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MrZentor
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1648 Posts
December 13 2011 20:07 GMT
#541
On December 13 2011 12:18 MrZentor wrote:
Show nested quote +


We should lynch some lurkers to keep them active, but I don't think that will get us any mafia, because the mafia will end up shifting the vote to a non mafia lurker. I am just saying that given the current information, it would be best to lynch him. This could easily change with any new information or posts.


so you recognize that lynching lurkers won't kill mafia, but you still want to do it anyway? the hell?


No.

If you read my post, I was refuting prphlz's idea of lynching a lurker and saying why it would be better to kill zeks than a lurker. I was also hoping that you would notice that me saying "We should lynch some lurkers" was an empty threat to lurkers to try to get them active. I would only kill a lurker if we had no other leads.
filter
On December 13 2011 12:00 MrZentor wrote:
Hola! After reading this, I decided to post again.

Show nested quote +


Because apparently one post isn't enough, here's my second one.

Anyways, I think we should lynch zeks. He wants to kill the hydra, because it will be "dangerous for the town", but having the hydra only helps town. He is either extremely stupid or he is mafia. Either way, it's best to kill him.

I already stated my view on who should be elected and voted for said person.


filter
On December 13 2011 12:00 MrZentor wrote:
Hola! After reading this, I decided to post again.

Show nested quote +


Because apparently one post isn't enough, here's my second one.

Anyways, I think we should lynch zeks. He wants to kill the hydra, because it will be "dangerous for the town", but having the hydra only helps town. He is either extremely stupid or he is mafia. Either way, it's best to kill him.

I already stated my view on who should be elected and voted for said person.


Now I'm voting you for lynch :D

Car to explain why?

On December 13 2011 12:00 MrZentor wrote:
Hola! After reading this, I decided to post again.

Show nested quote +


Because apparently one post isn't enough, here's my second one.

Anyways, I think we should lynch zeks. He wants to kill the hydra, because it will be "dangerous for the town", but having the hydra only helps town. He is either extremely stupid or he is mafia. Either way, it's best to kill him.

I already stated my view on who should be elected and voted for said person.


Building off Eii's accusations, here you say that either zeks is stupid or mafia, then you nonchalantly say that we should lynch him because he is the all we have at the moment in the next post. To me this doesnt look like an accusation or pressure, to me this looks like someone jumping on an easy wagon.


I don't think we should lynch him. I think we should lynch him if we get no other leads before tonight. I don't really care who else is voting for him, he seems the most guilty to me at this time, so I am going to vote him for lynch.

what does 'having the hydra only helps town' mean?

It means, as somebody said before I can't find the quote, that is the hydra is mafia, it has twice the chance of messing up, and if it's town, we can protect two minds with one body by electing it.

i know you're pretty new. but seriously this post looks like someone in your scumQT told you the following:
"hey zentor, you need to post something... attack zeks, he looks pretty bad right now..."
or can you tell me a better story?


I wanted to post, so I wouldn't be lynched for inactivity, and zeks looks like scum.

i need to talk to you zentor


Sounds fun!



1. "Because apparently one post isn't enough, here's my second one" - Posting random BS to stay barely active and won't be called out for lurker
2. "Kill the hydra" - There are multiple hydras dude?
3. "Having the hydra only helps town" - Yeah as if hydra can't be scum
4. "dangerous for the town" - When did I ever say that ? Stop sticking words in my mouth


1. I was joking.
2. One active one.
3. If the hydra is scum, it had twice the chance of slipping up.
4. Well, I assumed that was why you were voting for it.

zentor might be coached scum.

What is coached scum?

Another one throws in a halfhearted vote on Zentor, let me fastforward and tell you where this ends this continues. Another handfull of people halfheartedly vote for Zentor. Zentor flips town. We don't have a clue who the real mafia is. We can't use the list people who voted for Zentor to find mafia because there won't be alot of mafia in there.


Yeah, killing me would be a bad idea.

Well, I just wanted to clear up the confusion, not that I'm actually good at that.

Let me just reiterate: killing me would be a bad idea.
Falling’s just like flying, except there’s a more permanent destination.
Liquid`Sheth
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States2095 Posts
December 13 2011 20:10 GMT
#542
Soo..

To start with this..

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On December 12 2011 13:05 zeks wrote:
[...]
I probably won't be running but I hope other candidates do as I don't really want to see a Radfield/Arctocod office [...]

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On December 12 2011 23:51 zeks wrote:
Voting Radfield + Arc
[...]

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He then suggested this :

As for lynch candidate tonight - I had suggested early to lynch a hydra...actually a mayor candidate would work too since scum almost ALWAYS has a mayor candidate whether it be a serious bid or not

Which I thought was off. He then calls out Deus-Ex agree'ing with risk.nuke's call of FoS on Deus. I personally think this FoS was just to get Deus to post more and see what was up. So him agree'ing with that seems weird too. Then right after that he has to go to the gym for 12 hours.

