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#621 User is offline   Prazec Goul 

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:06 PM

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View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 11:03 AM, said:

Hello everyone. Just running through all the stuff now and will post some thoughts in a bit.

The first thing that strikes me though is that we can't really read too much into the numbers of people in the game, with the respawning alts and god knows how many alt manipulating mechanics there probably are out there. I don't trust anyone's speculation about numbers and who is who, because that can easily be very self-serving speculation.




The same thing could be said of anything anyone says in this game...ever.



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For what it's worth, I'm not sure which way I would go on the Jester player being in or out of the game. For the sake of making things easier on the modding, I would suspect that D'rek doesn't want players who can no longer win floating around like free radicals tossing abilities about for no real self serving reason.
On the other hand, multiple alts seems to be all about having as much fun for as long as possible in the centennial game, so whoever the Jester was, that seems like a shitty straw to draw being one and done.

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:10 PM

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:02 PM, said:



If all the alts are completely ambiguous, except the poor jester, then this game is a sham and we are just going to spend the next 6 weeks shooting in the dark, pretending we know what the hell we are talking about.







Here's hoping you're right. We've had one complete day and night, no reason to overreact people.

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:12 PM

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View PostRyllandaras, on 27 March 2013 - 11:30 AM, said:

Exactly. I think Jester lost and is out of the game. Period. Ay is someone else. The fact that he's lying so much about it, makes me think that he must be scum.


I dont see why the player should be out of the game.
Sure he has lost as the Jester but perhaps he can still win along with another faction somehow.


Then that just gives him unlimited chances to win, as an independent or a faction. If he has respawned, then it is as Bek, but I think Bek is likely Eloth. Ay is still someone else.





Are you saying that the jester (or rather the player that controls the jester)...in a game like this, will only have a single alt/chance to win....with no bp's he has NOTHING to at least give him a bit of help?
No. i prefer to think that the mods gave the Jester only the one shot to be the jester but that if he fails can still win under some other mechanic like recruitment or he becomes inno or SOMETHING.

What a shitty role to draw if you can simply die after a night one random NK, while everyone else gets three chances?... I agree the jester role is dead...but he most certainly could have come back on some kind of fallback winning conditions....he obviously wont tell us what they are however.

maybe i am just not getting what you are saying...

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:13 PM

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 12:06 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 11:10 AM, said:

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 11:03 AM, said:

Hello everyone. Just running through all the stuff now and will post some thoughts in a bit.

The first thing that strikes me though is that we can't really read too much into the numbers of people in the game, with the respawning alts and god knows how many alt manipulating mechanics there probably are out there. I don't trust anyone's speculation about numbers and who is who, because that can easily be very self-serving speculation.




The same thing could be said of anything anyone says in this game...ever.



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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:14 PM

Something no one has mentioned yet so I will put it out there. Now we know that the Jester role was in the Aranatha alt, then what was up with Bendal Home's gameplan/strategy yesterday? He was very antagonistic throughout the start of day one, having arguments with many people. I am thinking he is quite powerful or has an LP or something to play that way.

Regarding Ampelas something does come off as scummy about him. I think it is in the post that a few people have highlighted, the one Fanderay quotes above. Taken from that...


Quote


I think it means Eloth is town, actually. My reasoning is that I think scum teams are much smaller than town teams, but as a consequence they probably all know each other (within their own teams, I mean). Therefore, they don't need a specific ability, such as Eloth had.



It comes across as he knows more about scum than the rest of us.

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:17 PM

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:13 PM, said:

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 12:06 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 11:10 AM, said:

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 11:03 AM, said:

Hello everyone. Just running through all the stuff now and will post some thoughts in a bit.

The first thing that strikes me though is that we can't really read too much into the numbers of people in the game, with the respawning alts and god knows how many alt manipulating mechanics there probably are out there. I don't trust anyone's speculation about numbers and who is who, because that can easily be very self-serving speculation.




