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Newbie Mafia #2: CAN THE NEWBIES STEP UP AND PLAY A SUCCESSFULE GAME?

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Riddle replaces Ace

Page Break Vote Count:

[1]No Lynch: Tusm
[1]Teran: Skyler
[2]KevinM: Marshy, Florida
[1]Florida: KevinM
[1]Zero Beat: Riddle
[7] not voting: Mentosman, Dekuu, Airgemini, Zero Beat, Pierre, Teran, Failchion

It takes 7 votes out of 13 to lynch.
The deadline has been set for the last second of the 31st of July.
 

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Poor man.
Why did XACE leave the game anyway...did he get bored of being a townie or couldn't catch up with the responsibilities a mafia member has to deal with?

Did Zero Beat approve of Riddle because he's a better candidate as mafia than XACE? Macman seemed desperate to find a replacement. :ohwell:
 

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Poor man.
Why did XACE leave the game anyway...did he get bored of being a townie or couldn't catch up with the responsibilities a mafia member has to deal with?

Did Zero Beat approve of Riddle because he's a better candidate as mafia than XACE? Macman seemed desperate to find a replacement. :ohwell:
[font="Century Gothic]I have no idea why XACE left the game, but I obviously know one of those two is not true. I think, however, if I claimed to be either one I would be seen as scum, so I won't.

All I have to say is that if Zero Beat and I are both mafia, then XACE is good actor/player, b/c he voted for Zero Beat.

I think either way Macman would like to get a replacement quickly, because neither mafia or town would enjoy losing a player, and it's not fair to give either team an advantage.

Florida, is their any reason for your vote? I would like it explained, so I can at least defend myself.[/font]
 

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[font="Century Gothic]I have no idea why XACE left the game


Because he's scum. You're scum.

All I have to say is that if Zero Beat and I are both mafia, then XACE is good actor/player, b/c he voted for Zero Beat.
It's bussing/distancing. Obvious scum.

Florida, is their any reason for your vote? I would like it explained, so I can at least defend myself.[/font]
Because you're scum.
 

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Because he's scum. You're scum.



It's bussing/distancing. Obvious scum.



Because you're scum.
I'll address tge only real argument here. The fact that XACE voted for Zero Beat does NOT mean that they are both scum. while I agree that it is possible for scum to vote for scum, it hardly proves anything. In fact I just scrolled to see XaCE's justification for voting Zero Beat. Here it is:
XACE-K said:
I would think you're scummy until I saw the favorite role poll. Look under Mafia Goon and you'll see that Zero Beat has voted for that role. So I

Vote: Zero Beat
Even Zero Beat tokk this as a joke vote, and clearly I did too, because I unvoted.

I think that you are much more suspicious here. You have as much reason to suspect yourself or any other person who has voted for anybody, but you are pointing fingers randomly at person. However, I doubt that you are mafia, so I won't vote you. Mafia are probably keeping a much lower profile. Besides who quits when they are scum? I liked being scum when I got it in other off-forum games.

I would appreciate if you didn't massacre my posts when you quoted me.

Sorry if this comes out as harsh or defensive, I'm just frustrated at being suspected w/o doing anything.
 

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Yea please try to remember not to edit.

symptom129: he added
symptom129: "Besides who quits when they are scum? I liked being scum when I got it in other off-forum games."
symptom129: and
symptom129: "Sorry if this comes out as harsh or defensive, I'm just frustrated at being suspected w/o doing anything."
symptom129: he did not subtract
 

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I'll address tge only real argument here. The fact that XACE voted for Zero Beat does NOT mean that they are both scum. while I agree that it is possible for scum to vote for scum, it hardly proves anything.
No. It proves that he and Zero were scum buddies. Meaning you and Zero are scum buddies.

I think that you are much more suspicious here. You have as much reason to suspect yourself or any other person who has voted for anybody, but you are pointing fingers randomly at person.
I'm not voting randomly. You're very clearly scum to me. Look at how defensive you got.[/QUOTE]
 

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Sorry for lashing out at you Florida. Again, I would very much rather stay in the mafia game, especially since it's my first on forums. I hope that my thoughtless posting doesn't get me lynched.
 

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Florida, I don't know WTF is up with you lol. All of a sudden you're acting super aggressive (and without proper reasoning either). Either you're planning something or you're a bad bad liar (which I doubt) trying to draw the attention on Riddle so you can get away with it.

I'm sorry but right now your behavior screams scum.
Vote: Florida
 

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Maybe you're joke voting, I don't know, I can't tell who's joke voting or not anymore. If you did please tell me and I'll change my vote.
 

