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Also Notty is vibing town to me, she actually has conviction this game, she's not sat
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i immensely dislike the way you base your reads on your nonsensical intuition every single game

i dislike the fact that you're usually right even more because it makes it so much easier for you to bullshit this stuff in our faces when you roll a maf role
 

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I think the rigidness of a full autocracy/full democracy plan is going to screw the town over more than anything. I don't think it's good to flip to a dictatorship immediately. Why not try to set up a town lead democracy, if things turn sour(too many night kills, council starts to look imbalanced, etc) we flip to autocracy and make the most of it. Ooglie is right in saying that we're not playing a full percentages game, we can use social cues to weed out who is anti-town.
We don't need to wait and see if we start to have too many nightkills in a democracy. We will. It's a given. You're wanting to waste time.

As a general rule of thumb: massclaims is usually a bad idea. Sure, it gives town valuable information so we can 'calculate' who's mafioso or at least who's likely to be it, but the mafia can also use the information for their advantage, and can predict nightactions for their advantage.
If I see one more person make a decision about what to do based on a 'general rule of thumb' I'm going to explode tbh

This isn't a Closed setup, we know the roles, we can figure out the realistic implications of our actions, we can work out whether a massclaim works or not. I mean just flashback to foggy's game where Notty figured out we could massclaim and we did and won instantly. Massclaims are usually not done since the setup is closed and there may be downsides to it that we can't forsee, or because that particular open setup makes a massclaim unfavourable, but this is not one of those situations. Saying 'mafia can use information!' is heuristically thinking, it's not thinking in depth and in detail about what the actual implications are, it's like using a mental shortcut to make a decision, and it's going to cost us the game if everyone keeps doing that.

I think mass-claiming is way to drastic to do right off the bet.
w h y

i kinda just want to see how this night plays out, since we never rlly got through that stage last time

i must admit, some post were quite long so i've been skimming through some of them. what i don't like about notty's plan is, like i said before, nothing ever goes as planned. if we make a plan now that tells us what to do couple days from now, the scenario will likely be different. on the contrary i do agree we need a drastic change of plan from last time.

knowing how the council played out last time, i realized that the plan was very flawed (concerns have been shared/discusses by others, but if need be i cant go into a bit more detail in another post). iirc there is an adapting plan going round

I think mass-claiming is way to drastic to do right off the bet. I'd be down for a scenario where we make some claims, and install a proven townie as dictator, preferably without mafia knowing who it is going to be. If we want some PR's to claim without to great a risk i have a couple ideas:
-ideally we have 5 PR claims, without them telling which PR they are. OFC this is never going to work, so maybe we make an adaptive plan of last time, WITH the dictator in mind.
-We make a list of 5 PR's, which arent too strong, so lowkey safe to claim, and 5 players claim to be one of those 5.
-Bulletproof should be in the mix (obvious reason being it's likely they wont become the dictator, meaning the mafia/rev can waste a kill if they try to hunt the dictator).
-I'm thinking reticent/vengeful would be nice to have in there again, them being kinda weak PR's.
-Protester is uselesss if we are going for dictator, so throw them into the bowl of soup.
-Last but not least: paranoid. Perhaps this role is too strong, but if the mafia decide to poison one of the 5 PR's, and the paranoid is poisoned, we'll know the identity of the poisoner.

anyhow lmk what you think
You seem to be entirely missing the point of installing a dictatorship, and that's to use the dictator to try to get as many town-sided kills as possible because that's realistically the only way we're going to win. That would be pointless if we don't have a decent pool of suspects to go off of. Hence the massclaim.

so what if we had
5 of the most useless PRs claim (not saying which one of the 5 they are)
all villagers claim
remaining 8 useful PRs do not claim
elect the 5 useless PRs, install one as dictator
dictator goes through the villager claims (assuming theres more than 5)

important PRs remain hidden to avoid whatever conflict people have with a mass claim, guaranteed town dictator ship, mafia forced into claiming villager early (so a list is established) or be forced to counterclaim later on in the game by not claiming now

idk if someone already suggested this if they did soz!
I like this idea

i immensely dislike the way you base your reads on your nonsensical intuition every single game

i dislike the fact that you're usually right even more because it makes it so much easier for you to bullshit this stuff in our faces when you roll a maf role
It's not even nonsensical :( you just don't SEE IT

I mean oog agreed with me on my read on Notty last game so I'm not alone in some of my mental representations of people!

Speaking of my psychic vibes I don't think I modestly showed this off yet, for those of you who didn't know the roles




TRUST THE INTUITION
 

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My brain is slush, my brain is slush and for some reason none of what I'm reading seems to register in my head

Did the exams really tire me out that badly?

sorry, just give me a moment
I was exactly like this earlier, it was like my cognition had a glass sheet over it so I could kinda see everything but there was a blockage somehow
 

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That was the rohypnol
No I think it was my exam which I ran out of time in and my essay on whether children should be held morally accountable turned into a philosophical debate about whether anyone should ever be held morally accountable for my last paragraph and I didn't elaborate on it properly so it didn't make sense and I didn't have time to so I was about to cross it all out because it was dumb but they were like OK TIME'S UP PENS DOWN :(
 

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we already have to elect five representatives and i have no idea who we should be voting in, there's no plan like last time
and the plan from last time was apparently made by the mafia? does that mean we should avoid that plan so whatever they planned to do doesn't happen?

