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Metastasis, a [mini-Phalla] - Game Over. Mafia Victory.

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    SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    Except it says they have to convert a "critical mass" of proteins. Which is probably a smaller amount with more of them dead.

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
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    JABMonkeyJABMonkey Cincinnati, OHRegistered User regular
    :( That sucks.

    But, at least 2 mafia were hit, gives us some place to start.

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    BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    JABMonkey wrote: »
    :( That sucks.

    But, at least 2 mafia were hit, gives us some place to start.

    Well, this depends on whether the mafia have a conversion that turns into a kill if it does not target a Rac1 protein, or just a conversion.

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    JABMonkeyJABMonkey Cincinnati, OHRegistered User regular
    Good point, I hadn't thought of that.

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    BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    Let us remember that every single villager has the capability to kill a mafioso, so giving the mafia a kill or kills is not out of the question.

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    RetabaRetaba A Cultist Registered User regular
    KetBra wrote: »
    Hey Retaba, what's with your name being similar to mine?

    I'm not sure, Ketbra but it confuses people like Kime! :)

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    The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    Our kills can also work as a seer, like this:

    REG Rysk is not mafia. I targeted him last night, and MrT says that if multiple villagers target one mafioso, everyone involved dies. If you want proof I'm legit, vote for The Anonymous.

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    BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    Yes, because killing a villager to confirm that REG Rysk is not mafia is worth it. The only good that comes of that is the mafia goes after him, meaning they either get a protein, or a confirmed villager.

    Our kills do act as seers, but the question is just who do you trust? The mafia will always be able to say they attacked someone who is a villager.

    For example, I can tell you that I attacked INANTP last night.

    He is dead. I am not. Therefore INANTP is/was not mafia.

    But, do you believe me?

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    AssuranAssuran Is swinging on the Spiral Registered User regular
    I do, mostly because I also attacked INANTP.

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    PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    It hardly matters, with sufficient cross referenced data you can draw valid conclusions without needing to rely on any individual datapoint. I attacked Capfalcon

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    romanqwertyromanqwerty Registered User regular
    Phyphor wrote: »
    It hardly matters, with sufficient cross referenced data you can draw valid conclusions without needing to rely on any individual datapoint. I attacked Capfalcon

    Presumably the mafia can do the same. We have to be very careful publicly revealing who we attacked since that narrows the pool of people that the RAC1 proteins can hide in and if they're forced to fake results mafia might well spot them very quickly.

    I thought your encryption system was designed to account for this? Why the change of heart phyphor?

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    kimekime Queen of Blades Registered User regular
    Anialos wrote: »
    Hmm, yes. Potential for being depressing is quite high. Also !Kime is always evil.
    Anialos wrote: »
    Cythraul wrote: »
    I was Ender in that game... I think that was my first phalla?

    Anialos because I'm tired of being nice to the new guys! Rarrr!!!

    Oh noes! Now I guess I need to be nice to !Kime. Look what you made me do !Cythraul!

    I like you :lol:. You'll fit in well with this bunch of crazies :P

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    kimekime Queen of Blades Registered User regular
    Awwww, my "lol" smiley is gone...

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    kimekime Queen of Blades Registered User regular
    Btw, I was inactive because I didn't get a role PM so didn't know it started...

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    PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Phyphor wrote: »
    It hardly matters, with sufficient cross referenced data you can draw valid conclusions without needing to rely on any individual datapoint. I attacked Capfalcon

    Presumably the mafia can do the same. We have to be very careful publicly revealing who we attacked since that narrows the pool of people that the RAC1 proteins can hide in and if they're forced to fake results mafia might well spot them very quickly.

    I thought your encryption system was designed to account for this? Why the change of heart phyphor?

    Anyone who is a protein can either make up fake targets or say nothing at all. If they said they attacked someone who is a mafia... well that's just bad luck really

    Phyphor on
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    AssuranAssuran Is swinging on the Spiral Registered User regular
    Kime is apparently a white blood cell then. Or a good liar.

    /wave hi Kime

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    sportzboytjwsportzboytjw squeeeeeezzeeee some more tax breaks outRegistered User regular
    PS MRT you didn't snark but it has happened before.


    PPS Assuran is bad for our health

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    AssuranAssuran Is swinging on the Spiral Registered User regular
    !Sportsboytjw makes it easy for me.

    Why on earth would you vote for someone that confirmed INANTP as a white blood cell?

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    tzeentchlingtzeentchling Doctor of Rocks OaklandRegistered User regular
    Phyphor, I dunno how good your algorithm is, since I also attacked someone that an above poster attacked.

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    I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    OoooOOooo

    Oh man now in addition to checking the thread before vote close, I have to check it before vote close but only two days from now

    you guys are jerks

    OooooOOoooo

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    PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    Phyphor, I dunno how good your algorithm is, since I also attacked someone that an above poster attacked.

    Due to the birthday paradox, it's virtually impossible to prevent duplicates with random assignments

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    romanqwertyromanqwerty Registered User regular
    Phyphor wrote: »
    Phyphor wrote: »
    It hardly matters, with sufficient cross referenced data you can draw valid conclusions without needing to rely on any individual datapoint. I attacked Capfalcon

    Presumably the mafia can do the same. We have to be very careful publicly revealing who we attacked since that narrows the pool of people that the RAC1 proteins can hide in and if they're forced to fake results mafia might well spot them very quickly.

    I thought your encryption system was designed to account for this? Why the change of heart phyphor?