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I'm not joke voting, so don't take your vote off me if you think I'm scum.
 

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Florida, your outright agression to me leaves me wondering about your alliance, so I would like to ask you a few questions.

What specifically is that that has been done that makes you think I am mafia?

Why did you so suddenly change your playstyle as soon as I entered the game?

Until you answer those questions satisfactorily I'm going to go a head and
FoS: Florida.
 

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I have no problem with answering questions. :] Thanks for asking.

Alright, I never thought that you were Mafia. I was fishing for reactions, and I don't think that I can squeeze anything more out of you. This game just got so inactive, and there hasn't been enough discussion lately so close to the deadline. Answer some questions?

What do you think about how XACE played? If you weren't his replacement, would he appear to be scummy to you or just newbie?

I'm sure you've read through the game so far, so who do you think is most suspicious at this point and why? What are your thoughts on Kevin and Marshy, specifically?
 

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Yes btw, I'm well aware you're "joking" so don't play the "read my next post" card.

You're not going to get any information off of that, the other person can play you off as a mindless fool and your overt aggression only garners suspicions from other players.
 

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I didn't mean to say that we have absolutely nothing to work with. I'm just saying that we don't have a definite person, or group of people to choose from. As far as I can see, there's not going to be a general consensus before the deadline, but I can't see the future.
"we don't have a definite person, or group of people to choose from" and "there's no cold hard evidence" are pretty much interchangeable. how does not seeing a general consensus before the deadline justify a no-lynch vote a week early? that's half the time we have in total but most people seem to've just given up since then and we'll probably have a no lynch then another day 1 tomorrow. even though kevin's played this game plenty of times and just did something blatantly anti-town. or florida's ridiculous "fishing for reactions" or several players being so quiet

which reminds me i think we need more discussion so request deadline extension

As for Day 2, we could look at who the mafia murdered, and possibly who the serial killer took out.
earlier you didn't want to place a vote because most of what's been going on is speculation and now you're looking forward to speculating early day 2? dedicating most of the discussion to guessing why the mafia or sk killed who they did would be pretty much the epitome of straw grasping
 

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I have no problem with answering questions. :] Thanks for asking.

Alright, I never thought that you were Mafia. I was fishing for reactions, and I don't think that I can squeeze anything more out of you. This game just got so inactive, and there hasn't been enough discussion lately so close to the deadline. Answer some questions?

What do you think about how XACE played? If you weren't his replacement, would he appear to be scummy to you or just newbie?

I'm sure you've read through the game so far, so who do you think is most suspicious at this point and why? What are your thoughts on Kevin and Marshy, specifically?
Thanks for asking my questions. I'm still suspicious of you though.

Here are my answers:
1) Sure I saw him as a little scummy, but let me ask you a (rhetorical) question. If someone youo replaced, who you knew was pro-town, was acting would you down play his scummy actions?

2) I think Marshy's false SK description was a little suspicious. While someone who was SK or survivor and went along with that would help the town, I think this is similar to the Common Tell of congratulated a role that you actually are. (such as doctor/cop) Kev has barely left the jok evote stage, but I thought that his one-liners/denial of the SK claim did seem a little scummy.

So far my list of summiness is, in order:, You(because of your agression), KevinM(for reasons above), and any one who is not active. (
 

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Guys, c'mon. We really need some discussion if we hope to do anything. If you aren't contributing I'm going to assum you are scum. In fact...

Vote: Failchion You haven't actually said anything relevant to the game yet. In fact, the only thing you've said at all was about commitment, hmmmmm. This vote is nothing personal, but I believe it is in the town's best interest to get as much discussion as possible, and you are not contributing.

Airgemini you were a close second. You were the last one of the group to post.
 

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That's because no one's posted any questions towards me.
I don't have any major suspicions right now, pretty much all of the people that've shown scummy behavior have been pointed out by someone else.
I'm just observing what goes on.
 

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OK thanks for posting Air. I'll ask you some questions just to stimulate discussion.

Who do you think is the scummiest person so far? Who would you vote for if you had to vote?
What do you think is the best thing to do right now? Deadline extension? No lynch?


These questions are actually for everyone, and I would appreciate it if anyone who sees this answers them.
 

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Florida is the only one that comes into mind now as far as suspicions because of his sudden change of behavior, but I don't think it's enough to put a vote on him yet.

I didn't know we could have a deadline extension =o
I think that'd be the best option since it doesn't look like we're going to make any progress towards lynching anyone this week.
 

