Names Are Hard mini mafia - Page 8

On June 12 2016 07:06 wherebugsgo wrote:
wouldn't it be nice, though, if that were the game?

Lynch artanis, VE & Rels. Game over? I think we might be missing something that is pointing to one of Rels/VE being town and I think it makes more sense for VE to be town than Rels to be town.

On June 12 2016 07:03 wherebugsgo wrote:
the outcome of that play does not change the fact that it was awful.

It just speaks to how much Artanis hates playing scum, that he would actually just willingly kill himself like that. Pretty easy going forward though, just kill Artanis whenever he claims.

On June 12 2016 07:27 wherebugsgo wrote:


What makes Palmar mafia?

On June 12 2016 07:29 wherebugsgo wrote:


yes, I'm too braindead to see why a scum would kill themselves 5 minutes after replacing into the game.

Cool story bro. Maybe I really need to be a shitty scum player to understand why someone would make such a shitty scum play.

I don't feel bad about being wrong, because regardless we end up getting a free scum kill.

On June 12 2016 07:33 wherebugsgo wrote:


You're blaming me for the day 1 lynch? rofl.

Also if you don't remember, I thought Kelsier was scum coming into d2, when literally no one else did. Nice that you conveniently forgot that.

On June 21 2016 07:24 Palmar wrote:

Koshi, ignore all the trolling I did in game, it was mostly for strategical purposes (calling you bad after your death).

You really, really need to learn to adjust your tone and message. You have three objectives as town and you're probably the best player on TL Mafia at one of them (not getting lynched), and you're definitely good at the second one (finding mafia, excellent job this game). But you truly suck at the third pillar of good town play which is convincing town organize around your ideas and do as you say.

I know it's super tempting to just blame it on "well they're bad, they should listen to me", but this is the most underrated skill in mafia. No one just comes in and has immediate sway over the way people play, it takes time and it takes touch. You have to read every single player to understand what arguments or encouragements they might respond to. Some people you have to abuse, others you have to hold their hand while they get there.

And yes, I know it's a bit hypocritical for me to talk about this because by now leading town comes very effortlessly to me, I'm playing behind a "big name" and people in general are going to pay attention to what I say, but that hasn't always been the case.

It's both the hardest skill to appreciate and the hardest skill to master.

I'm sounding all lecture-y here, so sorry about that, but it's been my agenda for years to help people understand and remember this very important part of playing this game.