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04-18-2004, 10:10 PM
Other than the stapler betting, activity on the main thread has all but dried up. I think it's time we shook things up, because if we don't, we aren't going to be able to do much more than take semi-educated guesses based on the rankings that a few students have submitted.
I propose two courses of action based on my two favorite management techniques: Intimidation and Deception.
Intimidation: Gandalf has been encouraging the living players to send us their rankings of the other players. Maybe we should let them know that we have received rankings from all but two of the living players (i.e., lie) and ask the remaining two to send us their rankings.
Rationale: I think having the living players send us their rankings helps us. Perhaps the EC's rankings will be significantly different. But even if they're not, they help us to take the pulse of who people think are innocent, which helps us to recommend the next lynchee. It may also help us to protect those we think are innocent in the later rounds. (For example, if we think 4sigma is innocent, and there are only two players who have him high on their list, we would want to make sure it didn't come down to 4sigma and these two players in the final 3.) Therefore, anything we can do to get more living players to send us their rankings should help us.
Deception: When we have selected a lynchee, before they are actually lynched, we could PM them and ask them to write a death scene that makes it look like perhaps we have lynched the EC.
Rationale: That's what I had planned for my death scene. If I was lynched, I was only going to post Act I, which makes it look like I'm EC. Mr.Penguin agreed to let me wait a couple of hours before posting Act II, which made it clear I was an innocent student. (Unfortunately, I was executed by the EC, so there was no point in trying this deception, since everybody knew I had to be innocent.) We may have been able to gain some information based on whatever the living players posted in between the two acts. Innocent students would think they had already won. Of course, the EC would know it was a ruse and would try to blend in, but we could at least try to determine which responses seemed genuine.
Thoughts?
I propose two courses of action based on my two favorite management techniques: Intimidation and Deception.
Intimidation: Gandalf has been encouraging the living players to send us their rankings of the other players. Maybe we should let them know that we have received rankings from all but two of the living players (i.e., lie) and ask the remaining two to send us their rankings.
Rationale: I think having the living players send us their rankings helps us. Perhaps the EC's rankings will be significantly different. But even if they're not, they help us to take the pulse of who people think are innocent, which helps us to recommend the next lynchee. It may also help us to protect those we think are innocent in the later rounds. (For example, if we think 4sigma is innocent, and there are only two players who have him high on their list, we would want to make sure it didn't come down to 4sigma and these two players in the final 3.) Therefore, anything we can do to get more living players to send us their rankings should help us.
Deception: When we have selected a lynchee, before they are actually lynched, we could PM them and ask them to write a death scene that makes it look like perhaps we have lynched the EC.
Rationale: That's what I had planned for my death scene. If I was lynched, I was only going to post Act I, which makes it look like I'm EC. Mr.Penguin agreed to let me wait a couple of hours before posting Act II, which made it clear I was an innocent student. (Unfortunately, I was executed by the EC, so there was no point in trying this deception, since everybody knew I had to be innocent.) We may have been able to gain some information based on whatever the living players posted in between the two acts. Innocent students would think they had already won. Of course, the EC would know it was a ruse and would try to blend in, but we could at least try to determine which responses seemed genuine.
Thoughts?