I don't see the difference between fierce emotional appeals as a civvie or baddie. If all you have to do to clear yourself in the game is just swear up and down that you're civ, and that gets you off every time, that feels cheap and out of the spirit of Mafia, imo.JaggedJimmyJay wrote:The only way around this, other than revamping the civilian approach, is to make concessions as a baddie which might not feel morally permissible (and in my opinion, fierce emotional appeals as a baddie are sometimes outright unsportsmanlike). A player is left deciding whether to compromise their values or to compromise their chances to win the game.
I feel like I don't take Mafia credibility nearly as seriously as some other players do. In this game there was a lot of "He wouldn't throw away his entire Mafia cred like this" or "If you're lying I'll lose all respect for you." Things like that seem like an extreme reaction to me, especially considering this game is at its core about deception. So we're saying some deception is okay, but you can't deceive too far?
For the record, I play to win. I don't always put in a great effort towards that end, but that's my goal. I don't care if I have perceived cred, and from here on out I'll try to double my attempts to make my civ and baddie games indistinguishable. I don't like being lynched because of meta, but I also don't want to win because of meta.