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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-10 15:22:48
August 10 2012 15:01 GMT
#33
I choose you Pokemafia!

/in

Can we define separate roles to be given dependant on alignment? I can think of a few fun roles that only work for one side or would be really op for one side.
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 20 2012 22:39 GMT
#467
I've been out all day so I apologise for not posting earlier.

One thing I noticed, between the spam, is a hell of a lot of role discussion, talk about kp, etc. I think everyone has missed a very important point in all this. These are pokemon we are dealing with and last I checked most of them have more than one power. Because this is PTP it wouldn't surprise me if most people did have more than one power. Add to that the fact that all the role talk has been about standard mafia roles it seems like no one is really thinking outside the box on the roles. The real question is do they think it's the case a not talking about it for strategic reasons. I'm not a fan of misdirection in mafia from a town perspective because it normally only serves to make scum hunting harder.
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 20 2012 23:09 GMT
#476
On August 21 2012 07:44 Hopeless1der wrote:
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On August 21 2012 07:39 imallinson wrote:
I've been out all day so I apologise for not posting earlier.

One thing I noticed, between the spam, is a hell of a lot of role discussion, talk about kp, etc. I think everyone has missed a very important point in all this. These are pokemon we are dealing with and last I checked most of them have more than one power. Because this is PTP it wouldn't surprise me if most people did have more than one power. Add to that the fact that all the role talk has been about standard mafia roles it seems like no one is really thinking outside the box on the roles. The real question is do they think it's the case a not talking about it for strategic reasons. I'm not a fan of misdirection in mafia from a town perspective because it normally only serves to make scum hunting harder.


Most roles can be equated to standard mafia roles.

You can deal KP? Your a vig role.
You can protect? medic role.
You can edit your posts? Okay, this one doesn't exist.

Short of everyone claiming what role they created (Which might be useful, but a great way for scum to fuck with us), we have to use terms that everyone else will understand. Once we get through a round of Night actions, (assuming decon\greymist use the ability names) we'd be able to refer to specifics.


I didn't really mean calling roles different names just because of PTP. I'm perfectly fine calling KP role vig, protect role medic and so on. I'm talking about roles that would never be in a normal game of mafia and thus don't have a standard name. I'm pretty the role I created doesn't fit into any normal mafia role and I'm sure there a lot of other cases like that.

As for role calling I think it's a terrible idea, especially in PTP because you can make up a fake role for yourself just as easily as the role you created for someone else.

I do agree with you that things should become clearer after night 1 because we will at least get some info on the roles that are in play.
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 20 2012 23:20 GMT
#479
On August 21 2012 08:12 Mementoss wrote:
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On August 21 2012 08:09 imallinson wrote:
On August 21 2012 07:44 Hopeless1der wrote:
On August 21 2012 07:39 imallinson wrote:
I've been out all day so I apologise for not posting earlier.

One thing I noticed, between the spam, is a hell of a lot of role discussion, talk about kp, etc. I think everyone has missed a very important point in all this. These are pokemon we are dealing with and last I checked most of them have more than one power. Because this is PTP it wouldn't surprise me if most people did have more than one power. Add to that the fact that all the role talk has been about standard mafia roles it seems like no one is really thinking outside the box on the roles. The real question is do they think it's the case a not talking about it for strategic reasons. I'm not a fan of misdirection in mafia from a town perspective because it normally only serves to make scum hunting harder.


Most roles can be equated to standard mafia roles.

You can deal KP? Your a vig role.
You can protect? medic role.
You can edit your posts? Okay, this one doesn't exist.

Short of everyone claiming what role they created (Which might be useful, but a great way for scum to fuck with us), we have to use terms that everyone else will understand. Once we get through a round of Night actions, (assuming decon\greymist use the ability names) we'd be able to refer to specifics.


I didn't really mean calling roles different names just because of PTP. I'm perfectly fine calling KP role vig, protect role medic and so on. I'm talking about roles that would never be in a normal game of mafia and thus don't have a standard name. I'm pretty the role I created doesn't fit into any normal mafia role and I'm sure there a lot of other cases like that.

As for role calling I think it's a terrible idea, especially in PTP because you can make up a fake role for yourself just as easily as the role you created for someone else.

I do agree with you that things should become clearer after night 1 because we will at least get some info on the roles that are in play.


But how do your thoughts on roles and PTP mechanics help us catch scum?


It doesn't really, I'm just pointing out a big missing piece in all the role talk so far. Honestly I don't think role talk day 1 will be helpful in this set up.

