[Path-Shaper]

Messremb, on 25 March 2015 - 08:58 PM, said:

If there was a mechanic to reward guessing identities you'd probably have had lots more over the course of the game as research time permitted - the picking up a new servant thing is so circumstance specific it pretty much discourages anyone making the effort beyond idle guessing.

But it's fun?

Yeah, the original vague design was going to include a mechanic where if you figured out who a Servant was you could target their weak points and do a lot more damage to them, as well as develop counters to their noble phantasms. Of course, that was linked directly with the servant HP and mage mana mechanics, and I would have had to be 100% consistent with how much is revealed in scenes, as well as include individual descriptions of everyone in day locations...

Can you see why I didn't put all that in?

Still, guessing is fun!

[Khellendros]

I said the Servant Demon was Dracula - how was that?

[Blend]

Messremb, on 25 March 2015 - 07:59 PM, said:

Path-Shaper, on 25 March 2015 - 07:53 PM, said:

HiddenOne, on 25 March 2015 - 07:50 PM, said:

Does this mean we aren't supposed to lynch GL?

Right. He is an NPC and somewhat integral to the completion of your objective.

Odds on Blend vigging GL...?

If I could, I would totally try to. Unfortunately he's not in my location as far as I can tell.

[Blend]

remove vote
vote Galayn Lord

Cause why not? That's why.

[HiddenOne]

how exciting

[Path-Shaper]

If I let you vote for GL, and then GL reveals your location, alt and abilities, you'll just be upset...

So how about no voting for GL, ok?

[Tapper]

To chime in: the game is fun, not in the least because it is amusing to watch the antics by alts.

That being said, I kind of figure that the safest way to be amongst the last few is by sitting in a single location all game doing nothing so that I won't suddenly appear in another player's location and get my face smashed in, all the while planning to do that to the first alt to wander into my 'hood.

As such, I do think the number of locations is too high to reliably allow us to target one another, even with the pretty cool tracking technique that takes a lot of the headache away that usually exists in movement-based games.

[Khellendros]

Tapper, on 26 March 2015 - 09:58 AM, said:

To chime in: the game is fun, not in the least because it is amusing to watch the antics by alts.

That being said, I kind of figure that the safest way to be amongst the last few is by sitting in a single location all game doing nothing so that I won't suddenly appear in another player's location and get my face smashed in, all the while planning to do that to the first alt to wander into my 'hood.

As such, I do think the number of locations is too high to reliably allow us to target one another, even with the pretty cool tracking technique that takes a lot of the headache away that usually exists in movement-based games.

Clearly you and I have been using the same tactic.

With the destruction of two locations, I had thought that maybe that would continue happening, so as to force the decreasing pool of players into a decreasing amount of locations.

[Messremb]

Yes, I rather think we've squashed those players inclined to move around. I know that's certainly how some of my lynch suggestions got on thread...

Day has timed out. There was only a single NK last night. Perhaps we should agree on universal harmony and cease the struggle for the wish because we're all at the mercy of whoever picks the next random alt?

[Khellendros]

Messremb, on 26 March 2015 - 11:22 AM, said:

Yes, I rather think we've squashed those players inclined to move around. I know that's certainly how some of my lynch suggestions got on thread...

Day has timed out. There was only a single NK last night. Perhaps we should agree on universal harmony and cease the struggle for the wish because we're all at the mercy of whoever picks the next random alt?

This all seems rather prescient of you.

[HiddenOne]

Almost as if he planned it all along...

[bubba]

I'm just hiding ....hoping I don't get killed by a passing stranger.

[Messremb]

HiddenOne, on 26 March 2015 - 11:54 AM, said:

Almost as if he planned it all along...

It is of course all a front. Once people agree they'll open up - I'm in <location> and I'm a <role>, then I'll send in my berserk builders and sabre guardian lancers. There can be only one!

Oh wait, I probably shouldn't have said that on thread...

[Path-Shaper]

Yeah, the number of locations was good at the start, I think, because it gave everyone a high chance of blending in even if they did something suspicious, but now that two thirds of the alts are dead it is spreading things too thin. And the players who could destroy locations entirely are all gone.

Then again, you've revealed my handy dandy overseer alt. Maybe he'll announce sealing off a few locations to close things up a bit.

Anyways, right now day is over so I'll resolve Dusk-Night-Dawn first.

[Path-Shaper]

Well this is going to be pretty quick, since only 3 players submitted any orders.

And now you know why I was suspecting people were bored with the game

This post has been edited by Path-Shaper: 26 March 2015 - 01:48 PM

[Khellendros]

Path-Shaper, on 26 March 2015 - 01:48 PM, said:

Well this is going to be pretty quick, since only 3 players submitted any orders.

And now you know why I was suspecting people were bored with the game

Perhaps 40 hours is too short a time? Ahem. Or maybe it's called playing the long, long, long, long game

Personally, I love long slow-burning games.

[Path-Shaper]

At the start of Day 6, a hologram of Galayn Lord appears before you.

"As we begun the summoning of the Grail, we will fuel the initial catalyst with mana drawn from some areas of the city. The follow districts are now off-limits:

Heiji Gardens
Oriya Terminal
Kishi Beach
Shikuro Market
Yonai Factory

Thank you for your cooperation."

[Path-Shaper]

It is Day 6. 40 hours remaining.

9 Masters remain: Azathmaster, Blend, Bubba, EmperorMagus, HO, Khell, Messremb, Nicodimas, Tapper

5 votes to lynch.

[Messremb]

Vote Korabas

Because of that big hole in my A-Z list

[Blend]

Sorry I was more or less inactive yesterday, I got slammed at work.

At any rate, I'll

vote Monok Ochem

My reasoning still stands.