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Title: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 10, 2022, 07:29:10 pm
Elements Mafia

Started by Mastermind79, Continued by killsdazombies, Implosion, ddevans96, icecoldbro, Demagog, Purity_Riot, Dragoon1140, killsdazombies, 1world24, RavingRabbid, majofa, TStar, killsdazombies, mesaprotector, Regen2k9, Kuroaitou, whatifidogetcaught?, UnderneathTheLens, RootRanger, killsdazombies, Elbirn, ji412jo, dawn to dusk, eljoemo, Zawadx, killsdazombies, theelkspeaks, iancudorinmarian, DoubleCapitals, Dm, Espithel, killsdazombies, skyironsword, Submachine, Coffeeditto, mathman101, Naesala, Ginyu, Linkcat, Solaris, Ryli, killsdazombies, Naii_the_Baf, PlayerOa, rob77dp, serprex, and MasterWalks.

All of the players in the game are collectively referred to as the Town. The Town is split into two factions. There is a minority faction, the Mafia, and a majority faction, also called Town. The Mafia start the game with the knowledge of who the other members are, and their goal is to kill all of the Town. The Town start the game not knowing who is Mafia and who is a fellow Town, and their goal is to kill all of the Mafia.

The game is split into two phases. It generally starts with a Night Phase, in which the Mafia choose one member of the Town to kill. This is called the Nightkill. Also, players may use abilities given to them by their roles during this phase. Following each Night Phase is the Day Phase. During the day, the Town may choose to lynch one player through the use of votes. Each player gets one vote, and the person with the most votes at the end of the day is lynched and removed from the game. This cycle continues until either all of the Mafia are dead, or the number of Mafia is equal to or greater than the number of Town at the beginning of a Day Phase. This is called reaching parity.

How to determine who is Mafia and who is Town is entirely up to the players. As a Mafia your job is to blend into the Town and direct lynches onto them without giving yourself away. As Town your job is to use logic, reason, tells, intuition, and any abilities you may have to determine who the Mafia are and lynch them. An inactive Town will easily fall prey to the Mafia, so try to generate as much information as possible. In the game of Mafia you have two main weapons; your voice and your vote. Use them wisely.

Village - Town
Villager - Town member
Civ - Town member
Wolf - Mafia
Scum - Mafia
Alignment - Primary Role
Roll/Rand - Having roles assigned
PR/Power Role - Roles that are very useful to the town - usually includes cop and medic
Cop - A role that has the ability to determine the alignment of another player
Medic - A role that has the ability to protect other players from the Nightkill
Shoot - Use an ability that would kill another player
Claim/Roleclaim - Say that you have a specific role
Soft/Softclaim - Hint that you have a specific role
Civvy Central - A group of confirmed Town
Scummy - Acting like a mafia
Towny - Acting like a town member
Town-Cred/Town Points - Factors that make it more likely that a player is town
Read - How scummy or towny you think someone is
AI/NAI - Alignment Indicative/Non-Alignment Indicative
Wagon/Train - A player that has multiple votes on them
FoS/Finger of Suspicion - Declare that you suspect someone without voting them
Tunnel - Having tunnel vision on a single player
Pocket/Buddy - Townread someone to get them on your side
Thunderdome - Confront someone so as to narrow the possible lynch to the two involved players
Self-Preservation - Vote on the biggest other wagon when you are a leading wagon, this is not a read-based vote unless stated
Hammer - Casting the final vote needed for a lynch
Bus - Throw a fellow mafia member under the bus to get town-cred
OMGUS - Oh My God, U Suck - Voting on someone just because they voted on you
CFD/Chinese Fire Drill - At EoD, pile votes onto someone who has little to no votes
Breadcrumb - Give hints to your role or actions in a post that you can call back on to give credibility to your claim
Breadpost - Shitpost
EV - Expected Value
EoD/End of Day - The last hours before the end of the day phase
PoE/Process of Elimination - Rank the lynch priority of the remaining players to give the best chance of lynching mafia sooner. Goes from low to high priority.
Deep Wolf - A mafia high on the PoE.
Powerwolf - A mafia that openly influences the direction of the game.
LyLo/Lynch or Lose - Town must lynch correctly or they lose
MyLo/Mislynch and Lose - If town mislynches they lose, but if they No Lynch the game continues
EBWOP - Edit By Way Of Post - Making another post with changes instead of editing a previous one
RQS - Random Question Stage, a common way to start games where one player puts forth a survey of questions for every player to answer
WIFOM - Wine In Front Of Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9TRMQwMNnY) - The dilemma that arises from trying to predict whether someone has made an optimal but expected choice, or a suboptimal but unexpected one

General Mafia Rules

1. Do not post, chat, OR PM ANY revealing information if you have been killed/removed from this mafia. You are allowed one death post that contains no information or commentary about the players.
2. You are not allowed to edit or remove your post. Instead, EBWOP will take effect. This means you may post again with the correct fixes.
3. Directly quoting or providing proof in any way of any PM sent by the host will result in an instant modkill and referral to the FGO. Do not talk about any PMs that you have or have not been sent by the host.
4. You are not allowed to directly quote any PM sent by another player, unless you are quoting it to a fellow mafia member confirmed by the host.
5. You are not allowed to request to be modkilled in the thread. If you PM the host requesting to be modkilled, the host must find a substitute or modkill you at the end of the phase.
6. All players' actions should be primarily motivated by winning the game. Throwing the game or outing your teammates for no strategic value is not allowed.
7. Breadcrumbs are allowed. Coded messages and hiding text in your post are not allowed.
8. Any flaming/trolling will not be tolerated.
9. Players' actions should be motivated by this game's events solely. You may look at past mafias to determine behaviors for better reads, but keep personal affairs out of the game.
10. Anything said within the context of the game, including promises, bets, etc, stays within the game. Players can lie, deceive, and manipulate, (but not cheat) in any way they like. Slander within the context of the game is usually not meant as a personal offense.
11. Players are not allowed to use formatting to intentionally make text hard to read, hide information by editing media before or after posting, change the contents of their signature or personal text in an attempt to affect the game, directly edit quotes by other players other than to add their own clearly indicated commentary, impersonate the host, or direct anyone toward information that would affect the game that is outside the confines of the thread, pads provided by the host, or PMs sent by the host.
12. If a player is suspected of attempting to use a loophole in the specific wording of the rules to violate the spirit of the rules, this will be dealt with on a case by case basis.
*Any use of the word PM by the host or FGO refers to any method of communication outside of the game thread and the public blab chat.

Breaking any of the above rules may result in a modkill as determined by the host, or a ban from future mafias or forum games in general as determined by the Forum Game Organizer.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 10, 2022, 07:42:37 pm
The Serpent Beneath Mafia

Rules

1. The game begins at Night 0, then moves to Day 1. Night talk is allowed. Both Night and Day will be 48 hours long.
2. NightKill cannot be tracked. It can be blocked.
3. If a lynch is tied, a dice will be rolled publicly in blab chat to determine who is lynched. There must be a lynch. If there are no votes on any players by end of a Day phase, all players will be treated as tied.
4. 24 hour extensions are allowed. 24 hour reduction of phases is also allowed, but must be agreed by 75% of players rounded up.
5. There is no time extension caused by votes. The phase will end at exactly 3pm UTC. Any vote made after 3pm UTC will be Null.
6. Town wins when Alpharius is eliminated and cannot be replaced. Mafia wins when Omegon is eliminated and cannot be replaced.
7. If you do not post for 2 consecutive phases, you will be ModKilled at the beginning of the following phase.
8. Players can not target themselves.
9. Players may not communicate privately except amongst Mafia and dead players. The host may PM, and players may PM the host.
10. I reserve the right to make any changes to the rules. If changes are made, all players are notified publicly.

Roles
Mafia exclusive roles
Primarch Alpharius- Target a player. That player's role is revealed to you.
First Captain Ingo Pech- Target a player. If that player is targeted by Primarch or a Legionare, the result will be "Alpharius".

Town exclusive roles
Primarch Omegon- Target a player. That player's role is revealed to you.
First Captain Sheed Ranko- Target a player. That player can not be Night Killed this night.

Universal Role
Legionarie- Target a player. If that player targets another player, those targets are revealed to you.

Legionarie will only be used on a mafia team if sign ups surpass 12 players.

World Abilities
Harrowing
If Ingo Pech dies, a Harrowing is triggered. At the begining of the next Night Phase, a list of 50% of remaining alive players is posted, the identity of Omegon will be hidden among those names.
If Sheed Ranko dies, A Harrowing is triggered. At the begining of the next Day Phase, a list of 50% of remaining alive players is posted, the identity of Alpharius will be hidden among those names.

One of Many
If Alpharius is killed before Ingo Pech, Ingo Pech will lose their ability and gain Alpharius' ability. A Harrowing is triggered as if Ingo Pech had died.
If Omegon is killed before Sheed Ranko, Sheed Ranko will lose their ability and gain Omegons ability. A Harrowing is triggered as if Sheed Ranko had died.

Priority
Primarch
Ingo Pech
Sheed Ranko
Night Kill
Legionarie

Signups have ended.

Signups
1. Linkcat
2. Serprex
3. andretimpa
4. worldwideweb3
5. PlayerOa
6. Mobian
7. RootRanger
8. Kaempfer13
9. shockcannon
10. Wyand
11. marsmoons

Night 0
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-games/elements-mafia-79-by-masterwalks/msg1307548/#msg1307548

Day 1
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-games/elements-mafia-79-by-masterwalks/msg1307577/#msg1307577

Night 1
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-games/elements-mafia-79-by-masterwalks/msg1307685/#msg1307685

Day 2
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-games/elements-mafia-79-by-masterwalks/msg1307757/#msg1307757

Night 2
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-games/elements-mafia-79-by-masterwalks/msg1307842/#msg1307842
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 10, 2022, 07:50:30 pm
In.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: shockcannon on April 10, 2022, 10:39:20 pm
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Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 10, 2022, 11:03:24 pm
legionaire reveals who the target targeted and nothing else, right? then what does ingo pech change about that?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 10, 2022, 11:10:20 pm
legionaire reveals who the target targeted and nothing else, right? then what does ingo pech change about that?

It allows Pech the role of both Framer and Role block that can only block Legionarie.
By just being a Framer, only Omegon could see the framing making it pretty weak.
There's lore reasons as well.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 10, 2022, 11:34:12 pm
so normally legionaire would see the actual (player) name of the target and instead they see that name replaced with "Alpharius"?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 10, 2022, 11:46:42 pm
so normally legionaire would see the actual (player) name of the target and instead they see that name replaced with "Alpharius"?

Correct.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 11, 2022, 12:26:51 am
In
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 11, 2022, 01:24:37 am
In!
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 11, 2022, 11:16:07 pm
I'll try to avoid having another housing disaster to deal with. My landlord's been a bit of a bitch lately.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 11, 2022, 11:21:08 pm
Unless you get more than 12 players, there will only be 2 mafia players?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 12, 2022, 01:06:26 am
Unless you get more than 12 players, there will only be 2 mafia players?

Yes
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 13, 2022, 05:08:03 pm
in
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: worldwideweb3 on April 13, 2022, 06:36:33 pm
in
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: PlayerOa on April 13, 2022, 06:43:11 pm
Eh sure why not
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 15, 2022, 02:55:21 pm
Small swap-around on the rules. Changes have been made to the Harrowing world ability.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 15, 2022, 06:44:30 pm
What the hell. That #10 spot looks nice.

Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 17, 2022, 01:39:52 pm
In
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 17, 2022, 03:00:23 pm
Night 0 has ended.

Living Players
1. Linkcat
2. Serprex
3. andretimpa
4. worldwideweb3
5. PlayerOa
6. Mobian
7. RootRanger
8. Kaempfer13
9. shockcannon
10. Wyand
11. marsmoons

Alpharius and Omegon, twin demi-god Primarchs of the Alpha Legion, unrivaled in their warfare of deception and infiltration, joined the Arch Traitor Horus at the breakout of the Heresy.

However, the twins did not agree on how the conflict should come to end. Alpharius has been working closely with the Arch Traitor, feeding him inside information on the Imperium using listening posts and sleeper operatives. Omegon believes this to be unfair, and decides to take one of the listening posts and convert it to supply the Emporer of Mankind with inside information of the Traitors.
Omegon plans on doing the unthinkable to achieve this, he must infiltrate his own Legion.

Omegon calls on a trusted Legionarie, Sheed Ranko, and gives him a flask of Primarch blood. Omegon advises Sheed this should only be used if Omegon is to fall.

Alpharius, sensing his twins ambitions, calls on First Captain Ingo Pech, offering Ingo a flask of Primarch blood with the same instructions Omegon gave his first captain.

The first moves are being made. No one can tell who is being infiltrated and who is doing the infiltration. Let the Night shroud us, in the day we will find the who waves the false flag. We will find the Serpent Beneath.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 17, 2022, 03:46:07 pm
I invited marsmoons; this'll be their first game

@marsmoons: there are two scum, Alpharius & Ingo. Town has Omegon & Sheed. Omegon is effectively cop, Sheed is a doctor

Cop: role check, roles are alignment indicative in this ruleset so the check is also a scumcheck. It's possible for Ingo to cause a misread
Doctor: prevents Night Kill (NK) by attempting to protect who they believe is most likely to be Night Kill target

If you're scum then take your scum buddy's advice on night actions & lean into that innocent confused first timer persona. If you're town ask for what Omegon should be doing because regardless of role town wants to represent being Omegon to hide the true Omegon

Harrowing mechanic is neat, it effectively throws a wrench in everyone representing "I am Omegon"

Randomly reading town gives an ~81% correctness, or ~20% chance of signaling to scum you aren't Omegon

So for example a D2 Harrowing will have potential Omegon sreduced by 81% D1, 63% D2, then something like half the Harrowing candidates will be known non-Omegon. Assuming mislynch D1 then this rough scenario seems bad & quite possible:

s1
s2
t3
t4 dead
t5 dead
t6 dead
t7
t8
t9
x10 D1
x11 D2
x12 D2

(x means read scum as town, t means town, s means scum, D1/D2 is misread, dead is dead..)

So Harrowing would be a few players where about half of them are struck out which means about half of a few players to hide identity behind

This does scenario does involve scum making exploitable plays: only killing people with good reads. & I'm not sure Omegon can afford to give false reads to protect themselves (hard for them to know if they've been discovered, in which case they don't want to die without admitting to giving a scum read on a townie to throw off scum)

For Sheed it seems like the best target would be someone who town reads you, since that'll avoid protecting someone who has misread & thus become low priority for NK
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 17, 2022, 03:57:46 pm
re throws a wrench, I should've specified this is evaluating the idea that everyone should give random checks to hide Omegon giving their check. I also started with evaluation skipping Ingo landing misdirection, which only makes matters worse if Omegon outs themselves by aggressively scum reading Ingo's target
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 17, 2022, 05:04:11 pm
@MasterWalks Sheed can target same target each night?

If yes, then there's amusing plays where Omegon claims while being immune to Nightkill as long as Sheed lives
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 17, 2022, 06:12:54 pm
@MasterWalks Sheed can target same target each night?

If yes, then there's amusing plays where Omegon claims while being immune to Nightkill as long as Sheed lives

Yes
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 17, 2022, 06:54:20 pm
Right then, fake check spam seems bad. Only scum have info enough to deduce Omegon's identity from them while ideally Sheed has about as good a guess as scum
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: PlayerOa on April 17, 2022, 07:24:47 pm
I don't really feel like dwelling too much on the mechanics yet. I'll let serprex do his thing for now.

Rolled town, btw :)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 17, 2022, 09:48:40 pm
I invited marsmoons; this'll be their first game
-snip- I assume you wrote this part before reading your pm
Harrowing mechanic is neat, it effectively throws a wrench in everyone representing "I am Omegon"
If scum is caught. Note that everyone on some level wants to pretend to be Omegon, regardless of role (well, maybe not legionaires), though you shouldnt fakehardclaim it as town that is about to get lynched, as that might compell the true Omegon to claim and you are still getting lynched, with half of our "must survive"-team exposed.

Randomly reading town gives an ~81% correctness, or ~20% chance of signaling to scum you aren't Omegon

So for example a D2 Harrowing will have potential Omegon sreduced by 81% D1, 63% D2, then something like half the Harrowing candidates will be known non-Omegon. Assuming mislynch D1 then this rough scenario seems bad & quite possible:

s1
s2
t3
t4 dead
t5 dead
t6 dead
t7
t8
t9
x10 D1
x11 D2
x12 D2

(x means read scum as town, t means town, s means scum, D1/D2 is misread, dead is dead..)

So Harrowing would be a few players where about half of them are struck out which means about half of a few players to hide identity behind

This does scenario does involve scum making exploitable plays: only killing people with good reads. & I'm not sure Omegon can afford to give false reads to protect themselves (hard for them to know if they've been discovered, in which case they don't want to die without admitting to giving a scum read on a townie to throw off scum)

For Sheed it seems like the best target would be someone who town reads you, since that'll avoid protecting someone who has misread & thus become low priority for NK
While this faking the coprole so that the real cop can give his results in plain text without immediately getting exposed is being done in some mafias, it is completely useless if the cop gives fakeresults and as you mathed it relatively quickly narrows down the options when being straightforward. (mind you, scum also gets to rolecop players each night). Furthermore, I dont even trust half the players to participate in this strategy, let alone being convincing (which also includes a very risky fake red check occassionally).

As for your follow the cop suggestion (omegon claims right away and gets permadocced) its problem is that this makes it easier for the mafia framer to throw a wrench in, as their targeting gets more predictable and (more importantly) makes it so we have to win the day after sheed ranko dies, as omegon is both exposed and no longer saveable, on top of being instant gameover.

