Bad Apple Mafia - Mafia Victory

I'll say again though: don't overvalue your life. Town outnumbers mafia. If someone outs a mafia at the cost of their own life, it's a win for the town. Hiding information doesn't help the town at all.

I'll say again though: don't overvalue your life. Town outnumbers mafia. If someone outs a mafia at the cost of their own life, it's a win for the town. Hiding information doesn't help the town at all.

I'm not going to throw around wild suspicions either. If I have something I think is valuable I'll bring it up.

There's a significant difference between information and suspicion. Information can be borne off of suspicion, sure, but if you have no evidence to support a claim you just make yourself look worse, which when you're townie just makes things worse because people waste their time on you when they could be working towards taking out mafia.

Oi oi if you start lynching the dark, then how will you ever get people to feel comfortable enough to hold conversations and slip up on their own? Lets get some cider and start making some loose lips!

Oi oi if you start lynching the dark, then how will you ever get people to feel comfortable enough to hold conversations and slip up on their own? Lets get some cider and start making some loose lips!

How do you plan on getting the cider? Thinking about raiding the storehouse? Or perhaps you want to make some fresh cider?

How do you plan on getting the cider? Thinking about raiding the storehouse? Or perhaps you want to make some fresh cider?

Edit:

Fresh is best

Whoa whoa hold on are people actually thinking of lynching me because I'm trying to be careful with my votes? I'm not a fantastic mafia player, I don't have any strong leads at the moment. What are you trying to do with this, Shidoshi? If you want me to vote then fine, [Vote] Sega. I want to hear him talk.

The advantages of day 1 lynches extremely outweigh the disadvantages.
In my opinion it's much more advantageous to get an early lynch in, for a few reasons:
-Early reads are often some of the strongest.
-Day 1 lynches give you an ability to analyze the prior day's wagons, instead of wasting day 2 with what could've been done on day 1
-Lynches are obviously the town's strongest, and sometimes only, weapons against the mafia. Passing up an opportunity to lynch someone is counterintuitive to the goals of the town

Even if the lynches are random, it gives you SOMETHING to go on, instead of waiting around twiddling your thumbs until you find something to do/say.
It gives you some idea of the motives of each player, who they would like to target, etc.

For example, here we have a dichotomy between those who favor no lynches and those who don't. That in itself is important information.

Well, that makes sense, I suppose; I assumed everyone had to vote so I didn't want to be caught out without a vote since I'm not on SP all day. Now that we know that we have until Friday (I think?), I'll retract my vote. If I figure out how. (do I just edit my initial post?)

I honestly don't see how lynching on day 1 can give analysis to the prior day's wagons, though, since we were essentially just confirming our roles. Unless you can even read off that. I agree with the other points :p

Well, that makes sense, I suppose; I assumed everyone had to vote so I didn't want to be caught out without a vote since I'm not on SP all day. Now that we know that we have until Friday (I think?), I'll retract my vote. If I figure out how. (do I just edit my initial post?)

I honestly don't see how lynching on day 1 can give analysis to the prior day's wagons, though, since we were essentially just confirming our roles. Unless you can even read off that. I agree with the other points :p

Striking your old vote or debolding it is fine for retracting. Editing it out entirely is usually heavily frowned upon.

Whoa whoa hold on are people actually thinking of lynching me because I'm trying to be careful with my votes? I'm not a fantastic mafia player, I don't have any strong leads at the moment. What are you trying to do with this, Shidoshi? If you want me to vote then fine, [Vote] Sega. I want to hear him talk.

Because votes are the only factually serious thing that can happen during the Day, all else can be just lies with no meaning. An opinion that has no relation to a vote or intention of vote has no meaning.
Not that it means I'm seriously trying to lynch you, but by getting you to vote on someone we're already getting useful information on your intentions.

Day 1 is great to read people on the following days based on flips.

We have until Friday, I'll be analyzing people until then and I'll come up with who I think looks scummier by the end of it. Might as well get some discussion going.

I honestly don't see how lynching on day 1 can give analysis to the prior day's wagons, though, since we were essentially just confirming our roles. Unless you can even read off that. I agree with the other points :p

I guess I worded that poorly. Shidoshi sort of clarified above.
I meant that a lynch on day 1 gives you something to analyze on day 2. Last game, nothing happened on day 1, so lynch analysis didn't start until day 3. It was a complete waste of a day.

I agree with Holypie and Shidoshi so far.

@Polantaris; I was talking about information, though. And suspicions are still extremely useful. They can support or affirm others' suspicions, give people an opinion of you... I like to believe that town can never say too much. The more town says, the more room for errors mafia can make and the more town can create educated guesses at who the mafia is.

And I can't really tell why Khaini's trying to sound murderous.

I don't particularly like posts like [MENTION=3195]ChaoticCJ[/MENTION];'s saying we should "wait for more things to happen", nothing will happen unless you start pointing some fingers at people.
He's not the only one doing the "let's see later" thing either (there's Olsi), that kind of philosophy reminds me of last minute vote changes that often lead to poor reasoning and bad decisions.

KhainiWest and Niernen look pretty funny responding to each other's posts while ignoring everything else. Talking about making fresh cider doesn't seem like something nice, seeing as we're all apples.

But...I'm a corn. Not an apple.

Because votes are the only factually serious thing that can happen during the Day, all else can be just lies with no meaning. An opinion that has no relation to a vote or intention of vote has no meaning.
Not that it means I'm seriously trying to lynch you, but by getting you to vote on someone we're already getting useful information on your intentions.

