Mini 1198 - Marketplace Mafia - Game Over

[HellloooNewman]

Why did I lie? Like I said, I was completely and utterly frustrated. I have literally been battling this nickel and dime shit all day, and was tired of it. I couldn't figure it out, and I didn't care anymore. What can I say? I've been at work all day, and frustration from one bled onto the other. Not optimal, but thats what happened.

As far as my reads, I have Ethos and Seacore as town.
I have IceGuy as scum.

Everyone else is null to me.

I pmed about Oracle. You all will have it when I do.

I will try to figure out the missing $2.

[HellloooNewman]

Starting cash = $100.
Win of bid on oracle = $20 + $1 transaction fee. Remaining funds = $79.

Penalty for not having highest bid = $2. Remaining funds = $77.

Investment = $50. Remaining funds = $27.
Day two started and wage recievement = $90. Remaining funds = $117.
Bid on nightkill = $116 + $1 penatly fee. Remaning funds = $116
Recievement of investment = $75. Remaining funds = $191
Bid on nightkill = $190 + $1 fee.

It all adds up.

That is exactly how I had it in my head, but as Peregrine pointed out, the bolded part makes no sense.

[Midnight's Sorrow]

@Ethos:

I tried going in a little bit over the minimum at first with 55$- when that didn't go through I tried again with the rest of my money. Still didn't go through.

So I considered it a fail already and went for something less expensive :/

[Ethos]

@Ethos:I tried going in a little bit over the minimum at first with 55$- when that didn't go through I tried again with

the rest of my money.

Still didn't go through.So I considered it a fail already and went for something less expensive :/

Just confirming, by the rest you mean the rest of your remaining funds, ie. $100?

[Midnight's Sorrow]

Yes- 97$ on my second try.

[Ethos]

Lynch was reached as of Post #184, July 3rd, 2011 at 5:46 EST (site time).

Nothing submitted after this time was counted.

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length
1	Cop x 2	$50	$95	7 days

Unless I'm mistaken the above proves that cop was sold for $95 therefore I don't see how it's possible your bid of $97 lost it, care to explain please MS?

[Midnight's Sorrow]

97$ is what I have in my pm, and I checked to make sure- so no, I really don't know what to say to that honestly.

[HellloooNewman]

- Bulletproof x2
- Ability to be the only one who knows what the current bid is for all the auctions. It will be hidden from everyone else. But the high bidder will know if they are the high bidder x1
- Ability to know how much money someone has at the start of next night phase x3
- Watcher x1
- You can receive all of the abilities a player had when they died x1
- An addition to Night Kill. If you NK with this ability also in use, you can kill through one ability that would stop the kill from working x2
- Night-kill x 1


- Roleblocker x 3
- You can block kills on every other player, except on yourself. This cannot be blocked. If you are targeted for a NK when using this, no protection can save you. x1
- Every living player gets $200. x1
- You can freeze a players vote for a day on anyone (except for no lynch) x1


The last 4 abilities are the ones that will be delayed (in order) by kills/advertisements.

[Ghostlin]

Waait a minute, wait a minute.

Something does not click in a focused read through.

Ghost

- how in the

world

can you have gotten Cop, if that is the first thing I tired bidding for with all that I had, and was still outbid? You'd have to have had more then 100$ to have gotten it...

How do you respond?

/serious question

I placed only one bid that day and that was to clean out everything for Cop: $99+ $1 fee. I don't know honestly

why

the bid only ended up at $95 if you bid $97 before deadline. I can't explain that.

[Ghostlin]

MS: If you want to know the logic inheritent in that; $99 is the max anyone can bid for any ability and still be town. By placing a $99 bid on a commidity that both town and scum would want (if you get Cop, you have no need for II); we could tell if it was more likely in the person I knew was town's hands or scum hands.

[Midnight's Sorrow]

Wait... what?



I don't honestly know

why

the bid only ended up at $95 if you only bid $99+ $1 fee...



