The Syndicate

MacDougall wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:08 pm Day of the Purge

This server has become bloated. Reality is dissolving under the weight of these ever expanding volumes. We must do a database cleanse.

At the end of the day. After the daily elimination is flipped. Half of the remaining NPCs will be randomly removed from the game.

Well this is just sending mixed messages. Hopefully our intrepid host will clarify.

But I do hope this latest iteration of the purge explanation is the right one. Deathdeathdeathdeathdeath!

G-Man wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:09 pm

For clarification's sake, this means that you won't be killing half of the 20 NPC's still alive in the game right now, but rather just trimming out enough of the remaining NPC's so that only have of the NPC's from the start of the game are still in the mix?

If that is correct, then we have already gotten rid of 12 NPC's, meaning that there were 32 in the game total, so we're only go to cut out a slim handful of them at the end of the day since half of 32 is 16 and we're at 20.

Any chance I can bribe our host into cutting the list of NPC's active right now by half instead?

it will go from 20 to 10 I am not sure if that includes the kill and night kill so if we go and lynch an NPC if its 19 does it go to 9? or after the night kill 18 to 9? or if its lynch 19 to 10/9? Either way, its current 20 to 10 or 9

its half of remaining

ur stuck with 10 of us

I have lost basically all my WIM after that opening and us almost being at 100 pages and no closer to starting the game. I will try to get some WIM back tomorrow and do something

he did clarify it's out of remaining yes

every post rondo makes is wolfy lol

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:14 pm every post rondo makes is wolfy lol

yes

Lumi wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 11:50 am Day 3 Vote Count
SoD: #3945 EoD: #0

Not Voting (16): MacDougall (7), katze (35), Lumi (26), Sloonei (6), DrWilgy (10), Jackofhearts2005 (13), c4e5g3d5 (3), G-Man (2), pyxxy (10), Lilypetal (27), Inawordyes (5), Guillotine (2), Marmot (5), falcon45ca (4), JaggedJimmyJay (5), sprityo (5)
drwilgy (4): SilverKeith (9), nutella (63), Ranmilia (58), Vivax (39)
ranmilia (3): iaafr (54), Porscha (32), Neon (30)
neon (2): Seanzie (5), Hally (42)
dezees (1): santygrass (83)
creature (1): EnderWiggin (34)
nutella (1): NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME (20)
jaggedjimmyjay (1): RondoDimBuckle (40)
nanookthegreatandmightywizardfirstofhisnameandfatherofdragons (1): Scotty (18)
dr wilgy (1): ilario (14)
nanookthegreatandfearsome (1): Manny (12)
falcon45ca (1): Michelle (42)
sloonei (1): Ricochet (8)
rondo (1): Dyslexicon (9)
vivax (1): DeeZees (22)

Working off of this, I think that technically DrWilgy should actually have 5 votes- or are votes cast incorrectly still dismissed? Very confusing.

Either way, I feel like Wilgy is actually a player in the game, so I'm not inclined to chop him until we lose more NPC's. I also get genuine player equity from Neon, Ranmilla, Neon, and possibly nutella and Hally too. It's a lot of threadspew though, so I losing this next batch of NPC's should help direct my ISO work. I really do not feel motivated to ISO 37 people when 20 of them don't matter.

G-Man wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:18 pm Either way, I feel like Wilgy is actually a player in the game, so I'm not inclined to chop him until we lose more NPC's.

thems priorities sound backwards to me

Gman has been mostly inactive and now that wilgy is on the chopping block speaks up. Noted

Here's my guess for the real playerlist:

DrWilgy
falcon
G-Man
ilario
Lilypetal
Michelle
Nanook
Neon
nutella
Porscha
pyxxy
Ricochet
Rondo
Scotty
Seanzie
sprityo
Vivax


Some of these I'm really shaky on and don't know that well so they might be obviously wrong, and there were some super borderline slots that I wanted to include too, but this is my "not read the game, made purely from *meta-analysis" reads list

* By meta analysis I do not mean player analysis, I just mean analysis one level removed from the actual content of the game, eg. post count trends + players homesites + players frequency of playing FM games

Honorary mention to Santy who just barely missed the cut

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:12 pm its half of remaining

ur stuck with 10 of us

Well well well. I'll take this as an admission that you a an NPC. You can die.

