Werewolf: Hunt for Necromancers - GAME OVER! Post #3469

[Abe Sargent]

Note, Barkeep, that I would have role revealed if they turned on you and moved to lynch you, because I could be 100% confirmed by path and then you could be 100% confirmed by me.


-Anxiety

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by hoopsguy

Here is a question, especially for the necros but input wanted from anyone:

I had initially tried to set up the percentages for the search/kill decision to be a pretty hard one - that each was just about as good an option. Given that every one of the necros opted to search on Night 1 and all but one searched on nights 2 and 3, it seems like I probably needed to make the Kill option a little more attractive.

What percentages for the kill would have made the option of solo kill an equally good option? Or other conditions surrounding the kill? If someone decides to run a game with a similar mechanic, I would love for them to have some of the feedback from this game on these conditions.

The first 2-3 days I wasn't worried about killing. Usually in most cases the good guys do a good enough job for you. I was mainly looking to try to set up communications and develop some plan/strategy and more importantly try to find out who not to go after. It would have to have been pretty much a better chance of not killing someone on my team to have done that option I think.

[st.cronin]

Originally Posted by hoopsguy

Here is a question, especially for the necros but input wanted from anyone:

I had initially tried to set up the percentages for the search/kill decision to be a pretty hard one - that each was just about as good an option. Given that every one of the necros opted to search on Night 1 and all but one searched on nights 2 and 3, it seems like I probably needed to make the Kill option a little more attractive.

What percentages for the kill would have made the option of solo kill an equally good option? Or other conditions surrounding the kill? If someone decides to run a game with a similar mechanic, I would love for them to have some of the feedback from this game on these conditions.

I thought the balance was pretty good. I would have gone scan, kill, scan, kill, until I found a friend.

[Barkeep49]

Well I, personally, think the percentages, if anything, were already favorable for the necros. As it stood there was, on night 1, a 25% chance of randomly choosing another necro. Thus there was a 75% chance of choosing a human. Thus, if a necro had decided to go for a kill, the end results would look like this:
37.5% chance of killing a villager (75% chance of finding a villager; 50/50 chance of killing that villager)
37.5% chance of failing to kill a villager (75% chance of finding a villager; 50/50 chance of killing that villager)
18.75% chance of finding a necro and meeting each other
(25% chance of finding a necro, 75% chance that they recognize each other)
3.125% chance of finding a necro, attacking them, failing to kill them, but having the other person know that the person who attacked them was a necro, allowing them to connect the next night (25% chance of finding a necro, 25% chance of not realizing they were a necro, 50% chance of failing to kill them)
3.125% chance of killing a necro

It seems to me that the risk of killing a necro is low enough, and since only 3.125% points of finding another necro are sacrificed, with the aditional 37.5% chance of killing a villager, that killing every night instead of searching is the way to go in the current rule set.

[Fouts]

Great game, hoops. The prophecy role reminded me of the creature/wizard game where BrianD was the invulnerable wizard.

FWIW, I had no idea that Lathum was the prophecy. By reading the rules, it seemed obvious to me that only a good guy could summon an avatar. If Lathum had told me he was favored by the gods, I wouldn't have voted for myself and stayed around a couple more days. I'm sure he would rather keep favor of the gods, than have me around stirring up trouble. Looks like you guys had the right idea going after him.

Still sucks to be told you are in the game and log in to find 8 votes against you before you say anything. People like to dogpile even without a good reason.

After the game, I always find out that you guys are a lot better players than I give you credit for during the game. Well done.

[Barkeep49]

Fouts: You did an amazing job coming in. Hats off to you. I mean if you hadn't voted for yourself you'd have effectively closed an 8 vote deficit. Just a great job of persuasion.

[Fouts]

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

Fouts: You did an amazing job coming in. Hats off to you. I mean if you hadn't voted for yourself you'd have effectively closed an 8 vote deficit. Just a great job of persuasion.

Thanks, although I won't take credit for persuading people about Lathum. You guys had it right about him. If I weren't limited to a 3 day life, I wouldn't have voted for myself. I didn't see myself as a player, but more as a pawn for the good guys (including Lathum at the time).

