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United States3308 Posts
April 13 2011 19:51 GMT
#27
Am I allowed to play one mini/one standard game?

If so, /in
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United States3308 Posts
April 22 2011 05:25 GMT
#62
/confirm

Good luck guys! Going to head in to bed a bit early, so I'll make it for roughly half of night 0.
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United States3308 Posts
April 22 2011 15:51 GMT
#73
I'm not too familiar with Night 0, but I suggest keeping the following tips in mind.

If you are blue, do NOT claim unless it is absolutely necessary. (ie, you are medic about to be lynched)

Be wary of fake claims by Mafia if the cop is dead.

Always be confident in your analysis/voting so you don't look like mafia (I had trouble with this in my current mafia game.)

Anyways, a list of people who haven't posted yet.

1. pHelix Equilibria
3. HardCorey
5. Sirael

We want to hear from you, guys!
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United States3308 Posts
April 22 2011 23:07 GMT
#78
That just leaves phelix.

Lots of discussion here guys...

/sarcasm
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 03:20 GMT
#82
On April 22 2011 14:14 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
The game has started now at Night 0. You have roughly 24 hours to discuss in the thread a game plan/whatever you want before the day begins and you can actually start voting for a lynch. Mafia can also communicate privately during this time.


You get a 24-hour grace period for discussion for plans/policies/poking inactive.

Just because someone didn't die doesn't mean you can't discuss anything =/

but then again, we're all newbies so.. eh.
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 04:59 GMT
#84
yeah, I'm trying to correct that logic cause night 0 (from what I've seen) used to create plans and let town pressure inactives right off the bat so they can try and force errors from mafia players.

never take discussion hours for granted. just saying.
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 06:47 GMT
#87
And day 1 has started!

... though I doubt anyone from EST is awake.

Anything you guys think we should discuss?

phelix still hasn't posted yet. Come out, phelix! Don't be shy.
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 07:05 GMT
#89
Well give people some time so the timezones work out. imo start pressuring inactives and then look for people who barely post/act scummy and draw up a lynch against them.
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 08:50 GMT
#91
You want to read the OP for game-specific mechanics like clues. OP states that there are no clues in this game, so clues aren't included here. Any normal game with clues, however, usually incorporates something (sig, profile picture/info) into a night post.

the usual proportion of blues:greens I am not sure about. I think it depends on the host and the game.

Posting less is considered detrimental to ideal town environment, where everyone is posting and contributing. Posting does not necessarily mean that one is pro town, however. Being inactive let's mafia blend in and it is why inactivity is frowned upon. Inactivity isn't really a sure mafia tell, but it is considered anti-town/scummy behavior.

Lies to catch mafia.. I would suggest reading some mafia games where there were fake roleclaims that contradicted behavior/posts or something like that. Mafia actually falsely role claims often if it will pay off, though it's usually a very heavily calculated move.

A usual townie plan just outlines and establishes ideal town environment and some policies (no inactivity, lynch all liars, etc.)

I'd start off by pressuring an inactive, who still hasn't posted yet... so

##Vote: pHelix Equilibria
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 08:50 GMT
#92
Also, I would recommend reading the Newbie Resources in the OP. Helps a ton when you're trying to play Mafia and really helps you learn the game.
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 15:38 GMT
#102
Hey phelix, are you checking the thread at all?

We have four votes on you already, come. Make a hello post or something then we can move on with our town duties on catching scum.

I suggest the rest of you post as well. We don't want to run a lynch the inactives spree over here. Keeping silent also makes you a suspicious character, whether blue or mafia. Come, join the thread!
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 17:01 GMT
#112
We can change the vote, don't worry. We were just pressuring you for being inactive.

##Unvote

Now stay and contribute! :D

And try not to spam, it's considered anti-town/scummy behavior.

People might not take votes because they're not on the computer (time zone conflicts)
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 18:01 GMT
#117
Hey, nothing to feel self conscious about I'm a pretty terrible player, but this is a learning experience. Let's just try our best to learn, yeah?

And it really is hard to have a discussion with so many people just disappearing..

