Anyone who uses the word "math" instead of "maths" is scum.
VOTE: Sashaddin
Teacher, any particular reason for going to L-2 within the first hour?In post 10, teacher wrote:Maths is the devil, I concur. History all the way. That makes way too many teachers in the room too.
VOTE: Sashasdin
In post 23, TTTT wrote:do you really think town comes in here and lolhammers?
I'm not saying it happens often, I'm just saying that it
I guess playing so many games in real life with people who aren't quite as... formal... has somewhat tainted my perspective of the average player.
Although this is the kind of reasoning that could've encouraged a newbie townie to hammer. Not saying it's good reasoning, but the fact that you're thinking it implies other people could be too.I kinda wish someone had hammered though. That'd have to be some sort of record and I, for one, would be happy to be in the mafia hall of fame.
As a mathsy person myself, I feel the need to point out from any one townie's view (i.e. the townie that goes for the hammer) it would be a 25% chance of fame, as they would not be counted in their own probabilities.zeebu wrote:22.2% chance of fame 77.7% shame
I answered this in the following sentence.JPD wrote:What's the problem with Sasha getting lynched then? If he flips town then we know who one of the scum is. If not, then we just lynched scum in less than 3 hours. Win, win in my book.In post 22, TheASC wrote:Probably scum if town!Sasha
I am starting to see the reason for the early L-1 though. Almost certainly lynching one member of the mafia (Sasha or their hammerer) is incredibly useful in the early stages of the game.In post 22, TheASC wrote:Probably scum if town!Sasha, although I have played with people before that just hammer without thought regardless of alignment. Either way, the information gained from interrogating an early hammerer seems a lot worse than what would naturally be gained over the course of a full 240 hour day.
I don't find that too surprising - 7 hours isn't an unreasonable gap between posts. I guess I find the fact that they posted without waiting for a reply at all a little unusual but apart from that I don't have a problem with it.In post 40, teacher wrote:ASC, what do you think of Sasha’s silence after the wagon?
Played one game on here as scum. Didn't do a particularly good job, but won anyway due to a very good partner.@board-general experience levels? If not your first game, give me a little self-meta?
Why specifically those two? Is it for their inactivity? Arithmancer has posted less than those two, and Schia and I have been away for just as long.In post 88, TTTT wrote:I'm just waiting for thisIn post 60, TTTT wrote:@ZestofLife
@zeebu
if you had to choose the most likely scum player right now
who?
In post 13, TTTT wrote:I like where this is going...
VOTE: Sash
L-1
If you vote for Sash he will be lynched
don't do this yet
@TTTT, you understand just how unlikely it is for town to hammer yet you feel the need to specify "If you vote for Sash he will be lynched" "don't do this yet". Why? Are you doubting that people wouldn't know how the game works and would join the lynch train because they didn't know what they were doing?In post 23, TTTT wrote:do you really think town comes in here and lolhammers?
In the vast majority of games, I play very cautiously as either faction, especially as town. The people that have played multiple games with me before would know this.In post 39, Schiavetto wrote:Honestly, have to echo the sentiments of T4 and others w/rt the assumption that town would, idk, accidentally trip over, fall into their keyboard, awkwardly landing on the keys "LYNCH SASH" and hammer
Even without browsing previous games, it feels like you're preempting a defensive read there ASC ("Look at me, I'm being cautious of town making a mistake, which makes me town myself!")
There's utility in early-game wagon-building & I'm in no rush to relieve pressure, even if rand. Parking, fam.
I'm in the UK so BST (GMT+1) at the moment.In post 76, teacher wrote:Another good getting to know people issue - general timezones? Im North America, and usually on late at night or early morning my time as I am limited during the school day. On experience, I have appr. 20 games, with only 1 true scum experience outside marathon or replacements. In general, Im a try-hard as any alignment.In post 55, ZestOfLife wrote:I blame timezones
In post 102, Sashaddin wrote:Personally, I started with a paranoiac state style where I wanted every post to be 100% perfect, to be townread. This can lead people to think you're scum that walks on eggshells...In post 101, TTTT wrote:that's actually an incredibly townie question for a newbie to ask
Now I go with what I think, no holds. It makes me more authentic, but many people find that I'm scummy even when playing town. Eh. Since I'm authentic, it's much easier to play this way though.
Find your own style and be comfortable with it. Good players will still be able to read you.
