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I won't bother writing up a long post because I've done it too many times already. ^_^ | ||
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^_^ | ||
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On April 22 2009 15:10 Qatol wrote: Greens are actually very bad for the CK to approach. All they have to offer is their role. The CK MUST approach someone with something to offer I'm offering my influence, something that goes well beyond the bounds of the game. | ||
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He can be working for Mafia, but if DT checked flips blue and can just say he has sided with the town. | ||
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BUT if I was the CK I'd be trying to run for Mayor. That way if I decided to side with Mafia they could never backstab me. ^_^ | ||
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Saying don't worry, we are sure we can prot you but you dont need to know who is doing it is good for the first night, but after that it's probably a good idea to welcome him into whatever circle has this info. | ||
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Also I'd be very wary of L, he's just as dangerous as everyone else that has influence in this game. | ||
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On April 27 2009 12:56 JeeJee wrote: it's nothing related to the mafia game itself, i think it's more of a forum bug. when i go to the show-all link (linked in the post), and scroll through the thread, i see that black rectangle in a random place in the thread for some unknown reason. i've never seen that before, and thought it was interesting. i also wondered whether anyone else is seeing it or is my computer acting wonky I thought I saw it too, but it was very small and in someone's sig using that link so it's probably just a virus on your computer ^_^ | ||
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Really JeeJee is right - just look at Qatols post. Look at how he became Mayor. Sure, no one with the exception of Caller and myself (har har) seemed to have run but look at how quickly Qatol got votes. In fact, Im sure some of those people that voted for him did it just because he was the first "candidate". Now he's trying to push for a double lynch WHEN WE DO NOT NEED ONE. We don't even have 1 sure fire suspect so a regular lynch will barely do - why double lynch? Lastly, he's trying to make himself look active by accusing people. It makes Qatol seem to be on one side of the "us vs them" paradigm - namely Townies vs Mafia. However people seem to forget that with Bockit dying on Night 1 it has revealed to us that it's more like "us vs them vs those other guys too". There is more than 1 mafia family, so even if JeeJee is guilty that doesn't mean Qatol isn't either. His interests are mafia motivated just as much as anyone he accuses or gets to flip red. | ||
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I have no reason to trust the PMs and I don't even really care because of the fact that Qatol is trying to push a double lynch on sketchy suspects. That raises a flag far more than some PM from Bockit that really doesn't mean shit at this point. You are trying to find some way of figuring out mafia by reading people's minds and behavior when you've got a big sign in front of you thats easier to deal with. I've defended people plenty of times hardcore (see the mikeymoo incident with BC). It's not because I always think those people are innocent off the bat, but because I see a far more dangerous play being made ahead of time taking the town in the wrong direction. Me defending JeeJee has 0 bearing on my innocene - I pretty much do as I please without caring what any of you will perceive me as because: A.) I know I'm innocent B.) I know nobody can even come close to showing me as mafia C.) I'm confident that if anyone dared to try I can out debate them and prove them wrong ^_^ See, it's easy to play reckless when you're innocent. | ||
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I'm kinda so-so on the Versatile clues because she barely has defended herself and I know she's been reading this thread. She was talking to me earlier today on another forum and even said something about THIS mafia game. Sooooooo yea not a good look for her v_v | ||
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Versatile has just bet her left titty that I am MAFIA! Anyone else getting in on this pot? Just post "in". Like so: in (color chosen purely for shock value and is not coincidental in any way shape or form) | ||
