36 hour phases are going to be brutal for me. Work + sleep means I'll miss at least half of every Day during the week. So it goes!
It was cool seeing the MTGS QT; it's awesome that so many people are following along.
Az, I voted you #1 to advance in our game. Regardless of read accuracy in that particular game, I thought you were in a class by yourself when it came to the "who would you want on your team in a hypothetical game" metric. 10/10, would love to roll village with again.
I think that'd be fantastic. We've run some cross-site mixers previously, with mafiascum, which were fun and well-received. We'd planned to follow up with some games that would allow a wider section of our playerbase to participate, but it seemed like the 'scum folks were less interested in organizing that, than the invitional format.
Hell, I'd be a fan of simply running some/all our site's games on MU simply for the sake of hijacking your glorious interface. I wouldn't care to lose our playerbase's distinctiveness and culture, but perhaps we could work something out where our MTGS players form the kernel of a longer-phase game culture on MU, and attract like-minded players into the fold. Worth considering.
This is something that I'd be interested in; what were your plans for it exactly?
If anyone is interested in participating, we have a cross-community thing going on with the org/civfanatics, showcasing the playing skills of each community.
It promises to have a pretty high-quality level of play. 3 days/1 day phases for Days and Nights.
If anyone is interested in participating, we have a cross-community thing going on with the org/civfanatics, showcasing the playing skills of each community.
It promises to have a pretty high-quality level of play. 3 days/1 day phases for Days and Nights.
We need a couple more competent players to represent MTGS in this.
If anyone is interested in participating, we have a cross-community thing going on with the org/civfanatics, showcasing the playing skills of each community.
It promises to have a pretty high-quality level of play. 3 days/1 day phases for Days and Nights.
The important part is meeting new players and having fun.
2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
We've run a number of games with hydra accounts, first going back to eight years ago. Some people might enjoy it; it's not personally my cup of tea due to how much it complicates analysis.
In line with the launching of a longer game platform on MU, and some of the ideas we've been tossing around here, I do have a game that's been in the works for quite some time that may be a good candidate to get us started...
Eve's Horizon. It was nearly the dirtiest bar on Echo Prime. The mingled dust and grit of more than a dozen neighboring worlds was ground deep into the cracks and crannies of the worn, gun-metal grey flooring. The glasses, mismatched, stacked in untidy heaps behind the counter, were smudged with oil, grease, and spit. Low, clouded light filtered through smoke and steam, obscuring as much as illuminating. It was not a bar where you went to sate a common appetite, or find a kindred soul. It was the kind of bar you went to, to get yourself hopelessly lost, time slipping through numbed fingers, numbed minds, like water spilling through the vacuum of blackest space. It was six streets from the starport terminal, and down nine levels from the surface plates and landing strips of the bustling, working city. Warmth seeped languorously from floor-plates dotted throughout the room, staving off the creeping chill that would sweep over the city from its outer edges to its core in less than three hours, if the city's reactors came undone. Light-years from humanity's distant origin, scattered pockets of life clung tenaciously to harbors of rock and metal and steel, balanced on the razor's edge separating dirt and the shadowed and star-strewn sky.
It was not the first time Marlow had darkened the doorway of Eve's Horizon. Once every few months, he would arrive, order a drink, meet briefly with hard-eyed men with slow stares, and a freighter would take on a load of cargo, which Earth Authority customs would pointedly ignore, as they had been well paid to do.
Dirk Marlow sat at his usual table, ordered his usual drink, and waited.
Someone else entered the bar - not a regular. Earth Authority uniform. Nobody quite met her eyes. Marlow stared into his drink.
She lowered her voice. "Look, Dirk, I can't go through with this one."
Marlow swirled the ice in his drink. "Having second thoughts about getting in bed with the rebellion?"
She gave him a level look. "No. And don't be an ********, Marlow. We've been through plenty, and I've put my ass on the line for you more times than I count. But you need to be straight with me, this time. I need to know what I'm getting into."
"It's just another shipment."
"It is NOT just another shipment. Don't pull that on me. Arms for the rebellion - I can live with that on my conscience. But what you're shipping - sophisticated genetic splicers, DNA readers, viral recoding cultures - I don't like what that looks like, Dirk."
"And what do you think that looks like?"
