I'm not done with my full reading/ rereading, but I've done some careful reading on Ixamyakxim given the latest developments. I'd have liked to reread others analysis on him before posting, but the votes are falling like thunders and I might not be given the time to do so.
This post also may not be completely coherent, as I'm rushing it a bit.
Ixamyakxim early on made
a comment about people outing JMich on his lurking but not CSPVG and Robbeasy - could be seen as him trying to draw attention away from JMich and on to others.
While he had his vote on CSPVG for a very long time, he did not confront him in any of his posts - that's easy to check.
Instead he argues with a number of others, and at some point
prods CSPVG to go pay Robbeasy a visit with the argument:
[...] then we can sort a few things out.
Why say that, given that we got nth on TwilightBard's from his visit to Robbeasy? dedoporno questioned Ixamyakxim about this, but the wording of the above mentioned phrase seems to go beyond just hoping to get a read.
Then we have his posts
, [url=https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_mafia_25_terror_at_tres_leches/post1679]#1679,
and [url=https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_mafia_25_terror_at_tres_leches/post1691]#1691.
It seems rather odd that he seems to not care about this potential lynch, and does not try to defend himself. He actually appears to have switched to a reckless play, but since he confirmed being an experienced player, I have to wonder how likely it is that he's actually careless.
I also find it interesting that he never had any exchanges with JMich, and voted on him in what seemed out of the blue - he seemed fixated on ddickinson (not going into if was justified or not at this point), made (what appeared to me) a couple of attempts to draw attention to the newbies, but nth against JMich.
I might be stretching this, but it almost seems like he's "protecting" JMich from being lynched - he made a couple of comments and moves that could be seen as to not raise any suspicions, but he's not been actively going after him.
The emphasis he put in townies surviving stuck out to me:
[...] because unlike most games, I think townies surviving is VERY important
Why unlikely to most games? If he's town, it's equally important in every game that townies survive because that's their win-condition. Why is it more important in this game? That comment made me consider the case that his own win-condition depends on at least one townie surviving - not town winning, just to have one or more townies survivors. I'm not sure about this, if the course of the game shows that town will lose (something I've read about on MafiaWiki), are the townies still alive at the point the game is declared lost considered dead for the end result? If yes, then we can disregard this thought. But if not, perhaps we should give it another thought as that could mean that he's not necessarily (in lack of a better term) mafia/ scum.
So, here's a crazy idea that crossed my mind - I've considered the case that JMich and Ixamyakxim are somehow linked together and perhaps even have the same win-condition; if JMich's role is a more powerful one that has better chances of ensuring their win-condition, wouldn't it make sense to try and keep him alive? Granted, that doesn't help explain Ixamyakxim's indifference to his own wagon though, unless his win-condition also depends on JMich staying alive.
I'd like to hear from Ixamyakxim on everything, and particularly about this double voter comment he made - what exactly does he mean by that?
