Why'd you sign up to this game then?Adel wrote:also, I communicate exclusively by PM. I don't IM.
I dunno, it just seems pointless unless you just wanted to play a vanilla nightless game.
I like the Daytalk mechanic, with PM'sPrimate wrote:Why'd you sign up to this game then?Adel wrote:also, I communicate exclusively by PM. I don't IM.
I dunno, it just seems pointless unless you just wanted to play a vanilla nightless game.
a hypothetical situation or did this actually occur? Also could you please answer my question from Post 54?xyzzy wrote:JDodge, the whole point of private communication is that you can see things people don't normally show - if I'm asking you questions in a chat and you're taking 5 minutes to answer, I won't trust your answer.
I am doubtful that scum will contradict themselves in PMs/IMs any more than townies will. If someone contradicts themselves in a PM (not IM) then I'd say they're actually more likely to be townie.xyzzy wrote:It was a hypothetical.
If everyone talks to everyone, discrepencies in what people say will come up only among certain people, yes, and those may confuse - but every towniw will be talking to eight other townies who will be completely honest about their suspicions - there will be agreement, and those who don't agree will often be scum; basically, mass-daytalking will result in the same people being suspicious to many people, who are almost probably scum.
I may be wrong, but I assume you've never played chat mafia before. It is an different game, and the lack of forethought makes it really easy to read the alignments of people who've never played it before. So it's irritating that people don't have aim because it makes it much harder for me to read them for no reason other than they dislike the medium. PMing is mostly pretty useless in a vanilla game like this because there really isn't any reason to PM other people, as there is no information that is better pm'd than posted publicly in the thread. In games that have roles, you could give role info to people you trust who are attacking you to get them to lay off, stuff like that. But this is a vanilla game and all we have are opinions, and what's the point of sharing an opinion with only one person over the other eleven people?Adel wrote:Also, I recruited a couple of good, intelligent, active players, including NabNab whom I'm something like 0-5 against in games where we have different win conditions. I'm into this game, and its players, and I don't see why IM is so important to xyzzy.
Sarcastic?kabenon007 wrote:Fuck, did I miss the memo? I forgot this was open and therefore forgot, nay, didn't see that there were no power roles... shit, well, gotta re-think. My bad everyone... ignore the idiot.
Then you might want to consider taking the defunct AIM address out of your profile.Adel wrote:also, I communicate exclusively by PM. I don't IM.
Disciple Slayer wrote: Also,
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I agree with all JDodge's points against him.