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« on: July 12, 2013, 11:46:36 am »
Well, this is my first ever online game of mafia, I guess I've got to break the ice, and post something now. I mean, how are we to get acquainted if we don't say anything about ourselves? It's always difficult when a group of new friends meet together
for the first time, so I'm glad TwistedArcher started the ball rolling . . . I mean, I have absolutely no idea what we're doing
here, or what I'm doing here, or why Yuma's text now sounds exactly like Tim Curry in my head.
In all seriousness, I'm super excited. I like TA's plan(s) for the hider, but I'm not sure which one is better. Either way, I think having a policy for all of us is a good idea so whatever information they learn won't be lost when they die.
I think I'm leaning toward the "who would you pick" option. That allows for judgement calls into who should be investigated. It seems to me the Hider has increasingly good odds of dying every night, so although Mafia will almost certainly be able to piece together hints as to who it is and who's been actually getting investigation results, by the time they do, odds are the hider will die anyway. And maybe on their last night, they'll hide behind scum!
It seems to me that the biggest problem is conveying your results. Let's say I'm the hider. Before night, I really suspect TA, so I say "If I were the hider, I'd hide behind TA." Well, I survive the night, so now I know TA isn't scum. But all day yesterday I was attacking him, pointing out how every post he made just made him scummier and scummier. Today, someone tries to get me to vote for him and I say I don't think he's that scummy anymore. Wouldn't it be obvious that I'm the hider at this point? So unless the hider wants to participate in town-side bussing, it seems like maybe the hider should be targeting their town reads rather than their scum reads. That way, their information would be retroactively useful after they died, but they wouldn't really have to change their play because of it.
I've never played with a hider before, or with this many people actually, so I could be completely wrong here...
Anyway, have fun everyone. I am determined to enjoy myself and I'm very intrigued and oh, my, this soup's delicious isn't it?