Steamship Liquidia (TL Mafia 46)

On November 04 2011 12:54 flamewheel wrote:
No bro you have to use roman numerals!

On November 06 2011 02:03 redFF wrote:

in what way?

On November 06 2011 09:40 redFF wrote:
in what way will no images or videos make this more interesting than if it had images/videos

On November 08 2011 02:24 xsksc wrote:
can you sign up for a game while you're currently playing in one?

On November 04 2011 11:44 Zona wrote:
- You may not include (embed) images or videos in your posts.

On November 09 2011 10:18 jaybrundage wrote:
Im curious why is this not on the list for the mafia games coming up?

On November 15 2011 02:53 Zona wrote:

I promise to distribute roles tonight.

I'll be spending my time from 6pm-9pm to do my best to make sure that the current ZBot actually works...and if I'm pretty sure it does, the game will start tonight too.

On November 15 2011 16:00 Cyber_Cheese wrote:
That is one really awesome back story.
Anyone who wants to lynch lurkers day 1 is scum. It's a very generic thing to day, and gives town little to no information.

On November 15 2011 13:43 Hiroruby wrote:


Well, this is my first game so I'll give my elementary assessment of the afformentioned topics.

Playing Mafia: I think mafia lurking and lying are weak strategies. Following those guidelines you set will guarantee the mafia get a few free town lynches if they play smart and be active at the beginning as I'm pretty sure we will have some inactive townies. As I said, straight up lying is a bad move, because it could come back to haunt you. Better to just have convoluted, strangely worded, ambiguous answers to peoples questions. It's all true, but people will waste time trying to figure out what you meant.

That is when you go "afk" for a few hours while people decipher it, then when they have sufficiently wasted their time, change something you said. Nothing big, just say it was a slight mistake or that you changed your mind about a portion of what you said. Following wheels like this whenever they present themselves is a good move, because if ever people follow the wheel to a towny, you can either hint to try and get a band wagon on him, or just let the town try and hang eachother.

I think sacrificing a mafia member is a great move as well. Have one mafia member call out another, get him killed because people will follow the logic train of: One is mafia, and one is town. No matter who gets lynched, it is very possible the town is left with a "sleeper cell" if you will. A trusted member who will influence us for the rest of the game, possibly without suspicion until several mislynches are made.

In my opinion, Mafia's biggest goal should be to become a trusted towny, by whatever means necessary.

I'm not too indepth with the subtle nuances of Mafia and their roles, so I'm eager to learn how those effect the game from other peoples posts.

Blue roles: are of course game changers, but I've read a lot of posts about town and their over reliance on blues to win the game. I believe Ace has been very vocal about this, perhaps I'm wrong on that, but I don't think we should hinge our strategy on verifying a few blue names and hoping they win before we all get killed. Again as with Mafia roles, I don't know too too much about the subtleties on how some of the roles like vet get played out in game. I'm again, eager to see what my fellow boatsmen have to say.

Lurkers: should be killed, and that should be made clear right away. If you know you will die if you lurk, then you will not lurk unless you are mafia, and that should just get you killed. Lurking helps no one, gives nothing to either validate or disprove a person, just leaves a cloud of ambiguity and distrust. Lurkers simply must die as they are either town that are usless, thus hurting us, or are mafia.

Majority Lynch: I'm not sure why you asked what Majority Lynch means when the game rules are Majority multi lynch or something of that sort. But regardless, from what I read as soon as one member exceeds or equals 50% of the vote in a single day, he will die at the end of said day. This means you should be very careful about ever just "leaving" a vote on someone. Especially toward the later game. It will allow mafia to all jump on and possibly kill someone , or multiple townies, if too many floating votes are around. They can easily pass it off as voting for him by following the same logic you did.

Can you write a small report like this as well, LSB? I would like to see your take in an easy to read format, so that I can see an established players views on the topics.

On November 15 2011 13:45 Hiroruby wrote:

Thanks, I'll do my best! I too am a townie, kind of glad since I don't have to figure out how to use special abilities and such.

On November 15 2011 12:55 LSB wrote:
come to think about it, that does seem like a nice icebreaker. So everyone! How about lets talk about how you think mafia should be played, the importance of blues, what should we do with lurkers, and what majority lynch means.

On November 15 2011 17:46 prplhz wrote:


I think town shouldn't lie and we should discourage that. Look no further than Team Melee Mini Mafia where the esteemed GMarshal provided a prime example of why a strict lynch-all-liars policy isn't always the greatest as it would have lost town that game.

If you are town: do not lie under any circumstances. If you are town and somebody else lies: don't just lynch them because of that alone, even though we have a seemingly unlimited number of lynches at our disposal.

On November 15 2011 17:54 LSB wrote:

Town got destroyed in Team Melee Mini Mafia. Show me an example where lying helped the town. Telling the truth is pro-town

On November 16 2011 01:19 Zephirdd wrote:


"most of the time"? Care to explain to a newbie when would a mafia NOT want to appear green?

On November 15 2011 20:00 prplhz wrote:
If any of you bothered to read my posts I never said that people should lie their asses off, on the contrary. I said that lynch-all-liars can be bad and it would have been in TMMM because GMarshal was a lying town. He shouldn't have lied, but two wrongs doesn't make a right and lying isn't damning evidence by itself. sandroba made the right call in not lynching GMarshal 'cause at the end of the day, this is a game about lynching scum, not about lynching liars. Don't lie and don't hide behind policies instead of contributing with your opinion.

Also, I jumped on the 0-person bandwagon? Rofl. I liked your post Cyber_Cheese even though I thought it was weird that you didn't vote in it, but that new post of yours was all shit. Sorry.

Hiroruby says he supports a strict lynch-all-lurkers policy right here:



He says that even if lurkers are town, they should get lynched. I mean come on.

On November 04 2011 11:44 Zona wrote:
Furthermore, there may be dangers in store for town players who claim their role.

On November 16 2011 08:10 prplhz wrote:
I don't really know about Sabin010 it is very unfortunate that he said that but on the other hand he doesn't support lurkers lynches and he supports liar lynches which I think wouldn't be a scum's stance. It is pretty simple, if we start lynching lurkers then scum will start talking and we will just be lynching into busy townies most likely.

About lurkers, we have a seemingly unlimited number of lynches at our disposal and everybody has to post every 24 hours as it says in the OP. If we don't lynch any lurkers day1 we can still lynch them day2 and by that point we'll have like 6-7 posts from everybody. If they're all useless one liners, then lets go ahead and kill a few of them but there's no reason to lynch them prematurely when we can just postpone it and lynch them later. Later we will have more material and the lynch will not be based solely on their lurking but also on their being useless for a long period of time.

For people who did not notice it the OP says that you must post in this thread every 24 hours

On November 16 2011 16:10 prplhz wrote:


Lol because if you start to lynch lurkers then scum will stop lurking and we'll just end up lynching people who are busy doing their homework, I think I already wrote that in this thread, don't you read this thread?

On November 16 2011 16:26 sinani206 wrote:


This is completely stupid because some people have more than one read at a time. Why focus when you can divide (your attention) and conquer?

On November 16 2011 16:39 prplhz wrote:


Rofl so you want to lynch people who has homework based on the fact that scum also has homework?

On November 16 2011 17:09 Forumite wrote:
Who are lurking? The first step to lynching them is calling them out on inactivity. That might be all that is needed to get them back into the game so I think we should do that first.

On November 16 2011 17:27 wherebugsgo wrote:
Coag is also a pretty good player, so if he's scum, he's capable of lurking and surviving.

For the same reason he doesn't make a good day 1 lynch because if he's not scum, then scum will want to shoot him.



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