I typically just try to interact with people to gauge their reactions and figure out their thought processes. Also no, I have no more interesting topic than the current one going - but I could have a conversation about the current topic for days and I’d rather get to know all these people that are new to me instead
What do you normally do?
Hell, most of our games now allow strategy talk at night.
And as far as I can tell, our games average around 5-6x as long a day/night cycle as yours do–we have entire weeks for a single day/night cycle.
Which probably explains at least some of the play differences, as it allows for a lot more time for both refined analysis and for the scum to make mistakes (even by not posting, which is a kind of mistake all its own).
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Sorry, my mistake in my last post, it should read:
If 1 and 2 was the case, my guess is that this would happen:
I can see the second instance being sort of what you said (Episkey), but it still seems like a far shot for scum to try it since the Doc could have chosen right.
If it makes any difference, I followed what you were doing exactly.
The way our games are designed scum would lose almost every time following this strategy. Trust me, I have been on those scum teams.
You don’t want to know :D. But since you asked, here’s a link to a slow game, which at 3 lynches a week would still be considered pretty quick by your standards:
6/6 D-Day Vanilla Slow Game modded by the one and only Homer
I’m overjoyed to report that it has, and I finally get to be a villager again.
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For number 1: But a vanilla villager wouldn’t actually know if player B was Town or not, so it seems to me to be a foolish claim.
And taken in with your number 4, it seems weird that you’d trust player B from then on, just because a vanilla player said he was Town (heck, ESPECIALLY because a vanilla player said he was Town…because the Vanilla Town wouldn’t know).
I do see your point in if the mafia killed the vanilla town, though, because logic would conclude that they think he’s right and thus, player B looks Town…but what if player B really IS scum? Then scum would want to kill off the vanilla villager anyway, if only to make it look like player B (who is scum) look like Town.
Actually, I’d think scum would probably want to try killing them off either way.
See, that’s unheard of in our games.
If 1 and 2 was the case, my guess is that this would happen:
Or possibly:
The entire theory relies on the belief that the main goal of the mafia early is to kill the cop. There are instances where I’ve hear about mafia getting fancy and killing someone they KNOW isn’t cop just to get huge townie points, but I have not encountered them personally and so can’t really explain what happens next.
This is pretty much exactly how we handle it, though we also go a step further and try not to lynch anyone claimed to be investigated since we don’t know which cop is truthful
Can we stick with whatever you weirdos from 2+2 signed on with?
I’m going to have a hard enough time remembering 37 players. There’s no way I’m going to remember anyone’s straightdope username and the other board username that goes with it.
Interesting. While it’s almost too obvious, this fits my pattern of typical scum on Day one (following the action but staying quieter than usual, trying not to ruffle feathers) so well that I think it’s worth a vote at this point.
vote Dancecat
idk how that quote got messed up, sorry
But in a smaller game with maybe 4 or 5 scum, that is a big risk. Normally, the cop claim is pretty late in the game (assuming he/she isn’t about to be lynched) so there may be even less scum left.
NETA:
That is to say, the scum teams are generally a lot smaller than I am guessing they are on your boards. Typical games over here have 15-25 players and 3-5 scum. On the low end, if you trade 1 scum for 1 cop in a 3 scum game the scum just gave up 25% of their team town giving up maybe 5% of their team’s value. It’s a losing strategy.
Ah, so you already have one. All the more reason for me to keep it down.
Wow, I’ve never played a game which allowed players to talk in the thread at night. And having such long day/night cylcles is really, REALLY provillage, which (as you said) definitely changes optimal seer strategy among other things.
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Lol, knew you were hifi just because of this.
Kind of pisses me off that every game I’ve played with you you’ve been “randed” (whatever the hell that really means) wolf and I’ve always been villager. Hell, I’ve never, ever been a wolf in any game. Frustrating.
Crap this game is moving fast. I need to come back with my list of player I am not voting for toDay soon or the whole Day will pass me by and I will have only talked strategy.
VOTE COUNT
Through post #256
MykBot (2): Zeriel [21], TimeLady [24]
Dancecat (2): Idle Thoughts [72], Giraffe [250]
Giraffe (1): special ed [51]
NAF1138 (1): Dancecat [53]
Idle Thoughts (1): Krayz [86]*
TimeLady (1): sachertorte [211]
*make it bold and blue next time tho
Wait, are you hifi? I don’t see your name in the game you linked, but someone (gad i think) posted a player list with hifi = dance cat.
Um, I’ve been pretty loud and opinionated thus far. Not sure why you think I’m purposefully trying to blend in; I’m merely trying to keep my personal style of playing in check since it can be VERY abrasive and I’m new to this board.
Yes, I’m HiFi, but that name was unavailable on this board. Hugh Jass wasn’t even available either if you can believe that, so I had to come up with something.