Sheed ranko cannot self target unfortunately, so yh he's gonna have to target his townreads (or omegon if exposed). Since we are less than 12 players, legionaires are confirmed town (in absence of fakeclaims ofc, but those are somewhat easily exposed) and people not targeting anyone are very likely town as well.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 17, 2022, 11:59:18 pm
Roles
Mafia exclusive roles
Primarch Alpharius- Target a player. That player's role is revealed to you.
First Captain Ingo Pech- Target a player. If that player is targeted by Primarch or a Legionare, the result will be "Alpharius".
Universal Role
Legionarie- Target a player. If that player targets another player, those targets are revealed to you.

@MasterWalks, correct me if I'm wrong, but the Legionarie doesn't reveal roles at all, right? So how would Ingo Pech's ability change the report for that role?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 18, 2022, 12:11:40 am
already asked that, it overwrites any results with the name "Alpharius", even if its nonsense. a legionaire immediately knows a framing occured on said target then.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 18, 2022, 12:17:36 am
already asked that, it overwrites any results with the name "Alpharius", even if its nonsense. a legionaire immediately knows a framing occured on said target then.

I totally missed that, thanks!
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 18, 2022, 12:58:50 am
My fake check is a red shockcannon.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: PlayerOa on April 18, 2022, 02:36:54 pm
We agree on instantly announcing a red check, right? At least at this stage of the game, as we get rid of 50% of the mafia and doc becomes cop?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 18, 2022, 03:49:19 pm
We agree on instantly announcing a red check, right? At least at this stage of the game, as we get rid of 50% of the mafia and doc becomes cop?
Not strictly and its always better to be subtle if its enough for the correct lynch. Also, for the time being mafia has a framer, which will result in a red check on their (town) target, so there is a margin of error, though it could be detected as false alarm by a legionaire with lucky targeting.

Additionally, after the first town harrowing claiming without getting both mafia lynched by the end of the day will lose the game instantly, as there will be no doc and the game ends with noone able to take the role of Omegon.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 18, 2022, 03:52:37 pm
Also, actually after omegons claim he just gets permadocced outside of fancy plays.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 18, 2022, 05:08:22 pm
I think it would be better to double check a claim that could be framed.

Also we should try to explore Legionnaires crossing streams to get potential liers, since scum didn't got any Legionnaires
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 18, 2022, 06:02:53 pm
Well I've read the rules twice and still haven't solved the game yet. Here are my current thoughts.

One question is whether Omegon should reveal; the other is whether Legionaries should reveal.

An immediate Omegon reveal is clearly a high-risk/high-reward play, as it grants us a trusted civ who can also report their results. The counterplay is for the mafia to use these results to try to find Sheed; once they do, as we all know, we only have 1 lynch left before it's game over. On that note, they might not want to report their results, as each legionarie they find will narrow the list of potential Sheeds.

Is there any point at all when Omegon should reveal? Perhaps if they find Ingo, it would be worth it. At this point, town would lynch Ingo which harrows Omegon, but that's fine because Omegon has revealed already. If the mafia find Sheed, then Alpharius gets harrowed, and Omegon potentially has enough information to find Alpharius.

If Omegon finds Alpharius, well, it's roughly 50/50 as to whether this is the true Alpharius or a framed civ, so I wouldn't chance it. Although, if a Legionaire gets an Alpharius result, should that result be revealed? It would enable Omegon to safely claim an Alpharius result if they happened to target Alpharius that night, but the more likely scenario is that Omegon targeted someone else. Thus, we would most likely reveal a Legionarie for no reason other than two confirm two civs (the Legionarie and their target). Of course, mafia can fake claim a Legionarie result, or even fake claim Omegon, and that can be counterclaimed, but who to trust... things get quite complicated quickly.

There's the option of every Legionarie revealing every target every round, and trying to find the scum because they wouldn't be able to produce true claims, but I think this is a fool's errand, as we would be equally likely to find and lynch our own power roles.

Should anyone reveal anything ever? Well, at minimum, we should probably go all-out at Lylo. But most likely, we won't know what that point is, as mafia can end the game unexpectedly by lynching the remaining power role.

For now, I'm leaning towards holding off on reveals tomorrow. Although if someone is about to be lynched, they should probably reveal whatever information they have. If a power role (Omegon/Sheed) is about to be lynched, they should probably let us know they're a power role so we can choose someone else? Only problem is that the scum can pull this same tactic, so I'm not sure.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 18, 2022, 06:43:15 pm
re double check, Ingo may decide to hard frame one person

re D1 Omegon hard claim if about to by lynched: while scum can use it to force an Omegon counterclaim, they're giving up half their numbers. More troublesome is whether to hard claim Sheed since Sheed can't self protect. In that situation there's plays where Sheed could claim Omegon, then Omegon knows that person is either scum or Sheed & can check them N1. So an Omegon hard claim D1 leaves scum having to guess whether it's actually Omegon or Sheed, half the time they'll get blocked, half the time they'll kill doc. Likely Alpharius targets Omegon claim N1 & NK lands somewhere else. Also troublesome: Ingo could target Sheed's Omegon claim to trick Omegon into Alpharius result on Sheed, tho then Alpharius can't check Sheed, so the two strategies are incompatible

Overall Sheed claiming Omegon D1 causes too much trouble to be worth making that play available to scum. So I don't think anyone besides Omegon can claim Omegon
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 18, 2022, 06:54:54 pm
Legionnaires crossing streams does sound like a legit place to start.... When would you want them to start revealing targets?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 18, 2022, 07:20:10 pm
given that the game revolves completely around the powerroles only for game end legionaires results are most of the time at least as usefull to scum as they are to town in the shortterm. Try crumbing if you can, but dont reveal unless you saw a framing happening or you or one of your targets is about to get lynched or someone claims targeting that conflicts with your observations. You also dont necessarily need to claim if one of your targets is about to get lynched, it really depends.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 18, 2022, 08:15:40 pm
I'm sick, I'll just trust Root/kaempfer to counter any dumb plans serp comes up with.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 18, 2022, 09:13:40 pm
Sheed frame line doesn't work because Legionare detects framing, so whenever Omecron check is known it can't be blocked

So Sheed claiming Omecron works, scum will either gamble the NK or verify Sheed identity before making next NK
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: shockcannon on April 18, 2022, 10:15:01 pm
I'm going to be honest, these rules are way too complicated for me. I'm just going to share my targets and results every night so y'all can do what you want with that.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 18, 2022, 10:52:03 pm
Id rather you didnt unless you found scum, a framing or have relevant results for someone about to get lynched, but you're probably gonna do what you do anyways.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 18, 2022, 11:22:38 pm
It'll be fun, if not for else just for reading all the trashtalk.  :silly:
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 18, 2022, 11:50:54 pm
I’m glad to hear another player finds the rules complicated. Thankfully, I can go back to reread as needed.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: shockcannon on April 19, 2022, 03:02:27 am
I just like pissing kaempf and Link off and making them thing I'm an idiot. Always works out in my favor.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 19, 2022, 04:51:11 am
Hey now, I never thought of you as an idiot. I just think you're ass at mafia, it's not the same thing.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 19, 2022, 03:00:16 pm
Day 1 has ended.

Living Players
1. Linkcat
2. Serprex
3. andretimpa
4. worldwideweb3
5. PlayerOa
6. Mobian
7. RootRanger
8. Kaempfer13
9. shockcannon
10. Wyand
11. marsmoons

With the first steps of the infiltration in motion, neither Alpharius nor Omegon are surprised to see their initial attempts at sabotage to be thwarted. They are equals after all. Omegon and Sheed are not surprised to find their vox communications have been cut almost immediately. Now they must communicate out loud and attempt to find their sabotuer. Omegon expects all effort from Alpharius and his first captain to spread misinformation and influence Omegon's Legionnaires into killing one of their own.The sun may rise, but the serpent is still beneath.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 19, 2022, 03:32:12 pm
Very nice, looks like we got 2 mostly confirmed mechanical reads this night! Though its not worth claiming them yet.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 19, 2022, 03:54:15 pm
I think it would be better to double check a claim that could be framed.

Also we should try to explore Legionnaires crossing streams to get potential liers, since scum didn't got any Legionnaires

Well, gotta get the ball rolling somehow. I could see this point being raised by scum, as it would bind Omegon for an extended amount of time (at least 2 phases) and perhaps not act on a red check.
Additionaly, crossing streams (meaning targeting the same person) is exactly not how to catch liars with this role. If we want someone to prove they are legionaire in a night after a claim, we should select a target for them and ask them to give a result, without the target indicating if and who they target (ingo pech is a problem though, as it gives an out). Otherwise having legionaires spread out tends to give more information. not that we could really coordinate that anyway (Correction: I can think of a way of working with signuplists and target x if you are legionaire. This method is strictly beneficial to scum).
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 19, 2022, 04:11:29 pm
Legionnaires crossing streams does sound like a legit place to start.... When would you want them to start revealing targets?
Same question goes to you. What even is the plan here? Have a designated target for every legionaire? That falls apart after the first claim.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 19, 2022, 04:24:35 pm
v: serprex

n+: RootRanger, kaempfer13, timpa, mobian
4 people & myself bothered to consider the ruleset & plan

n: shock
Waiting for his galaxy brain throw before I read him n+

n?: www3, oa, wyand, marsmoons
Not enough content to read

n-: Linkcat
Linkcat always refuses to cooperate with me & yet in mafia cast admitted I was reading things pretty well

There's an argument to NL given miss. First digit is population after phase with D1 lynch, second digit is population after phase with D1 no lynch. The latter gives a lynch D4. & with this time is more time for Omegon to confirm town. It's also important to end on a lynch instead of a NK given Harrowing

N0 99
D1 89
N1 78
D2 67
N2 56
D3 45
N3 34
D4 23


So here's the dumb plan for kaempfer or root to counter for Linkcat:

No Lynch (1) - serprex
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 19, 2022, 04:31:57 pm

3. If a lynch is tied, a dice will be rolled publicly in blab chat to determine who is lynched. There must be a lynch. If there are no votes on any players by end of a Day phase, all players will be treated as tied.

No need. its illegall
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 19, 2022, 04:33:53 pm
EBWOP: whoops off by one errors (the two hardest things in programming are variable naming, cache invalidation & off by one errors), we'd end with 2 on end of D4, so NL is bad

Linkcat (1) - serprex

Hoping to get better reads on my n? category, but for now I'll go with my scummiest read, since it seems Linkcat needs a have near death experience to inspire contribution

n+ reads will take time, Root/kae solving is NAI, but don't need votes needling them to post

edit: & oh right MasterWalks is sheeping my No No Lynch rules
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 19, 2022, 06:07:28 pm
Legionnaires crossing streams does sound like a legit place to start.... When would you want them to start revealing targets?
Same question goes to you. What even is the plan here? Have a designated target for every legionaire? That falls apart after the first claim.

Welp, we all know I'm a rookie at best, but I was thinking if 2 Leg target the same person, but report different results, that would give us an idea as to who to start looking at as being sus. If both return with the same target, we have confirmed townies.

But as I'm sitting here typing that, what stops scum from just repeating the townie claim? The plan does require some revision.

@MW, I suppose sharing screenshots of mod PMs are illegal, huh?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 19, 2022, 06:11:17 pm
Yup, Rule #3. Suppose that would make it too easy. Oh wells, back to the drawing board!
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 19, 2022, 06:11:32 pm
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 19, 2022, 06:14:50 pm
I think it would be better to double check a claim that could be framed.

Also we should try to explore Legionnaires crossing streams to get potential liers, since scum didn't got any Legionnaires

Well, gotta get the ball rolling somehow. I could see this point being raised by scum, as it would bind Omegon for an extended amount of time (at least 2 phases) and perhaps not act on a red check.
Additionaly, crossing streams (meaning targeting the same person) is exactly not how to catch liars with this role. If we want someone to prove they are legionaire in a night after a claim, we should select a target for them and ask them to give a result, without the target indicating if and who they target (ingo pech is a problem though, as it gives an out). Otherwise having legionaires spread out tends to give more information. not that we could really coordinate that anyway (Correction: I can think of a way of working with signuplists and target x if you are legionaire. This method is strictly beneficial to scum).

Exactly because we can't coordinate there will inevitably be targets that are the same. We can't do the same thing we did last game where we claim every round (it worked badly anyway), but it still leaves the door open for counterclaims.

Your idea seems more suited for a situation where someone claimed to be a Legionnaire to get out of a lynch. A point to think about that is whether we should even consider claiming Legionnaire in this situation to be a pro-town move, since claiming Legionnaire, getting out of a lynch and getting other townie lynched removes 2 people instead of 1 from the scum PoE for our power roles.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 19, 2022, 06:16:06 pm
You are a fan of your nautical rules, aren't you, Serprex?

Oh gods, I just realized with as much as they bicker, a SerpCat scum team would be really nasty for us.......
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 19, 2022, 06:18:24 pm
Welp, we all know I'm a rookie at best, but I was thinking if 2 Leg target the same person, but report different results, that would give us an idea as to who to start looking at as being sus. If both return with the same target, we have confirmed townies.

But as I'm sitting here typing that, what stops scum from just repeating the townie claim? The plan does require some revision.

Diverging counterclaims are a sign that something is suspicious. Agreeing claims could mean a lot of different things, not enough to confirm anyone.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 19, 2022, 06:32:37 pm
Legionnaires crossing streams does sound like a legit place to start.... When would you want them to start revealing targets?
Same question goes to you. What even is the plan here? Have a designated target for every legionaire? That falls apart after the first claim.

Welp, we all know I'm a rookie at best, but I was thinking if 2 Leg target the same person, but report different results, that would give us an idea as to who to start looking at as being sus. If both return with the same target, we have confirmed townies.

I already mentioned this earlier, but it seems you hadnt noticed. crosstreams arent required, the targeted person also already knows what they did :)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 19, 2022, 06:35:12 pm
You asked what my thought process was. I now fully agree it's a shit plan. Just not sure how to get started and find the scum.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 19, 2022, 06:47:11 pm
I'd like to get something else sorted out: the spelling of Legionare [sic]

I assume it's from https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Ur-legionaries

But that only shows the plural form. Meanwhile MW posted singular in rules
Quote
Primarch or a Legionare

But Google autocorrect is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaire_(film)

Which Mobian agrees with using plural Legionnaires, & timpa used Legionnaire

Meanwhile kaempfer goes with legionaire, though he's also used legionare

Root uses legionarie & legionaries

It's maddening
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 19, 2022, 06:47:43 pm
I already mentioned this earlier, but it seems you hadnt noticed. crosstreams arent required, the targeted person also already knows what they did :)

I somehow missed this while thinking. It doesn't exclude 2 scum buddies coordinating (one claiming to have targetted the other), but that sounds like a very risky play to me.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 19, 2022, 06:48:10 pm
EBWOP kaempf has not used "legionare"
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 19, 2022, 06:48:54 pm
I'd like to get something else sorted out: the spelling of Legionare [sic]

I assume it's from https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Ur-legionaries

But that only shows the plural form. Meanwhile MW posted singular in rules
Quote
Primarch or a Legionare

But Google autocorrect is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaire_(film)

Which Mobian agrees with using plural Legionnaires, & timpa used Legionnaire

Meanwhile kaempfer goes with legionaire, though he's also used legionare

Root uses legionarie & legionaries

It's maddening

How about Leg on air?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 19, 2022, 06:58:57 pm

Exactly because we can't coordinate there will inevitably be targets that are the same. We can't do the same thing we did last game where we claim every round (it worked badly anyway), but it still leaves the door open for counterclaims.

Your idea seems more suited for a situation where someone claimed to be a Legionnaire to get out of a lynch. A point to think about that is whether we should even consider claiming Legionnaire in this situation to be a pro-town move, since claiming Legionnaire, getting out of a lynch and getting other townie lynched removes 2 people instead of 1 from the scum PoE for our power roles.
But then it isnt really a strategy other than keeping your cards close to your chest until the right moment, so speculating on it seems sort of moot. Additionally, thats really not what it sounded like you wanted. 1) It sounded like you specifically wanted to force the scenario somehow
2) ignoring 1), whats the use of speculating on it early? I think if it even accomplished anything other that waste time, then it would help scum avoid a scenario where they get caught in a lie moreso then the opposite.
3) in case of a fakeclaim the claimed targets are witness enough (unless its the scumpartner but thats at least as risky).


The second point, assuming a misslynch necessarily follows an exonerating claim is a fallacy. assuming the claim is credible, the difference between claim and no claim are
1) all the information contained therein (including getting confirmed town and not directly relevant for a wincodition, as well as giving all the targets observed (if claimed, may choose to limit the information shared, but that reduces credibility))
2) replacing a misslynch with another lynch (statistically still town ofc, but i like any odds of hitting scum better than 0%)

without 2 its probably not worth it, but 2) matters far more than you think
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 19, 2022, 07:03:01 pm
@kae
I had somehow missed the target being a witness. With that my speculation basicaly amounts to Legionnaires should not holster.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 19, 2022, 07:09:29 pm
I'd like to get something else sorted out: the spelling of Legionare [sic]

I assume it's from https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Ur-legionaries

But that only shows the plural form. Meanwhile MW posted singular in rules
Quote
Primarch or a Legionare

But Google autocorrect is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaire_(film)

Which Mobian agrees with using plural Legionnaires, & timpa used Legionnaire

Meanwhile kaempfer goes with legionaire, though he's also used legionare

Root uses legionarie & legionaries

It's maddening

Linkcat told me I misspelled it when I sent him the initial write up. I changed it to whatever autocorrect told me.
Also, it's not connected to the lore link you sent. It's just the adjective to Alpha Legion.
https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Alpha_Legion
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 19, 2022, 07:13:38 pm
All in favor of Legionnaire?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 19, 2022, 07:16:29 pm
it seems its actually Legionary/Legionaries
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 19, 2022, 07:22:46 pm
legionary/legionaries (1) - serprex
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 19, 2022, 07:26:00 pm
as fun as it is to randomly lynch a legionary, it's strictly antitown

ingo pech (1) kaempfer13
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 19, 2022, 07:29:00 pm
I'll just call them legs for the rest of the game and call it a day
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 19, 2022, 07:36:05 pm
@Wyand, can you visit the wordwideweb3 and both start participating?
Actually, it may be a bit far, but if you can, consider getting the marsmoons on board as well.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 19, 2022, 09:10:10 pm
We definitely don't want legionaireys claiming their role, nor their targets, in most cases. If two legionniries reveal targets, and one legionayre conflicts with the other legionirre, we really don't have anything actionable to work with. Certainly one of the two players could be a true leggionaire, but the other is just as likely to be a power role as they are to be mafia (2 of each). Maybe consider this strategy if one of the civ power roles dies, but not any sooner.

