If you accept it, even if you think you will lose, you are paying against your win condition.the choice itself is anti village, which you are supposed to help win above all else
This grabbed my attention a few days ago, and @Capfalcon best summed up my feelings on it.
The requirement is not "you have to play to your win condition," that's just how it's usually phrased since it typically is the same as "you have to play to win."
But in reality, only the second is valid. And it IS super-important
I'm sad that Malkavians were so scary to the mafia. We were most harmless! :P
Thanks for running this, Assuran. It was lots of fun
I don't really agree. Phalla is a team game, and playing to your team's win condition is the goal. You're not in it for just you, out that were the case the game wouldn't work the way it does.
By voluntarily switching teams, you are doing the same thing as crashing your team's ships together. You hurt your original win condition and make it more difficult for your original team to win.
Phalla isn't a game about personal interest, it's about working as a group to meet a goal.otherwise, villagers would lose if they died, because they personally didn't make it to the end.
Incorrect. Phalla is not a team game, it is a game of individuals, each seeking their own personal victories. It just so happens that for a great many of those people their goals coincide.
If you ever intentionally do something that causes you to lose in exchange for helping someone else win, you are seriously harming the integrity of the game, the threads that keep the game together
Bullshit. Bullshitbullshitbullshit. The goal of a normal vanillager is for the village as a whole to win, not for personal glory. Selfish villagers putting their one survival over the village as a whole has doomed the village in more than one occasion
If you accept it, even if you think you will lose, you are paying against your win condition.the choice itself is anti village, which you are supposed to help win above all else
This grabbed my attention a few days ago, and @Capfalcon best summed up my feelings on it.
The requirement is not "you have to play to your win condition," that's just how it's usually phrased since it typically is the same as "you have to play to win."
But in reality, only the second is valid. And it IS super-important
I'm sad that Malkavians were so scary to the mafia. We were most harmless! :P
Thanks for running this, Assuran. It was lots of fun
I don't really agree. Phalla is a team game, and playing to your team's win condition is the goal. You're not in it for just you, out that were the case the game wouldn't work the way it does.
By voluntarily switching teams, you are doing the same thing as crashing your team's ships together. You hurt your original win condition and make it more difficult for your original team to win.
Phalla isn't a game about personal interest, it's about working as a group to meet a goal.otherwise, villagers would lose if they died, because they personally didn't make it to the end.
Incorrect. Phalla is not a team game, it is a game of individuals, each seeking their own personal victories. It just so happens that for a great many of those people their goals coincide.
If you ever intentionally do something that causes you to lose in exchange for helping someone else win, you are seriously harming the integrity of the game, the threads that keep the game together
Bullshit. Bullshitbullshitbullshit. The goal of a normal vanillager is for the village as a whole to win, not for personal glory. Selfish villagers putting their one survival over the village as a whole has doomed the village in more than one occasion
Lookit this correct post right here. Nowhere in the village PM does it (typically) talk about you, personally, surviving.
Yeah, it's nice to survive but if you die and the village wins, you still win. One of the strengths of being vanillager is that you aren't super important, so if you can draw a mafia kill or eat the vote in place of a village special, you should since that buys specials potentially another day to do their things. It's one of the reasons why the village is encouraged to talk, it just doesn't make lying harder, it creates more targets that the network doesn't need to keep alive that the mafia fears.
There's a reason I am noisy as hell in every phalla I'm in, even without a role. The blinding power of non special village analysis drives the mafia crazy and they start butchering people just because they won't shut up.
There's a reason I am noisy as hell in every phalla I'm in, even without a role. The blinding power of non special village analysis drives the mafia crazy and they start butchering people just because they won't shut up.
Well if he's like that, kime might be mafia as village
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I haven't forgotten about role PMs, just been away from the house for a few days. The basic mechanics post explained all the rules, but I'll post the role PMs probably sunday.
You completely misinterpreted what I said, Spoit. Not maliciously, I don't think, but misinterpreted nonetheless.
I said any given player NEEDS to play for their own personal victory. For a villager, that often means playing for the village to win. Survival doesn't matter at all unless you need it to personally win. Being a hero or gaining glory doesn't either.
It's a "team" only in the sense that there are often other people that share your goals. But they may not always, you may not always have the same goals, and such. And you always shoot for yourself to win (not necessarily survive), even if that means betraying your "team"
There's a reason I am noisy as hell in every phalla I'm in, even without a role. The blinding power of non special village analysis drives the mafia crazy and they start butchering people just because they won't shut up.
