@hypochondriac, on Jan 30 2008, 09:27 PM, said in GTW Game 18:
How many special roles usually exist? The last round had loads. From previous rounds it seems like 3 or 4 roles exist. 2 terrorists and 2 others
The first several games included only two bad guys and an intelligence agent, later the role of SDI was added, an assassin role, some various "you kill me, somebody else dies too" sorts of roles as well. In this game, there are an equal number of "classes" of special roles than there are ordinary innocents, though within each "class" there may be slight variations of power and its application. You may attempt to extrapolate from that sentence a rough estimate of the ratio between innocents and special roles, but I will not confirm any numbers until the game has ended.
@rebelswin_85, on Jan 30 2008, 09:41 PM, said in GTW Game 18:
Do we have two evil agents in our midst or three? Just to clarify. Most games I've seen have two, but we have a lot of people here... (sortof a follow-up to Hypochondriac's question, I was typing all of this while he posted)
Summary Of Stuff
first to post - Jacabyte. Very innocuously. (Giants, btw. Boo Patriots.)
darth_vader - first to suggest an evil plot
Mackilroy - no help whatsoever, but I very much empathize.
re: Shlimazel about EC - I don't find it that suspicious
<a bunch of stuff from the last game that's probably irrelevant>
Vote Path:
SIB -> Manta, Manta -> SIB, prophile -> SIB, Shlimazel -> EC, EC -> SIB, JacaByte -> EC, SIB -> EC
The only thing I can really think of that might provide a clue this early on is the tendency for an ED to vote with his partner. The closest thing to that would be SIB/JacaByte voting for EC. The votes against SIB seem at the beginning something of a bandwagon, but that doesn't mean he isn't an ED.
That's all I've got for now. All things consider, I tentatively vote against SoItBegins. So it begins indeed...
I will not be confirming or denying any suspicions about the quantity of any role, evil or otherwise.
@jacabyte, on Jan 30 2008, 10:07 PM, said in GTW Game 18:
Could I have some clarification on ED, please? I'm not familiar with that term.
Also, I deny having any type of partnership with SIB whatsoever. Be it for nefarious reasons or otherwise.
Evil Dictator is a term that dates back to some of the earlier games, when the enemies of the innocents were secret dictators trying to nuke the world. Since then we've moved more towards calling them terrorists, and this game, the proper term is Rogue Member of the Nuclear Arms Council, or just Rogue Member. But of course you can call them whatever you wish. I myself actually use the initials ED on my cheat sheet :).
_The Big Board reads:
Anon -
darth_vader -
1Eevee1 -
Eugene Chin - SoItBegins
GutlessWonder -
Hypochondriac -
JacaByte - Eugene Chin
kickme -
Mackilroy -
Manta - SoItBegins
nfreader -
prophile - SoItBegins
rebelswin_85 - SoItBegins
Rickton -
RJC Ultra -
Shlimazel - Eugene Chin
SoItBegins - Eugene Chin_
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