Newbie 1085 - A Mafia Named Town (Game Over!)

[Faraday]

Thomith

who is scum?

[Thomith]

well i cant answer that 100% yet but i fos no_xs because they havent voted yet and everyone else has and gentile because she said she FOS'd twisted spoon but kept the vote on me. I understand why i got voted but if you fos'd someone else i dont know why you would vote for a different person.
Although neither FOS is solid

[Faraday]

You're fos'ing Gent and keeping your vote on someone else though, are you not?

Also no_xs is V/la as indicated by the mod.

[Thomith]

Ok but i am not voting anyone? also i need to learn to read threads thoroughly, no seriously.

[Kadersalad]

I see we are rollin, not really seeing anything yet though that stands out. How bout we play....say....the question game. Everybody is invited.

What is an interesting personal trait about yourself?
(Quiet Sometimes, Loud on other occasions, meaning my posting frequency and size will vary on mood.)

What do you consider a Newb Player and what a professional/Mediocre player?
( For Me Newbs Hate, and Pro's fake, in other words Newbies are quick to respond to anything that rubbs them the wrong way and Pros Know how to lie and put on shows. )

Do you have certain policy in mafia, Such as "Lynch all Lurkers"
(I personally try not to vote for stupid people hastily, I have played a game where one guy kept saying things that made the big "I'm a Mafioso" Neon sign Grow bigger and bigger, yet in the end, he was a townie. Also, I'm iffy on bread crumbing claims.)

[Twistedspoon]

I see we are rollin, not really seeing anything yet though that stands out.

uh, what about the almost-lynch that happened on page 1?

[Thomith]

What is an interesting personal trait about yourself?
I am a complete idiot as proven on page 1 :3

What do you consider a Newb Player and what a professional/Mediocre player?
i consider a newb player as someone who makes stupid mistakes *cough* me *cough* and a professional player someone who purposely makes mistakes to throw the town off (if mafia)

Do you have certain policy in mafia, Such as "Lynch all Lurkers"
I think the answer is pretty obvious... (Lynch all SE's) but i kind of think that that isn't a good thing so i will try to change that.

[Faraday]

I see we are rollin, not really seeing anything yet though that stands out. How bout we play....say....the question game. Everybody is invited.

What do you feel any of those questions will add to scumhunting, or help more than the previous few pages? No comments on the quick wagon votes, no gut feelings, no nothing on the game so far? Same question as Thosmith, who is scum?

As for your questions, I feel they could derail the momentum of the game, so I'll put the answers in spoiler tags.

Spoiler:

Interesting personality trait? I'm very impulsive.

As for newb and good, newb is just new. I disagree with your characterisation of a good player as I said impulsive, I work on gut vibes and have found myself reasonably accurate, better than random anyway.

No catch all policy, read the Vi aricle I linked I agree with it, there's nothing that works. I like to lynch all scum if possible

If people

are

going to answer these questions could they at least make sure they're posting game relevant content too? Let's try not to get bogged down in fluff.

[Parama]

The 8 men present continue their discussions, if they can be called that. One of them points at the 9th man among them, who hasn't yet woken up. Hard to blame him, since they started their discussion in the wee hours of the morning.

Day 1 Votecount #2

[3] Twistedspoon

- Ghostlin, Kadersalad, Faraday

[2] Ghostlin

- Twistedspoon, Herodez

[0] Thomith

- gentileschi

[0] Herodez

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[0] Suki-chan14

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[0] no_xs

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[0] Kadersalad

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[0] gentileschi

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[0] Faraday

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Not Voting: no_xs, , Suki-chan14, Thomith

With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch. Deadline for Day 1 is 4/22/10 at 10 AM CST.

[Kadersalad]

I think these questions are relevant. Just trying to learn more about the players, figure out how they think, and see if they are too scared to post.

[Faraday]

While I don't think there's any harm learning about the players, these questions look like a way to replace scumhunting and in my experience random questions are useless like that (they just bog the thread down, and I have refused to answer questions to kickstart games in the past). Why do you think TS is most likely scum at this stage?

[Kadersalad]

I don't. It was a RVS decision. And no I'm not scumhunting. I'm asking simple questions to learn more about these players. They are not intended to pin-point scum. They are intended to perhaps help it in the future, and to get people posting just in case they don't have anything to contribute.

[Faraday]

I don't. It was a RVS decision. And no I'm not scumhunting.

Why aren't you scumhunting? Do you have

no

suspects what so ever?

[Kadersalad]

While I don't think there's any harm learning about the players, these questions look like a way to replace scumhunting and in my experience random questions are useless like that (they just bog the thread down, and I have refused to answer questions to kickstart games in the past). Why do you think TS is most likely scum at this stage?

I don't. It was a RVS decision. And no I'm not scumhunting.

