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[Zangi]

Well, this is great, all the other mush does is lie down and spam spores so I can't make any >:L

The powah of teamwork at the best.  Just have him killed if the other one is going to be useless and you are having trouble doing other stuff/your character ain't the best for other shenanigans.  It'll make you never look like a mush if you are convincing enough about it.

Conversion is paved with the blood of those who get in the way, though it would mean they'd have access to more research.

[Aoi]

After my first round as a mush... I'd have to say it's WAY more interesting to play as mush. I made a few mistakes early on, but brushed it off by saying I was a newbie. Then managed to get one of the social leaders converted, which worked pretty well.

Can rooms be selectively vented? I was standing around in the front corridor for the night and woke up to be asphyxiated via lack of oxygen, when there should've been enough to for a few more cycles.

[Zangi]

Heh, best to pass yourself off as a noob at the pre-show start of the game, then you have an excuse to 'bumble around'.  Probably won't work as well if you are in a premade and everyone knows who is playing who though.

... I really shouldn't have taken any skill as mush at the start of the game.  But then, it is my first after all.  Also, I'm doing poorly at advancing the agenda.

[Aoi]

Oh, I do. Doesn't hurt that I AM actually a noob too, though I had some people question that. =P

You can get premades? I thought Mush was intentionally trying to anonymize everybody.

I held off on taking any mush skills until I converted somebody else-- then I turned on Anonymush so, unless somebody had REALLY lucky timing, they wouldn't know that there were now three.

[Zangi]

There is a way to get into premade groups, though it has some weird way of working... where you need enough people for 2 ships, minimum(32).  At least this way, you are not entirely sure who dropped where.  (They'll probably still anonynize you.)
This of course doesn't take into account the fact that these players may be communicating/coordinating via IRC/Messenger and... 
There may or may not be apps that work like what you saw at die2nite.  But, I expect that anything that passes muster would be clamped down so hard, cause it is PvP, not PvE.  So it doesn't overly favor one side or the other.

More info here: Aptly named Castings, like a movie play thing.


Yea, way I figure it, I could have saved the skill slot to convert one of the inactives to be the mush instead of me, since the other mush put 2 spores on him already.

[Muz]

I got converted to mush last game. Was really fun. But to actually have fun, you have to screw glory points and go for a slow win. Mushifying people give you very little points, as well as bringing the ship to Sol. It's really easy to get glory the easy way - just hijack the ship or fill it up with the wrong amount of fuel.

The best trick is just to waste people's AP. Make them run around including running after you towards the end of the game. Jin Su is especially good for this because everyone listens to him. If you make everyone panicked enough, they even leave their friends out in patrol ships. If you're especially smart, get Chun into a patrol ship and leave her out there. One of my favorite tricks was getting Janice to waste tons of AP comforting me as Jin Su mush and leading Ian into a wild goose chase hunting down mush, to the point where he forgot to water the plants.

I'd be happy to join any Castings if anyone ever does one. Enjoyed the game enough that I got gold days.

[stoney834]

It seems all you have to do to win as mush is just not bother to do your job.  So far every ship I've been on has too many inactive players or people who just ignore their roles to survive.  Hopefully after a few weeks the players that just quit after logging in once will be gone, because it seems like it would be fun with a full crew.  A B12 casting sounds good, especially if we can get some role-playing going.  The only problem is getting enough tickets to do it.   

[baruk]

 There's nothing quite like finding an oxygen planet just before running out, and getting the "Daedalus oxygen pump broke down" result on your expedition. You can't explore it again (game logic..), so you have to desperately find another oxygen planet before everyone dies.

[deoloth]

Also nothing like playing Freida, who finds a near perfect planet with 11 oxygen left, but the commander will not go there because he cant see it on his astro terminal and he will only go to one he can find on his terminal. Also he is busy spending his AP piloting against hunters, and just running around the ship as well.

So yeah. Expecting an oxygen deprived death soon. Assuming someone does not shoot me for killing him, because that is something really bloody tempting for me to do right now.

