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Bookwyrm627: The biggest example (in my mind) right now is Trent's apparent lack of consideration that if the last two players are both townies, then they could win. So if I'm in the last two with a townie, and I'm a townie myself, then I could win. I'd have expected Trent to realize that. Krypsyn did, which is what I'd have expected from him. ].
My issue with this is every time a survivor role has been in play the win condition has been to survive to the end with a townie, so why would you say you want to be at the end with only one townie so you could win? It goes without saying that if two town players are left at the end they win. But as I pointed out your statement alluded to two groups and the only way there are two people left with two groups is if one is town and the other a neutral or scum.
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agentcarr16: @Sage, can you actually see why Krypsyn switched to CSPVG for all of ten minutes?
I never said all of Kryspyns vote jumps. However this vote there is a bit I can see for moving a vote. I will point it out. As I am not good with multi quoting I will just copy and paste.

This is from CSPVG post 220:

[i]As for the game, all I really have to add for the moment is that Bookwyrm, and to a lesser extent bler, are attempting to be so obfuscatory with all his little 'slips' and 'claims' that I think best practice in dealing with him, for the moment is:

1) Ignore his antics;
2) Press him for actual participation instead of this constant baiting. [/i]

-Yet he only calls out Wyrm and not bler

- Then he goes on to talk about flavor.

[i]1) I would advise against playing to your PM's flavour, and to put the game's flavour itself to one side. I'm not sure if this is done in RL Mafia games, but I've never seen it done in Forum Mafia. It tends to get a little tedious and sidetrack everyone from what they actually should be doing: hunting for scum.

Before anyone says so, yes I did share my PM info, but as I said (or believe I said, I haven't gone back to check, nor do I remember) I did it more out of boredom and a belief that my PM's flavour really isn't that vital to anyone. Perhaps scum can use it to structure a claim, but I don't what a shared contains all that they need.
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-He shared his pm out of boredom now and not to help us gather information. Why the sudden change in reasoning?
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Sage103082: However this vote there is a bit I can see for moving a vote.
You mean, besides the Sun causing lens flare and dazzling me, right?
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Bookwyrm627: The biggest example (in my mind) right now is Trent's apparent lack of consideration that if the last two players are both townies, then they could win. So if I'm in the last two with a townie, and I'm a townie myself, then I could win. I'd have expected Trent to realize that. Krypsyn did, which is what I'd have expected from him. ].
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trentonlf: My issue with this is every time a survivor role has been in play the win condition has been to survive to the end with a townie, so why would you say you want to be at the end with only one townie so you could win? It goes without saying that if two town players are left at the end they win. But as I pointed out your statement alluded to two groups and the only way there are two people left with two groups is if one is town and the other a neutral or scum.
In the second to last game. My win condition was to be alive with only 1 other person. It did not matter who they were. I forget exactly what it was we were after but if I was alive with only 1 other person I was strong enough to take them out and gain the object for myself and I would have won.
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yogsloth: So, you have Krypsyn as "sightly scummy", a handful of people as "leaning Town", and the rest neutral or no data. That's great. So what's your plan, then? Sit there and go on record as having no opinion? Are you going to vote for Krypsyn, the only player you actually put on the scum side of the list? If not, why not? And I'm the broken clock?
My plan?!

Like I said Krypsyn is there only because for the entirety of my GOG forum mafia career I've never seen him as something else. His behavior isn't noticeably different than before, he's going on in the way I came to expect from him so far. I could go and vote for him but I don't have anything to back my vote with and he isn't one who would crack just because he got a vote out of the blue. Trust me, whenever I feel he's my guy, he and everyone else here will know about it. That much of me you have seen.

The broken clock wasn't meant as an insult, but in my eyes you are one of the few who tend to wrap themselves up in crazy conspiracy theories more often than not but one doesn't know when the craziest one of the bunch will turn out to be true. I hope I didn't offend you but if I did I apologize.

Long story short - I still don't fine a suitable vote target, even the scummiest player in my list.



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bler144: It's possible the specific language I stated having been called was PM info and I revealed something of value, or perhaps it's just narrative color I pulled out of my behind to deepen the story, as it were.
One should be careful when pulling stuff out of one's behind.



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Krypsyn: The sun was in my eyes. Lens flare is a bitch!
Isn't the Sun supposed to be capitalized?



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Bookwyrm627: Possibilities:
-Some players may have unique win conditions in addition to the standard for their side.
-There may be powers that change the number of votes required to lynch someone.
-There might be people that have more than one vote.
These are nice. Where did you get them from?



