So, Who Was Everybody?

[Evan]

Now that the game is complete, who were you? I am especially eager to learn this, as most people I still don't know who they are.

Did you like having anonymity?

What was your favorite game moment?

[cid]

As most of you have guessed or assumed right, I'm Stabby! I was throwing out hints here and there, but was trying to avoid confirming my identity throughout this season.

Since this is my "first" season playing this game, anonymity didn't affect me as much. I only knew people who are in BRH, but I still didn't know how they played. It was fun hinting to the BRHers that I was Stabby, as I am aware that in all the past seasons, I was one of the "inactives".

My favorite moment is Flynn randomly coming out of nowhere and voting for Captain Jack Aubrey. He practially saved me and allowed me to start my trolling as the "fake" Kraken.
 

[pandapirate]

True Engies hurr.

I liked the fake identities for the most part.

Worst Game moment was that friggin challenge and seeing sid meier pick out 4 of us!! I was so pissed.
Second worst game moment was the week when we really needed mcgillicutty and/or annnnny other mutineer to vote with us.  Mcgillicutty decided to be creative and it ended up killing one of us.  It was one of the first weeks when we started to get heat. I was pretty pissed.

I didn't really have a specific best moment, however I enjoyed the feeling of finally being on a winning baddie team. After last season, I never really knew what that's like. This season we had it for like.. 3 or 4 weeks.

Kudos goes to Landlubber. In a way I was rooting for the 1-man team. Way to play!

Thanks Evan for another fun season of Mildville.

[cid]

Do you think the mutineers would have stayed alive longer if you guys let those 4 mutineers die to the votes? Since you were already 1 mutineer down, This would have left you with 3 unknown mutineers for everyone else to find and hunt.

Also, I got Rupert McGillicutty (aka Commando) to vote for Jack Tappers via private message. Sorry about that : )

[landlubber]

I am Neutrino and Cid is Stabby. We're both brothers and we shared a lot of info throughout the game. I told Stabby early on that I was the Kraken and we decided to have fun with it and see how much we can manipulate the game


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Part I: Pirate Killing Phase

At this point, it was a free-for-all. We had no idea who the mutineers were and we were just randomly killing people. The first targeted attack from the Kraken was actually targeted at Commando (killing Commando has been a time-honored BRH tradition). For whatever reason, we thought Commando was Fluffy Rob and the rest is Mildvillian History.


A few things happened here that let me stay alive longer than I should have:
1) framing vitaminc paid off
2) DPR not jailing anyone benefitted us but was not our doing.


Part II: Mutineer Hunt - The Turning Point

A couple of significant events happened here. Most notably, the "Guess the Mutineers" challenge provided a lot of insight into who were the mutineers. As a Pirate/Kraken duo, we had no idea who were the mutineers. But with everyone posting their mutineer guesses and sidmeier's winning entry, everyone eventually found out who was a goodie and who was a baddie.

Some other notable mutineer screw-ups were:

- Captain Jack Audrey somehow screwing up timestamps/posts in his screenshots - DEAD
- Eghot speaking up to defend his own kind - DEAD
- Commando/Rupert McGillicutty accidentally "guessing" exactly 8 mutineers for the tiebreaker question - DEAD


Part III: The Kraken Hunt Begins

After Evan decided to merge the two sides, Jack Tappers and his band of mutineers were really butt-hurt from what the Kraken did to them. Luckily, the vitaminc and DPR incidents from the early game bought me a couple of weeks of safety. After those two died, the ex-mutineers turned their attention to Cid. After an unsuccessful attempt at killing Cid, Cid decided to go full-throttle Kraken trolling mode. This worked for my benefit but we knew it couldn't last and our luck ran out today.


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Did you like having anonymity?
I didn't really like the anonymity but eventually we just thought of people as their alternate identities.


What was your favorite game moment?
Probably when Cid revealed the list of everyone's identities. It didn't matter at that point, but we worked hard to find out everyone's identities. I'm sure some of you are still wondering how we figured out some people's identities, such as Pegleg/Paula.


I'm willing to do a Q&A if anyone has any questions.

[landlubber]

Here is a high-res picture of the original Kraken image:

[williammccoy]

Thanks for a fun game Evan!

