All standard werewolf rules apply unless otherwise stated.

Absolutely no talking about your PM. Don’t say it says you’re a villager, don’t say what time it came, don’t say you haven’t read it yet, don’t post a screenshot of it, etc.

Do not talk about this game outside of the thread at any point. This includes talk in any other thread on the Elite Boards, the Kart Boards or on AIM (especially the public chats).

Do not edit posts for any reason. I don’t care if you added a period, fixed a link, or merely noted in the edit line that it was your 100,000th post.

Do not delete posts for any reason.

Ask all questions by PM or on AIM (rshepherd1000). I will not answer questions that are asked publicly in order to give away as little information as possible about the person that asked them. I may also rephrase them if I post an answer in the thread so that it doesn’t hint at who asked it by the way it is written.

Personal Attacks. Try not to attack each other directly to excess. I understand this community is more tolerant of flaming than where I play so I will be more relaxed about what I deem is over the top. Excessive personal abuse is unacceptable and I will punish anyone I feel has crossed the line.

Do not excessively troll, do not spam and do not fluff please. I want this game to stay readable to all. I will be using my own judgment on stopping or punishing this, but you will be penalized if you do this excessively. On a related note, limit the posting of pictures, gifs etc. I am not going to ban them, but they are annoying to some and people do play from work and on phones which take longer to load. If there are excessive pictures, etc I may put an outright ban on them for the duration of the game so tread carefully. Caps lock and profanity laced rants should not be used in excess. I am the sole judge of what is considered excessive.

You are required to post every game day. Failure to do so for a full day cycle will result in me looking for a sub for you. If I can’t find one and you fail to post for another full day (consecutive or not) I will modkill you. Posting merely to avoid being subbed/modkilled is also not acceptable. I reserve the right to grant exceptions for people who pm me with rl concerns in advance.

Angle-Shooting

Breaking any of the above rules, even in an indirect manner will be considered an angleshoot and you will face a likely modkill and potentially inflict other damage on your team.

If you attempt to get modkilled for the benefit of your team I will make sure that I level appropriate counter-measures.

Note that in most circumstances where a modkill is needed it would not take the place of the days lynch.

There is no betting or proposing of bets in my game. I don’t care how you word it. If you have a signature rant that you only do as a villager do not do it.

Do not say you are going to quit at any point. I do not condone this, but I am unable to make you continue to play. If you want to quit or be subbed out contact me privately and we will go from there. If you are enraged do not post that you are quitting in the thread no matter what. If you threaten to quit, even jokingly, you will be punished.

Night posting is expressly forbidden. Casting a vote, instructions on night actions, and claims will always result in the loss of a major night power for some member of your team at the minimum. Excessive late posting (multiple nights, several minutes late, and multiple posts) will result in a modkill no matter what. This means that when the scheduled time for night happens YOU STOP POSTING even if the mod does not appear to be around and even if the thread is still unlocked. The same applies if a Majority Lynch occurs. As soon as Majority is reached EVERYONE STOPS POSTING. If you are the person to cast the Majority vote then call it so everyone is aware they need to stop posting.

If you see somebody break any rule please report it to me privately. Do NOT take it upon yourself to report it to the thread. This is also an angleshoot.

Furthermore please refrain from using the word angleshoot or variations of it in your posts.

Win Condition Summary:

Serial Killer
Last player standing.

Wolves
Achieve parity with the village and kill the serial killer.

Village
Eliminate all non-villagers.


Exceptional Scenarios

Final 2: SK vs RB Wolf – Wolves win
Final 2: SK vs Vanilla Wolf – SK wins
Final 3: SK vs RB Wolf vs Villager – Wolves win
Final 3: SK vs Vanilla Wolf vs Villager – SK wins

Days will last 36 hours and Nights 12 hours.

Nights will fall at 5pm EST

Night actions will be due by 5am EST unless I announce otherwise for a given night in the thread.

The game will be paused for 24 hours on Thursday 25th for Thanksgiving.

Question

Why does the SK win in the following scenario?

Final 4: SK vs Vanilla Wolf vs Vanilla Villager/Seer vs Vanilla Villager/Seer

Answer

The SK wins if this scenario occurs when day starts. The Village cannot win in this case therefore they are forced to choose whether they prefer the SK or Wolves to win. It ceases to be about a game of WW and therefore the precedence is for the SK to win.

If that scenario occurs after the days lynch (ie there were 5 players alive, 1 was just lynched), then night actions will take place. In other words the game continues.

darthrob64 wrote on 11/18/10 at 04:00:24:


This is a pretty wolfy statement.  Care to defend yourself?   shep

time for sleep!

Player List

Wolfxel
WolfE
Wolfathorn
Wolfet
wolf22
wolfwolf18
El Wolf
Goovillagerse
Wolfimus
Jimbeowolf
MattWolf
MSK
Neowolf
wolfzup
ShadowZeroChanceofBeingaVillager
thewolfinator
Thirawolf
vitorWolfK
wolfrich
wifflewolf
Wolfkov


Spend day 1 proving the thread why you're not a wolf everyone.