If a leigenneir role claims to avoid being lynched, assuming we trust them, we would still be just as likely to redirect the lynch to a power role than to mafia. Most likely, it would just hit another leyginoir.

As for lengineers claiming leiginner just before being lynched, and revealing their targets - potentially that has utility? Better than just dying a vanilla lerringer.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: worldwideweb3 on April 19, 2022, 09:20:06 pm
i just checked in now, did i miss much
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 19, 2022, 09:21:45 pm
You missed everything. Kaempfer's about to solve the game.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: worldwideweb3 on April 19, 2022, 09:22:09 pm
ill read tomorrow and catch up tomo morning
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 19, 2022, 09:25:29 pm
your night action if applicable and you really mean that

You missed everything. Kaempfer's about to solve the game.
Yeah, I already figured out what all the roles are called.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 19, 2022, 09:29:17 pm
/me is awake
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 19, 2022, 11:58:10 pm
Legionnaire and Legionary are both correct.

Legionary is older, Legionnaire is more common.

Warhammer 40k does use Legionary, which I've never heard of until now.

When I informed MW that he misspelled Legionnaire, I also misspelled Legionnaire.

40k lore is very interesting, reminds me of when I read an entire lore book for regular Warhammer as a kid. Not a rabbit hole I have time to go down, though.

I still barely know what's happening in thread, I thought this was more important.

I'm feeling better and should be all good by the time I go into work tomorrow.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 20, 2022, 04:09:19 am
Important Update: I just remembered that I don't actually work tomorrow.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 20, 2022, 04:19:38 am
So is there no kill N0 or did we actually get a save off? Can't remember the last time that happened.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 20, 2022, 04:28:55 am
Btw I missed my night action again last night, sorry.

(Not sorry)

(Claiming now so ya'll don't try to lynch me for it later)

Anyway, I'll try to actually play tomorrow. I think someone voted me earlier, if they did then I'll do an OMGUS vote, otherwise just put my vote on serp I guess.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 20, 2022, 06:23:14 am
I'd expect the Doc managed to target the same person as the night kill, but it's a valid possibility that the mafia just didn't send in a target. In which case, well, the less active people would be a bit more likely to be mafia, so :/
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 20, 2022, 11:26:47 am
I think someone voted me earlier, if they did then I'll do an OMGUS vote, otherwise just put my vote on serp I guess.
Many ways lead to Rome.
People starting with s are my townreads though.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 20, 2022, 12:04:17 pm
lmao, here's the tally

Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex(1) - Linkcat
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 20, 2022, 01:12:06 pm
Another Important Update: They called me into work.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 20, 2022, 03:51:45 pm
Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (1) - Mobian
We have less than a day to figure out our first lynch, so I'mma throw a vote on an inactive player in hopes of sparking interest or conversation.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 20, 2022, 04:55:39 pm
Btw I missed my night action again last night, sorry.

(Not sorry)

(Claiming now so ya'll don't try to lynch me for it later)

Anyway, I'll try to actually play tomorrow. I think someone voted me earlier, if they did then I'll do an OMGUS vote, otherwise just put my vote on serp I guess.
Ironically, this makes you the mechanically correct lynch. Oh well, cant wait until you start producing content 2 hours from deadline.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 20, 2022, 04:56:40 pm
I will vote Kaempfer13
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 20, 2022, 05:05:39 pm
Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (1) - Mobian
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

cool. Reason?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 20, 2022, 05:59:39 pm
Been a while since we had a conga line in the votes
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 20, 2022, 07:32:20 pm
Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

it's actually kinda striking how quickly he reacted to getting voted. Lets see if it works again and I get my answer.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 20, 2022, 09:00:36 pm
Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (1) - Mobian
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

cool. Reason?
Hunch
Shot in the dark.
Warning: I once shot my own teammate at Paintball out of fear I was seeing the enemy.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 20, 2022, 09:04:49 pm
Ok, I dont want to invalidate your feelings right of the gate. Are you more active now or do you only have anything to say at phasebeginnings or upon getting voted?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: worldwideweb3 on April 20, 2022, 10:01:53 pm
ok well that was waste of a read, nothing exciting at all except for the spelling of legionaire
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 20, 2022, 10:20:13 pm
ok well that was waste of a read, nothing exciting at all except for the spelling of legionaire

If it was so exciting you could at least spell it correctly
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 20, 2022, 10:35:27 pm
I volunteer to help www.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYWI4YzNkZDYtZTgxZS00MzU4LWE3NjYtNzEwMDBmZWQzZmE4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDc2NjEyMw@@._V1_.jpg)

This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) might also be helpful.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 20, 2022, 11:07:11 pm
Hm, Oa and shock being so silent.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 20, 2022, 11:24:37 pm
I volunteer to help www.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYWI4YzNkZDYtZTgxZS00MzU4LWE3NjYtNzEwMDBmZWQzZmE4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDc2NjEyMw@@._V1_.jpg)

This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) might also be helpful.

Except we are talking about Legionaries, as we have discussed at length.

Anyways for some actual content an ordered (but not really very strongly founded) readlist:

serprex
shockcannon
wyand
Rootranger
Linkcat
PlayerOa
worldwideweb3
andretimpa
Mobian
marsmoons

and for scale for my (lack of) confidence here's my scumread:
initially i just put my vote on marsmoons since it seemed to be the one case where a vote actually gets someone to participate on some level. It looks like I was right on that part, but while the vote is the strongest tool for making a stance, his reasoning is just about the bare minimum (and a bit hedgy, though i personally was never fond of that scumtell, especially in early stages). It kinda feels like he's playing for survival rather than actually solving.



Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 20, 2022, 11:59:03 pm
Ok, I dont want to invalidate your feelings right of the gate. Are you more active now or do you only have anything to say at phasebeginnings or upon getting voted?

I have 3 2 hours left in my day and still some things to do, so probably not. I will say that since apparently we did get a save N0, it was probably on someone obvious, so you, me, or Root. I'd like to lynch outside of those or one of the new players for now. Shock and w3 are always funny but we did both of those recently. Mobian was just last game. Oa would be sad but he kinda deserves it. So him, serp, and andre are who I'm looking at right now since I have no scumreads yet. Oh and turns out w3 was actually back in 75, so he's fine too. I'll just stay on serp for now because it would be the most personally satisfying.

(Now out of those please choose one that's not my mafia partner and I'll push with you thanks)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 20, 2022, 11:59:47 pm
Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (1) - Mobian
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

cool. Reason?
Hunch
Shot in the dark.
Warning: I once shot my own teammate at Paintball out of fear I was seeing the enemy.

I like this guy, can we keep him?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 21, 2022, 12:02:07 am
I volunteer to help www.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYWI4YzNkZDYtZTgxZS00MzU4LWE3NjYtNzEwMDBmZWQzZmE4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDc2NjEyMw@@._V1_.jpg)

This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) might also be helpful.

Except we are talking about Legionaries, as we have discussed at length.

Anyways for some actual content an ordered (but not really very strongly founded) readlist:

serprex
shockcannon
wyand
Rootranger
Linkcat
PlayerOa
worldwideweb3
andretimpa
Mobian
marsmoons

and for scale for my (lack of) confidence here's my scumread:
initially i just put my vote on marsmoons since it seemed to be the one case where a vote actually gets someone to participate on some level. It looks like I was right on that part, but while the vote is the strongest tool for making a stance, his reasoning is just about the bare minimum (and a bit hedgy, though i personally was never fond of that scumtell, especially in early stages). It kinda feels like he's playing for survival rather than actually solving.

On mobile I thought this post was from Wyand and he was actually hiding his power level this whole time. I'm kind of sad now.

Anyway, that's all from me right now. Linkcat out.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 21, 2022, 12:14:38 am
Linkcat already bussing his timpa scumbuddy D1 because timpa always gets voted LyLo
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 21, 2022, 12:16:34 am
@oa are you still on vacation? I don't know why we should be sad about lynching someone who's basking at the poolside in Italy. Is going on vacation no longer political career suicide?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 21, 2022, 12:20:20 am
Triple post about Rule of Three: it'd be amusing if Link decided to trick by invoking rule of three without a scumbuddy after I correctly called MasterWalks out on rule of three a couple mafias ago
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 21, 2022, 12:38:12 am
Rule of three?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 21, 2022, 12:42:29 am
Rule of three: given 3 scum reads, one of the three will be their buddy
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 21, 2022, 12:48:52 am
(even worse, scum tends to read everyone too town leaning. Linkcat claims to not have _any_ scum reads yet, instead oa/timpa/serp is just "who he's looking at")

@Linkcat: take a picture, it'll last longer
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 21, 2022, 01:16:37 am
Ok, I dont want to invalidate your feelings right of the gate. Are you more active now or do you only have anything to say at phasebeginnings or upon getting voted?

Newbie. Tredding slowly. There’s a lot to pick up on. … starting with player names and then the roles in mafia. I’m not about to solve anything. I need beginner’s luck on my side.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 21, 2022, 01:36:18 am
The only real mistakes you can make as a new player are being silent and wasting your role. Just keep posting and you'll be fine, doesn't really matter what it is as long as you talk.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 21, 2022, 01:37:04 am
Rule of three: given 3 scum reads, one of the three will be their buddy

I named 4 people and none of them are scumreads, checkmate.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 21, 2022, 01:39:02 am
I'd expect the Doc managed to target the same person as the night kill, but it's a valid possibility that the mafia just didn't send in a target. In which case, well, the less active people would be a bit more likely to be mafia, so :/

I think this is more common than actually getting a save on this forum.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 21, 2022, 01:42:27 am
-snip-
Oa would be sad but he kinda deserves it. So him, serp, and andre are who I'm looking at right now since I have no scumreads yet.
-snip-

Learn to count
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 21, 2022, 01:54:21 am
Oa would be sad but he kinda deserves it. So him, serp, and andre are who I'm looking at right now since I have no scumreads yet. Oh and turns out w3 was actually back in 75, so he's fine too. [...]

(Now out of those please choose one that's not my mafia partner and I'll push with you thanks)

LEARN TO READ
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 21, 2022, 01:58:29 am
Oh, I interpreted "he's fine too" as "he's not on my not-being-scumread-scum-list"
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 21, 2022, 02:05:29 am
So I just looked at some post history and this is actually embarrassing. Root has more content in his 4 posts than half the players. W3 at least claims to be following the thread, shock always ends up at least somewhat active later, and Oa has no excuse this time.

Put my vote on Oa, he had his chance.

Wyand, I was rooting for you but you're being beaten out by the other newbie right now.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 21, 2022, 02:08:55 am
Linkcat (1) - serprex
PlayerOa (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 21, 2022, 03:52:31 am
If mafia slept through their NK, then the inactives are more likely to be mafia. If mafia and the Doctor both targeted the same player, probably someone on the more active side, then the active players would be less likely to be mafia, so, same thing.

Linkcat (1) - serprex
PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

I would also be happy lynching shockcannon.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: PlayerOa on April 21, 2022, 06:03:07 am
@oa are you still on vacation? I don't know why we should be sad about lynching someone who's basking at the poolside in Italy. Is going on vacation no longer political career suicide?
Nope, well back home. I’m just confused as fck about the rules and how to play, lol.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 21, 2022, 06:47:16 am
Thoughts on who to lynch, or who not to? + if/when the Cop should ever reveal?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 10:16:45 am
24 hour extension (1) kaempfer13
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 12:01:16 pm
With how slow the game is moving I agree with this

24 hour extension (2) kaempfer13, andretimpa
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 12:05:07 pm
@oa are you still on vacation? I don't know why we should be sad about lynching someone who's basking at the poolside in Italy. Is going on vacation no longer political career suicide?
Nope, well back home. I’m just confused as fck about the rules and how to play, lol.

Use your skills (the results may will be useful later) and vote on who you think looks suspicious. It's not rocket science.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 12:39:12 pm
Inactive enough in the night to possibly miss sending the nightkill altogether: i think its absolutely save to exclude serprex and Mobian. i cannot believe rootranger would fail this hard on a mechanical level either.
The only ones that failed to check in in the night were w3 and marsmoons, yet Linkcat also managed to miss his night action somehow apparently. Even so, I believe the chance of both mafia members failing to place a nightkill is abyssmal, unless they fully expected the other one to cover that.
So i think it was a successful safe. Which for the general public simply means that one of the (presumably more active) players is town and only a singular trustworthy person knows who exactly that person is.

Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: worldwideweb3 on April 21, 2022, 12:44:45 pm
ty for targetting me then doc :P
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 12:54:45 pm
Inactive enough in the night to possibly miss sending the nightkill altogether: i think its absolutely save to exclude serprex and Mobian. i cannot believe rootranger would fail this hard on a mechanical level either.
The only ones that failed to check in in the night were w3 and marsmoons, yet Linkcat also managed to miss his night action somehow apparently. Even so, I believe the chance of both mafia members failing to place a nightkill is abyssmal, unless they fully expected the other one to cover that.
So i think it was a successful safe. Which for the general public simply means that one of the (presumably more active) players is town and only a singular trustworthy person knows who exactly that person is.

The only worlds where I see mafia forgetting a NK is if both players are inactive or they got confused about whether there was a NK during N0. Looking at the bottom posters, I don't actually buy any of them forgetting to send the kill. If they didn't know about N0 kills the mafia team is 2 among Wyand, Mobian, marsmoons (too unlikely to pursue right now imo).

Of course, there's always the galaxy brain play of 2 active players not sending the NK to make us look somewhere else for the rest of the game :sillyspin:
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 21, 2022, 01:10:30 pm
Inactive enough in the night to possibly miss sending the nightkill altogether: i think its absolutely save to exclude serprex and Mobian. i cannot believe rootranger would fail this hard on a mechanical level either.
The only ones that failed to check in in the night were w3 and marsmoons, yet Linkcat also managed to miss his night action somehow apparently. Even so, I believe the chance of both mafia members failing to place a nightkill is abyssmal, unless they fully expected the other one to cover that.
So i think it was a successful safe. Which for the general public simply means that one of the (presumably more active) players is town and only a singular trustworthy person knows who exactly that person is.

The only worlds where I see mafia forgetting a NK is if both players are inactive or they got confused about whether there was a NK during N0. Looking at the bottom posters, I don't actually buy any of them forgetting to send the kill. If they didn't know about N0 kills the mafia team is 2 among Wyand, Mobian, marsmoons (too unlikely to pursue right now imo).

Of course, there's always the galaxy brain play of 2 active players not sending the NK to make us look somewhere else for the rest of the game :sillyspin:

I'm sure they have access to a mafiapad with a direct line to the host if they needed to ask about NK mechanics. I refuse to believe any of the players are dense enough to not ask questions. I'm starting to agree that the doc got supremely lucky.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 21, 2022, 01:35:41 pm
1/9 are pretty good odds, & those odds are improved when accounting for good manners like not making first NK Wyand or marsmoons

@marsmoons: while it's important to push independently, in the end town needs to vote together to win. You're not going to build consensus on kaempfer13 based on "hunch". Notice how I haven't been able to get any consensus building on Linkcat despite my best efforts to build a case because in the end the group will never vote Linkcat D1 unless someone hard claims a scum check on him. Now that you're a leading wagon you're compelled to move your vote to Oa for self preservation. Oa should be voting on you for the same reason

Now, from my own perspective, I don't see town hitting scum D1 with only 6/11 votes. Unless we're buying this "lol doc can't hit saves here because #neverlucky" theory. So I don't think marsmoons/oa are it. There'd be more chance that the kaempfer13 vote is a lucky hit than scum letting themselves go this early. Unless Root is marsmoons' buddy. He'd recognize the Oa wagon as the most reasonable one to get behind

For now I'll try build wagons on two people waiting until the final hour to vote

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (1) - serprex
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 21, 2022, 01:45:27 pm
I'm dead right now, vote staying. If you guys need a hammer for extension I'll go for it.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 01:46:37 pm
I'll probably be busy around EOD, so will cast a vote now.

I'm okay with w3, Oa or shock being the lynch. w3 always plays the way he's playing and it always rubs me as scummy, I don't buy Oa's excuse that the rules are too complicated to even post and shock has done nothing the entire D1.

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (2) - serprex, andretimpa

About the rest of the players: Wyand and marsmoons get a pass for being noobs. I'm getting (n-) vibes from kae, but that's a tone read and my tone reads suck. Root and serp are town leans and I have no formed opinion on the rest.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 01:49:15 pm
in b4 serp invokes rule of 3 in my post  :sillyspin:
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 02:04:46 pm
rule of 3 only works if the poster is scum though (and even then, its basically the statistically most probable outcome, it doesnt improve odds much), so he has to use a scumread as a starting point.
I'll probably be busy around EOD, so will cast a vote now.

I'm okay with w3, Oa or shock being the lynch. w3 always plays the way he's playing and it always rubs me as scummy, I don't buy Oa's excuse that the rules are too complicated to even post and shock has done nothing the entire D1.

