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This post is going to be almost entirely meta. I'll talk about this specific game in a follow-up post.Thank you for admitting your falliability. That gives me hope that we can both continue to play this game.Adel wrote:My conclusion is that NabakovNabakov is more likely to include a Mafia roleblocker than a normal roleblocker.... oh, wait. I take that back. unvote
I'm not nearly as confident as I was before. I think I just talked myself into giving Korlash the benefit of the doubt.
Thou Shalt Not Outguess The Mod is one of the cardinal rules of playing Mafia; no matter what the tendency has been for Mini Normals or NabNab in the past, it has little to no bearing on what he did in THIS game. In fact, it's just as likely that a moderator will change his mind based on past experience, or try a new scenario, than always go with the same setups that have been used in the past. I hate Cop+Doc combos, but that doesn't mean I won't use them in my games from time to time, just to avoid being metagamed. One of the players in another ongoing game right now is trying to utilize something I said in Mafia Discussion to prove something about the setup of that game; I've often argued EXACTLY the opposite in public of what I've done in secret (but not always, obviously). This is why trying to reduce the game to statistics and number-crunching is so dangerous.
Why did I join this game, a Mini Normal, for the first time ever? It has nothing to do with NabNab offering me a choice role, which is the only thing I can think of would motivate Adel's insistence on knowing "why". It boils down to three simple things: the game needed a player for over two weeks, I respected the moderator, and I respected the playerlist (including Adel, who I have never played with). If you think I'm
afraid
of you, Adel, I'm 'afraid' you have another thing coming. I initially thought you yourself were alarmed by my presence in the game (when did Mini Normals become so newbie-heavy, anyway?) and trying to discredit/throw suspicion on me for totally meta reasons.Now, about the crypto thing. I find robust cryptography to be completely against the ethical standards of Mafia because it removes one of the primary dynamics of the game: consequences for your actions. If I, as a power role, can claim the results of every action at the beginning of each Day, and then breadcrumb by encryption key and/or reveal it all at the endgame, that is game-breaking. If I can provide my Mason/Mafia partner with my encryption key and engage in Daytime Talk, that is game-breaking. If I can provide the checksum of my role PM and therefore confirm my role as Townie to other townies, that is game-breaking. It doesn't matter that MOST uses for cryptography benefit the Town more than the Scum (for instance, the once-proposed Day-One-Mass-Claim-via-Blowfish-Algorithm),
it's no longer Mafia
(I've played Time Travel, Checkmate, Mafia Mafia, Unknown Role, RPS, Methodical Mafia and M.A.D., so saying "never" is probably foolish...)
. So you can refuse to decrypt the single instance here if you wish, but if you do it again, I'm gone from this game. That's a simple promise, not a threat.
