Lol, the entire book scum has usually imo. Maybe not self clearing but from what I'm use to somewhat clearing

Like any lie detector, cop, doc
Fake thread moves
Multiple players appearing as town
MC fake claims
Fake claims in general being built into the game
SK, cult, indy appearing as town
SK having anything on top of a kill
Indies not counting to parity
Whatever Yoho had lol, not clearing but design wise not a chance scum should have it
Multiple kills
Anything beyond a normal kill
Game removes
19 lives
Lynch Redirect
(Yes some of these pertain to SRM)

Here and OLF you all go out of your way imo to make sure scum (my term not your alls) get ways to clear themselves or have an advantage at blending via the role or living on and on

Like the whole point of mafia is for mafia to blend into town via the thread. The actual role shouldn't do that for you and make it a cake walk. I definitely see that as a major problem with scum complaining about the setups and the host. I have voiced my opinion in that as well, it has been very over the top wrong imo by some in the past. I think it comes from the scum being comfortable and use to having the game set up for them

This game specially the lie detectors, fake cult, the move on ekko, the ghost player, the cult appearing as not cult, indy appearing as town, the shop in general
I know you aren’t arguing specifically about mafia, but Yoho stole Reloaded’s prof “ability” claim as his own.

And the lie detector I was using was actually Ekko’s not mine lol. And it was a 1 shot.

The second lie detect was a one time fake writeup that we used to make the lie detect even more believable and used it on Reloaded to fake clear him.

In all fairness almost our entire team was a falling stack of dominos just waiting to crumble after nearly a single flip, but that never happened and town overall choked any semblance of threadplay/reads.

Ekko definitely shouldn’t have been ranting during the game and given the circumstances didn’t have a right to complain about anything as I pointed out earlier.

But in terms of roles it was very much balanced this game. Town fumbled tf out of all their kill power and strong role usage annd had just as many if not more “self clearing” roles I,E literal masons, a reviver, a cult cop, vig, etc and meanwhile we just used the few one or two roles we did have on our side to our full advantage to help the rest of us members who didn’t have those types of claims.

It was very risky, but clearly paid of well
 
I know you aren’t arguing specifically about mafia, but Yoho stole Reloaded’s prof “ability” claim as his own.

And the lie detector I was using was actually Ekko’s not mine lol. And it was a 1 shot.

The second lie detect was a one time fake writeup that we used to make the lie detect even more believable and used it on Reloaded to fake clear him.

In all fairness almost our entire team was a falling stack of dominos just waiting to crumble after nearly a single flip, but that never happened and town overall choked any semblance of threadplay/reads.

Ekko definitely shouldn’t have been ranting during the game and given the circumstances didn’t have a right to complain about anything as I pointed out earlier.

But in terms of roles it was very much balanced this game. Town fumbled tf out of all their kill power and strong role usage annd had just as many if not more “self clearing” roles I,E literal masons, a reviver, a cult cop, vig, etc and meanwhile we just used the few one or two roles we did have on our side to our full advantage to help the rest of us members who didn’t have those types of claims.

It was very risky, but clearly paid of well
i mean, it's cult game

only masons were self clearing because they can't be culted
 
I know you aren’t arguing specifically about mafia, but Yoho stole Reloaded’s prof “ability” claim as his own.

And the lie detector I was using was actually Ekko’s not mine lol. And it was a 1 shot.

The second lie detect was a one time fake writeup that we used to make the lie detect even more believable and used it on Reloaded to fake clear him.

In all fairness almost our entire team was a falling stack of dominos just waiting to crumble after nearly a single flip, but that never happened and town overall choked any semblance of threadplay/reads.

Ekko definitely shouldn’t have been ranting during the game and given the circumstances didn’t have a right to complain about anything as I pointed out earlier.

But in terms of roles it was very much balanced this game. Town fumbled tf out of all their kill power and strong role usage annd had just as many if not more “self clearing” roles I,E literal masons, a reviver, a cult cop, vig, etc and meanwhile we just used the few one or two roles we did have on our side to our full advantage to help the rest of us members who didn’t have those types of claims.