I was Farrell. I knew by loginning in close together it might reveal my identity but I didn't really care if someone figured it out. Evan even asked if I didn't mind for a challenge but he went with Fluffy Rob instead.

In general, I didn't like the anonymous part. Too many people had similar names and half the fun for me is figuring out what people are doing based on past behaviors.

I also submitted a picture of the kraken but I didn't see it in the video.  I had e-mailed Evan instead of posting so maybe that didn't count.  I'm not too artistic so I didn't really mind.

My favorite part was my fight with Jack Tappers. I also liked that I was part of the winning vote.

[Evan]

Oct 9, 2015 13:31:53 GMT -8 williammccoy said:

Thanks for a fun game Evan!

I was Farrell. I knew by loginning in close together it might reveal my identity but I didn't really care if someone figured it out. Evan even asked if I didn't mind for a challenge but he went with Fluffy Rob instead.

In general, I didn't like the anonymous part. Too many people had similar names and half the fun for me is figuring out what people are doing based on past behaviors.

I also submitted a picture of the kraken but I didn't see it in the video.  I had e-mailed Evan instead of posting so maybe that didn't count.  I'm not too artistic so I didn't really mind.

My favorite part was my fight with Jack Tappers. I also liked that I was part of the winning vote.

Aww sorry about that. I totAlly whiffed.

My big mistake was making a whopping 8 mutineers. The general rule for this is 1/3 mutineers, but for mildville i forgot that i have to factor in non-players, most of whom would be pirates. It's tough because we (Amer, True, and I) spend dozens of hours trying to make a balanced game, and then I make one mental slip and everything's tilted.

Then I went against my cardinal rule of " dont try to tweak the game once its begun" with that mutineer challenge, and we all see how that worked out. to answer that question i dont think they had a chance of surviving: it was 4 mutineers exposed by that game, one mutineer who had voted with all the mutineers, and two mutineers that were utterly inactive up until that point.

For next time, I have worked out a triple-redundant sign up system that I suspect will weed out almost all, if not all of the people who sign up then go inactive.

[Dread Pirate Rackham]

I'll throw my thanks to Evan too for a great run game! As well as to Amer and True for helping!

Sorry I wasn't more involved, I can't believe I missed the chance for the programming challenge. I really did have a string of insane travel and work. (Everyone needs to play Minecraft: Story Mode next week!!!)

I liked the anonymous, though I didn't guard it particularly carefully. I think it's relevant only a little. People who are loud are still loud. Careful people, still careful.

[Jack Tappers]

Oct 9, 2015 12:30:43 GMT -8 cid said:

Also, I got Rupert McGillicutty (aka Commando) to vote for Jack Tappers via private message. Sorry about that : )

Seriously i want to rip your dick off and make you choke on it

[Jack Tappers]

Oct 9, 2015 13:12:34 GMT -8 landlubber said:

I am Neutrino and Cid is Stabby. We're both brothers and we shared a lot of info throughout the game. I told Stabby early on that I was the Kraken and we decided to have fun with it and see how much we can manipulate the game

I hope there's another Hurricane Sandy

[cid]

Oct 9, 2015 12:30:43 GMT -8 cid said:

Also, I got Rupert McGillicutty (aka Commando) to vote for Jack Tappers via private message. Sorry about that : )

This is also my favorite moment of the game : )

[Jack Tappers]

Okay. I overreacted. But you're not helping. I do have to pull a Ruxin on this one and maintain the call of shenanigans, as well as give the mutineer perspective on the season. I'm not sure who won anymore.

While the boat was rocked at the beginning with the Slaughter of the Silent, but it would have settled because inactives tend to waste time and make it easier for baddies to blend in anyway, so we just got to the meat of the issue faster.

The mutineers began with a clear but rocky course to victory in sight, but the fact of secret identities laid some extra obstacles for us. I mean, who in the fuck would've thought the Kraken would be two people? Anyway, we all revealed our identities to each other in a group message (save for the ones who didn't bother to show up), and frankly I had no idea who anyone else was until my teammates came up with really accurate guesses. But then Cap'n Brownbeard (no relation) tipped the boat over the other way, just like knocking a vending machine over. Purely random entries by every player in that challenge would've yielded a 2/3 chance that 4 or 5 mutineers would be outed by the winning entry. Plus, people had hunches. To us it became a numbers game after that, essentially a race to find the Kraken while we could still control the vote and then cruise to victory once we cut the weekly loss. The route was tenuous, but in sight.