The same thing could be said of anything anyone says in this game...ever.



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dont worry, you'll get there one day



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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:19 PM

Speaking of mafia 101, is it time to poke the players with 3 posts? Too early? :p

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:20 PM

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 12:17 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:13 PM, said:

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 12:06 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 11:10 AM, said:

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 11:03 AM, said:

Hello everyone. Just running through all the stuff now and will post some thoughts in a bit.

The first thing that strikes me though is that we can't really read too much into the numbers of people in the game, with the respawning alts and god knows how many alt manipulating mechanics there probably are out there. I don't trust anyone's speculation about numbers and who is who, because that can easily be very self-serving speculation.




The same thing could be said of anything anyone says in this game...ever.



Someone's learning how to play mafia!







dont worry, you'll get there one day



Oh I'm there, sexy panther babe, I'm there.




By "there" you mean you are at the 'State the obvious and seem helpful' phase of your learning curve i assume? Posted Image

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:22 PM

View PostKarosis, on 27 March 2013 - 12:14 PM, said:

Something no one has mentioned yet so I will put it out there. Now we know that the Jester role was in the Aranatha alt, then what was up with Bendal Home's gameplan/strategy yesterday? He was very antagonistic throughout the start of day one, having arguments with many people. I am thinking he is quite powerful or has an LP or something to play that way.

Regarding Ampelas something does come off as scummy about him. I think it is in the post that a few people have highlighted, the one Fanderay quotes above. Taken from that...


Quote


I think it means Eloth is town, actually. My reasoning is that I think scum teams are much smaller than town teams, but as a consequence they probably all know each other (within their own teams, I mean). Therefore, they don't need a specific ability, such as Eloth had.



It comes across as he knows more about scum than the rest of us.




It comes across to me as simple scum mechanic conjecture... spose its worth a shot if nothing else comes out....meh

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:36 PM

Well blimey!


looky what i found....

View PostD, on 25 January 2013 - 07:55 PM, said:

Out of the four town or scum factions, only one faction can win. The Survivor and Jester can co-win with one of the factions and with each other.



says so right in the OP Winning conditions that the Jester can indeed win along with other factions. If he was lynched then he would have won outright.
(I believe he claimed he needed 3 lynches?) So it makes sense that if he got NK'd he would have to win with a faction instead of just dropping out like the poor chump that he is.


Anyways...enough talk about the bloody jester from me i think.

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:36 PM

Karosis said:

1364386458[/url]' post='1042578']
Something no one has mentioned yet so I will put it out there. Now we know that the Jester role was in the Aranatha alt, then what was up with Bendal Home's gameplan/strategy yesterday? He was very antagonistic throughout the start of day one, having arguments with many people. I am thinking he is quite powerful or has an LP or something to play that way.

Regarding Ampelas something does come off as scummy about him. I think it is in the post that a few people have highlighted, the one Fanderay quotes above. Taken from that...


Quote


I think it means Eloth is town, actually. My reasoning is that I think scum teams are much smaller than town teams, but as a consequence they probably all know each other (within their own teams, I mean). Therefore, they don't need a specific ability, such as Eloth had.



It comes across as he knows more about scum than the rest of us.




Really? Or going on the layout of practically every past town/scum game ever? Methinks you're trying too hard. Don't strain yourself.


Edit: Added 'practically' because I know some sod with too much time on their hands is going to bring up the one game where it isn't so :p

This post has been edited by Ampelas: 27 March 2013 - 12:38 PM


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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:40 PM

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:20 PM, said:

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 12:17 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:13 PM, said:

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 12:06 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 11:10 AM, said:

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 11:03 AM, said:

Hello everyone. Just running through all the stuff now and will post some thoughts in a bit.

The first thing that strikes me though is that we can't really read too much into the numbers of people in the game, with the respawning alts and god knows how many alt manipulating mechanics there probably are out there. I don't trust anyone's speculation about numbers and who is who, because that can easily be very self-serving speculation.