"A pile of a trillion dead bodies, hatching flies. That's what it looks like to me. You people always said this rebellion was for the common man. If you start-"
"Start what? Start killing off entire planets? Have the news reports say it was all just a freak virus? Yeah, it'd be just terrible if somebody got up to that." Marlow's fist tightened involuntarily. "You know, sometimes I don't know how you bring yourself to put on that uniform ever day and see yourself in the mirror."
"That's bull*****. You know what I've done for you. And it wasn't just for the money. And it wasn't your charming personality, either. You wanna talk about looking in the mirror? That's fresh, coming from someone who wants to remake himself into a mass murderer."
"You really think that's what I'm up to? Do you really know me that little?"
She paused. "It looks bad, Marlow. And I don't know all the people you work with. I can't just rubber stamp this and let it pass. We both know that things can't stay as they are. The people won't stand for being ordered how to live their lives from people who live a hundred thousand light years away, with no real say. The five party system is broken, and we all know it. But if it comes down to it, I don't what that kind of blood on my hands, and I hope you and your friends don't, either. So why don't you tell me what this is really about, if you can. Because if you can't, that cargo isn't going to move. Not unless you want to shoot your way out."
"I can't. It's too big, and I'm just an errand boy. They say jump, I jump. But I trust them, and so should you. We've never let you down."
She shook her head. "No. No, Marlow. You know more than you're letting on. You're not just some provincial chief. I've seen the way your men look at you, the way they jump. You know more about what's going on out there than even I do. There's more to you than that. Way more."
An edge crept into his voice. "And if I say no? You going to beat it out of me? Disappear me into some lightless vacuum capsule, fire me into the sun? He moved to get up.
"Marlow. Stop." She slammed her hand down over his. "Look, I know we've had our rough patches. But we've had some good times too, haven't we? I've watched your back this long. And I've been trusting you, for a long time. It's time for a little bit of that to come around. Make me believe, Marlow. That's all I ask." She let go of his hand.
His eyes bored a hole in the table. Then he let out a deep breath.
"The rebellion is finished, Kate. It's over. In the last week, they've wiped twelve more planets off the map. One in a thousand survives the virus, and those that survive that are rounded up into camps and disposed of. Children, too. No witnesses, no questions. Every time we win, they burn us to the ground. They will never, ever let us hold territory of our own. Not even if it means wiping a quarter of the human race from existence to stop us."
Hands shaking, he drained his glass to the last drop. She waited for him go on. "We can't let them do that, but we can't give up, either. So we have to look to the future. Lay the groundwork for a blow they'll never see coming, and never come back from. Someday, years from now, maybe decades, when their guard is down. They still think they're fighting flesh and blood. They think we're fighting for power. They don't realize that they're fighting an idea, and ideas are immortal. You plant the right ideas in someone's head, and you control them. That's what this is about. Not killing. Control."
He met her eyes. "That's all that I can say and more. Is it good enough?"
The corner of her mouth turned down as she thought. She let out a breath. "Good enough."
Disinheritance is a game for 16 players. Players will vote not only for who they believe the most likely mafia player is, but will also vote publicly for players who they wish to "empower", granting those players access to new, more powerful, and more exotic night abilities. This system will emphasize the importance of behavioral analysis and deception more than ever before, directly linking each groups talent in the game's fundamental core skills to the effectiveness of both groups during the night period. In addition, both groups will have unparalleled flexibility and variety in strategic options at their disposal during the night period, if they are able to coordinate their (and their opponents') empower votes effectively.
To facilitate this greater cooperation, strategy, and trickery, this game will feature universal private communication between all players, with the sole restriction being the inability to quote role PMs/mod PMs. To creative and cunning minds, this should present a tremendous opportunity to exploit.
In addition, the game offers the capacity for an unlimited number of additional, non-voting player slots. These players will be assigned alignments, be able to freely comment on the game within a separate, publicly visible game thread, will share in the unlimited private communication privileges, and will be capable of affecting the game not only through contributing analysis, advice, and disinformation, but also in other, unexpected ways. Non-voting players slots may not affect the game with any abilities, nor do they count as hidden players or hydra accounts, but both non-voting and voting player slots should be advised that due to mechanics never before seen here or on any other forum, the alignment of non-voting players may become somewhat relevant during the course of the game...
I would very much like to invite your community to take part in Season 4 of the Mafia Championship.
The Mafia Championship is an annual online tournament series that pits representatives from various forum Mafia (aka Werewolf) communities against one another as they compete to determine the Internet’s greatest forum Mafia player. Each participating community democratically elects one person to represent them and become their “Champion”.
