FF asked repeatedly who each of us would have picked if we got the murderer role. Personally, I agree with Pappy's response already that it's a useless question.. that part about picking so-and-so for blah blah reason... and so on. It is a distracting or divertive WIFOM proposal that doesn't benefit the town at all if we give that too much of our attention. That said, I'll still answer the question now that I have time to write this all out.
I saw in the mafia/signup threads that the murderer needed to pick their 1st teammate and the ghost hunters needed to submit their first invest at game start. So yes, I had already looked over the growing player list while signups were still underway... with those selections in mind... in case I got one of those roles. That was something I wondered about myself while waiting for the game to start.
There are a lot of considerations to make and I already had some prospective names in mind. I hadn't yet made my final decision about the murder's choice, though, because when I got my PM, it wasn't necessary. Had it been necessary, Lady G would have received my PM within probably half an hour or less after she posted game on. (Mostly because I didn't intend to stay on the thread very late last night and I couldn't be sure how much time I would have the following day.) I also would have asked her to wait with my choice so no one could deduce my role based on eliminating who had not been to the thread yet... and so forth.
Fishfriend claims my first pick would have been Wizard. And Wizard's first pick would have been me. That I can tell you is not true from my perspective. As for Wizard's 1st choice? Even I don't know so you'll have to get that answer from him.
Had I gone with a vet with the same or more game skill than I have -- I would have probably decided on someone I felt would be more likely to read me in the game better than Wizard has in the past. I've been evil before when Wizard was innocent and I've (so far) been able to fool him. Not to mention the fact that once he's convinced himself that I'm probably innocent, he's helped me more in past games without realizing he was doing it while we were on opposite teams. If I felt a need at the time to minimize risk, I'd say either Chill or Pappy would make excellent choices despite the fact they're also likely to get investigated, and so on. I consider both of them to be better players than Wizard and I are put together. JB, Lab Rat, and Noods are also just about as strong as anyone else we have to choose from... and either of those 3 would be a heck of a lot of fun to conspire with against the town. Rich has an awesome sense of humor I really enjoy and has a no-nonsense, matter-of-fact style that would give me some clarity that I need. I tend to overthink this game too often, so he'd help me avoid doing that.
Had I gone with one of the newer players -- Bally or Haydn might have been a top choice, although Razzle or User would be just about as good at this if they're communicating with someone. I wouldn't actually mind conspiring with someone with less experience than I have. I've done a lot of that all along on both evil and innocent communicating boards. I will say I would probably not have chosen Fishfriend because I honestly don't think I'd have the patience it would take to rein him in all the time. It'd be just easier to kill him instead. Ninja would probably be the best choice of all because this being his first game he'd probably actually listen to my advice where others might not. Then if all else failed, I could easily turn against him and throw him under the bus if necessary.
Tactically speaking, therefore, there really isn't any short list of "go-to" names that I would naturally pick over the others. I believe I could work well as teammates with just about anyone else who signed up to play this game. No one really scares me that much and, IMO, no one would be unmanageable as a teammate for me.
I'm also just as likely to base critical choices like this on a pick taken from random.org.... because it's an even more obscure selection other players would find difficult to trace back to me.
Overall, I don't also don't think there are any bad choices the murderer could have made... depending on who that is.
I saw in the mafia/signup threads that the murderer needed to pick their 1st teammate and the ghost hunters needed to submit their first invest at game start. So yes, I had already looked over the growing player list while signups were still underway... with those selections in mind... in case I got one of those roles. That was something I wondered about myself while waiting for the game to start.
There are a lot of considerations to make and I already had some prospective names in mind. I hadn't yet made my final decision about the murder's choice, though, because when I got my PM, it wasn't necessary. Had it been necessary, Lady G would have received my PM within probably half an hour or less after she posted game on. (Mostly because I didn't intend to stay on the thread very late last night and I couldn't be sure how much time I would have the following day.) I also would have asked her to wait with my choice so no one could deduce my role based on eliminating who had not been to the thread yet... and so forth.
Fishfriend claims my first pick would have been Wizard. And Wizard's first pick would have been me. That I can tell you is not true from my perspective. As for Wizard's 1st choice? Even I don't know so you'll have to get that answer from him.
Had I gone with a vet with the same or more game skill than I have -- I would have probably decided on someone I felt would be more likely to read me in the game better than Wizard has in the past. I've been evil before when Wizard was innocent and I've (so far) been able to fool him. Not to mention the fact that once he's convinced himself that I'm probably innocent, he's helped me more in past games without realizing he was doing it while we were on opposite teams. If I felt a need at the time to minimize risk, I'd say either Chill or Pappy would make excellent choices despite the fact they're also likely to get investigated, and so on. I consider both of them to be better players than Wizard and I are put together. JB, Lab Rat, and Noods are also just about as strong as anyone else we have to choose from... and either of those 3 would be a heck of a lot of fun to conspire with against the town. Rich has an awesome sense of humor I really enjoy and has a no-nonsense, matter-of-fact style that would give me some clarity that I need. I tend to overthink this game too often, so he'd help me avoid doing that.
Had I gone with one of the newer players -- Bally or Haydn might have been a top choice, although Razzle or User would be just about as good at this if they're communicating with someone. I wouldn't actually mind conspiring with someone with less experience than I have. I've done a lot of that all along on both evil and innocent communicating boards. I will say I would probably not have chosen Fishfriend because I honestly don't think I'd have the patience it would take to rein him in all the time. It'd be just easier to kill him instead. Ninja would probably be the best choice of all because this being his first game he'd probably actually listen to my advice where others might not. Then if all else failed, I could easily turn against him and throw him under the bus if necessary.
Tactically speaking, therefore, there really isn't any short list of "go-to" names that I would naturally pick over the others. I believe I could work well as teammates with just about anyone else who signed up to play this game. No one really scares me that much and, IMO, no one would be unmanageable as a teammate for me.
I'm also just as likely to base critical choices like this on a pick taken from random.org.... because it's an even more obscure selection other players would find difficult to trace back to me.
Overall, I don't also don't think there are any bad choices the murderer could have made... depending on who that is.
: Much easier to BS your way through those than multiple choice... although statistically Answer C is usually right.