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (2) - serprex, andretimpa

About the rest of the players: Wyand and marsmoons get a pass for being noobs. I'm getting (n-) vibes from kae, but that's a tone read and my tone reads suck. Root and serp are town leans and I have no formed opinion on the rest.
If thats the way you feel, you should really be voting me. You're basically saying "I tend to wrongly assume that w3's default playstyle is scummy and he's exhibiting it so I'm voting him". If anything you should correct that bias, if thats a consistent thing.
I suppose I'm more detached than i usually am, since theres really not much to base a scumread on and I try not to tunnel on ridiculous things anymore. Incidentally, that probably does in fact resemble my scum playstyle, where i simply cant scumread people I would know to be town as easily anymore.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 02:09:31 pm
And i suppose I should finally explain my (dwindling) townread of shockcannon. he expressed readiness to broadcast every result he has, which is generally bad play, but suicide as scum. If he were to actually follow it through, it would be bad play regardless, but quickly reveal his alignement indicative role.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 02:19:04 pm
@kae my problem is that w3's default playstyle is to just do zero content posts
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 02:34:36 pm
well thats basically the same reason as to why killing of inactives is +ev, but its a point. in fact its basically the main reason why my vote isn't moving (other than some other things that werent disspelled, but really no biggies). Out of all the inactives marsmoons has the least potential to provide more then hunches.
Wyand and shockcannon are at least theoretically capable of posting a lot, w3 too, though he hasnt done that in a long time now, but i think he used to actually be good back when he cared (or maybe it was just his unwavering confidence).
That leaves Oa, who by selfadmission isnt using his time that he does have >:( Ok, i see why he's up for grabs, had a good gutfeeling about him though.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 02:41:27 pm
Reminder that theres 20 minutes left with only 3 out of 6 necessary votes for extension.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 21, 2022, 02:49:11 pm
Reminder there is 10 minutes left and a 3 way tie on lynching. If day phase ends at a tie, a dice will be rolled to determine the fate of the 3.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 02:52:07 pm
okay, I'll break the tie

PlayerOa (3) - Linkcat, RootRanger, andretimpa
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (1) - serprex
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 21, 2022, 02:55:35 pm
Damn, Timba. I was about to join you on the W3 train for the purpose of breaking the tie.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 21, 2022, 02:56:13 pm
Oh, neat, I woke up before the end of the round (PST timezone). I personally don't really mind ties on Day 1 if they're broken sensibly (the tiebreaking rule last game was crazy having lol). But I'm good with the Oa lynch too.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 21, 2022, 02:56:32 pm
EBWOP:
*Timpa
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 02:57:09 pm
You can still move.

I miss EOD madness :(
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 02:57:38 pm
I'm noticing that based on wagonomics, we must all be barking up the wrong tree. It would be incredibly easy to save a buddy with this votestanding, yet it doesnt look like any such attempt was made.
@timpa and whoever is online, got any convincing chinese fire brigade plans?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 21, 2022, 02:58:23 pm
Mobian switch to www3 or timpa & I'll follow & timpa will follow on www3 & kaempfer get off marsmoons
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 21, 2022, 02:58:48 pm
PlayerOa (3) - Linkcat, RootRanger, andretimpa
marsmoons (1) - kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (2) - serprex, Mobian
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 02:59:15 pm
We can try shock
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 02:59:23 pm
that was @kae
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 03:00:00 pm
@serp sure

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (1) - kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (3) - serprex, Mobian, andretimpa
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 03:00:22 pm
that timestamp
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 03:00:44 pm
too late unfortunately, but dont feel particularly great about voting shock anyways
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 03:01:40 pm
That's why we need EOD extension madness  >:(
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 21, 2022, 03:02:01 pm
Night 1 has ended.

Living Players
1. Linkcat
2. Serprex
3. andretimpa
4. worldwideweb3
5. PlayerOa
6. Mobian
7. RootRanger
8. Kaempfer13
9. shockcannon
10. Wyand
11. marsmoons

worldwideweb3 was infiltrated... By a bolt shell to the ribcage.

Omegon and his squad had regrouped after the initial boarding of the listening post. When all warriors were gathered, Omegons squad had grown from a 9 count kill team to 11. Knowing this could only mean one thing, Omegon ordered all the warriors to root out the 2 imposters. In the Alpha Legion, this is not as easy as announcing names or removing helmets, everyone is Alpharius, and everyone has gone through plastic surgery to look like the Primarch as closely as possible. Even going as far as having memories implanted and psychic barriers to prevent mind flaying by a psyker.

So a vote was held. The warriors voted based on gut instinct, hunches, or maybe unrecognizable battle damage on the armor.
By the end of the vote, the chosen warrior was lined up on the wall, and one of the brethren shot him in the chest with a bolt pistol. After removing the Progenoid Gland, something that would be fatal on a living Astartes, the identity of the Legionarie was finally made public. worldwideweb3, a trusted comms specialist to Omegons squad was dead. With Omegon frustrated and devastated by the death of an ally, Alpharius knew this was his chance to strike. Even Primarchs are more likely to falter during emotional extremes as seen with Ferrus Manus. The Serpent is still beneath.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 21, 2022, 03:03:28 pm
too late unfortunately, but dont feel particularly great about voting shock anyways

Rule specifically says "made after :00 timestamp. Timpas vote is legal
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 21, 2022, 03:03:37 pm
Well damn.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 21, 2022, 03:04:56 pm
too late unfortunately, but dont feel particularly great about voting shock anyways

Rule specifically says "made after :00 timestamp. Timpas vote is legal

That's how you properly hammer  :sillyspin:
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 03:07:19 pm
too late for the fire brigade i mean.

No flip? i mean no harrowing happened, so we know it wasnt one of the really important roles, but still.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 21, 2022, 03:12:23 pm
too late unfortunately, but dont feel particularly great about voting shock anyways

Rule specifically says "made after :00 timestamp. Timpas vote is legal

phew

Oa, step it up tomorrow, the rules are straight forward enough, there's 4 roles

Role check
Doctor
Framer (role check gets scum check, target check knows they've been blocked)
Target check

Where role check is alignment indicative. Then there's some rules so that role check is replaced by doctor/framer on death. & then Harrowing is just that when one side loses rolecheck/framer/doctor then a list of half the players which includes their opposing role checker will be posted
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 21, 2022, 03:17:05 pm
I feel terrible that innocent blood is on my hands... I was hoping that his low effort posts were scumoflage.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 21, 2022, 03:18:15 pm
Maybe one day w3 will learn to actually produce content Day 1 and not get dumpstered.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 03:20:07 pm
Maybe you will too
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 21, 2022, 03:32:09 pm
I'll have you know I had the third highest post count at EoD, mister.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: worldwideweb3 on April 21, 2022, 04:10:45 pm
oh, roles arent revealed upon death?

/me dies
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 21, 2022, 04:53:26 pm
I lived to see another day  ;D
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: shockcannon on April 21, 2022, 05:11:11 pm
bye bye www3 :)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 07:39:57 pm
Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex(1) - Linkcat

Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (1) - Mobian

Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (1) - Mobian
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

Linkcat (1) - serprex
PlayerOa (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

Linkcat (1) - serprex
PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (1) - serprex

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (2) - serprex, andretimpa

PlayerOa (3) - Linkcat, RootRanger, andretimpa
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (1) - serprex

PlayerOa (3) - Linkcat, RootRanger, andretimpa
marsmoons (1) - kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (2) - serprex, Mobian

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (1) - kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (3) - serprex, Mobian, andretimpa

Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 07:51:17 pm
timpa/oa, linkcat/oa definitely not w/w

I think wagonomics pretty much flip my reads upside down other than serp, he's still cool.

It doesnt really seem like any of the leading trains had a(n active) scumpartner.

Root has been pushing exclusively inactives which means at most 1 of them... Nevermind, useless.

Mobian seems a bit theatralic, but he also seemed eager to be part of the w3 train, which would have been unnecessary if he already knew the outcome.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 08:06:48 pm
abstainers were shock(expected), wyand, oa and w3 himself (couldnt even be arsed to selfpres).

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0a/53/50/0a5350ea95ccd6abed9c4c43856e697c.jpg)

At least 1 of you is town, probably 3 (not counting w3, he wont vote ever this game). Assuming all 3 are town, we are already down to  5 vs 2 before the nightkill, meaning 4/5 of us would need to be correct to accomplish anything at all if this keeps up.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: PlayerOa on April 21, 2022, 08:14:39 pm
Alright, maybe I should at least write down some sorts of thoughts.

 - I forgot deadline, lol. Glad my scum teammate saved my ass. /s
On that note, it would only make sense that a scum teammate would at the very least remind me of EoD when I was so close to getting lynched.

 - Who would I have voted? Obviously I'd self-preserve to save my own ass, although I'm not really contributing to town as of now. Not like www3 or marsmoons at that point were more useful than me, lol. Alive AWOL town > dead town

 - I misphrased earlier today. Rules aren't complicated at all. I just kinda struggle to make progress with this rule set. A slow learner in Mafia setups, you could say.

 - I suggest legionnaires or however you spell it (see? I actually read the thread) target people randomly as of now. At one point, once power role(s) get revealed, we should try to backtrack and catch people in their lies.

 - I'd advise against using town cop/doc on me. I do realize that I'm practically useless to town at this point, dead or alive. Town's better off you guys going elsewhere.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: PlayerOa on April 21, 2022, 08:17:33 pm
w3, Wyand, marsmoons and me inactive and liable to forget to send in NK... Better odds than doc saving? Can't really reject the possibility. Team being exactly Wyand and marsmoons is hella unlikely, though. Are there more inactives that I forgot?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 21, 2022, 09:15:46 pm
timpa/oa, linkcat/oa definitely not w/w

I think wagonomics pretty much flip my reads upside down other than serp, he's still cool.

It doesnt really seem like any of the leading trains had a(n active) scumpartner.

Root has been pushing exclusively inactives which means at most 1 of them... Nevermind, useless.

Mobian seems a bit theatralic, but he also seemed eager to be part of the w3 train, which would have been unnecessary if he already knew the outcome.

Theatric?! How DARE you, sir! I'd like to speak to your manager!

Alright, in all seriousness, I felt timpa made some good points on www3's lack of effort and/or interest in helping town, and I felt the risk of him be bad town vs actual scum was worth taking. Where as we didn't really have a read on Oa one way or another. Hopefully he becomes more active and helpful in determining who the two rats are, since the gamble did ultimately save his life.

THAT all said, if he DOES turn up to be scum, I'mma look SOOOOOOOOOOOO bad.... >.<
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 21, 2022, 09:37:29 pm
v: serprex

n+: RootRanger, kaempfer13, timpa, mobian
4 people & myself bothered to consider the ruleset & plan

n: shock
Waiting for his galaxy brain throw before I read him n+

n?: www3, oa, wyand, marsmoons
Not enough content to read

n-: Linkcat
Linkcat always refuses to cooperate with me & yet in mafia cast admitted I was reading things pretty well

There's an argument to NL given miss. First digit is population after phase with D1 lynch, second digit is population after phase with D1 no lynch. The latter gives a lynch D4. & with this time is more time for Omegon to confirm town. It's also important to end on a lynch instead of a NK given Harrowing

What do the n’s stand for? n+ n? n-
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 21, 2022, 09:41:02 pm
varying shades of neutral. he didnt have a real scumread then
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: shockcannon on April 21, 2022, 09:45:55 pm
We have pretty little info to go off right now. I'm just going to wait until the big roles start coming out.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 21, 2022, 10:06:37 pm
To explain further marsmoons, that's a reads list. Ideally more people would be posting them

The letters are v/n/w: villager, neutral, wolf

Then n+ is town-lean & n- wolf-lean

At this point the paranoia is creeping in & everyone seems pretty scummy

n+ marsmoons oa
n- root kae timpa
w link wyand shock mobian
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 21, 2022, 10:53:55 pm
serprex assessment seems to agree with my hunch:
n- kae

n+ serprex, mobian, oa
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 21, 2022, 11:07:34 pm
serprex assessment seems to agree with my hunch:
n- kae

n+ serprex, mobian

You intrigue me. I started a wagon on you, and you chose to retaliate against Kae rather than me. Most people are scum reading me (incorrectly, of course), but you seem to see at town-leaning. What is your thought process? What is it about Kae that has you on edge? Review his posts again, see if there's anything that specifically raises your guard when you see it. And then share that with the group.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 21, 2022, 11:09:52 pm
Also, we don't edit posts in this game. Instead, do a EBWOP post. (Edit By Way Of Posting)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 21, 2022, 11:11:54 pm
MW you said there won't be this much thinking. :D At least we are lucky we have these think-tanks (kae, serp).
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 21, 2022, 11:15:16 pm
serprex assessment seems to agree with my hunch:
n- kae

n+ serprex, mobian, oa

marsmoons, you are not allowed to edit posts. This is a warning.
If you made a mistake, please make another post and put EBWOP so we know it's an edit.

Original post was:
serprex assessment seems to agree with my hunch:
n- kae

n+ serprex, mobian,
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 22, 2022, 01:44:11 am
Unless shock actually makes a good play or something, MW being a competent host may be the most surprising thing that happens this game.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 22, 2022, 02:58:20 am
I think wagonomics pretty much flip my reads upside down other than serp, he's still cool.

It doesnt really seem like any of the leading trains had a(n active) scumpartner.

You're overestimating the amount of influence mafia has in a two mafia game. There are several possibilities, I'm looking at andre/marsmoons right now.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 22, 2022, 03:06:16 am
1/9 are pretty good odds, & those odds are improved when accounting for good manners like not making first NK Wyand or marsmoons

@marsmoons: while it's important to push independently, in the end town needs to vote together to win. You're not going to build consensus on kaempfer13 based on "hunch". Notice how I haven't been able to get any consensus building on Linkcat despite my best efforts to build a case because in the end the group will never vote Linkcat D1 unless someone hard claims a scum check on him. Now that you're a leading wagon you're compelled to move your vote to Oa for self preservation. Oa should be voting on you for the same reason

Now, from my own perspective, I don't see town hitting scum D1 with only 6/11 votes. Unless we're buying this "lol doc can't hit saves here because #neverlucky" theory. So I don't think marsmoons/oa are it. There'd be more chance that the kaempfer13 vote is a lucky hit than scum letting themselves go this early. Unless Root is marsmoons' buddy. He'd recognize the Oa wagon as the most reasonable one to get behind

For now I'll try build wagons on two people waiting until the final hour to vote

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (1) - serprex

Serp pushing the new guy into consolidating wagons here when they're only at 2 votes is pretty gross.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 22, 2022, 10:20:20 am
I think wagonomics pretty much flip my reads upside down other than serp, he's still cool.

It doesnt really seem like any of the leading trains had a(n active) scumpartner.


You're overestimating the amount of influence mafia has in a two mafia game. There are several possibilities, I'm looking at andre/marsmoons right now.

marsmoons with andre/inactive works. Also, I cant quite get rid of the conspiracy theory that Mobian would be his partner, since Mobian gave a reason to vote him that was then immediately addressed by marsmoons allowing it to be a throwaway vote (and also seemed sort of coordinated to me). But Oa certainly has no active friends.

Do consider that the influence of town is also diminished with at least 2 townies not voting at all (though it should be said that none of the wagons even bothered selfpressing, (which itself speaks more for town(or sheer inactivity)), but makes saving them also more challenging).

marsmoons not selfpressing also contradicts my initial impression that he reacts to pressure.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 22, 2022, 01:24:00 pm
Got it. No editing posts.

Lingo help needed with meaning of:
Fake check
Red check
Selfpressing
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 22, 2022, 01:40:21 pm
checks are results of night actions (usually alignement or at least role indicative, in this case both)
red checks mean you found scum
of course lying is part of the game, so anyone can claim a fake check

selfpressing is when you vote to save your skin rather than your highest scumread (after you got voted up). Its against anyones wincondition to get lynched (with some exceptions, but even then you should vote as if it werent one). As town you are the only one you can truly know to be town, as scum survival is even more important, as you only have 1 more teammember to grab the win.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 22, 2022, 01:57:58 pm
But Oa certainly has no active friends.

Mobian, serprex. Are you even looking?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 22, 2022, 02:10:00 pm
-snip-
As town you are the only one you can truly know to be town, as scum survival is even more important, as you only have 1 more teammember to grab the win.
-snip-

False. Omegon getting a town read knows that their target is town. Similarly, Sheed should consider their target confirmed town when NK fails
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 22, 2022, 02:14:29 pm
i oversimplified, since those roles need to try even harder to stay alive
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 22, 2022, 02:17:00 pm
But Oa certainly has no active friends.

Mobian, serprex. Are you even looking?
so much easier to get on marsmoon train though. Mobian couldnt do that, but look at his buildup, he was voicing a preference for another train after he considered it too late for said train and Oa was going down.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 22, 2022, 03:12:04 pm
Yeah, because mafia will always do the most transparent play possible to save a partner...
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 22, 2022, 03:18:38 pm
I explained that already, kaempfer. Www3 couldn't be bothered to try and contribute, which rubbed me the wrong way. I do regret that he was ultimately innocent, but with the info that was available then, I'd make the same play again.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 22, 2022, 03:25:53 pm
Yeah, because mafia will always do the most transparent play possible to save a partner...
I can see it for serprex, but he always was solidly in my townreads. Meanwhile Mobians (in mobian oa world) supposed play would be the worst of both worlds. He doesnt think he can save someone thats about to flip red, yet expresses intent to vote the counterwagon.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 22, 2022, 04:20:55 pm
To prove my innocence, I would request Onegon and another leg target me this night.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 22, 2022, 04:23:10 pm
EBWOP:

To prove my innocence, I would request Omegon and another leg target me this night.
Modify message
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 22, 2022, 04:25:40 pm
Nah, he's offering to save without looking desperate. It's a fine play. And imagine townreading serp this early.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 22, 2022, 04:30:07 pm
Omegon, onegai.
I dont think that would really be necessary. Actually, the only time that would be a good request to make is when you are actually scum and have a legionaire observe a framing happen, wasting an omegon check. A requested target just makes framing easier.
As town, as liberating as it may feel to be read as such, it wont get you any closer to the answer and you are no more at threat to get lynched than e.g. i am.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 22, 2022, 08:21:26 pm
I had a rough night of very little sleep and now have to head out tonight. I do want to review kae posts to explain my hunch but will not have time until tomorrow.
I’m still trying to keep up with day and night timings in this game. I believed Day was ending April 22 at 2pm UTC, but feed of comments doesn’t seem to mention us now being in night. So I have to ask, when do I next need to vote? I’m hoping I have time to review past posts and provide comments tomorrow ~ Saturday April 23.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 22, 2022, 08:31:41 pm
I have added links to the start of each phase on the first page. Each phase has a timer and is labeled with Day or Night phase
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 22, 2022, 08:37:55 pm
The thought crossed my mind that we could coordinate who Oregon should target, but as kae mentioned, the existence of a Framer kinda breaks this strat.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 22, 2022, 08:38:35 pm
Oh ffs auto correct, you guys know what I meant
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 22, 2022, 08:42:08 pm
The thought crossed my mind that we could coordinate who Oregon should target, but as kae mentioned, the existence of a Framer kinda breaks this strat.

