I've "given up" and won twice as scum. It wasn't playing against the win con so much as we had no clue we could win at all.Faraday wrote:^ I don't really know about that, I can't say I've ever seen that many players 'give up'
I like Magna's performance and all, but don't really like the losing cause award.
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ReaperCharlie wrote:For 2011:
NomMastinforBest Contribution to MD/Wikifor this.
Maybe premature as the thread hasn't really gotten a lot of replies yet. But it's already a great start towards changing sitewide cop-playing meta for the better.2nd Mastin. That was a brand new way to look at the cop role, and it really makes a lot of sense. I'd never thought of it that way, and it'd never been presented to me that way, either.Current Avatar: Kronk. Duh.-
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While I agree the information isn't groundbreaking it is one of the better written and presented thread that has been posted in MD lately from a game theory standpoint. And I know any number of players who would do well to read it and digest the contents.Mr. Flay wrote:I wouldn't say Mastin's post was all that revolutionary, considering how many responses were "well, yeah."
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I read that game, town did win. Cults are flaming bullshit and that's one of the reasons why. Setup was absurdly unbalanced. I mean among other things, you don't declare it a semi-open setup with known alignments then fail to mention that there's an OMG extra alignment that was outside the setup...Vi wrote:
1) Doesn't Town have to -win- to be considered?MagnaofIllusion wrote:The Town of Blackest Night MafiaforBest Performance Pro Town Team- Successfully lynched scum players for five straight Days (Days 1 to 5) and vigged two more scum players. The Town completely destroyed the known original 9 scum roles by the Dawn of Day 6 and lost a 5 player endgame due to a Cult that was unknown at game's start.
2) With as many power roles flying around as there were, one would hope they COULD do this.
Serial killers you can at least detect. Cults run screening - you never know they exist, and all the best players are always part of them, meaning that by day 3/4, the cult leader is virtually unlynchable, and due to being "non-noticeable town" (while the cult members are being real townie and running screening) he's damn near immune to the NK.
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Town didn't do much except Lynch scum D1 and then let the nightactions+set-up speculation roll the rest of the scumteam.
I was on that town team and I un-nom it.Fate is absurdly beautiful. 運命に弄ばれる
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The existence of town anti-cult roles can help. Steadfast townies (can't be culted) cult hunters, etc.GreyICE wrote: Serial killers you can at least detect. Cults run screening - you never know they exist, and all the best players are always part of them, meaning that by day 3/4, the cult leader is virtually unlynchable, and due to being "non-noticeable town" (while the cult members are being real townie and running screening) he's damn near immune to the NK.
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Anyway, my first nomination:
Parama's Multiple Personality Mafia
http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15977
Nominate: Best Pro-Town Performance
Nominate: Most Enjoyable Game
Nominate: (New Category) Most enjoyable poster: Fate
I think this about summarizes what happened:
(20 players, 5 scum 15 town, all scum same team)
Day 1:
Town vig
Scum Lynch
No NK
Day 2:
Scum Vig
Scum Lynch
Town death
Day 3:
Town lynch (scum lynch was governored)
Scum Vigged
Town death
Yep. That's right, by day 4, there was 1 scum left.
None of this was due to information from power roles. Just the best team of scumhunters I've ever played with. Even when the game was stalled, the thread maintained a sanity level somewhere on the order of ridiculously nuts.
Also, seriously read Fate's contributions to the game. They were fucking excellent, and I don't hand that praise out lightly. He fit flavorful writing and poetry into absolutely evil levels of observational power. He kept the scumteam constantly off guard, while we all enjoyed his posts (I don't think a single person wasn't saying "what will Fate post next?").
The last two scumteam members might deserve "best fight in support of a loosing cause" just for the effort they were putting into the day 4 plans when it was obvious where they were. Llamarble didn't go down without a fight, posting an incredible pro-town post after being informed he was vigged in case it was (another) gambit, and Magua replaced into a slot that was unsalvagable, and not only didn't whine about his predecessors, but did his damnedest to come off as town.
P.S.Read Fate's contributionsIf you don't, you have NO IDEA what you are missing.ShowThat which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil
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Oh my god.Nominate: (New Category) Most enjoyable poster: Fate
Absolutely not.
On the topic of new categories, whoever said they were in support of a Best Effort in a Losing Cause award, I'm in total agreement.-
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If there is going to be a strong push about bringing back an old category (Best Effort in a Losing Cause) then there is no way there is going to be a new category added just based on your man-crush.GreyICE wrote:Nominate: (New Category) Most enjoyable poster: Fate
And generally it's considered bad form to self-nominate (ie a member of Town nominating best Pro-Town performance)."I am a leaf on the wind ... watch how I soar!"
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Huh, I'll file that bad form stuff under things I care about.MagnaofIllusion wrote:
If there is going to be a strong push about bringing back an old category (Best Effort in a Losing Cause) then there is no way there is going to be a new category added just based on your man-crush.GreyICE wrote:Nominate: (New Category) Most enjoyable poster: Fate
And generally it's considered bad form to self-nominate (ie a member of Town nominating best Pro-Town performance).
If I think my fellow town members have done an outstanding, excellent job I'll nominate them. If I don't, I won't. It's a team game - occasionally one person carries the side, but that didn't happen here. My team did an outstanding job, yes. I like to think I contributed to it - but it wasn't me who was the MVP. Hard to say who was - there were so many things going wrong for the scum team from so many angles, really a team effort.
I enjoyed reading every one of Fate's posts in the thread. So I nommed for that, and recommend other people do too - it's not standard Fate at all (although what is "standard?").ShowThat which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil
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Oh my god.Nominate: (New Category) Most enjoyable poster: Fate
Absolutely not.
On the topic of new categories, whoever said they were in support of a Best Effort in a Losing Cause award, I'm in total agreement."I, too, would prefer to know the Xalxe of my demise." - Felissan, 2022
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Not sure how many nominations I'm allowed to make, but we need more mish mash
The favorite games and best players I've seen so far were...
KaleiÐoscøpe's Survivor - Mushroom Kingdom
Betch was the best player. Too bad he doesn't play here.
Blackberry's Deadly Game Show II
Not sure if any player deserves an award here. I think the game was mostly based on luck, but it was still fun to play.
yabbaguy's The Resistance (Blue Game)
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With all due respect, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.GreyICE wrote:
I read that game, town did win. Cults are flaming bullshit and that's one of the reasons why. Setup was absurdly unbalanced. I mean among other things, you don't declare it a semi-open setup with known alignments then fail to mention that there's an OMG extra alignment that was outside the setup...Vi wrote:
1) Doesn't Town have to -win- to be considered?MagnaofIllusion wrote:The Town of Blackest Night MafiaforBest Performance Pro Town Team- Successfully lynched scum players for five straight Days (Days 1 to 5) and vigged two more scum players. The Town completely destroyed the known original 9 scum roles by the Dawn of Day 6 and lost a 5 player endgame due to a Cult that was unknown at game's start.
2) With as many power roles flying around as there were, one would hope they COULD do this.
You have obviously never played a Mr. Flay game, if you think cults are BS.
The setup was NOT absurdly unbalanced, as you say; swingy != unbalanced.
You have obviously NOT read the game, as you claim; as town did NOT win.
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oops, I forgot...
StrangerCoug's The New Card Sharks
Great game and the fact that he's been doing it for almost a year shows that he's a great mod.
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