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Archer [Mafia] |OT| Wait, I Had Something For This

Palmer_v1

Member
Just double-checking: that's because you think my posts have been fluffy, right?



I, uh.... Huh. I guess Palmer's gunning for that "Knows the Source Material" award.

It's one of the shows I'll play on Netflix for background noise. Archer, Scrubs, Arrested Development.
 
With about an hour left, here's an updated vote count.

Burbeting - 1 - Razmos (L-11)
cooljeanius - 4 - El Topo, EzekelRAGE, Haly, Mike_Hawk689 (L-8)
Enker - 1 - cabbeh (L-11)
EzekelRAGE - 1 - cooljeanius (L-11)
GreatLord Tiger - 6 - Burbeting, Palmer_v1, Septimus Prime, TheGoddamn, Visualante2, Zubz (L-6)
Mazre - 1 - Enker (L-11)
Seath - 2 - Hobohodo, roytheone (L-10)
Septimus Prime - 2 - GreatLord Tiger, YesNOnoNOYes (L-10)
squidyj - 1 - Arkos (L-11)
Visualante2 - 3 - Quantumbro, Seath, squidyj (L-9)
Zubz - 1 - Mazre (L-11)

Players not voting:
 

squidyj

Member
I've found every interaction of Haly with regard to the missions to be weird.
I mean, first he argues that he can understand why people want to go on missions because it can save them from getting night killed. then he turns around and calls the missions useless like the gossip chat from Animal Crossing Mafia.

In one of his first posts he says to me that he thinks town hunts scum then he spends days just going on about the missions while decrying talking about the missions as fluff, meanwhile he does precious little scumhunting. Finally he throws in a vote for roy, on the basis of..... "talking about missions is fluff and so implementing a system for missions is bad because then people will talk about missions like how I've been talking about missions and not doing what I said a good town should be doing".

Then a lot of people from AC defended Razmos but what I found interesting was when I tried to point out the differences in Razmos' play from the start of that game to this game, others accepted that, yes, it was different (though they still defended Razmos) but not Haly.


And now I've spent all this time and effort and we're no closer to lynching visualante which is what I really want. :(
 

Kevyt

Member
All this talk about me posting "fluff" and pressuring me to post more "quality" post won't really work. I don't mind getting evicted/lynched. I just want to have fun!

If my posts are fluff and bothering people then based Ourobolous can mod kill me if it really is a problem.

I'm just having fun in my own way. :p

With Seath it just felt kind of weird that he arrived pretty quick-ish after you had posted your thoughts about Ante to say "yeah I have also doubted him" with only evidence being his own word, none of his earlier posts do (I think?).

And yeah, it's a real possibility Visual won't be coming here today, since it's only bit more than an hour till the end of day. Same thing with GreatLord Tiger too.

I was already eyeing VisualAnte2 and The Goddamn. As I said, anyone with low post counts. Although, I get that voting for someone inactive by almost the end of the day doesn't really give much of a chance to said player to defend him/herself.

But still... I'm sticking to my gut feelings.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
My notes on are not as good as I would have hoped so I will likely have to run through the thread to generate my arguments.

I'll address this, I guess.
One point I have here is that the system Haly suggested is exploitable by mafia but he didn't seem to realize that, It took burbeting to point out that it was.
I really wish you would stop lying like this. This is the second time I caught you misrepresenting history, the first being the AC game and your claims of "lynching strong players".

This system doesn't sound half-bad, since it does give KGB less room to exploit it, atlhough they can have some power to do so. It also gives more time for the game to center around actual lynch-voting, I think. So if nothing better is proposed, I'd say we could go with this.

- Interested people will come forward, we vote on 4 to pick, they volunteer.
- A "no base rush" type of agreement where nobody will volunteer within 24 hours, and we discuss who will go.
- "Moving down the list methode": nobody is allowed to volunteer twice, we will simply send the next up on the waiting list of the last day.
- "the top town and scum methode": everybody gives their top town and scum, people with the most top town votes are allowed to go.
- Put everybody that want to in an RNG and let fate decide (not a fan of this one at all).
- Leave it like it is, AKA people with the best F5 skillz and time zones will get it.

3. This one is better than the two previous, I think, because as I said earlier, it does give KGB less possibility to make things go the way they want. On the other hand, if it does make going to missions compulsory, then the system won't work that well, since it shouldn't be a forced mechanic. So it would need to tweaked.

He went on to suggest and then insist, emphatically, that unanimous support for a system (re missions) was required for it to work at all, to the point that it felt like he was sabotaging any potential for anything other than First come first serve.
Please, I was the one who tried to get us off this volunteer shit that ate up 2 days in the first place. You were the one who kept bringing it up and I felt obligated to address it so you would stop.

