a specific night kill is a waste of time. There are so many ways for mafia to make us believe one thing while they do something completely other that it is not worth speculating about why they killed a specific player or left another one alive. Also, clever mafia can mess with our heads by killing a townie that was tunneling another townie, giving town the impression that the tunneled townie was actually scum. This leads directly to a mislynch.

So, no, speculating about the motives of night kills leads to WIFOM and mislynches. Avoid it.

On March 14 2012 21:52 Mementoss wrote:
4. Leaves Nova_terra out of his analysis because of the vote switch.

+ Show Spoiler +
On March 13 2012 22:48 phagga wrote:
So, the bandwagon on FirmTofu was rolling to easy. There was no opposition. As scum profits from mislynches, I am sure we will find at least 1 if not 2 scum on the voters of FirmTofu.

Here's the final voting stand on FirmTofu again:
FirmTofu (7): phagga, Eleanthas, Janaan, Gossemerr, Mementoss, Seviro, cosine,

Janaan: He agrees on FirmTofu, and brings up Koritora as new suspect after the lynch with good reason. Does not look suspicious.

Gossemerr: Trying to be active and helpful, lacking some content. Went a bit overboard with the "specific scenario" argument vs Nova_Tera IMO, but I think that's not an issue. Also brought up that noone is defending FirmTofu, although he again was not the first one to do so. I hope to get some analysis from him soon, currently a null read.

Mementoss: Very active, posting analysis. Brought up Eleanthas, stated his position on several players. Does not look suspicious.

Seviro: another rather active player, although content may be debatable. I hope to get some analysis from him soon, currently a null read.

cosine: He speaks out several times vs a lurker lynch on Day1, but then jumps easily on the FirmTofu bandwagon to lynch a lurker. Besides defending himself, he did not add anything substantial. I don't like that.

Eleanthas: His posting is still lacking, he actually only reiterated the wordings of others. His only longer post is this one:

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On March 13 2012 01:57 Eleanthas wrote:
Ok. Sorry for not responding. Saw discussion towards me at school with my phone, but really hard to write anything with it so decided to wait untill I come home. Anyway have been busy atm. Will change now.1

So what Can i say about first post. It was really just a post to tell people I'm alive. In some forums, you get replaced if you don't speak on first half of day, so I guess I followed that rule there. Had really nothing to say. Just plain stupid first post from me.2

About Nova_Terra:
He seems eager to accuse anybody scum if given even a small chance. I guess he is trying to presure players to talk to get discussion going on. Doesn't seem too scummy for me, but have to keep eye on him.3

So what I think about InfernOokami7:

On March 12 2012 08:40 InfernOokami7 wrote:
I'm not 100% in favor of a no lynch on day 1 as long as there is a reasonable amount of suspicion for someone. I just didn't see the point in voting to lynch someone if the reason wasn't there because instead of just giving the mafia a free pass for the night, you're giving them a 2 for 1 deal instead.


beside that post he has 4 post saying pretty much same. I guess he is trying to lurk by stating same thing in many posts. Would like to hear about him.4

And lastly about FirmTofu: Like many others pointed out FirmTofu posted 2 fast posts. Seems kinda suspicous to me. Telling to pick one of the lurkers and listing them and then vanishing. If we don't hear about him, my vote is gonna go for him.5

##Vote FirmTofu



1 + 2 Apologizes for not posting earlier, then calls his own first post stupid, although the post itself was not that bad. The fact that he did not post more after this short oneliner was bad.

3 Seviro, Mementoss and Sbrubbles already pointed out the exact same thing. Actually, just take a look at Mementoss phrase:
Show nested quote +
On March 12 2012 02:33 Mementoss wrote:
I agree with this post, it seems NovaTerra is eager to FoS despite how early in the game it was, which seems a little suspicious. But, it is most likely just a pressure play, to get the discussion rolling, and people talking.

Eleanthas post is the same content with different wording.

4 Was brought up in a similar form by Mementoss.

5 Was brought up by pretty much everyone active in the thread at that time.

So, he actually said nothing. The comments on each of his 3 "suspects" are really short and only repeat thoughts brought up by others. For me, he is one of the more suspect persons in the game.

##FoS: Eleanthas



Even though the vote switch does not prove innocence or town so this seems a bit odd. Unless it was pre-planned. FirmTofu already had the majority, so Nova_Terra could switch. Phagga could then post an analysis post, to look town, while leaving out any analysis of his scum buddy Nova_Terra, without looking suspicious because of the vote switch.


