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I'm not sure if we should discuss this. For example, if like three or four people all picked BFG but got rejected then probably one of the remaining people is the BFG. I don't know if revealing the BFG is really bad or not, but we shouldn't claim rejected characters unless we are willing to out random people. However, since there are two scum and only four town it's pretty much impossible for there to be an independent, so we don't have a lyncher. Although it's possible that the mod put in something weird like one of the scum has a roleblock that only works if he can guess the target's character.webby wrote:For the purposes of starting discussion - which two characters did you pick that weren't used? Mine were the BFG and Charlie's dad from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Silas wrote:Nobody who gets paid by the hour invents a cotton gin.
I assume there are no double voters or secret voters or anything like that then? So anyone can count votes and 4 votes is hammer on D1?roband wrote:Please do not post after the deadline, or after the majority vote (if you realise the vote was the hammer).
That is the norm for PyP games. (Pick your poison)Angua wrote:I found it interesting that BoomFrog seems to be assuming that everyone will have a power though. Is this the norm for turbo games?
Silas wrote:Nobody who gets paid by the hour invents a cotton gin.
Silas wrote:Nobody who gets paid by the hour invents a cotton gin.
I assume there are no double voters or secret voters or anything like that then? So anyone can count votes and 4 votes is hammer on D1?
BoomFrog wrote:Also with 4 town and 2 scum town better have some nice powers or a lot of powers. Half this game is going to be decided on people skillfully wielding their powers N1.
Actually, I could see going for a No Lynch today. Assuming we have relatively normal powers such as a cop, a doctor, a roleblocker, and a tracker or watcher, and scum have powers such as godfather and umm roleblocker? Anyway, scum undoubtedly only have one kill, so a No Lynch would give us an extra night to use our powers. I think it benefits town more then scum.
How normal are everyone's powers? Mines pretty damn normal (it's in the above list).
Ah, ok. Well, as already stated my role (and such power) is really only vaguely related to my character.BoomFrog wrote:That is the norm for PyP games. (Pick your poison)Angua wrote:I found it interesting that BoomFrog seems to be assuming that everyone will have a power though. Is this the norm for turbo games?
Angua wrote: Roband seems to be implying that there may be secret voting or something, and it's also interesting that we might not know everything about our own roles - we might even have extra votes without knowing it, which would make deciding who the hammer is difficult.
Angua wrote:What are insanities? If you try and do something, you might do the wrong thing?
BoomFrog wrote:Ok, here's some decent questions:
1) Do you think that the Mafia's characters will be scummy?
2) Does your power make sense with your character?
Silas wrote:Nobody who gets paid by the hour invents a cotton gin.
BoomFrog wrote:Yeah, the existence of "mind blowing powers" means the game is unpredictable enough that we should lynch. On a side note I'm pretty sure Angry Squirrel is town. Claiming such a power would be a very risky move as scum if it turned out town was actually pretty vanilla.
You wouldn't find that odd? If four or five players claimed very vanilla powers and one had a "mind blowing power". I would think the latter was a falseclaim made too early. On that note, I don't see any downside to everyone else saying how vanilla their powers are. It restricts scums possible falseclaims later and it can't reveal more info about town then has been done already by only half of us rating our vanillaness. And if indeed we have 5 vanilla powers besides AS, then I'd be interested in that fact for the above reasons.Why wouldn't it be a plausible claim that three of the town powers are vanilla-ish and the fourth is 'mindblowing'?
Silas wrote:Nobody who gets paid by the hour invents a cotton gin.
BoomFrog wrote:On that note, I don't see any downside to everyone else saying how vanilla their powers are. It restricts scums possible falseclaims later and it can't reveal more info about town then has been done already by only half of us rating our vanillaness. And if indeed we have 5 vanilla powers besides AS, then I'd be interested in that fact for the above reasons.
Except we've already revealed one haven't we? And they only have one kill so whats the harm in revealing more?AngrySquirrel wrote:Except for telling scum that "Hey, these are our most powerful pro-towners!" there's no downside no.
Silas wrote:Nobody who gets paid by the hour invents a cotton gin.
BoomFrog wrote:Why did you reveal yourself so casually then though if you were aware of the risks?
AngrySquirrel wrote:Because I'm already assuming I'm going to be the first one targeted by the scum-kill due to meta-reasons, therefore I have little to lose by claiming these things, seeing as I'm already dead as soon as night comes.
greenlover wrote:AngrySquirrel wrote:Because I'm already assuming I'm going to be the first one targeted by the scum-kill due to meta-reasons, therefore I have little to lose by claiming these things, seeing as I'm already dead as soon as night comes.
So instead you decided that the "I'm going to claim I have a powerful ability, but I'm going to discourage others from claiming the same" wine was a better alternative? Or am I missing something?