He comes back and then defends himself well, it was these early game things that made me feel like he wouldn't be a bad choice to get rid of.

And yes, the fact that others had voted on him made me look at his argument. Hes one of the first I've filtered. And I didn't find his argument that convincing. Those were the main reasons I would get rid of him, if asked at that point in time.

And as for why these two and not nisani/nyc/maser. Its because I haven't filtered through them yet. I don't think there great contributers obviously, but I havn't looked through them yet. And even though I havn't filtered through Zentor, he really quickly goes oh sense you want to hear something from me, I think we should lynch zeks. Ok bye again! And that seemed rather unhelpful as well. Thats pretty much it.
Team LiquidUnderneath it all they were really quite nice. They just got screwed up. Mostly by stuff that wasn't entirely their fault.
zeks
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Canada1068 Posts
December 13 2011 20:11 GMT
#543
Before you go Sheth just wondering if you've been reading up on past games
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
Liquid`Sheth
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States2095 Posts
December 13 2011 20:12 GMT
#544
If on the spot right now, who would you lynch Zentor? Still Zeks ?
Team LiquidUnderneath it all they were really quite nice. They just got screwed up. Mostly by stuff that wasn't entirely their fault.
Liquid`Sheth
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States2095 Posts
December 13 2011 20:13 GMT
#545
I have not zeks :[ I havn't had anytime sadly. I've looked at a small part of a few before this one, but I've been trying to filter people here, fix my computer and keep up on SC2 related things. Its pretty time consuming. Not to mention that I'm at my families house and should visit with them as well ><
Team LiquidUnderneath it all they were really quite nice. They just got screwed up. Mostly by stuff that wasn't entirely their fault.
MrZentor
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1648 Posts
December 13 2011 20:14 GMT
#546

If on the spot right now, who would you lynch Zentor? Still Zeks ?


Nobody looks as scummy as he does.

That's a yes.
Falling’s just like flying, except there’s a more permanent destination.
Spaackle
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States153 Posts
December 13 2011 20:18 GMT
#547
I'm going to read through the filters of all the players currently being suspected or accused and give my thoughts on all of them in a bit. Prepare for a massive infodump from me in about 15 minutes or so.
Friendship is Magic!
ProfessorBadass
Profile Joined December 2011
94 Posts
December 13 2011 20:35 GMT
#548
Hey Palmar why haven't you suggested your RNG day 1 vote this game? IIRC you've done it every single game lately as Town.
Arctocod
Profile Joined September 2011
Norway251 Posts
December 13 2011 20:37 GMT
#549
Sheth as much as I think people would love to read about your everyday trivialities, a game of mafia is not the place for them. It appears a significant proporition of your post is not relevant to the game and it's usually very unclear as to what you are trying to say. The lack of objectivity on your posts does not help at all and I'd like to know if you are capable of posting clear coherent thoughts. It seems to me that you are using this cloak of nonsense to hide your opinion and the fact you don't have that much to say. If you are not I'd like you to try harder to make yourself clear.

In addition to this we've some other issues with your play so far and as soon as Palmar shows up we'll be deciding whether to push for your lynch today
♪♫♫ We all stand together! ♪♫♪
Arctocod
Profile Joined September 2011
Norway251 Posts
December 13 2011 20:38 GMT
#550
Professorbadass: Which one of you wrote that

/syllogism
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zeks
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Canada1068 Posts
December 13 2011 20:38 GMT
#551
Analyzing Sheth's posts

Now lets look at a quick timeline of stuff he's done:


1. Ran for mayor immediately after game starts

He's one of the first people to run for mayor but drops out rather quickly without challenging the other candidates. For a completely new player to immediately run for mayor practically right after game starts seems fishy. After Rad/Arc campaigns gain steam he drops out silently because he knows he has no way of winning.

2.

On December 12 2011 12:28 Liquid`Sheth wrote:
Its very important we get these two positions filled up by people who are 100% not mafia. This can be tough obviously. So I think its obvious we want someone who is willing to write a lot in order to be one of these.


Implying people who write a lot are not mafia? Terrible logic

Note that he writes big blocks to try to fit his own category.

3. Claims he hasn't read any past games
On December 14 2011 05:13 Liquid`Sheth wrote:
I have not zeks :[ I havn't had anytime sadly. I've looked at a small part of a few before this one, but I've been trying to filter people here, fix my computer and keep up on SC2 related things. Its pretty time consuming. Not to mention that I'm at my families house and should visit with them as well ><


Yet it seems fishy that he does know some stuff about past games...
Why would it be devastating to have Radfield/Arctocod in office if they're both scum? The Mayor's role isn't really that powerful, and PYP:I was won without the Pardoner stopping a single lynch, and if the Pardoner stops a lynch without a huge reasonable then he's autolynch the next day. Wouldn't it be worse to have them out of office if they are town?"