So you are against kickstarting games, you don't like answering questions, and you want people to do the scumhunting for you. Sounds Fishy

No I have no suspects. I'm waiting for everybody to finish answering my questions Then I start scumhunting.

Off Topic Stuff: I hope you told your mom Happy Mother's Day today sonny

[Faraday]

While I don't think there's any harm learning about the players, these questions look like a way to replace scumhunting and in my experience random questions are useless like that (they just bog the thread down, and I have refused to answer questions to kickstart games in the past). Why do you think TS is most likely scum at this stage?

I don't. It was a RVS decision. And no I'm not scumhunting.

So you are against kickstarting games, you don't like answering questions, and you want people to do the scumhunting for you. Sounds Fishy

No I have no suspects. I'm waiting for everybody to finish answering my questions Then I start scumhunting.

This is silly. Why can't you scumhunt while you wait for people to answer the questions? This is another reason why answering questions is a poor way to kickstart the game, really from my point of view, people become wrapped up in the important of their own questions more so than needed.

I've literally no idea how you can read my posts, and think I'm against kickstarting games (specifically since I stated answering questions was done TO kickstart the game i.e. the opposite of what you said). Yes, I don't like answering pointless questions. There's a key difference there, I think. And I'm scumhunting just fine? What posts have mine have given you the impression I want people to do it for me? I think it's pretty clear I'm doing the opposite here.

Oh, and it sounds fishy? Well I suppose when it would the way you put it, but that's not really a fair portrayal of my actions

at all

.

If you're not taking positions on players I will ask you questions in an effort to get you to do so. This is scumhunting. I want you to scumhunt if your town and fake it if you're scum so I can get a read on you, this is not me asking you to scumhunt for me.

Off Topic Stuff: I hope you told your mom Happy Mother's Day today sonny

Of course. Also bought her chocolates and flowers.

[Faraday]

tl'dr for the above is where you are you getting :

So you are against kickstarting games, you don't like answering questions, and you want people to do the scumhunting for you. Sounds Fishy

[Suki-chan14]

Mod: Sorry, but I'm going to have to request a replacement. I'm going on a long V/LA and I thought I would be able to post, but it seems that my laptop had other ideas as it broke. I'm very sorry!

[Parama]

Jerako replaces Suki-chan14.

[Twistedspoon]

I want you to scumhunt if your town and fake it if you're scum so I can get a read on you, this is not me asking you to scumhunt for me.

this.

Off Topic Stuff: I hope you told your mom Happy Mother's Day today sonny

lol, tell me about it

anyways, welcome Jerako

[Jerako]

Thank you Twistedspoon. My first question is for you.

simply because l-2 and l-3 aren't as unlikely in rvs. l-1 is very rare in page 1 and once you get to someone who isn't randomly voting in rvs it looks like they must have another motive (i.e. scum)

Statistically, couldn't it be equally likely that they were

all

random? Why the emphasis on the last?

@Tomith

well i cant answer that 100% yet but i fos no_xs because they havent voted yet and everyone else has and gentile because she said she FOS'd twisted spoon but kept the vote on me.

I understand why i got voted but if you fos'd someone else i dont know why you would vote for a different person.

Although neither FOS is solid

I don't understand this post at all. I bolded the way I understand the way FoS is commonly used. What exactly is the problem? I also don't understand why one would vote for the different person.


@Kaderslad What if nobody else answers your questions? Isn't it important to always scumhunt? If not, at what point

are

you willing to drop the questions and analyze the content that has happened in the meantime?

[no_xs]

i'm back. i'll read all the posts and i'll try to post a vote tonight.

[Twistedspoon]

simply because l-2 and l-3 aren't as unlikely in rvs. l-1 is very rare in page 1 and once you get to someone who isn't randomly voting in rvs it looks like they must have another motive (i.e. scum)

Statistically, couldn't it be equally likely that they were

all

random? Why the emphasis on the last?

simply because if we all voted randomly it'd be more likely that a player got onto l-2 than l-1, since more votes would be needed to put a player on l-1.
l-1 is less common in RVS and therefore less random which means that it could have been an intentional L-1 hoping for a silly newbie to quickhammer afterwards.

fortunately it didn't get that far

[no_xs]

i'm really tired and i can't think right now.

vote:jerako

to make sure i don't put anyone at L-1 and to not miss RVS. sorry jerako, nothing personal.

i'm a newbie, it's my first game online. i played a little on marathon games last weekend , but i was kinda clumsy.

[Twistedspoon]

i'm a newbie, it's my first game online. i played a little on marathon games last weekend , but i was kinda clumsy.

no worries, we're all learning in our first newbie games

I was truly awful in my first newbie game (1050). I was town and rolefished and softclaimed doc from my first post xp
I made a very nice lylo case with 2 hours worth of iso though. Sadly an inactive townie handed scum the win in lylo. ah well

[Parama]

Herodez has requested replacement.