[M][N] Mini Mafia: The (kinda) Vanilla Experience - Page 8

On October 27 2015 06:01 Blazinghand wrote:


Ok, I totally get what you're getting at here. there's an argument to be made, and it is a totally reasonable one, that perhaps all lurkers are town and all active players are mafia, and we should lynch into the most suspicious active players. And in a sense, I think that is not 100% wrong. For example; I think rayn needed an extension and some time to sort out his rage and unwillingness to play. But there are what, 4 lurkers here out of 11 players? It's almost certain that there's at least one mafia in the lurk group, and there are ones like Hopeless1 and Yamato who are literally playing just enough to not ge tmodkilled (remember, this game has no activity requirement). If I were scum this game, I'd just never post and it would be easy. In fact, I feel really certain at least one scum, or maybe all scum, are doing this. And why not? There's a vocal contingent of people (including the lurkers themselves) who do not want to lynch into lurkers

We have to think smarter. Normally, lurkers are handled by modkills for failure to meet posting requirements, or cops, or vigilantes, or at the very least some blues make it to LYLO and claim and we have a narrow lynch pool. We have none of those tools this game. People are abusing the ability to lurk, and sure, ti sounds like they have reasons, but there's no reason scum can't just fake reasons. As scum, I would.

We need to solve this problem ourselves. We obviously can't lynch every lurker, since doing so is the same as guessing all scum are lurkers (if 2-3 of them are town, we'll run out of lynches and lose probably first). But we can lynch the worst lurker or two, the ones we'll never get a read on, and I'm gambling on one of them being scum.

Obviously none of these guys are gonna shot if they're town. What will you do in LYLO when it's all lurkers and scum, or all lurking scum we're refusing ot lynch? We can't have that.

Gb will always LOOK worse than Yam because there's a filter to look at. He could have eaisly chosen to never post and he'd be just like Yam, protected by "well, we can't just lynch lurkers, or we'd lose". GB CHOSE TO PLAY. He chose to play the damn game, to try to solve things, even if he's super wrong and dumb, and MAKING THAT CHOICE, that's a town thing. If he's scum, he didn't have to post SHIT. He just had to let the thread implode.

He stepped up! HE STEPPED UP.

Don't punish that.

On October 27 2015 06:49 Xatalos wrote:
Well I don't think it matters too much since we'd be getting two lynches anyway (same as if we just waited the another day)... But I guess there's the fact that the longer the game goes, the more information we get, and there's always a risk of yamato ninjaing

On October 27 2015 06:54 Chromatically wrote:
I think that logically it's better to make sure we only kill one person today though, because we don't want to rush our lynches and not have the full amount of time/information. So no shennanies I guess.

On October 26 2015 09:24 gumshoe wrote:
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So please please please vote Yamato, if he flips green I will sheep whatever lynch you want for the rest of the game. Just houmer me today, will yah?

On October 27 2015 08:55 ritoky wrote:


that's pretty much my town read on him + he had some similar thoughts to me on day 1. but the constant rage over non-issues and then that post you made about him being all aboard you and suddenly open to a wealth of options without talking about it much plus him not doing shennanies has cast some doubt on him for me.

On October 27 2015 08:31 ritoky wrote:
assuming you're town.

i think independently GB is the most mafia and hopeless hasn't given me any reason to believe he is town.

assuming i am right on GB i think 1 of gumdrop, vivax, and xata is mafia. of those 3 i think vivax has reasoning to not shennanie cuz of what i did to him in a past game (could be using it to his adv) and gumdrop is the most town of the 3. so that leaves xata.

onegu is an engima to me so i have no idea whatsoever.

so independent i would say something like GB, hopeless, onegu.

if gb is mafia then sub out onegu or hopeless for xata or maybe vivax.