An artist's depiction of an Extended Unit Death
I had some notes about the game in general, but I've already complained to the people that would want to hear it.
I would want to hear it.
I want to hear your notes too Roy.
Raccoon's hit on one of my points already, but here you go:
1) Inferno had been adapting the game based on suggestions from players after roles had been given. This is not what a host should do, especially since the suggestions greatly influenced the game (i.e., Inferno was changing the outcome of the game).
2) Inferno was talking about the game outside of hosting it (in the Shoutbox, to other players, etc.). It got to the point where I could confirm townies by what he was saying (this happened with Riney, who I lynched anyway because it felt dishonest to let that confirmation influence my strategy). I know this is a hard thing to do, especially when you're facing frustrations like inactive players and poor decisions from a given side, but it's still a necessity to prevent behavioral analysis on the host.
3) Related to #1, Inferno had been adapting the game based on factors he didn't consider until the game was in progress. The example I have is Broadcast, which the mafia used to "incriminate" me, but I shrugged off with the mention that there are no clues in this game. Inferno likely took this from the Broadcaster role, which in the past was made clear to be a broadcast. Inferno made a post to try to make it sound as though he was allowed to hint at these things, and later even threw in that Broadcast can change the game list colors to make it more legitimate. He basically threw in a useless ability, realized it was useless, and then changed it on-the-fly to do something different (make it look like part of his post instead of a broadcasted message, changing the colors in the player list, etc.).
4) Allowing Aristocrat to suicide. I hope I needn't explain why a host shouldn't be doing things that aren't mentioned in the parameters of the game.
Overall, I enjoyed the game much more when I wasn't aware of the issues I had with the hosting, but I wouldn't say Inferno is a bad host. If anyone reading this is planning on hosting a game sometime, though, I'd suggest avoiding these issues.
As far as the players go:
1) Inactivity is always a problem. If you didn't miss submitting a night action or a voting session, give yourself a pat on the back because you are an awesome player.
2) TiKels was the worst townie, but only because he agreed to something that forced him to play as such. I would say I don't blame him, but after getting most of the details, that would be a lie.
3) When it was "revealed" that I was mafia, one of two things should have happened. The first would be that everyone reveals their roles, since the mafia already have them, so you'd only be hurting the town by not sharing. The only reason not to do this is if you still believed I was town-aligned, in which case, you should have been speaking out on it and suspecting the players that disagreed. Since neither of these happened, the town was in a weird state where they acted as though I was mafia-aligned and town-aligned simultaneously in the worst combination for their team. For example, Olimar said he trusted Azrael because of a PM I sent saying I had evidence suggesting he was town-aligned (yes, that full-stop was a typo, by the way), but then voted on the Mouse bandwagon because of the argument that it was me trying to protect a mafia member.
We listen to Roy (who is logically mafia) who is stating that the beguiler has powers to actually force Inferno to say certain things in his posts (I don't believe he ever even specifically said this) thus declaring his innocence as the beguiler probably forced Inferno to incriminate him.
I did state this in the Shoutbox, and perhaps I should have said so in a post that day as well (I had no idea I would die that day, so I thought I had time to build my case while the mafia reveal themselves via advocacy of the incorrect deduction). I correctly asserted the issue with Broadcast (as mentioned above) that was taking place, though that put me in the state of behaviorally analyzing the host (which is not at all how I want to play this game).
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 29 2012, 10:57 pm by Roy.