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On April 28 2009 12:00 Versatile wrote: Let me explain about Ace. He thinks he's a great mafia player. He kinda is. But I know his playing style, and I've already caught one of his tells; he's done in a few of the conversations we've had already. I'm not going to tell you all what it is because if I did.....well, would I still be special? (just a lil' sarcasm, folks). The only reason I didn't raise the red flag before is because I didn't want to alarm him and cause my death even faster. Secondly, I've been talking to Ace on and off for days. He is one person who can confirm I didn't even know the game started until more than 48hrs into it. He chose not to do that though. Instead, he chose to add to the suspicion of me, and didn't bother to tell you all that we've had other conversations, so it is definitely not unusually for me to be on another board and not this one. Hell, I only come here for mafia. Either way, I'm perfectly content with dying. Hopefully though, someone pays attention to my posts afterward. tl;dr All I see is a big wall of fail | ||
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<---free spirit | ||
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Good thing I'm a medic and no one is ever gonna figure me out. ^_^ | ||
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If I was mafia would I even be posting so much and so carelessly? oh wait... | ||
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On April 30 2009 21:40 Malongo wrote: Looking at versatiles voters list im pretty sure shed bet her left that there are at least 3/4 mafia there. lololololololololololol @L: I agree. When I read she was vet I guess she just wanted to be right. Oh well tities on the table one way or another. @Tricode: How? I didn't tell people to lynch her. Look at who I voted for. Can't use me as a scapegoat to try and get by. The people that voted her on (AHEM QATOL) are the prime suspects. P.S. - you guys are fucking up and L is mafia. Or a pirate. | ||
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Anyone questioning me looks suspect right now. Mafia would easily try to pin this on me even though they are the ones that threw her in the grave. *does a little dance* | ||
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seriously they fucking have some overpriced shit :/ | ||
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NO ONE listen to his medic list. No one. Qatol is mafia for sure because how can I be a suspect when I haven't done anything wrong? I didn't even vote for Versatile to die and I'm betting that the people that voted for her and the people on his bullshit medic list are mafia. DO NOT LISTEN TO QATOL. THE MAYOR IS MAFIA DO NOT FALL FOR HIS SHIT | ||
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Mayor gets elected with an overwhelming number of quick votes. Puts blame on me for getting Versatile lynched when he placed all votes for her - and didn't I say this would happen? Tried to get JeeJee lynched on shit evidence and then switched to appear favorable to the town. Now he's making a medic list and leaving me off of it even though I've already taken a hit. He's playing really fucked up. Seriously how can you keep saying "oh there goes another small suspicion, ok I'm 80% sure he's mafia" - No. The guy is clearly dirty. Lynch him tomorrow. | ||
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Who did I accuse except Qatol? go ahead, I'll wait. You really need to read my posts carefully. The only person I've accused in the entire game of being mafia is Qatol. | ||
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On May 01 2009 13:49 Qatol wrote: I didn't want to post this right now because talking about me is unimportant to night actions. However, you just won't let the issue go. Ace, for the last time 1. VERSATILE CALLED YOU OUT 2. SHE FLIPPED BLUE 3. SHE KNOWS YOU BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THIS GAME 4. THEREFORE YOU ARE A SUSPECT How hard is that to understand? Um...Versatile has never been able to catch my playing style. How can you go off of that bs info like that guarantees I'm mafia? So someone says "hey I know how this guy plays, I think he's mafia", then dies flips innocent and then we all go OH SHIT THEY WERE RIGHT!? No. Mafia doesn't work like that. Versatile's death has no bearings on my status because ding - she can't possibly know my role because she wasn't a DT. This post right here just cements you as guilty. The town doesn't learn anything from Versatile's death - why? Because she is connected with no one. We actually learned more about you because you vote switched to try and appear siding with the town. Hi, Mr. Mafia want some pie? as for the rest - tl;dr. I'm also no longer responding to posts that try to make something out that isn't there. Ace's list of people who are invisible posters Tri-Code (obviously) Vivi69 (obviously, part 2) Ozc (for good measure) Caller (gotta be wary of jedi mind tricks) RoL (I owe him $$, gotta be on the safe side) Qatol (he's mafia, I don't talk to mafia people) | ||
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On May 01 2009 14:11 Fishball wrote: Haha, TLDR. Nice second dodge there ![]() lol come on, you know I have to post for my own amusement every game ^_^ | ||