The same thing could be said of anything anyone says in this game...ever.



Someone's learning how to play mafia!







dont worry, you'll get there one day



Oh I'm there, sexy panther babe, I'm there.




By "there" you mean you are at the 'State the obvious and seem helpful' phase of your learning curve i assume? Posted Image



True to a point, but that's mostly just typical of how I play faction games. Yeah yeah, there are scum and indy roles to be concerned about but where I am in my 'curve' is I'm more keen on paying attention to what people say and look for consistency/inconsistency before I'm going to break out of "helpful" mode. Again, we've had one day and night cycle in a seriously complicated game, and I just don't feel like pretending to have any bloody insight into what is going on without a little more on the table.

If you really want though, I can be 'unhelpful' if it'll make you feel better.

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:40 PM

Kilava said:

1364387788[/url]' post='1042590']
Well blimey!


looky what i found....

D said:

1359143703[/url]' post='1026673']
Out of the four town or scum factions, only one faction can win. The Survivor and Jester can co-win with one of the factions and with each other.



says so right in the OP Winning conditions that the Jester can indeed win along with other factions. If he was lynched then he would have won outright.
(I believe he claimed he needed 3 lynches?) So it makes sense that if he got NK'd he would have to win with a faction instead of just dropping out like the poor chump that he is.


Anyways...enough talk about the bloody jester from me i think.



I thought that just meant that the Jester/Survivor didn't need to see all the other factions eliminated in order to achieve their VCs.

But anyway, I agree with you that whoever was Aranatha is not out of the game entirely and is one of Ay or Bek.

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:42 PM

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 12:40 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:20 PM, said:

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 12:17 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:13 PM, said:

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 12:06 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 11:10 AM, said:

View PostPrazec Goul, on 27 March 2013 - 11:03 AM, said:

Hello everyone. Just running through all the stuff now and will post some thoughts in a bit.

The first thing that strikes me though is that we can't really read too much into the numbers of people in the game, with the respawning alts and god knows how many alt manipulating mechanics there probably are out there. I don't trust anyone's speculation about numbers and who is who, because that can easily be very self-serving speculation.




The same thing could be said of anything anyone says in this game...ever.



Someone's learning how to play mafia!







dont worry, you'll get there one day



Oh I'm there, sexy panther babe, I'm there.




By "there" you mean you are at the 'State the obvious and seem helpful' phase of your learning curve i assume? Posted Image



True to a point, but that's mostly just typical of how I play faction games. Yeah yeah, there are scum and indy roles to be concerned about but where I am in my 'curve' is I'm more keen on paying attention to what people say and look for consistency/inconsistency before I'm going to break out of "helpful" mode. Again, we've had one day and night cycle in a seriously complicated game, and I just don't feel like pretending to have any bloody insight into what is going on without a little more on the table.

If you really want though, I can be 'unhelpful' if it'll make you feel better.


seeming helpful and actually being helpful are two different things entirely...

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:46 PM

View PostAmpelas, on 27 March 2013 - 12:40 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:36 PM, said:

Well blimey!


looky what i found....

View PostD, on 25 January 2013 - 07:55 PM, said:

Out of the four town or scum factions, only one faction can win. The Survivor and Jester can co-win with one of the factions and with each other.



says so right in the OP Winning conditions that the Jester can indeed win along with other factions. If he was lynched then he would have won outright.
(I believe he claimed he needed 3 lynches?) So it makes sense that if he got NK'd he would have to win with a faction instead of just dropping out like the poor chump that he is.


Anyways...enough talk about the bloody jester from me i think.



I thought that just meant that the Jester/Survivor didn't need to see all the other factions eliminated in order to achieve their VCs.

But anyway, I agree with you that whoever was Aranatha is not out of the game entirely and is one of Ay or Bek.

