Some comments as I read. If these have already been addressed in the messages I haven't reached yet, I apologize for the redundancy. (I'll edit later and point to the folks who got there before me.)
triggercut wrote:Varity, what if, after noxiousdog posts "Well, I'm one of the Masons" Mr. Bubbles posts "That's fascinating. So am I, and noxiousdog's name isn't the one I got as the other mason."
In Round 1 under these rules, the Alpha
cannot pretend to be a Mason, because there's a simple and 100% effective counterplay:
- Mason #1 outs himself.
- Alpha "outs" himself as a Mason.
- Mason #2 outs herself. !
Alpha has no response to this, because nobody is cooperating with Alpha in Round 1.
Varity wrote:Regardless of how you choose to define "win" (personal survival, team survival, minimal loss victory), killing the player that you suspect most of being a vampire has the greatest chance of furthering your cause.
The strategy you recommend-- killing the most suspicious player-- is flawed. Here's why.
If an innocent villager is skilled, he'll realize that he may be conscripted by the Alpha vampire. He will therefore play both sides to leave himself open options for the case in which he's infected
and the case in which he remains a villager.
This is precisely what I did in Round 1, and it's why I looked so suspicious. If I
had been infected, I would've had options, since I had established myself as a "leader of the people" while also setting up the FVH for a fall. Some errors committed in PM-- something likely to occur in any game-- had also given me a good idea of the identity of a Seer.
After vamping out, I would've had options. Fewer options would've been open to me if I hadn't done some suspicious things, and there are other suspicious things an innocent villager might do in Round #1 (such as pretend to be the FVH) to conserve options in case of Vampification.
Noxiousdog is right, Varity. Slaying the highly suspicious without further evidence of what they're doing is a good way to damage one's own team, given that many folks in Round 1 are likely to be playing mind games.
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I would like to see an AAR from Grund (hint, hint)
I'll see what I can do tonight.