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Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 03 2012 11:39 GMT
#90
/in
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 03 2012 11:55 GMT
#93
Pondered for about 6 hours about whether or not the time zone would be fine, but it seems like it is if there's a lot of Aussies in this one
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 04 2012 01:57 GMT
#184
1) This is my first game of Mafia on TL, I've played it a bit offline, so I'm interested to see how different it is in comparison.
2) While I don't want to be trying to lynch more active townies, I feel that lynching lurkers has a negative impact for us, as it really gives up a day where we could be cleaning up the town, and also reduces the number of days we have to live.
3) Pie, cheesecake is disgusting (most of the time)
Favourite colour is orange, though a good yellow has always had a special place in my heart too
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 04 2012 10:08 GMT
#299
Alright, so I've come back from work, find that everyone is at each other's throats already... What happened to a nice friendly atmosphere? Anyways, from what I can tell, it really does feel like one of the three super active members in this group so far are scum, though which one I haven't been able to pinpoint yet. I feel like they've actually done a good job in causing a lot of doubt and in-fighting between the members, but I feel like what Kickstart has said made a lot of sense, and I've definitely taken into account some of the points made there.

I don't want to reveal which of the members I feel most suspicious of yet, though I do have a gut feeling about it, and as for the 2nd bad guy, this is pure speculation, but I do feel like they are lurking in the shadows a bit, since there's so much going on already, it'd be the perfect time to just sit back a bit and let the townies destroy themselves.
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 04 2012 10:25 GMT
#301
On December 04 2012 11:13 Mr. Cheesecake wrote:
@Anyone

In your opinion, what differentiates bad(newbie) town play from scum play?


This one?

I feel like one of the major things that differentiate newbie play with scum play is the explanation that comes behind an accusation. I feel that newer players, when accusing others of being scum, will have a lot weaker arguments that are not particularly well thought out. Reasoning would mainly be either lack of experience, or just going on gut feeling that what someone has said in the past seems suspicious.

On the other hand, being scum means that you have to have a certain amount of thought behind what you say, as making a contradictory or just a random off-the-cuff statement could shine a light of suspicion on them, which obviously they want to avoid.

If a new player is scum, I also found from my real life experience from the game, they do prefer to wait for others to make motions against someone before being sheeping behind them and just agreeing with what others have said. This may not be true all the time, as a lot of new players do get warned about being too obvious about it, but it can happen when they cannot formulate their own attack in time.
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 04 2012 10:45 GMT
#306
Oats: I already answered those questions earlier in the thread.

On December 04 2012 10:57 Sylencia wrote:
1) This is my first game of Mafia on TL, I've played it a bit offline, so I'm interested to see how different it is in comparison.
2) While I don't want to be trying to lynch more active townies, I feel that lynching lurkers has a negative impact for us, as it really gives up a day where we could be cleaning up the town, and also reduces the number of days we have to live.
3) Pie, cheesecake is disgusting (most of the time)
Favourite colour is orange, though a good yellow has always had a special place in my heart too

Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 04 2012 10:54 GMT
#308
On December 04 2012 19:50 AxleGreaser wrote:
'No more Pity'



Just an anecdote here, I have tried the pity play before, and people find it more annoying than anything and it does get you lynched, so it's a wise decision you've made

(In the case I was in, I was bemoaning the fact I had gotten a vanilla with a vanilla power twice in one night - as this version gave everyone an extra power, but one of those powers was to gain no extra powers. The chance of getting that power was about 1/50 as well lol)
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 04 2012 11:19 GMT
#311
On December 04 2012 20:01 Oatsmaster wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2012 19:45 Sylencia wrote:
<snip>
I feel that lynching lurkers has a negative impact for us, as it really gives up a day where we could be cleaning up the town, and also reduces the number of days we have to live.
<snip>

Can you explain this more?


Sure, so my theory is this (and I guess the amount of activity kind of makes me feel more strongly about it):

When people talk, they will generally give off some sort of tell as to whether they're more likely to be good or not. Even if they don't, they have provided you with information. After time has passed, if everyone has read what everyone else has said, they should have plenty of information to go off. If we have 2 lurkers, those guys we have no information on. In addition, the chance they are a townie is so much higher than they would be mafia. Lynching a lurker on day 1 or maybe day 2 is essentially saying "I don't know, the information given too me is too confusing, let's just take a stab in the dark" - which is the easy way out, and also means that the mafia have already won by that point (not really, but they have a big advantage because they now know that they're in the clear for now). Also, unless the mafia team is some genius combination/afk, I highly doubt both mafia will remain silent during the discussions, meaning that you will be hearing an active mafia member talking and swaying people. The tricky part is catching them in the act.
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 04 2012 11:36 GMT
#313
At the moment, I'd prefer to keep it to myself. Not to withhold information, but not to muddy the water with my suspicions, and also to give the ones I'm watching a chance to possibly slip up.
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 05 2012 03:08 GMT
#508
On December 05 2012 09:46 Rad wrote:
@Sylencia

You seem seem to have a lot of insightful things to say, but are holding back. You do realize that you're not just here to solve everything on your own, you need to help us determine if you're town or not, and if you're town, you could help a lot by talking more. Maybe jump in and give some reads?


Sure thing, I wasn't planning on holding back for much longer, since I just wanted to get a few more posts in the thread before seeing if anything useful came from it. However, I'm going to have to make a longer post later since my lunch hour is about done and I only just managed to catch up with the thread.