I appreciate the irony of making a mistake in a post where you state you want "every post to be 100% perfect", whether this was intentional or not.In post 103, Sashaddin wrote:Oh I meant to quote Zeebu in the above ^^
First: There is another possible interpretation the way I see it, which is that TTTT was asking the rest of us which of those two we thought was the scummiest.In post 129, teacher wrote:This is actually my strongest scumread.In post 91, zeebu wrote:In post 90, TheASC wrote:Sorry for the poke, hopefully I'll be more active over the next few days. I guess that's the problem with having so many reactionary players - It's easier to build on someone else's post than it is to start something new.
Why specifically those two? Is it for their inactivity? Arithmancer has posted less than those two, and Schia and I have been away for just as long.In post 88, TTTT wrote:I'm just waiting for thisIn post 60, TTTT wrote:@ZestofLife
@zeebu
if you had to choose the most likely scum player right now
who?
i think hes asking us for our reads
mild scum lean on arith for post 54. several had already stated this (including myself) and general agreement that it probably wasnt likely to happen anyway. i dont think it needed to be said again.
sorry for the lack of posting on the weekend, i should have tried to find a computer. i spend a good portion of my weekdays tied to my desk so i expect a large jump in my activity starting now.
First, theres a bit of oddity in the language: "I think hes asking us for our reads". TTTT's question isnt ambiguous - he is indeed asking for your reads. This line, though arguably responsive to ASC, simply strikes me as tonally off.
Second, I dont get the scum read of arith from 54, if not the others that repeated the same point. Indeed, Arith's 54 on the whole gave me town vibes, even if it was flogging a dead horse. Such was the gamestate at the time.
Third, Im curious about the appearance of an avatar different from the one provided from someone who didnt seem graphically inclined.
VOTE: Zeebu
Not 100% comfortable with the wagon, but pushes to L-1 anyway?Sashaddin wrote:129 above was one solid post. Allow me to sheep it. I'm still not 100% comfortable with the wagon though...
VOTE: ZeebuL-1
This feels strange to me, why would you not want an experienced player in the game? Feels to me like you might be trying to push an easy mislynch on an inactive player.In post 174, TTTT wrote:I'd rather a newbie replace in than another SE
1-lynch spread presumably refers to how multiple people are each being voted by one other as opposed to building up multiple 2-3 vote wagons.In post 222, TTTT wrote:can you explain what you mean by 1-lynch spread?In post 189, Schiavetto wrote:I'm not the biggest fan of 1-lynch spreads (ASC and ZoL know this). From town, they represent a kind of passivity, or refusal to participate in the (sometimes risky!) process of building wagons, applying pressure and developing reads. From scum, it can be a defensive tactic used to inconvenience town or dissociate oneself from a partner.
This feels like it was just thrown in to appease the town.
Also, I'm not too keen on this question, considering zeebu was at the time (and is currently) voting TTTT.In post 200, ClearlyClarity wrote:That's true — no matter what alignment TTTT is, he gets towncred for opposing your lynch. Do you read him as scum or town, then?In post 184, zeebu wrote:even though tttt had been the loudest voice in my favor, i think he also stands the most to gain if i am mislynched on day 1
Not confident in any of my scum reads at the moment. I know I
I agree RE: Sasha, the play reminds me very much of me in my scumgame. Admittedly I'm not playing too differently to that atm but hopefully I'll improve as the game continues.In post 247, JPD wrote:Aight, some real life stuff overran and I only just got home. Gonna spend an hour on here before I head to bed. I'll try to make my way through all that's been posted since I've been gone.
I'll answer Shiavetto's question first.
My read on Sasha isn't a particularly strong one, certainly not something I'd consider lynching him over at the moment but that could change.In post 189, Schiavetto wrote: If you had to build a counterwagon against zeebu, on a player other than the one you're currently lynching, who would it be? Please provide two details to support your thinking, and remember to explain your reasoning.
1)Sasha hasn't done any active scum hunting. Of his 38 posts he has asked only two questions (47 and 96) neither of which I would consider helpful for scumhunting. His other posts have reiterated something someone else has already said (43, 67, 68, 138, 176 and 216).
2)He said in post 84 that he thought the scum was in the pool of lurkers. This feels like an excuse to not bother scumhunting, especially given he hadn't even made an attempt to pressure the active players before declaring this.