I'm honestly confused now.

Pre-Edit:

What are you talking about?

[Ghostlin]

Wait... what?



I don't honestly know

why

the bid only ended up at $95 if you only bid $99+ $1 fee...



I'm honestly confused now.

Pre-Edit:

What are you talking about?

Look above. That's my logic for bidding $99.

As to the confusion, that really makes two of us. I'm honestly confused why it went for $95 instead of $97.

Mod:

Was there an error? If you could fix my balance to show the correct amount, then maybe we can get this cleared up?

[Magua]

Mod: Was there an error? If you could fix my balance to show the correct amount, then maybe we can get this cleared up?

The ending bid of $95 for 1. Cop x 2 from D1 is correct.

[Magua]

Rules Clarification

I will publicly confirm or deny public information (is this vote count correct, is this bid price correct, etc).

I will not publicly confirm or deny private information, including information related to a player's bids. Feel free to ask me via PM.

In the case that moderator error is found, I will publicly state that a moderation error was made.

[HellloooNewman]

Okay, I went into my sent message box, and I got it covered. The irony of it all is, this all would have been avoided if I remembered my own bids.

I bid max $24 on oracle AND setup info. Totally forgot I did that. I was outbid, and I increased my bid to a max of $41. Still not the high bidder, so I gave up on that and took out a CD.

The rest is as previously stated.

[Ethos]

I know that this may sound highly selfish but I'm hoping we can move the targeted deadline backwards by 24 hours thereby aiming for 10 days worth of bonuses rather than 11 because I won't have any access to the internet for the next 24 hours and to be perfectly honest I am having severe doubts over HN being scum. Everyone needs to voice their opinions in regards to the Ghostlin and Midnight inconsistency because I myself am having massive issues making two cents of it all.

[hiphop]

unvote

while I read, what just happened.

[Ghostlin]

I know that this may sound highly selfish but I'm hoping we can move the targeted deadline backwards by 24 hours thereby aiming for 10 days worth of bonuses rather than 11 because I won't have any access to the internet for the next 24 hours and to be perfectly honest I am having severe doubts over HN being scum. Everyone needs to voice their opinions in regards to the Ghostlin and Midnight inconsistency because I myself am having massive issues making two cents of it all.

What inconsistency?

Either Midnight posted his bid

much

too late for it to matter, he's mistaken about the amount he bid, or he's lying about bidding (or what he bid for) Cop.

I don't see how me winning a bid when I bid $99+$1 on an auction means much of anything to alter the any of the three above since the mod just said the closing bid was correct.

[hiphop]

Here is a question Ms, at what time did you send in the bid, and did the mod send a pm back to you stating that you have 1 less dollar because you were outbid?

And frankly the only people that I trust right now are Seacore, Ethos, and ghost. I also do not believe Hn is most likely scum, but he is not a town read either.

[hiphop]

Rc- were you the one to bid $99 for nk day 1 as planned?

[Midnight's Sorrow]

@Ghostlin

Or maybe it's the fourth option of, he actually did bid for cop like he said, with the amount he said, and was fucked at the auction- royally.

As for how it might alter it- it wouldn't be to far out of the ordinary to wonder how you say you bidded 99$ and claim to hold said ability, when said ability was won with $95...

But then again, while it's not to far out there, it

does

seem to be pretty much near to the norm, so what the hay.

@Hiphop

If your asking for exact times- you can forget it. That's dangerously too close to Rule 6 for my comfort.

I will say though, that I waited a couple days(Early 30th to be exact) before I went for it, seeing as it seemingly had no one bidding on it at the time I sent it. It was only a matter of short moments that I got a reply back from the mod saying my first bid didn't take, so I tried again, and a short time later, and the same thing happened- so I tired going for something else, because third time's the charm was just not going to cut it.

And yes- I lost a dollar each time I bidded for that mofo.

Happy Spidey boy?