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On May 01 2009 14:10 RebirthOfLeGenD wrote: EBWOP! and Ace, you know I just try to kill you off of principle every game. Its just gotta happen. count yourself likely I aint no vigi ![]() + Show Spoiler + OR AMI????? + Show Spoiler + ![]() | ||
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shit it sure is quiet in this town. I can even hear the roflowls h00ting. | ||
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On April 28 2009 11:46 Versatile wrote: 2. Ace is mafia. I'd bet my left tittay. ![]() | ||
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On May 04 2009 17:04 BloodyC0bbler wrote: ROFL, you should get it stickied then ace + Show Spoiler + I'd hope ![]() ^_^ | ||
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On May 04 2009 17:11 BloodyC0bbler wrote: get a game with the top players from that site with the top players from this site for epic lul match? Versatile and MBH were the only 2 I'd say are good enough to play with TL players. When I modded a game here a few of them from the site played and well they performed miserably. There's another guy from there who I'd try to get to play but he's a...very unorthodox player. One time he made a "mafia % list" where every time someone posted he'd update their % of being mafia (wtf). He was an innocent, and his list had all innocents on it. If you argued with him or called him a dumbass your % would jump by like 20% and he'd vote to lynch you ^_^ | ||
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On May 04 2009 17:41 Vivi57 wrote: Wow ace, tl seems like it has a few very good players then a bunch of mid level players. it's kind of hard to imagine a game lower than this. I always assumed where you played, our top level players were about the average skill there. I only played there in a few games for fun. I pretty much stopped playing months ago due to stupidity on a few people's parts. Yes, even worse than tl.net. There was one game where no mafia had died (3 of them) and about 6 townies left iirc. The game ended because: Mafia killed 3 townies. Vigi killed the medic even though she was confirmed innocent. Medic protection was on a mafia member. Somebody had a sibling so when one dies, the other dies (both townies). Pretty much a mass killing that I couldn't believe. And there are a good amount of really good players on TL.net. I'd say were all at the same level as some people excel in other areas that others dont. I just seem to be the most visible by public opinion (which means I tend to die very fast). Trust me when I say can't say I'm the best, there are some equally if not more dangerous people around. | ||
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First of all let me address my play style - I don't have one. Purposely I do things differently every game. This is why when Versatile tried to say she knows how I play I laughed. She doesn't, because if she did she'd know I was innocent. This incident also cemented Qatol's guilt but more on that in a bit. When the game first started I just wanted to be quiet. I honestly felt I could just sit back, read some posts and chill out till Day 2 or 3 and bust out with some post about who fucked up. Qatol runs for mayor and racks up votes very fast. Unfortunately the town is incredibly stupid and doesn't question this. Whether Qatol is mafia or not the fact that a large group of people vote for him even before enough people step up, no matter how comical they are should raise suspicion. It doesn't outright tell us that Qatol is mafia but it does tell us that a group of people have an interest in him. I realize at this moment after raising this point no one is paying attention and conclude the town is full of asshats. Might as well lay low for real now and not do too much. WHOOPS I get hit Night 1. Luckily ILoveKTF protected me. Then we see the Bockit PM. This was the biggest turning point of the game. After the deaths on Night 1 we realize there are 2 mafia families (people like RoL still can't figure this out) and some townies are talking too much. This is further cemented by the discussion we have. Quickstriker and JeeJee are on trial with Qatol leading the pack. I read some posts and the case for JeeJee is so simple I can't believe people are falling for it: Qatol has this PM from Bockit (dead mafia) which mentions JeeJee, so JeeJee must be mafia too... Are you people fucking stupid? Qatol isn't a confirmed innocent and Bockit was a definite mafia. Even ignoring Qatol, you know Bockit isn't stupid so it's very well possible he could be setting JeeJee up. Duh. Of course people are stupid so this simple notion doesn't occur to them. Now lets get to the Versatile scenario and how this led me to both Qatol and L being mafia. I was sure on Qatol after JeeJee, but Versatile's