EPTThis game is fundamentally hard for scum. I am surprised no mafia went solo and just ignored all PM communication. You know play as a townie. Town needed to kill every scum so it was worth a shot. Especially with the number of scum around.
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Probulous
Australia3894 Posts
This game is fundamentally hard for scum. I am surprised no mafia went solo and just ignored all PM communication. You know play as a townie. Town needed to kill every scum so it was worth a shot. Especially with the number of scum around. | ||
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VisceraEyes
United States21171 Posts
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Probulous
Australia3894 Posts
Happy Birthday my King Did you really think I was mafia? | ||
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VisceraEyes
United States21171 Posts
So not at the end, no. e: And I meant what I said...in spite of my illogical idiot brain telling me you were scum, upon rereading I couldn't find a single thing that I thought you would do as scum. | ||
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risk.nuke
Sweden2825 Posts
On August 01 2012 06:54 Probulous wrote: The problem with killing half your team as scum as you cannot be sure they are on the same half. If you kill all your minions you lose both the numbers advantage and your abilities. Once you have effectively your team town would be rightly suspicious if you start lynching townies at an alarming rate. This game is fundamentally hard for scum. I am surprised no mafia went solo and just ignored all PM communication. You know play as a townie. Town needed to kill every scum so it was worth a shot. Especially with the number of scum around. Wow, you really don't have any clue what you're talking about. If a scum goes solo-bus mode he could even get killed by his teammates. And even so his chances are 1/3 to beat the townies in that game. And still get busted by pm-cops. | ||
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BloodyC0bbler
Canada7876 Posts
You then have of these remaining players 5 completely powerless greens then a joke green in RoL. Of the mafia, only 5 of them had powers vs a total of 12 town ones -_-. Town had more day kp via kurumi nuke + possibility of two double lynches via king makers, and more night kp with having night kp powers. I honestly given the setup have no idea how the mafia could win without completely bussing their entire team and somehow getting 1 red confirmed as 100% town and offing the town systematically via lynches. Given that mafia had no solid way of actually getting itself organized vs a town that had not 1 but 2 roles that were designed to fuck with mafia communication (the only way they could get organized) seems really off. Setup wise I can understand a mafia member not wanting to play in this setup. It seemed really interesting in concept but I think balancing it in such a way that mafia isn't instantly at a disadvantage is really hard. Also as I firmly believe, town should never have more power roles than there are mafia. There should also never be more powerroles on town side than vanilla green. As much fun as being blue is, too many town powers = unfair advantage unless similar # of powers are given to mafia. | ||
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layabout
United Kingdom2600 Posts
Date: 7/19/12 09:37 Order delivery: You have received "Shield of Knowledge". This allows you to gain invulnerability from any sort of KP (not including the lynch) for the rest of that half cycle. The twist is, you have to blind them with knowledge, and the only thing you know is your role. In order to use this power, you must role-claim in thread, then post "##Use Shield". it was nice being given a dud nuke and a fake shield. +a hider and 1 scum kp is just evil | ||
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gonzaw
Uruguay4911 Posts
lol, at some points of this game I was just laughing out loud (I was serious about it in that PM I sent to risk  ). Everything went wrong for us After not being able to play D1 and having my credibility shot down I knew I couldn't do anything for the rest of the game (akin to Liar Game). I also legitimately though BH and Meapak were town >_> (well, Meapak was town-aligned so that was kind of accurate) | ||
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gonzaw
Uruguay4911 Posts
Like someone said, if they check an executive or minion-who-received-message on D1 they could out like 2-3 scum (depending on the message), and scum have almost no way to prevent that since they don't know any of the town roles in the game. Considering how many "obvious mafia" (layabout, Palmar, BH, sloosh, etc) were around, I didn't think there's be a "snoop" or something like that around since they would have checked one of them and outed their PMs already, and not get something on N4. | ||
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gonzaw
Uruguay4911 Posts
The only time I go away for ~30 hours 2 scum die and a bandwagon on the scum pardoner happens :/ I tried to do a heavy defense of Palmar there so people would think something like "there's no way scum would heavily defend someone so obviously scum like that who will obviously get lynched".....guess it didn't work :/ | ||