3)His logic for jumping on the Zeebu bandwagon is inconsistent. When I pressured him on it he mentioned as special 'something' that he can't talk about. I'm not a fan of this. It derails discussion as suddenly we can't ask him (or anyone else who talks about the 'something') any questions about something they've done which was kind of suspect. He jumped on the bandwagon due to post 129 which he described as "strong" but wasn't in my opnion. This 'something' better be bloody good for him to suddenly change his mind. Evidence
4)He is very reluctant to share any information. He posted his reads list 69 and Teacher and I both had to prod to twice to get him to share his reasoning (70 and 72, 79 and 81). Even then his reasoning was either week, or still not revealed fully. It feels like he posted his reads and had to come up with reasons after the fact. This 'something' is another example of that.
Some of this is a bit of a stretch, or could just be interpeted differently but I think Sasha would be my best candidate for a lynch right now (if I wanted to lynch someone right now, which I don't). Possibly TTTT as an alternative but I don't have reasons for that beyond his play seeming off when compared to my metadive. I'll look into that a bit more and see if I can put the feeling in to words.
England, GMT+1In post 275, TTTT wrote:this game is way too inactive...
so plz answer a couple questions:
what time zone do you live in?
when are you most likely to be active?
do you usually phone post or computer post?
For people who read or were in my previous game, this is the same group that I knew Zeito from.In post 305, Schiavetto wrote:ZoL & I mod the same chat-based maf community, of which TheASC is a member
For the most part I agree with this. Teacher, zeebu and JPD are my strongest trs currently.In post 304, TTTT wrote:lynchpool:
Clarity
Noodle
ASC
Sash
those top two should be priority wagons/sorts rn
In post 342, Sashaddin wrote:What do you think towny about Zeebu?In post 337, TheASC wrote:For the most part I agree with this. Teacher, zeebu and JPD are my strongest trs currently.
In post 182, zeebu wrote:is it something that i am supposed to do or someone else?
In post 215, zeebu wrote:is it fair to say that the general consensus is that one of either tttt or i are likely to be scum?
He reacted well despite spending multiple real life days at L-1 and has been constantly asking questions to advance the state of the game, as well as his knowledge of the game, since he subbed in.In post 238, zeebu wrote:alright, now im sensing some distancing between clarity and tttt. something about their interactions, unless just retaliatory, hit a chord with me. im still safely under the gun at the moment, so a vote on tttt is certainly a safe move and doubles as allowing cc to get a vote down (as asc pointed out) with little consequence since it doesnt really do anything for the game.
wilky. Neither him nor ZoL have posted much, and they posts they have made definitely don't help his cause.In post 372, Sashaddin wrote:@ ASC, Teacher, TTTT:
If you had to choose a lynch outside of me and Zebu, who would it be?
In post 344, wilky wrote:Been a really long day for me, worked 6am - 5.30 pm then done a 400 mile drive afterwards. I've quickly skimmed the thread and will do a more in depth post tomorrow morning.
Zeebu and the asc are town.
Jpd is probably my biggest scum read atm but I'm not voting until the morning when I can get a better read and properly collect my thoughts.
Sasha has looked scummy in some posts I skimmed through but I think Sasha is mislymch bait in general.
UNVOTE:
Sorry, I'll try harder to keep up.In post 356, teacher wrote:Total aside - comments like this are why I’m ok lynching you even though I have you on the upside of null. They tell me you’re not really following the game. Zeebu is a “replacement” but was in the game from the start (See 6In post 343, TheASC wrote:since he subbed in.
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to make a mistake in regards to Schia's gender... In my last game, the two people that were referred to by incorrect pronouns were scum. That's probably not statistically significant though, right?In post 367, TTTT wrote:365 is a townish response
Schiav answers in a way consistent with her prior statements
Yeah, mainly the inactivity in addition to a general reread of the thread.In post 378, JPD wrote:In post 337, TheASC wrote:Teacher, zeebu and JPD are my strongest trs currently.I find it interesting that you had me as one of your top TRs and now I'm null (with only 1 post inbetween and less than a full day) without you having asked me any questions or said anything about my posts. That's not entirely true actually, you have mentioned my posts but only to say you agree with them (post 337).
Is it due to my inactivity over the last couple of days? Or is it Wilky calling me his top SR?
