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Mocsta
Profile Joined December 2012
Australia9388 Posts
September 22 2013 06:41 GMT
#1061
On September 22 2013 14:41 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On September 22 2013 14:28 Mocsta wrote:
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On September 22 2013 09:57 Chairman Ray wrote:
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Hey everyone, this is my first post here. Sorry I haven't been around since the start since I was pretty busy, but I'm definitely going to dedicate a few hours today and tomorrow doing my best to contribute.

This is my third game of forum mafia. I have played real time mafia as well. Even though I'm a lot less experienced than most people here, I'll pull my weight just fine and I don't expect any newbie lenience.

Last game I learned that it's quite difficult to get strong reads on people during the day. Most my reads at the start were quite off. A lot of town said scummy things, and a lot of scum were quite pro town. However during the final hour when thing started being messy, there were strong reads everywhere. So this game I will try to focus on making things very difficult for scum during the last hour. If a town ends up being lynched day 1, I want as much information to come out of it as possible.

So feel free to ask me anything and I will try to be as transparent as possible. If I see something fishy, I will definitely try to flush you out as well.
You're conflicting me btw.

What I want to know is:
Why are you still trying to play "trap the scum" after it backfired so badly in your last game? I thought we coached this out of you?


I'm not playing the scum trap like I did last game. I'm not withholding anything, posting fake reads, or doing anything that's not completely genuine. However I do believe that analyzing a mislynch post-mortem isn't that productive and there's a lot that each town player can accomplish during the last hour, so that in the event of a mislynch, we have the information we need to narrow scum possibilities down to as few people as possible, and also to give the cop more productive reads as well. I think it would be tragic for the person lynched to lead in votes by a huge margin without much of a struggle, and having him flip town. That would tell us nothing coming into the second day.
Thats great and all, but, there hasn't been a flip to analyse, let alone a mislynch.

Whose scummiest on your radar; and why?
LoneMeow
Profile Joined June 2013
Finland1396 Posts
September 22 2013 06:45 GMT
#1062
On September 22 2013 07:10 VisceraEyes wrote:
I might regret this, but does anyone have any like...previous games of Lone's I can peruse?


Here you go, in chronological order:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=412757 (town, mislynched D2)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=417692 (scum, conceded when last alive)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=423708 (town, shot N2)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=426146 (scum, alive at endgame)

None of this is going to be very helpful I fear.
Mocsta
Profile Joined December 2012
Australia9388 Posts
September 22 2013 06:45 GMT
#1063
On September 22 2013 14:45 WaveofShadow wrote:
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On September 22 2013 14:22 Mocsta wrote:
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On September 22 2013 14:18 WaveofShadow wrote:
On September 22 2013 14:17 Mocsta wrote:
Voting for Vayne/Coag is ridiculous for Day1. They do this type of play regardless of alignment, and its a total crapshoot.
At least have the kahunas to call it a policy lynch.

Yamato read on me is a joke. Theres nothing to respond to, because his points is "meta" with no extension to how it actually applies to this game.

Waves defense read a touch forced to me. However, a townie has every reason to "refine" their defense as well. So will give him benefit of the doubt for now.

Sentinel has maintained enough activity to not be forgotten, but has essentially contributed nothing. Ideal scum "flying under the radar" play; exacerbated by his coagulation vote here
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=423071&user=[UoN]Sentinel&currentpage=3

Your backing down feels a touch forced to me, as were your original suspicions.

Fine, my specific issue with your defense was the injection of the word "townie" as follows

Show nested quote +
On September 22 2013 03:38 WaveofShadow wrote:
Ohai ladies.
I back.

A few things:
For those people asking about my intentions and posting regarding DP: I played a stretch of games with him a little while ago and became fairly confident in my townread of him. Ever since playing voice mafia with him I feel like my ability is now slightly crowded since I know a little more about him and his style. My prodding served two purposes: first of all, as some of you may or may not know, DP likes to play his game with a pinch of salt, that is to say, he gets angry/annoyed pretty easily. As such after delving a little into attempting to determine his alignment I decided to see how he'd react to some dumb (and yet truthful) comments:+ Show Spoiler +

On September 21 2013 13:28 WaveofShadow wrote:
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On September 21 2013 13:26 DarthPunk wrote:
On September 21 2013 13:22 WaveofShadow wrote:
Honestly DP I have a question for you.
Are you town?
If so, do you want to be killed N1?
Do you enjoy being killed N1? (I seem to remember that you don't.)