Season 1 ran in 2013-2014, while Season 2 and Season 3 ran in 2015 and 2016, respectively. As of Season 3, a total of 160 communities have been represented in the Mafia Championship, making it the largest cross-forum event on the Internet.
I hope that all this sounds very exciting to you guys
1. Do you accept the invite?
If your community wishes to participate, please confirm your participation to me before April 13 to ensure yourselves a spot. If you need more time than this to think about whether you wish to participate, let me know and I can extend the deadline.
If you agree to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is April 22.
The games will take place on Mafia Universe. If it’s okay, I can link directly to the general discussion thread regarding this topic on Mafia Universe.
Important notes
You may decide yourselves how you want to elect your representative, but we highly recommend some sort of democratic process (public nominations followed by a poll usually works out well).
In addition to electing a representative, you should also name an alternate who will be asked to step in if the first choice needs to back out.
Your representative should be prepared for having to read upwards of 500 posts per 24 hours during the early stages of the game. Additionally, there’s a requirement that each player must make at least 10 posts per Game Day. Only active players should apply/participate. I repeat: Your chosen player needs to be able to promise a good amount of activity on a daily basis.
Relevant only to communities that participated last season: Season 3 Finalists are not eligible to play again this season.
2. Season 4 Format
The tournament structure
135 communities will participate, each sending one representative.
9 Qualifying Games will be played consisting of 15 players each. I.e. every representative plays in one Qualifying Game. 1 player will advance directly to the Finale Game from each Qualifying Game. The players themselves vote post-game to determine who is deserving of advancement. I.e. 9 of the 15 finalists will be found this way.
A Jury consisting of finalists from Season 3 will along with me discuss and vote to determine a group of 30 wildcard players who will play in 2 Semi Final Wildcard Games. From each of these two games, three players will directly advance to the Finale Game.
The Finale Game is played. Once it has completed, the players vote to determine who shall hold the title of Season 4 Champion.
The setup
MOUNTAINOUS:
12 Vanilla Townies
3 Mafia Goons
We’re going back to basics for Season 4. Each season we’re changing it up, and for this season it’s finally time to play without any power roles or abilities at all. Pure mafia. You have only yourself and your reading/bluffing abilities to count on.
Relevant mechanics info
Day start.
Deadline Lynch w/ Option for Majority starting Day 2. I.e. when day timer runs out, person with most votes will be lynched. However, day can also be ended early (starting Day 2) if there is ever a majority of votes on one person.
If there is a tied lynch, one of the tied players will be randomly lynched.
No outside communication. I.e. you may not contact the other players outside of the thread (unless you are Mafia and wish to speak with your teammates).
Phase Lengths and Deadlines will be up to the players themselves (I’ll organize them into games with deadlines that suit their preferences).
Thread is locked during Night Phases.
3. Season 4 Timeline
The first Qualifying Game is currently set to start April 24th. Additional games will take place in the 1-3 months following. I will create a Doodle and find out the best times to start the various games so that preferably everyone gets to play during a time that suits them well.
Kind regards,
Thingyman
If you want to get in contact with me ASAP, you can find me on Skype (thingyman) or Discord (Thingyman#6075).
I think he has the best mixture of being able to adapt to any player list, quality of play, and able to handle quicker phases. Azreal did well last year from a personal quality of play standpoint, but there was some...personality friction that would be absent with Vaimes taking the spot. Vaimes fits seamlessly into any town as a valuable asset.
The downsides are his scum play is notoriously poor, and he may not be extremely likely to advance to the finals, because the things that makes him both enjoyable to play with, and good, aren't necessarily things that will be showcased in one specific game with people that don't know him.
I'm okay with my hat being tossed into the ring, since I'm graduating (!) in May. I'll be working full time right out the gate but can dedicate evenings to the game.
Also kinda unrelated, but I feel really bad for forgetting who quixotic is.
*nods* I'm pretty swamped. Might be interesting to try again some day now that I can recalibrate for just how many participation issues many of these players have, but not something I'm jumping up and down with eagerness to do right this moment. Count me as an alternate if we can't find someone who's excited to go.
I want to nominate tomsloger. I think his game has been really on in the ones both here and on MU, and I feel like of our community, he is the best equipped to handle the much more fast paced format at MU (even with players deciding, it would astonish me if the format was slower than 72/24).
tom and Vaimes are both fantastic representatives, and I would not be unhappy to see either of them represent us this year.
tom of course has the advantage of playing just as much on MU just as he has here but I've been impressed with how well Vaimes has been playing for the past couple of months.