Correct me if I'm wrong is sheepycat someone in a past game?
There is no way to figure out if someone is "100%" mafia either. Oh percentages, how I hate sheepycat or w/e his name is for over using them on EVERY single read he ever had. And what do you mean theres only one way to get confirmed and that way kinda prevents people from getting elected afterwards? I honestly just don't know....


4. People have called me out for saying "my 6th sense says one hydra is scum" - and used that in a case against me.

What about Sheth? He's been doing the same thing! Except in multiple occasions! Don't see him getting called out [Excuse my selective quoting, if you filter him and read these comments and the context it was in, you'll see that it makes no difference that i quoted it this way]

I get the basic read from Redfield that hes clean though. Just from the imaginary tone I hear in my head.


Radfield hasn't said anything from his one post, so I kind of don't think he should be mayor based on that, but I really think hes townie. Just from a random gut read.


Radfields comments are again good. I'm getting like this pure read from him for now. Just seems legit.


This quote unsettles me too:
And pointing out I'm trying to collect towncred is a good way for you to get some good towncred too. =)



5. Sheth posts a lot, but he's rather wishy washy in his opinions

Lynch - Prplhz - I've always gotten some weird vibes from him. Back when he said neither elected position is at all important and him saying he thinks its better if Mafia gets one of those jobs. I think its just weird logic. I'm all for you attacking risk.nuke and looking at deus-ex above me, and I realize your not really on other peoples radar, but your definetly on mine. If you can change my mind I'll definetly change my vote, I'm just saying this now as I have to go. I'll be back to re-read this all over before actual Election time.


Lynch Prplhz based on "weird vibes"

Either Zeks or Zentor. They've both shown that even if there not mafia, there not going to be too helpful in finding real mafia and might just confuse us more.


Then says if given the power he'd lynch me or Zentor. After Arc pressures Sheth he backs off a bit:

Sure, will do. Just again notice I was asked just which player would you call down the thunder on right now if you could? So I just answered my two feels and a brief why. Who've I've been worried about the most is pretty much constantly changing with posts and as I go over and filter everyone.


It appears to me he's just playing along with whatever the flavor of the week is

Conclusion: If you take everything he says as truth then he's an innocent townie who's trying too hard. Otherwise he seems pretty scummy
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
ProfessorBadass
Profile Joined December 2011
94 Posts
December 13 2011 20:39 GMT
#552
The cool one obviously.
syllogism
Profile Joined September 2010
Finland5948 Posts
December 13 2011 20:41 GMT
#553
Well that was really stupid

/syllogism
Arctocod
Profile Joined September 2011
Norway251 Posts
December 13 2011 20:41 GMT
#554
sigh

Well that was really stupid

/syllogism
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ProfessorBadass
Profile Joined December 2011
94 Posts
December 13 2011 20:43 GMT
#555
no u
MrZentor
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1648 Posts
December 13 2011 20:45 GMT
#556
Analyzing Sheth's posts

Now lets look at a quick timeline of stuff he's done:


1. Ran for mayor immediately after game starts

He's one of the first people to run for mayor but drops out rather quickly without challenging the other candidates. For a completely new player to immediately run for mayor practically right after game starts seems fishy. After Rad/Arc campaigns gain steam he drops out silently because he knows he has no way of winning.

2.

On December 12 2011 12:28 Liquid`Sheth wrote:
Its very important we get these two positions filled up by people who are 100% not mafia. This can be tough obviously. So I think its obvious we want someone who is willing to write a lot in order to be one of these.


Implying people who write a lot are not mafia? Terrible logic

Note that he writes big blocks to try to fit his own category.

3. Claims he hasn't read any past games
On December 14 2011 05:13 Liquid`Sheth wrote:
I have not zeks :[ I havn't had anytime sadly. I've looked at a small part of a few before this one, but I've been trying to filter people here, fix my computer and keep up on SC2 related things. Its pretty time consuming. Not to mention that I'm at my families house and should visit with them as well ><


Yet it seems fishy that he does know some stuff about past games...
Why would it be devastating to have Radfield/Arctocod in office if they're both scum? The Mayor's role isn't really that powerful, and PYP:I was won without the Pardoner stopping a single lynch, and if the Pardoner stops a lynch without a huge reasonable then he's autolynch the next day. Wouldn't it be worse to have them out of office if they are town?"


Correct me if I'm wrong is sheepycat someone in a past game?
There is no way to figure out if someone is "100%" mafia either. Oh percentages, how I hate sheepycat or w/e his name is for over using them on EVERY single read he ever had. And what do you mean theres only one way to get confirmed and that way kinda prevents people from getting elected afterwards? I honestly just don't know....