Cause I'm not >:/

[hiphop]

So what day did you bid the $97? If it was any day before the deadline, alarm bells should have gone off in your head.

Ghostlin why did you claim cop, when you still have a use remaining?

vote malpascp

[Midnight's Sorrow]

I just said I re-bid shortly after I got the pm stating I lost the bid the first time...

Also- alarm bells did tingle my insides: but since I had no idea at the time, if it was another Townie that bid much smarter then me, like Bidding 99$ straight out instead of playing the poke-it-with-a-stick-and-see-if-moves game, or a scum who bid way more then that to get it right off, I couldn't know till later.

But seeing as how shortly after I bid for the Governor auction, I lost inter-web connection for almost an entire week, I couldn't very well do anything about it till after I got back.

[hiphop]

I will not publicly confirm or deny private information, including information related to a player's bids. Feel free to ask me via PM.

Have you done this yet?

[Magua]

Vote Count 2.3

With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

HellloooNewman (4): malpascp, bobsnox, Seacore, Ghostlin
IceGuy (2): Ethos, HellloooNewman
malpascp (2): ChaosOmega, hiphop

Not voting (4): RedCoyote, PeregrineV, Midnight's Sorrow, IceGuy

Deadline is July 20th, at 1:00pm EST (site time).
Coutdown to deadline:

(expired on 2011-07-20 13:00:00)

Most Advertised Ability:

None

#	Name	Minimum Bid	Current Bid	Auction Length	Countdown
12	Auction Detective x 2	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
13	Commuter x 2	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
14	Doctor x 2	$40	$40	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
15	Love Potion x 1	$25	$25	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
16	Medium x 3	$25	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
17	Night-kill x 1	$50	$190	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)
18	Ninja x 4	$25	$25	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-09 13:00:00)
19	Roleblocker x 3	$50	-	5 days	(expired on 2011-07-11 13:00:00)
20	Tracker x 2	$10	$10	3 days	(expired on 2011-07-09 13:00:00)
21	Watcher x 1	$20	$20	7 days	(expired on 2011-07-13 13:00:00)

Spoiler: Abridged Ability Glossary

• Auction Detective (Day):
  Choose another player and a specific auction from the current Day. You will learn whether or not that player won that auction (if it has ended) or is the current highest bidder (if it is still running).
• Commuter (Personal):
  All Targeted abilities that target you will be roleblocked. However, you may not activate any of your Targeted abilities. Personal abilities may be activated and will continue to work as normal. If a Targeted ability that would return a result is used on you, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
• Doctor (Targeted):
  Choose another player. That player will be protected against a single Night-kill that targets them this Night.
• Love Potion (Targeted):
  Choose another player. That player will not be allowed to vote for a player of your choice (which may be you) during the next Day, chosen when you activate this power. This will be announced in-thread the first time your targeted player attempts to vote for the chosen player. This will not affect the lynch threshhold.
• Medium (Targeted):
  Choose another player. If that player dies during this Night, a Ghost Quicktopic will be provided that either of you may talk in at any time until the end of the following Day, at which time it will be closed. The dead player will not be given the results of any of their abilities for the Night they died, and they will not be given access to the Dead Quicktopic until the Ghost Quicktopic has closed.
• Night-kill (Targeted):
  Choose another player. That player will die unless protected.
• Ninja (Personal):
  You may choose which of your visits (if any) will appear on Tracker or Watcher reports and which will not.
• Roleblocker (Targeted):
  Choose another player. All of their Targeted abilities that they activated for that night, except for roleblocks, will fail. Personal abilities will continue to work. Abilities that were not activated are not affected. If the Targeted ability would return a result, it will instead return “Ability failed”.
• Tracker (Targeted):
  Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) that player visited during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.
• Watcher (Targeted):
  Choose another player. You will be informed which players (if any) visited that player during the Night, but not the nature of each visit. However, other abilities may modify the result of the report. A roleblocked ability activation is not considered a visit.