I can understand the Wilky thing kind of as your top SR calling me scum could be seen as distancing? idk. Just trying to call out inconsistencies.
Have fun then It's mine next week.In post 386, JPD wrote:To explain the activity, it's my birthday and I'm celebrating with my sister before she heads off to Malta for a year.
In post 344, wilky wrote:Been a really long day for me, worked 6am - 5.30 pm then done a 400 mile drive afterwards. I've quickly skimmed the thread and will do a more in depth post tomorrow morning.]
Looks like it's not me promising posts later and not following through. Although I guess Clarity could've been asking for a few hours or days... Let's lynch one of those two today, I don't mind which.In post 393, ClearlyClarity wrote:Checking in now. Give me a few.
Like I said, there's two people I would be happy lynching here so I'm fine swapping to the person other people also want to lynch.In post 407, Sashaddin wrote:ASC, ClearlyClarity and Schiavetto shouldn't be sitting on their vanity wagons, we'e runnning out of time. Wilky should be voting too.
Vote me if you want to, we might learn something.
That's certainly a large part of it. From what I can tell, the vote was an attempt to get me more active, which seems very townie. This game has been very slow, and any attempts to increase activity give that person huge townie points imo.In post 426, teacher wrote:@ascIn post 399, teacher wrote:Can you also speak on what jumped Schia up for you? Was it the vote on you
In post 439, zeebu wrote:that seems rude. also, isnt it still on L-1? unless you unvoted and theres your revote, you were already on CCIn post 438, TTTT wrote:if this flips town I'm lynching you tomorrow zeebs
I regret not doing that trick on page 1 when I had the chance. I didn't think of it until the day after, when I'd already unvoted. I guess it doesn't quite have the same effect if all the votes are on one page though.In post 440, teacher wrote:It’s called a hammer test. Hence why I played along. It’s to get reactions from those not really following.
Let's hope this isn't the second of my games to have a PR hammered before they can claim. Although saying that, she's had plenty of warning for this.In post 458, Schiavetto wrote:Yeah, nah, I don't have any reservations about this.
VOTE: Clearly Clarity
Boom.
Yeah, I'm here.
That doesn't really answer my question - why Sasha?In post 469, zeebu wrote:im not sure how to answer this. i had declared intent and was about to vote and then schiavetto came in and basically prevented me from doing so.In post 467, TheASC wrote:To the people that weren't voting Clarity yesterday: why were you voting for who you were voting for? In Wilky's case, why weren't you voting at all?
1) I agree that this is the likely reasoning here. You took a while to even declare intent - who knows how long the actual hammer would've taken.the simplest explanation is that schiavetto wanted to save a couple hours
the slightly scummy explanation is that since it was inevitable, vetto decided to pull the trigger to get on the wagon before it was too late
the much scummier explanation is that the hammer prevented clearly clarity from trying to defend or claim anything that we could have possibly used.
VOTE: schiavetto
so?
What do you think Zeebu's reasoning was for killing teacher specifically over other strong players such as TTTT?In post 480, Sashaddin wrote:Ok I read some Iso's and excluding the existence of Wilky, because he isn't here, I'd say Zeebu has killed Teacher last night. Every other iso makes sense to me.
VOTE: Zeebu
In post 480, Sashaddin wrote:Ok I read some Iso's and excluding the existence of Wilky, because he isn't here, I'd say Zeebu has killed Teacher last night. Every other iso makes sense to me.
VOTE: Zeebu
You went from "Zeebu is definitely scum" to "Zeebu's not so bad after all" in 20 posts.In post 501, Sashaddin wrote:Zeebu's not so bad after all. I can like a couple of his posts if I convince myself he's town.
UNVOTE: Zeebu
I'll vote after the prodded two manifest themselves.
The only post from Zeebu in this time is this one, which doesn't feel incredibly townie to me. From experience, scum is far more likely to "townlock" people than town is, and hard bussing is definitely a thing that exists - considering how inactive Clarity was, it's not out of the question that someone thought the town cred they'd get for bussing her was more than the value of keeping her alive.zeebu wrote:The only way you aren’t town is if you totally threw clearly clarity under the bus. You spearheaded it.
