Infiltration: Black Ops Field Training

If anyone's wondering what I was doing, now all the bs from infiltrators is over, I'll just quickly state.

I scouted D.D.D the first night, and told him everything (though he didn't reply). I then told him I'd send pm's to people and bcc him in so we could watch for mistakes and work in the background. That's basically my one use as scout done - a person who couldn't be sure of me, but who I hoped would help me if we stumbled over evidence.

I voted Lazybum just as a place holder and because we basically had to vote. No big idea there. Spartacus (infiltrator) spurred the line that me voting outright, clearly and without particular intent - and with the clear idea that Lazybum probably wouldn't be killed (except that first day's ridiculous 3 person vote that I didn't predict), meant I was probably an infiltrator or half-assing the game somehow.

Which you guys bought, hook, line and sinker.

I'd be interested if that was actually any kind of clue or not regarding Spartacus, since they always seem pretty oblique to me.

Heh, I was right for once. Somewhat glad I didn't get you killed with a double take-down now.

Spartacus blatantly said he didn't want bandwagons then participated in one. No one picked up on it. Spartacus also supremely endorsed Devourawr's posts as being always on the mark, but even when he was shown to be an infiltrator, Devourawr somehow escaped notice on those grounds.

One infiltrator night was clearly a person takeover, which I'm surprised wasn't obvious. It pretty much screwed things that it was D.D.D though.

McGuyver and Metal Smith... I'm pretty surprised you weren't infiltrators. You kinda did their job for them tbh. There's like pages of you guys posting and double posting without the infils needing to do much at all.

In conclusion, most of you seem to love histrionics, are confused by critical thinking and/or text interpretation, and the lack of roleplay severely hurt the game because people just threw up pm's and decided to have a slanging match. I think this went terribly as people hardly looked back for clues or evidence which is actually the cornerstone of this game.

 

That and him and flashe never bothering to start a sentence with a capital.

 

Here are the PMs I exchanged with Candles.

I realized after sending the PM containing "The problem is that if he succeeds in rallying the troops to vote Spartacus and if Spartacus is an infiltrator, then you're dead the next day unless I scout McGyver tonight and tell him the next day that you're innocent" that this method wouldn't work because McGyver would have you killed before I could tell him that you are innocent. However, if McGyver lived after that day then I almost certainly would have figured out my mistake in time and I might have risked it to send a message to McGyver telling him that Candles is base crew even without knowing for sure what class McGyver is.

Other than that, I tried to lie low in the game thread and reveal as little as possible. I had to put myself out there to defend Candles though.

Also, after I scouted Metruption, I sent a message called "Metruption is an Infiltrator" to Metal Smith and Devourawr. Oops.

 

spartacus and devourawr didnt escape me and mcgyvers suspicions. the third night i wanted to scout dev but mcgyver wanted me to do spartacus. turns out either one would've worked

LOL NO ONE FIGURED IT OUT ACCORDING TO IKALX. we had no idea it couldve been ddd. it couldve been metalsmith

well when one refuses to change their vote regardless of logic it looks suspicious. it also gets annoying when someone throws a wrench into your plan.



i hope empty does a debriefing and points so he can deduct me points for
"griefing"

 

looking at imac's pm, its obvious that candles was pretty much wrong alot, and flip flopped on trusting players (why would dev ever be trusted, why trust metalsmith when he killed the rifleman). and you wasted a scout power on someone who should've died when mcgyver was proven right (metruption)

 

Yeah you, but aside from your Hodor, it looked pretty much like no one else really picked up on it.

Eh, I guess from that and imac's post there was a lot going on behind the scenes. So maybe I've been a bit of a douche about it, and I'm sorry about that.

Still, I don't really like how everyone seems to take all their ideas to pm, and what ends up on the actual forum is a bit of a slapstick shouting match. That means anyone outside the loop (which is probably half the basecrew) don't get any idea of what's going on and so can't make informed decisions.

Which...sorta seems to have happened.

Edit: And I guess I'm still pretty sore that people voted me even though it was pretty obvious not to. I mean, I don't mind being voted off for spite, or randomly killed, or just plain dicked on by infils, but when it's done in the face of evidence and it just looks like blind...disregard for anything? It makes me pretty annoyed...like I don't feel people care at all (about the game).

Though I recently read a thread about the one where I betrayed a medic and rifleman to be the last infil standing, so in retrospect, yeah you probably should vote me off first every time. You probably made the right call.

 

My personal opinion:

The charges system was really good. This was probably the most interesting game of infiltration for a while, and I felt it was pretty close cut.

Obviously getting killed on the first night by the RIFLEMAN is pretty shitty. If it's infils then I'm not too bothered, but when you're on the side of the base crew and you take a total shot in the dark on the first night (not to mention using your only charge, which is griefing the base crew in itself), that's really fucking stupid. Metalsmith took out the 3-charge Engineer on the first night with absolutely no evidence or reason to. Throughout the game you pretty much hindered the base crew at every turn. Ikalx wasn't much better either.

Seriously guys, Rifleman is on the side of the base crew, he's not a fucking lone wolf playing the game for himself.

Anyway, I have more to say but I'm already super late for work, fuck you guys. Also banned Paradox for 2 weeks for deadposting before the game ended.

 

That sucked, fucking getting lynched by both the infiltrators and the crew.

 

I trusted Devourawr mostly because I didn't have much reason to not trust him and he mentioned the charges. And regardless of what Metal Smith did, I was still right that he was an innocent.

I was also right about Metruption and Predator, and I never had a great amount of suspicion for any of the base crew. If anything, I was most correct than I thought I was.

 

well good on you for trusting someone who mentions charges after both ikalx (sorta) and mcgyver mentioned them. you voted to kill mcgyver too

also didnt you guys get a pm saying ddd called himself the engineer? im wondering if this pm was only sent to me because it really contradicts what devourawr said. im curious why you didnt vote the last day

 

Or you can have two guys do all the work, one act like a raving lunatic and create a smoke screen for the other one.

I didn't see any scout collusion at all.

 

So, I told you guys, and pointed out the best, most direct evidence in the game regarding devorawr.

>_>

 

Complete, yes they got the pm but come on... Of course we had 4 scouts. That much was obvious.....

Empty- you could've just let us die rather than dragging the game out. You have no idea how frustrating it is when people have no common sense. Not to mention throwing the game by targeting the best engineer and the rifleman.

The teamswitch mechanic made it pretty unrecoverable though. If we hadve killed Devourawr like I wanted then I would've trusted ddd since he was presumably the last engineer like I said. Edit: especially after specifically saying there were 4 infiltrators.

 

I would like to make the suggestion that in future games we vote metal Smith out on the first night and paradox on the second, since metal did much worse than paradox ever has

 

Hahaha spartacuses chat log. Not only did metal kill the best engineer and the best rifle (and waste his kill) but he then showed spartacus his role pm.... Which might I add is against the rules in the op.

 

I agree that it's a bit op but keep in mind that ddd didn' have the ability to set infiltrator targets and he couldn't win alone.

Here is what Empty told us:

 

Change the word mind control to bribe.

It sounds a lot better.
I would make it a percentage so the person your bribing isn't just forced onto the bad guy team.