Okay then.
SaintKerrigan - Sorry your last game had to turn out like this. It's part of the job. And I still insist that there was no pro-Town reason for doing that.
Equinox - Equinox would have made the game a lot weirder. The fixation on ckd pretty much cemented that. I'm still disappointed that you didn't recognize me from the wiki.
curiouskarmadog - First, that kind of fakehammer won't and shouldn't work in any game. I think that has been beaten into the ground. However, it's pretty undeniable at this point that you THOUGHT it would work, so that's not a big issue. What IS a big issue is the pity party you threw for yourself immediately afterward - "oh I'm so obviously scum now and the scum even went to great lengths to frame me by killing Equinox"--puh-leeze. Zach suggested the Equinox kill because she's (allegedly) unpredictable, and we knew that she WOULDN'T be Doc protected. Nobody cared that she was the only person voting you (for a random reason, no less!).
You ARE entitled to one "I told you so" per Townie for correctly calling the scum team in the position with the LEAST random accuracy in that situation. I'm still deciding if your vote on me was a good idea or not, considering if you had left it there for any significant length of time VP Baltar would have caught on to a lack of quickhammer there (especially if npau joined in voting for me) and then the game would have been over in the worst kind of way. (well, for me, anyway)
VP Baltar - somehow managed to be dubious and obvTown at the same time. I didn't particularly LIKE being manipulated in that quickhammer "trap", and he kept saying things that made me cringe a little, but he did most of the legwork for Town and was placed in a very convenient position to make the demand terms and command attention.
nopointactingup - Your scumdar needs an upgrade. For one, scum are unlikely to lie about their beliefs on the THEORY of the game. Even if I was scum, the way I was saying to play the game was optimal - hence why I thought VP Baltar was more likely Town and pushed on that until it was true. Once I found the Townie, the other two nonconfirmeds were scum; there's no point in listening to them too carefully. In addition, not all Town reads have to be stated with flashing lights around why. If you find unclarified Town reads to be scummy, you're going to wind up with undeserved scum reads on experienced players who don't deserve them.
sottyrulez - You and npau were victims of the Page 2 hammer; you didn't get a chance to do anything that didn't look like standing around doing nothing. By the time massclaim had come, you were out of luck and almost out of options. You made the right play by going after VP Baltar in spite of him being obvTown; this victory wouldn't have been possible without it.
Vi - I hate being scum. Not so much for moral reasons any more, but because every time it happens people are freshly reminded that they can't trust ANYTHING I SAY EVER. (The Scummy under my name is there for irony.) Standing by and watching VP Baltar ask ckd for his Vi-case in engrossing detail was difficult because I'm fairly sure VPB's motivation for asking for it stemmed partly from his (however justified) lack of confidence in being able to read me based on previous games.
I probably went a little overboard on grouchiness in regards to ckd, but etc.
The biggest blunder of the game was mine. I absolutely Did Not see ckd-Doc coming, so I didn't even bother asking him to claim, instead choosing my partner to go next. After npau claimed Vanilla, I fully expected VP Baltar to be the Doctor, and I decided (wisely under these incorrect assumptions)
not
try to go toe-to-toe with him. THAT's how Day 2 post-massclaim was just as strong as if Day 1 was more "normal".
While getting pseudo-manipulated by VP Baltar was rather annoying, I was hoping to stall until npau voted. Really I wasn't sure which would look less scummy between immediately voting sottyrulez and hoping for the best in LyLo or waiting for npau and hoping nobody saw what was up. The stakes were raised when ckd started voting me, so I don't think we won by any kind of large margin.
jasont1981 - The modding was invisible and just what this game needed. Your call on the fakehammer was 100% correct. My only recommendation is to place the player list in the topic post like 97% of the rest of the mods onsite.
Pie E7 - I'm still halfway through running the numbers - there are a lot of possibilities to consider - but really, this game HAS to be Town-sided compared to others. Short of lynching an unclaimed/uncounterclaimed power role D1, there is GUARANTEED to be
at least
one confirmed Townie in 5P LyLo. Scum either has to pony up one of their own to claim, or most of the Town has significantly BETTER odds of lynching scum D2 and possibly LyLo as well. If there are MULTIPLE confirmed innocents D2 (say the Cop gets an investigation or both the Cop and Doc are left alive) then the scum are in deep trouble if they DON'T counterclaim, so etc.. I feel the setup is really dominated by who gets which role.
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VP Baltar wrote: I just can't win no matter how hard I try.
I feel your pain.
Everything you say and do matters. People will respond in ways you may never see. May those responses be what you intend.