So let's start off with some basic questions for everyone to spark up some discussion; I'm eyeing all the inactives right now.

DO you think we should lynch an inactive day 1?
What are your current opinions of the players in this game?
Do you agree with following policy lynches as the game progresses?
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 20:14 GMT
#125
Still waiting on a lot of the inactives..

In my honest opinion, cop should check an inactive. It'll turn out to three outcomes, probably 2 or 3 since inactives tend to often be blue roles/mafia

Writing in first person, don't take this as me being cop or anything.

1) Confirmed townie. Oh well, let's hope I get a better result tomorrow. I can defend this townie to death because I know he's town.

2) Confirmed blue role. Nice! Now I know who the medic/cop is. I can act very vocal and hint for the medic to protect me or hint DT to check someone I wouldn't check in order to get 2 checks done in one night.

3) Confirm mafia. Well, now I have to tunnel him hard and hope town follows my analysis and lynches him.
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 20:16 GMT
#127
##Vote HardCorey

Pressure vote.

Who are your scum reads? What's your opinion on policy/inactive lynching?

Who do you believe town should lynch on day 1? Do you disagree/agree with any of the opinions put forth by town so far?
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 20:25 GMT
#133
5. In the event of a tie the person with the most votes first is lynched

OP has everything covered, usually.
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United States3308 Posts
April 23 2011 22:56 GMT
#143
or you can use the all button on the bottom right for the pages.

you always want to check the game specific rules on the OP for day/night cycles btw.

and so many inactives.. guess we're going to end up with a inactive lynch like this. sigh, that's not good, but whatever.
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United States3308 Posts
April 24 2011 20:48 GMT
#172
Sorry guys, school's starting again (high school ftl) and I'm finishing up a lot of work.

I'm on my iTouch right now so forgive this contentless post.

I'm sticking with my vote on HardCorey since he's lurking hard atm, even with me pressuring him.
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United States3308 Posts
April 24 2011 21:29 GMT
#178
Korean time birthday thanks

I'll be on, but idk how my posts will be since they'll be coming from my iTouch. I'm not sure if I can do analysis, but maybe if I go to a library after school or something I can try.

I'll be here though, don't worry. And the reason I'm putting this out is because my play from my iTouch.. well just look at XXXVIII. That was played completely from my iTouch =/

wow this took me 5 minutes to type.. lol.
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United States3308 Posts
April 25 2011 00:20 GMT
#181
My opinions on the players
1. pHelix Equilibria
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On April 24 2011 01:50 pHelix Equilibria wrote:
I see the deadline on the rules, but what is the rules regarding votes?
Can the town change votes? Before the day is over.
With a clear majority coming at me ? Eeek I am scared.


Tries to establish himself as a scared townie, imo. Ambiguous statement regardless, either a scum move or an honest town statement.

On April 24 2011 02:15 pHelix Equilibria wrote:
Thank you sir. I got to say that picture of our town is pretty. That white sedan is mine on the left.
My condolences to Qatol's son, really. It is sad to see drug addiction go untreated.

##Vote aScle

I want to hear his voice!


Attempts to pressure, no content in his posts.

On April 24 2011 06:42 pHelix Equilibria wrote:
After reading the above posts. I believe the silent ones are the ones to really look out for. I understand the time zone differences. But I would say out of the silent ones. The one that pointed fingers relatively early with no supporting evidence is more suspicious. Phoenix is right, aScle said one thing so far, but then again he looks like he's in a different time zone, so when he does say more than one thing, we'll see.

##Unvote
##Vote Jaminz


Regurgitates ideas that have been said by a few other people in the thread.

Either a reclusive townie or a dodging scum. No opinion yet since there are such a few amount of posts.


2. Rising_Phoenix

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On April 24 2011 05:27 Rising_Phoenix wrote:
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On April 24 2011 05:16 freestalker wrote:
the cop doesn't have to role claim to find enough evidence and push the conviction on others. Roleclaiming is probably a good option only once there are like 1-2 mafia left and he knows who they are, or if mafia is claiming they are a cop and the real cop knows one other mafia member (netting 2 mafia for 1 cop), etc. If medic manages to figure out who cop is before he roleclaims, he should be the only target to heal.


