Drummer's Law

[Drummer]

I was wondering how I make it to the endgame more often than I get killed at night. These are my conclusions:

As the game progresses, the intelligence quotient for living *pro-town* players approaches 30.

Brilliant, huh? Why would the mafia want smart people alive at the end?

And all of you who are about to call me a moron...I know already. I make it to the endgame, remember?

(* at Flay's request)

[Tamuz]

Why not 100 rather than 0... 100 is the limit for breathing and talking, 0 is dead and a half.

[Turbovolver]

100 isn't the limit for breathing and talking. 100 is the supposed average.

AFAIK

[ArielT]

I think breathing and talking is down at like 30? I believe that's the threshold for severe mental retardation.

[zu_Faul]

Oh yeah it's this magical number :/

[Mr. Flay]

I was wondering how I make it to the endgame more often than I get killed at night. These are my conclusions:

As the game progresses, the intelligence quotient for living players approaches 0.

Modify it to

pro-town players

and

30

, and I'd support it.

[Trojan Horse]

Dilbert's Law: The intelligence quotient of any meeting is 100 minus 5 points for each participant.

Vote: Drummer

for suggesting a contradictory law.

[Drummer]

I'm not saying that it ever reaches 0. I'm just saying that it "approaches" 0. And yes, you're right. Pro-town players is better.

[EDIT] But then again, you've probably got a higher IQ than me. Let's go with 30.

[PolarBoy]

It is said that mobs take a life of their own. It is also said that to find the IQ of the mob, take the IQ of its stupidest member and divide by the number of people in the mob.

I suppose that doesn't necessarily conflict with Drummer's law.

Now the real question. Is anyone a big enough HHGG fan to know where that's actually from?

[Yosarian2]

Does that mean that Coron has an IQ of about 300?

I don't really think the IQ really drops like that over the course of the game. First of all, really foolish people tend to get themselves lynched one way or another, and secondly, I know that when I'm scum, I don't want to be in a game of really dumb people. Really dumb people are unpredictable; reasonably intellegent people are rather easier to predict and manipulate.

[Seol]

Huh, whenever I'm scum, I try to keep at least one other intelligent person alive as long as possible, unless we're getting into power-role seep mode. Otherwise, there's a tendency to be "why are you still alive?" questions.

Plus, I like having someone around who can at least

understand

my arguments. [/ego]

[Drummer]

Yosarian, have you ever heard the saying, "Beware of stupid people in big numbers" ? It's true. Stupid people tend to believe other stupid people's logic. I can throw out all sorts of junk and still get somebody lynched.

But I think you're taking this thread seriously or something. It's not. It's a joke on Mr. Stoofer's laws.

[Cubsfan4ever]

uhhh... this law is incorrect. It's only said by people not good enough to make it to an endgame who have to resort to excuses for their own shortcomings.

[PolarBoy]

Cubsfan, you're thinking of the weakest link effect:

Any person decided to be least fit among a group by majority vote is always the most fit member.

This reasoning has a preponderance of evidence in it's favor in the form of testimony given by losing contestants on The Weakest Link.

[Drummer]

Cubsfan, I'll say it again. Of course this law is incorrect. It's a joke. However, in my experience, the scum DO kill of the smart ones, as the smart ones are probably on their trail. Regardless, if we're dealing in scientific theories and laws, you

cannot

say it's incorrect. You can't say it's 100% right either. Everything is subject to change.

[neongrey]

Also, -any- such law made up this way tends to be at least partially satirical.

And any time there's ever a need to state something like that, a little part of me dies.

[Yosarian2]

But I think you're taking this thread seriously or something. It's not. It's a joke on Mr. Stoofer's laws.

Well, of course we all know this is a joke. But this is mafiascum. I could make a light-bulb joke here and people would spend pages debating exactally how many people it would take to screw in a house. That's just who we are. :

[Adele]

I reckon that you can tell how good someone is as a townie by looking at the games they didn't survive to endgame. The higher the ratio of nightkills to lynches, the better you are, because (a) you're good at avoiding lynches, and (b) being nightkilled is a compliment - albeit one you don't want (like a come-on from someone of the wrong gender), it does suggest that you intimidate or worry the bad guys, and that is usually good.

I'm too new to have very illuminating stats (four games complete, survived to endgame in one), but I'm 1:2 - not great , but not too bad and I've got plenty of time to rectify it

Since there's a policy of naming stuff like this after oneself (which'd be considered arrogant in the academic sphere, but is therefore fair play in Mafia) I hereby christen this Adele's Ratio, as in I have an A.R. of 1:2.

[Fritzler]

Fritzs Law: If fritz is a multi shot vig: he will kill night 1.

[rajrhcpfreak]

raj's law 2.0

the more post raj makes the less likily some one will beleive him.

[Thok]

Thok's Law: The number of laws in this thread will grow linearly in the length of the thread.

This is not to be confused with Thok's Corollary.

[Turbovolver]

Fritzs Law: If fritz is a multi shot vig: he will kill night 1.

I like Fritzler better than Thok, so I'm not going to post a law and instead just say that aggressive vigging rocks.

[petroleumjelly]

...aggressive vigging rocks.

I have

never

heard of a Vigilante who kills using rocks.

PJ's Law

: The longer players who share a common past game converse, the chances of that game being somehow referenced increases to 100%. This Law holds with both seperate games and out-of-game discussions.

[Aureal]

I reckon that you can tell how good someone is as a townie by looking at the games they didn't survive to endgame. The higher the ratio of nightkills to lynches, the better you are, because (a) you're good at avoiding lynches, and (b) being nightkilled is a compliment - albeit one you don't want (like a come-on from someone of the wrong gender), it does suggest that you intimidate or worry the bad guys, and that is usually good.

I've never been lynched. Does that mean I'm a flawless townie?

Or more likely, does it mean that anyone who reads this and plays in a game with me is going to put me atop their list of preferred lynches? >_>

I have never heard of a Vigilante who kills using rocks.

No silly, the vig doesn't kill

using

rocks, he kills the rocks!

PJ's Law: The longer players who share a common past game converse, the chances of that game being somehow referenced increases to 100%. This Law holds with both seperate games and out-of-game discussions.

So, Miyazaki mafia was fun, huh?

[VisMaior]

VisMaiors theorem: if we allow naming laws after oneself, the chance of a specific scummer inventing a law appporaches 1.