BC and RoL: Salem Mafia

On November 12 2010 12:58 youngminii wrote:
/in

DTA I haven't played a proper game with you in ages
Hope we're both scum

On November 16 2010 19:04 flamewheel wrote:
By the way, one should not double account with his smurf. Quite unsportsmanlike.

On November 26 2010 07:13 flamewheel wrote:
flamewheel watches from the shadows.

On November 26 2010 07:52 Artanis[Xp] wrote:

Artanis[Xp] watches DarthThienAn from the shadows watching flamewheel from the shadows.

On November 26 2010 07:59 Glasse wrote:
i am the shadows, stop touching my butt.

On November 26 2010 08:10 flamewheel wrote:
You can't watch me.

On November 26 2010 09:33 Radfield wrote:
OK, role pms are out, which means we're underway. I haven't played for a while, and haven't played with most of the players in this game, so I don't know the respective skill levels of many players here. However, seeing how this is a bootcamp game, here are general tips for new players.

Be active. By active I don't mean post every thought all the time. I mean follow whats going on in the thread and go back over previous posts. I highly suggest keeping a spreadsheet with all the players on it, and keep track of your thoughts on each player. Track possible connections between players, activity levels, etc. Keep track of what everyone claims and flips as you go. Being 'active' is mostly an out of thread thing.

When you post, post content. Make one long post instead of many short ones. Don't get sucked into arguments, they derail the thread and do little to help find mafia. Most arguments(especially day 1) are between two townies.

Focus on posts and not on PMs and plans. Balanced Mafia games are won through behavior analysis, nothing more.

Lastly, if you're a townie you have one very important job. Take a hit! Every townie that dies, is a blue role saved. If you can be a threat simply through good thoughtful posting, that leaves the blue roles enough time to co-ordinate.

On November 26 2010 13:06 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
This'll force us to start a day 1 discussion without elections/clues which is good imo

Keep an eye out for bullshit like "nothing 2 talk about day 1 so let's just lynch this handpicked group of inactives (who are probably all townies)"

Discussion points:
-How to unite town circle
-How/when roleclaims should be done and handled
-Possible medic/dt actions

I was going to say the paranoid villager should claim but I didn't realize that it was reworked into the vet role, so PV should not claim under any circumstance. Usually the PV kills whoever visits him and needs to either claim to avoid dt/medic deaths (if he is bad) and if he is good should goad mafia into trying to hit him by claiming DT or something like that.

DT's only claim if you find mafia and you think you might be able to catch another mafia or two from their lynch. If you can just make a great case that will lead to a lynch without roleclaiming, please do that. The mafia have an information advantage over us and we don't need to make that worse than it already is.

Be wary of people who try to get you to roleclaim in PM's. If you are PMing with somebody you find suspicious, open up a third party with a player you trust so that if you die incriminating information doesn't go to waste. For instance:

-mafia x pms townie y and gets him to roleclaim DT
-mafia hits townie y
-no one knows townie y claimed to mafia x

but if townie y pms townie z and tells him "I claimed my role to player x and if i die he is likely mafia" or something like that then townie z can reveal that after y's death and mafia x will be lynched

Medics:
protect veterans or anyone dumb enough to PUBLICLY roleclaim a good blue role. if they claim it to you in PM, that isn't enough to prot them since that's information mafia doesn't necessarily have. being a good medic is about understanding mafia priorities which is:

1. best/veteran players
2. blue roles
3. confusion targets (a confusion target is a townie who is intentionally hit to misguide the town. i.e townie A bandwagons townie B and mafia hit townie A to make townie B look bad.)
4. random town members

don't worry too much about WIFOM, stick with your convictions. just protect who you think is gonna get hit, it's pretty simple. be slightly wary of anyone who comes out super early and says "omg im role x i need medic protection really really bad", that's a shitty play and it might be to draw medics away.

those are my 2 cents for now. i'm working all throughout black friday.

On November 26 2010 15:26 Node wrote:
Sorry if I'm just dumb, but where does it say that we need to elect a mayor? It's not on the role list...

On November 26 2010 17:01 flamewheel wrote:
Yes, wait what.

On November 27 2010 05:58 BrownBear wrote:
Oh wait. Dammit, no mayor. Goddammit, DTA, this is what I get for just reading posts and not the OP.

On November 27 2010 06:49 Aeres wrote:

I'm Joe Pesci, who beats the shit out of Thom Yorke and George Clooney at the same time! /flex

I'm a bit confused as to what we should be doing at this point. The majority of players involved haven't even posted yet, and we don't have anything to discuss, really, aside from town circles, Medic priorities, etc... but shouldn't we wait for everyone to be present to talk about these things?

I wouldn't say I'm impatient about this, but Day 1 seems to be a brick wall for discussion most of the time if there isn't a Mayor. = /

On November 27 2010 06:51 deconduo wrote:
Day one lynches are always tough. I agree that we should lynch a lurker, but as this is more of a learning game I think we should be looking at the more experienced players who aren't posting as much as they should be. New players are going to be quiet anyway, so we should be encouraging them rather that threatening with the big lynch stick. It would be pretty shitty to lynch a newbie day one.

On November 27 2010 09:46 Glasse wrote:
what's a super modkill?

On November 28 2010 10:29 SouthRawrea wrote:
Okay please please please! Some of you really need to touch up on your reading skills. The Chaos Ensuant DID know who he was (read the role description). Also please consider the fact that it is highly likely that there is more than 1 chaos ensuant. Also try not to overstate things. (Ex: I heavily defend myself from attacks)