4. People have called me out for saying "my 6th sense says one hydra is scum" - and used that in a case against me.

What about Sheth? He's been doing the same thing! Except in multiple occasions! Don't see him getting called out [Excuse my selective quoting, if you filter him and read these comments and the context it was in, you'll see that it makes no difference that i quoted it this way]

I get the basic read from Redfield that hes clean though. Just from the imaginary tone I hear in my head.


Radfield hasn't said anything from his one post, so I kind of don't think he should be mayor based on that, but I really think hes townie. Just from a random gut read.


Radfields comments are again good. I'm getting like this pure read from him for now. Just seems legit.


This quote unsettles me too:
And pointing out I'm trying to collect towncred is a good way for you to get some good towncred too. =)



5. Sheth posts a lot, but he's rather wishy washy in his opinions

Lynch - Prplhz - I've always gotten some weird vibes from him. Back when he said neither elected position is at all important and him saying he thinks its better if Mafia gets one of those jobs. I think its just weird logic. I'm all for you attacking risk.nuke and looking at deus-ex above me, and I realize your not really on other peoples radar, but your definetly on mine. If you can change my mind I'll definetly change my vote, I'm just saying this now as I have to go. I'll be back to re-read this all over before actual Election time.


Lynch Prplhz based on "weird vibes"

Either Zeks or Zentor. They've both shown that even if there not mafia, there not going to be too helpful in finding real mafia and might just confuse us more.


Then says if given the power he'd lynch me or Zentor. After Arc pressures Sheth he backs off a bit:

Sure, will do. Just again notice I was asked just which player would you call down the thunder on right now if you could? So I just answered my two feels and a brief why. Who've I've been worried about the most is pretty much constantly changing with posts and as I go over and filter everyone.


It appears to me he's just playing along with whatever the flavor of the week is

Conclusion: If you take everything he says as truth then he's an innocent townie who's trying too hard. Otherwise he seems pretty scummy


I hate to say this, but I agree with you. That was a pretty good analysis.

Maybe you aren't mafia. :/
Falling’s just like flying, except there’s a more permanent destination.
prplhz
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Denmark8045 Posts
December 13 2011 20:49 GMT
#557
That was a pretty bad analysis. One of the quotes isn't even Liquid`Sheth's and the conclusion is that either he's town or he's scum. Duh.

Other than that, zeks is just rehashing the obvious instead of trying to clarify why he thinks it is coming from a scum mind and not a town mind.
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Spaackle
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States153 Posts
December 13 2011 20:49 GMT
#558
Alright, here's my reads on all the people currently under suspicion. If you feel that I left anyone out, tell me and I'll do a write-up of them too.

(In no particular order)
Nisani201:

+ Show Spoiler +
On December 13 2011 10:53 Nisani201 wrote:
Alright, I just caught up on the thread.
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On December 13 2011 03:08 Spaackle wrote:
For the lurkers in the thread, maybe a couple questions would get some activity:

1. What do you think of the No Pardon, No Exception rule?

2. Give your specific impressions of the campaigns so far, especially the major ones.

Remember, the more you get into the game you're playing, the more fun it is! :D

1. No Pardon should not be carried out until the very late game, where there's probably some weird scenario in which pardoning would be important. However I don't think we need to discuss that now because there are too many possibilities.

2. Radfield seems to be playing pro-town. Palmar is not taking his usual controversial stance that he normally seems to assume. This is not scummy (I even think he said somewhere that he was going to try out a new style) but at this point I trust Radfield a lot more.

##Vote: Radfield (for election)

Nisani posts after lurking for quite some time and answers the questions I gave the lurkers. He gives some short answers and then doens't post anything for two hours.

On December 13 2011 12:37 Nisani201 wrote:
Zeks is a null-read for me. Yeah the scumslips are pretty stupid but in my experiences I've found that these easy D1 lynches don't go too well.

If there are no other candidates besides him then I will definitely vote him. Otherwise I will wait for more.


Nisani says that he doesn't have a read on zeks yet, but decides to wait until more info comes up.


On December 13 2011 12:39 Nisani201 wrote:
We could also lynch a lurker (such as TotallyNotTwoPeople). Again, I want more information.


Suggests lynching a lurker, and gives TNTP as an example. Nothing really suspicious stands out here.


On December 13 2011 14:11 Nisani201 wrote:
I just read Greymist's analysis on Jistu and I think he is much more viable lynch then Zeks.

Eiii, why are you voting MyZentor? You provided no reason other than a quote.

Somewhat off topic: after playing in XLVII, this is much more relaxing... so much better not having 100 players or whatever it was that game.