You have died of dysentery.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 22, 2022, 08:44:16 pm
Actually, it would work to potentially find the Framer, since they can't target themselves.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 22, 2022, 09:47:49 pm
I mean the strat isn't totally garbage bc yeah the leggies could find the Framer, but the problem is that the Cop is targeting the same person too, and maybe the Doctor as well. So if you lynch the person you believe to be Framer, it could be our own PR. Best hope the Cop simply survives the dysentery long enough to reveal some useful info on like Day 3 or whenever.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 22, 2022, 10:01:07 pm
I think wagonomics pretty much flip my reads upside down other than serp, he's still cool.

It doesnt really seem like any of the leading trains had a(n active) scumpartner.


You're overestimating the amount of influence mafia has in a two mafia game. There are several possibilities, I'm looking at andre/marsmoons right now.

marsmoons with andre/inactive works. Also, I cant quite get rid of the conspiracy theory that Mobian would be his partner, since Mobian gave a reason to vote him that was then immediately addressed by marsmoons allowing it to be a throwaway vote (and also seemed sort of coordinated to me). But Oa certainly has no active friends.

Do consider that the influence of town is also diminished with at least 2 townies not voting at all (though it should be said that none of the wagons even bothered selfpressing, (which itself speaks more for town(or sheer inactivity)), but makes saving them also more challenging).

marsmoons not selfpressing also contradicts my initial impression that he reacts to pressure.

Before I head out for night, I can point out that when I read the above post from kaempfer in the voice of scum. It works. imo
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 22, 2022, 10:12:20 pm
Can't you read it in town?

Anyway what would my agenda in that post be? Clearly we are not partners and it was Linkcat that asked me to widen the scope to consider you scum (again), so that post only makes sense in scum if oa was my partner or i just want to appear town.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 22, 2022, 10:31:31 pm
Active members:

shockcannon(5) Wyand(6) worldwideweb3(6) PlayerOa(6) RootRanger(10) marsmoons(11) MasterWalks(13) andretimpa(24) Linkcat(27) serprex(27) Mobian(28) kaempfer13(45)

I dunno how ppl might think to hide their intentions.

- Are they trying to lurk? (shock, Oa)
- Are they trying to be moderately active to blend in? (Root, mars)
- Are they talking a lot? (andre, Link, serp, Mobian)
- Are they super active? (kae)

This is difficult.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 22, 2022, 10:33:01 pm
oops, almost edited

EBWOP Wyand (8)

with these posts
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 22, 2022, 10:38:20 pm
Top 2 townreads, top 2 scumreads. Go.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 22, 2022, 10:44:06 pm
other than shock these are more or less standard activities from the respective people. The standard is that scum is less active than usual, as they check their posts more often and also have a harder time fabricating reads they know to be wrong. thats just a tendency though.

@Linkcat
v
Oa
serp

scum
gun to the head Link and Root mostly by poe
would be surprised if true though especially them together.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 22, 2022, 10:54:44 pm
Top 2 townreads, top 2 scumreads. Go.

and the jargon means...?

townread means "I suspect these are town", and same goes for scumread as well?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 22, 2022, 10:55:59 pm
scum
gun to the head Link and Root mostly by poe

poe?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 22, 2022, 10:56:39 pm
Yes, and that question was only for you.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 22, 2022, 10:56:57 pm
There's a list of terms in the OP.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 22, 2022, 11:00:08 pm
Thanks, it seems I should rtfm. :D
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 22, 2022, 11:00:24 pm
surprisingly not directly explained in the glossary

x-read means reading someone as x

poe is process of elimination. exclude all options you think unlikely and see whats left.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 23, 2022, 12:03:58 am
Outta curiousity, has Shock ever been mafia?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 23, 2022, 12:16:13 am
mafia 75. He was also pretty silent then, but I also had him pinned from day1. So far all my day 1 reads of shock were correct, so Im somewhat unwilling to back away. Also kinda hard to see a partner for him, serp and link would certainly require him to shitpost more and a bunch of others were fairly ready to lynch him.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 23, 2022, 12:30:49 am
What about a shock/moons combo?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: shockcannon on April 23, 2022, 03:07:23 am
yes
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 23, 2022, 04:56:17 am
Does anyone have any interest in a 24 hr reduction of this night phase?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 23, 2022, 08:04:02 am
rn 6 hours 56 minutes remaining, how to reduce that by 24 hours? :D
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 23, 2022, 08:31:49 am
What about a shock/moons combo?
yes
S O L V E D  G A M E
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 23, 2022, 02:29:33 pm
Updating my readlist

n+: serp, Root
n-: Link, moons, kae, Oa
w: shock

The rest are still on n
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 23, 2022, 03:00:02 pm
Day 2 has ended.

Living Players
1. Linkcat
2. Serprex
3. andretimpa
4. worldwideweb3
5. PlayerOa
6. Mobian
7. RootRanger
8. Kaempfer13
9. shockcannon
10. Wyand
11. marsmoons

shockcannon found his armor's mag boots were sabotaged... After he stepped outside.

An enraged Omegon made all effort to gain an advantage over his twin and with haste. He remembered the early days of the Great Crusade and how Alpharius struggled infiltrating the Whit Scars due to the intricate designs they inlay into their armor making it all unique. Suspicious that Alpharius and his First Captain made unique and impossible to notice designs on their armor to identify themselves, he ordered everyone to trade their ceremite armor with each other randomly. Hopefully this will throw Alpharius off, maybe even trick him into killing one of his own.

The squad of 10 all tossed their armor into a pile. A servitor then mixed it all up, no one was allowed to observe. With the servitor finished with his duty, everyone grabbed up a set of armor and the arming servitors put it on. Omegon then split the squad up to continue the original mission of converting the listening post.

Intending to do some mechanical work on the targeting array, Shockcannon stepped outside onto the bare astroid where the listening post was located. He made it a single step before being swept away by solar winds. His mag boots didn't activate in time, nor did they activate at all.

Shockcannon flies into the void, but the Serpent is still beneath.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 23, 2022, 03:01:31 pm
Wow. Thanks for saving us that headache.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 23, 2022, 03:04:33 pm
Mafia making a clear indication that blocked NK was kaempfer?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 23, 2022, 03:09:27 pm
Why would they do that and how exactly does this indicate that (beyond them probably trying to kill an active player last time)?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 23, 2022, 03:09:53 pm
Imagine wasting a NK on shock
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 23, 2022, 03:11:12 pm
Why would they do that and how exactly does this indicate that (beyond them probably trying to kill an active player last time)?

They might think shock's "always target kaempf" meta makes it likely that he'd be Sheed
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 23, 2022, 03:19:30 pm
Why would they do that and how exactly does this indicate that (beyond them probably trying to kill an active player last time)?

They might think shock's "always target kaempf" meta makes it likely that he'd be Sheed

Looks kinda flimsy to me. It's not like kae isn't a priority NK target most of the time.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 23, 2022, 03:22:29 pm
If you didn't receive a PM with results, but feel that you should have, please let me know. I'm getting reports some got the PM and some didn't.
If you are a Legionarie, even if your target makes no target themselves, you should still see a PM.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 23, 2022, 03:58:07 pm
Updating my readlist

n+: serp, Root
n-: Link, moons, kae, Oa
w: shock

The rest are still on n

Imagine wasting a NK on shock

Imagine these posts made by scum!timpa directly around the nightkill (obv possible, but hilarious).
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 23, 2022, 04:05:03 pm
i need to see some towny things from Linkcat. So far all I've seen is arbitrary reasons to (not) vote someone clearly based on things not connected to alignement and rejecting townreads of people, keeping as many options open as possible. I know I have wrongly lynched you over sth like this in the past, but it still irks me.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 23, 2022, 04:19:56 pm
If you didn't receive a PM with results, but feel that you should have, please let me know. I'm getting reports some got the PM and some didn't.
If you are a Legionarie, even if your target makes no target themselves, you should still see a PM.

I have not received a PM.

Glad to avoid NK. I thought: if kaempf is truly scum, I’m the target for NK.

Now agreeing with kaempf and will watch Link.

[/quote] First Captain Sheed Ranko- Target a player. That player can not be Night Killed this night.
[/quote]

How does this play out? If mafia votes Sheed’s protected player, do they lose their vote or do they choose another?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 23, 2022, 04:31:32 pm
I have not received a PM. Please keep these things private, as they are not supposed to be part of the game. Now i cant unsee that you're most probably town (or Alpharius)

Glad to avoid NK. I thought: if kaempf is truly scum, I’m the target for NK. Its never actually that simple, but you gotta start somewhere. from your POV it should increase the odds of me town, but not guarantee it.

Now agreeing with kaempf and will watch Link.

Quote
First Captain Sheed Ranko- Target a player. That player can not be Night Killed this night.

How does this play out? If mafia votes Sheed’s protected player, do they lose their vote or do they choose another?
Mafia doesnt actually vote, last word counts. if sheeds target is selected the night will end as if no nightkill was committed.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 23, 2022, 04:56:48 pm
Damn, mafia really trying to set a new low for Nightkills this game. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if one of them Nightkills the other tomorrow night.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 23, 2022, 05:01:23 pm
I don't even know how to read this. My break is over now though.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 23, 2022, 07:14:50 pm
explanations for nightkill:
1. someone feeling fancy: This would point to Linkcat or serprex and after the last game Im not sure i can exclude Root from that list.
2. read as pr (evidently he wasnt so not an alpharius read): Serprex made a big point about this actually, root probably also remembers shock always targeting me when able, if that part of the theory is even true. It could also be that they read most of the active participants as not pr and shock was left.
3. Maintaining status quo: I already mentioned how wagonomics did not imply that any of the wagons was correct and shockcannon would then be the biggest wildcard. This would point to anyone not voted (much). If they read the thread though they should have noted that sentiment was going against shock.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 23, 2022, 07:27:28 pm
Mafia definitely fucked up, as I was all set to funnel the fuck outta Shock. This would also imply that we're dealing with novices, because as kaempf said, public opinion was shifting away from shock and would been a likely lynch, which means they wasted a NK. Looks like I need to do a lil more research before I'll be comfortable posting my guesses.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 23, 2022, 07:48:51 pm
Kaempfer, I keep seeing you use the term "wagonomics" but I'm not entirely sure what you mean by it. Could you please offer a quick tutorial and/or an example?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 23, 2022, 07:59:43 pm
My guess would be that a wagon is a lynch list.

But what are these n+ n- etc, thingies?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 23, 2022, 08:00:32 pm
EBWOP: by lynch list I mean a line about a certain player with votes on him/her.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 23, 2022, 08:08:50 pm
It has to do with votecount and when movements occur.

Reminder, here's the lynchlog, dont forget to open the spoiler:

Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex(1) - Linkcat

Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (1) - Mobian

Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (1) - Mobian
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

Linkcat (1) - serprex
serprex (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

Linkcat (1) - serprex
PlayerOa (1) - Linkcat
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

Linkcat (1) - serprex
PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (1) - serprex

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (2) - serprex, andretimpa

PlayerOa (3) - Linkcat, RootRanger, andretimpa
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (1) - serprex

PlayerOa (3) - Linkcat, RootRanger, andretimpa
marsmoons (1) - kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (2) - serprex, Mobian

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (1) - kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (3) - serprex, Mobian, andretimpa


For an obvious example, this one is definitily significant as it was basically final:
PlayerOa (3) - Linkcat, RootRanger, andretimpa
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (1) - serprex

which then became this

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (1) - kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (3) - serprex, Mobian, andretimpa

w3 ended up as the lynchwagon, while Oa barely ended up as the counterwagon (though if we look at the full development, w3 was the last counterwagon to come into existence)

It is highly likely that Oa has the same alignement as you, as you were his saving grace, timpa was just not willing to make MW roll and already leaning towards w3 earlier. Furthermore, either Oa is town or everyone voting him was, as this particular game's rules are very unfriendly towards bussing. Obviously, I lean towards Oa simply being town, which doesnt tell us that much, but its still a townread.

To a lesser degree, marsmoons had consistently some decent pressure since you and i parked there. Not a very strong basis as some movement did happen after, while others were to lazy to even show up, but he's also basically derpclear after he asked how mafia votes on the nightkill.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 23, 2022, 08:17:17 pm
My guess would be that a wagon is a lynch list.

But what are these n+ n- etc, thingies?

readlists with low confidence. we discussed this earlier.

Also Link asked you to make one yourself and i too wish that everyone attempts to note some comprehensive tendencies of how they feel about others. Or at least give their strongest read, even if it's just townreads.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 23, 2022, 09:00:49 pm
A detour into mechanics -

I think if Omegon has found Ingo, it would be a good time to reveal that now. Otherwise, probably best to wait another round or two before revealing. But don't wait too long lol because mafia can typically rule out two people per round (one from NK, one from Alpharius rolecop ability).

As for Legionaries, well, definitely don't just arbitrarily reveal N0 results, because it could reveal the identity of Sheed to the mafia, considering he targeted the same person as the NK target. Revealing an Alpharius result - well, maybe, as that could help us in finding Ingo. But otherwise, prob hold off for now?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 23, 2022, 09:09:26 pm
Thanks, I have a better understanding now. This ruleset is pretty tricky, with no real way to out the mafia without committing suicide. Essentially, the cop will need to survive long enough to target enough people to get clear reads, and hope none of his checks get framed.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 23, 2022, 09:22:23 pm
A framing happening and detected by a legionary should definitely be made public.

Also I noticed a peculiarity about the wording of the rules. I think everyone thats not the main power roles is a legionary (bin reluctant to voice this due to it being a softclaim if untrue). If true that has major implications if noone noticed a framing and someone holstered (yh Linkcat only half counts).
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 23, 2022, 09:36:34 pm
Also I noticed a peculiarity about the wording of the rules. I think everyone thats not the main power roles is a legionary (bin reluctant to voice this due to it being a softclaim if untrue). If true that has major implications if noone noticed a framing and someone holstered (yh Linkcat only half counts).

I believe that's how this works. Everyone has a role, whoever's not a faction leader or #2 is a town leg.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 23, 2022, 10:48:28 pm
Mafia started with 1 Alpharius and 1 Ingo Pech

Town started with 1 Omegon, 1 Sheed Ranko, and 7 Legionaries
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 23, 2022, 11:25:48 pm
My guess would be that a wagon is a lynch list.

But what are these n+ n- etc, thingies?

readlists with low confidence. we discussed this earlier.

Also Link asked you to make one yourself and i too wish that everyone attempts to note some comprehensive tendencies of how they feel about others. Or at least give their strongest read, even if it's just townreads.

I read through the entire thread again, and everyone is suspicious. :silly: I wish I had more time.

(found the n+/n- stuff, but what's 'w'?)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 23, 2022, 11:32:47 pm
wolf, alternative name for scum or mafia
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 23, 2022, 11:34:59 pm
This was also explained earlier
V - Villiager read. You're certain these people are town.

N+ - Town-leaning read, but you're not quite ready to commit on them.

N - Neutral standing. You have no fucking clue.

N- -Scum leaning neutral. Kinda sus.

W - Wolf. THIS BE SCUM, BOYZ
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 24, 2022, 01:23:36 am
Busy all day, nothing more from me for a while.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 24, 2022, 10:48:11 am
Linkcat (1) - serprex

Take 2. Can we policy lynch Linkcat yet for holstering N0?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 24, 2022, 01:07:50 pm
Linkcat (1) - serprex

Take 2. Can we policy lynch Linkcat yet for holstering N0?

You talking about the NK?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 24, 2022, 01:16:33 pm
Linkcat (1) - serprex

Take 2. Can we policy lynch Linkcat yet for holstering N0?

You talking about the NK?

I'm talking about:
Btw I missed my night action again last night, sorry.

(Not sorry)

(Claiming now so ya'll don't try to lynch me for it later)

Anyway, I'll try to actually play tomorrow. I think someone voted me earlier, if they did then I'll do an OMGUS vote, otherwise just put my vote on serp I guess.

Only role that would want to holster is Ingo
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 24, 2022, 01:35:36 pm
if anyone else was reported holstering I would vote them over Linkcat. Also if someone reports a framing for n0 he's actually clear. Its weird that after 2 nights we have reports of neither (other than links selfadmission ofc), but maybe not everyone has read yet that holstering is almost as suspicious (lots of inactives making this game harder than it should be).
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 24, 2022, 02:55:14 pm
I invited marsmoons; this'll be their first game

lean into that innocent confused first timer persona.

I’m, at least, managing to lean in to newbie persona. Haven’t been publicly scolded so often in ages.

Here’s my readings:

v: marsmoons

n+: wyand, oa, RootRanger, kaempfer13

n: mobian; serprex

n-: Linkcat, andretimpa
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 24, 2022, 02:56:38 pm
Neither of my night targets were framed, or I would have spoken up.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 24, 2022, 03:33:01 pm
well, also if someone holstered. Also, did someone target serprex last night?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 24, 2022, 03:39:17 pm
Linkcat (2) - serprex, RootRanger
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 24, 2022, 09:04:34 pm
While i have many qualms with Link, if we use mechanical reasons to lynch Linkcat, we should test those mechanics. We can force him to target a specific person and theres a myriad of problems that ingo pech would have with that. And ofc we can always get lucky and someone else seeing a holstering or framing remembers their password (or really unlucky and plenty of people holstering out of sheer laziness)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 24, 2022, 09:10:56 pm
And if we have to wait a phase to do the obvious lynch we're gonna need a

24-hour extension (1) kaempfer13

Especially if you are so inactive that you are not around for EoD you should vote for it while you can.

