Posted December 13, 2016
I'm sad the game ended; I was having a lot of fun. I think... without trying to step on anyone's toes, I think a lot of people are kind of lumping "MU players" into a group, and that's not really a thing. MU is an extreme melting pot. There isn't really a standard MU way of playing or anything. Games are shaped by the players who are in them.
I definitely feel for people who were struggling with the post volume; I stand by my thought that it was on a downward trend and really would only have kept going down. A lot of what people were calling fluff and useless in the early going, I didn't find it that way myself; mining those posts for mindset analysis and the interactions for potential unalignments was pretty useful for me.
Specific game thoughts:
Nacho was functionally exactly what he claimed to be, so yeah. So was Zork, so... yeah. I think all the discussion surrounding them was pretty overblown and absolutely distracted from hunting wolves. They were both townsiding; if people had just let them do their thing, it would have been +EV town. But, hindsight is 20/20, so whatever.
@Brasas - I feel like we got off on the wrong foot. I think a lot of your frustration came from wanting to be engaged with in a certain way, to have people approach you on your terms, to have people pay attention to the things you wanted them to. But like... if the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain.
@Stanari - please play with me again, I secretly bask in your flattery and enthusiasm for gifs even though I'd never admit it. If you ever roll w/v against me you're going to be able to pocket me so hard.
The tom soulread wolf was something I had very very early and then that read kind of faded; I decided to roll with it half to fuck with tom, and half to see if anyone would call me on it. I probably would have towncleared the first person to press me on it, because wolves would not have been interested in getting me off that read (since tom would have been mislynch bait in that case).
I'm really, really, really sad that one of the last insights I had into that game before it ended was the "Bookwyrm and dyachei are both independently wolfy, but don't seem like they're knowingly aligned." Since, well... I cant embed images so you'll have to click through...
http://i.imgur.com/m8zbb4X.jpg
It's kind of hard to tell since it ended mid D1 but I think town had a pretty good shot of winning that game. Wyrm/dyachi would have gotten knocked off early, for sure. Uber would have been interesting; if he could jump back in and replicate some of that early energy, he might have made it a while. Trent, I think was doing a pretty good job at riding the line, but if that me/Stanari/Tammy/SR townblock had solidified I thiiiink he'd have just gotten PoE'd out at some point? That one's really hard to speculate on, though. Too many unknown factors.
Oh, yeah. The door thing was 100% me trolling yogsloth because he gave me a troll role. I still don't know what my "thief" thing was even supposed to do, but the door thing was coming from a "troll me with a role I don't understand and refuse to tell me more about, I'll troll you back" mindset. Also there was a tiny bit of me that wanted to see, like, tom/Nacho's face after the game when they realized I'd elaborately fakeclaimed as town, since that kind of thing is something I think they'd consider 100% out of my range.
Anyway, fun game, sad to see it go. I'd be amenable to playing with y'all again sometime.
I definitely feel for people who were struggling with the post volume; I stand by my thought that it was on a downward trend and really would only have kept going down. A lot of what people were calling fluff and useless in the early going, I didn't find it that way myself; mining those posts for mindset analysis and the interactions for potential unalignments was pretty useful for me.
Specific game thoughts:
Nacho was functionally exactly what he claimed to be, so yeah. So was Zork, so... yeah. I think all the discussion surrounding them was pretty overblown and absolutely distracted from hunting wolves. They were both townsiding; if people had just let them do their thing, it would have been +EV town. But, hindsight is 20/20, so whatever.
@Brasas - I feel like we got off on the wrong foot. I think a lot of your frustration came from wanting to be engaged with in a certain way, to have people approach you on your terms, to have people pay attention to the things you wanted them to. But like... if the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain.
@Stanari - please play with me again, I secretly bask in your flattery and enthusiasm for gifs even though I'd never admit it. If you ever roll w/v against me you're going to be able to pocket me so hard.
The tom soulread wolf was something I had very very early and then that read kind of faded; I decided to roll with it half to fuck with tom, and half to see if anyone would call me on it. I probably would have towncleared the first person to press me on it, because wolves would not have been interested in getting me off that read (since tom would have been mislynch bait in that case).
I'm really, really, really sad that one of the last insights I had into that game before it ended was the "Bookwyrm and dyachei are both independently wolfy, but don't seem like they're knowingly aligned." Since, well... I cant embed images so you'll have to click through...
http://i.imgur.com/m8zbb4X.jpg
It's kind of hard to tell since it ended mid D1 but I think town had a pretty good shot of winning that game. Wyrm/dyachi would have gotten knocked off early, for sure. Uber would have been interesting; if he could jump back in and replicate some of that early energy, he might have made it a while. Trent, I think was doing a pretty good job at riding the line, but if that me/Stanari/Tammy/SR townblock had solidified I thiiiink he'd have just gotten PoE'd out at some point? That one's really hard to speculate on, though. Too many unknown factors.
Oh, yeah. The door thing was 100% me trolling yogsloth because he gave me a troll role. I still don't know what my "thief" thing was even supposed to do, but the door thing was coming from a "troll me with a role I don't understand and refuse to tell me more about, I'll troll you back" mindset. Also there was a tiny bit of me that wanted to see, like, tom/Nacho's face after the game when they realized I'd elaborately fakeclaimed as town, since that kind of thing is something I think they'd consider 100% out of my range.
Anyway, fun game, sad to see it go. I'd be amenable to playing with y'all again sometime.