In post 698, Farkran wrote: In post 615, popsofctown wrote: In post 13, Farkran wrote:
I'll start with a first step to break the ice: i'm a magical girl and i have powers. I used a charge disc so i have 3 votes. Going to use them only when i feel it's appropriate.
Farkran refused to claim mason at L-1 + intent in his first game because he believed it's optimal play to vehemently protect town's information, so freely sharing this information is concerning. Farkran did you think it's impossible this information wasn't already public, or did you just not give a care? The predecessor to this game included a player with an extra vote, and later this thread we discover you can't figure out what disc it is someone used just by seeing their votes: salamence charged but has a Blast disc number of votes.
I did also say in that game that refusing to claim was very specific of the circumstances. It was also a game where i openly speculated about PRs for the same reason = the mason team already had all the information they needed and no one else should have shared it until it was appropriate, i.e. to counterclaim epiccreeper and lynch scum. This game is vastly different (no open setup, no normal roles, etc), and by reading ahead you will notice that a lot of people included at least some amount of bs in their claims. Magical girl setup allows this, and i support the use of bs or non-bs claims to advance the gamestate.
This seems to be suggesting providing polluted or partially falsified information to scum is harmless. I'll agree to disagree. The plenty of other ways to progress the game state, and I actually think mountainous has the highest quality dayplay, but this is definitely delving into mafia theory.
You seem to have presented some kind of internally consistent view, though, since an environment with lots of fakeclaiming would make rolecop more useful more often. I'm not sure whether I've ever fakeclaimed before, and in ye olde days I feel like it was rarer.
Farkran wrote:
In post 615, popsofctown wrote:
In post 17, Severa wrote:If your abilities are mediocre, why not use a blast disc? I don't get it.
If you have a 900 MP ability that says "visit a player and become a miller for the rest of the game", you probably still want to take Charge or Accel to avoid an implicit VT claim that improves the quality of the factional nightkill. The extra vote is useless, it's more important to convince players than to have the power to force lynches through mechanically.
I have to disagree with this though. I think your reasoning is flawed/incomplete: you're admitting that picking a Blast disc equals a VT claim (= extra vote is useless), but if you see no reason for scum to pick blasts, it actually helps town narrowing the lynchpool, which i think is more beneficial than the side effects. To expand on this: i do not have experience with the previous iterations of magical girl mafia, but i would think scum abilities are useful and therefore they would like to abuse them over attempting a very weak VT claim.[/color]
I'm confused by this post, you seem to agree that no one should take blast ever? But as it turns out, Gamma has some sort of special considerations for taking Blast that he should Not Talk About, and Salamence didn't take Blast at all.
Farkran wrote:
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Funny how i can get both a burden of proficency from people who played/spectated with me, and a newbie shield from people who didn't, in the same game. By the way, if want to skip rvs, i need to push weak reads first, and i feel that voting a player is also a valid motive for interacting + i asked a question in the same post. Also i kept analyzing suji up to
157 which is where he crossed the null line and entered the towny side of my reads. This soft-shading line seems weird coming from you pops, need to check if you're committed to it.
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The rest of the post i mostly agree with.
The later engagement dampens how red-indicative I want to count it, but I don't think it was a townie reaction. If Suji's vote is serious, RVS is already over, you don't have to cast any countervotes to end it.
I don't want to litigate this all the way to the highest court, though. Confirmation bias and hyperfocus aren't good for reads, breadth is better. I have you scummier than null but in the range where I'd be disappointed if that was the d1 lynch.
In post 700, Farkran wrote:
Are you strong on this after just one post which was... not entirely towny (not scummy either, but certainly not what i would call obvtown), coming from whom you know has very high experience and skill levels?
If so, why? I mean, what specifically striked you as a strong town point in his post?
I am possibly experienced, but I believe Evenstar is on record calling me the worst player she's ever seen play mafia
In post 701, Farkran wrote: In post 624, TemporalLich wrote:if you're not committed you're trying to stall out D1, therefore Evenstar is scum
VOTE: Evenstar, even if hammer
Are jesters a thing in this setup? Because TL is crossing the line where i wouldn't lynch him out of making too little sense with his posts, and you know it's effing hard to cross that line for me.
There are no jesters in the setup, mini theme mods have to disclose whether there are cults or jesters when the game goes into queue.
I incidentally mentioned this earlier in my post. He is pretty null to me. I'm hoping he is easier to read in later phases of the game.
In post 709, Kerset wrote: In post 692, Bitmap wrote:idk why Evenstar has me as a scum read but they aren't really the pinnacle of towniness either so whatevs
Pops vote you and promised reads about you but gave only one.
In my vocabulary a "read" is a total assessment of a particular player, so I tried to discuss several players in my post for Bitmap. If I described ten scummy things about Bitmap, it would all be one read.