On August 21 2012 08:12 Drazerk wrote:
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On August 21 2012 08:05 wherebugsgo wrote:
On August 20 2012 10:17 Drazerk wrote:
I'm with wiggles there are super powers out there that prey on certain information being known (Steamship 4 shot sniper comes to mind)

So the following -

No pokemon names
No Type
No role information
No claiming medic to save scum

Anyone who does this will probably just be shot down or turned green


On August 20 2012 21:30 Drazerk wrote:
Also to go one step further

I'm a bug type so fire / flying / rock types - Bring it


Herp derp?

I don't know if anyone else noticed this (I have to reread some of what I missed) but I saw this and figured it has to be pointed out.

Unfortunately it's Drazerk, so to be completely honest my read of Drazerk doesn't change here.


I'm an exception to my own rule because at some point I need to be taken down for the good of the town


But is that point now?
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 20 2012 23:21 GMT
#480
EBWOP:
One thing is that it makes me suspicious of the people who were role claiming.
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 00:00 GMT
#487
On August 21 2012 08:54 VisceraEyes wrote:
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On August 21 2012 08:50 Mattchew wrote:
On August 21 2012 08:47 VisceraEyes wrote:
I'm reading AND care Mattchew, care to elaborate on why you think otherwise?

cause you haven't sunk your teeth into a real candidate with reason yet, you haven't picked a fight, you also havent explained why you havent done the previously mentioned things. you usually do atleast 1 of these things as town


Yeah, this sounds like you as town too. The reason I haven't "sunk my teeth into a candidate" yet is because there are no real candidates for me to choose from. Draz is like the only one and I don't like the fact that a bandwagon built on the BS case SnB put forth. It's a shitty case and I don't like the smell of the bandwagon that formed from it...so I'm not supporting it presently.

My grush wagon could use some help though, if you're interested. It's guaranteed to rid the game of an anti-town poster and gosh, it might even net us a scum. What do ya say?


It feels kind of wrong lynching someone who can't defend himself. I've never played a game with him before, is he normally this spammy and terrible in his posting?
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 00:18 GMT
#493
I guess what need weighing up with regards to a Grush lynch is would lynching anyone else give us more info?
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 11:29 GMT
#551
On August 21 2012 19:21 wherebugsgo wrote:
you know what stands out about allin?

My vote on him was calculated. Notice that I voted him immediately after he posted. This was 100% intentional by me. Guess what happened?

He disappeared right afterward. If he, at the very least, had responded or said something following the flurry of votes on him, I might have been inclined to think he was a bad townie getting wagoned (and thus his flailing would've caused the subsequent votes.) However, he completely disappeared, which indicates to me that he's trying to lose heat.

In addition, we have other people who come into the thread (e.g. VE) trying to derail from allinson. Obviously this in itself isn't a huge tell on VE unless allinson actually flips, but it's interesting because VE so far has done nothing else of significance. His change of vote to Drazerk seems to be calculated toward lowering his own level of suspicion.

I'm fine with killing either VE or allinson today. I would rather kill allinson though, that's my stronger read of the two.


I disappeared because it was 2 am and I thought I should at least get some sleep. Your case against me is basically that I don't sound sure of my self and that that I haven't contributed anything yet. About the unsureness that's just how I am, I can't really say much more about it. Also ,Dirk + Show Spoiler +
On August 21 2012 16:26 Dirkzor wrote:
While this case at face value makes sense I figured I'd dig deeper. imallinson is pretty new here so I figured he could just be intimidated by the amount of veterans in the game and thus explaining his meek attitude. So i skimmed his newbie game and the mad men game. In neither of those does he appear meek or insecure about his thoughts. So more power to this case due to that.
, I never played in Mad Men mafia and the one newbie game where I was alive after night 1 (which I assume is the one you were talking about ) I was scum when I was supposedly less unsure of myself.

I hadn't contributed anything to scum hunting yet because I don't have a good read on anyone. A lot of players posting is very erratic and kind of spammy but that's settled down now. As for any reads I have now I think strongandbig is the most likely candidate for scum. His case against Draz + Show Spoiler +
On August 21 2012 16:50 strongandbig wrote:
Boiled down to its most basic level, my case is as follows:

  • Drazerk's supposed method of looking for KP roles would never have produced reliable information, and he should know that, but he tried to convince us that he was serious about it.
  • When called out on it, Drazerk made up after-the-fact justifications for it. This means that he didn't think it through beforehand, but he didn't want to own up to that fact.
  • I find those things coming from Drazerk to be scummy.
is bad. It is attacking him for an idea which isn't a terrible one but is completely impractical given the information we have. Draz strikes me as someone who could be very helpful to town if alive but just crazy enough to get a bandwaggon going on him. I get the same feeling from VE as well and SaB has also made a bad case against him based on a pinch of OMGUS (from him dismissing his case against draz) and the belief that VE being annoyed with Grush's posting making him scummy.

