The Syndicate

G-Man wrote:I remember back when role-claiming and info dumping were common practice at LP. Usually one powerful civvie would role claim and the other civvies would try to plan in the thread how they would use their powers in conjunction to protect said powerful civ. I'm not sure when that changed. Baddies had the opportunity to false role-claim but they would either get lynched when the real civ challenged them or they would get lynched Day 2 if people believed them and lynched the real civ Day 1. Those were the days when Day 1 wasn't just 48 hours of waiting for a random lynch. I was a baddie once and got caught early but then offered up my teammates identities for immunity. That probably started the ball rolling on STV to ban role-claiming and info dumping.

I don't see the harm in role-claiming once it's obvious who you are- civ or baddie. Without role-claiming, it's hard to info dump without strongly-worded vagueness. But it also takes some of the mystery out of the game.

Mongoose wrote:DH&SVS, are you guys really bowing out?? :/

What about Rob/Logan? Are you guys gonna be contenduhs?

rabbit8 wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:

rabbit8 wrote:Hedville, son!!!!

Yeah OK gramps.

rabbit8 wrote:Hedville, son!!!!

MovingPictures07 wrote:That Skype chat sounds AMAZING. Oh man.

And regarding big sites v. little sites, I echo your sentiments, G-Man. I did hop around and check out mafiascum, but I didn't end up venturing into it because the atmosphere seemed too intimidating and I didn't have adequate free time.

DharmaHelper wrote:Lostpedia, The Piano, and SpoilerTV. Most if not all of us are from any combination of those 3 sites.

Don't forget ProgArchives.

But other than that, and obviously RM, I think you're right.

Golden wrote:

DharmaHelper wrote:Lostpedia, The Piano, and SpoilerTV. Most if not all of us are from any combination of those 3 sites.

Well actually I guess I was from Spoiler TV, but I think I hail more from Revolution Mafia.

Thingyman wrote:

Made wrote:Omg, we could have a thread watch thread!!!!

Regarding this, I ask that the participating sites refrain from openly speculating on roles and such in places where your representative's competitors could see it if they wanted to. You could openly discuss and laugh at and comment on general matters that don't revolve around giving and expressing reads on the game without any issue though, of course.

We will have a Skype spectator chat that everyone is invited to join (and where you should feel more than free to discuss reads). It was a lot of fun in season 1. We had more than a hundred people at one point.

Black Rock wrote:Some of those players seem fantastical. The player we send will literally be up against the best of the best.

Thingyman wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:I can do 500 posts of content per 24 hours in a themed large game no problem, but for a 12 player vanilla game, I don't know. Especially back-to-back-to-back-to-back-etc. of such games.

To be clear, you would be playing in just one of them. And then maybe one more, if you qualify for the finale.

Also, 13* :P