And last but not least, where did arsonists come from? And I accused Flub of being too specific when he talked about serial killers...
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Sage103082: In the second to last game. My win condition was to be alive with only 1 other person. It did not matter who they were. I forget exactly what it was we were after but if I was alive with only 1 other person I was strong enough to take them out and gain the object for myself and I would have won.
Thank you for the clarification, for some reason I had it in my head you had to survive to the end with a townie to win.
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dedoporno: [Krypsyn's] behavior isn't noticeably different than before, he's going on in the way I came to expect from him so far.
Interesting.

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dedoporno: Isn't the Sun supposed to be capitalized?
Not necessarily.
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Bookwyrm627: Possibilities:
-Some players may have unique win conditions in addition to the standard for their side.
-There may be powers that change the number of votes required to lynch someone.
-There might be people that have more than one vote.
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dedoporno: These are nice. Where did you get them from?
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Vitek: 16. All players on winning team win, even the dead ones, assuming any other win conditions have also been satisfied. Anyone who is modkilled loses, no matter what team he was on.
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Vitek: With 14 alive it usually takes 8 to lynch.
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dedoporno: And last but not least, where did arsonists come from? And I accused Flub of being too specific when he talked about serial killers...
JMich mentioned it at one point in passing. GOG's site seems to be crapping out on me, but I can't tell if the issue is GOG, my internet, or my computer. If I remember, I'll try again later.
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Bookwyrm627: -Vitek is a GoG traitor for using Steam.
Try to play Ziggurat without it. (Important totally mafia relevant information: Today I finally managed to get all achievements in Ziggurat! Yay for me! That's like first game ever I did that.)

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Bookwyrm627: -Vitek may change the rules over the course of the game.
Only those redundant/duplicate ones and those made in joke. (Or if someone pisses me off.)
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agentcarr16: Sorry, point taken. I should have said, "vote for RWarehall without STATED reason..."
Better?
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Krypsyn: Yes.
Good

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Krypsyn: Nope. I'll be more precise, since that is probably where the fault lay. Sage103082 correctly guessed a significant reason for my vote on RWarehall. It may or may not have been the primary of my reasons.
OK. I see what you mean now.

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bler144: It's 4/14 (28.57). It's made up in the sense that I don't know if there are really 4 anti-town or not, though I tend to think it's in that ballpark.
Ahhh... I should have seen that. Thank you.

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bler144: The most amusing 'unbalanced' scenario would be no mafia at all,
That would actually be pretty amusing, and probably pretty difficult.

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bler144: I really had no meaningful reason to vote for Sage,
Again, thank you. I understand what you were doing now.

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agentcarr16: Again, Bookwyrm is providing us with textbook examples of WIFOM. I really don't much like how much of this he uses. It's definitely not advantageous for townsfolk to chase their tails, while scum love it when the villagers can't think their way out of a circle.
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Bookwyrm627: The obvious answer, then, is to think your way out of the circle. You can choose to (A) believe me, (B) disbelieve me, or (C) Provisionally select A or B while waiting for more information.
You do have a point there. Actually, come to think of it, you have a really good point there.
Problem is that there's a circle in the first place. While you are telling the villagers to think their way out of the circle, I would prefer not to have created a circle in the first place. However, each to his own, and now that I understand your reasoning, (at least, I think I do) I can leave it alone.

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agentcarr16: Here we have Bookwyrm actually stating what he has gathered from his little tricks and traps. He has some kind of reaction from 6 of 14 players, the emotion of which he can only paint broad strokes. I acquiesce, these reactions may be important some day, but I feel like the confusion, WIFOM, scumminess, etc. aren't worth the data.
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Bookwyrm627: You think one townie risking his life to draw information from half of town isn't worthwhile? When I die, and with my behavior I fully expect the question is "when", I think my actions will serve my side.
Yes. But I don't think you're getting any information, besides vague reactions that could or could not have any relevance on the reactionary's faction.

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Bookwyrm627: Final note: I'll be more serious about my voting point forward. As a last hurrah, I'll remove my vote on yogsloth when someone can identify the player that triggered my vote on him.
I'm glad that you're going to be more serious...wait. Have you changed your mind between the period and the capital A? If you have a good reason for your vote to be on yogsloth, then why would you remove it for some trivia? If you don't have a good reason for your vote on yogsloth, then why wouldn't you take it off, without waiting for trivia?
To be clear, I'm actually amused when people make crazy votes. I do sometimes feel that this game takes itself a little too seriously. But, if you state that you are going to be serious, do it.