I think it's funny that we've been talking all this time about this game and yet nobody has mentioned Langly's immense betrayal of everyone's trust...
That is for a couple reasons:
1. Most of us didn't believe his story in the first place, but went along with it because it helped us.
2. Langly has pulled off some crazy stuff like this before and this doesn't really surprise us.
Can you clarify how you would work towards your team winning by betraying them?
You wouldn't? Of course, if you would make a decision that would put you on a team that is more likely to win and also reduce your previous team's chances of winning, that's completely different.
Also, if you are a villager who has a second win condition, are you betraying them if you go after your second win condition instead?
I was mostly talking about that the entire time :P. I thought it was obvious since that's the quote tree you replied to, sorry. But as Capfalcon just said, if you have a secondary, you have to consider that as well
I disagree about the secondary part, if villagers are pursuing their secondary hard enough to impede the whole finding mafia bit, well, then you just have a village full of bedlams
I disagree about the secondary part, if villagers are pursuing their secondary hard enough to impede the whole finding mafia bit, well, then you just have a village full of bedlams
Maybe you aren't quite understanding what Bedlam did. Because this isn't the first time his name has come up, and I don't really think its applicable
I think it's funny that we've been talking all this time about this game and yet nobody has mentioned Langly's immense betrayal of everyone's trust...
That is for a couple reasons:
1. Most of us didn't believe his story in the first place, but went along with it because it helped us.
2. Langly has pulled off some crazy stuff like this before and this doesn't really surprise us.
I didn't mean the lying about his original wincon. That's whatever. I meant that he said he wouldn't spread the info and then totally did. I mean, he even told the mafia.
I disagree about the secondary part, if villagers are pursuing their secondary hard enough to impede the whole finding mafia bit, well, then you just have a village full of bedlams
I really can't disagree with this enough. Most winning conditions in faction games are "Eliminate all threat and accomplish X." There is no secondary winning condition, there is just a win condition. One of the things about faction games like this is that they are balanced around factions trying to achieve their win conditions, NOT around factions saying "I don't want to win." If you wanted to take a particularly hard stance, the analogy is that any of the Ventrue who weren't actively trying to find a way to vote out Langly were just as guilty of not playing to their win condition as Bedlam was when he crashed the ships.
Of course, we generally don't take that line. I think that's due to the actual underlying rules in Phalla. While we can argue all day about whether you should play to your current win condition or to win (and I think it's a interesting argument), the real reason all of us play Phalla is to have fun. All of the rules and ethics tend to revolve around finding ways to make Phalla the most fun for the most number of people. It's also why I find the concept of "winning" in phalla to be so interesting. Ultimately, a win con is just something you've been told to do. Playing towards them provides a structure to the game and a closed environment in which to play. All you get for achieving your win con is a notice on a message board and maybe something cool said about you in narration. For me, the actually winning is all of the effort and energy I put into achieving my win con and the obstacles I've overcome. There are plenty of games that I've won that I don't particularly care about. On the other hand, there are several games that I've lost but felt much more proud of. Those are directly due to how much effort I put in and effect I had on those games.
All that being said, I tend to have more fun when I am winning than when I am losing. I also tend to have more fun when I think the mechanics of a game aren't horribly against me (this is why game balance is important). I also have more fun when I get to talk with others and bounce ideas off of them, hence my generally wide ranging soft networking. Other people will have sligtly different ideas about what is fun in Phalla, and that's absolutely normal. Coming back to Spoit's original statement, the reason we don't castigate the Ventrue (and we did Bedlam) is that they didn't impede our fun. Sure, THEY weren't able to get whatever fun is inherent in a win, but they didn't seem to complain and didn't mind us getting ours.
And those of us who design faction games will continue to try to find ways to make you kill each other.
Don't forget, everyone, that if you think your going to die or lose, it's just plain more fun to be converted and potentially screw over the people that put you there. Fuck the police.
I think it's funny that we've been talking all this time about this game and yet nobody has mentioned Langly's immense betrayal of everyone's trust...
That is for a couple reasons:
1. Most of us didn't believe his story in the first place, but went along with it because it helped us.
2. Langly has pulled off some crazy stuff like this before and this doesn't really surprise us.
I didn't mean the lying about his original wincon. That's whatever. I meant that he said he wouldn't spread the info and then totally did. I mean, he even told the mafia.
