Thunal33 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:06 am
I'll also add that being an outed guard isn't that much better than being dead in this setup. If the assassins know not to shoot you, that's one person they can eliminate from their pool for the rest of the game. I think it's a little better than being dead because you can still help town with your vote and the assassins can still tinfoil you, but it sure isn't good.
How could a Guard get outed, though? I guess by leading a strong elimination against an Assassin. Probably one or two players could get cleared once that happens, but nothing is rock-solid, right?
For you and @Foxy
By outed guard, I meant outed as not the King. If you are taken out of the pool of people the assassins could shoot, it doesn't matter that much if you're taken out because you're dead or taken out because you were outed as not the King. You're still one fewer person that could be King.
Thunal33 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 1:18 am
I'm not going to defend myself but I do like explaining game theory and strategy, so I'll do that and selectively respond to this case.
Thunal33 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 7:08 pm
And that means if you are voted, just accept it instead of trying to defend yourself or convincing anyone not to vote you. Don't try to start a counterwagon for self pres either.
I take this post very seriously simply because it gives off "I don't know King" vibes. Because if you knew the King you'd also know that others know the King and as such, it's impossible to vote him out. King may very well be invincible here. This post alone deserves serious consideration on getting voted out.
The problem with defending yourself a lot is that it outs you as not the King. If you get piled on, make a ton of posts defending yourself, and everyone switched to another wagon then you'd just be outed as not the King because you had all that pressure on you and reacted to it like you thought you were going to die. So I'm actually posting that for guards, not the King.
Ok but see my point I was after was that if enough people treat it as the WIFOM game that it is, we can do anything we want!
We can HAVE ketchup in our vanilla ice cream.
We CAN step on a crack and save our mother’s back.
Because everything you’ve stated there can be just as likely.
Like my general philosophy when playing regular mafia is to emulate every game as my town game. Which we all should. But I tend to operate as scum with a distinct type of compartmentalization where I forget that I’m actually scum. Oops! Got lost in the game. Oh baby baby.
I guess it all boils down to how good the king is at also playing the WIFOM game. If they don’t drink wine, for instance, we’re probably hosed
Foxy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:04 am
Okay so, I saw someone wanting Michelle, Dai, and leetic out. Honest to God I forgot for all three why but I remember them leaning on town side in my head so let's not go there today kay?
Well... no promises. I can't base my vote on a vague memory you think you had.
Michelle wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 3:06 am
I was too busy to read everything and I wanted to reach the reason of the votes on me to talk about them.
I still couldn't read that part but I saw Leetic voted me in bad faith and as a good Omguser I will [VOTE:
Leetic] aubergine
You're not helping your case here
Where is the case?
Indeed. I'm the only other voter, and I do not recall making any sort of case. @leetic you think Michelle is assassinationally-inclined?
leetic wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:58 pm
Unless nobody can make it here for EoD, I'm not sure what the point of focusing so much on consolidating the vote is?
The king can die in a tie. Consolidation eliminates that possibility. Also if town has multiple serious wagons and cases, that helps pinpoint for the Assassins who the King is NOT.
It's another way of getting info into the thread that can help baddies.
1. This is pinging me to a small degree
2. You are probs overthinking it as either alignment
Hi Foxy, my name is "Overthinks Everything", nice to meet you.
And no I don't think I am.
Lets say you're one of the assassins (for the purposes of this example, this is not an accusation). You know 11 players are NOT assassins, therefore town.
Player A makes a hard case of Player R
Player B makes a hard case on player S
Player C makes a hard case of player T
You know all of these people are town, so they all know who the king is. R, S and T all get votes, these were pretty good cases.
S is yeeted, and flips Guard.
You, the assassins, now know R & T are also guards, and NOT the King. Cause A and C are unlikely to have made a hard case, a case they obvs believed, on their king.
So now your target pool is reduced by 3 people, not just 1.
You shall be my Royal Vizier, and your wisdom shall help me to rule with a steady hand.
leetic wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:12 pm[VOTE:
Michelle] aubergine for having like the most middling ISO ever. And of course I am (or was) the most voted person
Foxy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 6:34 am
Okay, preliminary thoughts:
Town: Scotty, Nutella, leetic
Just a bit towny: Daisuke (OMGUS reasons cuz she should have most meta on me...), falcon45aa,
NULL: whoever I didn't mention. Work hard or you'll naturally enter my scum leans.
scum leans: Thunal33, SVS.
Need to reread: Longcon
I feel like keeping you alive for as long as possible is best for town’s interest
Foxy alive, eh...? All right then, you seem like a good chap. I'll sheep you, sir. [VOTE:
michelle] aubergine
Michelle wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 3:06 am
I was too busy to read everything and I wanted to reach the reason of the votes on me to talk about them.