I was just looking at it mathmatically. I know cop would have to roleclaim for the probability thing to work, but it was more of a probability discussion than a strategy discussion. If cop hints too strongly he's a cop than he's going to get whacked probably since he has the ability to really push people to make a vote.


Soft defense of his post with statistics. Though it was baited by some other player, still trying to gloss over the fact that he has almost nothing to contribute. Try to do some analysis! It won't hurt.

No opinion yet.


3. HardCorey

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Hardcore lurker. Dodges attempts at discussion because "he doesn't know what to discuss."

On April 23 2011 23:44 HardCorey wrote:
So what would you say is your justification for voting on pHelix Equilibria? You know you're right though, not having posted seems like a good enough reason to kill them.


On April 23 2011 23:48 HardCorey wrote:
Although are we wasting our first kill by using it on a member that hasn't posted? I think someone who is the mafia would probably become more involved earlier.


On April 24 2011 00:05 HardCorey wrote:
fair enough. group mentality here I go.

##Vote: pHelix Equilibria


Those were his last three posts. First off, he contradicts himself in his first post. "Not enough posting seems like a good enough reason to kill them," yet we have the perfect example of someone who is barely contributing to town.

Second quote displays his uncertainty. Maybe his scum buddies are not active, so he didn't think about his first post as he was typing it.

Third post has HardCorey blatantly stating that he is sheeping pHelix. Then he disappears.

Strong scum read on HardCorey atm.


4. FezTheCaliph

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I don't feel like quoting his posts since over half of them are just vote tallys. Might be a scum move by trying to contribute without actually contributing. You too, try some analysis.


5. Sirael

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On April 23 2011 02:50 Sirael wrote:
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On April 23 2011 00:51 Conversion wrote:
Anyways, a list of people who haven't posted yet.

1. pHelix Equilibria
3. HardCorey
5. Sirael

We want to hear from you, guys!


Then i'll make the start. Was outside the whole day chilling in the sun (still 25°C at 8 pm). As this is my very first game, i hope i don't make too many mistakes. Anyway GLHF to you all and let's hope for an interesting game.


First post. Goes inactive for a loooooong time after that.

On April 24 2011 18:03 Sirael wrote:
So, my internet was dead as i wope up yesterday. Couldn't log in for
the whole day. I already thought that i'd be modkilled by now

I'll try to give some of my opinions. At the moment, ignoring the
actual vote counter, it seems like there are two vote candidates
pushed by jasminz.

First there's the inactive aka aScle. While lynching an inactive
(for whatever reason he is)
isn't the worst thing to do, it is by no means the best either.
It essentially gives the mafia one free kill in night1. Therefore it
should be our number one goal to just get everyone posted as much as possible,
simply ignoring the inactive.
In case of need we can still jump on him if we don't find a better alternative.
Jaminz' second suggestion is basically the same only that Enervate
postet a reason why he can't post.


When I look at jaminz himself i get a bit confused. He gets in the game
saying that he want's to improve his analysis(which he obviously did)
and at the beginning of the game he seems quite depressed that there's
not much posting going on.

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On April 23 2011 15:49 jaminz wrote:
Should we just start accusing someone of being mafia to get people talking? I don't really know where to start the conversation.


On April 23 2011 13:56 jaminz wrote:
I don't think he meant we shouldn't discuss, I just think he meant that there's nothing really to talk about yet lol



The first time I read those two posts I didn't really notice them
but the more I think about it the more it seems like he doesn't want
us to post that much. But maybe that's just me...
He continues with doing what he joines the game for, analysing. So I
guess he's quite safe for now, but you'll never know.




I really don't know who I should vote for at the moment, maybe someone
can give me a good idea?


First paragraph basically explains why he was inactive. Fair enough, as we have a lot more inactives in this game.

Very wishy-washy with his opinions. Indecisiveness is something a newbie scum player might display because of their inability to deceive town.

Tries to pass off his opinion on jaminz as "confusion." This can be a future set up for his posts.

Basically a big wall of nothing. No analysis, hardly any opinion, and a lot of wishy-washiness.

On April 25 2011 06:26 Sirael wrote:
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On April 25 2011 05:48 Conversion wrote:
I'm sticking with my vote on HardCorey since he's lurking hard atm, even with me pressuring him.


I thought about him as a possible vote earlier today but I wanted to wait for his reaction. Because he's not reacting to your pressure at all, i'll simply add more.


##Vote HardCorey


Sheep. This brings me to a slight scum read on Sirael. Do some analysis or contribute more, please.


6. Freestalker

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Very strong town read on freestalker. I don't feel like quoting every single post he made, but he prods around and is generally promoting a good town environment.


7. Enervate

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On April 25 2011 02:13 Enervate wrote:
If I was mafia, wouldn't I be trying to defend myself more and vote for other people? In my opinion, mafia members have more motive to participate actively and try to vote people who aren't mafia members. I mean, mafia members must have realized by now that not writing huge long posts makes you look suspicious.

##Vote jaminz

Mafia members would know I'm not a mafia member and try to vote me. Seems like 3 people have voted me so far. Hmmmmm.




Incredibly weak and scummy defense after prodding him for inactivity. Basically putting out possibilities that people voting for him might be mafia, just because. No logic, nothing.

On April 25 2011 05:14 Enervate wrote:
When I said I was about to edit my post, I didn't mean I was trying to change what I had wrote, I meant I wanted to add the second sentence I posted next, because not double-posting is a habit I've had from posting outside of this thread.

But here's my analysis:

I am pretty sure Fez the Caliph is not mafia because he unvoted me. If he was mafia, he would have left his vote on me because it wouldn't look suspicious since other people are still voting for me. If we were both mafia, he wouldn't have voted for me in the first place. So, 3 out of 9 people (myself and Fez excluded), could possibly be mafia.

aScle is suspicious to me because he goes from not posting much to jumping on the vote on me. I'm a convenient scapegoat.

Jamin'z reply to my vote against him is interesting. If he was an innocent townie, he might accuse me of being mafia for voting him. But instead he tells me how I can get his vote off of me. Maybe because he knows I'm not mafia. And the only way he could know is if he was mafia.

Rising Phoenix's post is also suspicious to me because he says he takes time to make thoughtful posts but also says he's too lazy to count the votes.

And here's some good faith, I'll try and tally the votes.

Phelix Equlibria - 1
Enervate -4
ascle -1
jaminz -2
hardcorey-1

(This actually took me a really long time lol. It's kinda hard with all of the unvotes. I think it's accurate, though.)


Trying to contribute without actually contributing. They wasn't an ounce of analysis in his posts, just some opinions here and there. Add to the fact that he's vote tallying like everyone else is, trying to seem like he's contributing.

On April 25 2011 07:18 Enervate wrote:
Ok I guess I will follow the trend of voting for inactives as well.

##Unvote

##Vote HardCorey


Sheeping, plain and simple. Try to explain your reasoning. Is it a pressure vote? Did you like the case against that certain person? Sheeping is generally frowned upon here and is considered anti-town(not necessarily scummy) behavior.


8. Conversion

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Case against myself..? =p


9. Jaminz

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Another player I have a strong town read on. Just look at the first major post in this thread.


10. vyro

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Really inactive. Dodgy when he isn't.


11. aScle

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Also another inactive. Pops up here and there and tries to blend in with town, imo.

On April 24 2011 22:34 aScle wrote:
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On April 24 2011 22:18 pHelix Equilibria wrote:
After reading quite abit of these analyses. Its hard to make judgement calls when people are making these analysis out of 2 or 3 posts that are like 3 sentences long. If there isn't enough to information to draw conclusions from, the best bet would be the inactive. They had a days to say something. At the least we can keep the people interested in the game to stay and therefore more posts to look at. Thats my two cents.

And who exactly are these inactives you speak of? Pretty much everyone so far currently has made a post/posts indicating that they are in fact active.


Might be a move trying to soft defend inactives. No read yet.
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