Decides that Jitsu is better than Zeks based on GreYMisT' analysis, then questions Eiii about his vote.


Read: Lurking Town
Nisani hasn't been posting much since the beginning, but what he has been posting has been fairly non-contradictory and he's done a bit of motive questioning. He just seems like a regular townie withour much to say.

Jitsu:
+ Show Spoiler +
On December 12 2011 13:41 Jitsu wrote:
I'll just state my policy views now, since I want to get alot of opinions on this. Not only to see generate discussion, but also to get some feedback on how the potential mayor's stand on hot-topic issues.

LALiars - I am stuck on this. As stated before, if a Blue has to lie to prevent their potential unveiling, this could be a beneficial thing to town, but, by that time, I think town would be able to use voting in their own way to keep the blue safe. For instance, if a needed blue is revealed, we can simply vote them to Mayor and keep them safe via Bodyguard. We can take advantage of the two protected, voted positions. Am I understanding this wrong?

LALurkers - Lurking is also anti-town. In the games I have played (limited experience) mafia who lurk, and are forced to the surface because of a Lurker Policy, can slip up very, very easily. Forcing discussion is never a bad thing. The more that is discussed, the more that can be analyzed by the townie populace, and the better decisions can be made.

As prplhz said before, I will not be looking into previous games to gain inflection on how useful someone is. I want to know how the mayor will work for us now, not how the Mayor worked in previous games and how they hope to work now. I still would like to see who the potential mayor candidates stand on policy ideas, as well as some analysis from already fleshed out posts/future posts.



On December 12 2011 15:40 Jitsu wrote:
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On December 12 2011 14:51 GreYMisT wrote:



One thing that strikes me about radfield this game is how he immediately tied himself to arctocod in his election post. saying that you should vote for me, but his guy is also a good choice, so he will probally get pardoner anyway, but still vote for me. while an argument could be made that he is trying to show all the new players who to vote for, something sets me off about this. He should theorectically know he is town, and therefore should be pulling out all the stops to get people to vote for him, not endorsing other candidates he doesn't even know the aliengment of. Because of this, i am uncomfortable voting him for mayor at this time.


I agree with this. Radfield tied himself quickly to another player. I have no scumread on him right now (nothing he has done really screams "mafia" to me) but I think we should hold on voting and bandwagoning this early, regardless. How would it look if Arcotocod flipped mafia after Radfield tied himself too him?

Again, not claiming I have scum-vision. Just making a point that "itchy-trigger-finger" voting might be a bad thing.



On December 13 2011 00:52 Jitsu wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On December 12 2011 22:58 Radfield wrote:
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On December 12 2011 13:08 GiygaS wrote:
On Jitsu's lynch policy question, I believe in LaL heavily[.....]


I think LAL is pretty terrible. It does two things wrong: One, it gives mafia a legitamate topic to discuss early game, when in fact we want them discussing elections and lynches. Two, it gives mafia a reason to push townies who may lie, even when the circumstances are not particularly damning to the townie. Every lie needs to be treated on a case by case basis. Townies lie ALL THE TIME, whether LAL exists or not, so it does not make sense to implement the policy. Not to mention, voting based on policy after Day 1(or even day 1) is terrible for town. We vote on content, not policy.

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On December 12 2011 13:29 Eiii wrote:
Having a pro-town hydra behind a bodyguard should be town's goal for today, in my opinion.

Could we start discussing in advance how the pardoner should be used?


Hydras are only as good as the time they have to invest in the game. I agree that a Palmar/Syllo hydra is a potent force, but I don't think that a hydra by definition is better than a single player. If I was hydra'd onto an inexperienced player, I fail to see how that would be stronger than me by myself.

Note on the Pardoner: Every game the pardoner exists people talk about how scary the pardoner is if in mafia hands, but this is NOT TRUE. This is where policy is actually helpful. The pardoner MAY NOT use their pardon, ever, end of story. Even if you are a townie pardoner, and think whomever is getting pardoned is town, you STILL do not use a pardon.

The reason for this is that if town reaches a majority, pardoning that player throws town into chaos, regardless of the alignment of the player pardoned. Palmar has stated several times that he will not vote for a player just to get a lynch(in majority lynch scenarios) if he thinks they are town, and this is a good gameplan. But that does NOT transfer over to pardoning players who you think is town(not that palmar thinks this). It is never worth it to break town atmosphere and toss it into chaos in order to save one townie.

The Pardoner NEVER uses the pardons. Period. If a pardoner ever uses a pardon, we lynch him the next day(or vig him that night if we are able to). For this reason the pardoner is not dangerous until lylo(or close to it).

Only once we get to lylo does the pardoner become dangerous. This is why it is essential that if we have a pardoner of questionable alignment, we get rid of them before the endgame. However before that, on day 1/2 and probably 3, they are not worth worrying about.

