VOTE: TimHoward
For being scum in the last game.
In post 174, Davsto wrote:In post 171, Kop wrote:I can see a positive in that plan to be honest. Whilst it only being the one positive in that idea, it's still not a full on bad idea.
Okay, let me break up the problem with Varsoon's plan.
It results in more Doctors claiming. The problem with knowing who is a Doctor? The Mafia are able to narrow down who is and isn't a Cop. Since these Docs are 1-Shot, they're completely useless the night after their protect. Thus, if they claim before the night they can protect, the Mafia know to leave them because killing them doesn't affect their protect, and after that night they're useless. This will result in an endgame of just Mafia and Doctors, as the Mafia have narrowed down who all the Cops are (they know the Cop/Doctor ratio) and killed them all. By not claiming, we will likely have a mix of Mafia/Doctors/Cops in the endgame. We can use the fact it's 4-6 of each to our advantage there, for a start. Letting the mafia know who all the Cops/Doctors are allows them to bend the endgame to what they want, rather than forcing it to be random.
In post 185, Kop wrote:In post 174, Davsto wrote:In post 171, Kop wrote:I can see a positive in that plan to be honest. Whilst it only being the one positive in that idea, it's still not a full on bad idea.
Okay, let me break up the problem with Varsoon's plan.
It results in more Doctors claiming. The problem with knowing who is a Doctor? The Mafia are able to narrow down who is and isn't a Cop. Since these Docs are 1-Shot, they're completely useless the night after their protect. Thus, if they claim before the night they can protect, the Mafia know to leave them because killing them doesn't affect their protect, and after that night they're useless. This will result in an endgame of just Mafia and Doctors, as the Mafia have narrowed down who all the Cops are (they know the Cop/Doctor ratio) and killed them all. By not claiming, we will likely have a mix of Mafia/Doctors/Cops in the endgame. We can use the fact it's 4-6 of each to our advantage there, for a start. Letting the mafia know who all the Cops/Doctors are allows them to bend the endgame to what they want, rather than forcing it to be random.
But you could have the cop of that night claim but not the doctor. That doctor can remain anonymous. If one or more cop claims that night and the real cop dies then it would point that the other is scum as town would have zero reason to claim falsely.
In post 233, Aj The Epic wrote:Pushed all the way through? I think that's kind of a new wrinkle for me, when we know it's a false claim and the lynch is still pushed. Generally, though, claiming cop guilty for fake claim is scum because in most cases town would claim day vig (reaction testing). Obviously doesn't apply here.
In post 294, Flow Alpha wrote:I don't see why my wagon would have scum. Why would scum vote other scum?
In post 270, TimHoward wrote:I have some stuff to respond to from D1 so I'm going to get this out of the way first.
In post 170, Flow Alpha wrote:Post 78 stems from a town mindset. That's why kop is town.
Really? I got nothing but a big, fat null from 78 so, yeah, walk me through that?
OK, I have spoilered all the reads I want to respond to.
You have Davsto as null, why is he an acceptable lynch and AJ is not?
I think your town read on WF is based on poor presumptions. It looks like you give 3 reasons for town reading WF, when actually, you have one just restated in different ways.
I'm confused as to why you thought KT's reaction was a scummy reaction when you said yourself it was a poor gambit as the role is quite clearly not present in this set-up. I'm not following your thought process here at all.
You give no read on Pano and instead choose to talk set-up spec; do you have a read?
Can you quote the posts from Wanderer that were giving you town vibes?
In post 172, Anatole Kuragin wrote:
I think Kop looks town because he's willing to "make enemies" with his reads and the attention he's paid to the game looks like scumhunting rather than faking it.
I'm gonna VOTE: Davsto.
I think Kop's list was pretty poor and he does a good job of avoiding directly calling anyone scum - where is he 'making enemies'? Like, show me one read where you think 'Oh shit, Kop is about to get some backfire for that comment'.
Also, why Davsto?
~BBT
[/quote]In post 275, TimHoward wrote:In post 244, davesaz wrote:D1 final vote count
KTthecreeper(7): Flow Alpha, Panopticon, White Fire, KTthecreeper, Wanderer-nl, Davsto, TimHoward
Davsto(2): ika, Anatole Kuragin
Flow Alpha(1): texcat
White Fire(1): Aj The Epic
Not Voting(2): davesaz, Kop
Flow Alpha -- I can see the fakeclaim being scum, mainly because it is so far out there. So far out there that many people would classify it as too scummy to be scum.
TimHoward used poor reasoning on the hammer post. Scum in this wagon position would get a free shot to hammer without ramifications, given ika is a notorious hammerer and had given intent.
Why did you choose to focus on Flow and us? I think there were plenty of poor votes on that wagon. This is your first substantial post in the game and it's seriously lacking.
In post 395, Aj The Epic wrote:Kop, his decision to jump on and put to L-1 feels out of place (as well as his sudden unshakable belief that flow was scum off some 'scum claim' of a new player).
In post 396, TimHoward wrote:Ok cool. Kop's also been disengaged, which is a scumtell of his. He was scum in Delicious (on the other faction) and was disengaged until he had to be engaged.
In the 6-2-1 micro, Kop was very engaged as town.
I haven't even paid attention to Kop this game, which is why he's probably slipped under my radar...because of the low level of engagement from him.