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Sage103082: Stuff
-Yet he only calls out Wyrm and not bler
I actually kind of understand him calling out only Bookwyrm. He does say that bler is only guilty to a lesser extent, and it would be a bit awkward to call both of them. If I was in his position, I would assume that bler is reading closely enough that he will also get the idea.

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CSPVG: Before anyone says so, yes I did share my PM info, but as I said (or believe I said, I haven't gone back to check, nor do I remember) I did it more out of boredom and a belief that my PM's flavour really isn't that vital to anyone. Perhaps scum can use it to structure a claim, but I don't what a shared contains all that they need.
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Sage103082: He shared his pm out of boredom now and not to help us gather information. Why the sudden change in reasoning?
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CSPVG: More out of sheer boredom with all the current conversation than anything else.
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Is that useful information? I don't really think so, but I've decided to share it in hopes that maybe it echoes something in your own,or another player's, PM (perhaps about the direction the town was headed in) that you didn't share or didn't care to allude to.
When first sharing his PM, CSPVG did say that he was sharing it out of "sheer boredom". He is being consistent, from what I can see.

Also, could someone post a link to the rules pages? Disclaimer: I HAVE read them. I just want to go over them again, and I can't seem to find a link in the game thread.
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Bookwyrm627: Things we can be reasonably certain of:
-Apparently some mistakes were made when sending out PMs.
I took OP Rule #11 to mean spelling/grammar mistakes. Are you referring to something else? Your wording sounds like a player might have received something by accident.


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dedoporno: And last but not least, where did arsonists come from? And I accused Flub of being too specific when he talked about serial killers...
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Bookwyrm627: JMich mentioned it at one point in passing. GOG's site seems to be crapping out on me, but I can't tell if the issue is GOG, my internet, or my computer. If I remember, I'll try again later.
I think I can answer this one…RWarehall questioned JMich’s use of term “arsonists” here:

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RWarehall: So right now, the prime scum targets are those who aren't being helpful or who are taking actions that to me seem like an attempt at subtle scum manipulation. Besides Book and Sage, another stealth candidate is JMich. His only contributions seem to be to tell us not to discuss anything because its irrelevant. I disagree, I want more people on record to help spot later inconsistencies. Furthermore, there is one word which he has used which really bothers me...in post 212...he includes the word "arsonists" in his list of possible roles. I had never heard of that role before despite playing multiple games here. It's not like Godfathers and serial killers which get mentioned as a possibility every game. For a new role like that to be mentioned on a list out of the blue, I find that a bit suspicious...
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agentcarr16: Also, could someone post a link to the rules pages? Disclaimer: I HAVE read them. I just want to go over them again, and I can't seem to find a link in the game thread.
and some [[url=http://www.gog.com/forum/general/forum_mafia_administration_and_general_discussion_1/post2]herehttp://www.gog.com/forum/general/forum_mafia_administration_and_general_discussion_1/post2]here[/url[/url]]
Well... that was ... messy. As bad as it looks, the links actually go to the right places. :P
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Krypsyn: Well... that was ... messy. As bad as it looks, the links actually go to the right places. :P
Wow. That WAS rather messy. Thanks.
Admin stuff first. I'll address game related questions in my next post.

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Vitek: (Important totally mafia relevant information: Today I finally managed to get all achievements in Ziggurat! Yay for me! That's like first game ever I did that.)
Congrats!

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Bookwyrm627: -Vitek may change the rules over the course of the game.
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Vitek: Only those redundant/duplicate ones and those made in joke. (Or if someone pisses me off.)
I figured as much. I probably wouldn't have noticed the updates if I didn't go back through the rules again to see what possibilities I could glean from the OP.

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Bookwyrm627: Things we can be reasonably certain of:
-Apparently some mistakes were made when sending out PMs.
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cristigale: I took OP Rule #11 to mean spelling/grammar mistakes. Are you referring to something else? Your wording sounds like a player might have received something by accident.
I think you meant Rule 10: "10. Do not quote or paraphrase too closely any PMs you receive from the mod. If you are afraid that your paraphrasing is too close, contact me and I'll take a look at it. I certainly made some mistakes in PM. If you notice one feel free to notice me and laugh at me in private. Please do not try to use it to your advantage."

I think the bolded portions combined with something in the sign up thread (which I can't find now, so I might be misremembering) to make me wonder if a few PMs got sent to the wrong players or something. For some reason it didn't occur to me to actually ask him about it; I figured he'd get it sorted it out and everything would be okay.

Regardless, YOUR interpretation is actually probably the correct one. I don't mean to cast any aspersions on our valiant mod. Except that crack about using Steam, that was intended (and we're going to ignore the fact that I also have a Steam account).