I also take the OP winning condition that town or scum can win, AND Jester can win, not that Jester can win as either an independent AND town or scum. If he's in the game still... there are limited possibilities, but if Ay was trying to prove that he WAS INDEED the Jester, why changing posting styles? He may as well continue to write/play exactly the same as before to lend more credence to him being the Jester.

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:47 PM

View PostAmpelas, on 27 March 2013 - 12:40 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:36 PM, said:

Well blimey!


looky what i found....

View PostD, on 25 January 2013 - 07:55 PM, said:

Out of the four town or scum factions, only one faction can win. The Survivor and Jester can co-win with one of the factions and with each other.



says so right in the OP Winning conditions that the Jester can indeed win along with other factions. If he was lynched then he would have won outright.
(I believe he claimed he needed 3 lynches?) So it makes sense that if he got NK'd he would have to win with a faction instead of just dropping out like the poor chump that he is.


Anyways...enough talk about the bloody jester from me i think.



I thought that just meant that the Jester/Survivor didn't need to see all the other factions eliminated in order to achieve their VCs.

But anyway, I agree with you that whoever was Aranatha is not out of the game entirely and is one of Ay or Bek.



im fairly certain that if the jester got the 3 lynches without getting a single NK it would have been game over he wins....but that would be extremely difficult given never mind the CF results he would have given out after dying every time.
Hence alternate routes to victory built in.

anyways... its trcky role to include in a game this big without ruining it for everyone... so needs to be difficult.


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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:51 PM

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:02 PM, said:

View PostAmpelas, on 27 March 2013 - 11:48 AM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 08:07 AM, said:

View PostAmpelas, on 26 March 2013 - 11:15 PM, said:

View PostSilchas Ruin, on 26 March 2013 - 11:10 PM, said:

View PostAmpelas, on 26 March 2013 - 10:57 PM, said:

Nenanda's role strikes me as either scum or serial killer - making sure a death happens during the day no matter what.

Zahska was town in espers though...




I don't think we can think about it that way, though. It would just be a little too easy. Otherwise it would be too easy to say, "Well, that person is town, because that role in a previous game was town, and that person is scum, because that role was scum..." If the number of deaths per day/night stays about as low as we've had thus far, then it would become a little too easy to identify the good/bad guys. Then it just comes down to identifying whether they're in your faction or not. Huh, having written all that and looked over it, you could be on to something too.

I'm not discounting the fact that, just as with Eloth, Nenanda could have been one or the other, but just in the context of this game, it strikes me as more of a scummy role.





Your statement here makes me think you have scum roles and most likely are scum and are trying to make CF's look completely useless.
There are sure to be more than one death a night so full CF's just make things more interesting.
You are trying to sew seeds of doubt about cf's and what they most likely mean if they come up scum in previous games.

Was The Jesus role not a Jester previously?...yes he was...and he is a jester here.
So we already have more proof on the side that CF's are more revealing than simply a name and that roles are not falling far from the preverbal tree.

I know my roles are not conflicting to the previous games...so why are you so adamant to dissuade us to believe that a scum CF wont necessarily mean scum?

Vote Ampelas






still catching up so bare with me and my coffee breath.





And what about roles which were previously in faction games? Are those going to be town or scum? Yeah, not so black and white as you make it out to be, then. You also fail to note that I concede that Silchas could very well have a point.



This is a faction game...i was not talking about faction roles, they are obviously going to appear too.

You seemed to make it out as, If we ever do get an actual straight up scum role then it should not be taken so literally.
And obviously you would concede a little, you wouldn't want to be too obvious with your nay saying now would you? Posted Image


just calling it as i see it.


If all the alts are completely ambiguous, except the poor jester, then this game is a sham and we are just going to spend the next 6 weeks shooting in the dark, pretending we know what the hell we are talking about.





So wait, wait, help me out here because I'm getting a little confused.

Am I being adamant that we can't trust CFs, or am I conceding that they might be? Because you've now stated both things, so you can see why I would be confused. Poor me.