[VOTE: katze] aubergine


Day 3 Vote Count
SoD: #3945 EoD: #0

Not Voting (16): MacDougall (7), katze (35), Lumi (26), Sloonei (6), DrWilgy (10), Jackofhearts2005 (13), c4e5g3d5 (3), pyxxy (10), Lilypetal (27), Inawordyes (5), Guillotine (2), Marmot (5), falcon45ca (4), JaggedJimmyJay (5), sprityo (5)
drwilgy (4): SilverKeith (9), nutella (63), Ranmilia (58), Vivax (39)
ranmilia (3): iaafr (54), Porscha (32), Neon (30)
neon (2): Seanzie (5), Hally (42)
dezees (1): santygrass (83)
creature (1): EnderWiggin (34)
nutella (1): NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME (20)
jaggedjimmyjay (1): RondoDimBuckle (40)
nanookthegreatandmightywizardfirstofhisnameandfatherofdragons (1): Scotty (18)
dr wilgy (1): ilario (14)
nanookthegreatandfearsome (1): Manny (12)
falcon45ca (1): Michelle (42)
sloonei (1): Ricochet (8)
rondo (1): Dyslexicon (9)
vivax (1): DeeZees (22)
katze (1): G-Man


I'd rather clear out as many of them as possible so we get down to actual scum-hunting.

lmao

god that post is probably a townclaim but its such a wolfy townclaim that i dont want to accept it

Lumi wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:20 pm Here's my guess for the real playerlist:

DrWilgy
falcon
G-Man
ilario
Lilypetal
Michelle
Nanook
Neon
nutella
Porscha
pyxxy
Ricochet
Rondo
Scotty
Seanzie
sprityo
Vivax


Some of these I'm really shaky on and don't know that well so they might be obviously wrong, and there were some super borderline slots that I wanted to include too, but this is my "not read the game, made purely from *meta-analysis" reads list

* By meta analysis I do not mean player analysis, I just mean analysis one level removed from the actual content of the game, eg. post count trends + players homesites + players frequency of playing FM games

Honorary mention to Santy who just barely missed the cut

If there's one way that I'm consistently off, it's in assessing Syndicate Veterans who I don't actually know super well. I see someone with a ton of posts on the syndicate, I assume they're active here and play games - but if they've actually just not played in a year, then they're >>rand just an NPC.

lumi ive already hardclaimed player why arent you taking that into account you dweeby nerdy weeby... nerd

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:20 pm Gman has been mostly inactive and now that wilgy is on the chopping block speaks up. Noted

when even the gif conveniently starts with w

G-Man wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:25 pm

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:20 pm Gman has been mostly inactive and now that wilgy is on the chopping block speaks up. Noted

No, its a fact that you have been mostly slanking and now you are speaking up on who to vote and trying to guide the thread now that wilgy is on the chopping block

Its my opinion that its wolfy behaviour

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:24 pm lumi ive already hardclaimed player why arent you taking that into account you dweeby nerdy weeby... nerd

1) I'm still an NPC and am not reading the game except for when people mention my name, so I didn't see that
2) You are a chaos gremlin and as NPC your range extends into hardclaiming player so...
3) Based off of pre-rand facts that you're literally retired, I kind of doubt that this nightmare slog (for the real players, lol) of a game would be the one you would sign for as a player, especially when you could sign for it as an NPC to just troll people
4) Pre-rand I'm pretty sure you were the single player in the playerlist whose motive profile for signing align most closely to my own and I never even remotely considered signing for this as a player, so yeah.

i'm taking santy and ender at face value as players but otherwise that list is pretty good, not sure who i'd take out to put them in

Lumi wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:29 pm
4) Pre-rand I'm pretty sure you were the single player in the playerlist whose motive profile for signing align most closely to my own and I never even remotely considered signing for this as a player, so yeah.

this also applies to me but i am a player nonetheless

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:30 pm i'm taking santy and ender at face value as players but otherwise that list is pretty good, not sure who i'd take out to put them in

