Zack Mafia IV: Birthday Bash [GAME THREAD]

[Zack]

AWARDS WHEN!?

I don't know, honestly. It'll take a while.

 

[Takhisis]

AWARDS WHEN!?

I don't know, honestly. It'll take a while.

NO AWARD FoR YOU.

 

[JohannaK]

Hah, at least I'm taking both ATPG Awards home, take that!

 

[Zack]

FYI - for the purposes of the survival award, resurrected players do not count as being alive after their first death.

 

[choxorn]

You don't find Xenoneb's communist scanning ability amusing, even though the communists posed exactly the same amount of threat to the Nazis as any random three vanilla townies?

At least Xenoneb's ability wasn't totally useless, and if they decided to kill the Communists they found, killing a mason is slightly better than killing a vanilla townie.

 

[Zack]

Normally I'd agree, but the Communists didn't act as masons at all. Did you see their QuickTopic?

 

[choxorn]

Good point.

I also lol'ed at the comment about bussing. Given how effectively I used that tactic over the past two years, I guess I was ahead of the curve.

Also, I was bussing my mafia partners before it was cool.

 

[Buddhafish]

Good thoughts. Thanks for the compliment.

I had everything all carefully planned out. I had my defenses in order, and I had all of my stories in order to claim town. I would like to thank Mergle for buying all of that, making my case for me being town.

ML was a bit inactive late. Ninja was active all game, but we didn't understand what the sores would do. But overall we were a good team.


Thanks for the game Zack! I can wait for Stairway to Heaven 2!

 

[Buddhafish]

Also, ironically, if you read the horseman QT, Ninja's first three people that he said were "scummy" were three Nazis:

spaceman98, topsecret, Takhisis. Talk about a good scumdar.

 

[topsecret]

Also, ironically, if you read the horseman QT, Ninja's first three people that he said were "scummy" were three Nazis:

spaceman98, topsecret, Takhisis. Talk about a good scumdar.

We weren't sure if Xenoneb was even a Nazi, with the inactivity

 

[Zack]

Bonus Awards:

Spoiler :

Town MVP: 10 points. Awarded to the player belonging to the town who contributed the most to the town's efforts.

Spoiler :

Awarded to Mergle. This was a super tough decision, and I was able to narrow it done to mayor and Mergle; that was pretty much a toss-up, but I gave it to Mergle because mayor missed some votes and Mergle kept contributing long after he was dead.

Non-Town MVP: 10 points. Awarded to the player not belonging to the town who contributed the most to their faction's efforts (mafia or third-party).

Spoiler :

Awarded to Buddhafish for reasons I have elaborated on earlier.

Outstanding Non-Town Effort: 7 points. Awarded to the player(s) not belonging to the town who contributed greatly to the their faction's efforts (mafia or third-party).

Spoiler :

Awarded to NinjaCow64, topsecret, and Takhisis.

Outstanding Town Effort: 7 points. Awarded to the player(s) belonging to the town who contributed greatly to the town's efforts.

Spoiler :

Awarded to mayor, JoanK, The Black Knigh, johnhughthom, and Visorslash.

Dedicated Participant: 5 points. Awarded to the player(s) who voted every Day phase they were alive (minimum 8 phases survived).

Spoiler :

Awarded to Dreadnought, Kennigit, Mergle, NinjaCow64, and topsecret.

Bane of the Scum: 5 points. Awarded to the player who kills the most non-town players (whether at night, or by the lynch, or both).

Spoiler :

Awarded to johnhughthom.

Takhisis Award, Level II: 3 points. Awarded to the player who finishes the game with the most non-spam posts.

Spoiler :

Awarded to JoanK, with over 200 posts. I quickly realized not counting spam posts would require me to comb over the thread, which could take hours. But I didn't say anything, so as to discourage spam.

johnhughthom Award: 3 points. Awarded to the most entertaining player, by the host's discretion.

Spoiler :

Awarded to Takhisis, for his absurd accent.

To the Bitter End: 1 point. Awarded to the players who survived to the end of the game.

Spoiler :

Awarded to mayor, johnhughthom, and Verarde.

Takhisis Award: 1 point. Awarded to the player(s) who finished the game with a notably high number of posts and/or more posts than the host.

Spoiler :

Awarded to Takhisis and NinjaCow64.

 

[Zack]

Final Rankings:

Spoiler :

Crème de la Crème

johnhughthom - 92

Mergle - 91


Kicked ass, took names

mayor - 87

The Black Knigh - 85

JoanK, Kennigit - 81

Verarde, Visorslash - 80


Hey, you won!