but uh, anyways

massclaiming is bad

you see

the mafia will never claim their roles with 100% honesty. this is a given, especially with an open set up that explains role names and which side they are on to all participating

with that said, chaos can very easily break out the second everyone massclaims- especially on the first day, of all days

imagine, a conformist (town) claims their role honestly. a dissenter (mafia) decides to very loudly proclaim that the conformist is a liar, and claim the same role. if the conformist's role is a power role, the mafia will know exactly who to murder, as well. they will also know if poisoning is the better option if the claimed role happens to be bulletproof. they will also be able to provide 'proof' if the claimed role happens to be the counterpart to their own or have similar functions (such as toxicologist=avaritia and tracker=invidia why did the mafia names change). If the conformist's actions happens to be seen as more suspicious than the dissenter's, and the dissenter banks on this, it's basically a death sentence for the conformist (though doing this is a death sentence for the dissenter as well once they're outed upon the conformist's death, unless it's under dictatorship with the dictator being a mafia member who janitors the murdered conformist).

or maybe a conformist lies about their role, for one reason or another? maybe someone says they're bulletproof to to avoid being murdered even though they're not or the paranoid to avoid getting visited (even with the risk of getting murdered since the doctor can aim their action at that person) but the person who actually has the role sees it for the lie it is and calls them out on it and now that conformist faces suspicion even though the conformist just wants to avoid death

basically, chaos could break out, and i'm not keen on seeing things go topsy-turvy, since the mafia could take advantage of such chaos (unless they're overwhelmed by said chaos, which could happen, but that's not a chance i'd like to take)
 

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No I think it was my exam which I ran out of time in and my essay on whether children should be held morally accountable turned into a philosophical debate about whether anyone should ever be held morally accountable for my last paragraph and I didn't elaborate on it properly so it didn't make sense and I didn't have time to so I was about to cross it all out because it was dumb but they were like OK TIME'S UP PENS DOWN :(
i sympathise with you on running out of time for your essay

that happened way too many times when i was answering my papers

i need to work on my timing
 

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we already have to elect five representatives and i have no idea who we should be voting in, there's no plan like last time
and the plan from last time was apparently made by the mafia? does that mean we should avoid that plan so whatever they planned to do doesn't happen?

but uh, anyways

massclaiming is bad

you see

the mafia will never claim their roles with 100% honesty. this is a given, especially with an open set up that explains role names and which side they are on to all participating

with that said, chaos can very easily break out the second everyone massclaims- especially on the first day, of all days

imagine, a conformist (town) claims their role honestly. a dissenter (mafia) decides to very loudly proclaim that the conformist is a liar, and claim the same role. if the conformist's role is a power role, the mafia will know exactly who to murder, as well. they will also know if poisoning is the better option if the claimed role happens to be bulletproof. they will also be able to provide 'proof' if the claimed role happens to be the counterpart to their own or have similar functions (such as toxicologist=avaritia and tracker=invidia why did the mafia names change). If the conformist's actions happens to be seen as more suspicious than the dissenter's, and the dissenter banks on this, it's basically a death sentence for the conformist (though doing this is a death sentence for the dissenter as well once they're outed upon the conformist's death, unless it's under dictatorship with the dictator being a mafia member who janitors the murdered conformist).
If someone CC's then we have a 50% chance of lynching anti-town on that day, and a 100% chance of lynching anti-town over the space of two days. Why do you not think this is good? None of the PR we have are valuable enough to warrant giving up these improved statistics. Add to that the fact that the Mafia potentially have 2/3 kills per night, and read Notty's post summing up the numbers each faction will have as the game progresses under optimal townie circumstances, and you must understand why massclaiming gives us far more likelihood of managing to pull through than not doing.

or maybe a conformist lies about their role, for one reason or another? maybe someone says they're bulletproof to to avoid being murdered even though they're not or the paranoid to avoid getting visited (even with the risk of getting murdered since the doctor can aim their action at that person) but the person who actually has the role sees it for the lie it is and calls them out on it and now that conformist faces suspicion even though the conformist just wants to avoid death
Nobody should be doing this because this would only lead to chaos, as you said, and since they're town they have no reason to do that.

also, what if the dissenters just

deliberately had their poisoner poison their fellow ally

and bank on people thinking that that person couldn't possibly be a dissenter since they were harmed by said people

... i'm sorry, i keep doubleposting, i think i'll stop now
Then that person either dies the next morning or is saved by the Mafia doctor and thus we know they're likely Mafia because why would mafia waste 2 doc/poison actions just to frame one person. And the town tox won't save them since they could die to the bus driver
 

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Uh... Um...

Should I be flattered or concerned?
I trust you enough as a person to have you in the council, and have faith that between you me aqua and ender, at least three are town.

Ender's pretty smart, aqua seems to be of a similar mindset, and tbh I view you as a potential voice of reason in this madness, as I respect you as the type to weigh things carefully before putting in a word.

Inf I believe to be dissenter or rev, and same with notty, but since we don't currently have three clears, there's no reason to put both on the council.

If the situation doesn't change by the end of voting, I'd like inf executed tomorrow with notty being slated for the same the day after. Council can decide on an investigation, or failing that, elect a dictator.
 
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