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Party Elephant · 06-03-2015, 05:28 AM

All I have to say today is to those of you who have played in previous mafia games, which to my understanding is everyone except me and peanut:
I get that you're all comparing each other to how you've played the game in the past, but I think that's getting taken a bit too far at times here. What I mean is, you've all had multiple experiences playing this game to see how things shake out, what strategies worked and what didn't, and you all have the same opportunity to change your strategy based on those experiences. So when I see stuff like "dissentowner must be scum, because he's totally changed his posting style since the last game" I think thats a bit BS. Does it not make sense to change your strategy to keep other players familiar with you guessing? Does it not make sense to adopt a strategy that makes experienced players go "there's no way scum/town would post like that?'

I think posters should be judged on their actions in this game, and not how they've played in the past. But that's enough of that rant.

Hockeyguy is still my #1 suspect. Some of you think that scum wouldn't be that active and that's fine, but I disagree. Without the advantage of a night kill, the scum's best strategy to win is to lead us all into lynching town members and they're off to a good start so far. I don't think it's a coincidence that he led the charge on the first 2 lynches and now that there's a bit of heat on him he's backed off a bit.

I get the suspicions of mrkajz too but I'm not fully convinced. His only action that I can recall specifically was when he jumped on the party elephant bandwagon on day 1 when there was some heat on me, only to back off when I debunked his reasoning for it. Something about jumping on a noob just because he had a bit of early momentum seemed like a bit of a "safe play". Since then I haven't really noticed much from him which could be scum laying low. Or it could be town laying low. Like I said earlier, I suspect the general host strategy would be to steer the group toward town lynches rather than laying low.

06-03-2015, 05:28 AM	#1011
Party Elephant First Line Centre Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Montréal, QC Exp:	All I have to say today is to those of you who have played in previous mafia games, which to my understanding is everyone except me and peanut: I get that you're all comparing each other to how you've played the game in the past, but I think that's getting taken a bit too far at times here. What I mean is, you've all had multiple experiences playing this game to see how things shake out, what strategies worked and what didn't, and you all have the same opportunity to change your strategy based on those experiences. So when I see stuff like "dissentowner must be scum, because he's totally changed his posting style since the last game" I think thats a bit BS. Does it not make sense to change your strategy to keep other players familiar with you guessing? Does it not make sense to adopt a strategy that makes experienced players go "there's no way scum/town would post like that?' I think posters should be judged on their actions in this game, and not how they've played in the past. But that's enough of that rant. Hockeyguy is still my #1 suspect. Some of you think that scum wouldn't be that active and that's fine, but I disagree. Without the advantage of a night kill, the scum's best strategy to win is to lead us all into lynching town members and they're off to a good start so far. I don't think it's a coincidence that he led the charge on the first 2 lynches and now that there's a bit of heat on him he's backed off a bit. I get the suspicions of mrkajz too but I'm not fully convinced. His only action that I can recall specifically was when he jumped on the party elephant bandwagon on day 1 when there was some heat on me, only to back off when I debunked his reasoning for it. Something about jumping on a noob just because he had a bit of early momentum seemed like a bit of a "safe play". Since then I haven't really noticed much from him which could be scum laying low. Or it could be town laying low. Like I said earlier, I suspect the general host strategy would be to steer the group toward town lynches rather than laying low.