The only person I gave village info at the beginning of the game was fiaryn, after i revealed, for the explicit purpose of finding mafia because I knew nothing about the setting and needed help. That just turned out to be giving the info to the mafia. I was taking a chance because I wasnt sure how long I would last and the info would be crucial for finding bad guys.
I didn't give clan info out until really late in the game, when the tremere needed help, who I had to help because baidol was the seer who was helping me get all the mafia.
which actually only hurt me, since it gave them my masons.
I disagree about the secondary part, if villagers are pursuing their secondary hard enough to impede the whole finding mafia bit, well, then you just have a village full of bedlams
Well, I didn't say secondary; I said second win condition. 'Cause that's how voluntary conversions work, basicly. You're given two wincons, and then you have to choose one to follow.
I think it's funny that we've been talking all this time about this game and yet nobody has mentioned Langly's immense betrayal of everyone's trust...
That is for a couple reasons:
1. Most of us didn't believe his story in the first place, but went along with it because it helped us.
2. Langly has pulled off some crazy stuff like this before and this doesn't really surprise us.
I didn't mean the lying about his original wincon. That's whatever. I meant that he said he wouldn't spread the info and then totally did. I mean, he even told the mafia.
The only person I gave village info at the beginning of the game was fiaryn, after i revealed, for the explicit purpose of finding mafia because I knew nothing about the setting and needed help. That just turned out to be giving the info to the mafia. I was taking a chance because I wasnt sure how long I would last and the info would be crucial for finding bad guys.
I didn't give clan info out until really late in the game, when the tremere needed help, who I had to help because baidol was the seer who was helping me get all the mafia.
which actually only hurt me, since it gave them my masons.
It hurt the malkavians more than it hurt you. Yeah, we killed your masons, but in a sense that further established your credibility. The malkavians, on the other hand, were killed off entirely despite being the most secretive clan.
Also, what horrible luck that you shared your master list with only 1 person and they ended up being mafia :P
Bullshit. Bullshitbullshitbullshit. The goal of a normal vanillager is for the village as a whole to win, not for personal glory. Selfish villagers putting their one survival over the village as a whole has doomed the village in more than one occasion
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Concur. I've always put the team's win above my own survival. That's one reason I tend to be very loud when I'm a vanillager, because I don't feel like I'm important enough that it matters if I survive or not, but hopefully provoking discussion will help reveal things.
(Not that this necessarily works as I intend it to, but that's my logic. :P)
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
There's a reason I am noisy as hell in every phalla I'm in, even without a role. The blinding power of non special village analysis drives the mafia crazy and they start butchering people just because they won't shut up.
Unless they are horrible at it
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"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
Bullshit. Bullshitbullshitbullshit. The goal of a normal vanillager is for the village as a whole to win, not for personal glory. Selfish villagers putting their one survival over the village as a whole has doomed the village in more than one occasion
Concur. I've always put the team's win above my own survival. That's one reason I tend to be very loud when I'm a vanillager, because I don't feel like I'm important enough that it matters if I survive or not, but hopefully provoking discussion will help reveal things.
(Not that this necessarily works as I intend it to, but that's my logic. :P)
There's a reason I am noisy as hell in every phalla I'm in, even without a role. The blinding power of non special village analysis drives the mafia crazy and they start butchering people just because they won't shut up.
Unless they are horrible at it
Yo.
You were doing so well ...then you went off in the wrong direction in ahava's game Or you forgot to include one crucial line.
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Bullshit. Bullshitbullshitbullshit. The goal of a normal vanillager is for the village as a whole to win, not for personal glory. Selfish villagers putting their one survival over the village as a whole has doomed the village in more than one occasion
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yeah my early gut feeling list/duna list was 3/5ths right. Which is 60% and had @solar on it. Not too bad.
Lookit this correct post right here. Nowhere in the village PM does it (typically) talk about you, personally, surviving.
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Unless they are horrible at it
Everyone does.
Until he does something helpful late game and dies
Arguing about IF PHALLA IS A TEAM GAME IS LIKE ARGUING IF KIME IS MAFIA OR NOT.
I would never play against my win con though.
You completely misinterpreted what I said, Spoit. Not maliciously, I don't think, but misinterpreted nonetheless.
I said any given player NEEDS to play for their own personal victory. For a villager, that often means playing for the village to win. Survival doesn't matter at all unless you need it to personally win. Being a hero or gaining glory doesn't either.
It's a "team" only in the sense that there are often other people that share your goals. But they may not always, you may not always have the same goals, and such. And you always shoot for yourself to win (not necessarily survive), even if that means betraying your "team"
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Well... yeah.
