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[Phalla] ELEMENTALIST - Final Chapter: The Elemental Balance
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Not that I was a shining bastion of mafia competency either! I didn't even pick an initial ability to learn when the game kicked off, and on Day 4 I accidentally shielded ahava instead of hitting her with a probe.
Inactives, wasting the group power, and general terribleness. These are the three demons you must slay in order to prosper in any Blarnfidel or Blarnfidel-esque game
He lost, though, which is just as bad.
Mafia lost because of inactivity and incompetence, not Megatin.
He didn't lose he gets a big ???, just ask FWD and his runaway with a shard!
Acknowledgements take PM space.
Also, "here unknown possibly mafia person PMing me with no clearance at all so far, here is my seer, take good care of him. :^:"
Ringo, I'm offering you a blanket pregame alliance for the next time Spectrum show up. Between a dingo and Captain Black, we cannot fail to succeed!
Whether or not you consciously act on the information, knowing from the outset who is or isn't mafia will have an undeniable influence on the game. It's like a free initial seering.
Granted we knew to cut all ties to Megatin to avoid potentially incriminating ourselves in the thread, but I still don't like it at all.
How can I say no?
Killing Spectrums is my cause
No, he lost too.
I'm not blaming him for me losing (as you said, our own incompetence and inactivity can be blamed for that). I blame him for throwing away his own chances at winning.
What an awful thing to be encouraging people to do, Infidel.
Oh yeah, I understand. I didn't have time to really try and do much more. I just never heard anything then the seering and "Why are you acting suspicious when you're a villager" theme on the proboard.
I was just all "I was trying to help!"
Considered outing myself as the other survival neutral once we were getting close to the end, not sure if it would have saved me or not
Thanks for running Blarney! Was lots of fun! My biggest regret is that I accidentally speced in Wood instead of Earth, so I made a very poor Toph
It was all very well done and very entertaining.
Also, I survived! Weeeee!
thorgot: you are the best outed mafia still.
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I used to be in these a long time ago and the two biggest issues with them that I see is what you decide to put as first priority, your win condition or your pre-game alliance and that these are really only fun for those in them and not for those outside of them. I'm not sure how people see them now, but they used to be seen as little cliche groups, almost like you were 'in' if you were with these, otherwise you were not.
Personally, I think they tend to detract from the overall game experience for those outside of the group and if newer players feel like they don't belong or don't get what's going on when you see these groups, it can put them off a bit and detract from their experience.
Results for Spectrum Five: One mafia, one banned, that leaves three winners.
Thanks for running this MrB, it was fun.
I know this isn't popular but for me the whole alliance thing falls into the same category as "Rend never lies", it discards your game directed imperatives for ones you choose to make up for yourself. It is a bit like playing Capture the Flag as Deathmatch.
Yea, pre-game alliances always end up screwing over the faction in the minority within them and there's never really much they seem to be able to do about it. At least these seems to be the case from my experience.
Anyway, this game was a blast. I hope my guards helped people. Although I think I could have maybe kept Gumpy alive if I hadn't switched my guard target the day he died. :P
IMO pregame alliances are for faction games. Those games already suffer somewhat for being phalla cliquey in the soft networking that goes on, so why not have a little fun with it?
I don't think I'm ever going to join a sizable pregame in a village vs. mafia game again. One on one deals maybe.
Plus whenever I try to join Gumpy's pregame I get a mafia role and then he
(zing)
My favorite ever was when I received a role that was like "you are the ultimate badguy- if you can find another role, you will be more powerful!"... And the guy I had to find was the person I had made an alliance with. The host was somewhat surprised to receive a PM saying "Found him!" within an hour of role PMs going out :P
Seriously though, you have to be really careful about what you do as far as alliances go. If you have diametrically opposite win conditions, don't try to work together- just pretend you never made the alliance and go on your way- if you get evidence they're who they said they were, kill em off.
If you can possibly win together without screwing over everyone sharing your win condition, go for it!
At no time should you betray the people you're masoned with to go for a pre-game alliance joint win- that's breaking the game. At no time should you act against your win condition just to save someone you've allied with.
If you use common sense and have a good sense of fair play, I see nothing wrong with pregame alliances.
Just..don't be a douchebag about it.
I was still sad he died
Was I the only one with a Shield All ability?
I normally don't have much issue with pregames, but the idea of a cast-iron pact where you have to reveal to the rest of your team does not sit well with me: like Skid, I would've normally imagined such agreements would have dissolved without further mention if they'd turned out to involve a mafia-villager connection. It's not like anybody asked the rest of the mafia how we felt about it.
More trouble than it's worth if you ask me. Sitting on the knowledge that Megatin was mafia for the whole damn game, and trying to balance that with the expectation that you do everything in your power to meet your win condition.
Whether or not it had any impact whatsoever on the final outcome, it's all a bit silly. Far be it for me to dictate how the phalla community should play, but for me they're an unnecessary complication. You're fabricating another level of gameplay to paste over the host's own, as if the default experience is fine for everyone else but you just need that little something extra to keep yourself entertained.
With that in mind, my additional win condition that I have just now (retroactively) imposed on myself was to get HeavyVillain eliminated from the game. I'm calling this a win!
That's... not a great thing to read when you're on the same team as this person. Not a great thing to read at all.
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You're going about it in the wrong way V!
What you need to do is fire a PM off to a veteran player while blabbering about how much you hate me. And make sure to put "P.S., I am a mafia, kill me now" at the end of it.
I bet you're glad I'm here to help!
Primaphorior, and the villager who commited suicide cos a mafia told him to
Much respect for Teucrian for actually paying attention in phalla!
edcrab sure was polite about getting voted off
I was getting anxious for Kippy to die so that I could tell him what really happened without him letting you guys know.
This is Phalla! The only thing Cast Iron about any of this is these fists right here
I was actually counting on this. My plan was to be useful to the village in networking, and useful to the mafia in infiltration. Honestly I thought I was way more useful to the village than to the mafia, but it ended up being that the village killed me instead. Figure that.
I really try to answer few enough questions that this does not affect the game on a meta level- I actually agree with you. I'm definitely aware of the repercussions of it, which is why I always take pains to make sure I am a minimal to nonexistent force in the game's rules.
You are welcome for surviving.
Though the fact that I was heavily Metal focused and had to essentially change everything to fire in order to give you sweet sweet healing made me sad.
This was a pretty damn fun game. I enjoy being useful without really having a power that requires me to judge whether people are good or not. I'm not a particularly good judge of character, especially over the internet, so healing was tons of fun.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
I mean, he's sitting on three(?) years of people's trust in a gambit right now he's yet to cash in.
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Mark my words.
My permanent exit from phalla is going to be spectacular as HELL.
MrBlarney, your day notes about the misunderstanding with kime were exactly right. Otherwise I probably would have died a few days sooner...
Am I the only one who took Boost and Neutralize as my first two skills?
I did too. didnt really do anything useful with em, because I am apparently terrible.
I'm happy I did get to be in a kill squad, if only for a couple days.
Like I said, the PHA/LLA interface should be some kinda game all by itself. It was so cool! Congrats again, Mr Miyagi! I learn at your feet. Wax on, wax off.
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Infidel: I didn't actually use that metal shield on you. I would have if you hadn't said to do something else that night though!