In post 208, Mr. Flay wrote:Yeah, but we also have the TIME to question our assumptions. EM doesn't/didn't.
That's not true. There was a time in the Beta when people actually played the game, and there was only like 6 roles (I think it was Vanilla Townie, Mafia Goon, Doctor, Cop, Serial Killer, Mafia Roleblocker) and the entire site was just Imagine a Setup, Make and Name a room, and play the game with no timer attached. The last time I was on EM, the site had devolved into a game of odds. e.g: If we have this setup, optimal play is X (involving role claims and role actions and stuff) eventually culminating in a lynch being chosen by the 1 person who claimed seemingly at random. Days went by in a minute or less. Very silly.
But yeah, don't ignore that EM was at one point a good place to play Mafia and contained some very smart players and games.