The four that were borderline for me were santy, jack, creature, and ender

So ya, agree there too

meh

i feel like doming rondo

oh yeah jack also up there


dizzy on the fence for me too


from your list i'm not as sure about ricochet and vivax, maybe neon? idk

Buaaaac gif
luv the dude
But yeah this reality and fiction merging thing is sending me tripping
This is Peter Jackson‘s Bad Taste or something

maybe pyxxy idfk

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:32 pm meh

i feel like doming rondo

You could try but no one who knows me would get on it, only the vets I think

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:33 pm

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:32 pm meh

i feel like doming rondo

You could try but no one who knows me would get on it, only the vets I think

i mean its certainly possible you're a villager who is just a wolf in spirit, i can't say that's unrelatable or anything

but ur the second wolfiest player in the game to me and u might even overtake #1 at this rate

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:32 pm oh yeah jack also up there


dizzy on the fence for me too


from your list i'm not as sure about ricochet and vivax, maybe neon? idk

Dizzy was #5 in borderline slot rankings

I have no clue who ricochet or vivax are

I just saw their day to day post counts fit my profile of how I thought players would post + they are syndicate regulars. If they don't play often anymore then that significantly decreases their player equity.

I think Neon is just >rand player from the pre-rand due to how prolific she is, I've seen her in soo many games.

ricochet is not a recent regular, before the anniversary event he had last been around in 2018

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:34 pm

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:33 pm

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:32 pm meh

i feel like doming rondo

You could try but no one who knows me would get on it, only the vets I think

i mean its certainly possible you're a villager who is just a wolf in spirit, i can't say that's unrelatable or anything

but ur the second wolfiest player in the game to me and u might even overtake #1 at this rate

whats holding me back?

it's possible the anni game brought him back to wanting to play but i'd lean not

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:35 pm ricochet is not a recent regular, before the anniversary event he had last been around in 2018

pyxxy is similar in that profiling for me, if they've also not played in a long time then they're much less likely to be real players.


I'd say ya based on this richochet is >rand npc, so new list:

DrWilgy
falcon
G-Man
ilario
Lilypetal
Michelle
Nanook
Neon
nutella
Porscha
pyxxy
Rondo
santygrass
Scotty
Seanzie
sprityo
Vivax

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:35 pm

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:34 pm

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:33 pm

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:32 pm meh

i feel like doming rondo

You could try but no one who knows me would get on it, only the vets I think

i mean its certainly possible you're a villager who is just a wolf in spirit, i can't say that's unrelatable or anything

but ur the second wolfiest player in the game to me and u might even overtake #1 at this rate

whats holding me back?

the fact that i barely know you mostly

and because deep down i don't care enough to look at your iso

Actually, you know what. I am down for a dome. [VOTE: katze ] aubergine

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:28 pm

G-Man wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:25 pm

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:20 pm Gman has been mostly inactive and now that wilgy is on the chopping block speaks up. Noted

No, its a fact that you have been mostly slanking and now you are speaking up on who to vote and trying to guide the thread now that wilgy is on the chopping block

Its my opinion that its wolfy behaviour

Wilgy has nothing to do with why I am speaking up now. It just happens to be something I see as I can finally make it back into this game.

I admit that I've been slanking, but that's mostly because I'm hosting a game and I mean to actually follow it closely, so that leaves little time to read here.

No lie, this game has been Mount Threadspewvius since it started.

I'm also crazy busy at work, which cuts into my ability to keep up. It just RL teaching me not to get involved with the things I love.

And, as always, my wife doesn't know I'm part of this game, so that adds a few wrinkles to the mix.

pyxxy and vivax are both site newbies who played in the anni event, i think they're slightly more likely as newbies but i don't have much of a handle on how interested either would be

my work here is done

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:38 pm pyxxy and vivax are both site newbies who played in the anni event, i think they're slightly more likely as newbies but i don't have much of a handle on how interested either would be

>rand player for them then

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:38 pm my work here is done

Yeah thats what I thought

[VOTE: Dyslexicon ] aubergine

vivax is an npc, p confident in that

join date/games played/post history is pretty easy to look into if you are interested enough to spend the effort just ftr wowee

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:40 pm

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:38 pm my work here is done

Yeah thats what I thought

[VOTE: Dyslexicon ] aubergine

coward

i'd put ender and prob dizzy in there somehow

well idk maybe not dizzy

This is all very angleshooty behaviour guys

this is about as angly as metareads

it's...not, really

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:40 pm

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:40 pm

katze wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:38 pm my work here is done

Yeah thats what I thought

[VOTE: Dyslexicon ] aubergine

coward

Im sorry? Where was your vote on me? I must be blind. You arent willing to put your money where your mouth is. NPC confirmed