Hey guys! I will be responding as I read, so there may be a non-linear thought process as I read through.
If anyone kills anyone without forewarning and a good reason, I for one am going to be very annoyed.
Vote: Ryker
arrivederci
Will that person be viewed as scum in your books?
Good is relative though, I think it'd be good not to deal with hydra shenanigans, so I feel entitled to shoot from the hip, I've given them enough of a warning that it shouldn't be a issue, so I shouldn't ever have to now.
Define "a good reason", by your standards kary.
We can't sit around waitign for things to happen, that happened to some extent in Gs3 and it took much longer to kill obvscum Kantrip then it should have (mostly my fault, i should have shot him on gut instinct start of 2nd day), what to you defines good ? And do you really think a majority is the best way to handle the kills, or was that you telling ryker you've got an eye on him ?
I like this exchange from both sides. I see where Rake is coming from with threatening to kill hydras who can't keep their heads straight, but if he actually made such a kill I would feel differently. He'd definitely be held accountable for the shot and the hydra thing alone would not justify it. That said, just talking about doing it is townie for the good discussion. At the same time, I like Kary coming in with the partly-playful post poking fun about how he said "good reason." Overall a very townie and natural interaction from both of them. Town lean on both.
And not that that's a bad idea, but the fact of the matter is that. with player's like me, ryu , zen, and to some extent kantrip around, you have to aknowledge that our attitude is going to run much closer to shoot first ask questions later.
I want it to be known that I am not going to be using this policy, and I do expect kills to be well-informed and thought-out. Any kills on gut feels will put my FoS on the player who took the shot. There's a balance between "shoot first, ask questions later" and making an informed decision. I want it to be clear that if you want to take a shot, go for it! Just know that you should be ready to take full responsibility for a failed shot and recognize that if your reasoning isn't sound enough I won't have a problem seeing you go next.
Same question I posed to Kary, please.
Wow, this moved into serious discussion more quickly than I thought. We figured there'd be more random FoS out the gate.
I suppose we should move right into reaching a town agreement on how we want this game to be run. Please consider the following:
::: Xastrn's GUIDELINES FOR HARMONIOUS TOWN LIVING :::
1) All kills must be made with the consensus of town.
---> Just because there is no official voting mechanic, doesn't mean that daykills should take place without town's consent. The standard rules of Mafia apply. We need honest conversation and firm reads before the end of every Day. Only after a majority of town players has agreed that a kill is valid will any kill take place.
2) All kills must be performed by a hammerer selected by town.
---> As with any other mafia game, avoiding quicklynches is essential. For this reason, no player will initiate a kill without first being selected by town to do so. Only when town has agreed on who should die on a given Day will the Hammerer initiate his attack. This is to prevent scum from waiting for enough town pressure on a player to make a quicklynch, then play it off the next day as the "will of the town."
3) No Han Soloing.
---> Do not, under any circumstance, panic and shoot someone when you are about to be killed by town. Regardless of how sure you are of your scumpick, this behavior CANNOT BE TOLERATED. Statistically speaking, you are more likely to hit a townie in this situation. Town will have no choice but to kill you the next day. EVEN IF you manage hit scum with your panicked shot, you will still sow confusion in town, because everyone will WIFOM without end on whether you simply bussed a scummate or not. Ultimately, you will still die. BREAKING THIS RULE WILL ALWAYS END BADLY FOR TOWN AND SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED.
Ultimately, these rules are designed to remove the possibility of "accidental" deaths and prevent the scum from running gambits.
Town needs to agree to these rules right now before the Day continues.
This is the other side of the spectrum that we need to balance with Rake's "shoot first, ask questions later" philosophy. I think something between these two levels is ideal. We don't want to turn town into a fascist government, limiting everyone from taking any individual action, but we also don't want to be too lax so that scum can get away with walking all over our minimalistic policies. Holding everyone accountable for everything they do and asking that they at least give full warning before they pull any huge moves is a must. Giving us all time as a collective town to discuss something
before it happens is also a must. Asking that no one ever be allowed to make individual plays? That's taking it too far, in my opinion.
EBWOP:
As i understand it, all normal weapons break after one use, so we should have scummy people do the shooting. Hopefully that would mean less chance of mafia having weapons to use.
I like this approach and have a stronger town read on Kary. Really good reasoning and thinking through the mechanics of the game, good stuff.
Also, Partnering with someone ensures that they cannot kill you, or at least directly, if we're counting the ability to switch. I don't know if you people have figured that out yet.
This is an interesting point. Even if they Switch with you they can't kill you because then they are a Support player and have used their action. They can Switch and put you in the line of fire and tell someone else to shoot you, but pairing with someone makes you quite safe from them. Thanks for this, soup.
What pressure? Is it hard to seem town when you're town?
And let's say you get a read on them from your private comms. How is anyone else supposed to trust your read when they can't say what it's based on?
Pairing up with anyone means no-one can kill you. That's a part of why it's suspicious.
If you were worried about someone killing you, then yes you would be safer hiding behind them than anyone else, but that assumes that there's only one person who wants you dead.
I am actually planning on pairing up with Sokr to get a read on him (I'm confident I can get a definitive read in one Day phase of private communication with him) and I hope for him to try to read me as well. People don't have to trust me on the read alone, and I'm not going to be able to shoot him if I don't like what I see, but I can paraphrase our private communications and explain what I'm seeing and why it makes him town/scum. The idea of pairing up with someone you can read well is beneficial for sure.
I think Rake's town for now. I like Kary's intiative to question things. I don't like Xastrn treating us like we're idiots and thinking we're going to just bend to his will. I want to see what Ryker does with Raziek.
I agree with soup's reads, but I want to add to the Xastrn one. I feel like what he was saying was really... almost obvious? Like it's just sticking to a form, but I'm forgetting the word I'm looking for right now. Hopefully you understand what I'm trying to say? I get called out on it sometimes when my scumhunting looks really forced and is using standard tells instead of going into thought-process. Anyways, my point is that I don't like Xastrn either.
FoS: Xastrn
There's more to it than you obviously contradicting yourself?
Soup did contradict himself but it wasn't a slip and it wasn't scummy. I got what he was trying to say and he just kind of took two approaches to responding to Kary, which caused Kary to see that as a scummy contradiction. I see this interaction as very TvT. I've been in a lot of TvT arguments with soup that have started out really damn similar to this, and I'm calling it as I see it right now. My townread Kary caught a contradiction from soup, but it was just an accident in his approach to answering rather than a scumslip.
So far:
I like Kary
I am okay with soup and Rake
I dislike Xastrn