It was very risky, but clearly paid of well
Used your roles well sure...still a joke. Lie detector basically cleared you, fake lie detect cleared reloaded, ekko surviving a kill only meant to kill non town, cleared him, and reloaded was mafia so the prof role was still mafia seminclearing whoever claimed it. Look I'm not complaining on the game...just pointing out the entire babying of scum you all do in games compared to what I'm used to. You all design games to clear scum mechanically or semi mechanically. Thats makes it so so so so so so easy as scum compared to what I'm used to playing...then you get people going loco on the host about setups which is even more hilarious lmao
 
I think the potential for mechanical misdirection stuff that provides fake clears has come as a response due to the opposite.

There was a spell where people were mech obsessed & games were less about thread play & solely on solving mechanically to beat scum (or so it felt like).

So then the pendulum has slowly swung by giving scum ways to “fake clear” to take the power back into putting some more thread read focused play. It was less about making it easy for scum, and more so that certain claims & mechanics were treated like innocent children. It puts doubts on certain cleared players when you’ve seen scum be cleared.

If anyone can be cleared then no one is perfectly cleared kind of thing is what I think the point is.
 
I think the potential for mechanical misdirection stuff that provides fake clears has come as a response due to the opposite.

There was a spell where people were mech obsessed & games were less about thread play & solely on solving mechanically to beat scum (or so it felt like).

So then the pendulum has slowly swung by giving scum ways to “fake clear” to take the power back into putting some more thread read focused play. It was less about making it easy for scum, and more so that certain claims & mechanics were treated like innocent children. It puts doubts on certain cleared players when you’ve seen scum be cleared.

If anyone can be cleared then no one is perfectly cleared kind of thing is what I think the point is.
Which I understand, but if you think about the game of mafia, the informed inherently has a giant and already big advantage. Town having cleared or IC type roles is the challenge for mafia to blend into a town that as it is shrinking and they have kills and moves usually to help in dealing with those roles in which they can coordinate. There in lies a balance, if you add mechanical clears to the informed side, it really swings toward the mafia since clears are treated as clears. A cop is town, a lie detect is town, those are roles specially for town to catch the informed side. You take those tools away from the uninformed that will eat itself naturally there is just so huge of a disadvantage.
 
Which I understand, but if you think about the game of mafia, the informed inherently has a giant and already big advantage. Town having cleared or IC type roles is the challenge for mafia to blend into a town that as it is shrinking and they have kills and moves usually to help in dealing with those roles in which they can coordinate. There in lies a balance, if you add mechanical clears to the informed side, it really swings toward the mafia since clears are treated as clears. A cop is town, a lie detect is town, those are roles specially for town to catch the informed side. You take those tools away from the uninformed that will eat itself naturally there is just so huge of a disadvantage.
There’s a middle ground. There was a time were it was just too many clears. Like cop, vig, masons, IC etc all in the same game lol.

If it’s a 25 person game and 6 towns are cleared that’s just lame to play as for mafia.

If you pulled back on the level of fake clears and misdirection you also need to limit how many self clearing town roles are in the game so that it’s a very small amount. But because it’s usually high rolemadness & super role madness here, it’s hard to do that to the town because there are only so many roles so when making a bunch of unique roles you’re tempted to throw in all those IC like roles at once instead of making lots of repeating roles
 
Idk how you’re saying half the scum roles were self clearing tho. Only one mafia was, and then an indie with a shop.

Town getting smacked can’t be blamed on that respectfully lol
What i'm saying is if you say that stuff like cult cop is self clearing, you can say this about almost every single role.

Town got smacked because Town played worse. I'm not blaming anyone. I'm calling take that "half if Town got themself self cleared through mech" ridiculous. There were 2 cleared people who were Town. Even with gianfi, he could be scum who revived polar into cult.
 
