after writing this post im just putting my qs up here sorry if these were already answered
jumpluff
Q1: could we have confirmation as to whether or not mafia claiming a role counts if they're not ccing someone (or being cced?) since that's p important i'd say
Q2: Do android kills have a special flavor? or will it just say "x died"?
alright so i'm just gonna go thru this whole thing pagewise
Page 1
US starts of the actual conversation by suggesting claiming rules. Starting the conversation w/ something useful is generally a townie play, but mafia can do it if there's a certain topic they want to talk about. The Vegeta claiming thing has been beaten to death, so I don't really think there's any reason for me to elaborate on it (for this post). The Buu claim, however, originally seemed to me like a decent idea, but now that I think of it, there really was no reason for that to claim and sam's desire for Buu to claim might be scum-sided.
There is then more discussion on the Vegeta claim where Haruno & TIK agree. Haruno's reasoning actually strikes me as kinda weird, though. He's saying there's no harm to claiming Vegeta since he can't be verified by town? If anything, that'd be a reason to not claim Vegeta since scum could just claim him?
Blazade brings up the best reason (imo) for Vegeta to claim, that being that he then will not be targeted by village roles who will die if they did target him.
LW also brings up a good point as to why we def don't want both to claim since then we cant get an info role claim which means we're gonna need to rely on scumhunting or softing a scum result which isnt necessarily productive
Based on the convo w/ Blazade, Sam didn't see the rule where mafia fakeclaiming without a CC doesnt count as a claim which is probably why he was pushing for claims so early, so I can't really call his posts here scummy anymore.
Actually jumpluff could we have confirmation as to whether or not mafia claiming a role counts if they're not ccing someone (or being cced?) since that's p important i'd say (q1)
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More Vegeta discussion, I don't really think this is important but summarizing the arguments: Vegeta should claim because public unkillable clear is good, we dont want town ppl to die from targeting it or Vegeta has a chance to kill mafia and now's not the time for him to claim
I still don't understand Blazade's math
and I disagree with his final point; A town-dominated discussion is always good and is almost always how you win NOC. Granted, you have to press inactives in case, like you said, there are mafia lurking and watching everyone else tear each other apart.
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Blazade's reaction to Sam is something that is probably clear to him (regardless of alignment) but we have literally no way to know if he's telling the truth when he says he'd just follow everything sam says instead of bringing up conflicting ideas.
I disagree with LW's point that clears are useless (i'm 99% sure i said these exact words already so i dont need to repost my reasoning, if i didnt ill post it later)
holy shit i did not realize how many posts were spent discussing whether or not Vegeta should claim
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tbh what yeti says about sam being one of the two roles that he wanted to claim just so he could clear himself is entirely possible (although unlikely).
said this already but i agree at looking for signaling after an android is revealed or if an android kill is revealed (see q2 for confirmation on how thats gonna work)
IDK why Flyhn is still suggesting that Buu claim, although his idea would be a good one IF we wanted a claim from both of them.
ppl already commented on why asek's post was scummy no need to say it again he DID make a post later though so ill be checking that out soon
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solid troll vote by sam
Jalmont not wanting to scumhunt is kinda weird but it might just be because he feels that it's going to lead nowhere since thats really not the current topic of conversation?
yea q1 rly needs to be verified
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ya vegeta claiming cop is a bad idea we're just wasting claims and possibly guaranteeing a lynch on a townie in the worst case scenario
sigh billy ignored my post rip me
Page 7
Yeah Jalmont's reasoning for scumhunting not being possible makes more sense now the meta talk makes it a lot harder to scumhunt
i'm just gonna trust flyhn's assessment here bc im far too lazy to look back in other games
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yea solid post by asek but i have no comments on it its just vegeta/buu talk and then a bit of solid player analysis on sam
Harunopls give some reasoning even if its just parroting and then when you called out be sassy and be like "well would u prefer parroting or nothing hmmmmm????"
Flyhn is right that sam is a bit more jumpy than usual but i dont know if that means he's scum
sam when people have opinions contrary to urs that does not mean they are anti-town smh
billy differentiating between android and mafia play is important since they may be signaling to each other & you never know if they'll signal early bc they may think that they wont get caught
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billy do you have any reason for not wanting to discuss androids except from it possibly changing the train of discussion? i already said this but i think signaling is always worth pointing out (even if it leads to the loss of one town member since they're just throwing away the game if they follow signals picked up by town)
yea we need an answer to q1 we've just been assuming mafia can autowaste a claim like that although its ultimately up to the host's discretion (and idr pluff saying anything about how those claims would be handled)
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well at least billy's ignoring someone other than me, i suppose
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ya i think at this point vegeta should read the thread and decide what's best for them since imo there are solid arguments on both sides of claiming/not claiming
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im finding myself in agreement with flyhn a lot i agree w/ his thoughts on billy
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wew lads it seems i dont have much to comment on on these last couple pages but im probably just getting tired??
disagree with dle its silly to just lynch an active for the sake of lynching an active, although if you find an active person scummy you should def go for them and not be afraid of killing the thread
vig should idle unless they have someone who they are 100% sure is scum we dont want them killing themselves (this is a desparado tbh not a vig cmon old host)
finally done lol let me get overall reads
acidphoenix - who?
Asek - His posts really dont strike me one way or another, there's some solid thing but a lot of his stuff is just things he brings to light that are easily observable. If this is his first NOC though, i cant really blame him tbh
billymills - yeah billy's been acting sketch with asking people for stuff and then ignoring them (rip me ;-;) or just refusing to contribute after he's set his mind on something so im
leaning scum on him
Blazade - super townie in almost every post he's made i dont really have any complaints against him but i really want to understand the math he's done because it makes zero sense to me, ya hes a
townread
Blue_Tornado - idk why people are voting him i havent rly seen much of anything from him (well i guess thats why hes getting voted lol)
Da Letter El - his play feels like how I play when im lazy and im townie but i dont know if thats his lazy townie play so /me shrugs
Flyhn - a lot of solid posts again and he doesnt really seem to be doing anything scummy so
townread
Haruno - he has posted a decent amount but i got nothing from most of his posts except one in the very earlygame which was kinda weird? not sure if it was scummy but i suppose its a
very slight scumlean
internet - couple posts, seemed fine, didnt rly see anything notable
Jalmont - couple posts, seemed townie
leaning town but i dunno this can change easily
King_ - rly just asking for help on a lot of topics or as said before replying to only certain users idk how to read him
LightWolf - he's being super adamant and at times stonewalling but it really doesnt feel like he's playing like scum so a
townread on him too
macle - macle's townplay AND scumplay are barely posting and he hasnt done enough for me to determine which one he's doing yet
Mithril - he posted a couple things and i got nothing from em
SteelEdges - being subbed
TIK - being subbed
UncleSam - ah yes the focus of everyone right now i originally was leaning town on him but he's giving me mixed reactions rn maybe he's just playing differently than most expect which is why he's getting pressured but im super neutral on him
Yeti - yeti's posted a lot yet im getting literally zero opinions on her posts lol i guess thats neutral too
if i didnt bold a read its a neutral read
I guess
Lynch billymills for now but thats probably going to change ill be here tomorrow morning and probably back in an hr or so?