Day 1 is great to read people on the following days based on flips.

We have until Friday, I'll be analyzing people until then and I'll come up with who I think looks scummier by the end of it. Might as well get some discussion going.

Yeah that's true. But I wasn't really talking about you trying to lynch me so much as the people wagoning after you.

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I'll say again though: don't overvalue your life. Town outnumbers mafia. If someone outs a mafia at the cost of their own life, it's a win for the town. Hiding information doesn't help the town at all.

I'd also add that, based on last game, don't be afraid to use your powers. I know last game was a lot weirder than this one and so this might not need to be said this time, but players being reluctant/scared to use their powers definitely made it easier for us mafia to win.

I don't particularly like posts like ChaoticCJ;'s saying we should "wait for more things to happen", nothing will happen unless you start pointing some fingers at people.
He's not the only one doing the "let's see later" thing either (there's Olsi), that kind of philosophy reminds me of last minute vote changes that often lead to poor reasoning and bad decisions.

I see Holypie's point, but there is just too much that can go wrong if we lynch at random. Although, I can see going for those who are not so active. We have some time before the day ends, so there some time before we decide what to do.

I would be careful when you use quotes ("message") to stick words in other people's mouths. That is very scum-ish thing to do. I never said "wait for more things to happen." The quote above I specifically said we should go after those who are not active to draw people out (Which I think we agree on) . My main reason for being cautious is that I don't want to lose someone early in the game that we may need much later (I also worry about double votes and such). I do want to point out along with those you mentioned, I notice people are quiet when it comes to CakesXD and others.

Right now I will [B][vote] Verrkol[B]. To make things "happen."

I would be careful when you use quotes ("message") to stick words in other people's mouths. That is very scum-ish thing to do. I never said "wait for more things to happen." The quote above I specifically said we should go after those who are not active to draw people out (Which I think we agree on) . My main reason for being cautious is that I don't want to lose someone early in the game that we may need much later (I also worry about double votes and such). I do want to point out along with those you mentioned, I notice people are quiet when it comes to CakesXD and others.

Right now I will [vote] Verrkol. To make things "happen."

Usually you vote for people not talking to get them to speak up thus making things "happen". I'm already talking, but whatever. Have fun.

[Vote]: MasPan because apples have no gods.

In seriousness, I just wanted to make sure I redacted my previous vote. I'll review what's happened in the morning and hopefully find something suspicious.

EDIT: Can we get everyone to state their names? I'm Sour Sheila (howdy y'all)

@Polantaris; I was talking about information, though. And suspicions are still extremely useful. They can support or affirm others' suspicions, give people an opinion of you... I like to believe that town can never say too much. The more town says, the more room for errors mafia can make and the more town can create educated guesses at who the mafia is.

Strong suspicions, I definitely agree with. Even semi-strong suspicions. However, if I only slightly suspect someone with barely anything to support my suspicion, I'm more likely to create some confirmation bias instead, which works against us.

After rereading most posts, trying to get a general idea of what's going I'd like to know what'shear from [MENTION=5147]Sega[/MENTION]; Right now I'm thinking he's careless about everything, especially the inactivity rule and it bothers me. I'm more suspicious of [MENTION=6823]Polantaris[/MENTION]; though, I don't like it how he's suspicious of [MENTION=41]Holypie[/MENTION]; while basically doing the same, saying he's being "thoughtful" with his vote and waiting to see what happens before doing anything. Not to mention that he's suspicious of him only after 2 people voted for him.
I also don't know how to feel about [MENTION=7423]TheBirds[/MENTION];, [MENTION=4235]KhainiWest[/MENTION];, [MENTION=2462]MetaSeraphim[/MENTION]; and to some extent [MENTION=3177]xBTAx[/MENTION];. They have posted at least once but for BTA and Khaini only 1 of those posts talks about something relevant to this game... unless metagame is relevant, which I think just makes things confusing instead of being helpful. Can someone explain why someone would talk nonsense somewhat actively?

For now I'm gonna [Vote]Polantaris

After rereading most posts, trying to get a general idea of what's going I'd like to know what'shear from Sega; Right now I'm thinking he's careless about everything, especially the inactivity rule and it bothers me. I'm more suspicious of Polantaris; though, I don't like it how he's suspicious of Holypie; while basically doing the same, saying he's being "thoughtful" with his vote and waiting to see what happens before doing anything. Not to mention that he's suspicious of him only after 2 people voted for him.
I also don't know how to feel about TheBirds;, KhainiWest;, MetaSeraphim; and to some extent xBTAx;. They have posted at least once but for BTA and Khaini only 1 of those posts talks about something relevant to this game... unless metagame is relevant, which I think just makes things confusing instead of being helpful. Can someone explain why someone would talk nonsense somewhat actively?

For now I'm gonna [Vote]Polantaris

See, this is exactly why I don't like revealing small suspicions. I do it once, and now I'm getting voted for. I only had slight suspicions of him based on a good point others brought up, which he has since addressed himself and I have since stopped suspecting. There was a good point brought up, but ganging up on a guy over one point is illogical, which is why I didn't do it. Then he addressed it himself earlier and now I'm back to watching. Right now there's no one that I suspect enough to bring up anymore, and I'm defending that line of thinking against the people who think we should blurt out every single thought that comes to your mind about people (at least, that's how I took it). At the time there was a good point brought up on Holypie.