I still couldn't read that part but I saw Leetic voted me in bad faith and as a good Omguser I will [VOTE:
Leetic] aubergine
The two ppl on your wagon both have dumb reasons for voting you. At least Leetic's seems more reasonable. Why are you not voting LC, toDay?
You should know the answer to that. [VOTE:
daisukenowaifuke] aubergine
Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 9:14 am
Yeah, 12 vs 3 was the standard when I first started many centuries ago so 11 vs 2 does seem pretty townsided.
Why is Jack always rolling scum?
Oh you missed a semi fake meltdown about this in the last game. It should not have given me a win but it arguably did.
Thunal33 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 1:18 am
I'm not going to defend myself but I do like explaining game theory and strategy, so I'll do that and selectively respond to this case.
Thunal33 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 7:08 pm
And that means if you are voted, just accept it instead of trying to defend yourself or convincing anyone not to vote you. Don't try to start a counterwagon for self pres either.
I take this post very seriously simply because it gives off "I don't know King" vibes. Because if you knew the King you'd also know that others know the King and as such, it's impossible to vote him out. King may very well be invincible here. This post alone deserves serious consideration on getting voted out.
The problem with defending yourself a lot is that it outs you as not the King. If you get piled on, make a ton of posts defending yourself, and everyone switched to another wagon then you'd just be outed as not the King because you had all that pressure on you and reacted to it like you thought you were going to die. So I'm actually posting that for guards, not the King.
Ok but see my point I was after was that if enough people treat it as the WIFOM game that it is, we can do anything we want!
We can HAVE ketchup in our vanilla ice cream.
We CAN step on a crack and save our mother’s back.
Because everything you’ve stated there can be just as likely.
Like my general philosophy when playing regular mafia is to emulate every game as my town game. Which we all should. But I tend to operate as scum with a distinct type of compartmentalization where I forget that I’m actually scum. Oops! Got lost in the game. Oh baby baby.
I guess it all boils down to how good the king is at also playing the WIFOM game. If they don’t drink wine, for instance, we’re probably hosed
Stepping on a crack breaks your mother's back yo
No but I was saying we could change destiny and SAVE her back instead
yo
When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather;
not screaming like the people in his car
Okay so, there's like a not small chance that leetic is town. Why in the holy hell are we voting him out of everyone. If you don't want Thunal why not do SVS?
Foxy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:23 pm
Guys, I don't like this tie at all and you should know why. May you please change your votes as it's only half an hour before EOD?
Michelle wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:27 pm
I am going to sleep but I remembered this game.
When is Eod and what happened until now?
This post reeks of insincerity or something. Like "oh I'm just a lost little Guard, I am not getting involved in all this complicated commotion, how do you play again?"
Michelle wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:28 pm
Foxy did you answer my question?
It was something about your read on Leetic iirc
I forgot. I did read his 9 posts just moments before now and I think that he is more likely to be town that scum
You think that about everyone but me and Thunal, lol. Whenever someone starts to have a wagon, you pop in and say vague things about how you just read them and now you think they're town.
Skip softly, my moonbeams, for I have heard tell
That the stairs up to heaven lead straight down to hell
Michelle wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:28 pm
Foxy did you answer my question?
It was something about your read on Leetic iirc
I forgot. I did read his 9 posts just moments before now and I think that he is more likely to be town that scum
You think that about everyone but me and Thunal, lol. Whenever someone starts to have a wagon, you pop in and say vague things about how you just read them and now you think they're town.
I don't want to suspect Foxy, but this isn't this first time I have been pinged.
leetic wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:08 pm
Won't have time to be fully present EoD but I shall check in from time to time. Why am I top wagon here?
Cant speak for anyone else, but I had moved off of you, but when that wagon failed, I moved back to you becasue you're in my POE and the person in the other top wagon wasn't
Skip softly, my moonbeams, for I have heard tell
That the stairs up to heaven lead straight down to hell
Michelle wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:28 pm
Foxy did you answer my question?
It was something about your read on Leetic iirc
I forgot. I did read his 9 posts just moments before now and I think that he is more likely to be town that scum
You think that about everyone but me and Thunal, lol. Whenever someone starts to have a wagon, you pop in and say vague things about how you just read them and now you think they're town.
I don't want to suspect Foxy, but this isn't this first time I have been pinged.
He's done nothing but ping me from the beginning, but not sure how much that is due to play style. His relentless drive to steer the thread reads so bad to me. Plus I don't love voting nubs day 1, but I did it for my hour on the Dai wagon
Skip softly, my moonbeams, for I have heard tell
That the stairs up to heaven lead straight down to hell