Either someone else suspected it earlier or Commando figured cid was Stabby when Stabby messaged him. He actually texted me asking for advice. I was drunk at that point and told him he may as well fess up to demonstrate good faith which looks p innocent, but still be skeptical of whether cid was a mutineer, and I'm pretty sure in the group message somewhere I quoted the great Costanza, "It's not a lie, if you believe it." But, apparently, Stabby manifested the power of WOLOLO and got him to kill me. You can't trust someone who doesn't have an avatar, especially one whose eventual avatar is of a baddie—even if you ARE a baddie, as we've seen! I forget exactly why I thought cid was the Kraken, but we kept trying, and... yeah, I don't remember much else. My memory after the FOIA challenge and dying is hazy. But goddammit I was right about cid mocking all of you and being untrustworthy so you can SUCK MY DICK, TDPR.

I admit I did not solve your riddle, Ye Brothers of Jersey. I knew there had to be something wrong with someone who actively fucks around and plays up being like a Kraken going for the reverse psychology gambit, but why would they take that risk? The answer: #TeamKraken. Fuckin' 'ell.

That was a cute time-delayed punchline, you goddamn canniving pusfucking sons of bitches.

Good job to those who correctly identified landlubber. I'm still mad at Rupert.

Regarding inactives: The triple-redundant sign-up system is good because if someone signs up and then goes on a business trip to Japan, they'll probably be too busy to do the next sign-up layer. That solves the structural inactives, but there are also willful inactives, who avoid trouble by staying quiet and just show up on Thursday to speed-read the vibes and vote, for example, and they're no fun either. If only there were a trivial task of some sort on the forum that people had to do in order to remain alive each day, and those who miss N days die, so they at least check in once a day. Maybe just post in a check-in thread. And it's up to other players to report people who are missing N days and state exactly which days are missing to you in a PM if they want to kill them. Plus if a secret cabal is reminding its members to check in, someone might spot them at it if they pay close attention.

Oh, and





Edit: Cool, my 200th post. What a nice way to wrap up.

[The Dread Pirate Roberts]

[Jack Tappers]

THC, actually. Helps me calm down and such.

Iocaine, on the other hand...not so good for you.

[The Dread Pirate Roberts]

It doesn't seem to bother me.

[Jack Tappers]

Oct 9, 2015 22:43:21 GMT -8 The Dread Pirate Roberts said:

*grunts muffled by dick*

Peace among worlds to you, too

[eghot]

I am Loki Mike. I thought that if I played it cool, and not cause trouble, I could sneak by. I was out of town during the infamous challenge, and I checked my voice mail and messages with a bunch of frantic messages to do or say something. I apologize for lying to the board and my team and making up fake personal problems.

When our identities were outed, us mutineers had a good plan, and we would have gotten away with it, if not for the pesky pirate booty or whomeever that was. My favorite part of that challenge was causing confusion.

Even though Annie's logic and reasoning about voting was on solid footing, Stinky and I had put up so much bullshit and overwhelmed with shennanigans arounds voting time, I thought we could misdirect a few votes. Stinky Pete had mentioned something about a Wraith, and since new gameplay elements were being included, and I was dead, I thought it would be fun to wreak havoc and drown out reason with nonsense (this is my life's motto).

Commendations to Stabby and Neutrino!

[pandapirate]

Oct 9, 2015 16:46:00 GMT -8 Jack Tappers said:

Oct 9, 2015 12:30:43 GMT -8 cid said:

Also, I got Rupert McGillicutty (aka Commando) to vote for Jack Tappers via private message. Sorry about that : )

Seriously i want to rip your dick off and make you choke on it

I disagree with this, I don't think you can take all the credit.

"you got commando to vote for a mutineer"  How is this possible?  I think commando got himself to vote one of his own.  He knew what he was doing, I think he was trying to hide still and be strategic.  Which is a solid baddie strat, but the baddies were way passed that after we were ousted.  Which I tried to explain to him the same evening.. 

That is my pov anywho.

[pandapirate]

Since he hasn't posted for himself yet, Captain Jack Aubrey is my husband, Josh/Rumfinator.