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Actually, I just reread the rules and it looks like you can't. In most games you can so I just assumed this one would let you too.
 

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Mid Page Vote Count:

[1]No Lynch: Tusm
[1]Teran: Skyler
[1]KevinM: Marshy
[2]Florida: KevinM, Dekuu
[1]Riddle: Florida
[1]Failchion: Riddle
[6] not voting: Mentosman, Airgemini, Zero Beat, Pierre, Teran, Failchion

It takes 7 votes out of 13 to lynch.
The deadline has been set for the last second of the 31st of July.
 

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Florida is the only one that comes into mind now as far as suspicions because of his sudden change of behavior, but I don't think it's enough to put a vote on him yet.

I didn't know we could have a deadline extension =o
I think that'd be the best option since it doesn't look like we're going to make any progress towards lynching anyone this week.
That's exactly how I feel. Yes, Florida has been posting in several different flavors, yes Riddle may have been put into a horrible situation by replacing someone a few people saw as scummy, but it's just way too quiet right now. If all the active posters in the past few days voted, we still wouldn't have enough for a lynch.
 

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It's still possible, technically. One person has 2 votes and 6 people haven't voted yet.
 

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Ok, first and foremost, Request for an extension. Secondly, Florida's play is very interesting to me. Compared to what I have seen from him before, he has been a lot more aggressive. This kind of interests me really. Kevin's response to the SK claiming idea Marshy posted still strikes with me. If we could have gotten someone to make a mistake it would have severely helped town, and he felt the need to point out to any potential SK it was a bad idea to claim.

Now, another quick note, if we have a vigilante, DO NOT shoot tonight. It is never a good idea for a vig to fire N1, as it causes confusion on roles we have and has a very high probability of hitting town.
 

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I'm for a deadline extension, but I doubt that we will get one. Its very close to deadline already and unless its common practice here, I don't normally see deadlines extended close to the current deadline. But if Macman finds it in his heart to pity the plebian newbies then he is a good man. You're a good man, right Macman? You're a cool guy? So you'll extend the deadline?

Marshy, I would like to ask you a question about your sk-claim trap.

saying the sk claiming was a "bad idea in general" makes no sense. how is trying to lure out a guy who forces town to lose by killing them at night bad at all? he's not on our side and that's obvious. do you have any tips for the mafia?

the newbs didn't need to know that the sk claiming was a bad move for him. the point was to get the potential sk to reveal himself and if no one claimed it then it'd be okay to tell them that it was a faulty idea for the sk. i think you're a smart enough player to know that and are just saying "it was to educate you guys!" as an appeal the newbs and sadly they seem to be falling for it. they did not need to be educated about that at all
The above quote was directed to KevinM, who revealed your trap card. I understand fully the reasoning behind what you did. I also understand KevinM's reasoning that its his job to be nice to newbies. But I would like you to explain why it is necessarily scummy for KevinM to flip your trap over like that. Would mafia be afraid to out the Serial Killer? Lynching the sk would obviously allow them a day of non-mafia lynch, and the serial killer hurts the mafia as much as it hurts town. Wouldnt the mafia also want to out him? So why is it scummy that KevinM didn't follow the plan to out the sk?

I agree with Marshy's argument against Kevin. Helping out the Serial Killer like that is basically the same as helping out Mafia; it's totally anti-town.
Unvote, Vote: Kevin
Florida, you have proxied yourself on Marshy's argument against Kevin. Do you understand my question for Marshy? What is your answer?

Also Florida, what do you feel you accomplished by pressuring Riddle like that? "Because you're mafia, because you're scum, you're scum, etc." Do you seriously think the reactions that you got mean that Riddle is mafia?

Airgemini, what do you accomplish by sitting back and coasting, only answering questions when you are asked questions? If we all did that, what would the game be like?

Mentosman, isn't the reasoning behind a vigilante not shooting N1 so that we can tell if there is a Vigilante vs. a Serial killer? In the first post, the SK role PM states that he does not have to kill each night. So we won't really know which we have even if there isn't a kill. However, a vigilante killing mafia hurts the mafia approximately x2 as much as a vigilante killing town hurts the town. And there's approximately x2 as many townies as mafia. So why should a Vigilante not shoot Night 1 in this setup?

Teran17, FAILchion-, Zero Beat, where do you three stand? I am personally leaning away from a Marshy lynch because of some smaller things he said and because of the KevinM sk-trap thing, and while that latter could change, I doubt I will want to lynch Marshy. I also do not want to lynch Riddle. Other than where I am comfortably sitting per those two, I think that Florida is doing some interesting things but not necessarily in a bad way.