[saldana]

Originally Posted by path12

Oh, man. I'm already dead for Pharaoh's sake! What'd I do.....

you didnt do anything, hoops forgot a small detail that would have saved your life....when i found out i was diseased, i asked him exactly when i would die, and if i would have enough time to craft another scarab. he told me i would die at the end of day 7, and since crafting was my day action, i would be able to make one. i asked what would happen to it if i made it, and he said it would pass to the pharaoh when i died....so, i made a scarab knowing i would be dead at the end of the day and you would get it with my possessions when i died.

The problem was, he forgot to tell you that I had it and it was now yours, and you got killed that night....so you could possibly have used it right away and not gotten whacked.

[Abe Sargent]

Ouch.

[path12]

Originally Posted by saldana

so, i made a scarab knowing i would be dead at the end of the day and you would get it with my possessions when i died.

The problem was, he forgot to tell you that I had it and it was now yours, and you got killed that night....so you could possibly have used it right away and not gotten whacked.

I would have used it, too. Wonder if I had still been alive if Anxiety would have protected me last night.......

[hoopsguy]

Yep, I didn't realize I had missed it until results were already posted. Sorry to all parties involved for the screw-up.

[Vince]

Anxiety, I hope you don't think I'm accusing you of anything with my previous post (about how we win if you don't do what you did)...that's not it at all. Just an interesting observation.

Alan -- I'm curious if on/around day 2 you had suspicions of bulletsponge being a necromancer. I was nearly certain for the majority of that day that your use of the word 'bulletproof' was intentional.

The more I think about it, the more I like the game. Though at first blush I thought Lathum was too powerful, he did have a LOT of ground to make up. My men of the match:

Honorable Mention: Dubb -- He was right on the money, played true to his role, and did everything he could to help out the good guys from beginning to end.

Third Star: Fouts -- Coming into a game that was already three days and over a thousand posts old, Fouts had 8 votes against him before he made a single post. He did a fantastic job of playing his role to the hilt, and nearly pulled off the comeback of the century.

Second Star: Chubby -- This was seriously your first game? My lord. He was not only the baddest of the bad guys (well, the KNOWN bad guys), but he had nary a whit of real suspicion until day four or five, and there really was no one who seriously thought he was the head necromancer until AFTER it was revealed by hoopsguy. Phenomenal first effort.

First Star: Lathum -- What can I say that hasn't been said already? He was able to play both sides of against each other, garnering the trust of the good guys, while eliminating the bad guys fast enough so that they couldn't eliminate him. Truly an epic performance.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Vince

Anxiety, I hope you don't think I'm accusing you of anything with my previous post (about how we win if you don't do what you did)...that's not it at all. Just an interesting observation.

Alan -- I'm curious if on/around day 2 you had suspicions of bulletsponge being a necromancer. I was nearly certain for the majority of that day that your use of the word 'bulletproof' was intentional.

The more I think about it, the more I like the game. Though at first blush I thought Lathum was too powerful, he did have a LOT of ground to make up. My men of the match:

Honorable Mention: Dubb -- He was right on the money, played true to his role, and did everything he could to help out the good guys from beginning to end.

Third Star: Fouts -- Coming into a game that was already three days and over a thousand posts old, Fouts had 8 votes against him before he made a single post. He did a fantastic job of playing his role to the hilt, and nearly pulled off the comeback of the century.

Second Star: Chubby -- This was seriously your first game? My lord. He was not only the baddest of the bad guys (well, the KNOWN bad guys), but he had nary a whit of real suspicion until day four or five, and there really was no one who seriously thought he was the head necromancer until AFTER it was revealed by hoopsguy. Phenomenal first effort.

First Star: Lathum -- What can I say that hasn't been said already? He was able to play both sides of against each other, garnering the trust of the good guys, while eliminating the bad guys fast enough so that they couldn't eliminate him. Truly an epic performance.

not intentional at all. First real feels for bullet that I had was when I first started accusing him of being an inconsistant new player (ie: not knowing basic game rules but knowing complex bad guy strategies)

[hoopsguy]

In addition to the guys mentioned by Vince, I also thought that Tyrith played a very good game as an ordinary villager. He was also right on the money with his play the whole way through despite not having any role knowledge to help him out.

[st.cronin]

I agree about Tyrith. He's quickly become one of the top ww players on this board.

[path12]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

I agree about Tyrith. He's quickly become one of the top ww players on this board.

Couldn't agree more.

[Abe Sargent]

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