Post by Golgari_Spy on Oct 11, 2015 3:48:10 GMT
let's look over the sabotages and understand how useful they actually are within the context of the game
Auction 1.1 - A Future Escape
Auction 1.2 - The Alphabet Beckons
Auction 1.3 - No Pronouns, Lots of Problems
Auction 1.4 - What a Joke!
These auctions will be offered throughout Day 1 unless they somehow end the Day before I can unleash more evil...
Auction 1.5 - Share a Vote
Auction 1.6 - Triplicate Switch
How would you handle them? (Well, except the first, that's one's easy.)
auction 1.1 is actually incredibly valuable in scum hands, because it's an easy way for scum to look town by nullifying a sabotage, it did not turn out that way because someone tried to save it and died (which is appropriately cutthroat)
auction 1.2 and 1.3 are the linguistic sabotages, 1.2 is relatively harmless but 1.3 is rather difficult because it is very difficult to avoid pronouns given how commonplace they are
auction 1.4 is really a trap sabotage, because the joke phase is when the mafia are at their most vulnerable, and it happened to be the case that kairyu won and no one made notice of that (i would have been wary of the doc bid as well)
auction 1.5 does two things: change the lynch threshold from 5 to 4, and require you to have two scum reads to pair together, if you don't have the reads then you probably don't want to bid on it, while mafia will actually want to bid on it because it gives them more power
auction 1.6 is self-explanatory
Auction 2.1 - Filter Yourself, Please
Auction 2.2 - One Vote, One Responsibility
These auctions will be offered throughout Day 2 unless they somehow end the Day before I can unleash more evil...
Auction 2.3 - How Tweet
Auction 2.4 - The Best Honeymoon
How would you handle them and how much would you bid on them?
auction 2.1 is not bad, but it requires attention to detail, which seemed to be a general problem this game
auction 2.2 on the other hand is a real burden, in spite of how it actually worked out in that it effectively did nothing (probably means i should have been fining earlier for not voting) being unable to change a vote is restrictive
auction 2.3 is the worst of the linguistic sabotages, because 140 characters give you 20 words, doc's choice was fine but their flaw was really not voting (i'm officially making the third law of mafia "people will wait until the last moment to vote" because it's true)
auction 2.4 was misunderstood, moxen indicating that the point was to guess the mafia should have been a tell because the optimal use was to use it to protect the strongest town reads, the worst part was that lhopitalified ended up being lynched so the sabotage was an easy workaround even without the mafia knowing
Welcome to Cutthroat Mafia, contestants! I bet you are just curious what will be first. Let's see what's coming up!
*knocks on dumbwaiter*
Ooh, it's a coupon to nullify one future sabotage! I know, it's not quite what you expected, but you guys are bidding anyways, so get to work. Who wants to give me $500 for a glorified Get Out of Jail Free card?
*knocks on dumbwaiter*
Ooh, it's a coupon to nullify one future sabotage! I know, it's not quite what you expected, but you guys are bidding anyways, so get to work. Who wants to give me $500 for a glorified Get Out of Jail Free card?
Hope you didn't expect all the auctions to be that nice, because they won't. I wonder what's next?
*knocks on dumbwaiter*
A bowl of soup? With letters? Tasty! Win this auction and you can force one player to include every letter of the alphabet in each post for today's game Day, with single letter words not counting toward this requirement. Alphabetcha bidding on this!
*knocks on dumbwaiter*
A bowl of soup? With letters? Tasty! Win this auction and you can force one player to include every letter of the alphabet in each post for today's game Day, with single letter words not counting toward this requirement. Alphabetcha bidding on this!
Ooh, I can't wait to see what's next?
*knocks on dumbwaiter*
A can of whole chicken? That's too precious to waste here, so let's see what is really next...
*knocks on dumbwaiter again*
Ooh, my book of sabotages! That's better! Let's see what idea I had in the works... a page with parts of speech, and the beloved pronouns are conveniently crossed out. Now what evil idea could that inspire? I know! Win this auction and you can force one player to post without pronouns for Day 1. Sounds easy, but trust me it's not. Who wants to give me $500 to not find out themselves?
*knocks on dumbwaiter*
A can of whole chicken? That's too precious to waste here, so let's see what is really next...
*knocks on dumbwaiter again*
Ooh, my book of sabotages! That's better! Let's see what idea I had in the works... a page with parts of speech, and the beloved pronouns are conveniently crossed out. Now what evil idea could that inspire? I know! Win this auction and you can force one player to post without pronouns for Day 1. Sounds easy, but trust me it's not. Who wants to give me $500 to not find out themselves?
One last auction before I let you enjoy your fun, and you'll laugh at this one.
Actually, you won't, unless you win this, as the winner will have the exclusive right to make jokes during Day 1. Hilarious, I know. But not as hilarious as it will be if you don't win this auction!