As long as your stance remains stable on this front, I don't think we need to discuss this anymore. There's no way to implement a voting/queue unless everyone agrees to follow it. If we try to go ahead with some scheme while others refuse to play ball, then this will just lead to conflict and I'd rather not schism the entire thread on day one.
no, we need to have control, any other system is simply unacceptable.

I remember I had a problem with the specifics of Haly's vote against Roy, who I consider to be town.
Fair.

He also agreed with visulante's post talking about cutting inactive posters slack which I found worrying from someone who I think should know better.
This is Day 1, not Day 2 or 3. New players can't pick up their activity if they're never given the chance to.
 

Palmer_v1

Member
I've found every interaction of Haly with regard to the missions to be weird.
I mean, first he argues that he can understand why people want to go on missions because it can save them from getting night killed. then he turns around and calls the missions useless like the gossip chat from Animal Crossing Mafia.

In one of his first posts he says to me that he thinks town hunts scum then he spends days just going on about the missions while decrying talking about the missions as fluff, meanwhile he does precious little scumhunting. Finally he throws in a vote for roy, on the basis of..... "talking about missions is fluff and so implementing a system for missions is bad because then people will talk about missions like how I've been talking about missions and not doing what I said a good town should be doing".

Then a lot of people from AC defended Razmos but what I found interesting was when I tried to point out the differences in Razmos' play from the start of that game to this game, others accepted that, yes, it was different (though they still defended Razmos) but not Haly.


And now I've spent all this time and effort and we're no closer to lynching visualante which is what I really want. :(

I'm in a bad place to judge any of that because I thought ALL of the mission planning discussion was a waste and can't reference AC with you guys.
 

El Topo

Member
You could always follow your gut and re-vote for me ;)

I wanna lynch someone. Ain't happening with you.
Yet. More days will come.

Anyway, to avoid any late surprise, I also change my vote to Tiger. Sorry buddy, someone always has to die.

UNVOTE:cooljeanius
VOTE:GreatLord Tiger
 
ok caught up. you guys move fast during these hours wtf x____x

Visualante2 - I dont like that he is a sudden front runner for votes when he's not even here to defend himself, but looking over the quality of his contributions he has not added much value to our glorious Agency. But squidyj really came with a sudden hard swerve with this one and I must admit there is a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil voice in my head that goes, "is this finally the scums' attempt to save le petit tigre~"

Seath - haha it is just an avatar so probbies :> glad to see you are posting more and playing the game, though ! but the timing is suspect and so close to deadline...

EzekelRAGE - wah, too bad your analysis bit the dust :< I'd like to see your legendary playstyle moving forward so I definitely will not be voting for you for now.

I'm still undecided but I WILL be changing my vote soon. ....It's a toss up between Visualante2 and GreatLord Tiger at this stage, but let me just do a quick re-read to make my mind up.

oh god its 6 am now.
 

squidyj

Member
I'll address this, I guess.

I really wish you would stop lying like this. This is the second time I caught you misrepresenting history, the first being the AC game and your claims of "lynching strong players".






Please, I was the one who tried to get us off this volunteer shit that ate up 2 days in the first place. You were the one who kept bringing it up and I felt obligated to address it so you would stop.




Fair.


This is Day 1, not Day 2 or 3. New players can't pick up their activity if they're never given the chance to.

misrepresenting history? I was right on both counts. mafia just needs to space their volunteers and depending on how many there are they can be on as many as ALL the missions. You didn't mention your flaws at all! burbeting pointed them out, how in the actual fuck am I lying?
 

Burbeting

Banned
I was already eyeing VisualAnte2 and The Goddamn. As I said, anyone with low post counts. Although, I get that voting for someone inactive by almost the end of the day doesn't really give much of a chance to said player to defend him/herself.

But still... I'm sticking to my gut feelings.

Well to your credit I will say that VisualAnte is much more scum-vibeish than The Goddamn, since the latter has made more contributive posts.
 

squidyj

Member
ok caught up. you guys move fast during these hours wtf x____x

Visualante2 - I dont like that he is a sudden front runner for votes when he's not even here to defend himself, but looking over the quality of his contributions he has not added much value to our glorious Agency. But squidyj really came with a sudden hard swerve with this one and I must admit there is a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil voice in my head that goes, "is this finally the scums' attempt to save le petit tigre~"

Seath - haha it is just an avatar so probbies :> glad to see you are posting more and playing the game, though ! but the timing is suspect and so close to deadline...

