No. Gut is more likely ;)

Wonderful. Any chance for discussion that doesn't end with corpses? =)

In this game, no.

However, I think you can safely assume that I won't kill you for anything you might say in a discussion related to my thoughts in Post 757. (Another airplane, wheeeee)

I just realized where you got that image. And it will actually be helpful, though not for the reason that you were posting it.

Assumption's never a good thing. Fortunately, I feel like talking about it anyway.

Would say that stats and role abilities are linked to what your character is (good FIN for a mechanic type, maybe with a role ability to nullify negative effects from a failed crisis event, something like that).

Character alignment could make for classes that town people don't have. Infiltrators, saboteurs, assassins, stuff you're not going to see from standard station crew members.

Pure speculation here, but I wouldn't be surprised if, along with that, you've got at least one scum member with a legit crew title and role who plays the part of the inside man, allowing access to the intruders who are all more violently oriented.

I don't think stats will link to night actions since that would veer the game toward a straight RPG approach rather than a standard mafia game.

Thinking the stats link to the special crisis events, and the whole system is a self-contained add-on to mafia. You end up needing a lot more time to balance things out when it's not Group A with set abilities with Group B with set abilities. The mod also runs the risk of making the game much longer by way of people wanting to perform actions but missing on stat checks to do so.

I don't think the stats are random. Mine weren't. They're linked to my overall role in a way that makes sense to who and what I am.

Wouldn't bank on crisis events being 4 player only all the time, or for it being a 2 strength, 2 finesse job all the time. Other combos will inevitably be used.

I don't think there will be stat requirements in picking people, but there will always be stat requirements for the crisis events to be beaten. Put a couple of strength 3's into a strength 6, 8 or 10 situation and you're going to get double failure. (And probably some nasty consequences as a result of failing that hard.)

Why couldn't all the scum have a "legit title"?

Good point. Here I am assuming I won't get a knife in the head because of talking to you :P

But not all players may have roles. In that case, the stats will probably be linked to the name and rank for it too make sense. But then for those with roles, it's probably still linked to name and rank, so I'm guessing that stats, name, rank, and role are one big package.

Makes sense to me.

EBWOP

Nevermind. You did say 'at least', which does have 'all' as a valid solution. Regardless, I'll just posit directly that I think that all scum having titles is possible, and perhaps probable.

Just gonna fly in another little observation for use later. Probably in later Days.

You can see at this point some players have a basic grasp of how the most likely Town character setup works, and some that for whatever reason, don't. It's not quite the razor blade is was last game, but I do think you can do a bit of sorting into piles of likehood at this point. I'm not referring only to the few posts above this one.

"Sorting into piles"?

I prefer to say I'm "setting up probabilistic models."

Not necessarily. The intruders may be some other life form or force that is able to "possess" the actual crew members. Also, consider the fact that this isn't a ship but a space station. You can't know for sure that we are supposed to know each other. Or that we are able to perceive the change. Krypsyn mentioned the Vorlon - if you are familiar with Babylon 5 Kosh Naranek should most likely be the first association that comes to mind. Krypsyn, correct me if I'm wrong, but we were never directly shown his face (the closest thing I remember was an operation done to him to save his life after some assassination attempt). And last but not least, we don't know whether or not our crew is entirely human. Neither do we know that about the intruders. Yes, the OP says "unidentified life forms" but that can also applied to something partly robotic/cybernetic.

Not much chance of that. I don't think town people are usually given the power to kill off others besides the lynch ability.

I think we all have templates - pre-made character sheets. Some people might not have role abilities, but it doesn't make sense to me that some would and some wouldn't. Might be wrong but it feels like an imbalance.

A thought I had regarding the crisis event thing - possible way to pick scum out of the crowd.
Town people will want to clear every crisis event so no one in that group will get harmed. Scum might want to sabotage that, as they have the option to do so.

Thinking that scum won't want to take heavy hits just for the sake of killing off town when they already have the ability to pick people off with no exposure. Probably not the best move to sacrifice yourself for the sake of a kill when the odds are 4 to 1 against you (figuring that based on standard game setup, it might be off by a bit)
If you find that someone keeps going on missions that happen to go wrong aside from them getting out of it with little to no damage, you might be looking at scum.

Another thought - whether or not the moderator will explain to scum in-depth what will happen as a result of their sabotage before they do it, allowing them to decide whether or not to commit to it. If the mod wants to make things dangerous for all sides, they could hint but not say explicitly, leaving scum with a chance that their sabotage will catch them as well and hurt them.

Well, without getting too spoilery (for a ~20 year old show, maybe it doesn't matter, but still), everyone saw something slightly different.

I also pondered over the same topic but with a different problem in mind. Not what the harm will be but how to benefit from the crisis.

Something we don't know yet is the way a crisis is resolved. Will the scum assigned to the crisis be passive or active about it? The difference is that active scum may chose to help instead of sabotage while passive will certainly result in a sabotage regardless of the outcome (a failed sabotage is still sabotage).

Like it was said earlier successful crisis events shouldn't automatically bring Town credibility to the participants but failed ones should call for increased scrutiny. That doesn't mean that the team shouldn't gain credibility towards the specific requirements.

If the crisis is successfully addressed it should be safe to assume that the same team should be able to handle another crisis with the same requirements (well, safe-er than just going randomly). If the scum activity is passive this is almost guaranteed to succeed unless crisis requirement level up with the game and a team that was capable to handle the first two may no longer be able to do so during the third one.

A failed crisis should also call for a team (members) change for the next one, while the original team is being investigated.

CarrionCrow talked about double failures for lower stats. I'm more inclined to see separated failures in the different sections (FIN + STR currently). If I'm correct we'll be even more able to see where we failed. The successful squad can still be used later on.