All of the above questions lead to these ones:
Why go hardcore (as town) right from the get-go if you know it places a target directly onto your back?
If you don't care either way, do you think you would be able to be more useful to the town in the first day than you could be as the game progresses?


YEs
NO
NO

Because clearly trying to look useless as town doesn't work for me in not getting killed (persona 4) so I am trying to play the best I can and be clearly townie and scumhunt so that:

A) I can give town the best possible start if I do die.
B) potentially get medic protected
Also:
C) I feel like posting and scum hunting cause it's fun.

This is also totally how you play as 3P survivor.
Are you 3P DP?


On September 21 2013 14:19 WaveofShadow wrote:
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On September 21 2013 14:16 DarthPunk wrote:
On September 21 2013 14:10 VisceraEyes wrote:
@DP

geript is by far the most suspicious person in the thread so far. It's possible he'd acting the way he's acting to get reactions or some such retardation, but unless he says as much and I believe him, I have to assume that he's not playing like a moron and that he's scummy for it.

He has no meta case. He has an observation that he's supposedly suspicious over for meta reasons. I don't care enough to go check out the game because I know from my own experiences with you that you're able to have an amicable opening regardless of your alignment. And the rest of what you've done (aside from saying you want me to tunnel a townie -.-) has read pretty town to me.

As it stands, I'm the most suspicious of geript of anyone who's posted.


I basically agree with you but I'm not sure Moron necessarily = scum. I'm also worried about Mocsta and Wave for basically refusing to comment on geript or read that part of the thread. They seem to dismiss it as a squabble and meaningless when it is, in fact, the opposite.

I'm not sure how I am supposed to take people seriously when they don't/refuse to properly read people's posts.

It's pretty damn meaningless.

DP didn't take easy bait here and has actively REALLY attempted to avoid shitting things up despite an aggravating geript (who I'm pretty sure is town, btw) and me to a lesser degree pushing him. More likely town for that as it's really easy to pawn off or excuse early game shitfests/trolling.

The second purpose of my prodding, specifically the questions post, is that not only did I actually want to know the legitimate answers to those questions (which DP answered very well imo) I also wanted to gauge some other reactions to those questions as some people have noticed, is kind of an odd line of questioning and essentially only pertains to DP's specific meta, which I will explain here for people who don't know.

DP is known as a very strong town player. As such he is often a target of mafia kills extremely early in many games, including dying on N0 games before he can even DO anything. He absolutely hates this (almost as much as he hates 3P survivor apparently, for similar reasons---hence my bait about 3P despite there obviously not being one in this game. DP didn't take it ) The reason I asked him here is because as a townie, I very much want a town DP to be on my side and a part of the game as long as possible, so I was wondering if perhaps he would have considered changing his posting style slightly so if town, he could survive mafia hits a while longer. This doesn't appear to be the case and is perfectly fine.
+ Show Spoiler +

Hopefully I will have no caught up to everything relevant regarding me up until recently.
New stuff:
Marv what do you make of justanothertownie's reaction to my questions? Certainly a very easy point of attack, yet even the people who have voted me thus far haven't bothered with it. It honestly looks as though he is hiding behind not knowing DP's meta and as soon as someone provides an explanation for him he will be ready to drop the point of suspicion and will have 'contributed' something.

Yamato, come on dude. You're not that bad.

Frankly, that doesn't read like a natural stream of consciousness to me.

As I said, because it was a defense, I think town or scum could have "refined" that statement by adding the clause "as a townie".

Its an issue to me; but in isolation I don't want to lynch you over it. Overall your posting has been consistent in confidence. Bigger fish to fry; and sentinel represents a higher percentage to be scum as far as I am concerned.

It's an issue to people like you who try to lynch/suspect people over semantics, because then if I don't use those specific words you say something like: "Of course you want a town DP to be on your side as scum!"
It's horseshit, Mocsta. I accept the fact that you've backed down from me because you realized your suspicion was dumb as balls.

So you're voting Sentinel because he's policy voting Coag for being useless huh? What is the difference between this and your vote on Sentinel himself? I don't see it if there is one.
Well fisrtly, you are taking the whole situation out of context. Its quite clear what I took issue in. It is far from semantics. What you wrote was not a genuine thought. It was refined. Its common knowledge that scum are typically the ones who struggle to post and need to incessantly proof-read their posts. So far from semantics.