EDIT: I would also like to nominate Silvercrys since he's an incredibly solid town player and has a very good grasp of mafia theory.
I would also be willing to replace in or be an alternative; I've played on MU a couple of times and had a blast.
I'd prefer to back tom or Vaimes, though I'm extremely flattered you think I'd hold up there Proph.
I have zero scum games and the (likely to be) faster phases are going to be a bit of a problem for me, I think.
2011: Best Mafia Performance (Individual) - Best Newcomer
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
I indeed don't have the time for fast-paced games. Unless in January-February when there's no cruises going on.
Thanks buddy. Go knock 'em dead, you got this.
That's a shame. You're among the most level-headed yet appropriately suspicious villagers I've ever come across.
This is something that I'd be interested in; what were your plans for it exactly?
The Wildcard game for the MU Championships concluded, and Newcomb/NotVoxxicus won the vote to advance from it to finals.
Reveal Thread
YAYAYAYAY GO NEWCOMB
I am just as excited for you as I was when you were voted into the Wildcard game! I hope you can annihilate yogsloth and Gorf.
Az if I roll mafia and Yog/Gorf roll town I will personally mislynch them, and then our revenge will be complete.
It promises to have a pretty high-quality level of play. 3 days/1 day phases for Days and Nights.
We need a couple more competent players to represent MTGS in this.
The important part is meeting new players and having fun.
Deadline for signing up ends in 48 hours.
If you can send PMs I'd hit up AskThePizzaGuy over there if you made an account but can't post, I don't know how often he checks over here.
{мы, тьма}
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
In line with the launching of a longer game platform on MU, and some of the ideas we've been tossing around here, I do have a game that's been in the works for quite some time that may be a good candidate to get us started...
Eve's Horizon. It was nearly the dirtiest bar on Echo Prime. The mingled dust and grit of more than a dozen neighboring worlds was ground deep into the cracks and crannies of the worn, gun-metal grey flooring. The glasses, mismatched, stacked in untidy heaps behind the counter, were smudged with oil, grease, and spit. Low, clouded light filtered through smoke and steam, obscuring as much as illuminating. It was not a bar where you went to sate a common appetite, or find a kindred soul. It was the kind of bar you went to, to get yourself hopelessly lost, time slipping through numbed fingers, numbed minds, like water spilling through the vacuum of blackest space. It was six streets from the starport terminal, and down nine levels from the surface plates and landing strips of the bustling, working city. Warmth seeped languorously from floor-plates dotted throughout the room, staving off the creeping chill that would sweep over the city from its outer edges to its core in less than three hours, if the city's reactors came undone. Light-years from humanity's distant origin, scattered pockets of life clung tenaciously to harbors of rock and metal and steel, balanced on the razor's edge separating dirt and the shadowed and star-strewn sky.
It was not the first time Marlow had darkened the doorway of Eve's Horizon. Once every few months, he would arrive, order a drink, meet briefly with hard-eyed men with slow stares, and a freighter would take on a load of cargo, which Earth Authority customs would pointedly ignore, as they had been well paid to do.
Dirk Marlow sat at his usual table, ordered his usual drink, and waited.
Someone else entered the bar - not a regular. Earth Authority uniform. Nobody quite met her eyes. Marlow stared into his drink.
She lowered her voice. "Look, Dirk, I can't go through with this one."
Marlow swirled the ice in his drink. "Having second thoughts about getting in bed with the rebellion?"
She gave him a level look. "No. And don't be an ********, Marlow. We've been through plenty, and I've put my ass on the line for you more times than I count. But you need to be straight with me, this time. I need to know what I'm getting into."
"It's just another shipment."
"It is NOT just another shipment. Don't pull that on me. Arms for the rebellion - I can live with that on my conscience. But what you're shipping - sophisticated genetic splicers, DNA readers, viral recoding cultures - I don't like what that looks like, Dirk."
"And what do you think that looks like?"
"A pile of a trillion dead bodies, hatching flies. That's what it looks like to me. You people always said this rebellion was for the common man. If you start-"
"Start what? Start killing off entire planets? Have the news reports say it was all just a freak virus? Yeah, it'd be just terrible if somebody got up to that." Marlow's fist tightened involuntarily. "You know, sometimes I don't know how you bring yourself to put on that uniform ever day and see yourself in the mirror."