I'm not really going to discuss other stuff about Bitmap since he softclaimed a strong role, but I did want the slip mentioned in my iso in case I'm dead when it's LyLo and time to lynch people even if they're claiming strong roles.
In post 711, Farkran wrote: In post 666, popsofctown wrote:
Nah Farkran is wrong he's the best shot on that list. Energy is almost as important to the town as intelligence. Not that Farkran lacks that either.
"shot" is an ambiguous word to use in this context
was that on purpose? I'm not yet confident enough in my knowledge of better players to act as an enforced IC though. I think you should have been on that list if we make a pure speculation on reading abilities and charisma - not that i would "abdicate" in favor to anyone though, i will keep doing my thing regardless of my position as leader or lack thereof. Also i'm not sold on you being town yet. I'd currently place you as null-nullscum + would not lynch d1. I like some of your reads, significantly disagree on others.
Meta is overrated and garbage. I am getting sucked into the vortex with it so much this year. I feel like more straightforward reads can be so accurate though.
Farkran wrote:
In post 666, popsofctown wrote:
In post 548, Kerset wrote:If you claim investigation role then people won't lynch you. I think that could be his motive. If we have to choose between lynching mediocre role and role cop, we will never choose role cop bc we want to see information that he provides.
Kerset in site meta here a U-pick game generally has about two thirds of the town players as something stronger than rolecop. And also has the scum slightly more likely than the town to receive the ability rolecop. So his claim is similar to claiming VT, it incentivizes us to lynch him. I would be advocating lynching the slot to avoid outing more roles and avoid lynching more highly useful town power if his posting didn't lean towny to me.
I didn't see it from this POV, and if i was a spectator i'd trust your experience over mine. However, it does not really match my own info and what i got from other people claims... that being said, i just realized that one of such claims was salamence (who also said he didn't pick a blast) and the other was gamma's (whom i'm not trusting anymore). I feel i am contradicting myself here and i need to re-evaluate what i have been thinking of salamence, as my strong read on him was mostly based on game mechanics. His tone and content are still kinda towny though.[/quote]
There is bias in the way you've collected the data about claims. People with weaker roles are more likely to claim, because it's less harmful to town. So your "survey" has no pure elements except your own PM. The concept is called "response bias". Salamence likely would not have claimed even in his anger if he was such a powerful role it would throw the game to have him roleblocked or killed, Gamma claimed because his role harms town, similar to a day 1 Miller claim, TemporalLich, mostly same thing as Salamence. Then, any of them could be scum, and I don't want to think about which direction that would bias the sample, I'd prefer you either read over some completed role madness games and look at -all- the roles, or take my judgment over a biased sample.
Farkran wrote:
In post 666, popsofctown wrote: In post 549, Alchemist21 wrote:
If you want more from me then talking to me is the way to do it, not voting someone you just put in your Townreads.
This is Bad. You have an obligation to this game independent of what Evenstar does with her vote, and you should be able to see the town incentive to do what she's doing with her vote.
If it seems remarkable it might be because other people have seen you be underwhelming as town, you were underwhelming in StarCraft and flipped green. That's the only difference between Evenstar's post and my silence.
I can't remember anything you've done this game besides sheep a fake parity cop claim, just like I can't remember anything you did in SC except be a gunsmith claim.
She said "please", so don't be rude to her playing to her wincon when she's made you're not playing to it with her, unless want to claim scum.
Not sure if scum!alchemist would answer like that, even if i agree with the basis of reasoning. I'd think scum!alchemist would wave at, or produce content in response to that.
I think both alchemists could do that, scum!alchemist a little more because there is safety in dismissiveness, but moreso I care that my post might entice a town!alchemist to solve with us. When he actually occasionally does stuff he demonstrates a lot of intelligence.
In post 715, Severa wrote:Pops why did you call Gamma out for his 180 on me but not Evenstar
Because there isn't a 180? She got very excited about thinking you were scum, then over time as other things got her attention kind of relaxed on it and in later readslists put you at nullscum. It's pretty consistent with how she played in Magical Girls and plausible in a vacuum anyway.
The only thing I could see that you could be calling a 180 is that she went from voting you to voting one of your detractors. I've never been big on "never vote with your scumreads", maybe someday I'll see the light on it, but I don't get it, you're wrong a significant amount of the time so vote based on ideas and not cliques. So I didn't naturally view that as a 180. If Evenstar is a big believer in bloc voting maybe that's objectively wrong.
Gamma on the other hand rather quickly dropped and rejected the core idea and concept behind his push on you even though I'm skeptical he'd do so as town (especially since I think townies tend to confbias).
Chemist you were the chosen one what are you doing
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"