For now, all I want to say is that I'm pretty sure Kickstart is with the town here. Firstly, he brings up good, valid points with his posts, there's justification behind what he says and he also has an attitude. This attitude that he is bringing into the game doesn't help him whatsoever, and really only promotes him to be voted. Why would you bring so much negative attention to yourself when you want others to feel like you should still hang around?

As I said before, more later but I am only going to be able to lurk around for the next 5 or so hours.
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 05 2012 10:03 GMT
#627
So pretty much at the moment, while catching up with all this drama that has happened in the past 5 or so hours, I've really become a lot more confused and a lot less sure who is actually scum and who is not.

Axle: Originally, I thought his acts of 'treat me nicely, I'm new' were actually quite suspicious, followed by really confusing posts which initially I believed were just posts to clog up the conversation and keep things disjointed. However, seems like as time goes on I understand what Axle is talking about less and less and now I don't even read the posts because it actually hurts my brain to try and understand the concepts he is talking about. Based off the responses you guys make to what he says, seems to be hard on you too. Basically, if I had no better read, I'd be picking Axle simply because I don't want to have to deal with working with an incomprehensible teammate.

Jidolboy: From what I have seen, all that has happened from him are a few answers and then a sudden vote. If I was to guess the way this game was going to go down, it would have the one person who is more active do the swaying, while the other lurks a bit more. As far as I can tell, Jidol has been the biggest lurker in the game so far, and then makes no effort in justifying what he has said. However, does that mean he's piggybacking onto CC, making him scum (assuming that Jidol is too)? Possibly, but probably not, if they were both scum, they wouldn't be picking out Oats I think, and instead piggyback onto the Kick vote.

Kick: This afternoon, I said that Kick is a townie because of his obnoxious behaviour. Rad and Oats continue the attack, and bring up rather relevant points, most of which I didn't consider (and also some points due to a past game which I didn't observe). However, at this point in time, I still believe that Kick is a townie, and so at this point in time I will not be voting for him.

yamato: More active than jidol, but still seems like lurking, and goes with the easy way out by voting Axle. Also noticed the disappearance after heat being applied on him but whether or not that's due to time zone, I'm not sure.

Now, between Rad and Oats, I feel like one is supporting the other, but at the same time, I also feel like one of them is doing so with the intention of swaying the other into believing they are on the same team. This round, I feel like I have to be voting for one or the other here. (Also, while I think that one or the other is scum, I do not think that both would be scum. They stand out far too much and have already essentially said "We are together in this fight", and that'd be some sick psychological tactics or some really newbie play if they were to be double scum)

In this case, I will be voting for Oats for two reasons: No lynch doesn't help us get any information. Worst case scenario means if we pick all townies to be lynched, we lose at the same rate as if we didn't lynch Day 1.

Between the two, Oats feels a lot more scummy to me. The main point in the end is the suspicion on yamato, followed by the 'scum read' on yamato, followed by a complete drop of the case against him, and then a complete dodge on answering why yamato was even suspected by him in the first place. Also, to me it seems like the case made when explaining why there was a vote for kickstart in the first place could also be applied to him.
1. At the time, yamato was still a suspect, so claims possible read
2. Notices no support for yamato's suspicion, backs out, and goes straight for Kickstart.

Naturally, I could be completely off track here, but I feel like the person who I should vote is for Oats.

##Vote Oatsmaster
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 06 2012 01:10 GMT
#751
Interesting start to my lunch hour (hence why all this lurking business, I'm either sleeping or working damn it, I can't help it )
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 06 2012 01:18 GMT
#758
Kickstart: Seems unlikely for Rad to be scum too, why would they both be rallying to get you lynched so hard together? If they were both scum, and one got picked off now, naturally suspicion falls on the other. It just seems like really a really bad play no one would make.
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 06 2012 01:29 GMT
#765
You realise if I was scum I would be pushing for Rad to be lynched harder than Oats, right? I already stated in my voting post that it was between Rad and Oats, and at that point I believe I could have made it 3-2-2 on the Kick-Oats-Rad voting. Why would I instead be pushing for a teammate to be killed instead, especially so early on?
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 06 2012 01:30 GMT
#766
(That was directed at yamato)
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 06 2012 02:44 GMT
#774
I saw CC as more of a townie than most other people, and his arguments against Oats was a major consideration point for my last vote. I don't see him making strong points about a fellow scum 24 hours into the game (might have actually been earlier than that, I'd have to check logs)
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 06 2012 23:17 GMT
#847
CC: My vote happened before you guys decided to vote on me. At the point in which I voted, I know there were some comments about how I was acting suspicious, but I didn't think that there would actually be votes against me - then while I was sleeping some of you voted then switched over later. I actually didn't even get a chance to defend myself at the time because the first chance I got to check the thread was after the first lynch too :\
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 06 2012 23:28 GMT
#849
Generally more of a lurker, but the times at which I can post are actually more limited than I thought. I generally have night time to post, but last night especially was fairly low in activity and I had no intention to start up anything as I was pretty tired so I went to bed pretty much right away.

I was able to post right now as I just got to work, and everything was still loading up.
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 06 2012 23:42 GMT
#853
yamato: Only because it frustrates me that I can't be more active, and it seems like it'll eventually be some sort of point used against me in the future.
Sylencia
Profile Joined November 2012
Australia1057 Posts
December 06 2012 23:50 GMT
#855
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