MTG Salvation

There were plenty of questions asked, and your answers were simply not satisfactory.

There is a difference between being passive and being submissive. If it weren't for Bur in Drunk Trackers, you might have been the lynch there as well. Even if I was still an unknown quanity to you, you weren't doing anything to solve the game. Even in hindsight, I am having a hard time seeing where I could have gone wrong. Xyre played really well, and too many townies just didn't do anything at all. Passive play in this type of game will result in the above scenario time and time again. Xyre's one advantage was that by himself, he didn't have to worry about scummates implicating him, he just had to be less scummy than three other players. He succeeded in flying colors.

I am unsure of things half the time as well. My advice would be to play a more active role in games. Even if you are uncomfortable, try to figure the game out and try to make your towniness show. If people are reading you as town, at the worse, it helps narrow down who are actually the bad guys.

gg Xyre, you disgusting people-eater, you

also go me for predicting the Night 1 kill!

was fun, all <3

Fair enough, I appreciate the critique and advice. I hope you haven't tired of me too much, one way or another you and I have played quite a bit the past couple games together. I have greatly enjoyed my return to Mafia as well, though I probably take things too much to heart (I lost a good bit of sleep waiting for Megs' vote at the end of Drunk Trackers).

I will do my best to not lose any more games for the town, hopefully I can succeed at that!

Damn, you guys are making me want to play again.

ACtually, one question:

@Xyre: Why did you claim ultimate back-up with three roles revealed? I might have just dunked Anak after dota, and I could see if you were maybe just next leveling us, but that claim actually made me second guessing my reads and in the end, I figured you wouldn't boldly claim a 4th role, but it did make me (and dota) think twice about it...

Pretty much because (a) I wanted a mass-claim just in case there was another role floating around that could screw me, (b) I wanted to go first to earn that subliminal "he's taking a risk, ergo not SK" cred, and (c) I trusted Iso's provided false claim enough to believe the setup could support a fourth minor power role. That, and (d) the perpetual fear that vanilla claims will be disbelieved.

But I definitely am not clever enough to design a claim with the full intention of it being "not something Xyre would do".

Fair enough I suppose. I guess what I am saying is it felt like an unnecessary risk that put the stronger town reads for you over Anak into more of a toss-up. A vanilla claim from you would have likely just ended in Anak dying much sooner.