Thanks all, and mod for the game. Especially mod, for putting up with me.
Mafia quicktopic
Also, I'd like to explain publically what I reassured the mod of privately at the time: that my harshness towards the mod in the quicktopic thread was deliberately intended to rally the troops. Which is not to say I don’t have some quibbles.
What I found remarkable about this game is that I didn't receive a protown vibe from any single player the entire game. I was really thankful I was on the mafia- I think would have either gone batty, or died quickly and lost slowly trying to work with this town. I even half-seriously joked to the mod about whether this was an all-mafia setup, seriously considering the possibility of 3 or even 4 4-person mafias during d1.
The channel-changing mechanic seems to exclusively harm the town; mafia seems a bit overpowered on top of it (admittedly without my knowing the fullsetup). It requires the town to be extremely active; if lurking is allowed, it’s almost too easy for the mafia to avoid a lynch. Moreover, the mechanic requires > 1/2 the town to be active in an abbreviated period of time. Logistically, the mechanic should probably require a comod in a different timezone.
This game was an endurance match for the mafia- I realized by N1 (especially with the vote-resetting mechanic) that the town would never get enough momentum to lynch us, and it was easy enough to deflect attention away when one of us (ie Slicey) fell under suspicion. So it became a matter of just getting through 2 weeks after 2 weeks. Since it didn’t matter to the mafia whether we no-lynched or lynched a townsperson, there was no incentive to distinguish ourselves from the town’s apathy. We didn’t even need to resort to the safeclaims and explanations for our behavior we had worked out. The town threw away their numerical advantage with apathy.
zwet:
You flagrantly violated the don’t-discuss-the-game-after-you’re-dead and -outside-the-thread rules. I honestly think farside was generous to not punish you for continuing to insist in a Mafia Discussion thread that you were protown in this game. Very not cool.
Santos:
Less severe, (and no complaints about a lack of retribution) but a bah-post is not the place for speculation about the nature of the game. That is very game-relevant. It’s usually not fun as mafia to have to discredit confirmed innocents.
Drench:
Kind of confused why you lurked out d5. Seems like your only chance at that point is to lynch mafia? (And, of course, assume that there's 3 or fewer mafia so that we could be killed.) I feel sorry for you- SK's not a fun role when the mafia gets 2 unnightkillables.
KMD/Reckoner:
Oh, LC was obviously guilty from his first post on out. (Yes, the lynch-or-lose slip, but also his “re-read required” slip.) If we didn’t already have a majority, I would have seriously considered lynching him. I was actually perplexed by why he was playing so badly, until I realized it was presumably deliberate, to draw the SK to his unnightkillable self!
Mod:
Again, sorry for the harshness- I hope you understand that I wasn’t really happy about the Rule 7 situation, and having my comafia were on the chopping block to be replaced or modkilled was not helping.
Also, springing a "comafia can't submit nightchoices on behalf of a comafia" rule with no warning with less than 24 hours before the deadline is kind of nasty. Especially when we had asked about doing it on previous nights and you hadn't said anything then.