Dreadnought - 79

classical_hero - 78

CivCube - 77

Dumanios - 75

SamSniped - 74

Joecoolyo - 73

azzaman333, choxorn, Gone 3 the Celt, mechaerik, Warman, Mat93 - 72

DaveShack, BSmith, robbiecon - 71

GhostWriter16 - 68


So close...

NinjaCow64 - 41

Buddhafish - 39


...Yet so far

topsecret - 29

Takhisis, MartinLuther - 27


At least you tried!

spaceman98 - 16

Xenoneb - 15


WOG'd

atheotes, BigTin, NedimNapoleon - (-100)

 

[Buddhafish]

Eh, non-town MVP is a good consolation I guess.

 

[Takhisis]

Vat is zis points zystem, Zack?

Also, ironically, if you read the horseman QT, Ninja's first three people that he said were "scummy" were three Nazis:

spaceman98, topsecret, Takhisis. Talk about a good scumdar.

Pleez refer to ze graf:

Spoiler :

Bonus Awards:

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Outstanding Non-Town Effort: 7 points. Awarded to the player(s) not belonging to the town who contributed greatly to the their faction's efforts (mafia or third-party).

I did vat I kuld.

Takhisis Award, Level II: 3 points. Awarded to the player who finishes the game with the most non-spam posts.

Spoiler :

Awarded to JoanK, with over 200 posts. I quickly realized not counting spam posts would require me to comb over the thread, which could take hours. But I didn't say anything, so as to discourage spam.

Zis avard, I schall retake.

johnhughthom Award: 3 points. Awarded to the most entertaining player, by the host's discretion.

Spoiler :

Awarded to Takhisis, for his absurd accent.

Vat are you sayink? My aksent is as gud as it gets in zis inferior tongue, vich used to be related to Deutsh but has now been deformed and contaminated by ze French. Alas, I post as I can, you bratwurst-minded Amerikaner.

Takhisis Award: 1 point. Awarded to the player(s) who finished the game with a notably high number of posts and/or more posts than the host.

Spoiler :

Awarded to Takhisis and NinjaCow64.

[/spoiler]

Zis avard is Daddy's baby.

 

[Verarde]

Zack, I have one question: What did the Pie and the Cabbage do? Or were they just red herring items?

 

[Zack]

Zack, I have one question: What did the Pie and the Cabbage do? Or were they just red herring items?

I believe I've already answered this a couple times, but yes - they did absolutely nothing.

Vat is zis points zystem, Zack?

Read the rules.

 

[Verarde]

Sorry, I was skimming through the endgame posts, and probably missed your responses.

 

[johnhughthom]

Thanks for the game Zacky Boy! The award named after me made me smile.

Not sure I deserve most points though, my activity was horrible before becoming you.

 

[NinjaCow64]

Good on Buddhafish!

In the horseman QT, we realised that Buddha's was by far the most important role for our group, so we adviced him to ruthelessly distance himself from us. And you did it very well, thanks bro.

 

[Visorslash]

Paranoia setups (ala this) are usually against the town (all things being equal). Because the resurrected players are of course not going to be trusted, neither is anything else. That said, I thought this game was going to end up being mostly a mafia deathmatch by the end, and town's eventual resurgence was uplifting, so to speak. It's been a while since I have seen something similar (the ocean was closeish, just too late), and seeing the dead townies (notably JoanK and Mergle and later TBK) actively participate to push the town on to victory was a nice change. The game turned out much better then I thought it was going to end up like, and without people such as the above, it never would've been such a good game. The setup was quite interesting (Masons are actually quite powerful, the longer they survive, so Xeno's scan was actually useful in the end). I'd also like to give a thumbs up to JHT for being a good Zack.

The award system is quite nifty, though and is some kind of recognition for good participation. Stairway to Heaven 2 sounds interesting, and I'll have to see where I'm at before I join it, but I did enjoy the last one.

Re: Nazis, you guys did a pretty good job staying under the radar (except Spaceman was really scummy, which he always is, ) a bit unfortunate near the end there, where you got smashed, but you did well in the early half.

Re: Horsemen, so close. You guys played a good game (of course the silencing sucked), and almost won it. In regards to scum play (I can't really suggest anything for Martin), I could offer a few tips based off what I saw in this game if you guys want. I'm not exactly great at this game, but I like to think I can offer some hints for the next time you guys are scum if you want.

Re: Zack. It was a crazy game, but a good one, much better then anticipated by everyone I think. Thanks for hosting it.