The Syndicate

I wish I had played other recruitment games. The dynamics here are interesting. The only one I've played a little like it is rabbit's SK game (in which timmer betrayed me! wisely, because I would have won if he didn't, but I still carry the pain. We were a team!)

I will still probably find myself in a civ mindset because I can't help it, but its very odd knowing there are only 2 baddies out of 36 players right now.

What I'm most interested in is that some people have been already willing to put their hand up and say 'I haven't been recruited yet'. I'm not sure what to make of that. Obviously it turned out to be true in this case (assuming they are not one of the four leaders) but why say it? Are they setting themselves up for a lie later? What has been the general philosophy in saying something like that in the game? I don't really understand why you would do that?

I do, however, agree with JJ that begging for a recruit is not at all desperate, obscene or try-hard, so I present for you my own unique skills.

Roger Rabbit
Death and Taxes
Biblical

Unfortunately, I have no link to me juggling, but it wouldn't convince anyone.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Black Rock wrote:Have you been told to F off lately?

I was told to 9 days ago if you know what I mean. :P

But he persisted and got a win anyway.

BR cares.

One of these is true of LC however:

1) He has no soul
2) He is an emotionless automaton
3) He will, on occasion, be too busy cheering at how awesomely a mechanic worked out to truly mourn the death
4) He simply doesn't like anyone on the players list
5) He's only the co-host, so he isn't fully emotionally invested

I think it's probably position 3, but I'll leave it open.

Black Rock wrote:

Golden wrote:

Long Con wrote:Please know that each of your deaths - Civvie, baddie, and indy alike - are mourned by one of your hosts.

Fixed.

We have a debate going, which host do you think is more likely to mourn the players deaths?

Interesting... who is on what side of the debate?

(I meant BR.)

Long Con wrote:Please know that each of your deaths - Civvie, baddie, and indy alike - are mourned by one of your hosts.

Fixed.

I'm liking the pedantic pink.

New font color - pedantic pink.

I'm also trying out pedantic black for size.

@SVS - I just always assume anything MM posts on day one is not actually intended to be taken seriously.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Rico's current post count is 2,112.

Don't post again too quickly, Rico.

No, he should rush to post again.

Ricochet wrote:

Golden wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Ricochet wrote:A horrible way to die is to get mislynched without anyone caring about your defense, but that's just me.

Have you been a victim of this?

I would still agree though. Watchmen rings all the bells here.

Watchmen, yes. "Golden is bad because he did a really obvious attempted save on the baddie we lynched". I have forgiven DH though.

I've done a look through and, given what MM pointed out, I'm happy with option 5.

You mean DDL? I would have guessed he stonewalled your arguments the most.

DH is the one who dropped the poll to four people, the other three of whom had virtually zero reason to lynch at that stage.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Ricochet wrote:A horrible way to die is to get mislynched without anyone caring about your defense, but that's just me.

Have you been a victim of this?

I would still agree though. Watchmen rings all the bells here.

Watchmen, yes. "Golden is bad because he did a really obvious attempted save on the baddie we lynched". I have forgiven DH though.

I've done a look through and, given what MM pointed out, I'm happy with option 5.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Golden wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

Golden wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:One day when I have nothing else to do I am going to do a lengthy study on adverb usage in mafia and prove once and for all that it's always meaningless.

I think if you divide your research by quantity and quality you will find that one is meaningless, and the other is not.

I caught a baddie with the adverb theory in Watchmen. Just sayin'.

Even you acknowledged it wasn't the adverbs, but the reactions, that mattered. (linki - you beat me to it!)

Still haven't done a detailed analysis, but if option 2 includes a thread lock and the hunger, that might be my vote in the interests of getting it out of the way early.

This is a good point. I may do the same.

You guys realize that we could go the whole game without vpting Position 2 if we wanted to, right? The way BR has it set up, there will always be three or more options in each night poll.

Oh, my understanding was that we had to cycle through all positions before that could happen. That does change things a little.

I just read through option 2 and it actually has a whole lot of things which are potentially beneficial to civilian factions as well, so we shouldn't rule out using it. But it does take away the need to vote for something just to get it out of the way.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Is there a reason people are terrified of "The Hunger" beyond it simply being ominous? As in, has it appeared elsewhere in the annals of Syndicate lore and/or its sibling sites?

I have never played the three previous recruitment games (I'm not sure how that happened), but I'm simply basing it off what SVS had to say on the matter.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Is Day 0 normally the same length as other days? 'Cause I'm falling asleep at my desk and would like to drop my vote before the more lasting period of unconsciousness comes upon me if it's 24 hours.

It is 24 hours, the hosts said so.

Please co-ordinate your post timing better, four linkis is too many!

thellama73 wrote:

Golden wrote:

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:One day when I have nothing else to do I am going to do a lengthy study on adverb usage in mafia and prove once and for all that it's always meaningless.

I think if you divide your research by quantity and quality you will find that one is meaningless, and the other is not.

I caught a baddie with the adverb theory in Watchmen. Just sayin'.

Even you acknowledged it wasn't the adverbs, but the reactions, that mattered. (linki - you beat me to it!)

Still haven't done a detailed analysis, but if option 2 includes a thread lock and the hunger, that might be my vote in the interests of getting it out of the way early.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:One day when I have nothing else to do I am going to do a lengthy study on adverb usage in mafia and prove once and for all that it's always meaningless.

I think if you divide your research by quantity and quality you will find that one is meaningless, and the other is not.

MovingPictures07 wrote:DH, I will not address any of that adverb nonsense unless you have something you specifically want me to address. That's how I normally talk.

MP uses adverbs all the time, even when civ. I suggest you look out for adverbs that could specifically change people's perspective.

Also, the use of 'currently' is not only using an adverb, it is also using a necessary qualifier, given the hosts themselves have given that qualifier.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Assuming the idea here is that the positions will rotate throughout the game, I think the earliest stage (right now) would seem the ideal time to choose the position which features the most potentially frustrating roles that don't involve murdering someone. That would include things like lynch switches and day restarts -- both position 5. I'd rather have annoying things like those in play when the game is young than when we're dealing in a more evidence-based thread and vote choices are more meticulous. I'm still poking around though.

I endorse this.

I haven't had time yet to actually do my own analysis of which options are best, but I think it's a great idea to get horrible stuff out of the way early. The one problem is that most of the roles we don't know what alignment they will be, so I'd probably give more weight to getting things which are frustrating no matter what side of the fence they are on.

reywaS wrote:

Golden wrote:

Bullzeye wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Position 5 results in the least amount of death.

Linki: listen to me when I'm talking to you DH.

This is actually a very valid point. Worth bearing in mind when people decide how to vote!

We have to cycle through all five positions. It might actually be that we are better off getting kills from baddies out of the way now... we should think about and discuss best use of kills. Definitely better to avoid positions with civ kills for now, I would think.

You "would" think? What is stopping you from actually thinking this?

*votes Golden*

Rey!!!

Bullzeye wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Position 5 results in the least amount of death.

Linki: listen to me when I'm talking to you DH.

This is actually a very valid point. Worth bearing in mind when people decide how to vote!

We have to cycle through all five positions. It might actually be that we are better off getting kills from baddies out of the way now... we should think about and discuss best use of kills. Definitely better to avoid positions with civ kills for now, I would think.

DharmaHelper wrote:I voted for Position 1, because its best to start at the beginning.

Someone is a closet Sound of Music fan.

G-Man wrote:

Golden wrote:Why did I let MP beat me.

Because you're a coward.

You're right. That is why I let MP beat me.

linki - Hi Typhoony!

Why did I let MP beat me.