Mafia round 93: hot potato! (game thread)

[miminena]

The trend toward only looking into and voting for high volume posters and ignoring lurkers even when half the roster is barely contributing if they are even meeting minimum requirements has me just about ready to townread everyone who is actually trying

sry for not contributing much so far

i'm active atm so maybe i'll make reads on other low posters

nvm only like three of them have made actually relevant posts :/

[DiplomacyandWarfare]

The trend toward only looking into and voting for high volume posters and ignoring lurkers even when half the roster is barely contributing if they are even meeting minimum requirements has me just about ready to townread everyone who is actually trying

sry for not contributing much so far

i'm active atm so maybe i'll make reads on other low posters

nvm only like three of them have made actually relevant posts :/

...who would have thought?

[bo_sox48]

The trend toward only looking into and voting for high volume posters and ignoring lurkers even when half the roster is barely contributing if they are even meeting minimum requirements has me just about ready to townread everyone who is actually trying

this is something that regularly happens
but do we wagon the player who lurked the entire day, then showed up to tie at eod?
no, we do not.
why?
I have no idea.
(referring to m1034 again)

Often times we gain a lot more immediately tangible information by forcing scum to either cleverly avoid or wagon someone without tons of connections on day 1 than we do by wagoning a high poster with lots of connections that don't make much sense in a vacuum, which is exactly what all the information we have on them lives in until later in the game. The challenge that comes with that is lining up a mafia lurker (or more than one) so they actually have to care. If we just line up town lurkers, the mafia lurkers, and anyone on the mafia team that cares to talk, don't really have to try that hard.

That's why I try to pressure lurkers, but usually it goes nowhere because the big posters all get sidetracked trying to find a reason to scumread one another.

I'd move my vote to any one of ND, Kaka, rdr, or Chaqa but I don't want your dumb wagon led by dumb people to be in the lead. I don't know the other lurkers and don't know if I will get a read on them whether they're here or not on day 1, but if there's a good reason to jump on them I'm happy to go that route too.

[bo_sox48]

The trend toward only looking into and voting for high volume posters and ignoring lurkers even when half the roster is barely contributing if they are even meeting minimum requirements has me just about ready to townread everyone who is actually trying

sry for not contributing much so far

i'm active atm so maybe i'll make reads on other low posters

nvm only like three of them have made actually relevant posts :/

Outside of the top 5 posters (Jamie, DW, Will, Bunny, me in that order currently), who do you feel is most town and why?

[DiplomacyandWarfare]

The trend toward only looking into and voting for high volume posters and ignoring lurkers even when half the roster is barely contributing if they are even meeting minimum requirements has me just about ready to townread everyone who is actually trying

this is something that regularly happens
but do we wagon the player who lurked the entire day, then showed up to tie at eod?
no, we do not.
why?
I have no idea.
(referring to m1034 again)

Often times we gain a lot more immediately tangible information by forcing scum to either cleverly avoid or wagon someone without tons of connections on day 1 than we do by wagoning a high poster with lots of connections that don't make much sense in a vacuum, which is exactly what all the information we have on them lives in until later in the game. The challenge that comes with that is lining up a mafia lurker (or more than one) so they actually have to care. If we just line up town lurkers, the mafia lurkers, and anyone on the mafia team that cares to talk, don't really have to try that hard.

That's why I try to pressure lurkers, but usually it goes nowhere because the big posters all get sidetracked trying to find a reason to scumread one another.

I'd move my vote to any one of ND, Kaka, rdr, or Chaqa but I don't want your dumb wagon led by dumb people to be in the lead. I don't know the other lurkers and don't know if I will get a read on them whether they're here or not on day 1, but if there's a good reason to jump on them I'm happy to go that route too.

skipping that text wall because I have heard and said all of it before
red neurax lurks a lot and is generally hard to read, which is annoying
I have no idea who Control V is

[Jamiet99uk]

The trend toward only looking into and voting for high volume posters and ignoring lurkers even when half the roster is barely contributing if they are even meeting minimum requirements has me just about ready to townread everyone who is actually trying

sry for not contributing much so far

i'm active atm so maybe i'll make reads on other low posters

You're a damn sight more active than Worcej or Chaqa or RDR or Red Neurax or Brainbomb or Control Five. You're in the middle of the participation bandings.

