The craziest part about all of this is that I never even signed up.You have done that every time. Both Phoenix Wright games and this one come to mind. Maybe stop that because one of these days people are going to notice. :P
Edit: I have been told every time I'm mafia and Mop it up is mafia, I vote for her. Whoops!
I guess the only other question I have for this game is how did the Reluctant Mafia member work? Can they create a hit where there is none or is it only used when there is a hit sent in Steefosaurus?
that playing as a Townie or non-powered role can be quite boringFunnily enough, this is my fave role to get! It's fun to try to piece things together from the starting point of knowing nothing. Or at least, it was, back when people actually participated in these games...
I was beginning to suspect I was getting double crossed but I felt like it was too late at that point to do anything but go forward with the current course of action and hope for the best.
Well played all.
-I'm sure you were just trying to be nice, but, the voting deadline shouldn't be extended upon request. Deadlines are dealines, if we can't sort things out in the 48 hours before that, it's on us.
-Since Pokepal148 didn't actually get killed, then I think his role should not have been announced in the day thread.
-I know that you were trying to be accommodating, but I think ThePerm shouldn't have been brought into the game on day 2. This gave the townie side not just a confirmed townie, but one with a way of protecting himself at least once, which is a powerful asset for the townies to have. If you'd like to get more players to join your game, then I suggest to run the sign-up period for longer.
I'm honestly surprised we won this game with all this going on, although I suspect the main reason for that was so many players being inactive.
Funnily enough, [townie] is my fave role to get! It's fun to try to piece things together from the starting point of knowing nothing. Or at least, it was, back when people actually participated in these games...
Mr Bungle is aptly named. Day 6 of the game was weird because I made my post and then it seemed to stretch on forever. I checked it last night and there was no change. And then I get back on today at noon and i'm dead and day 6 is over and day 7 is over. I'm assuming Nickmitch and MrBungle were too busy with holiday stuff or Star Wars.That is so true. I am guessing both of them lost track of time and when the day closed because for me the day 6 was supposed to close at a little before 8am. I figured with Mop it up voting last night or in the early morning there would of been some votes but I guess thatguy didn't want to leave things to chance and posted his vote 20 minutes before the day was to end.
If they had voted we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.
Had they voted, what would have happened tomorrow?I would have hit ThePerm. It would be me, Mr. Bungle, and nickmitch.Or it could of been ThePerm, Mr. Bungle, Nickmitch and you from ThePerm using their bumper to protect themselves if they still had it. That would have been interesting day.
Or it could of been ThePerm, Mr. Bungle, Nickmitch and you from ThePerm using their bumper to protect themselves if they still had it. That would have been interesting day.
What a game. Lots of trickery.Or it could of been ThePerm, Mr. Bungle, Nickmitch and you from ThePerm using their bumper to protect themselves if they still had it. That would have been interesting day.
ThePerm had already used the Boost on his very first night, good move too, because that's how he evaded a hit from the Killer.
Thatguy purposefully suggested he still had this option to obfuscate while posing as a Townie.
Yeah, activity is a tough one to crack because the setup of the game essentially punishes posting in the threads. You're often at less of a risk by only sticking to PMs or just flat-out doing nothing.I feel this wouldn't be true if everyone participated. It's only been an issue more recently when there have been less players overall, and seemingly an increase in inactive ones. I s'pose this may be a problem inherent with the game itself, but despite that I feel like we used to have much more participation anyway. Though, perhaps I'm just romanticizing the past and should actually go check out some old games to see if they were as active as I remember, or maybe it was just me. Also, there used to be more players interested in the roleplay aspect of the game, which would in turn inspire other people to at least try it as well, which gave more reason to post in the day threads besides simply voting.
That said, this particular game is proof that inactivity doesn't always work anyway, and it isn't the first. It's a large part of the reason we won this, and not just because of the final day where only one of the three townies showed up. Had everyone been participating, we wouldn't have been able to pull the stunt where we didn't make a hit is one example, which seemed to be part of the reason they thought thatguy was a legitimate townie.It was that (especially since I knew he was active during that night period) and that Khushrenada told me he could probably be trusted.
