Long post from Coler so I'll split it up to respond.
Its just all very confused Kashta. I thought your whole premise was that Ice was at least somewhat likely to pick the lead vampire. Using this as a basis to suspect generate you'd proceed on the basis that he in fact did so. Now, lets see your thought process
My thinking that Ice was likely to hand-pick the Lead Vamp role was sort of a starting point... yes. I wouldn't make it my "whole premise" though because he might not have done it that way and went random instead. Either way, yes I do lean vets as more likely to be suspicious, as a given, in this game.... all else being equal.
Coler = vet therefore suspect
Coler = off the suspect list because time difference/potential UD makes me unlikely to get LV from Ice.
Coler = off the suspect list as turn victim for same reason as directly above
Coler added back to suspect list in case power roles (or LV) done randomly by Ice.
Coler also added because of 'what you've done in this game'.
That's about right. I'll paste this part in again with clarification.
1. Coler = vet therefore suspect
Yes.
2. Coler = off the suspect list because time difference/potential UD makes me unlikely to get LV from Ice.
Yes.
3. Coler = off the suspect list as turn victim for same reason as directly above
Yes, but not entirely accurate, technically... I'm using one suspect list for both, not keeping two separate lists. Essentially the same thing... we just don't have turn-victim/vamps yet.
4. Coler
added back to suspect list in case power roles (or LV) done randomly by Ice.
No. This wasn't a separate step by itself. (see #5)
5. Coler also added because of 'what you've done in this game'.
--and-- in case power roles (or LV) done randomly by Ice.
Both #4 and #5 together.
I'm not just blindly suspecting vets to the exclusion of everything else. Who I suspect most at any time and where my vote goes is a combination of factors.. mostly depends on what happens in the game.
You might like to talk me through what I have done in this game to make me a suspect - is this the fact that I said if I was LV I would either pick the 'imo best player' or a newb under the radar as my turn which is supposed to have had the agenda according to you Kashta of distracting attention away from the veteran players, including myself ?
Yes, I didn't believe the statement. So that combined with your previous posts beforehand is the reason I'm suspecting you. For the rest of the prior stuff, it was the following posts too. (See below.)
After reading what I'd said about suspecting vets/top players over the others... you were quick to turn that around on me and confuse the issue. That's what you did here.
Kashta you would pretty much count as a veteran anyway.
We've got players in this game who've been in probably 30-40 of the 54 mafia games that have been run. You trying to equate me (with my 4 games) at the same experience level as the real veterans among us made me suspicious. Why would someone do that? So I wondered.
In your next post you went on to cast suspicion on me with this.
You are very defensive. And btw I was in game 1.
That isn't the case. If anything, I've been aggressive or distracting (maybe even annoying)... depending on how this gets perceived by different people. That's just how this game is when someone's vocal or active.
Given the trend you seemed to show already, plus the fact that I thought you picking a newbie as a #2 vampire over someone who wouldn't need so much assistance... that's what put you back on my list of suspects.
Hmmm...if the LV is a veteran player, whether or not Ice handpicked them (and my gut instinct is actually that it was random but that's just a hunch) I guess they would not be delighted with a focus on the perceived veterans on Day 1. They might therefore panic and send out their turn victim to bat on it. Only if they were really really worried about getting fingered though - no good veteran player would be, so early in the day when this topic came up. It would in any event seem even more unlikely/really bad play that they would themselves come out and swing at a fairly vague look at the 'veterans'.
Exactly right.. this part in red. I was looking for some reaction as well to what I was saying. I believe that's what happened with DD and that's why I'm voting her for it.
If all that held water it would either mean :-
a) I am not LV - Kashta picks me as the one seeking to distract attention from veteran players.
b) I am not turned by LV - sending out a veteran to distract attention from veterans ? nah.
c) I am LV or turn and playing like rully badly.
I'm not concerned unduly or seeking to slam anyone's thoughts in their face - no need - but Kashta's reasoning on all of this interests me a lot. The danger is that she is just gathering heat & attracting attention (not to mention spreading it on e.g. me) but innocent, and the bad guys are cruising through the day.
We'll see how it plays out Coler. You're just on my suspect list... and it seems reasonable to me to keep you there for all the reasons we've been over.
For now, I see DD as most suspicious because of her game play and she fits very well as a possible vampire in either the Lead Vamp or as the secondary.