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Probulous
Australia3894 Posts
Risk, given the setup I have no idea why you would not just risk it on your own. Your team know you are looking for scum and unless you are a the town leader you are unlikely to get killed. If you do, well that is the risk you take. As for town lynching you, you have more power than the other townies in that you can night kill (once the rest are dead) so you should be able to manipulate town into misslynching. I know it is a risky strategy, I never said I expected everyone to do it. I am just suprised given 9 mafia that none tried it. PM Cops are irrelevant. Think about it, the people who the PM cops checked were all playing like mafia. The PM cop is the same as any other cop in that if you are playing with clarity they shouldn't check you. | ||
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austinmcc
United States6737 Posts
On August 01 2012 07:32 gonzaw wrote: Those 2 snoops are very strong though >_> Like someone said, if they check an executive or minion-who-received-message on D1 they could out like 2-3 scum (depending on the message), and scum have almost no way to prevent that since they don't know any of the town roles in the game. Considering how many "obvious mafia" (layabout, Palmar, BH, sloosh, etc) were around, I didn't think there's be a "snoop" or something like that around since they would have checked one of them and outed their PMs already, and not get something on N4. I bought too hard into the "DTs check people who will be around later and you're going to want to know their alignment" mentality, so I avoided anyone I thought was going to get lynched. In hindsight, that was a particularly bad idea, because even when we had 2-3 clear candidates for a lynch I chose not to check any of them, fearing chance. Also, lol dem <_<s. I was reasonably sure you sent that because of the sender saying everyone thought him mafia, but those faces just confirmed it. If you'd been sending messages like that all along, you were getting to freely out yourself to every minion that noticed. | ||
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austinmcc
United States6737 Posts
If anyone really looked at the mirror flips, town and mafia power roles that did the same thing had different names and different text. That's why I wanted Kurumi's flip, to compare to Layabout. Kurumi/Layabout had different role names and text, WBG/Palmar the same. Besides that, every fakeclaim that we saw scum have was VT, which may have disadvantaged them a little. In effect, we couldn't be sure, but had decent support for the idea that, if any two people had the same power role name, they were both town. I figured rasta was town based on that, and that both VE/Probulous were as well. Mafia mirrors should have had different role names and text, and we had no evidence that scum had knowledge of roles outside of VT. | ||
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Q-bert-Z
United States75 Posts
Sandroba played brilliantly by immediately outing the fact that he had a PM power like that, because it immediately sew distrust in our communication, crippling our ability to communicate. (ok, maybe not cripple, but definitely making it harder.) Anyways, I don't like QQing, so I'll stop. Congrats town, you did play well, and I must say, VE, your play has come a long way. Chezinu, you were the genius I've always known you to be, and Bill Murray, lol, you're funny. | ||
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VisceraEyes
United States21171 Posts
Okay Q - remove the mask. Who have we been playing with? | ||
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Chezinu
United States7466 Posts
oh and marv, is that the thanks I get for putting you on my town list? | ||
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Chezinu
United States7466 Posts
On August 01 2012 02:44 Q-bert-Z wrote: I am under the command of Chezinu every game I play. It's not game specific. The post in which I posted about America, to my chagrin, is actually just as much of a coincidence as my post about a mole. I said America, because I like emulating certain people, in that case, I wanted to make flamewheel my cat. Nothing was intended beyond that, though I'm laughing right now because it really does look like I know a lot of the hidden roles. I really wasn't trying to crumb anything in there. I understand QBZ... People thought I knew all the roles too... | ||
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Chezinu
United States7466 Posts
On August 01 2012 04:42 Keirathi wrote: I agree, super fun game to obs. The amount of chaos was crazy. Also, that was a really impressive string of mafia lynches :o Your Welcome. I'm glad the observers had fun! | ||
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marvellosity
United Kingdom36161 Posts
On August 01 2012 09:44 Chezinu wrote: Told you guys I had another minion! lol... too bad me and QBZ couldn't troll more towards the end. He messaged me with his death wish. He just wanted the House of Chezinu to rise.. oh and marv, is that the thanks I get for putting you on my town list? haha. how does you thinking i'm town change what i do? | ||
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VisceraEyes
United States21171 Posts
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