Actually, you won't, unless you win this, as the winner will have the exclusive right to make jokes during Day 1. Hilarious, I know. But not as hilarious as it will be if you don't win this auction!
Auction 1.5 - Share a Vote
Contestants! I have something special! In honor of the marriage votes I know some of you took, I decided that I just had to do this, because as you may remember, "until death do us part" is a rather important part of wedding vows. (Well, until divorce became a thing, but I'm not letting historical accuracy stop me.) Win this auction and you can force two other players to share a vote for the rest of the Day! Just think, they will have to work together like a married couple! Who wants to give me $500 to stay single?
I know some of you must be miserable right now, and you have no one to blame but yourselves for being cheap. Well, since I'm so kind, I decided to give some of you a second chance. And if you're lucky enough to have not suffered a previous fate, well you can pay for some more amusement. If you win this auction, you can choose three players (including yourself) and redistribute their current situations among them such that each of them does not have their current restrictions! Do I even need to ask who wants to bid $500? Too bad, I asked anyways!
auction 1.1 is actually incredibly valuable in scum hands, because it's an easy way for scum to look town by nullifying a sabotage, it did not turn out that way because someone tried to save it and died (which is appropriately cutthroat)
auction 1.2 and 1.3 are the linguistic sabotages, 1.2 is relatively harmless but 1.3 is rather difficult because it is very difficult to avoid pronouns given how commonplace they are
auction 1.4 is really a trap sabotage, because the joke phase is when the mafia are at their most vulnerable, and it happened to be the case that kairyu won and no one made notice of that (i would have been wary of the doc bid as well)
auction 1.5 does two things: change the lynch threshold from 5 to 4, and require you to have two scum reads to pair together, if you don't have the reads then you probably don't want to bid on it, while mafia will actually want to bid on it because it gives them more power
auction 1.6 is self-explanatory
We're now a few players shorter, but that just means more fun for everyone who remains!
*knocks on dumbwaiter*
Seems like a machine that makes lots of beeping noises. Since we do try to be family friendly here (and fail, because let's be honest, have you ever met a chef that didn't swear?), that can only mean one thing... Win this auction, and you have the exclusive right to obscenities, vulgarities, and insults for the entire game Day! If you don't try to clean out some of your cash, you might just be cleaning up your image!
*knocks on dumbwaiter*
Seems like a machine that makes lots of beeping noises. Since we do try to be family friendly here (and fail, because let's be honest, have you ever met a chef that didn't swear?), that can only mean one thing... Win this auction, and you have the exclusive right to obscenities, vulgarities, and insults for the entire game Day! If you don't try to clean out some of your cash, you might just be cleaning up your image!
What could be next?
*knocks on dumbwaiter*
It's a special plaque, and it says "one vote" on it. That's right, if you win this auction, you can choose one player and award that player this special plaque that limits that player to voting only once the entire Day! And once that players votes, that player can't even unvote! Isn't that terrible? If you like voting, then you should vote with some of that wonderful cash!
*knocks on dumbwaiter*
It's a special plaque, and it says "one vote" on it. That's right, if you win this auction, you can choose one player and award that player this special plaque that limits that player to voting only once the entire Day! And once that players votes, that player can't even unvote! Isn't that terrible? If you like voting, then you should vote with some of that wonderful cash!
Auction 2.3 - How Tweet
Inspired by social media and its prevalence throughout society, I know exactly what to offer here. Win this auction and you can force one player to post the rest of the game Day only in posts with 140 characters or less (spaces included), and without making consecutive posts, because that's too easy. If you don't bid, you won't get this tweet deal!
Remember that married couple from earlier? Well, now it's honeymoon time, and to celebrate, I have a special auction! Win this auction and you can choose two players (which can include yourself) and those players will leave our wonderful game for a whole Night and won't be revealed, because we're not rude, just sadistic and cruel. (Well, I'm rude, because I will know, but it's not like I'm going to do too much knowing.) Who wants to give me $500 for this special offer?
auction 2.1 is not bad, but it requires attention to detail, which seemed to be a general problem this game
auction 2.2 on the other hand is a real burden, in spite of how it actually worked out in that it effectively did nothing (probably means i should have been fining earlier for not voting) being unable to change a vote is restrictive
auction 2.3 is the worst of the linguistic sabotages, because 140 characters give you 20 words, doc's choice was fine but their flaw was really not voting (i'm officially making the third law of mafia "people will wait until the last moment to vote" because it's true)
auction 2.4 was misunderstood, moxen indicating that the point was to guess the mafia should have been a tell because the optimal use was to use it to protect the strongest town reads, the worst part was that lhopitalified ended up being lynched so the sabotage was an easy workaround even without the mafia knowing