This sounds like it's a lot more specific than it actually is. Fourth flipped as confirmed town, Fifth is Schia who would see himself as confirmed town, First is TTTT who most of us have a strong town read on and second was discussed already in the post. This leaves third-position (me) and the three people off-wagon (other than Clarity of course).In post 513, Schiavetto wrote:If they were on the wagon, I have trouble picturing them as second-position (especially when second-pos player, Sash, was the next-most popular lynch). Not ruling it out, though.
Third-position or off-wagon feels more likely
I agree that feels a little off, although not sure how much can be read into this.In post 529, Sashaddin wrote:This feels weird. Like trying to make an alibi or something. Especially since Teacher got nightkilled.In post 358, Schiavetto wrote:BTW, @teacher, remember to address me at some point so we don't get accused of being partners~*~*~
Why exactly would I be killed? Yes, I've had experience with Schiavetto, but I'm nowhere near as good a player as some of the others here. I haven't been particularly active this game and haven't really been town read by many people here.In post 530, Sashaddin wrote:This might be why ASC is alive instead of teacher. He didn't read Schiavetto as scum.In post 376, TheASC wrote:Current thoughts:
ASC
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zeebu,,Schiateacher
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TTTT, JPD, Sasha
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Clarity, wilky
What are you trying to say here?In post 541, MaryJoLisa wrote:Awww. Did this post give it away?In post 530, Sashaddin wrote:This might be why ASC is alive instead of teacher. He didn't read Schiavetto as scum.In post 376, TheASC wrote:Current thoughts:
ASC
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zeebu,,Schiateacher
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TTTT, JPD, Sasha
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Clarity, wilky
Yeah, I'm convinced this slot is cursed somehow. ZoL made 4 posts, 3 of which were game-related. ScreamingNoodle subbed in and out without saying anything. wilky posted twice saying "I'll be back later" and then once saying some reads with "I'm not voting until the morning". That was 11 days ago. So yeah, 7 posts of which 4 were game-related in around 15 real life days of gameplay.In post 561, MaryJoLisa wrote:Hold on. I'm half-way through reading and commenting on the thread. I'm the fourth person in this slot. Am I understanding correctly that before I joined the game, my slot made a grand total of 7 posts? ScreamingNoodle made 0 posts?
So, in regard to these lynch candidates: Schiavetto has been a strong town read for me all game, and I'd prefer to get more input from MJL before lynching that slot. I'm not going to vote myself for obvious reasons. So, I'm happy with a Sasha lynch.
I'm impressed. I saw this and thought "this would never work considering the previous post" and then... it worked.
In post 619, TheASC wrote:I'm impressed. I saw this and thought "this would never work considering the previous post" and then... it worked.
Oh wait never mind I'm just being bad. I thought this was a trick to catch people off guard by saying it's L-1 similar to 432 because I didn't account for the fact that the number of votes to lynch changed after the first day. Ironic that I fell for a hammer test that never actually happened.
Schia, how is this any different to what you were doing with your vote on me yesterday?In post 189, Schiavetto wrote:One thing I will say before I take off-
I'm not the biggest fan of 1-lynch spreads (ASC and ZoL know this). From town, they represent a kind of passivity, or refusal to participate in the (sometimes risky!) process of building wagons, applying pressure and developing reads. From scum, it can be a defensive tactic used to inconvenience town or dissociate oneself from a partner.
You don't seem to have addressed my main point regarding a Neapolitan which is that we would not have any more clears than we do currently - just because someone claims Nea with a result doesn't mean they actually are Nea with a result. In C1, the last scum knows there's no other PR so they can claim Nea themselves and we absolutely don't want to accidentally clear scum.In post 728, Schiavetto wrote:As for your allegation that TTTT has requested a Neapolitan claim [x], you're either misunderstanding what he said or deliberately misrepresenting what he said: He asked for a Neapolitan to claim if they got a VT result on somebody, reason being that we would (presumably) have three clears. The same thing could be accomplished by having a Tracker (should one exist) claim their result/lack of result on a player.
I've been playing mafia IRL for about 6 months, active in a mafia chat room (with Schia and many others) for about 3 months and this is my second game on here.In post 733, MaryJoLisa wrote:@TheASC, if you've answered this already, I apologize. How much experience do you have playing a game like this?
Likewise, if I am a Neapolitan or Tracker, I do not have an innocent result outside of TTTT.In post 746, TTTT wrote:I'll start:
If I am a Neapolitan or Tracker I do not have an innocent result outside of TTTT