Neo wrote on 11/18/10 at 04:10:41:


a) Your 1 post in the elite signup thread and no other words about the game from you lead me to believe that you had forgotten or were going to be extremely indifferent about the game.  I was hoping to gang up with Carathorn and lynch you D1

b) I have trouble believing that you "love" a Durk/Cara crew meme.  Possible attempt at sucking up to gain favoritism in the thread?

c) The Origins of Nesquik Meme

Amidst the AIM mess of summer 2010 where AOL made several reliable versions of AIM no longer usable due to being outdated, there was a special one time promo where you could get Nesquik bunny emoticons.  Durk seized this opportunity and started spamming them endlessly in elite chat, sometime after the end of the summer contest.  Problem being, so many peoples' AIMs were incompatible with with emoticons that most of us just saw a massive grey box with an x, whenever Durk smiled in chat.  We would then copy/paste this ridiculous x grey box and soon after it became out of control (because those who had a compatible AIM would see the smilies.)  Durk and Hugo decided to take it steps further by making a .jpeg and posting it everywhere on the elite boards, and so on the legacy has grown.

FWIW people, even though this may be counterintuitive, the Serial Killer is what's known as "provilla."

Given the unlikely scenario where we have the chance to kill an outed wolf, or the outed serial killer, we should kill the wolf.  This is because the serial killer has a shot at killing wolves at night.

The wolves will kill a villager 15 out of 16 times.  That's 93.75% of the time.

The serial killer will only kill a villager 15 out of 20 times.  That's only 75% of the time.

What I'm saying is don't get too focused on killing the serial killer and instead focus on looking for wolf teams that make sense    At least at the beginning of the game.  It usually becomes very obvious who the serial killer is after a few days.

Thanks goose for making the counterintuitive, intuitive!

Hej Axel

I think you're the serial killer based on your reaction to my post.

What do you have to say about this?

(BTW, that post is not to say that if we find the SK and don't have any strong wolf leans that day, we should keep the SK alive    I am just saying wolves are better lynches than SK, but the SK is a better lynch than villagers obviously.)

I can say the same about your post, Goose!

Yeah im just saying not getting a chance to exercise youre powers would suck. Just a generalization. An observation if you will.

I'm sure that's exactly what he means  .

Is it really necessary to analyze every post that you can tell is just a small observation?

thewebinator wrote on 11/18/10 at 05:04:07:


[ ] understands human psychology
[ ] understands that WW/mafia is a game about human psychology

it was developed by the psychology department at Moscow State University, ffs

I dunno, just go watch some Derren Brown or Inception or something to see how easily people slip subconscious thoughts into what appear to be normal or innocent thoughts.

If you're not willing to dig deep, you're missing out on a lot of information.

Zarkov unless you were still being sarcastic, why would we ever assume you weren't town (second half of your post)?

and Goose, I get your point, I guess it seemed kinda innocent for a D1 within the first hour post. you'd think I would figure that out by game 3  

Okay

Zarkov that post was well played.

You see though webinator, wolves get scared easily when you start accusing them.  They can take the smallest pressure and make it seem like the world is ending.  The way Zarkov handled himself there was very composed.  As a result he gets my first villa lean.


Villa leans; Zarkov

haha you don't need to tutorial me on the game, I've played it before and know what you're supposed to do.

Oh and btw guys I gtg for school now, I'll be back at about 3PM EST, so again don't go rage about inactivity then.

The real problem would be if some haven't talked by then. That's when we start voting people who don't talk and get them to talk, as no talkers are completely useless, best to get them out early.

anyway, see you at 3, hopefully you've pinned a maf/wolf by then.

Quick impressions before I go to school:
Goose is throwing around some good ideas, even though one or two are a bit far-fetched. So far, I believe he's a townie.

Zarkov, well, is being Zarkov. Nothing much that would make me think he's mafia. Innocent until proven guity.

No one else has really posted that much, so I'll be back at around 5:45 pm EST.

Mod Note

Question

In what order are night actions processed?

Answer

Roleblock > Angel/Peek > Nightkill

All unblocked kills go through.

If A tries to kill B and B tries to kill C (and there are no blocks) then B and C die every time. There is no /rand of the order, nor is the SK or Wolf kill given preference over the other. It is therefore possible for a lone Wolf and the SK to kill each other on the same night.

also....lets stop talking about MAFIA imo.... the boardtop clearly says the game is called WEREWOLF

And strangely enough, I didn't know the origin of the Nesquck bunny myself, despite being in chat almost all the time. Guess I just don't pay enough attention in there when Durk is around (nothing against Durk, I'm just not in there much during the day!)

Comet wrote on 11/18/10 at 07:10:24:



ahahahahahahaha

Goose wrote on 11/18/10 at 05:09:19:

While the law of large numbers does suggest the more games you play, the more likely you are to get a power role, he just said that he never gets power roles, so really it'd be more appropriate to say that your role in past ww games has no impact on the probability of getting a power role in this game.

Haven't formed an opinion on anybody....yet!

Zarkov wrote on 11/18/10 at 07:30:21:

Yeah that looks to be a little more like regular people post. Also I'm pretty sure Cara wasn't dreaming at all and is actually the RB wolf.