KevinM, can you please rephrase for me why you think Florida is scummy? I do not quite understand what you mean when you addressed him in post #217.
 

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Pierre: Well, I also wanted to say that so that we could tell if we had an SK easier, but didn't want to put that full reasoning out there so that the SK wouldn't no-kill and claim vig later. However, since that hidden reason is now revealed we can no longer put any stock in it if there's only 1 death tonight. And, to your second question, there aren't two times as much town as mafia, but at least 3. The vig would have 9 potential town hits, and only 3 potential maf hits. A 25% chance of hitting scum, and 75% chance of hitting a townie is too big of a risk. Further, there is a 2/12 chance of hitting a big role for town, a 0-1/12 chance of hitting the one town role that can help us being dead(miller). The odds of hitting a town pr are almost equal to that of hitting mafia, and I feel that if we don't have an SK, there is no reason for a vig to get trigger happy and cause us to potentially lose up to 3 townies on day/night 1.
 

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Do you find me suspicious because I put that information out into the public? Do you think we're worse off now that it is in the public? I don't. Now we don't have to question whether or not the SK possibly knew about it, and we won't have to draw comparisons or grasp at straws based on player experience or knowledge.

The numbers I gave are arbitrary - the more potential town hits the vigilante has, the more he risks hitting town, HOWEVER, the more potential town hits the vigilante has, the more it hurts the mafia to kill a mafia. They must reach majority over all those townies. Do you see why I simply used x2 now?

The odds of hitting a town pr may be almost equal to hitting mafia, but the odds of killing mafia are more, and also killing a single scum hurts the scum more than killing a single power role.
 

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Or we can scum hunt and have a cop get a nice little scum tap on a player, which is just as deadly as a vig bullet in a game this small.

My vote for florida is based on the fact that he had a ridiculous little fish for reaction that quite frankly didn't make any sense, didn't help town, wasn't even closely related to scum hunting and seemed more like childish antics. And even more so his sudden change in play style irks me.
 

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Would mafia be afraid to out the Serial Killer?
to be clear i'm assuming you mean "would the mafia want to out the sk?". in that case i really doubt that they would for reasons below

Lynching the sk would obviously allow them a day of non-mafia lynch, and the serial killer hurts the mafia as much as it hurts town. Wouldnt the mafia also want to out him?
i don't agree with this at all. throwing the potential sk under the bus would be shortsighted. if they instead kept him around then most likely 2 townies would die night 1 because of sheer numbers. if they took the small risk of keeping him around then the game would "speed up" for them with 2 townies most likely dying every night. though of course it gets riskier for them as the game progresses

So why is it scummy that KevinM didn't follow the plan to out the sk?
and this is where kevin comes in and his reaction to the trap thing would nudge the sk away from claiming
 

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I don't find you suspicious putting that info out. If you were scum, knowing what I was looking for, you could have chanced a no-kill, and if we've got an sk and they killed, the mafia would be able to claim vig safer, so there would be no reason to put it out there. If you were SK, obviously it would be to your benefit to not let on that you knew it. Your logic for the vig shooting if there is one is, however, does strike me. Sure, one dead townie doesn't hurt town as much as one dead scum hurts mafia. However, you seem to be not looking at the whole picture...

Let's say we pull a lynch together today and we mislynch. Then the vig decides to take your advice and shoot, and hits a townie. Barring a doc save, we would lose about 1/3 of town in the course of d/n1. Especially in a game where cop results can't be trusted, due to possible miller/godfather, we want to limit damage to town as much as possible.
 

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Wow, finally some discussion! Quick everyone request a deadline extension.Anyone that is pro-town can benefit right now from extending the deadline and I really think that now some more people are posting, it might be possible.

In case we don't geat an extension, we need to vote quickly, or we'll get no lynch. Do you guys think that no lynch is a good decision?If it's not, we have two days.

I think either way we need to com to a decision quickly so everyone post your thoughts.
 

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Manman, are you going to allow us a deadline extension? I really think we need it. request deadline extension just to make it exceedingly clear.
 

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So we can waste it by having the same three people talk about the same crap we have been?

I'd rather not, you have to realize that you're basically being prepared to join real mafia games in which Deadline Extensions are few and far between.

Use the time we have now to discuss things.

Florida's scumminess

My outing of Marshy's plan

Florida's scumminess

Marshy's plan in general

Vote for Florida

End day1

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