Again, the reason why I chose the ones that voted on FirmTofu is because it is almost guaranteed that there was some scum in there. So it is interesting to look at these specific player and how they acted so far, what their reasons for lynching FirmTofu were and how they generally behaved. As I wrote in another post this does not make any non-voter of FirmTofu AutoTown, but it means that I concentrate on one specific group of players for a moment and look at their behaviour.
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phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 14 2012 21:52 GMT
#224
So we have three heavy lurker in town, which have gone for almost 2 days. While there might be other scum around, I don't really want to tolerate this behaviour.

Looking through the filters of all of them, I find InfernOokami7 the most unhelpful. Also, he should have actually been in my list of people who voted for FirmTofu, but I missed that he just misformatted his vote. His filter is so empty of content that his bandwagoning makes him quite suspicious. I will therefore put my vote on him for the time being.

##Vote: InfernOokami7

I hope others will follow with voting for their suspects, so we might be able to come to an agreement on who to lynch soon.
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 15 2012 09:38 GMT
#232
On March 15 2012 08:27 Gossemerr wrote:
Considering this is a newbie game, wouldn't mafia likely to be outspoken and "contributing"? With something to prove? "Hey don't suspect me im contributing" type of deal. I find it hard to believe that a scum would just not post for this long now - certainly with all this pressure; and especially when there are three of them, and are most likely (don't see how they wouldn't be) communicating with each other by some other means to coordinate.


1.) In almost every mafia game I have read so far there were scum who were lurking. In my last game (Newbie IV), there were 4 scum, 2 of them were lurking almost all game, 1 vs the end.

2.) I agree that there are also active scum. I have my suspects, I read through the filters. However, I am not too sure about my reads yet, and I don't want to mislynch an active townie. Also, I don't want the lurkers to get away with their behaviour, because they won't change anything if we let them get away with it. Lynching a lurker gives us time to flesh out our cases, removes a player with anti-town behaviour and keeps as many active townies in the game as possible. We will be able to analyze vote patterns and justficiations. As a side effect, one of the other lurkers might get more active.

3.) Don't forget that the lurkers, should the fail to vote, will not be modkilled, but replaced, as it states in the Rules:

Replacements
This game uses replacements. Replacements will be made in the game until Night 3. If a player is modkilled during the designated time, then they will be replaced by a player on the replacement list, assuming one is available, if no-one is available to replace, they will just be modkilled.


We have three people on the replacement list. Now consider that all 3 lurkers get replaced, we mislynch an active townie and another one gets shot at night by scum. We will be 5 townies to 3 mafia on D3 with 3 new people on which we have zero information. This is not a situation I want to be in. There are two ways to avoid that situation: We lynch a confirmed scum (which we do not have and will not have), or we lynch a lurker (which is easy, there are 3 of them right now).

4.) I'm referencing the newbie mini IV again: Would we have started to lynch all the lurkers from D2 to D4, we would have at least lynched one scum, perhaps even two. We did not, instead lynched active townies and mafia won the game.

5.) Finally, I'm gonna make one more list (Don't you love them?):

Active Players (6):
- Gossemerr
- Mementoss
- Nova_Terra
- Seviro
- Janaan
- phagga

Somehow active but barely contributing (1):
- Eleanthas

lurking like there is no tomorrow (3):
- cosine
- koritora
- InfernOokami7

If all mafia is in the active players group, this town is as good as dead already. I doubt anyone is going to trust Eleanthas or any of the lurkers or their replacements for now, so if all 3 scum are in the active group, they can easily direct any discussion to their liking on N2/D3. So I will assume that there are about 4 to 5 townies in this group, which leaves some scum in either Eleanthas or the lurker group. Also, this ties back to point two, mislynching an active townie will hurt us much more than any lurker mislynch.


tldr; lynch lurker, better for town, less risk.
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 15 2012 10:20 GMT
#233
Sorry, forgot to answer to the second part of your post:

On March 15 2012 08:27 Gossemerr wrote:
Moving on, there is a fishy link between Janaan, Phagga, and Nova_Terra. Nova's behavior has already been discussed so not going to bring that up here, but Phagga has not really has yet to been focused. He /she has yet to really offer any analysis except one post a few hours after the day 2 post, in which he / she focuses only on the people who voted for FirmTofu1, and doing so dismisses Janaan rather easily as town.2 While on the issue of voting, he constantly wants to talk about the people who are lurking, but there is realy nothing to talk about considering that they are lurking..3 Seems scummy to me to keep the town going in circles and wasting hours of actual analysis. Of course the lurkers could be mafia, but really nothing new here. Janaan also wants to lynch the lurkers, and easily agrees with Phagga.