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LALurkers - Lurking is also anti-town. In the games I have played (limited experience) mafia who lurk, and are forced to the surface because of a Lurker Policy, can slip up very, very easily. Forcing discussion is never a bad thing. The more that is discussed, the more that can be analyzed by the townie populace, and the better decisions can be made.


Lynching lurkers is a somewhat viable strat for Day 1, particularly in a game with many players who are unknowns. However I am strongly against it in this situation. With a mafia KP of 5/2 rounded up, it is hugely beneficial for us to pick off a mafia day 1, and I have never seen a lurker flip mafia on day 1. So I think we should hone our lynch onto active players, even at risk of killing an active townie. The risk vs reward is really high in this setup.

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On December 12 2011 14:48 Comprissent wrote:
I do think it is better to put a more active person into office anyways, it is up to town to catch a slipup

This being said, it now makes more sense in my head to NOT vote for two extremely active players who are running for office, rather leaving one out of an office. If they are both scum, and experienced, town is in trouble. Leaving a lesser experienced person in office may be helpful, where if both offices turn out to be scum, we have a better chance of catching one.

It's just like what was just said,
these positions don't really control the game so what's the biggie with leaving one office for someone not as experienced?


This quote doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but maybe I am reading it wrong. The purpose of putting active experienced players into the elected roles is to keep them safe. That's it. There is no reason to keep someone safe who is either highly inexperienced, or only moderately active.

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On December 12 2011 15:40 Jitsu wrote:
I agree with this. Radfield tied himself quickly to another player. I have no scumread on him right now (nothing he has done really screams "mafia" to me) but I think we should hold on voting and bandwagoning this early, regardless. How would it look if Arcotocod flipped mafia after Radfield tied himself too him?


Arctocod flipping mafia would say nothing about my alignment in strict terms. One, I tied them to myself on policy, before even seeing them post. Two, the likelyhood of us both being scum is quite low. If anything Arctocod flipping scum makes it more likely for me to be town. Furthermore, if we are both mafia, there is very little incentive to tie ourselves together. Honestly though, at this point the only thing that ties us together is that we are both vets.

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On December 12 2011 16:31 cascades wrote:
I must be missing something. A lot of people like Sheth are saying Radfield is protown, but he only has one post as of now, and I don't see it. His post just states information any non first time players should know. In fact, he straightforwardly suggests Arc without caring about his alignment.

Anyhow, my analysis of his post indicates that it is a post both townie Radfield AND mafia Radfield would make. I would like to warn people not to jump to conclusions like that. They may be strong players, but that indicates nothing about their alignment.


Correct. I could have easily made my first post as either town or mafia. Basing a read off of the first post in the game is most definitely jumping to conclusions.

Arcto, Drpobear I dont know, Gigas so far so good. A little too early for me to be making reads though.



Going to address the things Radfield responded to with my post(s):

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On December 12 2011 22:58 Radfield wrote:
I think LAL is pretty terrible. It does two things wrong: One, it gives mafia a legitamate topic to discuss early game, when in fact we want them discussing elections and lynches. Two, it gives mafia a reason to push townies who may lie, even when the circumstances are not particularly damning to the townie. Every lie needs to be treated on a case by case basis. Townies lie ALL THE TIME, whether LAL exists or not, so it does not make sense to implement the policy. Not to mention, voting based on policy after Day 1(or even day 1) is terrible for town. We vote on content, not policy.

I don't understand your reasoning on this. Seeing as how you are a veteran, I will bow to your decision however and drop the issue.

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Arctocod flipping mafia would say nothing about my alignment in strict terms. One, I tied them to myself on policy, before even seeing them post. Two, the likelyhood of us both being scum is quite low. If anything Arctocod flipping scum makes it more likely for me to be town. Furthermore, if we are both mafia, there is very little incentive to tie ourselves together. Honestly though, at this point the only thing that ties us together is that we are both vets.


Please don't think i'm accusing you of anything. In my mind, if we were to discover that Player B was mafia, and Player A associated with Player B, than Player A would have a higher likelihood of being mafia. Again, maybe that is my inexperience, but that is how my head would process it.



On December 13 2011 01:09 Jitsu wrote:
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On December 13 2011 00:57 Radfield wrote:
On December 13 2011 00:52 Jitsu wrote:

On December 12 2011 22:58 Radfield wrote:
I think LAL is pretty terrible. It does two things wrong: One, it gives mafia a legitamate topic to discuss early game, when in fact we want them discussing elections and lynches. Two, it gives mafia a reason to push townies who may lie, even when the circumstances are not particularly damning to the townie. Every lie needs to be treated on a case by case basis. Townies lie ALL THE TIME, whether LAL exists or not, so it does not make sense to implement the policy. Not to mention, voting based on policy after Day 1(or even day 1) is terrible for town. We vote on content, not policy.