Ofc, if we are plenty confident its Link figuring out what we do today is easy (and letting scum live an extra day is obviously not good).
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 24, 2022, 11:17:38 pm
well, also if someone holstered. Also, did someone target serprex last night?

I did.

(Still busy really sorry)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 24, 2022, 11:50:06 pm
well, also if someone holstered. Also, did someone target serprex last night?

Not last night...
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 25, 2022, 12:02:35 am
To reiterate to all, since this is important - please don't reveal any Night 0 results if you want Sheed to alive (with exception to Alpharius result).
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 25, 2022, 02:03:08 am
I'll agree to extend
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 25, 2022, 02:25:53 am
Same
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 25, 2022, 03:29:57 am
This weekend was pretty crazy for me. Wouldn't mind an extension too (that makes it 4 votes in favor?)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 25, 2022, 12:10:01 pm
I can support an extension. Makes 5 votes in favour
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: PlayerOa on April 25, 2022, 12:56:26 pm
Sure thing!
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 25, 2022, 02:04:47 pm
Day 2 has ended.

24 hour extension.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 25, 2022, 08:01:44 pm
So, is everyone just waiting for Linkcat now? If so and he clearly doesnt have enough time for proper thoughts, I think he actually should just hardclaim. We know his targets already anyway.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 25, 2022, 08:21:45 pm
So, is everyone just waiting for Linkcat now? If so and he clearly doesnt have enough time for proper thoughts, I think he actually should just hardclaim. We know his targets already anyway.

We know he holstered N0, but not what he did N1. Pushing someone to hardclaim could be asking them to do scum's work for them.... Not sure how I feel about it.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 25, 2022, 08:36:48 pm
So how does it work? Ppl just throw in here what they know about targets, or just bluff about it...? :)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 25, 2022, 08:51:59 pm
So how does it work? Ppl just throw in here what they know about targets, or just bluff about it...? :)
I was talking specifically about Linkcat claiming before we chop his head off, not a massclaim. Unless you can tell that serprex wasnt framed there is no point in you claiming.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 25, 2022, 09:11:31 pm
It is also funny, how half of the players (including me) are like "oh, sorry, mucho work nowadays" :silly:
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 25, 2022, 09:49:25 pm
Wyand, is this your first game of mafia??
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 25, 2022, 09:55:42 pm
Yep. MW was nagging me for like years to enter a game of Mafia. :D
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 25, 2022, 10:33:40 pm
So, is everyone just waiting for Linkcat now? If so and he clearly doesnt have enough time for proper thoughts, I think he actually should just hardclaim. We know his targets already anyway.

I might as well just claim at this point, got Alpharius result on serp. And no, I am not Omegon. I mean, I actually am according to the lore, but no.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 25, 2022, 10:47:43 pm
alright, you're just ingo pech then. as an actual legionary you should have reported that much earlier, as it is the one way (with cooperation) to mechanically find mafia without omegon.

Linkcat (3) - serprex, RootRanger, kaempfer13
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 25, 2022, 11:07:18 pm
Oh wow. Well, if Linkcat flips civ, we ask if anyone targeted serprex N1.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 25, 2022, 11:37:39 pm
???

It's like you've never seen me play before.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 25, 2022, 11:39:40 pm
I’ll jump on this wagon:

Linkcat (4) - serprex, RootRanger, kaempfer13, marsmoons
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 25, 2022, 11:42:27 pm
Did any other legs target Serp last night? If there are others who can confirm report, it would just mean a framing occurred.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 12:01:17 am
Isnt a single report plenty (town wouldnt lie about it)? only thing of interest would be other people observed targeting serp.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 26, 2022, 12:07:40 am
I did not target serp
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 12:10:10 am
that was also unnecessary
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 26, 2022, 01:11:50 am
On one hand, this was early enough in the wagon that it feels like fishing for a claim

So, is everyone just waiting for Linkcat now? If so and he clearly doesnt have enough time for proper thoughts, I think he actually should just hardclaim. We know his targets already anyway.

Also, I don't know what you mean by "we know his targets", reviewing Link's posts I saw no indication of who he targetted.

On the other hand, holstering N0 (when you don't even need to put much thought to pick a target) and not even crumbing the result about serp (or even leaving anything that could be construed as a crumb) is very scummy.

The deciding factor for me is that as it stands even if Link flips civ we potentially get more information (if anyone saw serp being targetted, that could get us Ingo)

Linkcat (5) - serprex, RootRanger, kaempfer13, marsmoons, andretimpa
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 26, 2022, 01:14:54 am
Oh wow. Well, if Linkcat flips civ, we ask if anyone targeted serprex N1.

We are actually interested in people that saw serp being targeted, otherwise you are asking Ingo to out himself
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 01:40:57 am
Yah that post was kinda ambiguous lol mb
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 01:58:16 am
Damn, Linkcat. Half the players are gunning for you. Do you have ANYTHING you can say in your defense?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 26, 2022, 02:38:38 am
You can bet your ass I do.

I hardclaim Sheed Ranko. I saved shock from the Nightkill Night 0, knowing that he would be a high priority target, since MW hosting leaves him as the best player in the game. However, on N1 I fell victim to my own arrogance. I dared to think of myself as a strategist on the level of a Primarch, and attempted to mindgate the mafia by protecting marsmoons, abandoning shock to his fate. The shame I felt upon seeing the results of my hubris cannot be measured. It was a grim reminder that I am but a humble servant of a superior power and intellect. I have no excuse for this failure, and I willingly offer up my own life in repentance. I can only hope that you may find it in your hearts to forgive my gross incompetence. Though the game is almost assuredly lost, once I have passed on I have no doubt that the Alpha Legion will continue to struggle until the bitter end. Comrades, I salute you.

Linkcat (6) - serprex, RootRanger, kaempfer13, marsmoons, andretimpa, Linkcat

For the Emperor.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 02:44:12 am
Sheed Ranko need not counterclaim. No way he would have said that about serprex result if that was his actual role
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 02:51:47 am
Ah, the classic Sheed's Greed and Mislead (formerly Chuck's)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: PlayerOa on April 26, 2022, 08:23:15 am
Linkcat (7) - serprex, RootRanger, kaempfer13, marsmoons, andretimpa, Linkcat, PlayerOa
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 11:01:20 am
So since Linkcat flipping red is a foregone conclusion, it's basically impossible that Oa is his partner. While he has parked on his partner day1 for no good reason in the past, this format is extremely prohibitive of it and it looks like he knew he wasnt gonna last with that role.
For some reason I feel less confident about serprex than I did before, but logically speaking everything speaks in favor of him, especially todays progression (and I already was fairly convinced he was town). There is a small rest chance that scum would go for towncred when it looks like Ingo Pech is gonna be mechanically found out anyway. Ofc all the later votes are completely meaningless.
I'm gonna need to see sth from Wyand and even if its just diffuse feelings. Even Oa has more actual content.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 26, 2022, 12:13:04 pm
Honestly for me it is still pretty strange how quickly ppl jumped on the Linkcat bandwagon.
But maybe it is just I'm a noob and don't see certain signals. Will be smarter within a few hours.

Also read terminologies again, and still have questions, because the below stuff isn't there.

"flipping red", "flips civ" - what do these mean? flip - sell someone out?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 12:28:38 pm
nah, its about the reveal by the host upon death (red is evil, town/villager/civ are good civilization).

Also, do you understand what a Legionary receiving an Alpharius result (on serprex) means?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 12:30:35 pm
also green for town and scum/wolf/mafia for red ofc (just look at the glossary for the most part)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 26, 2022, 01:04:25 pm
Honestly for me it is still pretty strange how quickly ppl jumped on the Linkcat bandwagon.

Yeah, that is kind of strange. Maybe we should start our own wagon. With blackjack, and hookers.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 01:07:24 pm
Honestly for me it is still pretty strange how quickly ppl jumped on the Linkcat bandwagon.

Yeah, that is kind of strange. Maybe we should start our own wagon. With blackjack, and hookers.

I'm in

Linkcat (6) - RootRanger, kaempfer13, marsmoons, andretimpa, Linkcat, oa
serprex (1) - serprex
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 26, 2022, 01:13:13 pm
Move my vote to serp, I'm policy lynching him for self-voting.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 26, 2022, 01:50:34 pm
Linkcat (5) - RootRanger, kaempfer13, marsmoons, andretimpa, oa
serprex (2) - serprex, Linkcat

there you go
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 26, 2022, 01:57:44 pm
nah, its about the reveal by the host upon death (red is evil, town/villager/civ are good civilization).

Also, do you understand what a Legionary receiving an Alpharius result (on serprex) means?

Guess it means he figured serp is Alpharius by targeting or smth.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 26, 2022, 02:00:13 pm
Honestly for me it is still pretty strange how quickly ppl jumped on the Linkcat bandwagon.

Yeah, that is kind of strange. Maybe we should start our own wagon. With blackjack, and hookers.

?

(https://www.recoilweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Convoy-Blackjack-675x450.jpg)

and

?

(http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/d/db/TJHS2E16_03.jpg/501px-TJHS2E16_03.jpg)

I'm confused.

 :sillyspin:
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 02:08:56 pm
nah, its about the reveal by the host upon death (red is evil, town/villager/civ are good civilization).

Also, do you understand what a Legionary receiving an Alpharius result (on serprex) means?

Guess it means he figured serp is Alpharius by targeting or smth.

No. Legionary receiving Alpharius result means their target was framed. If someone saw someone target the person who was framed, that'd be indication of that person being Ingo
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 02:14:44 pm
nah, its about the reveal by the host upon death (red is evil, town/villager/civ are good civilization).

Also, do you understand what a Legionary receiving an Alpharius result (on serprex) means?
Guess it means he figured serp is Alpharius by targeting or smth.
I said Legionary (Links initial claim), not Omegon. Pay attention. I get it when you cant read peoples social cues, we are all terrible at it, but at least try to get your hard information right. Serp and Root were maybe a bit premature with their votes (there were some clues already), but the other votes are well justified.
And you're probably a bit confused how reporting the framing is sus, but given that Link holstered before (correct play only if you're ingo pech, screwing up is still possible ofc) and took his sweet time to indicate it in any way and some other things, he was by far the most sus (as ingo pech you know that a legionary targeting like you did would get that result).

Now he also did a lolcatting post (memeing when you know you are going to get lynched anyways), in which he stated a role and targets that are completely incompatible with anything said before, with maybe a halfserious attempt to bait a roleclaim.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 26, 2022, 03:00:15 pm
Night 2 has ended.

Living Players
1. Linkcat
2. Serprex
3. andretimpa
4. worldwideweb3
5. PlayerOa
6. Mobian
7. RootRanger
8. Kaempfer13
9. shockcannon
10. Wyand
11. marsmoons

Linkcat was turned into a servitor.

A Harrowing has been triggered
1. Wyand
2. serprex
3. PlayerOa
4. RootRanger
Omegon hides in these players.

Once Omegon split his squad up, he used ordered unique formations to be held as they descended into the listening post. Formations Omegon believed his twin did not know about. As a few groups found the xeno's research labs within the post, they found a small population of the Adeptus Mechanicum. The Mechanicum was quickly able to repair the down comms, but couldn't open more channels for private vox. The squads could communicate, but only publicly. As the squad moved on, Omegon observed a Legionarie break the unique formation. Without hesitation, Omegon grabbed the Legionarie and violently threw him into an empty xeno's containment cell. Without pause for question, he order the Mechanicum to lobotomize the soldier. The process took only minutes. With Progenoid Gland removed, the identity was clear. Linkcat had perished.

A voice came over the comms, it could only be one person. Alpharius calmly stated: "A Harrowing is coming Omegon"
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 03:04:33 pm
Yuh nice.

Time for follow-the-cop, right?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 03:07:49 pm
That result cleared up any reservations I had about Kaempfer. He's confirmed town in my opinion. I think I know who Alpha is, but will think on it more and share during the next day phase.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 03:13:55 pm
If Omegon stays quiet, the chance of him dying tonight is too high. If Alpharius has scanned 0/1/2 of the 4 people in the list, Omegon's death likelihood (without adjusting for Sheed) are 25%/33%/50%. With Sheed protecting someone in the list randomly, the likelihood goes to 18%/25%/38%. The chance of Omegon dying in Night 3 shoots up drastically, as Alpharius can both kill someone on the list and check someone else. So the Omegon claim has to happen, either right now or after tonight, but I don't really see the merits of waiting, right?

Also @Mobian that's a bold claim for someone who... isn't Omegon lol
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 26, 2022, 03:14:56 pm
get rekt

serp and Root rose from n+ to v in my eyes
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 03:15:33 pm
dont be so rash, there is value in a harrowing occuring without the other townrole exposed
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 03:18:51 pm
If Omegon stays quiet, the chance of him dying tonight is too high. If Alpharius has scanned 0/1/2 of the 4 people in the list, Omegon's death likelihood (without adjusting for Sheed) are 25%/33%/50%. With Sheed protecting someone in the list randomly, the likelihood goes to 18%/25%/38%. The chance of Omegon dying in Night 3 shoots up drastically, as Alpharius can both kill someone on the list and check someone else. So the Omegon claim has to happen, either right now or after tonight, but I don't really see the merits of waiting, right?

Also @Mobian that's a bold claim for someone who... isn't Omegon lol

I've had an off feeling about this player the whole game. Now I just need to re-read EVERYTHING and see if it's just paranoia talking. Doc, use that harrowing to protect Omegon.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 03:19:54 pm
dont be so rash, there is value in a harrowing occuring without the other townrole exposed
Elaborate? As in, let Omegon die, or?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 26, 2022, 03:22:43 pm
How unfortunate.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 03:23:40 pm
if omegon is immortal as sheed ranko lives, alpharius will hard search for sheed. As such a harrowing is but 1 night away from gameend. If we let alpharius look for omegon sheed may go undetected with half the players confirmed town.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 03:26:43 pm
ofc any alpharius result seals the game, unless it was serprex last night.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 03:30:09 pm
i'll let serprex do the math. after all theres a 3/7th chance sheed gets killed accidentally on the omegon search
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 03:33:56 pm
Sure but you also risk Omegon dying without ever revealing any results. If Omegon roleclaims and survives, we get 3 nights of results to reveal in the next day phase. Even if Sheed dies immediately, we likely have enough information to win the game through combining the Omegon claim with the Harrowing. Keep in mind that a confirmed Omegon can not only confirm their green checks, but also we can semi-confirm more people if any Legionaries can reveal who Omegon targeted (prior to Omegon revealing this information). As in, if Player A says that Omegon targeted Player B in N0, and Omegon confirms this, then Player A is almost certainly civ. Whereas, if Omegon dies (which, in the no-claim scenario, is more likely than Sheed dying in the claim scenario), we've turned a near-certain win into potential defeat with the total lack of information to work with.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 03:34:12 pm
@MasterWalks, for the Harrowing, is the 50% rounded up or down? So, with 7 players left, would 3 names be posted or 4?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 03:35:19 pm
some of those reads might be daed already though
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 03:36:00 pm
If both reads are still alive, does that change things? Should Omegon claim in that scenario?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 26, 2022, 03:38:31 pm
@MasterWalks, for the Harrowing, is the 50% rounded up or down? So, with 7 players left, would 3 names be posted or 4?

Rounded up. 7 players would mean 4 on Harrowing list
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 03:40:28 pm
Sure but you also risk Omegon dying without ever revealing any results. If Omegon roleclaims and survives, we get 3 nights of results to reveal in the next day phase. Even if Sheed dies immediately, we likely have enough information to win the game through combining the Omegon claim with the Harrowing. Keep in mind that a confirmed Omegon can not only confirm their green checks, but also we can semi-confirm more people if any Legionaries can reveal who Omegon targeted (prior to Omegon revealing this information). As in, if Player A says that Omegon targeted Player B in N0, and Omegon confirms this, then Player A is almost certainly civ. Whereas, if Omegon dies (which, in the no-claim scenario, is more likely than Sheed dying in the claim scenario), we've turned a near-certain win into potential defeat with the total lack of information to work with.
Actually an interesting point in favor of omegon claiming after Legionaries somehow. Though giving results as an unordered list may also be a good middle of the road. In that potential strategy, it would be ideal for omegon to reveal identity in the night and giving shuffled results sometime in the day (alpharius ends the game so they are all going to be town).
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 03:44:48 pm
there is ofc also the ordered massclaim strat, where alpharius would have to make up a lot of shit, though he would probably claim one of the 2 power roles, turning it 50-50 whilst not even needing to lie on targets. Forget I suggested that.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 03:49:37 pm
hm actually, let me think about that again. If he claims sheed, omegon checks 1 whilst being protected, sealing the game. if he wants to claim omegon, there is an over 50% chance the harrowing already contradicts him. Also we could stop the massclaim at the second omegon, giving a small chance of sheed evading the massclaim altogether.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 03:49:46 pm
The value of Omegon hard claim depends on whether their checks have been adequately breadcrumbed or not

The value of not hard claiming is that it baits mafia to try target Omegon, leaving a chance for a 2nd save this game

Granted, risk may not be worth it given our good position. Say Omegon has 2 checks of info:
3 confirmed, 4 unknown: 25% win
2 confirmed, 3 unknown: 33% win
1 confirmed, 2 unknown: 50% win

Whereas the hard claim is to guarantee that third check. With only 2 breadcrumbed checks of info:
2 confirmed, 5 unknown: 20% win
1 confirmed, 4 unknown: 25% win
0 confirmed, 3 unknown: 33% win

So the extra check is quite useful, even if 1 of the 3 checks are gone already
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 03:55:47 pm
Yah the case where Alpharius counterclaims Omegon could complicate things. But the Omegon claim is always going to happen at some point, it's just a question of when, so the counterclaim is always a lingering possibility. I think it's a good time for Omegon to claim now.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 03:57:45 pm
I'm willing to reveal my targets at any time, now. Could help clear some things up if the other legs do the same.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 03:57:54 pm
If Alpharius counterclaims town has 3 more lynches so votes out both, winning
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 04:01:26 pm
If Alpharius counterclaims town has 3 more lynches so votes out both, winning
town loses with sheed and omegon dead. so if we shoot omegon its kinda bad
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 04:03:28 pm
If Alpharius counterclaims town has 3 more lynches so votes out both, winning
town loses with sheed and omegon dead. so if we shoot omegon its kinda bad

wow I missed a pretty important part of the rules
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 04:06:16 pm
Ok but is there ever a scenario where we prefer that Omegon just never claims and dies? Ofc not, right? So the Alpharius counterclaim is always a possibility regardless of when Omegon claims, but in both scenarios, the Omegon claim should happen sooner rather than later.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 04:08:54 pm
Alright

I'm Omegon

N0 Oa
N1 Linkcat
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 04:10:12 pm
Are you kidding me
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 04:12:35 pm
The counterclaim is secondary really. The main counterpoints are giving sheed a tangible chance of landing a save and harrowing confirming a lot of players town without sheed dead possibly (also, serp, I think you calculated sth else from what I was talking about).