"That's bull*****. You know what I've done for you. And it wasn't just for the money. And it wasn't your charming personality, either. You wanna talk about looking in the mirror? That's fresh, coming from someone who wants to remake himself into a mass murderer."
"You really think that's what I'm up to? Do you really know me that little?"
She paused. "It looks bad, Marlow. And I don't know all the people you work with. I can't just rubber stamp this and let it pass. We both know that things can't stay as they are. The people won't stand for being ordered how to live their lives from people who live a hundred thousand light years away, with no real say. The five party system is broken, and we all know it. But if it comes down to it, I don't what that kind of blood on my hands, and I hope you and your friends don't, either. So why don't you tell me what this is really about, if you can. Because if you can't, that cargo isn't going to move. Not unless you want to shoot your way out."
"I can't. It's too big, and I'm just an errand boy. They say jump, I jump. But I trust them, and so should you. We've never let you down."
She shook her head. "No. No, Marlow. You know more than you're letting on. You're not just some provincial chief. I've seen the way your men look at you, the way they jump. You know more about what's going on out there than even I do. There's more to you than that. Way more."
An edge crept into his voice. "And if I say no? You going to beat it out of me? Disappear me into some lightless vacuum capsule, fire me into the sun? He moved to get up.
"Marlow. Stop." She slammed her hand down over his. "Look, I know we've had our rough patches. But we've had some good times too, haven't we? I've watched your back this long. And I've been trusting you, for a long time. It's time for a little bit of that to come around. Make me believe, Marlow. That's all I ask." She let go of his hand.
His eyes bored a hole in the table. Then he let out a deep breath.
"The rebellion is finished, Kate. It's over. In the last week, they've wiped twelve more planets off the map. One in a thousand survives the virus, and those that survive that are rounded up into camps and disposed of. Children, too. No witnesses, no questions. Every time we win, they burn us to the ground. They will never, ever let us hold territory of our own. Not even if it means wiping a quarter of the human race from existence to stop us."
Hands shaking, he drained his glass to the last drop. She waited for him go on. "We can't let them do that, but we can't give up, either. So we have to look to the future. Lay the groundwork for a blow they'll never see coming, and never come back from. Someday, years from now, maybe decades, when their guard is down. They still think they're fighting flesh and blood. They think we're fighting for power. They don't realize that they're fighting an idea, and ideas are immortal. You plant the right ideas in someone's head, and you control them. That's what this is about. Not killing. Control."
He met her eyes. "That's all that I can say and more. Is it good enough?"
The corner of her mouth turned down as she thought. She let out a breath. "Good enough."
Disinheritance is a game for 16 players. Players will vote not only for who they believe the most likely mafia player is, but will also vote publicly for players who they wish to "empower", granting those players access to new, more powerful, and more exotic night abilities. This system will emphasize the importance of behavioral analysis and deception more than ever before, directly linking each groups talent in the game's fundamental core skills to the effectiveness of both groups during the night period. In addition, both groups will have unparalleled flexibility and variety in strategic options at their disposal during the night period, if they are able to coordinate their (and their opponents') empower votes effectively.
To facilitate this greater cooperation, strategy, and trickery, this game will feature universal private communication between all players, with the sole restriction being the inability to quote role PMs/mod PMs. To creative and cunning minds, this should present a tremendous opportunity to exploit.
In addition, the game offers the capacity for an unlimited number of additional, non-voting player slots. These players will be assigned alignments, be able to freely comment on the game within a separate, publicly visible game thread, will share in the unlimited private communication privileges, and will be capable of affecting the game not only through contributing analysis, advice, and disinformation, but also in other, unexpected ways. Non-voting players slots may not affect the game with any abilities, nor do they count as hidden players or hydra accounts, but both non-voting and voting player slots should be advised that due to mechanics never before seen here or on any other forum, the alignment of non-voting players may become somewhat relevant during the course of the game...
Thanks to Heroes of the Plane Studios for the sigpic.
Spider-Man Mafia 3 (Off-Site: NGA)
Metroid Mafia (Off-Site: Mafia Universe)
I can team up with you, sure~
Thanks to Heroes of the Plane Studios for the sigpic.
Spider-Man Mafia 3 (Off-Site: NGA)
Metroid Mafia (Off-Site: Mafia Universe)
And nothing.
Help?
Thanks to Heroes of the Plane Studios for the sigpic.
Spider-Man Mafia 3 (Off-Site: NGA)
Metroid Mafia (Off-Site: Mafia Universe)
Thanks to Heroes of the Plane Studios for the sigpic.
