Merry Christmas, Mafia Subforum!
I have a gift for you.
I am often told the following:
NUKE, you controversial yet lovable bastard, stop talking about game theory and play the fucking game!
To which I respond: Yeah, ok. I then stop discussing game theory (or at least try to)
But!
A fire burns within me. A fire desperate to dispel the reign of simple and seductive assumptions which plague this subforum which I enjoy so. A fire which wants to discuss game theory until the cows come home, then send the cows away again and continue discussion!
So!
My gift to you, Mafia Subforum, is this, the Mafia Game Theory Discussion Thread.
Where you can espouse any sort of controversial theory you want, argue about it as loudly as you please, without people accusing you of A)Disrupting Gameplay and B)Being scum for espousing a controversial theory.
My hope is that we can actually reach useful conclusions on things, and assemble this knowledge in such a manner as that it can be easily perused by newly graduated members of Beginners (the New School) as that they might gain our (the, for sake of argument, Old School) wisdom, improving the level of play all around and generally making things more fun all around.
This sounds useful, yes? I'm sure you are all sitting around a christmas tree or whatever stuffing your faces with holiday food at the moment- indeed, I am about to go and do so- but when you tire of being kind and friendly and feel like shouting at people for being SO INCREDIBLY STUPID feel free to come in here and tell me what a moron I am for espousing:
Theory: RVS is stupid, and we shouldn't do it. It clutters the day and provides almost no useful information. A mix of day starting strategies (such as light roleplaying or, indeed, game theory discussion) would be better.