I did have you. I just couldn’t convince anyone else :smack:
Mistakes that a Town player would have been unlikely to make. Town players had it foremost in their minds who was confirmed since everyone else wasn’t. Your primary focus as Scum was to force a mislynch.
I agree. it helped us in that it removed 2 unconfirmed and 1 I strongly and wrongly (as was the norm at the beginning of this game) suspected.
I wasn’t going to say it out loud, but in the back of my mind, I was wondering if you didn’t remove him because he was perhaps the last Scum.
It’s like the person who goes inside when you’re playing hide and seek outside. Makes it really tough to find them…
Except it’s very easy to spot the low participators in forum mafia. There is a completely usable counter-strategy.
Yes, but it’s impossible to distinguish the low-volume scum from the low-volume Townies.
Lynch them all, and early. After a game or two of that, there won’t be such a thing as a low-volume townie. Unless they are new.
Instead, loud players who if they are scum will trip or trap themselves eventually are lynched on days 1 and 2.
I trusted my gut, but Red was a catalyst.
My experience wasn’t ruined either. I just know what my limits are as a player, and I try to avoid writing checks that my brain can’t cash. No mod and no other player is responsible for me not being able to get past my own blind spots. A better player would have been able to compartmentalize Zeriel and Mhaye better.
I had thought about asking for everyone to give me their own cliff notes on the pre-sub days, but we all had our hands full just trying to re-read eachother.
So the game devolves into lynch the lurker. Again, not fun, even if Town wins. It defeats the purpose of playing:
Scum lurker = Town win. Yawn.
Town lurker = Scum win. Yawn.
The point isn’t a matter of “fair” in a win-condition sense, but “fair” in a game-play sense. I wouldn’t want to waste my time with that, and I don’t expect anyone else to do so either. Winning isn’t the point.
If I wanted to play a game that wasn’t any fun, I’d go to mafiascum. 
It’s a party game. Of course maybe that’s why my Scum record is pathetic while my Town record is merely lousy. :dubious:
I suppose we should take a look at BSG. Have you been there lately?
I also have another game which is nearing finishing stages. I can probably slap it together for Monday if no one else has a game. Though I’m not sure how interested people would be in a Lewis Carroll game.
I’ve been working on a game too, based on characters inspired by the movie-that-was-inspired-by-actual-events, Flame and Citron, but it is just a baby of an idea and it has been ignored for over a month now. Pleo has been gracious enough to look at the setup with me but if any of you flat out refuse to play in a game of my creation, you could help me torture the addicts. For all of my bitching when it feels like my faction has been shafted, balancing is not necessarily my forte and I think the more people who vet such things the better.
Glad you did it. I was wondering if you would be around if I needed you. Would you have been there to move votes around 1:45 eastern? I was hoping so, but didn’t need it anyway.
Well played on the final Day, Red, by the way. Very smooth.
Quieting up, which was different than lurking was really part of my strategy near the end. I didn’t go silent, but I was finding that allowing some of the squabbling to go on between town was effective.
Well, you did have me, but I was so distracted with real life stuff, I still think I would have goofed about Cookies and Rysto if I was town.
Even though this is my best game yet, that was probably my lamest post ever. I still think we would have had an easier time if we killed you early, Ed.
Sign me up.
Actually, anyone who goes next should sign me up.
I can probably get one together after June, so perhaps I can mod a game after the next one(June, July, or August).
I guess I’ll concede your point. I’m a little crusty on the game right now since I’m way over represented in the times that I’ve been scum.
Also, I’m down to zero games playing so I’d be game for just about anything. Crosses fingers for VT role
Ed, is your game open or closed?
I don’t think that players gaming an objective criterion (like, “at least three posts each Day”, or whatever) is necessarily a problem, but if you want to avoid that, then the solution is to set some a priori criterion at the beginning of the game (before you know who, Town or Scum, will fall afoul of it) and then not tell the players what it is.
And I don’t know yet whether I’ll play in the next one. I need to get a lot of work accomplished this summer, and I don’t know yet how my schedule will fall out. I certainly won’t sign up unless there’s a week or two of downtime in between now and then.
I enjoy game balance challenges. I don’t promise to get it right, but I will do my best.
probably closed. No reason why it couldn’t be open though.
It’s slated to be very different from Colorless which was completely open and…well…colorless