bad play did it (ironic isn't it). When the town tried to blame me for Versatile's death Qatol said since she knows my playstyle and she died as an innocent, then I must be fishy. It's a deceptive idea, but not tricky to people that know how to read. Versatile = Innocent Versatile died, so therefore whatever she says must be true. This is a false way of thinking. Versatile had no idea of knowing my role. She was just guessing and playing badly. So whether she's innocent or not she can't know anything about me. Simple, but some townies were such saps they couldn't follow this logic. By now, Qatol was so easily caught guilty it was or at least should have been a matter of time before his lynch. As for L I caught on to him when he was arguing with Versatile. He was right - she played like shit. He was also right that the way she played was so mafia like (the excuses) that any sane townie (the smart ones) would have realized she was just bad for the game. However one thing L didn't do - he never addressed Qatol. This was a big tipoff for me. If L, who was arguing with Versatile is reading the thread how could he not catch on to Qatol's bs and call him out? I already had my case against Qatol but I didn't have enough to convince anyone L was mafia. Now right before I died something tricky happened. I had a PM from Qatol claiming the medic list was fake, Qatol is mafia and a whole bunch of stuff I don't even remember. I sent the PMs to semioldguy thinking that if he is mafia that wouldn't matter because they would already know it anyway and can't kill t_co for fear this PM spread to more than just me. Then it hit me: I forgot there were 2 mafia families for a second. This is bad - I want the town to win. If I give any of the mafia families too much info, they could have power over the other family therefore dictating the game. I'd rather both of them be afraid and try to backstab the other with the town being the eventual winner. Of course this would only work if Qatol and SoG are not in the same family. After I send the PM out and reload the forum I see BCs post a minute before I sent it: fuck. Now I can't even get a response from SoG so I have no clue about how he'd react and the info is out there. I don't know why I wasn't protected on this night but that's that. By this time I realized the 2 families can't even do too much harm to each other because neither side truly knows how many medics/Cks/vigis and other townies the other has under the influence. The only other mafia I would have known from my short time playing was LucasWoj. He always questions anything I say no matter how wrong his questions are. So I didn't even know he was playing the game because I didn't look at the player list. If I did I probably would have caught on to him for being quiet for so long. Either way the town played like shit, Tricode,Vivi, everyone that voted for JeeJee to die =Town LVPs. As for my tips for playing here they are straight from PM land and some others: 1.)Keep your story simple Anytime some guy PMs me with a long post about a lot of things I'm usually very wary. If he'd truly want something it would probably be a really short message unless we've been talking for a while. 2.) You don't have to tell people your role I pretty much do this every game. The only time in any mafia game anybody knew my role without me telling them was when MBH was a DT. You can be very effective without someone knowing your role. The less they ask the more trustworthy they are to a certain extent. It's also why I usually never ask people their role. 3.) Anytime somebody has an excuse as to why they couldn't post (like exams) write it down. Lo and behold in a few hours at least 10 more people will say they'll be inactive because of exams also. Always one of these guys is gonna be mafia. Always because if they wanted to start going after inactives 1 mafia hiding amongst a bunch of these guys means lots of innocent death without strong analysis. 4.) Make sure everyone talks. Quiet people are the first to get lynched. This makes sure that from the get go Mafia have to be involved in the town. Likewise from the Mafia point of view this works very well - if you are active early when you start giving out the bullshit pies only the smart people will pick up on it. 5.) Probably the most important rule of Mafia that most people just don't understand: It's not what you know, it's what you can convince people to believe. This is really where the Mafia game is won and lost and people just don't get it. In this game you are a mafia mayor and I know this because I read it correctly. Does it matter? Not really, because now I have to convince the town that you truly are. Likewise we all know quickstriker and JeeJee are innocent but in the grand scheme of things it means shit - people believe they are guilty. Once you get people to believe certain things about other players you can start either dividing the town and standing back silently watching them devour each other as mafia, or as a townie bring them all to focus on a few people. The idea is all the same - persuasion is much more powerful than outright facts. If you can lie skillfully or find a crucial mistake to exploit while keeping a straight story people will often trust you easily unless they are smart enough to be objective (coming next). 