Mafia IX: Triumph of the Mafia [Concluded]

**Renata** · 03-24-2010, 14:20

Who is under threat of WOG, GH?

**woad&fangs** · 03-24-2010, 14:40

vote: Ibn Khaldun He who points first likely did it. However, I'm not ruling out pizza as a suspect for later rounds. I could easily see him coming up with something like that.

**Askthepizzaguy** · 03-25-2010, 03:56

Originally Posted by woad&fangs

vote: Ibn Khaldun He who points first likely did it. However, I'm not ruling out pizza as a suspect for later rounds. I could easily see him coming up with something like that.

This is the problem with that strategy. How many people immediately suspected me? How much attention did it focus on me? All that time wasted talking about me, and not as much attention on others. That's not what I wish to accomplish. And, because it's something "I would do", people will eventually get antsy and lynch me for it anyway, even if it didn't happen this round. It's completely effective at taking me out. And, since it is a lynch, my analysis post-death becomes tainted with the "he could be mafia" disease. No, it is a bad move. I'm aware this is a WIFOM defense to WIFOM, but I tend to not make bad moves. I take risky moves, but this isn't risky, it's just bad.

The riskiest move I ever made was voting for myself as mafia, and for a while it worked. People voted for me. That is a bad move. I had to unvote myself to make any headway, and that was back when I was voting for myself constantly to get people off of my case. That part of it worked, people stopped first-round voting me for a while. But it didn't really help me that round, I nearly died. I'm not going to put pizza references in, because it will get me killed faster than if I didn't do it, and then it will discredit me so I can't help my partner. That's the main reason why I wouldn't do it, it is a team game. I took a lot of flak any time I voted for myself or my partner too. Not everyone is as risky/gambit-prone as me.

You'll find when I am making safe moves, I'm mafia. I take far fewer risks. I've also noticed I tend to get professorial about how townies should behave. I'm too self-conscious about acting townie. See: Swords and D20's 3 for a recent example.