Because I'm not focusing on the action of "claiming", but instead the apparent inconsistency of your position. First you claimed not only having a non-vanilla but also powerful ability, but then you said that we shouldn't claim if our abilities are non-vanilla. That's inconsistent. And your justification for that inconsistency is that. . .you are going to be targeted anyway? That doesn't pan out. This doesn't seem scummy to me, since I don't see how the scum would benefit from this, but it still doesn't make any sense.AngrySquirrel wrote:Every claim ever made is wine. Boomfrog has made the claim that his power is fairly "normal", yet that is not something you're chosing to focus on? Why is that?
Of course not. I'm simply reading through your posts trying to clarify your arguments. Is there a problem with that?AngrySquirrel wrote:I have explained my reasons for doing what I do. If you disagree with me then fine, I am not telling anyone what to do, I am voicing my opinion and doing what I think will benefit town the most. Do you have a problem with that?
greenlover wrote:Because I'm not focusing on the action of "claiming", but instead the apparent inconsistency of your position. First you claimed not only having a non-vanilla but also powerful ability, but then you said that we shouldn't claim if our abilities are non-vanilla. That's inconsistent. And your justification for that inconsistency is that. . .you are going to be targeted anyway? That doesn't pan out. This doesn't seem scummy to me, since I don't see how the scum would benefit from this, but it still doesn't make any sense.AngrySquirrel wrote:Every claim ever made is wine. Boomfrog has made the claim that his power is fairly "normal", yet that is not something you're chosing to focus on? Why is that?
greenlover wrote:Of course not. I'm simply reading through your posts trying to clarify your arguments. Is there a problem with that?AngrySquirrel wrote:I have explained my reasons for doing what I do. If you disagree with me then fine, I am not telling anyone what to do, I am voicing my opinion and doing what I think will benefit town the most. Do you have a problem with that?
That is what I mean by a inconsistency. Normally, shouldn't the decisions you make on the individual level at least not be completely contrary to your thoughts on a general strategy?AngrySquirrel wrote:It's not inconsistent. Decisions I make on an individual level does not necessarily have to be the same as the thoughts I have on a general strategy.
AngrySquirrel wrote:No, no problem. You just seemed rather confrontational in your previous post.
That is a huge presumption. I know at least that I, Webby, and presumably PokerJoker11 have never played with you before. I don't know about greenlover, Angua but most of us don't know your meta. I take it that when you last played you were well known as an expert scum hunter and were nightkilled N1 every time?AngrySquirrel wrote:Because I'm already assuming I'm going to be the first one targeted by the scum-kill due to meta-reasons, therefore I have little to lose by claiming these things, seeing as I'm already dead as soon as night comes.
Silas wrote:Nobody who gets paid by the hour invents a cotton gin.
I think I can guess at the source of your confusion. Vanilla town is a townie who doesn't have any powers. A Vanilla power is a power that is relatively common such as cop, doctor, roleblocker, tracker, watcher. Something a little odd would be like gunsmith, paranoid gun owner, or lovers. Something mindblowing would probably be some power Roband made up just for this game. So how vanilla is your power?PokerJoker811 wrote:Now, for the issue of claiming (and apparently, Vanilla does not mean what I thought it did).
I trust the mod knew 4-2 would be LyLo in a normal setup and has designed things so that we have a decent chance to win even if we mislynch today. If we don't lynch we lose the most telling points of discussion that we would like to analyze tomorrow.PokerJoker811 wrote:Day 1 mislynch is effectively game over
Silas wrote:Nobody who gets paid by the hour invents a cotton gin.
BoomFrog wrote:I think I can guess at the source of your confusion. Vanilla town is a townie who doesn't have any powers. A Vanilla power is a power that is relatively common such as cop, doctor, roleblocker, tracker, watcher. Something a little odd would be like gunsmith, paranoid gun owner, or lovers. Something mindblowing would probably be some power Roband made up just for this game. So how vanilla is your power?PokerJoker811 wrote:Now, for the issue of claiming (and apparently, Vanilla does not mean what I thought it did).
Silas wrote:Nobody who gets paid by the hour invents a cotton gin.
greenlover wrote:That is what I mean by a inconsistency. Normally, shouldn't the decisions you make on the individual level at least not be completely contrary to your thoughts on a general strategy?AngrySquirrel wrote:It's not inconsistent. Decisions I make on an individual level does not necessarily have to be the same as the thoughts I have on a general strategy.
BoomFrog wrote:That is a huge presumption. I know at least that I, Webby, and presumably PokerJoker11 have never played with you before. I don't know about greenlover, Angua but most of us don't know your meta. I take it that when you last played you were well known as an expert scum hunter and were nightkilled N1 every time?AngrySquirrel wrote:Because I'm already assuming I'm going to be the first one targeted by the scum-kill due to meta-reasons, therefore I have little to lose by claiming these things, seeing as I'm already dead as soon as night comes.
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