Spider-Man Mafia 3 (Off-Site: NGA)
Metroid Mafia (Off-Site: Mafia Universe)
Thanks to Heroes of the Plane Studios for the sigpic.
Spider-Man Mafia 3 (Off-Site: NGA)
Metroid Mafia (Off-Site: Mafia Universe)
INVITATION TO THE MAFIA CHAMPIONSHIP (SEASON 4)
Hello everyone!
I would very much like to invite your community to take part in Season 4 of the Mafia Championship.
The Mafia Championship is an annual online tournament series that pits representatives from various forum Mafia (aka Werewolf) communities against one another as they compete to determine the Internet’s greatest forum Mafia player. Each participating community democratically elects one person to represent them and become their “Champion”.
Season 1 ran in 2013-2014, while Season 2 and Season 3 ran in 2015 and 2016, respectively. As of Season 3, a total of 160 communities have been represented in the Mafia Championship, making it the largest cross-forum event on the Internet.
I hope that all this sounds very exciting to you guys
1. Do you accept the invite?
If your community wishes to participate, please confirm your participation to me before April 13 to ensure yourselves a spot. If you need more time than this to think about whether you wish to participate, let me know and I can extend the deadline.
If you agree to participate, the deadline for selecting your representative is April 22.
The games will take place on Mafia Universe. If it’s okay, I can link directly to the general discussion thread regarding this topic on Mafia Universe.
Important notes
2. Season 4 Format
The tournament structure
The setup
MOUNTAINOUS:
12 Vanilla Townies
3 Mafia Goons
We’re going back to basics for Season 4. Each season we’re changing it up, and for this season it’s finally time to play without any power roles or abilities at all. Pure mafia. You have only yourself and your reading/bluffing abilities to count on.
Relevant mechanics info
3. Season 4 Timeline
The first Qualifying Game is currently set to start April 24th. Additional games will take place in the 1-3 months following. I will create a Doodle and find out the best times to start the various games so that preferably everyone gets to play during a time that suits them well.
Kind regards,
Thingyman
If you want to get in contact with me ASAP, you can find me on Skype (thingyman) or Discord (Thingyman#6075).
I think he has the best mixture of being able to adapt to any player list, quality of play, and able to handle quicker phases. Azreal did well last year from a personal quality of play standpoint, but there was some...personality friction that would be absent with Vaimes taking the spot. Vaimes fits seamlessly into any town as a valuable asset.
The downsides are his scum play is notoriously poor, and he may not be extremely likely to advance to the finals, because the things that makes him both enjoyable to play with, and good, aren't necessarily things that will be showcased in one specific game with people that don't know him.
I think his scumplay is only really "poor" in a very meta-rich environment; think he'd have a reasonable shot as mafia in this type of game.
Kinda feel you on the last bit, but I think that's not a reason for him to not do it.
I'm okay with my hat being tossed into the ring, since I'm graduating (!) in May. I'll be working full time right out the gate but can dedicate evenings to the game.
Also kinda unrelated, but I feel really bad for forgetting who quixotic is.
The GJ way path to no lynching:
tom of course has the advantage of playing just as much on MU just as he has here but I've been impressed with how well Vaimes has been playing for the past couple of months.
EDIT: I would also like to nominate Silvercrys since he's an incredibly solid town player and has a very good grasp of mafia theory.
I would also be willing to replace in or be an alternative; I've played on MU a couple of times and had a blast.
I have zero scum games and the (likely to be) faster phases are going to be a bit of a problem for me, I think.
Assumption is we should just put the three of them up to a vote.
VAIMES VAIMES VAIMES VAIMES
I thought we banished you off to the shadow realm?
You Can Never Banish Your Own Shadow
No promises.
Vote Vaimes
Vote tom
{мы, тьма}
2012: Best (False?) Role Claim - Worst Town Performance (Group) - Best Mafia Performance (Group) - Best SK Performance - Best Overall Player
2013: Best Non-SK Neutral Performance
2014: Best Town Performance (Individual) - Best Town Performance (Group) - Most Interesting Role - Best Game - Best Overall Player
2015: Worst Mafia Performance (Group) - Best Read
2016: Best Town Performance (Group) - Best Town Player - Best Overall Player
I'll still love you Vaimes.
FoS: tomsloger
Mafia Stats 2016-2017:
Town: 1-0 | Scum: 2-0 | Neutral: 1-1