VOTE: Kop
In post 447, Anatole Kuragin wrote:I'd rather vote White Fire than TimHoward probably.
Honestly, I think the person who looks the worst right now is Anatole.
He was verbally against the Flow Alpha wagon, calling it lynchbait.
He went for a Davsto wagon for awhile and now we know Davsto is town.
He led a White Fire wagon, who is now practically confirmed as town.
He made a weak push and vote for me early, and I am confirmed to myself as town.
He hasn't been present at all today except to call out Wanderer's defense of Tim Howard (which is a flashwagon, imo).
He's been generally lurky all game.
This is the worst case in mafia history, that's how I feel about it.
In post 461, Wanderer-nl wrote:In post 457, Tatsuya Kaname wrote:Prodded davesaz and White Fire, anyone may request a prod for Wanderer-nl and TimHoward.
Sorry about that.
Kop has felt town during Day 1 but that feeling declined while the game went on. I don't like that Kop is moving his attention away from TimHoward when a new lynchtarget is being proposed, but doesn't unvote or give any kind of opinion on TimHoward later. I get the idea he doesn't really believe TimHoward is scum, or I'd expect him to push on them instead of joining the push on Anatole.
Also:
In post 171, Kop wrote:Flow Alpha
He has pretty much tunnelled KT pretty hard with his gambit, I said that if you were going to make a gambit, you would do it with a role that is in the game (according to P1). But to be honest, reading more into it, I think it's a reaction test more than anything, to see how KT reacts to it under pressure, but I think that is coming from a town mindset in order to catch scum. I seriously don't think Scum would announce themselves day one. But thinking more about it, is he hoping that the cop for N1 would investigate him in order to keep attention of his partners if he isn't the day one lynch? And then his lynch the next day would allow them to go about without any attention, as the focus is on him?
I am having a hard time determining whether he is town, or scum. Because it could come from both mindsets in the way he has approached this game.
Stays on the fence about Alphareallyhard. I also get the idea from this that Kop knows Alpha is going to flips scum. The way Kop voted Alpha on that scumslip to me also seemed like he knew Alpha was gonna flip scum.
Anatole hasn't been too active this game and has explained several times, and I don't believe he's intentionally lurking. I don't like how Anatole keeps shouting 'WIFOM' on cases lately, but other than that I can't really find anything scummy in his iso. He defended Alpha a little, but I did too, and TimHoward, of whom I now believe are town, did so too. I'm not going to lynch based on that.
VOTE: Kop (that's L-2)
In post 463, Wanderer-nl wrote:In post 462, Kop wrote:but scenarios were going to determine what paths I was going to go down.
Where's the town-motivation in that?
And how was Alpha always going to be a target of attention? If KT had flipped scum we would have liked the result of Alpha's gambit and probably spent a lot less time discussing it Day 2. The only reason in that case I can think of Alpha needing pressure is for claiming a role that isn't in the game, and if you really believed Alpha needed pressure for that, then why not do that yourself on Day 1 already? Now it just sounds like you knew KT was going to flip town.
In post 235, Kop wrote:The whole lynch wasn't based fully around the fake claim, it was also based on KT's reaction to it. And the whole self voting didn't do himself any justice.
If you really believed this, why weren't you on KT's wagon?
Actually, this is really annoying because you weren't that around much but also we had a quick hammer and you not being able to post anymore isn't unreasonable. Still, you were able to unvote TimHoward, why didn't you vote KT there?
In post 534, Anatole Kuragin wrote:In post 533, TimHoward wrote:Not quickhammering whether I'm scum or town is decidedly pro-town.
not quickhammering yourself if you're scum is pro-town?
In post 555, Aj The Epic wrote:In post 553, texcat wrote:I've asked Davesaz twice to explain his vote on Kop and he just ignores me. Does anyone understand it?
Yes. Kop originally stated that he never put Flow Alpha to L-1. I posted where he voted for flow alpha and the next post where he explicitly stated that vote was L-1.
In post 171, Kop wrote:Here is what I am up too.
Flow Alpha
He has pretty much tunnelled KT pretty hard with his gambit, I said that if you were going to make a gambit, you would do it with a role that is in the game (according to P1). But to be honest, reading more into it, I think it's a reaction test more than anything, to see how KT reacts to it under pressure, but I think that is coming from a town mindset in order to catch scum. I seriously don't think Scum would announce themselves day one. But thinking more about it, is he hoping that the cop for N1 would investigate him in order to keep attention of his partners if he isn't the day one lynch? And then his lynch the next day would allow them to go about without any attention, as the focus is on him?
I am having a hard time determining whether he is town, or scum. Because it could come from both mindsets in the way he has approached this game.
Who would I want to lynch out of there? I'd be going for KT, Davsto, and Alpha (depending on scenarios)
@Mod Can we prod Panopticon
In post 588, Anatole Kuragin wrote:correction: tried to save myself, was told by the mod I couldn't do that, then saved timhoward
In post 726, Varsoon wrote:If the Mafia PT gets released, you'll see that I actually pinned pretty much each cop.
Kop talked me out of killing Texcat, which also kinda lost us the game. :/
In post 768, Tatsuya Kaname wrote:In post 766, Kop wrote:Thanks to Tatsuya for modding. You never gave me the dead thread btw.
Well, I already added you in the list but forgot to send you the PM! Sorry