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Hey BM- pass it to me! I'm free and I've got an open shot to goal!
I think we should try and do this like a normal game; vote, and then pass the person with the most votes (or the top three suspects) all the potatos over and over 'till they blow up.
On that notefor being against everything I stand for.Fake vote: Wizardcat-
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You have a point, Crazy. I'm certainly not going to be holding on to any potatos thrown at me for very long.
BM- I understand you don't want to play this exactly like a normal game but surely you agree we need some kind of system to try to kill guilty people, otherwise this will just be a random deathfest.
I think it might be a bad idea to give more than one potato to people; it concentrates too much power in one person's hands.-
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Bounce mr. potatohead off scruff's face
It's possible one potato will go off after a certain number of passes. However, at this point any speculation about how potatoes work is just that: speculation. As I said before, we won't know until we experiment. And we should experiment because we can't control the game environment until we understand it. For that reason, I think the potatoes should keep moving.
I also think we should stick with the voting system. Otherwise, it seems like the people who don't have potatoes will get bored pretty fast. We need some way to stay involved in the game process.
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There might be but it's a bad idea to speculate about power roles and the mafia probably won't tell us what they know.Luigi Gangsta wrote: ++ Are there any mafia/power roles that know the triggers?
Anything's possible at this point. Until we know more, who knows?Luigi Gangsta wrote:++Is it possible that a word could be a trigger?
I think we should look at all the circumstances not just the words used. Post count, page number, number of passes, number of days and so on.Luigi Gangsta wrote:++And if so, after the bomb goes off should we look for the last person who used an uncommon word?
Chuck potato at Luigi Gangsta
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Luigi- When I was just a newbie, back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, I was told that speculating on power roles is always bad because the reactions of people to the speculation can help the scum work out who has a power role and who doesn't.
It's true it will be hard to kill the players we want to kill in this game. There's probably a balancing mechanic but it's best not to guess at what it is.-
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Battle Mage wrote: Erm what? Haven't we already concluded that there is a strong possibility that some potatoes may explode after a certain number of tosses?
We haven't concluded anything because we have no evidence, since none of the potatos have exploded. Until we've tested the idea that a number of tossess=bang there's no reason to believe it.
How can we waste anything if we don't know how it works? Maybe it's not number of tosses, maybe it's something else. We won't learn unless we experiment.Battle Mage wrote:Why then, would you suggest that we waste our firepower?-
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Hmm, that is quite a scummy post from John but I'm thinking it might be newness talking.
The obvious problem is that townies can be wrong when they suspect someone of being scum. I know if you killed me every time I was wrong in a game, I'd never make it past day one. So this is a bad plan. I don't see what's wrong with armlx's plan actually: we vote on two front runners and then pass the potatos to them.
Of course, I'm not saying we should ignore the fact that someone has killed someone but it's just one piece of evidence among others.-
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We might not know today how potatos work but I think we will have some idea tomorrow. For instance, if we get another russet potato, assuming the eighth throw kills until proven otherwise is a good idea.
Also, I really think the potatos should be moving around. By giving someone a potato, you're forcing them to take a stand in a way that voting just doesn't accomplish.
I'm not all that convinced by TSS's case on Kuribo. The fact is, most of the town has been mainly speculating.
I think what we need is a bandwagon, that usually gets things moving.
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Are you saying protown people should let themselves die if the town thinks they're scummy? That seems wrong, I think people who are falsey accused should fight back not just role over.armlx wrote:
No, I'm saying that if everyone is voting a pro-town player to the extent they would be lynched they would and should hold onto the potato.No, what you're saying is "The town should do what I say or they're scum."
We can kill those holding the potatoes, and have them throw them at designated people to try to kill them.[/quote]How can we kill anyone if the same people just keep holding the potatoes?
How do we kill them?-
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I'd rather be mislynched than shoot myself. At least I'd have an extra chance of shooting scum.
To get back to the actual game- if a townie who we all think is scum holds on to a potato and explodes, we're down one townie. If they throw it at someone they think is scum, we might see a scum killed or be down a different townie.
It seems to me the second option is better.-
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Well yeah, if the majority's choice is someone I know to be innocent, I'd say my choice is more informed.armlx wrote: What you are saying here is you think your personal choice of vig shot is going to be more informed and more informative then a town majority......
I guess...unless they kill scum, in which case they'd be less of a suspect, surely?armlx wrote:But we still have one suspect we have to eliminate somehow, and that causes all sorts of issues.-
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There's an obvious difference there. In the self-vigging scenario and in this game, you're talking about situations where the player knows something the rest of the players don't i.e. their own alignment. That's not the case in kingmaker.armlx wrote: Now I'm just waiting for you to say you would go against the town's wishes in a Kingmaker game....-
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Voting is viable because it gives us a solid record of where people's suspicions lie which we can quickly look back on. In theory anyway.
I find your negativity wearying.
We didn't have a lynching mechanism today, it's true. But assuming the russet potato always explodes after eight tosses, we will have one tomorrow.
What does voting have to do with trust anyway? It's a way of keeping discussion going. Otherwise, everyone without potatos will just sit around doing nothing.
executioner= the person with the russet potato on the seventh throw.
Why are you so determained to prevent any kind of progress, RiceTailBall?-
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Riceballtail wrote:Why do you keep insisting that I am trying to prevent progress?
Because you seem to be trying to prevent progress.
Because it makes logical sense from a game balance point of view.Riceballtail wrote:Why do you assume we're going to have another russet potato tomorrow?
Riceballtail wrote: Maybe you know this already?
No.
Unless you know for a fact that scum get setup information in this game, that wouldn't logically follow, no.Riceballtail wrote:Wouldn't that make you scum?-
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