EzekelRAGE - wah, too bad your analysis bit the dust :< I'd like to see your legendary playstyle moving forward so I definitely will not be voting for you for now.

I'm still undecided but I WILL be changing my vote soon. ....It's a toss up between Visualante2 and GreatLord Tiger at this stage, but let me just do a quick re-read to make my mind up.

oh god its 6 am now.

If I wanted to save tiger I'd go in for jeanius that's the high probability shot. What I want to do is actually hit mafia today, of course Haly doesn't think that's what day 1 is about. . I just don't think we can let visualante slide through. If they're not here to defend themself that's not my problem at this point, there's enough there right now for an argument to be made and shifting it to be a problem for another day phase is a mistake.
 

Palmer_v1

Member
If I wanted to save tiger I'd go in for jeanius that's the high probability shot. What I want to do is actually hit mafia today, of course Haly doesn't think that's what day 1 is about. . I just don't think we can let visualante slide through. If they're not here to defend themself that's not my problem at this point, there's enough there right now for an argument to be made and shifting it to be a problem for another day phase is a mistake.

That argument can also be applied to Tiger though. There's like 6 people I would lynch today. I have to let some of them slide. I just haven't seen visualante stand out THAT much from Tiger, and Tiger happens to be sitting in a potentially useful slot. Having a 4 player private chat tonight won't help if Tiger remains silent for the next 36 hours.
 
If I wanted to save tiger I'd go in for jeanius that's the high probability shot. What I want to do is actually hit mafia today, of course Haly doesn't think that's what day 1 is about. . I just don't think we can let visualante slide through. If they're not here to defend themself that's not my problem at this point, there's enough there right now for an argument to be made and shifting it to be a problem for another day phase is a mistake.

okies, squidy!

i'll believe you!

vote: visualante2

though i think tiger has 7 votes against him now :3


VOTE TALLY SO FAR :

Zubz (1)
Mazre
squidyj (1)
Arkos
EzekelRAGE (1)
cooljeanius
Mazre (1)
Enker
GreatLord Tiger (7)
Palmer_v1
Zubz
El Topo
Septimus Prime
Burbeting
TheGoddamn
Visualante2
Burbeting (1)
Razmos
Septimus Prime (1)
GreatLord Tiger
cooljeanius (3)
Haly
EzekelRAGE
Mike_Hawk689
Visualante2 (4)
QuantumBro
Seath
squidyj
YesNOnoNOYes
Seath (2)
roytheone
Hobohodo
Enker (1)
cabbeh
 

squidyj

Member
That argument can also be applied to Tiger though. There's like 6 people I would lynch today. I have to let some of them slide. I just haven't seen visualante stand out THAT much from Tiger, and Tiger happens to be sitting in a potentially useful slot. Having a 4 player private chat tonight won't help if Tiger remains silent for the next 36 hours.

so you're going to vote with visualante, zubz, and septimus then.
 

Palmer_v1

Member
so you're going to vote with visualante, zubz, and septimus then.

What do you have against zubz?

I have a new idea for tonight. I'll go with you on this but you seem to be willing to tie your fate to this outcome to some degree, which is more than I'm willing to do for Tiger.

Vote: Visualante2
 

squidyj

Member
What do you have against zubz?

I have a new idea for tonight. I'll go with you on this but you seem to be willing to tie your fate to this outcome to some degree, which is more than I'm willing to do for Tiger.

Vote: Visualante2

I don't have much against zubz except the company he keeps. I just don't have much for him either.
 

Zubz

Banned
With about an hour left, here's an updated vote count.

Burbeting - 1 - Razmos (L-11)
cooljeanius - 4 - El Topo, EzekelRAGE, Haly, Mike_Hawk689 (L-8)
Enker - 1 - cabbeh (L-11)
EzekelRAGE - 1 - cooljeanius (L-11)
GreatLord Tiger - 6 - Burbeting, Palmer_v1, Septimus Prime, TheGoddamn, Visualante2, Zubz (L-6)
Mazre - 1 - Enker (L-11)
Seath - 2 - Hobohodo, roytheone (L-10)
Septimus Prime - 2 - GreatLord Tiger, YesNOnoNOYes (L-10)
squidyj - 1 - Arkos (L-11)
Visualante2 - 3 - Quantumbro, Seath, squidyj (L-9)
Zubz - 1 - Mazre (L-11)

Players not voting:

Oh geez. And now Tiger got another vote on him? I feel really bad casting that initial vote for him now.

