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Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
Stab up!
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wait..no.
Who said for you to stop?
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Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
HE HAS A GODDAMN GUN
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... too late?
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
this has me interested
No reveals?
Can I ask for more details here. No revealing who you are in PMs as well? Just game thread? No revealing what side you are on (Evil/good)? and even if there is backstory to such a rule existing :3
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
While I understand your frustration, isn't deception part of the game? I mean, there's an inherent risk to revealing your role. If you say you're the seer, and you actually are the seer, then the bad guys will kill you (or at least try). If you're a bad guy, and you get targeted by the seer, how else can you defend yourself without trying to claim a different role to the thread?
I'm not sure I understand how we can expect there to be any "gaming" if people aren't allowed to claim roles for themselves, whether true or false.
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
Ok, so can you clarify for us what exactly constitutes an inappropriate reveal (and perhaps add that to the OP)? For instance, if I get seered as Jack the Ripper, how can I reasonably be expected to defend myself?
Just to be safe.
So mean.
When that happens, if you're the Jack the Ripper, you're pretty much expected to start talking in morose period language and threatening people with vengeance from beyond the grave. However, even in that situation, it's absolutely verboten to turn around and say, "Well, I'm going to die anyway, might as well sell out my teammates!"
If you've been essentially revealed and are about to die to some public mechanic, then I think it's fine to reveal your own identity ... just so long as you're already on death row. This is just my own take on it though, and Fencing is free to overrule or disagree. <3
Round 1:
Me: RU is a good guy
RU: Skid is a good guy!
Gumpy: Chamberlain is a bad guy!
Chamberlain: Gumpy is a bad guy!
....
Hey guys, why is fencingsax's account deleted?
Selling out your teamates is absolutely poor form and I would certainly expect that kind of behaviour to be curttailed. That being said, part of the game is for the bad guys to sow confusion and discord so that the village turns on itself, and that, sometimes, can be accomplished by bad guys claiming to be something they're not, in order to get a hapless villager to trust them or what have you.
Mafia games are all about deception and misdirection. If you take away that ability (i.e. you can't make any type of claim outside of your vote) then you're setting yourself up for nothing more than a long series of guessing games, taking out the strategy.
Sorry if I'm overanalysing this, I just want to make sure I understand what Sax's intentions are, is all. I mean, if I start to speculate about what kind of roles exist and start making spurious claims about the roles of other people, am I playing against the "spirit of the game"?
We lost about six days of activity in a row because, for whatever strange reason, people just revealed themselves as baddies. Like -- there wasn't any strategic reasoning. Just people that didn't quite understand the rules, and instead of taking it to PMs with Fencing, posted in the thread that they were an evil stonecutter and whom they were cut in with. e_e
Good: 'Well, okay, I'm so-and-so, but I can protect people (may or may not be true)! Don't vote me off!'
Bad: 'So, who else is so-and-so?' 'Me.' 'I am!' 'If being a so-and-so is wrong, I don't wanna be right.'
(And then the team is annihilated.)
Well I wasn't there for that, so that sounds just ridiculous. I think the rule should be amended to say "no discussion of your role PM in the thread. If you have any questions, PM the GM directly."
So basically what you're saying is that there were people in the last game who were just poor sports. Banning that kind of behaviour I can certainly get behind.
and then people threw a shit-fit when that person was, expectedly, voted off
WHAT THE FULMINATE, PEOPLE
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