[DiplomacyandWarfare]

sry for not contributing much so far

i'm active atm so maybe i'll make reads on other low posters

nvm only like three of them have made actually relevant posts :/

Outside of the top 5 posters (Jamie, DW, Will, Bunny, me in that order currently), who do you feel is most town and why?

actually it's jamie, me, bozo, you, DreamTrawler in that order
count by characters > count by posts

[DiplomacyandWarfare]

The trend toward only looking into and voting for high volume posters and ignoring lurkers even when half the roster is barely contributing if they are even meeting minimum requirements has me just about ready to townread everyone who is actually trying

sry for not contributing much so far

i'm active atm so maybe i'll make reads on other low posters

You're a damn sight more active than Worcej or Chaqa or RDR or Red Neurax or Brainbomb or Control Five. You're in the middle of the participation bandings.

it's a very low bar

[miminena]

sry for not contributing much so far

i'm active atm so maybe i'll make reads on other low posters

nvm only like three of them have made actually relevant posts :/

Outside of the top 5 posters (Jamie, DW, Will, Bunny, me in that order currently), who do you feel is most town and why?

bozo (who is actually my top town anyways)

first of all mostly vibes but what else can you expect from day 1

more concrete his focus on whether town should give info on potatoes feels towny since he hasn't actually given info yet; i think if this were an attempt by scum to draw information from town he would provide a data point to make it more likely for others to join in. generally his posting feels genuine and from a town perspective imo

once again though mostly vibes

[DreamTrawler]

The trend toward only looking into and voting for high volume posters and ignoring lurkers even when half the roster is barely contributing if they are even meeting minimum requirements has me just about ready to townread everyone who is actually trying

sry for not contributing much so far

i'm active atm so maybe i'll make reads on other low posters

You're a damn sight more active than Worcej or Chaqa or RDR or Red Neurax or Brainbomb or Control Five. You're in the middle of the participation bandings.

Brainbomb isn’t in the game, just a heads up.

[bo_sox48]

The trend toward only looking into and voting for high volume posters and ignoring lurkers even when half the roster is barely contributing if they are even meeting minimum requirements has me just about ready to townread everyone who is actually trying

sry for not contributing much so far

i'm active atm so maybe i'll make reads on other low posters

You're a damn sight more active than Worcej or Chaqa or RDR or Red Neurax or Brainbomb or Control Five. You're in the middle of the participation bandings.

Didn’t even know worcej was playing lmao

[DreamTrawler]

also I honestly agree with bo about voting lurkers, there are so many that it would be easy to skate by and have one or two mafia teammates handle the posting.

##vote worcej

who has 0 posts currently. Will flip once people start showing up.

[bo_sox48]

nvm only like three of them have made actually relevant posts :/

Outside of the top 5 posters (Jamie, DW, Will, Bunny, me in that order currently), who do you feel is most town and why?

bozo (who is actually my top town anyways)

first of all mostly vibes but what else can you expect from day 1

more concrete his focus on whether town should give info on potatoes feels towny since he hasn't actually given info yet; i think if this were an attempt by scum to draw information from town he would provide a data point to make it more likely for others to join in. generally his posting feels genuine and from a town perspective imo

once again though mostly vibes

Cool, thank you

[Jamiet99uk]

sry for not contributing much so far

i'm active atm so maybe i'll make reads on other low posters

You're a damn sight more active than Worcej or Chaqa or RDR or Red Neurax or Brainbomb or Control Five. You're in the middle of the participation bandings.

Brainbomb isn’t in the game, just a heads up.

Lol I know. I was wondering if anyone would notice.

[Jamiet99uk]

sry for not contributing much so far

i'm active atm so maybe i'll make reads on other low posters

You're a damn sight more active than Worcej or Chaqa or RDR or Red Neurax or Brainbomb or Control Five. You're in the middle of the participation bandings.

Didn’t even know worcej was playing lmao

Yeah Worcej is not a joke inclusion on that list. He has yet to make his first post, however.

[miminena]

nvm only like three of them have made actually relevant posts :/

Outside of the top 5 posters (Jamie, DW, Will, Bunny, me in that order currently), who do you feel is most town and why?

actually it's jamie, me, bozo, you, DreamTrawler in that order
count by characters > count by posts

going by this definition of highest posters (which i think is nonstandard) it would be damo. he and bozo are in a little mech bubble of their own which i think indicates a towny perspective. imo scum - especially in a game with many low posters - would have better things to do than try to work out math to match figures that someone else has already done.

so yeah never voting damo or bozo today prob

[ghug]

The trend toward only looking into and voting for high volume posters and ignoring lurkers even when half the roster is barely contributing if they are even meeting minimum requirements has me just about ready to townread everyone who is actually trying

Will is not going to like this.

[Red Neurax]

The trend toward only looking into and voting for high volume posters and ignoring lurkers even when half the roster is barely contributing if they are even meeting minimum requirements has me just about ready to townread everyone who is actually trying

this is never a good strategy

[Jamiet99uk]

Ghug, you're a little bit under-the-radar today so far.

[Jamiet99uk]

Is there a case to be made for throwing all the hot potatoes at the most likely daykill with seconds left in D1, thus rendering the game a Vanilla game?

Ghug would probably go for that. He loves Vanilla.