There’s a middle ground. There was a time were it was just too many clears. Like cop, vig, masons, IC etc all in the same game lol.

If it’s a 25 person game and 6 towns are cleared that’s just lame to play as for mafia.

If you pulled back on the level of fake clears and misdirection you also need to limit how many self clearing town roles are in the game so that it’s a very small amount. But because it’s usually high rolemadness & super role madness here, it’s hard to do that to the town because there are only so many roles so when making a bunch of unique roles you’re tempted to throw in all those IC like roles at once instead of making lots of repeating roles
I think the issue may be what you all view as lame lol. I still understand, but it does make it super easy for scum, which then makes the complaints very odd to me
 
What i'm saying is if you say that stuff like cult cop is self clearing, you can say this about almost every single role.

Town got smacked because Town played worse. I'm not blaming anyone. I'm calling take that "half if Town got themself self cleared through mech" ridiculous. There were 2 cleared people who were Town. Even with gianfi, he could be scum who revived polar into cult.
Oh, I agree with you that half the town was not cleared by mech lol
 
Used your roles well sure...still a joke. Lie detector basically cleared you, fake lie detect cleared reloaded, ekko surviving a kill only meant to kill non town, cleared him, and reloaded was mafia so the prof role was still mafia seminclearing whoever claimed it. Look I'm not complaining on the game...just pointing out the entire babying of scum you all do in games compared to what I'm used to. You all design games to clear scum mechanically or semi mechanically. Thats makes it so so so so so so easy as scum compared to what I'm used to playing...then you get people going loco on the host about setups which is even more hilarious lmao
There’s definitely no you all lol but I understand and respect where you’re coming from and tend to agree on most points especially about complaints towards the host and setups that in general can cater to mafia being absolutely unacceptable . However, with the setup numbers in mind I feel this particular game was well balanced and nobody should be complaining period.

As far as specifically claiming Prof, that should never have been clearing for anyone in any world, whether someone took it that way or not it is what it is.

And in Jag’s role sheet it specifically says if he targets someone who would be considered town or something along those lines with desperado would cause him to die, not mafia’s fault that Jag either didn’t read or clarify what that meant and stop to consider the possibility of Ekko being GF when there was already suggested evidence like cult immunity implying so lol.

Fuji knows role madness is largely not my preference. I’m more of a traditional mafia girly anyways, that’s why I enjoy the ranked games on OLU the most in terms of major reliance on threadplay. So definitely have common ground with u there. And also, Ekko does not speak for me here whatsoever lol.
 
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Didn't get to really meetcha, sorry I sussed you.

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Lovely to play with you both.

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Congrats. Lovely to play with.

@The Orca
Your posts with the random animal facts were a delightful gimmick, glad I town read you all game.

@Flower
Flower, you cursing me with the cat post restriction was the funniest shit. Thank you, genuinely.

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Luka, I'm glad you won, too.

@Duckt
EZ town read, happy to work with you on basically the same side, sorry I came up short (obliterated)

@Charlie
Lovely time with you, sir.

@MangoSenpai
You were the victim of a whole danged conspiracy. I had you town until then, too, and merely needed to defend Red Night.
Shame we got forced to fight each other.

@EkkoLoJinx
Congrats, you skilled person.

@Red Night
I regret I could not save you, frand.

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Thanks for the opportunities.

@Ratchet
Townie and rational as always

@Pot Goblin
Beacon of sanity and fair play. Adorable. You put in effort to play and your posts are rich, in a role most people would consider a gimmick that does nothing. Best actually neutral play I've seen in a decade.

@Hayumi
You are phenomenal and I regret not playing with you more.

@Michelle
You know I love you as a person and a friend. Congrats.

@Random Asshole
I appreciated you. Sorry we couldn't bring it home, and were technically opposing alignments.

@Jaguark101
Wonderfully understated play style. I appreciated your entire iso.

@Gianfi
I usually read lower posters better than that, my mistake. Thank you for being kind and not reacting poorly to the suspicion.
Your short iso was a breath of fresh air.

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