I don't understand your reasoning on this. Seeing as how you are a veteran, I will bow to your decision however and drop the issue.



I'd much rather you understand what I'm saying. Which part doesn't make sense?

And just because I'm a veteran doesn't mean I'm right. I bet there are plenty of vets who disagree with my statement on LAL (and they might be right!).

I'll be gone for about the next 9 hours. Might be able to pop on around dinner time though.


Sure. Hopefully we can clear this up quickly.

In my opinion, lying does nothing to benefit the town, save rare circumstances in which a blue town role needs to keep their identity hidden. If we can bring issues to the fore-front with honesty and integrity, we would be able to root scum out quicker than if everyone was throwing off-hand lies. I can understand you're feeling on the case-by-case basis; I think it's pretty self-evident that most things in mafia need to be treated on a case-by-case basis; In this way, Policy is a bad word to use since it shows an unwavering thought process regardless of potential outcomes.

Seeing as how we are almost down a day already, and I agree with your statement about giving the mafia a way to tie up valuable time spent discussing this topic, I thought it better to drop the whole thing and defer to you're rational as a vet, and let sleeping dogs lie, as it were.

The whole point of bringing policy questions up in the first place was to try to get discussion to try to start some analysis. Maybe it's not a stereotypical move by players on the first night - we can chalk that up to my inexperience if you want, I think it was just my personal way of getting discussion started.

Does that clear things up a bit, Radfield?



On December 13 2011 04:16 Jitsu wrote:
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On December 13 2011 03:08 Spaackle wrote:
For the lurkers in the thread, maybe a couple questions would get some activity:

1. What do you think of the No Pardon, No Exception rule?

2. Give your specific impressions of the campaigns so far, especially the major ones.

Remember, the more you get into the game you're playing, the more fun it is! :D


I don't beleive I would classify as a lurker, but I will chime in with these posts regardless.

1. I think the No Pardon train of thought is good. However, as I stated before, this blanket "No Exception" thing scares me. Case-By-Case basis, I believe, would be better. If there is a blanket statement that says "if X happens, Y must always be the result," and a situation blindsides us where we will need to use the Pardon power, than I think it could be useful to use. That being said, if you are elected to the role of Pardoner, and you use it freely even once without sufficient cause, expect a vote from me for a lynching.

2. I am going to tie this in with my vote. I feel that Radfield would be the best person to be saved from a mafia kill. I feel that he fleshed out his ideas and I get a town vibe from him, even after we had our banter back and forth, and I give him my support, at least for now. His willingness to defend his position, take the posts and respond to them, while also asking questions himself, has solidified my vote for him.

Extra Note: I read a page or two back about posting votes in your thread, especially when it gets down to voting for lynching. I thought this would be a good idea, as well as officially voting in the Vote Thread. I think it might add some weight behind the post if it's all together. I can't speak for everyone, [and I know this is simply filler post] but I just wanted to say that I will probably follow this trend.



On December 13 2011 06:19 Jitsu wrote:
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On December 13 2011 06:16 evantrees wrote:
1. What do you think of the No Pardon, No Exception rule?

I like it the case of a mayor swung lynch bugs me a little though.
have to go out so I'll stop there for now.


Something doesn't sit right with me here. Come post, like, 5 minutes after Sheth calls him out for being a lurker, than covers and says he's going out.

And I didn't even understand the meat of his post.



On December 13 2011 08:02 Jitsu wrote:
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On December 12 2011 14:51 GreYMisT wrote:
While it isnt suspicious to agree with someone, notice the way in which he did it. He states that we should hold off voting right now, and then for some reason says "How would it look if Arcotocod flipped mafia after Radfield tied himself too him?" I cant think of a town reason someone would post this, but forcing people vote later in the day, so delay information and give themselves time to come up with votes is a mafia agenda. Also the sentence I quoted seems to be trying to do what radfield said scum would try, which is to make it so arctocod and radfield dont end up in office together. there is no town perspective for posting that.


I simply didn't think it wise to start throwing votes around right as the game started. If you think that's mafia agenda, I apologize. I was originally wary of Radfield, but after our talks later, I felt that he was acting generally in a pro-town manner. Also, if I didn't want Arctocod and Radfield to go into office together, why would I already have voted for Radfield as my election vote? Like I said, I was skeptical at the beginning of Radfield's motives, but I have since warmed up to him.



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GreYMisT wrote:
The above post was the next to catch my eye. after reading this post, basically the only thing he is saying really is "i wanted to start discussion" but notice the way he defers to radfields judgment upon being questioned, and then when questioned about that backtracks on himself. In my experience town players know what they believe, and dont have to worry about pleasing others.