What I was saying is that we should be careful, and not immediately jump to one or another conclusion unless it really is that straightforward (if someone CFs as what was an RI role, for instance). In the case of Isabelle Paix, which is what I was discussing at the time, it is clearly not so straightforward. I would argue that it's not as simple in the case of Nenanda either.

However, I concede (!! :p ) that you bring up a good point in the Jester being a previous Jester role.

And as for your last line there - pray, how is that different to what we usually do? :p

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:58 PM

View PostRyllandaras, on 27 March 2013 - 12:46 PM, said:

View PostAmpelas, on 27 March 2013 - 12:40 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:36 PM, said:

Well blimey!


looky what i found....

View PostD, on 25 January 2013 - 07:55 PM, said:

Out of the four town or scum factions, only one faction can win. The Survivor and Jester can co-win with one of the factions and with each other.



says so right in the OP Winning conditions that the Jester can indeed win along with other factions. If he was lynched then he would have won outright.
(I believe he claimed he needed 3 lynches?) So it makes sense that if he got NK'd he would have to win with a faction instead of just dropping out like the poor chump that he is.


Anyways...enough talk about the bloody jester from me i think.



I thought that just meant that the Jester/Survivor didn't need to see all the other factions eliminated in order to achieve their VCs.

But anyway, I agree with you that whoever was Aranatha is not out of the game entirely and is one of Ay or Bek.

I also take the OP winning condition that town or scum can win, AND Jester can win, not that Jester can win as either an independent AND town or scum. If he's in the game still... there are limited possibilities, but if Ay was trying to prove that he WAS INDEED the Jester, why changing posting styles? He may as well continue to write/play exactly the same as before to lend more credence to him being the Jester.



Well it doesnt explicitly say either way what the winning conditions mean.


But just to expand....when there is a jester in a game...he wins outright if lynched...there is no second place.
I dont see how he could still win with not fulfilling his 3 lynch quota yet still have a win with a faction. Unless as what seems to be the case, he is NK'd early and takes up some other kind of role mechanic.

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 12:59 PM

I'm convinced that Ay is lying, and I feel that the only reason to try and convince us that he is The Jester and "harmless" is because he is scum.


vote Ay

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Posted 27 March 2013 - 01:00 PM

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:58 PM, said:

View PostRyllandaras, on 27 March 2013 - 12:46 PM, said:

View PostAmpelas, on 27 March 2013 - 12:40 PM, said:

View PostKilava, on 27 March 2013 - 12:36 PM, said:

Well blimey!


looky what i found....

View PostD, on 25 January 2013 - 07:55 PM, said:

Out of the four town or scum factions, only one faction can win. The Survivor and Jester can co-win with one of the factions and with each other.



says so right in the OP Winning conditions that the Jester can indeed win along with other factions. If he was lynched then he would have won outright.
(I believe he claimed he needed 3 lynches?) So it makes sense that if he got NK'd he would have to win with a faction instead of just dropping out like the poor chump that he is.


Anyways...enough talk about the bloody jester from me i think.



I thought that just meant that the Jester/Survivor didn't need to see all the other factions eliminated in order to achieve their VCs.

But anyway, I agree with you that whoever was Aranatha is not out of the game entirely and is one of Ay or Bek.

I also take the OP winning condition that town or scum can win, AND Jester can win, not that Jester can win as either an independent AND town or scum. If he's in the game still... there are limited possibilities, but if Ay was trying to prove that he WAS INDEED the Jester, why changing posting styles? He may as well continue to write/play exactly the same as before to lend more credence to him being the Jester.



Well it doesnt explicitly say either way what the winning conditions mean.


But just to expand....when there is a jester in a game...he wins outright if lynched...there is no second place.
I dont see how he could still win with not fulfilling his 3 lynch quota yet still have a win with a faction. Unless as what seems to be the case, he is NK'd early and takes up some other kind of role mechanic.







Yes, I'm leaning toward your interpretation now.

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