Micro 650 Restart: Mislead 2 (Game Over)

[Realeo]

YES =D

[callforjudgement]

Also, I feel sorry for Infinity, who's drawn scum in all of these so far. The random number generator on Mafiascum seems to be picking on you for some reason (I used dice tags in the mod thread).

This game was definitely slow-paced, but it seemed like the majority of players were OK with that, so I didn't intervene much (not that there's much you can do about activity as a mod). The restart was unfortunate (and very disruptive to the mods too, not just the players), but probably unavoidable given the circumstances. Overall, I think both teams did fairly well; town weren't terrible either in terms of strategy or in terms of reads, but didn't scumhunt quite well enough to catch the scum when it matters. Peptobislawl did very well to take out the vast majority of townies, giving Infinity 324 a good head start to close out the game with. Some of the town caught him, but not enough to actually lead to a win. On the other side, I was impressed with Titus and (earlier in the game) Imperium. One thing I think town could have done a bit better was planning for the future; NJAC was widely scumread, which means that a "NJAC picks scum, if they flip town then lynch NJAC" strategy was worth considering (and would actually have won the game for town in this situation, although of course it doesn't

always

work).

In terms of my thoughts on the setup, it's quite similar to Vote For Town (and town chose to play it like that), with the difference that Distrust is always available as an option if you need to get rid of near-certain scum quickly, and the possibly larger difference that it's possible to confirm someone as town and yet still have their voice in the game. I think it works from a theory point of view, and although fairly complex, nobody seemed to have much trouble understanding it, so it went well in practice too. (I also didn't see anything to make me doubt its balance.) I'd definitely be willing to run it again, although probably not immediately; setups this complex/flavourful work better in small doses, with simpler ones in between to break them up.

[Gamma Emerald]

I feel this game is really close to Predict the Flip, except Town and Mafia are Trust and Distrust, and if you're town that is lynched you still live.

[callforjudgement]

It's meant to be equivalent to Predict the Flip (lynched town live there too); having different names for the strategies doesn't change that. (As it happens, this setup came first, Predict the Flip was a deflavouring of it. I came up with the idea while a player during Mislead 1, which was fun but shockingly townsided. It was frustrating because I had to wait for the game to be no longer ongoing before I could tell anyone about the setup.)

[Realeo]

My only problem was the extremely generous prod time and the deadline. There was not enough action to get any traction.

[Peptobislawl]

Go ahaid and release the threads. There's nothing too exiting in there though, i was only alive for 2 days.

[Vedith]

Thanks for the game.
I couldn't really get my head around the concept until after we voted trust on Imperium. I thought that if you followed on scum you were out of the game, so I was stumped when we were still all in it.

Would be interesting to do this again with knowledge of it now

[Infinity 324]

You can release the threads.

[Vedith]

You can release the threads.

No I can't, I can't even view them.

[Infinity 324]

Not talking to you lol

[Vedith]

Not talking to you lol

WTF? Why not? :<

[Infinity 324]

Cause you're not cool

[Realeo]

Isn't Vedith the one who said "If Infinity is mafia, we would not be friend"?

Infinity, pull some 180.

[Vedith]

Infinity broke my heart! </3
It's over between us!

[Creature]

If every player actually tried to contribute scum would be screwed.

[Vedith]

I tried, but I got lost with it and was trying to work it out most of it. :<

[Infinity 324]

jk I love you vedith <3

[callforjudgement]

OK, scum threads released.

[NJAC]

GGWP

@cfj: Thanks for the game. If you make another one like this please count me in.

[Infinity 324]

If you make another one like this please count me in.

Same

[Realeo]

If you make another one like this please count me in.

Same

[Radja]