Nice attempt at ad-hom as well. If you want to keep up this aggressive tone, lay down a vote on me; or shut the fuck up.

My sentinel vote is far from policy lynch. I outlined why I think he is worthy of a vote based on flying under the radar by attempting to appear active, but actually contributing nothing. The same goes for Umasi.

Sentinels, coag vote *was* for being useless etc, which as I outlined prior is dumb. Because players like that are 'lottery draws" on day1, regardless of being town or scum.
kushm4sta
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States8878 Posts
September 22 2013 06:47 GMT
#1064
um mocsta it's a good thing to kill lottery draws d1, since d1you have the smallest chance of hitting scum anyway.
Later days it's easier to catch someone with analysis, so why wait for those days to kill lottery draws?
OMGUS.net, kush sex blogs every friday night
kushm4sta
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States8878 Posts
September 22 2013 06:48 GMT
#1065
i support this coag lynch until i am shown a better option
OMGUS.net, kush sex blogs every friday night
Mocsta
Profile Joined December 2012
Australia9388 Posts
September 22 2013 06:52 GMT
#1066
On September 22 2013 15:47 kushm4sta wrote:
um mocsta it's a good thing to kill lottery draws d1, since d1you have the smallest chance of hitting scum anyway.
Later days it's easier to catch someone with analysis, so why wait for those days to kill lottery draws?

Because it gives no information for following cycles.

If coag is flipped town... then what?
If coag is flipped scum.. still then what?

We start day1 again regardless. Shortsighted vision kush....

Frankly, most games i play in, scum is lynched day1 anyways. So i dont know what grass you are smoking today.

kushm4sta
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States8878 Posts
September 22 2013 06:52 GMT
#1067
also @chairman ray
yo could you stop posting like a fucking english teacher so I coudl actually understand you. I have to spend like 2 minutes deciphering all your commas and shit
OMGUS.net, kush sex blogs every friday night
kushm4sta
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States8878 Posts
September 22 2013 06:58 GMT
#1068
On September 22 2013 15:52 Mocsta wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 22 2013 15:47 kushm4sta wrote:
um mocsta it's a good thing to kill lottery draws d1, since d1you have the smallest chance of hitting scum anyway.
Later days it's easier to catch someone with analysis, so why wait for those days to kill lottery draws?

Because it gives no information for following cycles.

If coag is flipped town... then what?
If coag is flipped scum.. still then what?

We start day1 again regardless. Shortsighted vision kush....

Frankly, most games i play in, scum is lynched day1 anyways. So i dont know what grass you are smoking today.



in most games i play scum is never lynched d1! i have pretty much given up on that hope.
Lynching for information is really retarded. What gives you information is if they are scum or not, not how active they are.

Why are you the new rayne?
OMGUS.net, kush sex blogs every friday night
Umasi
Profile Joined October 2012
United States1399 Posts
September 22 2013 07:06 GMT
#1069
On September 22 2013 15:45 Mocsta wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 22 2013 14:45 WaveofShadow wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 22 2013 14:22 Mocsta wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 22 2013 14:18 WaveofShadow wrote:
On September 22 2013 14:17 Mocsta wrote:
Voting for Vayne/Coag is ridiculous for Day1. They do this type of play regardless of alignment, and its a total crapshoot.
At least have the kahunas to call it a policy lynch.

Yamato read on me is a joke. Theres nothing to respond to, because his points is "meta" with no extension to how it actually applies to this game.

Waves defense read a touch forced to me. However, a townie has every reason to "refine" their defense as well. So will give him benefit of the doubt for now.

Sentinel has maintained enough activity to not be forgotten, but has essentially contributed nothing. Ideal scum "flying under the radar" play; exacerbated by his coagulation vote here
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=423071&user=[UoN]Sentinel&currentpage=3

Your backing down feels a touch forced to me, as were your original suspicions.

Fine, my specific issue with your defense was the injection of the word "townie" as follows

Show nested quote +
On September 22 2013 03:38 WaveofShadow wrote:
Ohai ladies.
I back.