6.) Reading objectively. This really means learning how to ignore the emotions and fluff in a post and picking out the key information and coming to a conclusion. Doing this you would start to ask yourself some basic questions and realize that a lot of the posts you see can be easily broken down to find major holes. Qatols posts were good - they were good enough to paint him as supportive to the town's plight. Of course I read them objectively and realized that they weren't. He didn't have anything on QS and JeeJee except misguided townies. 7.) Don't revenge accuse. If someone calls you mafia, don't turn around and claim they are mafia unless you are sure. Revenge accusing is just bad as now the town can't see the facts of an argument and it's just some guy mad/paranoid he's painted red. It's also bad because if they are both innocent the Mafia can keep the town focused on these 2 players all the time. 8.) Read posts from the past. Anytime someone dies, you should go back and skim all their posts. If the town is doing bad instead of skimming you should scrutinize them feverishly. 9.) when sharing information everyone doesn't need to know everything. If you're talking with someone privately keep them on a need to know basis. Same goes with the town. A bunch of clueless people are much more dangerous than 1 sane individual. If you tell them too much or too critical info it WILL be misused. Slowly give people more information based on their reactions to past info. 10.) Change your playstyle or at least keep it ambiguous but not threatening. This is obvious. 11.) Not a tip, but partial discussion of what happened this game with so many townies: Mafia talks to someone through PMs thats innocent (Player X) Player X starts posting mafia influenced information to the town actively. People question his stupidity. Problem is he's so active you can't really do much without wanting to lynch him as a town for fear of his stupidity spreading to other players (who probably got Mafia poisoned mouths too, ugh). Player X is also adamant because not only does he take offense to being called wrong, but the Mafia probably made him feel that those ideas weren't theirs but "his own". So he argues even though he is wrong but doesn't know it. Player X gets lynched, flips innocent, town has lots of new innocent suspects and no one knows the mafia fucked Player X because Player X was too proud to admit he got his "ideas" from Mafia. The Mafia just stay quiet and watch the new circus. There are more little things I usually do during a game that Im sure I forgot. But those first 10 are usually good enough to get you through a game. | ||
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![]() ETA: I also loved the overall format of this game. I think 2 mafia families + CKs was good this time around. It gives the Mafia an element of uncertainty they have to deal with also ^_^ | ||
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On May 09 2009 04:41 Tricode wrote: @ACE i think i should get a break for some of my bad decisions. It's my first time being townie and second game. I have other things i could say though =\ but i guess i shouldn't, don't want to start a stupid argument. Say what you have to say, but if it's your first game don't worry. All of us made bad plays this game so don't think the blame is solely on you. @BC: 3 sounds fine. But as a CK how did you set them up so they would have to figure out who their targets were? The document idea is really good. | ||
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And as a general idea, we dont need a town circle to win. You just need to know how to roleclaim. This doesn't mean you see some guy you think is legit and give up your role - that's generally a bad idea. You have discussions or whatever, hopefully public, and when you are certain there is no way the person can be mafia then maybe you roleclaim. As for balance, this game was balanced. The 2 Mafia would have eventually had to kill each other at some point but the game just ended because of how lopsided it was looking. If the town had managed to kill even 2 more mafia no one would be complaining about balance. From the Mafia point of view they somewhat have to work together if the town is on their shit or else they will both be wiped out. | ||
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On May 11 2009 05:05 Caller wrote: hi can you please give me feedback on my mafia idea ^^ no lolololololol | ||
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