Mr.Zero:
@Imp: Would you bus if you both of you were in danger?
I'd do whatever seemed effective to achieve my goals in the game. Situations are complex in every case, and your very short and grammatically creative question, combined with my inexperience in this game, doesn't allow enough details for me to even imagine vaguely what might be going on in play at the time, so I really cannot answer more specifically.
To achieve your goals in any way? To simplify would you stab your buddy in an attempt to clear yourself of suspicion and make it harder for yourself due to the fact that there would only 1 scum?
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Would you try to somehow clear him,yourself or divert the attention to someone else to retain your numbers advantage?
Another thing, something i've learned the hard way. Don't try to blame your actions on inexperience, it can backfire pretty hard.
My answer placed no blame on my inexperience or anything else, though I did attempt to invite you to clarify your question, pointing out the details I was aware of that made it difficult for me to answer it with any specificity. Some of those details were details about your question, others were details about my perspective.
My understanding of our situation is that we are, or rather were, a single team. Those of us with the misfortune to have been contaminated have perforce joined a different and opposing team. Those aflicted are lost to us and cannot be redeemed, only identified and removed. My actions will serve my team, of which I am a part, and further my team's goals to the best of my ability; for that is why I am here and what I am here to do.
Such is the nature of a robot's programming, such is the nature of the player which I am. I am convinced that if I had been claimed by the malware, I would have served my changed team with the same loyalty and determination which is my nature.
Had I been so changed, I would surely do what needed to be done, based on my complete assessment of the situation - exactly as I do now, only in service to a different team. But what 'needs to be done' is for my team to win. That is more important than the well being of any single member of my team, or the afflicted team.
I lean strongly towards preserving my team and my team's assets and potentials, and so would surely take the option of not bussing if my analysis of the full situation determined that was a choice with a real chance of success. I am aware that may not always be possible, thus I cannot honestly say you 'I would not bus'; if the situation was such that the team's path of success ran through the loss of a member, I would work towards that loss because that is the path which served my team best.
Deathsword:
@Deathsword: One of the newbies makes a serious error on day one - an error so obvious (to experienced players) that the newbie's role is clearly exposed, but it is reasonable to think that the other new players may not recognize it. How do you respond and why?
Imp: {Quote what you are answering. It takes little effort and helps a lot. People are not likely to search for whatever you are answering to.}
As for your question, I do not believe that there is any such thing as a confirmed player (role-wise). That said, if a person has done nothing scummy, then there is little reason to attack them. Of course, if they had been dropping tells and I was sure they were scum, they'd obviously be the focus of my efforts.
Just three posts later-
{Please, I cannot stress this enough: QUOTE. Press the quote button on the post you are answering to, delete the parts that are irrelevant to the answer. If you are answering more than one question, there is an insert quote button in the Post Reply screen that can add those posts to yours.}
Deathsword: I hear your IC advice, and appreciate it. I hear, and hear strongly, how important this quoting is, and can see why, after just a handful of posts, it does indeed get hard to track back to who is answering what where and why.
Please explain why you answered my question without quoting me, disregarding your own advice. Immediately before answering me you spoke of the need to quote who you answer, yet as a player yourself you immediately did not. Gamewise, this quoting is so important that you felt the need to repost additional IC advice just three posts later. Yet the two people who answered between your posts, all they did was do exactly what you had done instead of what you ICly said to do. Do you see some value as a player in the confusion that not quoting when answering someone causes, which as an IC you must speak against?
Imp: I was, and am, posting from my phone (PFP). That is already painfully hard to without quoting.
... I see, and sympathize. I hope to help make this as easy as possible for you, especially considering your pains and afflictions.
Failure to quote seems to increase confusion, and inability or refusal to follow an IC's advice, especially strongly given advice, which that IC believes takes little effort and has said cannot be stressed enough - this is confusing to me, in addition to the confusion failing to quote creates.
I do not believe confusion serves our full community of robots, and thus deeply misdoubt that we are on the same team. But I do hope for you a swift and painless end to your afflictions, both those known and those suspected.
Do you by any chance think that your malfunctions can be cured, or is destruction indeed the only viable option for you?
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