But more importantly, I'm feeling very suspicious of the other 6. I gave my reasons before anyone else latched onto him; this whole affair seems bandwagon-y to me. Like, Tiger hasn't done anything suspicious outside of volunteering without entirely knowing what volunteering means. I barely picked him over Akros, Mazre, or Palmer. At this point, I'd be more suspicious of anyone else voting for Tiger, like Visualante. And I guess he's been pretty inactive, too, so I'm somewhat leaning towards him...

so you're going to vote with visualante, zubz, and septimus then.

But then there's this. Your posts have been super aggro. Are you trying to say that Palmer, Visualante, Septimus, and I are all KGB? Why do you think that any of us, let alone this specific combination, are KGB? Let alone confident enough to accuse everyone simply because one player doesn't agree with you that Visulante's more suspicious than Tiger? Plus, a lot of your "contributions" have been pretty flimsy (Need I remind us of the whole "You're soaked" debacle)?

Plus, I've asked you what your suspicions of me were to no avail, and you told everyone to be suspicious of Haly, but it took some prodding by Palmer for you to provide anything. I know it's late, I know Tiger's dying anyway, and I know that there's a chance you'll get salty and try to get everyone to vote for me in retaliation (Which may or may not include KGB comrades). But at this point, I don't feel right voting for Tiger, whereas my gut's comfortable with Squidy.

UNVOTE: GreatLord Tiger
VOTE: SquidyJ
 

Zubz

Banned
... Wait a sec, did I just cause a tie? Ack! Abort! Abort! Sorry, Tiger! You just hit the opposite of a jackpot. I really don't feel good doing this...

UNVOTE: SquidyJ
VOTE: GreatLord Tiger

I don't have much against zubz except the company he keeps. I just don't have much for him either.

What company have I kept? You yourself said my posts have mostly been fluff. Outside of distrusting you and the volunteers, all I've done are make a few friendly comments towards the other players from the Star Wars game.

... Or is this another "Soaked" type of deal, here?
 

Hobohodo

Member
So I figure that my vote is needed elsewhere right now. Also the fact that Seath has started posting on topic is enough for me to get of his back for now. Been going over GLT and Ante for the last half hour or so. GLT was an initial vote of mine due to the rule misunderstanding and being in the first group of volunteers but when I look at his posts compared with Ante its Ante that comes of worse. I'll just remind everyone that Ante has said twice he would like to ignore missions from tomorrow onwards, why would we want to deprive ourselves of a mechanic? It feels like either of them could be doing a 'keep my head down and let it blow over' tactic however.

so you're going to vote with visualante, zubz, and septimus then.

Ultimately this post has given me my desicion. I read town on more of the players voting for visualante than I do for GLT.

Vote: Visualante2
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
misrepresenting history? I was right on both counts.
I dunno, maybe you missed my rebuttal where I reminded you that the first 3 players night killed were Tucah, Coppa, and LMQ, and that you and Ezekel, the ones who won the MVP awards, survived to the end.

You never responded to this post, so I figure you gave up the notion. But, apparently, you think you were still in the right and that the the reason the night roles didn't matter much is because they took out the "strongest players". Even when Hobohodo, an actual HHA, literally said they went for the quiet ones to keep Village in the dark, and if you read the HHA chat, you would see this as well?

HHA succeeded mostly because we killed ourselves, and so I think it's understandable that I want to prevent this from happening again.

I will say however the grid layout did play a part on some desicions of ours early on as we tried to work shit out but in the long run, but otherwise that's pretty much what the strategy was. But yeah will leave it at that.

mafia just needs to space their volunteers and depending on how many there are they can be on as many as ALL the missions.
And how, may I ask, will mafia account for people devolunteering, revolunteering, for people rush volunteering. Will they just devolunteer and revolunteer as well? You're saying it would be as simple as putting all their guys into the list 3-4 days ahead and just waiting for their turn?

You seriously think there would be nothing suspicious about a few guys trying to remain a certain distance from each other on the list? And that we wouldn't spot it? My system was conceived with the notion that any attempt to game it would be plainly visible to all, because the volunteer, and voluteering, is a totally visible process.

Even, and I don't think this would happen, if they tried this and got away with it, all they get is access to the chats. It doesn't stop them from being lynched in the day, and more importantly, it means they left a paper trail for us to look at. If, on Day 7-8, we lynch a mafia and see they have have repeatedly been on the mission along with one or two other guys, what do you think this tells us?

You didn't mention your flaws at all! burbeting pointed them out, how in the actual fuck am I lying?