A few things:
For those people asking about my intentions and posting regarding DP: I played a stretch of games with him a little while ago and became fairly confident in my townread of him. Ever since playing voice mafia with him I feel like my ability is now slightly crowded since I know a little more about him and his style. My prodding served two purposes: first of all, as some of you may or may not know, DP likes to play his game with a pinch of salt, that is to say, he gets angry/annoyed pretty easily. As such after delving a little into attempting to determine his alignment I decided to see how he'd react to some dumb (and yet truthful) comments:+ Show Spoiler +

On September 21 2013 13:28 WaveofShadow wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 21 2013 13:26 DarthPunk wrote:
On September 21 2013 13:22 WaveofShadow wrote:
Honestly DP I have a question for you.
Are you town?
If so, do you want to be killed N1?
Do you enjoy being killed N1? (I seem to remember that you don't.)

All of the above questions lead to these ones:
Why go hardcore (as town) right from the get-go if you know it places a target directly onto your back?
If you don't care either way, do you think you would be able to be more useful to the town in the first day than you could be as the game progresses?


YEs
NO
NO

Because clearly trying to look useless as town doesn't work for me in not getting killed (persona 4) so I am trying to play the best I can and be clearly townie and scumhunt so that:

A) I can give town the best possible start if I do die.
B) potentially get medic protected
Also:
C) I feel like posting and scum hunting cause it's fun.

This is also totally how you play as 3P survivor.
Are you 3P DP?


On September 21 2013 14:19 WaveofShadow wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 21 2013 14:16 DarthPunk wrote:
On September 21 2013 14:10 VisceraEyes wrote:
@DP

geript is by far the most suspicious person in the thread so far. It's possible he'd acting the way he's acting to get reactions or some such retardation, but unless he says as much and I believe him, I have to assume that he's not playing like a moron and that he's scummy for it.

He has no meta case. He has an observation that he's supposedly suspicious over for meta reasons. I don't care enough to go check out the game because I know from my own experiences with you that you're able to have an amicable opening regardless of your alignment. And the rest of what you've done (aside from saying you want me to tunnel a townie -.-) has read pretty town to me.

As it stands, I'm the most suspicious of geript of anyone who's posted.


I basically agree with you but I'm not sure Moron necessarily = scum. I'm also worried about Mocsta and Wave for basically refusing to comment on geript or read that part of the thread. They seem to dismiss it as a squabble and meaningless when it is, in fact, the opposite.

I'm not sure how I am supposed to take people seriously when they don't/refuse to properly read people's posts.

It's pretty damn meaningless.

DP didn't take easy bait here and has actively REALLY attempted to avoid shitting things up despite an aggravating geript (who I'm pretty sure is town, btw) and me to a lesser degree pushing him. More likely town for that as it's really easy to pawn off or excuse early game shitfests/trolling.

The second purpose of my prodding, specifically the questions post, is that not only did I actually want to know the legitimate answers to those questions (which DP answered very well imo) I also wanted to gauge some other reactions to those questions as some people have noticed, is kind of an odd line of questioning and essentially only pertains to DP's specific meta, which I will explain here for people who don't know.

DP is known as a very strong town player. As such he is often a target of mafia kills extremely early in many games, including dying on N0 games before he can even DO anything. He absolutely hates this (almost as much as he hates 3P survivor apparently, for similar reasons---hence my bait about 3P despite there obviously not being one in this game. DP didn't take it ) The reason I asked him here is because as a townie, I very much want a town DP to be on my side and a part of the game as long as possible, so I was wondering if perhaps he would have considered changing his posting style slightly so if town, he could survive mafia hits a while longer. This doesn't appear to be the case and is perfectly fine.
+ Show Spoiler +

Hopefully I will have no caught up to everything relevant regarding me up until recently.
New stuff:
Marv what do you make of justanothertownie's reaction to my questions? Certainly a very easy point of attack, yet even the people who have voted me thus far haven't bothered with it. It honestly looks as though he is hiding behind not knowing DP's meta and as soon as someone provides an explanation for him he will be ready to drop the point of suspicion and will have 'contributed' something.

Yamato, come on dude. You're not that bad.

Frankly, that doesn't read like a natural stream of consciousness to me.

As I said, because it was a defense, I think town or scum could have "refined" that statement by adding the clause "as a townie".

Its an issue to me; but in isolation I don't want to lynch you over it. Overall your posting has been consistent in confidence. Bigger fish to fry; and sentinel represents a higher percentage to be scum as far as I am concerned.

It's an issue to people like you who try to lynch/suspect people over semantics, because then if I don't use those specific words you say something like: "Of course you want a town DP to be on your side as scum!"
It's horseshit, Mocsta. I accept the fact that you've backed down from me because you realized your suspicion was dumb as balls.

So you're voting Sentinel because he's policy voting Coag for being useless huh? What is the difference between this and your vote on Sentinel himself? I don't see it if there is one.
Well fisrtly, you are taking the whole situation out of context. Its quite clear what I took issue in. It is far from semantics. What you wrote was not a genuine thought. It was refined. Its common knowledge that scum are typically the ones who struggle to post and need to incessantly proof-read their posts. So far from semantics.

Nice attempt at ad-hom as well. If you want to keep up this aggressive tone, lay down a vote on me; or shut the fuck up.

My sentinel vote is far from policy lynch. I outlined why I think he is worthy of a vote based on flying under the radar by attempting to appear active, but actually contributing nothing. The same goes for Umasi.

Sentinels, coag vote *was* for being useless etc, which as I outlined prior is dumb. Because players like that are 'lottery draws" on day1, regardless of being town or scum.


What makes it seem like I'm trying to fly under the radar? And I was contributing, why do you say I wasn't?

and it was useless to stay on you lonemeow because it's not the votes going to pressure you at all, and you're still more than likely town.
~and so far, your reaction to it has been pretty townie imo, but this wasn't relevant at the time I unvoted because you hadn't responded~

(oh also, saw this in the mafia database earlier, less than 25% of day 1 lynches actually lynch scum, so truly you are a god among men mocsta)
"Sir, we finally have enough corpses to serve as a ramp for your horse." "THEN LET THE REAPING BEGIN!!"
kushm4sta
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States8878 Posts
September 22 2013 07:07 GMT
#1070
statistically it's more likely to hit scum if you pick at random
^best mafia statistic ever
OMGUS.net, kush sex blogs every friday night
kushm4sta
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States8878 Posts
September 22 2013 07:14 GMT
#1071
These are the games I will be looking at for this meta ownage:
April 5th Ego Mini Mafia - TOWN
May 13th Carnival Cruise Mafia - TOWN

June 21st Catch 22 Mafia - SCUM
August 19th Persona 4 Mini Mafia - TOWN


k i looked at them. pretty sure i have a lockdown on dp's meta. he is town.
meta owned.
OMGUS.net, kush sex blogs every friday night
Umasi
Profile Joined October 2012
United States1399 Posts
September 22 2013 07:17 GMT
#1072
Kush, I have no idea what goes through your head half the time, but whatever it is it's totally kickass.
"Sir, we finally have enough corpses to serve as a ramp for your horse." "THEN LET THE REAPING BEGIN!!"
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
September 22 2013 07:24 GMT
#1073
On September 22 2013 15:41 Mocsta wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 22 2013 14:41 Chairman Ray wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 22 2013 14:28 Mocsta wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 22 2013 09:57 Chairman Ray wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
Hey everyone, this is my first post here. Sorry I haven't been around since the start since I was pretty busy, but I'm definitely going to dedicate a few hours today and tomorrow doing my best to contribute.

This is my third game of forum mafia. I have played real time mafia as well. Even though I'm a lot less experienced than most people here, I'll pull my weight just fine and I don't expect any newbie lenience.

Last game I learned that it's quite difficult to get strong reads on people during the day. Most my reads at the start were quite off. A lot of town said scummy things, and a lot of scum were quite pro town. However during the final hour when thing started being messy, there were strong reads everywhere. So this game I will try to focus on making things very difficult for scum during the last hour. If a town ends up being lynched day 1, I want as much information to come out of it as possible.

So feel free to ask me anything and I will try to be as transparent as possible. If I see something fishy, I will definitely try to flush you out as well.
You're conflicting me btw.

What I want to know is:
Why are you still trying to play "trap the scum" after it backfired so badly in your last game? I thought we coached this out of you?


I'm not playing the scum trap like I did last game. I'm not withholding anything, posting fake reads, or doing anything that's not completely genuine. However I do believe that analyzing a mislynch post-mortem isn't that productive and there's a lot that each town player can accomplish during the last hour, so that in the event of a mislynch, we have the information we need to narrow scum possibilities down to as few people as possible, and also to give the cop more productive reads as well. I think it would be tragic for the person lynched to lead in votes by a huge margin without much of a struggle, and having him flip town. That would tell us nothing coming into the second day.
Thats great and all, but, there hasn't been a flip to analyse, let alone a mislynch.

Whose scummiest on your radar; and why?


I have played past games with only a few of the players here. Here are my reads on then so far:

Coagulation - He was town last time I played with him. Injected a lot of one liners to get discussion going, but never really participated in the discussions themselves. He's playing pretty similarly this game.

Umasi - He was mafia last time I played with him. He was very active and capitalized the discussion from the start. Took a good degree of control over the town. He's a lot more mellow this game around.

I filtered through posts, and the person who looks the scummiest to me right now is stutters. He's made only a few posts so far. Every post he's made is a poke at kush, but his very last post was questioning me on how I would try to play out the last hour to make things harder for scum. It seems that out of all these pages of posts, and all these players, he's only interested in getting people onto kush and learning my scum catching plan. That seems like a scum agenda to me. If it was you who asked me that question, I wouldn't mind it since you've been asking everyone questions about a lot of things. However stutters very selectively asking me that question instead of the countless other things that have been going on in this thread really screams scum to me.
Umasi
Profile Joined October 2012
United States1399 Posts
September 22 2013 07:25 GMT
#1074
I think ray is probably town
"Sir, we finally have enough corpses to serve as a ramp for your horse." "THEN LET THE REAPING BEGIN!!"
Umasi
Profile Joined October 2012
United States1399 Posts
September 22 2013 07:26 GMT
#1075
wait after reading his post (didn't see it when I posted) he's even more probably town
"Sir, we finally have enough corpses to serve as a ramp for your horse." "THEN LET THE REAPING BEGIN!!"
Umasi
Profile Joined October 2012
United States1399 Posts
September 22 2013 07:30 GMT
#1076
idk, I'm not too suspicious of stutters so far, but you have a good point about him asking you the question.
Ray, what's your read on kush? Is it town because you think stutters is scummy?
rather, it should be.
independently of stutters, what do you think of kush?
"Sir, we finally have enough corpses to serve as a ramp for your horse." "THEN LET THE REAPING BEGIN!!"
Mocsta
Profile Joined December 2012
Australia9388 Posts
September 22 2013 07:31 GMT
#1077
On September 22 2013 16:24 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On September 22 2013 15:41 Mocsta wrote:
On September 22 2013 14:41 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On September 22 2013 14:28 Mocsta wrote:
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On September 22 2013 09:57 Chairman Ray wrote:
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Hey everyone, this is my first post here. Sorry I haven't been around since the start since I was pretty busy, but I'm definitely going to dedicate a few hours today and tomorrow doing my best to contribute.

This is my third game of forum mafia. I have played real time mafia as well. Even though I'm a lot less experienced than most people here, I'll pull my weight just fine and I don't expect any newbie lenience.

Last game I learned that it's quite difficult to get strong reads on people during the day. Most my reads at the start were quite off. A lot of town said scummy things, and a lot of scum were quite pro town. However during the final hour when thing started being messy, there were strong reads everywhere. So this game I will try to focus on making things very difficult for scum during the last hour. If a town ends up being lynched day 1, I want as much information to come out of it as possible.

So feel free to ask me anything and I will try to be as transparent as possible. If I see something fishy, I will definitely try to flush you out as well.
You're conflicting me btw.

What I want to know is:
Why are you still trying to play "trap the scum" after it backfired so badly in your last game? I thought we coached this out of you?


I'm not playing the scum trap like I did last game. I'm not withholding anything, posting fake reads, or doing anything that's not completely genuine. However I do believe that analyzing a mislynch post-mortem isn't that productive and there's a lot that each town player can accomplish during the last hour, so that in the event of a mislynch, we have the information we need to narrow scum possibilities down to as few people as possible, and also to give the cop more productive reads as well. I think it would be tragic for the person lynched to lead in votes by a huge margin without much of a struggle, and having him flip town. That would tell us nothing coming into the second day.
Thats great and all, but, there hasn't been a flip to analyse, let alone a mislynch.

Whose scummiest on your radar; and why?


I have played past games with only a few of the players here. Here are my reads on then so far:

Coagulation - He was town last time I played with him. Injected a lot of one liners to get discussion going, but never really participated in the discussions themselves. He's playing pretty similarly this game.

Umasi - He was mafia last time I played with him. He was very active and capitalized the discussion from the start. Took a good degree of control over the town. He's a lot more mellow this game around.

I filtered through posts, and the person who looks the scummiest to me right now is stutters. He's made only a few posts so far. Every post he's made is a poke at kush, but his very last post was questioning me on how I would try to play out the last hour to make things harder for scum. It seems that out of all these pages of posts, and all these players, he's only interested in getting people onto kush and learning my scum catching plan. That seems like a scum agenda to me. If it was you who asked me that question, I wouldn't mind it since you've been asking everyone questions about a lot of things. However stutters very selectively asking me that question instead of the countless other things that have been going on in this thread really screams scum to me.
yeah. those are fair points indeed.

whether kush is town or svum, he is still a safe target to push.

I didn't like how stutters entered the game to discredit me, and then fixated on kush.

I am keen to hear stutters follow up to this.
Mocsta
Profile Joined December 2012
Australia9388 Posts
September 22 2013 07:34 GMT
#1078
On September 22 2013 16:06 Umasi wrote:
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On September 22 2013 15:45 Mocsta wrote:
On September 22 2013 14:45 WaveofShadow wrote:
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On September 22 2013 14:22 Mocsta wrote:
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On September 22 2013 14:18 WaveofShadow wrote:
On September 22 2013 14:17 Mocsta wrote:
Voting for Vayne/Coag is ridiculous for Day1. They do this type of play regardless of alignment, and its a total crapshoot.
At least have the kahunas to call it a policy lynch.

Yamato read on me is a joke. Theres nothing to respond to, because his points is "meta" with no extension to how it actually applies to this game.

Waves defense read a touch forced to me. However, a townie has every reason to "refine" their defense as well. So will give him benefit of the doubt for now.

Sentinel has maintained enough activity to not be forgotten, but has essentially contributed nothing. Ideal scum "flying under the radar" play; exacerbated by his coagulation vote here
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=423071&user=[UoN]Sentinel&currentpage=3

Your backing down feels a touch forced to me, as were your original suspicions.

Fine, my specific issue with your defense was the injection of the word "townie" as follows

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On September 22 2013 03:38 WaveofShadow wrote:
Ohai ladies.
I back.

A few things:
For those people asking about my intentions and posting regarding DP: I played a stretch of games with him a little while ago and became fairly confident in my townread of him. Ever since playing voice mafia with him I feel like my ability is now slightly crowded since I know a little more about him and his style. My prodding served two purposes: first of all, as some of you may or may not know, DP likes to play his game with a pinch of salt, that is to say, he gets angry/annoyed pretty easily. As such after delving a little into attempting to determine his alignment I decided to see how he'd react to some dumb (and yet truthful) comments:+ Show Spoiler +

On September 21 2013 13:28 WaveofShadow wrote:
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On September 21 2013 13:26 DarthPunk wrote:
On September 21 2013 13:22 WaveofShadow wrote:
Honestly DP I have a question for you.
Are you town?
If so, do you want to be killed N1?
Do you enjoy being killed N1? (I seem to remember that you don't.)

All of the above questions lead to these ones:
Why go hardcore (as town) right from the get-go if you know it places a target directly onto your back?
If you don't care either way, do you think you would be able to be more useful to the town in the first day than you could be as the game progresses?


YEs
NO
NO

Because clearly trying to look useless as town doesn't work for me in not getting killed (persona 4) so I am trying to play the best I can and be clearly townie and scumhunt so that:

A) I can give town the best possible start if I do die.
B) potentially get medic protected
Also:
C) I feel like posting and scum hunting cause it's fun.

This is also totally how you play as 3P survivor.
Are you 3P DP?


On September 21 2013 14:19 WaveofShadow wrote:
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On September 21 2013 14:16 DarthPunk wrote:
On September 21 2013 14:10 VisceraEyes wrote:
@DP

geript is by far the most suspicious person in the thread so far. It's possible he'd acting the way he's acting to get reactions or some such retardation, but unless he says as much and I believe him, I have to assume that he's not playing like a moron and that he's scummy for it.

He has no meta case. He has an observation that he's supposedly suspicious over for meta reasons. I don't care enough to go check out the game because I know from my own experiences with you that you're able to have an amicable opening regardless of your alignment. And the rest of what you've done (aside from saying you want me to tunnel a townie -.-) has read pretty town to me.

As it stands, I'm the most suspicious of geript of anyone who's posted.


I basically agree with you but I'm not sure Moron necessarily = scum. I'm also worried about Mocsta and Wave for basically refusing to comment on geript or read that part of the thread. They seem to dismiss it as a squabble and meaningless when it is, in fact, the opposite.

I'm not sure how I am supposed to take people seriously when they don't/refuse to properly read people's posts.

It's pretty damn meaningless.

DP didn't take easy bait here and has actively REALLY attempted to avoid shitting things up despite an aggravating geript (who I'm pretty sure is town, btw) and me to a lesser degree pushing him. More likely town for that as it's really easy to pawn off or excuse early game shitfests/trolling.

The second purpose of my prodding, specifically the questions post, is that not only did I actually want to know the legitimate answers to those questions (which DP answered very well imo) I also wanted to gauge some other reactions to those questions as some people have noticed, is kind of an odd line of questioning and essentially only pertains to DP's specific meta, which I will explain here for people who don't know.

DP is known as a very strong town player. As such he is often a target of mafia kills extremely early in many games, including dying on N0 games before he can even DO anything. He absolutely hates this (almost as much as he hates 3P survivor apparently, for similar reasons---hence my bait about 3P despite there obviously not being one in this game. DP didn't take it ) The reason I asked him here is because as a townie, I very much want a town DP to be on my side and a part of the game as long as possible, so I was wondering if perhaps he would have considered changing his posting style slightly so if town, he could survive mafia hits a while longer. This doesn't appear to be the case and is perfectly fine.
+ Show Spoiler +

Hopefully I will have no caught up to everything relevant regarding me up until recently.
New stuff:
Marv what do you make of justanothertownie's reaction to my questions? Certainly a very easy point of attack, yet even the people who have voted me thus far haven't bothered with it. It honestly looks as though he is hiding behind not knowing DP's meta and as soon as someone provides an explanation for him he will be ready to drop the point of suspicion and will have 'contributed' something.

Yamato, come on dude. You're not that bad.

Frankly, that doesn't read like a natural stream of consciousness to me.

As I said, because it was a defense, I think town or scum could have "refined" that statement by adding the clause "as a townie".

Its an issue to me; but in isolation I don't want to lynch you over it. Overall your posting has been consistent in confidence. Bigger fish to fry; and sentinel represents a higher percentage to be scum as far as I am concerned.

It's an issue to people like you who try to lynch/suspect people over semantics, because then if I don't use those specific words you say something like: "Of course you want a town DP to be on your side as scum!"
It's horseshit, Mocsta. I accept the fact that you've backed down from me because you realized your suspicion was dumb as balls.

So you're voting Sentinel because he's policy voting Coag for being useless huh? What is the difference between this and your vote on Sentinel himself? I don't see it if there is one.
Well fisrtly, you are taking the whole situation out of context. Its quite clear what I took issue in. It is far from semantics. What you wrote was not a genuine thought. It was refined. Its common knowledge that scum are typically the ones who struggle to post and need to incessantly proof-read their posts. So far from semantics.

Nice attempt at ad-hom as well. If you want to keep up this aggressive tone, lay down a vote on me; or shut the fuck up.

My sentinel vote is far from policy lynch. I outlined why I think he is worthy of a vote based on flying under the radar by attempting to appear active, but actually contributing nothing. The same goes for Umasi.

Sentinels, coag vote *was* for being useless etc, which as I outlined prior is dumb. Because players like that are 'lottery draws" on day1, regardless of being town or scum.


What makes it seem like I'm trying to fly under the radar? And I was contributing, why do you say I wasn't?


and it was useless to stay on you lonemeow because it's not the votes going to pressure you at all, and you're still more than likely town.
~and so far, your reaction to it has been pretty townie imo, but this wasn't relevant at the time I unvoted because you hadn't responded~

(oh also, saw this in the mafia database earlier, less than 25% of day 1 lynches actually lynch scum, so truly you are a god among men mocsta)
I think your filyer avoids the big issues in the thread, even though your posting comes about when they happen.

ray made a fair point, but a key difference between those two games is that this is a 30player game. it is much harder to assert ones self.

overall I rate your contributions as lacklustre.
Umasi
Profile Joined October 2012
United States1399 Posts
September 22 2013 07:39 GMT
#1079
feel free to ask questions then
(and I don't think I've missed any big issue, I'm just not going to needlessly comment on things that I wouldn't be able to contribute to)
"Sir, we finally have enough corpses to serve as a ramp for your horse." "THEN LET THE REAPING BEGIN!!"
ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
September 22 2013 07:46 GMT
#1080
Take a look at Yamato if you're bored. Something about that sentence structure and diction is screaming mafia at me. Need to look at his older town games when I wake up. Night (unless insomnia grasps me again).
Fear is the only darkness. ~Destiny Fan Club operator~
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