    Anyone who is a protein can either make up fake targets or say nothing at all. If they said they attacked someone who is a mafia... well that's just bad luck really

    But that's my point. Im not sure that encouraging everyone to reveal who they attacked is a good thing. That isn't to say its not, but some math might help convince me.

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    PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    Well, having everyone reveal... probably not such a good idea, but as long as it's not that many there's little harm

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    The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    Baidol wrote: »
    Yes, because killing a villager to confirm that REG Rysk is not mafia is worth it. The only good that comes of that is the mafia goes after him, meaning they either get a protein, or a confirmed villager.

    Our kills do act as seers, but the question is just who do you trust? The mafia will always be able to say they attacked someone who is a villager.

    For example, I can tell you that I attacked INANTP last night.

    He is dead. I am not. Therefore INANTP is/was not mafia.

    But, do you believe me?
    Yeah, way to twist my words here. I never called for everyone to reveal who they attacked; we know that's an exercise in futility, unless you use the vote. Which I plan on doing to rule out possible mafia.

    See, we know that two of the four temp-dead are mafia, and me dying to the vote confirms my statement that Rysk isn't one of them. Tomorrow we vote out someone who claimed to have targeted INANTP; if they're village, we know who two of the mafia are. If they aren't, the person we voted out wasn't village anyway. The village wins out no matter what.

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    PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    In general, the vote target and anyone who dies should reveal though

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    romanqwertyromanqwerty Registered User regular
    See, we know that two of the four temp-dead are mafia, and me dying to the vote confirms my statement that Rysk isn't one of them. Tomorrow we vote out someone who claimed to have targeted INANTP; if they're village, we know who two of the mafia are. If they aren't, the person we voted out wasn't village anyway. The village wins out no matter what.
    Citation needed

    As far as i'm aware, we don't know that. For all we know, it could be 1 mafia and 3 villagers who all attacked him. Or any combination involving 1 or 2 mafia kills.

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    GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Whoops. Was out almost all day, totally forgot about this since the day begin/end is at a different time than I'm used to.

    Gaslight on
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    PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    See, we know that two of the four temp-dead are mafia, and me dying to the vote confirms my statement that Rysk isn't one of them. Tomorrow we vote out someone who claimed to have targeted INANTP; if they're village, we know who two of the mafia are. If they aren't, the person we voted out wasn't village anyway. The village wins out no matter what.
    Citation needed

    As far as i'm aware, we don't know that. For all we know, it could be 1 mafia and 3 villagers who all attacked him. Or any combination involving 1 or 2 mafia kills.

    Yeah, all we know at this point is that there is likely a mafia in the dead group, but who or how many is unknown

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    The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Phyphor wrote: »
    See, we know that two of the four temp-dead are mafia, and me dying to the vote confirms my statement that Rysk isn't one of them. Tomorrow we vote out someone who claimed to have targeted INANTP; if they're village, we know who two of the mafia are. If they aren't, the person we voted out wasn't village anyway. The village wins out no matter what.
    Citation needed

    As far as i'm aware, we don't know that. For all we know, it could be 1 mafia and 3 villagers who all attacked him. Or any combination involving 1 or 2 mafia kills.

    Yeah, all we know at this point is that there is likely a mafia in the dead group, but who or how many is unknown
    But I totally said "at least one mafioso". Totally.

    The Anonymous on
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    ObiFettObiFett Use the Force As You WishRegistered User regular
    Someone in that group of 4 has to be mafia, right?

    Lets start with smoove

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    AssuranAssuran Is swinging on the Spiral Registered User regular
    Actually, Obi, that's a good question.

    I didn't think we could vote for the dead, given normal phalla rules, but let us clarify that:

    Are the dead viable vote targets in this phalla?

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    ObiFettObiFett Use the Force As You WishRegistered User regular
    Oh, yeah. Didn't even think about that.

    Just assumed that targeting the dead was a barrel to shoot fish in compared to the lake that is the village.

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    GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    Assuran wrote: »
    Are the dead viable vote targets in this phalla?

    This phalla so craaaaaazy...

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    BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    Gaslight wrote: »
    Assuran wrote: »
    Are the dead viable vote targets in this phalla?

    This phalla so craaaaaazy...

    Hahahahahahahahaha

    Listen up, time for a mechanics dump.

    I have been contacted by a Rac protein.

    No, I do not know why Bedlam did not release this information before he died. That way, people would believe what he said. Instead, you will have to do with just me.

    Rac proteins can select a white blood cell, presumably each night, to protect them from the backlash of hitting a cancer cell. This allows the white blood cell in question to kill a cancer cell without dying as well.

    However, if a protein selects a cancer cell, that cell is protected from a single white-blood cell attack. It is implied, but not confirmed, that multiple white blood cell attacks in a single-night will break this guard.

    This means that just because your target survived, it does not mean he is not a cancer cell. This also means that converted Rac proteins are extraordinarily dangerous. Any protein that is outed must be executed by the village.

    Proteins, choose your targets carefully and come talk to me. No, I am not telling you who the other proteins are.

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    kimekime Queen of Blades Registered User regular
    Wait, how does anyone know to trust you, Baidol?

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    BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited March 2012
    They don't!

    You either believe I am a villager contacted by a protein, a mafia member contacted by a protein, a mafia member who's team converted a protein on day 1, or someone making shit up.

    Baidol on
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    GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    Oh geez.

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    SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    Welp. At least this is a pretty good test of if the mafia have a kill.

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
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    The AnonymousThe Anonymous Uh, uh, uhhhhhh... Uh, uh.Registered User regular
    Or we can vote you out. There's always that option.

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    BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    Also true!

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