-Edit-

Oh yeah. We also have a Hua who refuses to pilot because it is a *waste* of AP to pilot (80% hit chance) instead of using the turrets (30% hit chance).

I hate this crew so much. The only thing they have done well was manage to kill mush Janice after she spored Finola in the medlab.

[baruk]

  We just lost one of the most active, useful players because one of the semi-active, clueless players took the last oxygen out of storage - either through selfishness or incompetence (not even a mush going by deduction). Come friendly hunters and blast this hopeless ship into smithereens..

[Muz]

Oh yeah.. my current ship's list of fail:

- Paola is a hyperactive newbie who insists on announcing every change to the inventory.
- They got the researches wrong.
- Almost Day 3 and no Antispore Gas or Stainless Apron
- Raluca went and did the research for scrap metal despite being told to research something else. She punched the crippled guy in his sleep (complained to the crew about the punching and Jin Su says that everyone punches Terrence when he's asleep). She tried to fly a plane out without pilot skills. She hung around the dorms making herself depressed. Still not sure if she's a mush.
- Stephen just randomly stabbed Janice to death.
- Hua went out on a pilot ship and didn't shoot any hunters.
- Jin Su went all "Hey I found a planet with O2, fill up the tanks." Someone filled up the tanks and he made the jump. We accidentally left Hua behind. Good news: She turned out to be a Mush.
- Chao's sleeping in beds.

I'm tempted to go on a rampage and kill half the remaining crew.

EDIT: Killed one and turns out he was not mush :x Well, I'll just rest and then kill another. There's already 3 mush on day 4, probably going to be 4 by tomorrow.

[Rabid_Cog]

We have three afk people just hanging around on the bridge: Chun, Finola and Eleesha. Haven't seen Terrence this game, I suspect he is afk in Bravo Dorm, Roland began randomly attacking people and had to be put down (he wasn't mush), Raluca went afk and died to depression and our Ian is critically noob and does nothing but nurse his plants and run around searching for hydropots (day 5).

I strongly suspect Gioele is a Mush, but after a lot of careful preperation, we ambushed him in the Medbay only to realize that Ian had decided to rock up there for absolutely no reason at all and our attacks now cost 3 AP instead of 1.

Now we are getting mobbed by 15 hunters and we simply don't have time to deal with his Mushiness, so he can go burn down the ship for all I care.

[stoney834]

We have three afk people just hanging around on the bridge: Chun, Finola and Eleesha. Haven't seen Terrence this game, I suspect he is afk in Bravo Dorm, Roland began randomly attacking people and had to be put down (he wasn't mush), Raluca went afk and died to depression and our Ian is critically noob and does nothing but nurse his plants and run around searching for hydropots (day 5).

I strongly suspect Gioele is a Mush, but after a lot of careful preperation, we ambushed him in the Medbay only to realize that Ian had decided to rock up there for absolutely no reason at all and our attacks now cost 3 AP instead of 1.

Now we are getting mobbed by 15 hunters and we simply don't have time to deal with his Mushiness, so he can go burn down the ship for all I care.

That sounds very similar to what is happening in my game...

Still we've survived longer than any other ship I've been on.

[Muz]

The devs said that this chronic noobness is part of the game. I mean, hell, I'm a newbie too and there are plenty of good ones aboard the last ship I was on. But there are noobs and there are idiots. There's just so many players who write in sms txt yet have gold/silver accounts, meaning that they actually played the game enough to pay for it.

Ian is critically noob and does nothing but nurse his plants and run around searching for hydropots (day 5).

I strongly suspect Gioele is a Mush, but after a lot of careful preperation, we ambushed him in the Medbay only to realize that Ian had decided to rock up there for absolutely no reason at all and our attacks now cost 3 AP instead of 1.

That sounds perfectly Ian with some roleplay, but I suspect he's not doing much roleplay there.

[Zangi]

Interesting, they release the account names of people in the game a week or so after it is finished.