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Game Theory
Topic Started: Oct 9 2013, 04:18 AM (272 Views)
PSN Strykr
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Okay, so given the influx of games we have requiring actual scumhunting, I figured that making a thread to talk about theory could be useful for both new and older players. If you can't guess already, game theory is simply having a hypothetical situation where you discuss what you think the best move would be.

Now, I'll start us off with an example/question. You are a mafia in a basic cop/doc/3 villagers/2 mafia game. You killed a villager N1, but now on D1 the cop has claimed with a guilty. What would you do here?
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Magellan
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Get one of the mafia to claim through a villager as their clear. (you did this in the BUTTS'D game danny hosted, iirc.)

It really is the best way to go about it. You're at kinda MYLO (doc is in play), so a lynch is super risky. abusing the villager as a way of counterclaiming would work provided that you're smart about who contacts the villager.

Alternatively, you are at kinda MYLO and you can argue that a lynch with an unconfirmed cop is a risky move. So you could argue it like that.
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DannyTurtle
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Game theory
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LAME theory

No but seriously. There are way too many variables to have a standard course of action. Is it the real cop or a proxy fake claiming a guilty to get a mafia to step forward, blah blah blah.
That and with a community as small as this one is, you'll be able to point out exactly what somebody will do in that situation.
That and do you really want to give away your best tactics before you have a chance to use them? ;D
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Shinigami02
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I've got a rather random situation I've actually been in before (on EM, but still)

1 doc, 1 cop, 2 villagers, 2 mafia

At the time there are 2 cop claims, 2 doc claims. Your point of view is as one of the villagers, and both cop claims have cleared you. There was no kill that night, and each doc is claiming to have been on different cop claims. What do you do?

At the time, everyone, and I mean everyone, was pushing for a lynch except for me. I had a plan worked out (which I may share later if someone else doesn't state it first)
Edited by Shinigami02, Oct 9 2013, 05:57 AM.
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