Gen I Pokemon Mafia - Mafia Wins

But isn't it interesting that nothing happened? This implies that either A) my ability cannot target someone, B) I have a late-activating ability or C) I'm just a big, fat, lying Mafioso.

If C is right and you're pulling my leg like niernen/faon did........... :c

:C

Do I have to link the harry potter clip again? DO I?

It is curious that it didn't work. Though if you're lying about what it is, then we should be glad that it didn't end up killing or severely maiming Hyper. Everyone's made it out alive, but we're not out of the cave yet!

theory time!
May be useful, may not be; either way I'm throwing it out there until someone tells me to shut the pineapple up ):

To preface, I have no idea what is going on with the cakes-hyper thing going on over there... so I'm going to avoid it where possible since I don't want to use too many assumptions. If I get my head around it I'll post a Niernen-Chaz type scenario layout with the possibilities.

 Move Theory

Without solid information (i.e death messages/role information from Niernen), we don't really have much to go off so I'm definitely going off posts at face value here.

With nearly everyone having at least hinted towards their pokemon (I'm kinda wary of people who HAVEN'T at all... As in, not even a type reference), I'm interested in seeing what mechanics in Pokemon are shared with what mechanics in this PokeMafia.

Move Theory: Types

What's the point of Pokemon if our moves don't have types added to them? PokeMafia should have, at the very least, applied match theory, but this is what I think:

- Match Theory: Probability The way I see it here is that types either work probability wise or through exaggerated types. Maybe a set %chance value exists for moves, and type advantage/disadvantages alters it accordingly. I actually doubt that this is the case, since it means that EVERYTHING is practically RNG based.
+ Polantaris has revealed that his paralysis works at a %chance, meaning that %chance moves right now aren't completely off the table. It's entirely possible that this is restricted to 'status' effects.

- Match Theory: Exaggeration Where even the slightest 1/2x effectiveness means no dice. Or maybe reduced dice? Either way, each move advantage/disadvantage is somewhat exaggerated to skew our knowledge of the game.
+ It would partially explain Luv's roleblock not working on Polantaris

- There is no correlation with mechanics: xBTAx may be right in saying that pokemon names and moves have absolutely nothing to do with how the mechanics of the game works. And right now, we honestly have little to nothing to go off.

Move Theory: Damage Categories
This kind of delves into generation guessing, but there was a split of physical/special moves in Gen 1 (based on types, granted), which may have contributed to mechanics. They're not the first thing people think of, but are easily google-able, which leads me to believe that it's somewhat ideal to use for mechanics.

- Physically/Specially resistant: Types that are already resistant (if we're applying match theory) to a certain move might be further 'buffed' against a move this way.

the disclaimer where I argue against myself
The biggest thing that denounces anything more complex than basic match theory that I've suggested here is that it'd be too complex. Game mechanics should be relatively simple to figure out, and crunching numbers or dealing RNG based moves out to people is unlikely simply due to the fact that it'd be 'too complex' for a mafia game.

can you tell that I've been googling game mechanics like mad?

Note that another big issue is knowing what generation we actually are in. Gen 1 mafia, as well as my role PM, suggests that we're looking at a gen 1 movepool. But the impending Arceus and the jump from Kanto to Hoenn in the OP kinda suggests otherwise to me... Maybe the Hoenn reference is referring to the release of ORAS, but then we're looking at gen 6 mechanics as well.

A crucial step right now for us, theory-wise, is to try and distinguish whether everything is gen 1, or whether there are factors that aren't gen 1 based.

yup i felt someone peeping at me. i dont think it was an investigation from the po-po but a nosey pokemon who wanted to see what i do during the night

Who wouldn't, you gorgeous lady

Do you like grass? Can I ask you out? I feel like you've been leading me on...

Apparently we have one that will roleblock over time at a chance, and one that will just flat out roleblock.

I'm not so sure that I believe that Luv's ability was only supposed to roleblock over time, considering a 25% chance, while it might turn out dangerous for the target, isn't exactly the best ability. It may have been weakened due to my type.

Honestly, I'm inclined to believe that Luv didn't know about it if the PMs were worded ambiguously. Mine was pretty confusing and I had to ask questions, and even then I didn't get all the answers. And somehow I doubt that mine's the most interesting out of the block... somehow :T

edit: still first half of day two but this is a gentle prod to post something [MENTION=2351]Simple[/MENTION]; Even if nothing happened to you maybe some opinions floating around from you will be a good thing.