He can be trusted early on. As the game goes on thatguy if he is still around and is making votes that seem to good to be true then it probably is for some reason that benefits him.That said, this particular game is proof that inactivity doesn't always work anyway, and it isn't the first. It's a large part of the reason we won this, and not just because of the final day where only one of the three townies showed up. Had everyone been participating, we wouldn't have been able to pull the stunt where we didn't make a hit is one example, which seemed to be part of the reason they thought thatguy was a legitimate townie.It was that (especially since I knew he was active during that night period) and that Khushrenada told me he could probably be trusted.
So once again, inactivity and Khushrenada killed the Townie cause.
Mr Bungle is aptly named. Day 6 of the game was weird because I made my post and then it seemed to stretch on forever. I checked it last night and there was no change. And then I get back on today at noon and i'm dead and day 6 is over and day 7 is over. I'm assuming Nickmitch and MrBungle were too busy with holiday stuff or Star Wars.
If they had voted we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.
Mr Bungle is aptly named. Day 6 of the game was weird because I made my post and then it seemed to stretch on forever. I checked it last night and there was no change. And then I get back on today at noon and i'm dead and day 6 is over and day 7 is over. I'm assuming Nickmitch and MrBungle were too busy with holiday stuff or Star Wars.
If they had voted we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.
I let the townies down and I am sorry. Holiday and family stuff has thrown off my routine and I completely forgot about the game. I will do better next time.
Mr Bungle is aptly named. Day 6 of the game was weird because I made my post and then it seemed to stretch on forever. I checked it last night and there was no change. And then I get back on today at noon and i'm dead and day 6 is over and day 7 is over. I'm assuming Nickmitch and MrBungle were too busy with holiday stuff or Star Wars.
If they had voted we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.
I let the townies down and I am sorry. Holiday and family stuff has thrown off my routine and I completely forgot about the game. I will do better next time.
I just never saw the point of it. It seemed like it would just lead to infighting among the mafia, and the point of the game is for them to work together. I probably only would have thought to use it if the godfather was absent and it was the only way we could have hit anybody that night.This did happen in the game. I was wondering about the no hit on Day 3 I want to say.
I was under the impression (Maybe wrongly so?) that Cupid could pair himself with someone, so I figured that would be a move Khushrenada would try, and dismissed him as Cupid.Cupid could pair themselves with someone else or pair two different people. I had sent some PMs to Khushrenada about using the role and how we could use it to our advantage. I think I suggested pairing Lucario with a suspected Mafia member as the 1st day was closing to Khushrenada before I was notified I died.
The trick, pokepal, is that I often operate pretty crazy regardless of which role I get and which side I am. It makes things a lot more interesting.This is true.
Yeah, sorry Perm. I got caught up with finals and then holiday stuff. Definitely left NWR and the game out of my head. I had meant to go through the threads at some point, but never got around to it. :(
I didn't really care that much. I just wanted to make a veiled political joke. If it was a game with a prize I might have cared though. I like my collection of Green Lantern comics and my Wii U smb3 copy.That Baby Guy was thatguy. I think he had Khushrenada change his name to something that worked for the roleplaying as Baby from Super Monkey Ball. So yeah having the Godfather in the group PMs spelled doom.
I mostly followed Pokepal's lead. I figured out that lolmonade was the doctor through some actual detective work. Pokepal had everyone figured out right before he got eliminated. When lolmonade went we lost our shield. Then it was 50/50 at that point because of how even things were. The Mafia maintained the advantage because we were still iffy about 2 people. One thing Pokepal should have corrected was the group private messages. I messaged people mostly directly. This makes leaks harder. If you leak to the wrong person then you lose.
Also, I'm really confused who is That Baby Guy? He was in our PM list. I don't think I played much of a solid game. I got pretty confused about times too.