Overall his posts between and after those have seemed very artifical, cold, and thought out to me. he seems very worried about not offending anyone, and never outright accusing. a town player won't do this. But mafia would


Did you read the whole thing GreYMisT? It was a pretty precarious situation. I deferred to Radfield's judgement because we were spinning tires on something that wasn't extremely productive, IE: deciding what a good lynch policy was. Later on, when Radfield asks me to explain my thought process, I did. Not quite following your backtrack upon backtrack upon backtrack. I do know what I believe, which is my ideas on Lynching Liars (which we are again talking about, somehow) but since it was a moot point at that time, I decided to drop it since it was unimportant.

I felt that whole situation was wrapped up fairly by the end.

As for accusing people, I'd like to get some fleshed out thoughts before posting half-witted accusations against someone, and up until a few pages ago, we were still discussing the possibilities of who the election candidates were.



On December 13 2011 19:59 Jitsu wrote:
Ahhh, just woke up. After seeing the events of the night, I thought i'd give my feeling on who might be someone to pay attention to. I felt worried Comprissent a few of his posts ago, and he recently really got it sparked in my mind that he might be scum.



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This being said, it now makes more sense in my head to NOT vote for two extremely active players who are running for office, rather leaving one out of an office. If they are both scum, and experienced, town is in trouble. Leaving a lesser experienced person in office may be helpful, where if both offices turn out to be scum, we have a better chance of catching one.


This was a valid point. You said we shouldn't have had two people in office at once. Cool. In the next post, you even defend your stance that we shouldn't have those two experienced players in office, by saying have someone questionable in office as Pardoner.

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Ok, so assuming we stick to this play on No pardoning, no exceptions, the only advantage either of the offices gives is immunity on night 1 from getting hit. This just helps us keep the vets alive, am i right?

Radfield seems the most organized and willing to work with town, even if I don't like his infrequent posting. I would also like Arc, as having two players is very nice to keep safe (as having double the chance for a slipup if he is scum)


Than you 100% switch your stance to wanting both Arc and Radfield in office. Hmmmm, ok...I could see it, but you're calling *me* wishy-washy? Fine, fine..

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If Zeks is scum he would have probably made up his mind right away who he wants in office. This makes him seem town as he is trying to feel out the candidates. Also, more have stepped up in this '12 hour' window you've talked about, so I can't blame anyone for changing their minds


You stated if Zeks was scum, he would have voted right away who he wanted to vote for in office. It makes him seem town because he wants to try to feel out the candidates. I think that was exactly the same play I made early, trying to get a feeling for the mayoral candidates. According to that line, I should be pro-town.


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For the lynching scenario:
1. Lynch a lurker, guarantee losing a towny
2. Lynch someone active, either hit scum or lose an active towny.

So far i think only greymist has the only analysis that is actually backed by logic
Spackle, your analysis on Dropbear is 100% theory, and I would not like to lynch based off that
MrZentor's reasoning behind going for Zeks explains nothing either, what does 'having the hydra only helps town' mean?

This being said, I'd tentatively vote for Jistu. Worst case scenario, we lose a towny either way. But with the amount of active posters, i think it's worth the shot to try for hitting a red.


but than you go ahead and say that the Anti-Jitsu analysis was backed by logic - logic that is counter-acting your own logic. Also, by my count, the following people (up to Comprissent's) to tentatively vote for me are GreyMist, Radfield, Nisani, and Comprissent, in that order.

You also say that the lynching scenario is either Lynch a lurker, and guarantee losing a town (I don't see how you can guarantee to lose a town) or lynch an active player, with a chance of either way. How about we look at some post analysis instead of just picking out of a hat?

Comprissent is pretty wavy in my eye. Like to see some thoughts from others.


Read:Town
I really don't have much so say specifically about many of these posts. Jitsu discusses things with other players, generally stays pretty active and backs up his reasoning with logic and sources. he looks pretty town to me right now.

Turns out this took a lot longer than I thought. I have to go, but I'll finish this up later today.
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ProfessorBadass
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December 13 2011 20:51 GMT
#559
Since when were Nisani or Jitsu under suspicion?
Radfield
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Canada2720 Posts
December 13 2011 20:52 GMT
#560
I don't particularly agree with a sheth vote. He's active, contributing and working out his thoughts in thread. Seems fine to me for now. Zentor should not be lynched today, he looks like the worst lynch of our options. Zeks looks fine, and so does gigyas.

However, I would be completely fine lynching profBadass right now. Nothing I have seen from him so far makes me think he is town. His last post stated he was up to page 15, yet he just responded to arctocod within 1 minute.... so I really hope he's working on a post regarding the last 12 pages.

Refallen and xsksc are also good lynches. I want to look through their history first though.

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