I never thought we could come up with a perfect system, I was only interesting in creating the least exploitable one, one that would require minimum work, upkeep, or reliance on Ouro, one that everyone can quickly agree on so we can focus on what's important, lynching, one that would allow everyone to participate, should they choose to. I have always been consistent on that front.

squidyj said:
One point I have here is that the system Haly suggested is exploitable by mafia but he didn't seem to realize that, It took burbeting to point out that it was.
This, make it sound like burbeting is saying there's some serious flaw in my system when all he really said was "it's not perfect" (what is?) and you conveniently left out the second part "and yeah, it's better than the first two", which is all I expected out of my system, a least-worst choice.
 

Zubz

Banned
... And we're back at a tie. Well, I'm going back to Squidy, then. Sorry, Visulante!

UNVOTE: GreatLord Tiger
VOTE: SquidyJ
 

Burbeting

Banned
Regarding GLT, I still feel that my vote against him is valid, but at the same time, I do feel bit vary about the other people voting for him too. The last posts in general have made me bit unfocused since things are going at so fast pace. I'm trying to read quickly some of the last posts while there is still time for that.
 
VERY VOLATILE VOTE TALLY:


Zubz (1)
Mazre

squidyj (2)
Zubz
Arkos

EzekelRAGE (1)
cooljeanius

Mazre (1)
Enker

GreatLord Tiger (5)
El Topo
Septimus Prime
Burbeting
TheGoddamn
Visualante2

Burbeting (1)
Razmos

Septimus Prime (1)
GreatLord Tiger

cooljeanius (3)
Haly
EzekelRAGE
Mike_Hawk689

Visualante2 (6)
Palmer_v1
QuantumBro
YesNOnoNOYes
Seath
squidyj
Hobohodo

Seath (1)
roytheone

Enker (1)
cabbeh
 

cabot

Member
I'm annoyed with myself because badminton is usually on Wednesdays, the one time it's thursday and I feel like I've had to quickly rush through the posts in the last 1.5 hours.

None of my suspicious people were near a vote, and what I saw of ante was pretty rubbish town behaviour.

I still wouldn't call this a happy choice though.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Your vote tally is already out of date, YesNo.

Vote: Visualante2

I know I brought you into the game, but I don't want a tie. It's nothing personal Visualante, hope to play with you again.
 
Haly, i know! You guys move too fast~ WAW

9:5 (Visualante: GLT)

that's it for visualante2, i think o7

squidy got what he wanted :D great work, team effort!!! we saved a tiger!

\o/
 

Zubz

Banned
Vote: Visualante2

I really dont want a tie, so I have to do this.

jackpot.jpg


Well, at least we know Cabbeh, Roy, Hobo, and I don't want to see a tie? I can't really be suspicious of any of the Visulante votes now, seeing how half of them were to prevent the tie I accidentally caused (Sorry, I didn't see Palmer and YesNo change their votes!).

Still, this has been a bit crazy. I'm sticking with Squidy though, now, barring another tie. I'm genuinely suspicious of him for his aggressive behavior and his vague posts that refer to meta factors that don't exist.
 

Burbeting

Banned
At this point it seems pretty clear that Visualante is going to be the winner of the votes. As I said earlier, his behaviour has been pretty suspecting, and I agree with squidjy's points some-what, so this conclusion is not completely bad in my eyes. although I do see GLT as a more potential scum at this point than Visual.
 
(hopefully) FINAL DAY 1 VOTE TALLY:

Zubz (1)
Mazre

squidyj (2)
Zubz
Arkos

EzekelRAGE (1)
cooljeanius

Mazre (1)
Enker

GreatLord Tiger (5)
El Topo
Septimus Prime
Burbeting
TheGoddamn
Visualante2

Burbeting (1)
Razmos

Septimus Prime (1)
GreatLord Tiger

cooljeanius (2)
EzekelRAGE
Mike_Hawk689

Visualante2 (9)
Palmer_v1
QuantumBro
YesNOnoNOYes
Seath
cabbeh
squidyj
roytheone
Haly
Hobohodo
 

Palmer_v1

Member
People may be tempted to target Squidyj with various abilities tonight, but be cautious.

I would be interested to learn what cooljeanius is myself.

If I had to protect someone, it would be myself. Sorry, I'm a little selfish.

Trackers/Watcher, I dunno. We're probably close to 50/50 on people with abilities versus those without, though not will be active abilities.

Mafia, kill an inactive.

Switcher, who fucking knows. Have fun.

Armorers, me please!

My last post today. See some of you in the Mission chat in a bit.
 

Arkos

Nose how to spell and rede to
Ok let's talk about the important stuff now, who has the official mission cooler? The cooler? Anybody?

OH GOD WHERE'S THE COOLER
 
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