BalanceI'm curious about the reasoning behind these.
...whereas some Townie players felt things were the other way around...
...Townie players thought the addition of a late player would lead to an advantage to the other party...
The voting extension... I don't know, I see arguments for both sides. I think rules shouldn't get in the way of players too much, but I understand that may come off as favouring one side of players, too.I've never viewed rules as getting in the way of players. Unfortunately, rules are what make a game, a game. I also don't think sticking to rules should be viewed as a bad thing, as strategy can be planned around them if people know for sure they're going to stick. Being loosey-goosey with rules can also create uncertainty since people won't know which rules will be more lenient and to what extent, and like you said it'll lead to favouritism. In this particular case, it was a favour to the townies and a detriment to the Mafia.
this game is more about the social fun than the prizes in my opinionFor me, the game is about mystery and doubt. Any role which is 100% confirmed for all players is totally dull.
I was hoping to get a bit more activity in the Dead Thread.I'm curious, what kind of activity are you expecting out of the dead thread? Personally, I think that the dead players shouldn't say anything referencing any living player, as well as should not say anything which may sound like knowledge, advice, or any sort of influence to the living players, but perhaps we even disagree on this basic premise. This is why some previous games didn't even have a dead thread, a decision which made sense to me, as you just never know what a dead player might say which serves as some kind of hint or insight to a living player.
For me, the game is about mystery and doubt. Any role which is 100% confirmed for all players is totally dull.
I'm curious, what kind of activity are you expecting out of the dead thread? Personally, I think that the dead players shouldn't say anything referencing any living player, as well as should not say anything which may sound like knowledge, advice, or any sort of influence to the living players, but perhaps we even disagree on this basic premise. This is why some previous games didn't even have a dead thread, a decision which made sense to me, as you just never know what a dead player might say which serves as some kind of hint or insight to a living player.
I think informing the dead players of the remaining players roles is a bad idea. You just never know if someone may decide to ruin the game, or be less subtle and try to drop hints. I also feel like when I'm in that situation, it's more engaging to not know who's who still, and take guesses at it. Otherwise, it's kind of like watching a sports game where you already know the final score, which is much less exciting.
So we actually have a lot of the game mapped out at this point.
Current driver line-up
1. Pokepal148 - Detective
2. Khushrenada - cupid
15. ThePerm, a Normal Townie in a AA-battery powered Bumper Car.
Semi/mostly confirmed roles:
13. Backwards Flying Dragons - Townie
4. Lolmonade - Claims to be the Doctor
Lovebirds
8. Stevey, - lovebird - ThePerm did some digging by asking for a Role PM and deduced he was most likely a townie.
9. Stratos - lovebird
Unconfirmed roles
6. Nickmitch,
7. NRW_Insanolord
14. Lucario
10. Mr. Bungle
12. Mop It Up
There's a killer, godfather, 2 Mafia goons, and 3 townie roles mixed between the lovebirds and our completely unconfirmed playerbase.
We need to get some clarification on how the couple/lovebirds work before we can write them off completely. It is possible for example that either Stratos or Stevey were originally mafia goons or something. One of them might have even been the godfather which would explain why the Mafia didn't place a hit (after all, if the godfather is still technically alive even if the role is no longer active than the hit ability might not have passed to the goons). The Killer has been active since Day 1 so we can assume they aren't the killer at least.
Either way, of the five players in that unconfirmed list, Lucario seems to be the most suspicious, if anything because of how active he's been this time around, along with the fact that he totally would hit me on day 1 so keeping pressure on him seems like a strong play
Anyway, @BeautifulShy, I won't be signing up for the Resident Evil mafia, but that's because I have to moderate how much I play these things or I can go overboard.That is okay. Everyone has to manage how much they play or not as these games can get very in-depth in someones mind. See you another time. I was going to send out invites once this thread is locked. It was a joy to play with you again even though I didn't get to play that much.