My money is on Janaan right now unless something else comes up. He is saying just enough to get by, without saying anything really at all.4

##Vote: Janaan


I'm a "he", just for the record.

1 Right, and you analyzed everyone in the game. Oh wait, you did not, the above paragraph is the only analysis you have done so far. So, what exactly is wrong with me analyzing "only" 6 of 10 people?
2 I never said he was town. I stated that there is 1-2 scum in the group of FirmTofu voters, which means there is also 1-2 scum in the group of non-FirmTofu voters. And I can't believe you bring this up again after Nova_Terra and I both explained this very point to Mementoss.
3 If noone is talking about the lurkers, they will be forgotten and get by with it. It has happened in other games, it can happen here.
4 And you said so much more, right? Let's see... You
- call cosine suspicious with a daring argument
- have disagreed that Eleanthas looks scummy (without giving a reason)
- in the same post agreed that FirmTofu looks scummy, reasoning that you wanted to make the same case as Mementoss (but never presented one)
- call out Janaan for having a "weird timing"
- try to make up a connection between me, Janaan and Nova_Terra

And you think you have contributed more than Janaan? I mean, he is lacking content too, but you are definitely the wrong one to call him out on that.

You are desperately looking for arguments to connect the three of us when there is nothing to connect the three of us. I could, with the very arguments you used, claim that you and Eleanthas have a secret connection. Actually, that would even make sense, because you are both halflurking and barely contributing. What do you say about that?
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 15 2012 14:28 GMT
#239
Hi Velinath, looking forward to hear from you.

Also, what is blubbdavid doing in this thread?
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 15 2012 23:32 GMT
#285
oh my, what did I do? Looks like I got more for that Gossemerr case that I bargained for...

I just want to make one thing clear: The reason I wrote about a connection between Eleanthas and gossemerr was because I wanted to get gossemerr to talk more. Looks like that worked. Gossemerr could be scum, but I feel way to unsure about that to actually vote for him.

Nevertheless, it's nice to see that several people jumped on the case and it made the whole town more active. Good thing to happen.

Nova_Terra: No offense, but I think you are reading to much into the connection between Gossemerr, Eleanthas and inferno. That case won't hold with those arguments, I'm afraid.

Gossemerr:
On March 16 2012 06:18 Gossemerr wrote:
@Phagga: I never said I did any more analysis / posting than some of you.. I was just pointing out what I thought.


The point is: you can't criticize someone for not doing stuff when you don't do that stuff as well.

Uh, that sounds stupid. Let me try it like this:

If you go and criticize me (or anyone) for lack of analysis/content, then everyone will expect that you have delivered the amount of analysis/content that you say others lack. That's why I brought it up. I still think it would be nice to get some more analysis from you, but at least it seems you start to step your game.

As for the lynch targets: looks like the InfernOokami7 lynch is not happening. However, I'm ok with an Eleanthas lynch. He is still not producing anything relevant and lurking pretty hard. Let's just hope that the replacements for our other lurkers will be more active.

##Unvote: InfernOokami7
##Vote: Eleanthas
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 16 2012 11:27 GMT
#290
Ok, I just want to make this perfectly clear: When I "hinted" at a connection between Eleanthas and Gossemerr, I made it to provoke a reaction of the two, not because i seriously believed there was one.

About Nova_Terra and me:
Yes, I do agree with some stuff Nova_Terra wrote, but not with all. No, I do not trust him. I don't trust anyone in this game so far.
Yes, we can find connections between people and link mafias together, but for that to work we first need to find mafia, so this should be our top priority. And no, I will not blindly lynch someone only because he agreed at several points with scum. These possible links we have in the thread so far are rather weak. It is possible they exist, but it is also very possible they don't. I also never intended to push a lynch on Gossemerr today, I really wanted to get rid of a lurker (which we did with Eleanthas, although he was not one of the heavy ones).

I feel Nova_Terra is an extremely eager Town who jumps to conclusion a little bit too fast. I currently doubt that he is scum, solely because I think scum would not behave that offensively. On the other side, it could be on purpose, and you see I'm going all WIFOM now, so I'll drop. I don't trust him, but some things he said made sense for me.

