Phew that was a mission, firstly a little introduction as to my experience with mafia:
I've completed 6 games on Mafia Scum including 4 newbies and 2 mini's, although most of the games were lost on the old forum.
I've also played more games than I can count on another gaming forum and am a moderator there although I do acknowledge the world of difference between mafia scum games and games on other forums which tend to be slightly more oriented around power roles.
For those of you who didn't read above my timezone is +2 and I'm generally very busy in the morning and evenings so my activity times are
usually
in the afternoon or after 8PM at night.
In terms of my actual posts it is unlikely I will post big detailed walls analyzing every post a person has made as I've seen enough of those types of cases to have very little faith in them (I will elaborate more on this when I am discussing the mute/workdawg exchange). That said this post will probably be fairly long as I have to catch up with 20 odd pages of content.
Anyway on to the game, a very interesting one I might add and one thing that I feel hasn't got enough attention is the fact that you lynched scum on day 1, this puts us in an extremely good position and those responsible deserve a pat on the back. It means we could potentially mis-lynch twice and the game will be reduced to 3 players before the scum even have a shot at victory.
On to player analysis (in the order they occur to me):
So far I believe he has played fairly town and the current cases on him aren't particularly valid. The whole early table argument was a complete waste of time, I don't have a problem with him hammering stels and the current trend of players accusing him of "jumping on the wagon to appear more town" is ridiculous because anyone with half a brain could see this would have the opposite effect.
The argument between him and workdawg seemed very town vs town to me, each player stretching for good reasoning but mostly coming up with rubbish. Even having said that I think mute had far better points as workdawg did some pretty idiotic things in the early stages of the game and mute was frankly quite justified in his suspicion.
Lastly I would like to mention that stels was quite vocal about getting mute lynched at one point fairly early on the wagon (I think he was third?) and in a manner that I don't see as bussing at all. It appeared to me that stels was more trying to make an opportunistic leap onto a townie.
I am perfectly willing to defend my above stance should be wish me to.
To finalize I find mute to be pro-town.
As I said above he has done some stupid things and said some things that haven't made all that much sense but in the end I am definitely getting a noob town read from him. Certain things he say just ring true with what I have come to expect from eager noob town in the past. Tunneling, paranoia, perceiving meaning where there is none to be found - and lately his posts have improved dramatically. I feel like he is doing well lately apart from his continued tunneling on mute. As someone said (sundry?) I also find the fact that stels buddied him mercilessly to be more of a town tell than a scum tell, it's just to fekking obvious man. I don't believe a player of stels caliber would be blatant about it.
Further more Dawg's twilight reaction to the stels hammer to me seems genuine. I feel like he honestly believed a mistake had been made.
To finalize I find WorkDawg to be pro-town.
I disagree with a lot of his stances, I disagree with a lot of the things he's said, but there is little question in my mind that he is newb town for many many reasons.
If nothing but his complete lack of certainty. You get a feel for these things.
To finalize I find Plague to be pro-town.
For the vast majority of the game I have found neuky to be town, I've liked his posts and agreed with many things he has said. He's come across very logical and well reasoned which is a stark contrast to some of the other players in this game. I didn't like the fact that he didn't vote for stels at the end of the last day but it does kind of fit with his slightly-reluctant to vote meta.
Also stels takes a stab at him right before he is lynched in what I believe was a desperate attempt to get a wagon started on someone else, agreeing with popular town opinion at the time.
I'm not absolutely certain about you, for the simple reason that you seem like the type of player who is smart enough to hide it well if you are scum but for now
I find neuky to be pro-town.
- To be continued (good stuff to follow) I have soccer practice. until later tonight.
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