Serp in case your not trolling that is objectively a bad claim, i was just talking about how at least the order should be kept secret for legionary claims to have more validity.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 04:15:54 pm
I'm counterclaiming Omegon. Everyone hold off on revealing information, especially if you're Sheed. Idc if serprex is trolling bc it's the best play for me to claim tonight regardless.

If these are his genuine targets, given that only 1 of them is alive, then the chance that he's found Sheed is low. Although, he gets two more chances tonight, so that's... not great. If these are fake targets, then Legionaries will hopefully be able to settle the matter.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 04:16:57 pm
It shouldn't be surprising to mafia what my checks were given my plays
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 04:17:37 pm
Uhm, like Mafia would check the role of their buddy.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 04:17:59 pm
It was gonna be this big reveal, even made this meme...

(https://i.imgur.com/IRfCfIg.png)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 04:18:34 pm
unfortunately his second target cant be verified though (physically cant)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 04:19:47 pm
nobody claim anything anymore, dont want to expose sheed. Either serp has gone way off the deep end or one of them is scum.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 04:20:54 pm
Mafia rolechecking their buddy sounds exactly like the kind of gimmicky strat serp & Link would come up with. It makes the Omegon fake claim look stronger if a Legionarie can verify the target.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 04:22:08 pm
To prove I'm not searching for Sheed, I will be checking Root tonight. Root should be checking me
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 04:22:54 pm
they cant as stated before. If serp is scum he def checked someone else.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 04:25:15 pm
*hopefully* serprex is a civ trying to give cover to the actual Omegon, such that if Alpharius counterclaims and we lynch both players, the actual Omegon is still alive.

The problem with this strategy is that it only works if I've either targeted serprex myself to verify his role (which I haven't) or I'm willing to take chances (which I'm not).

I think serprex's targets are legit, and that yes he genuinely rolechecked his buddy. The only restriction on targets is that players cannot target themselves.

I'm sold on serprex and I targeting each other tonight. We also want at least one Legionarie targeting each of us.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 04:28:48 pm
Dude. Linkcat targeted serp, meaning any legionary cant verify his n1 target. There is 0 benefit to targeting his buddy. And I really hope he's not civ.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 04:38:16 pm
Alright

I'm Omegon

N0 Oa
N1 Linkcat

I targeted Serp N0, confirmed Oa was his target.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 04:38:40 pm
serprex, if you're civ, please claim so right now. Otherwise, I'm taking the nuclear option.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 04:38:48 pm
So now that we know who's who, Root you want to explain that shock NK?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 04:43:03 pm
Okay, so we're doin' this
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 04:44:06 pm
Serp, all I know is that you targeted Oa. What role is he?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 04:45:01 pm
Mobian are you seriously trying to reduce Root's Sheed options to one?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 04:46:10 pm
Mobian are you seriously trying to reduce Root's Sheed options to one?

You know, I just thought of that right after I hit submit. Tell us if he's town.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 04:46:54 pm
Mobian are you seriously trying to reduce Root's Sheed options to one?

You know, I just thought of that right after I hit submit. Tell us if he's town.

Everyone is town besides Root & Linkcat
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 04:48:21 pm
My N0 target was Sheed. I can't be Alpharius, because then Sheed would have dropped on N1.

This doesn't confirm things 100%, but it makes me the player more likely to be Omegon.

If we're in agreement on this reasoning, I can reveal Sheed, and we'll lynch serprex on Day 3.

Hence, nuclear option.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 04:49:40 pm
It's obvious that timpa is Sheed, that nuclear option is crap
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 04:52:12 pm
Ok Alpharius, tell me how you know that if your targets were Oa and Linkcat
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 04:52:29 pm
Welp, game is down to Serp vs Root. Who do we trust? Find out NEXT TIME, on MafiaBall Z!
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 04:53:12 pm
get rekt

serp and Root rose from n+ to v in my eyes

Alpharius needs to learn to read
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 04:57:45 pm
get rekt

serp and Root rose from n+ to v in my eyes
That was in reference to you both parking on Linkcat. It really doesnt prove anything mechanically.

Alpharius needs to learn to read
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 04:58:31 pm
Drop your bomb, Root. If what you say is true, Serp will have to be the big bad.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 05:00:12 pm
Ok, so Linkcat (Ingo) frames serprex (Alpharius) on N1, such that serprex is free to target whoever he wants without being tracked. And, he happened to target Sheed. Thus beating me to my own nuclear option.

Hopefully a Legionarie targeted me N0? Anyone?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 05:01:09 pm
The bomb was supposed to be that andre is Sheed, but serprex just pulled a stuxnet on me.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 05:01:29 pm
actually the burden of claiming lies on you if you want a legionary to confirm you
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 05:02:24 pm
ah wait you already did, sorry.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 05:03:52 pm
timpa, who did you save N0?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 05:04:21 pm
so is there a point in hiding anything at this point? we have our 2 suspects and their roles do identical things. However if someone saw Root finding and sparing sheed, that'll be proof i guess.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 26, 2022, 05:04:35 pm
get rekt

serp and Root rose from n+ to v in my eyes

Alpharius needs to learn to read

kae is right about what prompted that. What is funny is that your conclusion implies that I am Sheed and targetted you, who were also the NK. How do you know that if you were not aware of the NK?

I targetted Root N0 btw
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 05:06:15 pm
Either way, next day is MyLo. Andre's dying tonight. I just hope MW isn't enough of a prick to put both Root and Serp in the harrowing...

I'm voting for a 24 hr Reduction, get this show on the road.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 05:06:41 pm
Linkcat & Root so arrogant about their dream team they won the game picking no N0 NK. & it's going to be the winning play

& Mobian thought a Serpcat team would be troll
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 05:07:23 pm
24h reduction (2) - Mobian, serprex
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 05:09:16 pm
Either way, next day is MyLo. Andre's dying tonight. I just hope MW isn't enough of a prick to put both Root and Serp in the harrowing...

I'm voting for a 24 hr Reduction, get this show on the road.
The annoying part is that serprex isn't actually going to NK andre. So, we never get the benefits of a Harrowing. He wins if we lynch wrong, then kills andre the next night once I'm is gone. We can stall by lynching legionaries, but that doesn't achieve anything, since eventually we'll get to Lylo.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 26, 2022, 05:10:56 pm
Either way, next day is MyLo. Andre's dying tonight. I just hope MW isn't enough of a prick to put both Root and Serp in the harrowing...

I'm voting for a 24 hr Reduction, get this show on the road.
The annoying part is that serprex isn't actually going to NK andre. So, we never get the benefits of a Harrowing. He wins if we lynch wrong, then kills andre the next night once I'm is gone. We can stall by lynching legionaries, but that doesn't achieve anything, since eventually we'll get to Lylo.

>implying serp is not the lynch tomorrow if I survive
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 05:11:17 pm
The andre reveal is huge btw. Mafia wouldn't intentionally neglect their NK.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 05:11:51 pm
Oh, Root saw it too. and I almost managed to keep my mouth shut.
I shouldnt say it, but its just too funny. serp would totally let timpa live to avoid the harrowing. Ofc they cant kill each other either.

24h reduction (3) - Mobian, serprex, kaempfer13
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 05:13:06 pm
Either way, next day is MyLo. Andre's dying tonight. I just hope MW isn't enough of a prick to put both Root and Serp in the harrowing...

I'm voting for a 24 hr Reduction, get this show on the road.
The annoying part is that serprex isn't actually going to NK andre. So, we never get the benefits of a Harrowing. He wins if we lynch wrong, then kills andre the next night once I'm is gone. We can stall by lynching legionaries, but that doesn't achieve anything, since eventually we'll get to Lylo.

>implying serp is not the lynch tomorrow if I survive

Thanks for telling Root to send in another no NK to win. Turns out mafia only needs to NK shock to win

Vote No Lynch. Let the dice decide
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 05:13:21 pm
Either way, next day is MyLo. Andre's dying tonight. I just hope MW isn't enough of a prick to put both Root and Serp in the harrowing...

I'm voting for a 24 hr Reduction, get this show on the road.
The annoying part is that serprex isn't actually going to NK andre. So, we never get the benefits of a Harrowing. He wins if we lynch wrong, then kills andre the next night once I'm is gone. We can stall by lynching legionaries, but that doesn't achieve anything, since eventually we'll get to Lylo.

OR it could be his own strategy. Either way, we have 2 suspects, and more than enough legs to sac if need be. It's not a viable strategy.
>implying serp is not the lynch tomorrow if I survive
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 05:15:03 pm
get rekt

serp and Root rose from n+ to v in my eyes

Alpharius needs to learn to read

This is actually a slip. serp knew that the other townread was the blocked nk. Omegon had no way of knowing that.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 05:17:03 pm
Might as well put those votes in already,

RootRanger (1) - serprex
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 26, 2022, 05:17:15 pm
get rekt

serp and Root rose from n+ to v in my eyes

Alpharius needs to learn to read

This is actually a slip. serp knew that the other townread was the blocked nk. Omegon had no way of knowing that.

Yeah, I pointed that
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 26, 2022, 05:18:01 pm
FYI, 6 players need to vote on timer reduction for it to happen.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 05:19:39 pm
get rekt

serp and Root rose from n+ to v in my eyes

Alpharius needs to learn to read

This is actually a slip. serp knew that the other townread was the blocked nk. Omegon had no way of knowing that.

Yeah, I pointed that

I thought I was the N0 NK. Not so lucky
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 05:21:00 pm
Well, will you get those reading lessons then, Alpharius?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 05:22:21 pm
Kaempfer has been more or less right this entire game.... I'mma have to back him and call out Serp as sus...
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 05:23:36 pm
Nah, i had him as my top townread half the game lol.
But i know bs when i see it.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 05:25:24 pm
Root, you've clearly won. Pull one more troll move & show how you can win as mafia even after explaining your shock NK
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 05:27:10 pm
Serp, buddy, you're sounding pretty desperate now... Be it in 1 or 2 Day phases, town WILL win. May as well come out now and reveal yourself, Alpha.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 05:30:42 pm
Serp, buddy, you're sounding pretty desperate now... Be it in 1 or 2 Day phases, town WILL win. May as well come out now and reveal yourself, Alpha.

Yeah, I've given up on winning. I just really want to understand the shock lynch & then I'll throw in the towel for us
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 05:35:27 pm
If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say it would have been to get a reaction like what I said, and focus fire on the newbies, like marsmoons and Wyand. But, that's also a move I believe you'd make as well, Serp.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 26, 2022, 05:37:54 pm
What are you guys talking about? shock is the best player in this community
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 26, 2022, 05:39:31 pm
24h reduction (4) - Mobian, serprex, kaempfer13, andretimpa
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 05:41:01 pm
Root and Oa, get on this reduction train so we get to the end game.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 05:43:29 pm
There's only 2 reasons Root doesn't respond: (& given Who list doesn't look like he's writing a response)
1. he's Omegon & doesn't trust me that I'd surrender afterwards. sad
2. he's Alpharius & doesn't want to throw. cowardly

Turns out it's #1. Also Root's still cowardly for being afraid he'd throw for town. Troll or die trying I say

I surrender. I picked shock because all my choices were highly dice driven. Interestingly, randomization to avoid exploitation has the weakness that if the scum picks seem to be highly randomized then I'm probably scum

Linkcat threw because I was going to kill kae N0 but then he overrode it & had me reroll with preference towards Root. Which, granted, if it hadn't been for timpa, would've been a game winning veto

Linkcat has control issues. Never cooperates with me as confirmed town, doesn't let the mafia leader pick the NKs. Tsk, tsk. MW no help since he would flip on our choices if we couldn't agree. & I had to threaten that I'd make Link the N1 NK if he vetoed the shock NK

It was always going to be hard to counterclaim here, but timpa/root N0 pretty much sealed it a long time ago

If I knew how to read I would've realized mafia only need to kill root/timpa & then I could've shoved as Omegon against timpa D2 since it was pretty clear Root was Omegon. But I missed that pretty important wincon
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 05:47:15 pm
Well damn... and to think I called it N0.....
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 05:50:00 pm
Well damn... and to think I called it N0.....

Was wrong, it was D1.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 05:51:03 pm
You are a fan of your nautical rules, aren't you, Serprex?

Oh gods, I just realized with as much as they bicker, a SerpCat scum team would be really nasty for us.......

Mobian isn't wrong. Nautical rules are hilarious
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 26, 2022, 05:51:25 pm
Serp and ending Mafia games early, name a better duo.

Town wins!

I'll post more in a moment.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 26, 2022, 05:59:05 pm
Scumpad will be posted when I have confirmation they're ok with it.

Here is the targets by each night.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ggSTmijXELt0q4tCP1ig_isUlD4o8iD447CsX0FUEOI/edit?usp=drivesdk

Here is my host Diary.
My notes post game.
First things first. Y'all suck at spelling. Ignoring Legionarie, I count 3 misspells of Omegon. Omecron was my personal fav with Oregon a close runner up. I assume some of that was intentional but still entertaining.

I'm glad the ruleset wasn't immediately broken. The first night was a rollercoaster of emotions for me. I was legitimately worried y'all were gonna figure out a way to solve the game immediately. But then targets started rolling in. Mafia briefly argued on target but final answer was RootRanger (Omegon). I was going to be super bummed to have an immediate Harrowing. Andre didn't send his target until last minute, and when he chose root I was so hyped. It made for a great N0 but also ended up being a double edge sword the next day. Everyone assumed a missed NK due to inactives, which led to a genocide of low posters. It wasn't a terrible assumption, a N0 doc is pretty low probability. Still a better outcome than immediate cop NK.

I'm happy Legionarie didn't get placed on Mafia team. With a N0 blocked NK, Mafia knows doc would probably target the same player. It would've quickly narrowed down Sheed. Without a N0 block, I still think Legionarie would've been power role on Mafia side, especially due to the inherit hiding it allows from Omegoncop.

Here's a few fun D1 posts.

Wyand hard(kinda soft) claiming role and target, as per tradition for new players.
I volunteer to help www.

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RootRanger getting sussed on inactives but still targeting the active players with cop.
I'd expect the Doc managed to target the same person as the night kill, but it's a valid possibility that the mafia just didn't send in a target. In which case, well, the less active people would be a bit more likely to be mafia, so :/
If mafia slept through their NK, then the inactives are more likely to be mafia. If mafia and the Doctor both targeted the same player, probably someone on the more active side, then the active players would be less likely to be mafia, so, same thing.

Linkcat (1) - serprex
PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (2) - Mobian, kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) marsmoons

I would also be happy lynching shockcannon.

This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) might also be helpful.

N1 and the following day were pretty bland at first. Clearing up inactives in the thread saved me some time, but I still reminded all players when they were on final phase to post before modkill, and all posted. I did get pretty excited that Omegon found Sheed at this time. I bet that put Root in a headache but a good one. N1 in the end became a huge factor in fact checking.

I did find this post interesting
Mobian switch to www3 or timpa & I'll follow & timpa will follow on www3 & kaempfer get off marsmoons
I don't think serp was actually trying to O R C H E S T R A T E or invest in wagonomics, but truly wanted his friend to enjoy the game for a bit longer. Nice guy.

Later on, this post here put me in a difficult spot.
If you didn't receive a PM with results, but feel that you should have, please let me know. I'm getting reports some got the PM and some didn't.
If you are a Legionarie, even if your target makes no target themselves, you should still see a PM.

I have not received a PM.

Glad to avoid NK. I thought: if kaempf is truly scum, I’m the target for NK.

Now agreeing with kaempf and will watch Link.

First Captain Sheed Ranko- Target a player. That player can not be Night Killed this night.
[/quote]

How does this play out? If mafia votes Sheed’s protected player, do they lose their vote or do they choose another?
[/quote]

Mars didn't target at all. I'm not sure if he thought he did, or was trying to decieve everyone. Bad taste but galaxy brain if it was deception. I told him so in PM and never got a response. I'm curious to know now.

The thunderdome of RootSerp was the climax of the game and a damn good one. I believe if serp lied and said he targeted Andre N1 (instead of link which was also a lie) he could've convinced most players. No one targeted serp N1 to refute his claim.

My votes on best player go as follows:
andretimpa is underrated. Dude plays super well all games and always get sussed late game. He didn't listen to everyone about N0 missed NK was due to inactives, instead he made the correct choice of targeting Root every night. After Mafia 78 serp and I had a discussion on how underrated Andre is and seeing it first hand cements those thoughts.

Root gets my vote simply for sending his targets with a real quote from 40k, and even going as far as keeping it Alpha Legion related. Nerd respect nerd. Also had some nice thunderdome plays.

My 3rd vote is probably Link. I thought his Ingo target on serp N1 was for the memes, but he thought ahead enough to know how big of a deal that would be after he died. It didn't really work since no one targeted serp, but it shows Links forward thinking and planning ahead.
Kaempfer is a close runner up for being a good town leader.