Gossemerr:

On March 16 2012 16:03 Gossemerr wrote:
Okay two peeps did not vote - either going to be replaced or killed. I'm guessing that if they were scum they would be participating, well at least vote. I have to say that I'm pretty confident that both are not mafia - so that means probably 2 people whom are actually contributing to the discussion are indeed mafia. Kinda adding to that, so far we have mislynched two town that were lurkers. While it is not that big of deal since they didn't help much, our numbers are dropping fast.


This is wrong. Two people stopped playing completely, either because they lost interest or something in real life keeps them busy. This does NOT tell us anything about their alignement. They could be mafia, vanilla townies or blues, who knows. (Or are you seriously implying that after (for example) someone from my family had a heavy accident, I would be more inclined to play on in this game if I was mafia than if I was town? In such a situation, this game here is irrelevant, no matter what my alignement is).

On March 16 2012 16:03 Gossemerr wrote:
Too me this is really not a defence, just attacks me for my lack of analysis. I never said I was doing more, I never said I was not a hypocrite. But the fact that I didn't really contribute a ton of analysis untill that post does not invalidate my post.


you are in a game where people try to find out the motives of others by reading, analyzing and judging their posts. What do you think is going to happen when you are a hypocrite in such a game? Yes, you get a scummy label really fast.

Also, if you are not contributing, people will assume you try to hide something, which agains means you get a scummy label.

On March 16 2012 16:03 Gossemerr wrote:
How in the world could understanding how the mafia are thinking be bad for us town? If we can accurately figure out why the mafia killed whom they did we can link it back to the individuals involved. Its a integral part of the analysis. If we just ignored all of the night phases and focused only on the outcomes of lynches that would be terrible. In fact that would be what the scum would want from us - to effectively lose half of the game's information. To not worry about their motives and to fight about the mis-lynches. I agree that the staight up kills can be misleading, but thats where the ANALYSIS comes in.


I am going to do this just once, and I hope we can burry this afterwards.

So what are the possible reasons sbrubbles was killed?

- Nova_Terra is scum, he felt the heat and mafia decided to get rid of sbrubbles
- Nova_Terra is town, mafia wants to mess with us and decided to get rid of one of Nova_Terras attackers, sbrubbles
- Sbrubbles was half-lurking, and since mafia knows he is town, they fear he might be a blue.
- Or it was something completely different that I can not think up right now.

So we have now 3 options with completely different motivations. I have my opinions about this too, and I think it was the third option (because scum normally tries to kill of blues as fast as possible). But we can not know for sure. If we want to know more, we lynch Nova_Terra next, but if he is town, that was a blatant mislynch and puts us in a far worse position. And even then, we still will not know if they killed bubbles because he was blue or because they wanted to mess with us. And I haven't even started what it means if Nova_Terra would get killed tonight by mafia.

Also, how are you gonna analyze the motives of scum if you do not even know who they are? You do not know for sure who is scum, so you can only try to analyze posts from people you think are scum, and if they are not, you'll just produce bad results. Perhaps if we lynched a scum, you can go back through is filter and look for hints for the nightkills, but until then, it's all WIFOM.

This is so much WIFOM that it is not worth wasting time on it. And as you are already quite busy (as you wrote earlier), it would be better if you concentrated on finding scum through analysis of posts.

On March 16 2012 16:03 Gossemerr wrote:
Also, I guess my suspicion that Ele wasn't any more scummy than others was right..

But you voted him anyway, so what?
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 16 2012 16:09 GMT
#297
On March 17 2012 00:51 Nova_Terra wrote:
Lol, wait, so if both of the lurkers that might be modkilled are town and they end up modkilled, we lose right?


We are at 6-3. If both were town, we're at 4-3 before the nightkill. Now it depends on the blue roles. If there is a medic or a Veteran (preventing a nightkill) or a vigilante (kill a scum), then the game will probably go on as long as we are able to stay one person ahead.
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 17 2012 15:17 GMT
#319
gg all, gl town.
"A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party." - Max Frisch
phagga
Profile Joined February 2012
Switzerland2194 Posts
March 19 2012 09:13 GMT
#376
GG, was a good game. My reads were off again (thought that Velinath was town, was leaning town on Mementoss), and a shame with the lurkers. The Vig could have made such a difference.

Hosts, only thing bothering me was that the OP Playerlist was not really updated with filters and Deaths for a long time.
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