Hello folks.
Again, I come after a great length of time between posts. After Wednesday I should have a lot more time for the game, assuming I make it that far of course. Ill start in order of how fun it is to discuss
Subs RQS
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Q1: How would you play if you were mafia?
Q2: Can you provide an example of when you played as mafia like that?
Q3: If not, can you provide the latest game when you were mafia?
1: My play pattern in mafia is much different from when I last played on the forums. Typically, I play mafia and town in a very similar fashion (This is all IRL stuff) First, I usually open with a nice "If you're mafia and you know it clap your hands!" and clap as loudly as I can, and be obnoxiously bloodthirsty. Paint yourself as so outlandishly wolf its obviously a joke. The nice thing about living in that chaotic territory is it renders you effectively immune to a NK since the mafia think they can flip you in a lynch later, but also you can usually skirt a lynching if you just cut the crap. Just meme and wait until you really want to act. Its really just a waiting game until you can offer something of value, no sense offering some token suspicions and then getting stabbed because you said a jumpy mafia members name. Though admittedly I don't play with a lot of strong mafia players, maybe like, 20 of the 100 or so.
2: I doubt it, my style of play has changed a lot in the past few years, and I haven't played a mafia game in text in over 3 years? I think. I'm a little fuzzy on the details.
3: Again, I cannot. I dont even know the last time I played as mafia, and even if I did, I dont think it would reflect how I would play if I were mafia.
General notes on Last EoD
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I logged on late the other day, saw the 25 pages of messages and didn't really expect them to all be before EoD. It looked chaotic, and I apologize I mistimed my day and wasn't able to make it on for the vote I said I was going to make. For the record, Monday I do my shopping and lawn-care for myself and some other family members, plus I stream that day. In fact, you can account for the entire 2 hours before EoD and the entire mess that was EoD with vods.
As for actual EoD, I propose a few notes. First, I could have very easily voted and killed any of the 3(4 if you count the brief stint rob had on the list) players, they were all within 1 vote for most of the EoD. Second, not voting is just as scummy as being the nail in the coffin that kills a town (at least in my eyes.) Even If I managed to make it on that day I don't think I would have voted, for a lot of reasons.
I didnt want to draw attention to myself from the rest of the town by being the last to vote on a town early, when I'm still very much so on the edge about all three players on the block.
I didn't mind a kill on linkcat, because accuracy by volume of post makes these catch ups longer then id like, and ive given up on getting a read on him, but those arent very good reasons to kill a good player.
Then there was ann, who I felt was the most sus on that list, but all of their posts after the rob accusation felt genuine, and I sympathize with another player struggling to maintain activity in this game.
Lastly, there is timpa, who I feel is getting a bit of a piling on. I had some light gut feelings on what they were saying before, but I feel as though that judgement was clouded by the constant "Yea, Timpa very sus".
To top it all off, my activity level is too low to get a valid read on anyone, which is a failing on my part, I know. I assumed this day would end with a random town lynch and that would be that, and then come the next day I could maintain some activity. Obviously, this wasnt the case.
More stuff
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Most of what I've said in this post comes from the very light skimming I've done. I'm fine with being on the sus list, I understand that my inactivity can be seen as trying to go below the radar. In part that is true, I am leaning on my inactivity in many ways. I don't want to babble in front of the town from a position of little knowledge and set myself up for an early mafia train. I don't know how most of you play anymore, and I don't really know how text based mafia plays either. Most of my reads in person come from pressing people into fast answers, and forcing conversation. Ironically, I myself am the reason why this doesn't work in text. Because I'm simply not there to be questioned or to question.
Here is what I gathered from the EoD stuff
Shock felt very aggressive. It felt like a departure from the chaotic boi to actual get stuff done boi. I don't know if that screams mafia or town to me, I could see myself doing it for either.
Rob/Link A weird alliance I didn't quite expect to spring up. It felt like they were locked in combat before, but it seems more like a dance right now. I'm unsure what it means, but it makes me uneasy.
Kae made a few interesting points I want to mull over before posting any legitimate thoughts, if any happen
Torb has been doing Torb things. My tinfoil hat says that not being able to vote is a pretty nice excuse for mafia, though I'm unsure. My opinion on torb fluctuates by the second.
@DC
side note, I remember how much fun the old vulture role was, I think at one point in like, a 30 player game I managed to beat out like 10 votes with 1 as vulture, and then got into a trade fight over who got to keep vulture. Fun times. I'd say I miss it, but man, tilt city.
As a final note, I saw your question after EoD @DC, but it doesn't seem to matter much now. For the record, it was Ann at the time of your post, but I slept on it and it just didn't feel right, hence why I didnt make it a priority to make time to vote. I probably would have posted something on my three ? reads of Timpa, Ann, and MW.
I can't really think of anything else to post, and I have a zoom call tomorrow morning, so I'll be on about noonish EST. Though, i'll stick on until about half past to answer any questions while I'm here for once.
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