# Lost Mafia/Werewolf/Psychopath **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 10, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337 "2009-06-10T15:43:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 110
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2181 "2009-07-31T05:28:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Does someone see a way i could have used the powers more effectively? I felt forced to do as I did. I think the only ways to use your powers effectively were to go all-out with one or the other: The false-doctor thing wouldn’t work unless you used it every Night, so if you were going to investigate at all, you should have always investigated (as you did). The exception might have been the night after the mass-claiming, since for that night, you wouldn’t gain any benefit from an investigation but might have been able to block one of **Meeko** ’s kills (if he had any), but IIRC, you made the kill that night since you thought **Shadow** might be blocked, right? ---
**Author:** ![Telcontar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Telcontar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telcontar)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2182 "2009-07-31T06:59:21Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think the only ways to use your powers effectively were to go all-out with one or the other: The false-doctor thing wouldn’t work unless you used it every Night, so if you were going to investigate at all, you should have always investigated (as you did). The exception might have been the night after the mass-claiming, since for that night, you wouldn’t gain any benefit from an investigation but might have been able to block one of **Meeko** ’s kills (if he had any), but IIRC, you made the kill that night since you thought **Shadow** might be blocked, right? Yes. My fear was that pedescribe would do what I would have done in his place; blocked the player i saw as most suspicious. if he’d hit zeriel or myself it would have sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2183 "2009-07-31T16:53:08Z")
Well I’m finally back, and – aw nuts. I can’t help but think that if I had been around the next-to-last Day I might have shifted from cardinal\_fang to, oh, somebody else. Good game, Scum. (And I’m aware of the irony that in the two games I won, I died early; in the game I survived to the end, I lost.) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2184 "2009-07-31T19:49:02Z")
By the way, I see Jimmy has not been active since the 29th. I guess he doesn’t even know he lost. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2185 "2009-07-31T20:04:59Z")
I think it has something to do with his bar exams. We should not have had the final Day coincide either with his exams or with 9 Av. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2186 "2009-08-01T04:39:35Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > By the way, I see Jimmy has not been active since the 29th. > > I guess he doesn’t even know he lost. Well, then, for his sake, I hope he passes the exam. Would add insult to injury. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2187 "2009-08-01T16:03:53Z")
I’ve been following the game unspoiled and would like to see the spoiled discussion. I registered and am waiting to be approved by an administrator, please and thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Klutz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captain_klutz/32/4993_2.png) [@Captain\_Klutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Klutz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2188 "2009-08-02T04:06:49Z")
> [@special\_ed](#): > > Here’s the link > > [Login Required | Mahaloth's Message Board](http://mahaloth.proboards.com/index.cgi)? Ummm, **Mahaloth** , I signed up for that board but my account was denied. Is this revenge for when I voted for you, or something? ---
**Author:** ![special\_ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@special\_ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special_ed)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2189 "2009-08-02T04:13:53Z")
> [@Captain\_Klutz](#): > > Ummm, **Mahaloth** , I signed up for that board but my account was denied. Is this revenge for when I voted for you, or something? I believe that Mahaloth is now denying everyone access to the boards. When I was allowed there (I didn’t play and was spoiled all the time) I saw boards for his now current game) Since that game has started, I think he’s probably denied everyone access. We can wait for him to figure out how to hide the member list ad how to make certain boards invisible. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2190 "2009-08-02T04:18:39Z")
> [@special\_ed](#): > > I believe that Mahaloth is now denying everyone access to the boards. > > When I was allowed there (I didn’t play and was spoiled all the time) I saw boards for his now current game) Since that game has started, I think he’s probably denied everyone access. > > We can wait for him to figure out how to hide the member list ad how to make certain boards invisible. Do you know how? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2191 "2009-08-02T16:03:44Z")
> [@Captain\_Klutz](#): > > Ummm, **Mahaloth** , I signed up for that board but my account was denied. Is this revenge for when I voted for you, or something? Yeah, I recommended he do that since as a person spoiled in both games I realized all people with accounts can see the registered users. So as not to allow people to find out who the scum are, I recommended he delete all accounts and then he wouldn’t even have to password protect the scum boards, just the spoiler board. But if there’s a way to hide the posters list, that would work just as well (with the scum board being password protected at this point). I’ve never had a reason to hide posters list on the board I admin, (which uses Invision currently and used to use VBulletin), so I’ve never looked to see if it can be done. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2192 "2009-08-02T16:39:14Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Do you know how? > > 😕 I would bet there would be a way, seeing as how SDMB itself blocks a LOT of features that other forums I go to have. Avatars, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2193 "2009-08-03T15:20:40Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > BigT, get in on the new Mafia game?? > You seemed to really understand me. … Now that I am in, on that game, it would be interesting to have someone who understands me, play the game. > and if we turn up being opposite teams. well :smack: in advance. Sorry, Meeko. I have my own problems to deal with, and was afraid to make the time commitment. > [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > Yeah, I recommended he do that since as a person spoiled in both games I realized all people with accounts can see the registered users. So as not to allow people to find out who the scum are, I recommended he delete all accounts and then he wouldn’t even have to password protect the scum boards, just the spoiler board. > > But if there’s a way to hide the posters list, that would work just as well (with the scum board being password protected at this point). I’ve never had a reason to hide posters list on the board I admin, (which uses Invision currently and used to use VBulletin), so I’ve never looked to see if it can be done. Hey! I’m not in either game, so I shouldn’t have been deleted! I guess I should have logged in before the new game started, huh? Or even got spoiled why Lost was ongoing, like **Hoopy**. Oh, well. Guess I’ll just have to register _again_ :D… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/2194 "2009-08-03T19:38:36Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Hey! I’m not in either game, so I shouldn’t have been deleted! I guess I should have logged in before the new game started, huh? Or even got spoiled why Lost was ongoing, like **Hoopy**. > > Oh, well. Guess I’ll just have to register _again_ :D… You know that was all said in a comedic tone, right? I added the smiley because I got paranoid you might not realize that. Should I have put an LOL after that first sentence? But to reiterate: I’m not playing in any games, and I don’t mind being spoiled in this ongoing game. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337.md?page=109)