It's very interesting to see people's opinions on the nature of Phalla, and what rules people think move a game from "Phalla" to "Not Phalla."
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See: Phallout.
That is for a couple reasons:
1. Most of us didn't believe his story in the first place, but went along with it because it helped us.
2. Langly has pulled off some crazy stuff like this before and this doesn't really surprise us.
You wouldn't? Of course, if you would make a decision that would put you on a team that is more likely to win and also reduce your previous team's chances of winning, that's completely different.
Also, if you are a villager who has a second win condition, are you betraying them if you go after your second win condition instead?
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I was mostly talking about that the entire time :P. I thought it was obvious since that's the quote tree you replied to, sorry. But as Capfalcon just said, if you have a secondary, you have to consider that as well
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Maybe you aren't quite understanding what Bedlam did. Because this isn't the first time his name has come up, and I don't really think its applicable
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I didn't mean the lying about his original wincon. That's whatever. I meant that he said he wouldn't spread the info and then totally did. I mean, he even told the mafia.
I really can't disagree with this enough. Most winning conditions in faction games are "Eliminate all threat and accomplish X." There is no secondary winning condition, there is just a win condition. One of the things about faction games like this is that they are balanced around factions trying to achieve their win conditions, NOT around factions saying "I don't want to win." If you wanted to take a particularly hard stance, the analogy is that any of the Ventrue who weren't actively trying to find a way to vote out Langly were just as guilty of not playing to their win condition as Bedlam was when he crashed the ships.
Of course, we generally don't take that line. I think that's due to the actual underlying rules in Phalla. While we can argue all day about whether you should play to your current win condition or to win (and I think it's a interesting argument), the real reason all of us play Phalla is to have fun. All of the rules and ethics tend to revolve around finding ways to make Phalla the most fun for the most number of people. It's also why I find the concept of "winning" in phalla to be so interesting. Ultimately, a win con is just something you've been told to do. Playing towards them provides a structure to the game and a closed environment in which to play. All you get for achieving your win con is a notice on a message board and maybe something cool said about you in narration. For me, the actually winning is all of the effort and energy I put into achieving my win con and the obstacles I've overcome. There are plenty of games that I've won that I don't particularly care about. On the other hand, there are several games that I've lost but felt much more proud of. Those are directly due to how much effort I put in and effect I had on those games.
All that being said, I tend to have more fun when I am winning than when I am losing. I also tend to have more fun when I think the mechanics of a game aren't horribly against me (this is why game balance is important). I also have more fun when I get to talk with others and bounce ideas off of them, hence my generally wide ranging soft networking. Other people will have sligtly different ideas about what is fun in Phalla, and that's absolutely normal. Coming back to Spoit's original statement, the reason we don't castigate the Ventrue (and we did Bedlam) is that they didn't impede our fun. Sure, THEY weren't able to get whatever fun is inherent in a win, but they didn't seem to complain and didn't mind us getting ours.
And those of us who design faction games will continue to try to find ways to make you kill each other.
The only person I gave village info at the beginning of the game was fiaryn, after i revealed, for the explicit purpose of finding mafia because I knew nothing about the setting and needed help. That just turned out to be giving the info to the mafia. I was taking a chance because I wasnt sure how long I would last and the info would be crucial for finding bad guys.
I didn't give clan info out until really late in the game, when the tremere needed help, who I had to help because baidol was the seer who was helping me get all the mafia.
which actually only hurt me, since it gave them my masons.
Well, I didn't say secondary; I said second win condition. 'Cause that's how voluntary conversions work, basicly. You're given two wincons, and then you have to choose one to follow.
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It hurt the malkavians more than it hurt you. Yeah, we killed your masons, but in a sense that further established your credibility. The malkavians, on the other hand, were killed off entirely despite being the most secretive clan.
Also, what horrible luck that you shared your master list with only 1 person and they ended up being mafia :P
Concur. I've always put the team's win above my own survival. That's one reason I tend to be very loud when I'm a vanillager, because I don't feel like I'm important enough that it matters if I survive or not, but hopefully provoking discussion will help reveal things.
(Not that this necessarily works as I intend it to, but that's my logic. :P)
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That would be because of me. I gave the Toreador a list of their foes to foment inter-village chaos.
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Hahaha shit that's awesome. I wish I had been a bit more in the loop and not torpored.
You were doing so well ...then you went off in the wrong direction in ahava's game