##Vote: strongandbig
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 12:10 GMT
#554
On August 21 2012 20:54 strongandbig wrote:
lol k.

Or you could, you know, actually say something to dissuade me from this. But "lol k" is definitely making me think twice about my accusation.

On August 21 2012 20:58 VisceraEyes wrote:
Oh, also this slipped my mind...but Dirkzor in "researching meta" on allin referenced reading his performances in his latest mini and Mad Men to get an idea of his play. I'm not sure which Newbie Mini he's talking about because he doesn't say, and allinson wasn't even IN Mad Men, so really I'm not even sure why he even mentioned the allin case to begin with. He lied about doing meta research on it, which leads me to believe that he lied about even reading the case...the fact that he never voted for allin and opted to instead vote for me supports this.

Just on observation.


I'm trying to figure out whether he is just being lazy or he is scum. I can't imagine scum being stupid enough to just make some shit up that is that easy to call out, but I also can't think of a reason town would either.
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 12:50 GMT
#558
On August 21 2012 21:16 strongandbig wrote:
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On August 21 2012 21:10 imallinson wrote:
On August 21 2012 20:54 strongandbig wrote:
lol k.

Or you could, you know, actually say something to dissuade me from this. But "lol k" is definitely making me think twice about my accusation.


but it's just so terrible!

Your 'case' on me is that you don't like my cases.

So first off, your characterization of my cases is wrong, but that aside, why does making cases you don't like mean I'm scum?


Because I think you are going at people who could be very dangerous for scum later on but easy enough to push a mislynch onto. I think if you actually thought Draz and VE are scum you would actually havea good reason for doing so and I haven't seen one yet. I'll concede that it isn't a strong case but so far I haven't seen a strong case against anyone.
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 12:51 GMT
#559
EBWOP:
SaB what do you think of Dirk's "meta research" about me that is obviously wrong?
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 13:19 GMT
#567
The other thing I noticed about what Dirk said about my previous games is that he seems to agree fairly strongly with my being scum, even adding his own argument against me (the meta stuff) but doesn't actually back it up with a vote. This looks a lot like someone trying to push the vote onto an easy target but not actually committing to it himself.
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 13:21 GMT
#568
On August 21 2012 22:14 strongandbig wrote:
Oh and because you were so insistent on it being a policy lynch and not willing to consider a policy vig shot, despite doubtless having multiple town vigs in this game.

(if a vig shot is available then using that on a policy question is better for town than using the lynch, because you can't really do behavioral analysis on the votes on a policy lynch)


A vig shot probably would be a much better option with regards to Grush. I guess the complication would be with pokemon types causing it not to be successful.
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 13:28 GMT
#571
I didn't say it wasn't helpful at all, I said guessing roles wasn't helpful until a round of night actions is in. I was just wanting to put the argument about greater diversity of roles being out there while I thought of it, not to try and use it to guess roles now.
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 14:05 GMT
#577
Just because you don't vote doesn't mean you aren't hoping on a wagon. You definitely hopped on the wagon against me.
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 14:06 GMT
#578
Also if your meta research was accidentally on someone else who's games were you actually looking at?
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 14:55 GMT
#588
I know my case against SaB isn't great and at this point I think I'm just going to drop it. At the moment I'm trying to figure Dirk out because I'm still not convinced that it was an honest mistake and in general he is acting quite scummy. As for hopelessder I agree that the ninja vote is suspicious but until he actually is here and can defend it nothing can be done to further that cause.
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 15:36 GMT
#596
The thing I don't understand about the VE being scum talk is why, if he were scum, would he be going at Grush so hard. Everyone agrees that Grush is probably going to hinder the town even if he is town which sounds like someone scum would like to keep around. Also given that scum for the most part aren't too bothered about who is lynched why would a scum VE not drop it after so many people say it makes him look scummy.
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imallinson
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3482 Posts
August 21 2012 15:47 GMT
#602
Well I have to go out and I'm not sure if I will be back before the deadline. I've tried to defend myself as best as I can. As for who I think is scum, I'd go for either Dirk or hopeless just from bad/weird posting that strikes me as scummy (Dirk for wagons and I'm still not convinced of his mistake. Hopeless because of the ninja voting and not providing a good reason for it). Out of the two I still think Dirk is the more suspicious and vote for him.

##Vote: Dirkzor
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