No offense, but I did find the SerpCat team a bit disappointing but still entertaining. They played exactly how I imagined. The bickering and bussing was expected. Link making the most High Risk Low Reward play of targeting serp N2 was a lol moment, but other than that, nothing unexpected. They did communicate very minimally as you'll see in scum chat which actually showed some skill.

Link saying I am a competent host made me blush, but I do have a confession. When I rolled roles for the second time after marsmoons signed up, marsmoons got Omegon. I made the tough decision of rerolling Omegon. I didn't want a new player under that much responsibility, and tbh I'm glad I did. He never sent a target in and was pretty inactive. Maybe it could be entertaining, but not a balanced game especially with SerpCat on the other end. If wyand would have rolled a power role, I probably would have kept it since I know him personally to be very active and intelligent. I'm curious to know, both morally and game spirit, if this was the right choice? I couldn't exactly ask anyone for advice since that would give away a townie.

Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2022, 06:08:47 pm
1. rerolling roles is generally fine if you do it right. Linkcat would say I don't do it enough (he had to ask me to nerf his mafia team back in 76 to reduce number of scum vigs)
2. I didn't save marsmoons D1, I saved Oa. Two reasons: I knew Oa wasn't a PR, & I wanted to be able to counterclaim Omegon (even when I didn't realize that this is heavily a counterclaim format)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 06:23:45 pm
@serp why would you ever get into a thunderdome when you think there is 3 lynches left and you are the last teammember? You need people to suffer a stroke twice and also win a 50-50. From your PoV that was a 100% losing play, actually made me hesitate for a bit.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 06:26:08 pm
Also both w3 and marsmoons inadvertently almost saved Linkcat if anyone had targeted them (and w3 wasnt lynched anyways)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 26, 2022, 06:29:10 pm
Host diary is a mess. What I get for trying to do bbcode in Google docs. I'll fix here here in a few hours.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 06:29:42 pm
Oh wow, gg then. Well, thx for the save andre! N0 was crazy improbable in retrospect, with the two PRs targeting each other and the Doc getting a successful save. Tough to come back from without getting a snipe on Sheed.

How much of the Omegon claim was planned from the start? The fakeclaim and N1 Linkcat target was impressive, since there's a case to be made that Alpharius wouldn't target his buddy. Really got lucky there that I'd targeted andre N0.

The thunderdome was perfectly valid. Winning the 50/50 means winning the game, since he could kill Sheed afterward.

I liked the ruleset! The mafia wincon of Cop/Doc both dying probably prevents follow-the-Cop from being the best strat. At least, I didn't want to risk it. The symmetry of the Alpharius/Omegon and Ingo/Sheed is super interesting too. Prevents us from figuring everything out just with the Legionaries, since if someone is incapable of claiming a true Legionarie target, they're just as likely to be a civ PR as they are to be mafia. I especially liked that all the regular civs had information roles.

Rerolling is a tricky topic. I hosted a game once where, if I recall correctly, the Cop went totally inactive midway through, which caused the mafia to win when they would've otherwise lost. It felt kinda awful, so I can understand rerolling. Probably for the best when there's a player who is new to both mafia as well as the forum overall.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: PlayerOa on April 26, 2022, 06:38:40 pm
Wow, this was some ride at the end. Well done guys, sorry I couldn't commit more.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 06:58:03 pm
This game was an absolute blast! Honestly, I was townreading serp right up to the point where he got SUPER aggressive and pushed for the claims hard. I think Serp might have had a better chance if he had slow rolled it a few more rounds, especially since he knew who the doc was.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 07:07:44 pm
making targeting mandatory for information roles with no drawbacks (random roll if no action put in) mitigates the impact of people just forgetting to use their role. Until they get modkilled for inactivity anyway.
Also, it should be noted this was a townsided setup with the most townsided number of players, maximizing adverseries to mafia whilst still making legionary a confirmed town. Sure even with mafia legionary the wincondition would have remained the same and legionaries can still be ignored for lynches, but being able to unconditionally trust legionaries is a big deal (provided their claim can be verified).
For balancing some other roles that could be confused with ingo pech would probably have fit. maybe sth like a janitor (information roles on target yield no result), but somehow more usefull maybe (as that should just be holstered most of the time).
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 26, 2022, 07:21:03 pm
@serp why would you ever get into a thunderdome when you think there is 3 lynches left and you are the last teammember? You need people to suffer a stroke twice and also win a 50-50. From your PoV that was a 100% losing play, actually made me hesitate for a bit.

If you go back in the thread you'll notice the Omegon claim comes right after he realizes he just needs to get Omegon and Sheed killed. But looking at his targets I think he could try to not claim, ride his towncred, getting rid of me tonight and of Root the night after (if he got lucky with the Harrowing he could try to misslynch marsmoons or Wyand imo)
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 26, 2022, 07:22:43 pm
making targeting mandatory for information roles with no drawbacks (random roll if no action put in) mitigates the impact of people just forgetting to use their role. Until they get modkilled for inactivity anyway.
Also, it should be noted this was a townsided setup with the most townsided number of players, maximizing adverseries to mafia whilst still making legionary a confirmed town. Sure even with mafia legionary the wincondition would have remained the same and legionaries can still be ignored for lynches, but being able to unconditionally trust legionaries is a big deal (provided their claim can be verified).
For balancing some other roles that could be confused with ingo pech would probably have fit. maybe sth like a janitor (information roles on target yield no result), but somehow more usefull maybe (as that should just be holstered most of the time).

I agree. On face value, the set up seems reasonably balanced, which is probably why it was approved. I think either you underestimate how powerful a Mafia Legionarie is or I am overestimating it. Framer was also much weaker than I had imagined and could probably use some tweaks. I've never actually played a game with a framer role that I can remember.

Kaempfer, with how data oriented you are, and how organized you are, you should host one. If I can do it, anyone can
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: andretimpa on April 26, 2022, 07:26:01 pm
This was kinda hilarious

ty for targetting me then doc :P

@serp sure

PlayerOa (2) - Linkcat, RootRanger
marsmoons (1) - kaempfer13
kaempfer13 (1) - marsmoons
worldwideweb3 (3) - serprex, Mobian, andretimpa
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 07:32:47 pm
operation successful, patient dead
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 07:51:52 pm
Kaempfer, with how data oriented you are, and how organized you are, you should host one. If I can do it, anyone can
I can host one if people are up for it, have some ideas I can write up later today
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 26, 2022, 07:59:35 pm
Kaempfer, with how data oriented you are, and how organized you are, you should host one. If I can do it, anyone can
I can host one if people are up for it, have some ideas I can write up later today

I'd sign up!

plz don't be anime theme.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 26, 2022, 08:13:53 pm
plz don't be anime theme.
Lol hey now that was like 10 years ago!
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: worldwideweb3 on April 26, 2022, 08:22:48 pm
who won? who was who?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 26, 2022, 08:30:38 pm
@Wyand, can you visit the wordwideweb3 and both start participating?
Actually, it may be a bit far, but if you can, consider getting the marsmoons on board as well.
Btw, I was hoping Wyand would pick up this crumb and when he wrote that post to w3 i thought he understood. Yet he still couldnt produce a single read all game.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 26, 2022, 08:42:12 pm
who won? who was who?

Town won
RootRanger= Omegon
andretimpa= Sheed Ranko

serprex= Alpharius
Linkcat= Into Pech

Everyone else was town Legionarie
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: marsmoons on April 26, 2022, 08:53:55 pm
Good game! For me it was interesting to watch it play out while at the same time trying to figure things out for how to play.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 26, 2022, 10:33:33 pm
Kaempfer was right about me for the wrong reasons. Missing my N0 action and late claiming Alpharius result were both things I would have done as town.

Our win condition was lynching anyone else D2, then identifying Omegon for the N3 kill. This was totally doable had I actually had time to play, very sad but it is what it is.

Rerolling was correct. The setup was interesting, but very mechanical without a lot of room for reads. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's a change of pace like the last game was. Unfortunately I believe these last two games have shown that there are not enough people who are both willing to sign up and able to be active in order to run proper games. I cannot in good faith condone hosting another game after this one.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 26, 2022, 10:50:29 pm
Unfortunately I believe these last two games have shown that there are not enough people who are both willing to sign up and able to be active in order to run proper games. I cannot in good faith condone hosting another game after this one.

This makes me sad. Mafia is what brings me back here. Even before flash death, Mafia was the reason I've stuck around.
I guess I'm being hopeful, but these last 2 games have shown us that creative minimafia is doable. My game could've started with 9 players, but still got 11. The Mafia wiki shows 4 player formats and everything above.
As far as general activity, the inactive players are the consistent ones. W3, shock, and whoever is a noob are always low posters. Not only that, my set up was inherently a low activity game. 4 power roles and 7 weak info roles will cause that. I created the rules with that in mind.

I hope Roots format idea will change your mind, but I get it if we end at 79. Maybe it'll encourage me to find another way to play.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 26, 2022, 11:38:18 pm
@Wyand, can you visit the wordwideweb3 and both start participating?
Actually, it may be a bit far, but if you can, consider getting the marsmoons on board as well.
Btw, I was hoping Wyand would pick up this crumb and when he wrote that post to w3 i thought he understood. Yet he still couldnt produce a single read all game.

I haven't produced anything because I haven't played Mafia ever. Ever. I barely put my left toe in the water to check it.
Also life is quite busy nowadays. Really. Maybe next time. It is a learning process.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Mobian on April 26, 2022, 11:47:36 pm
Soooo is mafia all of a sudden disallowed" Or is Linkcat just saying he won't be willing to run one himself due to current conditions?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 27, 2022, 04:41:35 am
Heya so here's what I've got, if people are up for it (and I get the Linkcat seal of approval) we can roll out.

Players have a Role (Mafia, Animal Cop, or Veterinarian) and an Animal (Cat or Dog). Mafia comprise approximately 1/3 of the players, and there is 1 Veterinarian who is part of the Civilian team. The remaining players are Animal Cops, who comprise the rest of the Civilian team. Animals will be randomized at the start of the game. Mafia are informed of their Animal, but Civilians are not.

In addition to the Mafia's factional Night Kill, there are three actions in the game which may be used during the night phase (depending on your Role). Players may choose up to one action during the night. Inspect may only be chosen by Animal Cops. Protect may only be chosen by the Veterinarian. Transform may be chosen by any player, including the Mafia. Self-targeting is not allowed.
1. Inspect: target a player; learn what their Animal is
2. Protect: target a player; learn what their Animal is and prevent them from being Night Killed
3. Transform: swap your Animal (Cat becomes Dog; Dog becomes Cat)

Each day, the players may vote on a player to Lynch, which kills them. Players may also vote to No Lynch, in which case no player will die. A tied vote is treated as a No Lynch. Phases are each 48 hours. When a player dies (whether through Lynch or Night Kill), their Role is revealed but not their Animal. Also, at the start of each day, players are told how many Cats and Dogs exist.

Action Priority
1. Protect
2. Night Kill
3. Inspect
4. Transform

Essentially, the significance of the Animals is that Mafia do not have the power to check someone's Animal and thus will have to fake their claims. Yet, there's no direct role investigation, so Mafia have a lot of options. As for balancing, the numbers I have in mind are 2 Mafia for a 7-9 player game and 3 Mafia for a 10-12 player game. Additionally, for balance reasons, the first 1 or 2 Night Kills may be skipped depending on player count. For games with 8/11 players, the first 1 Night Kill is skipped. For games with 7/10 players, the first 2 Night Kills are skipped.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 27, 2022, 08:56:06 am
Does transform inverse the animal or transform into specified animal? Transform happening after inspection also complicates things a lot (but also simplifies them). I was thinking of a few ways to coordinate things, but its quite difficult (even in the latter case). In case of inversing we probably have to spend a night investigating the player below in signuplist and announce the result for people to know who they even are (Actually I rethought things and this is actually the correct approach even if you know what animal you turn into, as it allows for meaningfull results by night 2). next night is completely silent, unless someone chose to investigate a player that was stated to be a different player before (transform happens last and the night before everyone that investigated). Such a result would result in a 3 way thunderdome, involving 2 town and i dont see a way how subsequent nights could directly help resolve that (luck could have more players investigating the player of disputed species on night2).
Things get way complicated after that. Secrecy is required to not tell mafia everything they need to know, but a single player cant have enough information to know they found sth suspicious. Additionally even on dead players crosstreams give confidence that players have the same or different alignement, depending on whether their results agree.
All things considered, i think the sum of all animal cops amount to about half the value of a real cop, assuming all players are even involved enough to untangle things (value is a bit dependent on length of the game, where short games benefit less as there arejust not enough datapoints and an important witness is more likely to die before saying anything).
Also its way too complicated for half the players here.

Dont worry MW, it's not anime themed. It's furry themed.

Edit: with 50% chance of mafia just guessing right and more ways for mafia to evade suspicion, its actually more like a 1/4 th cop. Also agreeing claims are actually completely meaningless for the alignement of susbsequent claims. Either balance the game more towards mountaineous(5:1, no prs) or add/buff town prs. i didnt talk about the confirmed town doc as its a role we are already familiar with, but it is noteworthy ofc.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 27, 2022, 03:58:42 pm
Am I correct in understanding there's no difference between cats and dogs? Like no ability or priority change? So what's the point of transforming? And why would anyone use the dog check cat check as evidence when presenting a push? I get that it prevents fake claims, but the rest of the players will probably assume they transformed. Due to rule 3, its almost impossible to refute the transform option regardless of alignment.

Kae predicting the whole game made it sound a lot more complicated than the actual rules. My only gripe is the face value redundancy of dogs and cats. Might be missing something tho so I'll wait for a reply.

Quote
Dont worry MW, it's not anime themed, it's furry themed.

Mafia 80 by RootRanger- Zootopia
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 27, 2022, 04:23:30 pm
I would suggest a relatively simple godfather setup with some modifiers and a carried nightkill:

Mafiateam: Godfather: The Godfather can order a goon to perform the nightkill, overruling their target in case of a dispute/no input. The Cop investigating the Godfather gets a town result, unless the Godfather chose to carry out the nightkill that night. The Godfather may have a powerrole as well.
Goons: Can carry the nightkill. If there are 10 players or more there will be 2 goons. Goons may have Power roles from the list below.

Roleblocker: Target a player. Prevent them from using their action(s), including the nightkill.
Tracker: Target a player. Can see who they targeted. In case that player performed the nightkill, only the nightkill will be tracked (but not directly specified as such).
Watcher: Target a player. Can see who else targeted target player, including through the nightkill.
Vanilla: No night action available.

Cop: There will always be exactly 1 Cop, guaranteed to be town. The cop can investigate target player each night. If they are a goon or (or and) performed the nightkill the result will be mafia, else town.

A roleblock will block any other ability, including the nightkill, otherwise priority shouldnt matter.
Only successfull ability uses can be tracked/watched.
Only Cop, watcher and tracker using their abilities will be informed if they have been blocked.

If a cop, watcher or tracker forgets to use their ability, their target will be randomized, unless they pm the host that they want to holster (marginally relevant in case of fearing a tracker I guess)


Here is what I consider balanced for respective player numbers: there is always a mafia godfather and a town cop. townprs can be counterweighed by mafia prs, so that  a mafia pr dead doesnt automatically mean that all remaining prs are town.
8:  1 goon, townprs-mafiaprs=2
9: 1 goon, townprs-mafiaprs=1
10: 2 goons, townprs-mafiaprs=3 (to account for claimpower vs size of playerbase i reduced the number after some thinking. also the mafia pseudo rolecops are basically useless with so many prs around, and it gets worse the more prs are in the game.)
11: 2 goons, townprs-mafiaprs=3
12: 2 goons, townprs-mafiaprs=2
13: 2 goons, townprs-mafiaprs=1

I'm actually a bit unsure about the balance of this setup, as I have no experience with the godfather role, but thought it would be a good way to limit the power of the cop and justify introducing an alternative way of finding mafia. It also has the advantage of being fairly straightforward in terms of what results of night actions mean (except for the cop ironically). All noncop roles are on about the same powerlvl as doc for town in this setup, except follow the cop is impossible unless only one mafiaplayer remains (and rb has some negative sideeffects). For mafia, both watcher and tracker are essentially rolecops, roleblock is a bit weaker, as you have to give justification for it and it doesnt affect townrb. I'm debating whether mafiarb should override townrb without informing townrb directly.

I also erred a bit towards townside, as inactives tend to mess with town more and are very common here (and also most popular setups i could compare to are daystart, favoring town in that regard).
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 27, 2022, 05:07:51 pm
Vanilla role??  :-[

I like it tho. Seems simple enough, and finding a Mafia seems tough enough. Game win by parity or by godfather death?
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on April 27, 2022, 05:12:05 pm
parity/ mafia team wiped
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 28, 2022, 12:24:01 am
Soooo is mafia all of a sudden disallowed" Or is Linkcat just saying he won't be willing to run one himself due to current conditions?

Last game had 6 active contributors, this one had 5, which was just the same set of people excluding me. There will be no Mafia 80 at this point in time.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: RootRanger on April 28, 2022, 01:41:01 am
I did like kae's godfather setup (and appreciate for the feedback on my own idea). Time to get the Elements Council to appoint a new FGO lol, I'll see if I can pull some strings and get the vote passed.

Anyways, if this is it then, well, thanks all for the fun games this past month. It was fun getting involved in the forum again.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 28, 2022, 03:33:03 am
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Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 28, 2022, 05:12:59 pm
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Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 29, 2022, 04:23:45 am
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-games/elements-mafia-78-by-serprex/msg1307270/#msg1307270

Deal.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 29, 2022, 05:38:37 am
Rule 10.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: MasterWalks on April 29, 2022, 03:30:28 pm
Rule 12
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Linkcat on April 29, 2022, 10:43:22 pm
Ah, right. In this case I declare that you can get bent.
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: Wyand on April 29, 2022, 11:02:25 pm
hey, you are a master of :life not :fire :D
Title: Re: Elements Mafia 79 - by MasterWalks
Post by: kaempfer13 on May 10, 2022, 10:36:27 am
Just realized that shock never targeted me. I am shocked!
blarg: