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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 10 2010 22:27 GMT
#33
Woah. I'm impressed as to how quickly this filled up.

GL hosting, Dr H! I'm excited to see this play out ^^
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 10 2010 23:26 GMT
#38
Yeah, if there happens to be enough room sign me up please!

/in
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 11 2010 13:51 GMT
#336
Aww, it looks like I got signed out of this game I thought I was on the signup list after I posted...

Ah well.
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 13 2010 18:47 GMT
#1308
Dudes. I am in this game.

Righteous.

I just got through a quickread of the last 60 pages, and quite a lot has happened, to be sure.

First: DrH, your handling of the BM situation was excellent. Well done ^^

Second: Town, nicely done nailing a red day 1. That rarely happens, feel proud!

Third: Let me also apologize for the BM situation. It's something that rarely happens, fortunately, but yeah, it did happen. I sincerely hope it didn't ruin the game for you guys, especially since this is the first game for so many of you.

And finally, my thoughts so far:

A LOT of people have noticed the Masq-Veldril connection. It's pretty damning, to be sure, but one thing I'm noticing about this game that separates it from the standard town vs scum games:

Both mafia and vampires have a win condition that's pretty radically different from your standard game: Kill each other. Not outnumber town, just kill each other. Town's win condition, on the other hand, is pretty simple. Kill a bunch of mafia/vampires, and outnumber the survivors.

Actually, question: The town's win condition is thus:
Win Condition:At least 8 vampires and mafia are killed AND the town outnumbers the surviving members.

Does that mean 8 vampires AND 8 mafia, or 8 combined vamp/mafia?

Because depending on which it is, that's going to change mafia/vamp strategy radically, which is logically going to change our strategy radically as a result.

If we only need 8 scum to be dead, we have a very simple task - scumhunt efficiently. We can actually win the game quite quickly, depending on how mafia and vamps do at killing each other. However, if this is true, mafia and vamps are actually going to try to LEAVE EACH OTHER ALIVE for a while, and try to kill a ton of town off before they start hunting each other in earnest. Reason being: 11 per side, right? So, lets say that the vamps are all like, hey, let's kill some mafia bitches. Let's say they're REALLY good at it, so they hit nothing but mafia all the time. What's going to happen?

Well, they kill 3 night 1. 3 night 2. And 3 night 3, leaving 2 mafia alive (probably shitting themselves with fear). Except what happened? Oh no, town still has like 30 dudes left, and outnumbers them! Town wins! Whoops!

Now, one thing you can never do in mafia: Assume your enemy is dumber than you. So therefore, since I realized this after being in the game for 45 minutes, I should assume mafia and vamps have realized this a LONG time ago. Therefore, they're going to be playing pretty standard for a while, trying to knock town numbers down. They'll go for the bluesnipes, and they'll try to get town to vote for itself - they'll sow confusion. Once town numbers get low, they'll start striking at each other.

It should lead to an interesting game of cat-and-mouse. Town's going to be trying to pick scum off as quickly as possible before their numerical advantage evaporates. Both scum teams will be trying to target the other first - but not too early, lest they lose themselves the game.

Essentially, our strategy in this situation is to rely on our blues to make logical choices with their abilities, and rely on our own analytical abilities to whittle down the scum numbers. So we play the game very standard - we just gotta be very good to stay ahead here. The day 1 lynch was awesome - now let's keep it up!


Now, what if the win condition is the other one? The one where we have to kill 16 scum (8 from each team) instead of just 8? This becomes a bit more straightforward. Mafia and Vamps then have no fear, and can jump straight into killing the crap out of each other. Each side will basically be ignoring town in the interest of killing each other (although there will be a ton of collateral damage, to be sure). Here, our goal will be to keep the scum teams as equal in number as possible - we want them to whittle each other down, essentially to do our work for us. Our main danger in this situation lies in one team getting the upper hand over the other - if we end up in a situation with 8 mafia 2 vamps or something similar, town's in trouble. It ends up in a place where it might actually BENEFIT town to get the vamps to claim to them, then protect them and help them take the mafia down to the point where we can fulfill our win conditions.

Just my musings on the setup so far. Now that the game is BM-free, it should continue with a lot less spam, which I like. I'm curious as to figure out exactly what our win conditions are, though. DrH?

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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 13 2010 18:51 GMT
#1309
That was also my 1400th post. I dedicate it to you guys, because I love you all <3
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 13 2010 19:00 GMT
#1311
Alright, so that simultaneously makes it both easier on us, and harder for us to win.

This is gonna be fun :D
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 13 2010 20:10 GMT
#1318
On October 14 2010 04:40 SouthRawrea wrote:
You know what Brownbear? I love you. Your 1400th post was good. I actually just assumed it was 8 total and didn't even bother asking. Much love.


Much <3

also sorry for stealing your thunder annul. Much <3 to you too
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 13 2010 22:02 GMT
#1322
People who (relatively) last-minute bandwagoned onto Masq (started with about 5 hours to go):

Hittegods
bumatlarge
Pandain
kitaman27
SINiquity
Kpyolysis32
Veldril
AirbladeOrange
Shmotz


Now, I can kindaunderstand Veldril (dude was second in line, that's just defensive voting), but the rest of that list could be vamps trying to bus. Or mafia trying to ensure Masq died.

Although mafia didn't know he was vamp any more than we did until the flip... perhaps mafia really wanted Veldril alive for some reason?

Will look into this more.
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 14 2010 00:52 GMT
#1335
That's too bad... in a game with a full 1/3 of the participants as Mafia, double lynches might have actually been helpful to us.

Ahh well.
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 14 2010 03:49 GMT
#1442
The day post isn't up yet. If you can link clues to each other, then you can fight all you want.

Until then, quit yer bitchin'
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 14 2010 04:23 GMT
#1481
Man, vamps are just not having an easy time here.
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 14 2010 04:34 GMT
#1498
Trust me, you don't EVER want to let the Brute/Suicide Bomber/Infested Terran ever detonate.

This is a great example of how much damage the role can do.
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 14 2010 15:41 GMT
#1596
A thing to think about - normally in mafia games if you get saved by a ghost, it's in your best interest to claim ASAP and say "I took a hit last night". Same deal for veterans (Frankensteins in this case).

In this game, when Frankensteins are hit, they should claim. However, it's a very bad idea to assume that someone who gets ghost-protted is automatically town. If anything, anyone who claims they took a hit but got protected warrants a ton of investigation, because mafia and vampires aren't trying to kill town - they're trying to kill each other. Thus, instead of trying to bluesnipe, they're trying to redsnipe.

Just something to think about. I don't think anyone has claimed yet, but it's something y'all should remember.

Now, onto today's lynch... right now I'm a fan of lynching the chainsaw-defending Veldril, for two reasons:

1: I really can't see any logical explanation for his defense of Masq other than "vampire buddy who didn't know what bussing was"

2: We drop a vampire today, we lower their KP to two, which means one less death per night.

After today, though, we really should be focusing on hunting down mafia, to bring the numbers back to equal. As town, we're trying to maintain balance between the two scum factions - we don't want mafia to get too much of an upper hand here.
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 14 2010 16:59 GMT
#1602
On October 15 2010 01:37 deconduo wrote:
Don't forget that the vamps might have more than one brute.


HIGHLY unlikely. One Brute is more than enough.
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 14 2010 18:30 GMT
#1614
On October 15 2010 02:52 Veldril wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2010 02:42 zerroth wrote:
@jaminz
That is really bad because your posts are inaccurate
really inaccurate
i atleast have 10 posts in this thread


You have 9 posts, including what I quote in this thread


And this matters how?
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 14 2010 18:41 GMT
#1617
On October 15 2010 03:36 Veldril wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2010 03:30 BrownBear wrote:
On October 15 2010 02:52 Veldril wrote:
On October 15 2010 02:42 zerroth wrote:
@jaminz
That is really bad because your posts are inaccurate
really inaccurate
i atleast have 10 posts in this thread


You have 9 posts, including what I quote in this thread


And this matters how?


Well, it doesn't matter that much. Just want to point out that he seems to think he posted more than he did. Also, it's 1AM in Thailand (12AM at that time), so I'm quite sleepy and act before posting. Apologize if it's spam the thread.

However, I do appreciate jaminz for keeping the post count going because I tried to do once but the search function seems not to show me correct post count in each thread. So to make sure, he might need to go through each page to count a person's post count. Multiply by 50 and it's going to be really hard. So please don't criticize the post count too harsh.


This is actually a classic example of someone trying to draw attention away from themselves by pointing out errors other people have made. Only problem is, in a lot of cases these errors are very trivial.

Does it mean he's scum? Not necessarily, but it's something to add to the growing list of evidence against him.
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 14 2010 23:53 GMT
#1635
On October 15 2010 08:51 aztrorisk wrote:
Show nested quote +
ps join #tlmafia for IRC mafia games, join and idle in it i hope to start games up when we get a nice base of people

IRC games are live chat and usually take from like 30 minutes to ~2 hours depending on how things go (for a 9 player game)


IRC chats are not allowed. Stated by the host.


He's talking about different games completely unrelated to this one ^^
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 14 2010 23:55 GMT
#1638
On October 15 2010 00:41 BrownBear wrote:
Now, onto today's lynch... right now I'm a fan of lynching the chainsaw-defending Veldril, for two reasons:

1: I really can't see any logical explanation for his defense of Masq other than "vampire buddy who didn't know what bussing was"

2: We drop a vampire today, we lower their KP to two, which means one less death per night.

After today, though, we really should be focusing on hunting down mafia, to bring the numbers back to equal. As town, we're trying to maintain balance between the two scum factions - we don't want mafia to get too much of an upper hand here.


And then in the voting thread:

On October 15 2010 08:48 Glasse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2010 07:10 Glasse wrote:
Vote brownbear

oops, my bad

vote BrownBear


With no explanation, I might add. Another possible vampire trying to save his vamp buddy? Glasse, care to explain yourself?
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 15 2010 00:38 GMT
#1647
On October 15 2010 09:13 Coagulation wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2010 08:55 BrownBear wrote:
On October 15 2010 00:41 BrownBear wrote:
Now, onto today's lynch... right now I'm a fan of lynching the chainsaw-defending Veldril, for two reasons:

1: I really can't see any logical explanation for his defense of Masq other than "vampire buddy who didn't know what bussing was"

2: We drop a vampire today, we lower their KP to two, which means one less death per night.

After today, though, we really should be focusing on hunting down mafia, to bring the numbers back to equal. As town, we're trying to maintain balance between the two scum factions - we don't want mafia to get too much of an upper hand here.


And then in the voting thread:

On October 15 2010 08:48 Glasse wrote:
On October 15 2010 07:10 Glasse wrote:
Vote brownbear

oops, my bad

vote BrownBear


With no explanation, I might add. Another possible vampire trying to save his vamp buddy? Glasse, care to explain yourself?



he posted like 5 post's up that he was basing this off the cat clue and is going with the less obvious suspect.



...

I can read. Clearly.
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BrownBear
Profile Joined March 2010
United States6894 Posts
October 15 2010 05:57 GMT
#1669
On October 15 2010 10:49 Coagulation wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2010 09:38 BrownBear wrote:
On October 15 2010 09:13 Coagulation wrote:
On October 15 2010 08:55 BrownBear wrote:
On October 15 2010 00:41 BrownBear wrote:
Now, onto today's lynch... right now I'm a fan of lynching the chainsaw-defending Veldril, for two reasons:

1: I really can't see any logical explanation for his defense of Masq other than "vampire buddy who didn't know what bussing was"

2: We drop a vampire today, we lower their KP to two, which means one less death per night.

After today, though, we really should be focusing on hunting down mafia, to bring the numbers back to equal. As town, we're trying to maintain balance between the two scum factions - we don't want mafia to get too much of an upper hand here.


And then in the voting thread:

On October 15 2010 08:48 Glasse wrote:
On October 15 2010 07:10 Glasse wrote:
Vote brownbear

oops, my bad

vote BrownBear


With no explanation, I might add. Another possible vampire trying to save his vamp buddy? Glasse, care to explain yourself?



he posted like 5 post's up that he was basing this off the cat clue and is going with the less obvious suspect.



...

I can read. Clearly.


wait what? why are you asking an explanation from him if he already gave an explanation. ??. other then that vote glasse if u think hes suspect. just trying to answer your question.



Sorry, i meant to sarcastically refer to my inability to notice obvious posts that answer my questions already
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