Post by Ellis on May 17, 2009 11:50:38 GMT -5
This is David L, now alias Ellis, checking in.
My plan is quite simply to play the opposite as I always have so far. I'm going to be completely and utterly useless to citizen and spy alike, at least at the start. I'm going to ration out my IM conversations so that I don't speak to too many people and look like a threat, communicate more via PM than IM, and try and speak to people as little as possible. Then I'm going to figure out who the spies are, solely from their burg posts (since I won't be trying to talk to them), buddy up to them a bit, and make them think I'm on their side. Finally, I'll try and encourage the strongest citizens to talk to one another and get the spies out - play the arbitration role rather than the exile-leader for once.
I'm not looking for brownie points here. I don't want to massage my ego or take personal responsibility for every spy who gets exiled (especially given the fact that the only one I think I had any responsibility for whatsoever as a citizen was Gigi, way back in Spies 1). I'm not looking for kudos, and I'm not interested in the fate of my team this time. I just want to win.
A little history is needed here. But don't worry, this should be the last time I refer to previous Spies games. I'm going to put those out of mind and concentrate on the "now".
Despite what people have said about Tyson, my spy character from Spies 2, not being a team player (some of which is fair, some of which is not), I've almost always been a team player in Spies, to the extent that in Spies 1 I actively sacrificed myself in order to keep the players I thought were investigators in the game. That helped the citizens win. Then, in Spies 4, I put myself on the block to save Abrams, a citizen who subsequently idled out two thirds of the way through the game. Somehow I don't think the sacrifice was worth it.
Bottom line: I'm in this one for myself only, and paradoxically I don't want to play with "ego". I don't want to be the guy everyone says is single-handedly responsible for taking out the spies. I want to be the guy who gets through unnoticed until the end, where he votes for the last spy to win.
I've just come off my biggest win ever in a mafia game, so I'm quietly confident. Let's see if I can translate that into results.
A few notes.
First, I think it's very likely that more than one of the roles suggested in the "choose your own role" contest will be used.
Secondly, I'd love a newbie to get the "winning" role, but I suspect it's going to be the machine operator, and there's no way that that's a newbie role. I hope there'll be lots of new spies though. Perhaps the most successful game yet (Spies 5) was also the one with the most newbie spies in it.
Thirdly, I was wondering how Sam would divide the players up this time. The "team" idea might extend something like this: we start with three teams, then when a certain number of exiles (two or three) have gone past we go down to two teams, and then the final twelve or so make up just one regular mafia game team.
I have soooo much more to come, but this will do for now.
Ellis out.
My plan is quite simply to play the opposite as I always have so far. I'm going to be completely and utterly useless to citizen and spy alike, at least at the start. I'm going to ration out my IM conversations so that I don't speak to too many people and look like a threat, communicate more via PM than IM, and try and speak to people as little as possible. Then I'm going to figure out who the spies are, solely from their burg posts (since I won't be trying to talk to them), buddy up to them a bit, and make them think I'm on their side. Finally, I'll try and encourage the strongest citizens to talk to one another and get the spies out - play the arbitration role rather than the exile-leader for once.
I'm not looking for brownie points here. I don't want to massage my ego or take personal responsibility for every spy who gets exiled (especially given the fact that the only one I think I had any responsibility for whatsoever as a citizen was Gigi, way back in Spies 1). I'm not looking for kudos, and I'm not interested in the fate of my team this time. I just want to win.
A little history is needed here. But don't worry, this should be the last time I refer to previous Spies games. I'm going to put those out of mind and concentrate on the "now".
Despite what people have said about Tyson, my spy character from Spies 2, not being a team player (some of which is fair, some of which is not), I've almost always been a team player in Spies, to the extent that in Spies 1 I actively sacrificed myself in order to keep the players I thought were investigators in the game. That helped the citizens win. Then, in Spies 4, I put myself on the block to save Abrams, a citizen who subsequently idled out two thirds of the way through the game. Somehow I don't think the sacrifice was worth it.
Bottom line: I'm in this one for myself only, and paradoxically I don't want to play with "ego". I don't want to be the guy everyone says is single-handedly responsible for taking out the spies. I want to be the guy who gets through unnoticed until the end, where he votes for the last spy to win.
I've just come off my biggest win ever in a mafia game, so I'm quietly confident. Let's see if I can translate that into results.
A few notes.
First, I think it's very likely that more than one of the roles suggested in the "choose your own role" contest will be used.
Secondly, I'd love a newbie to get the "winning" role, but I suspect it's going to be the machine operator, and there's no way that that's a newbie role. I hope there'll be lots of new spies though. Perhaps the most successful game yet (Spies 5) was also the one with the most newbie spies in it.
Thirdly, I was wondering how Sam would divide the players up this time. The "team" idea might extend something like this: we start with three teams, then when a certain number of exiles (two or three) have gone past we go down to two teams, and then the final twelve or so make up just one regular mafia game team.
I have soooo much more to come, but this will do for now.
Ellis out.
