To be fair, Xonar's defense against Mentosman8 was reasonable and OK overall, so I pity him, but my vote will remain for the matter.
@Rockin:
Rockin said:
Your second idea...basically talks about what other people is doing right now, I believe/have been doing LOL.
Can you please elaborate on how this is LOL-worthy? I think we can gain two things out of this:
1. If the person getting lynched is a townie, we can look at their suspects. Yes a townie lynch sucks, but we don't want to go empty-handed on it either. Looking at a lynched townie's suspects, we can gather more information about them and possibly bring up a decent case against them. Scum could very well be on a townie bandwagon.
2. This can help organize out thoughts on who we think is suspicious. Can easily be used to jog players memory on who they think is scummy. If they don't think a player is worthy of suspicion, I can remove them from the list. The list is interchangeble.
Now I want to respond to Cello Marl's #551. I'll specify parts that I don't like:
Cello Marl said:
1) Jokingly rolefishing: This point is now moot because of Xonar's claim. He can't be looking for Bulma if he is Bulma.
This is wrong. Just because a person has claimed doesn't mean they can't role fish for other roles. If I were to claim my role, that doesn't mean I can't choose to ask if you're happy with your roles too.
Cello Marl said:
3) Specific point of "Early wish isn't useful": Xonar agreed with me about reviving a dead townie being the only viable wish. The faster we start making wishes, the more wishes we make, meaning the more townies we have. That's if we can make multiple wishes by regathering the Balls. In either case, if Xonar's plan worked the way I think he envisioned it, it would out all the scum if they refused to hand their Balls over get a wish, so we'd have prevented them from making a wish at all if it's a one time deal. Regardless of the result of what he wanted to do, this was what he thought he was doing.
Me and Mentosman8 had to stress this a few times before. Even if we wish for bringing back dead townies, that doesn't mean they can't be scum when revived. Every wish apprently comes with risks so we have to be careful with wishing.
Also, Mentosman8 does have a point about trying to get as many wishes as possible. This is why I suggested holding off wishing as much as possible, maybe even to the point of not doing it at all. If scums get their hands on it, it could potentially destroy townie's hope of winning this Mafia. As you pointed out, wishing is not a condition for townies to win, it's just something that could help or harm/destroy townies.
Cello Marl said:
5) Everything about "fluff = scum": Mentos is fond of making associations between alignment and actions, rather than specifically how a player acts as a certain alignment. I don't believe that a person will always follow a specific action set based solely on his alignment, no. But, I do believe that his or her actions will be heavily influenced by role, partners, recent experiences and personality. Does Xonar normally act this way? Why should we believe that additional posts that "have no content (something that's subjective anyway)" make Xonar scummy?
The reason why excessive fluffs are scummy is because they don't contribute to the discussion. Now every post do have intentions, but they aren't always something that townies can work on. Take my big massive post about characters and their potential roles. A few people got onto me for this (Mentosman8, Rockin, Junglefever, and Overswarm), because it was completely useless. Plus, it's dangerous to speculate about characters this early.
Also, I haven't seen Xonar played this badly before. I played The Muppets Mafia with him and he was at least decent in Day 1 (Got lynched in Day 2, thought). Until his reasonable defense, Xonar was doing absolutely terrible in this game.
Cello Marl said:
8) Supports self-hammering because Bulma can find the lost Balls: He's Bulma, he knew that for sure.
Never support self-hammering. I did that in Smash Bros. Mafia and I got a LOT of negative reactions, especially from Meta-Kirby. On top of that, when trying to get into this game, I talked to Ronike on AIM and he threaten to black list me if I self-hammer in this game. Self-hammering is "a quitstyle" and benefits no one. All it shows is that you're uncommited to ending the day appropriately.
Cello Marl said:
Something else to keep in mind. Xonar was really looking forward to Ryker playing in this, but he isn't. Consider how that may affect his actions.
A player who could not be in this game should not affect the quality of another player in this game. The players of Smash Bros. Mafia don't reunite in every Mafia game we play, and I have not experience a drop in quality of my gameplay.
I didn't respond entirely because it wasn't necessary and Cello Marl does make some good points in that thread.