Packbat

Packbat is a USian nerd who never got a chance to play Mafia offline, and decided to take the opportunity online. He has been flaky in other contexts, but aims not to be here - but if he is, well, hopefully his replacement won't suffer the consequences.

He found out about Mafiascum through the rationality blog Less Wrong, where a user posted a link to Wine In Front Of Me in response to a game theory post.

He has AIM and Yahoo! Messenger accounts named after the Inspector from Dorothy Sayer's mystery novel Have His Carcase. He tried putting this info up on the Wiki, but immediately was inundated with junk invites.

You can also watch him edit this Wiki in his alter ego User:Packbat, or make appropriate remarks on his character or lack thereof in the following section.

Reputation

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Mafia Games

In Queue:

• Newbie Game Queue as new IC.
• Reverse Mafia (Mini Theme)

Active:

• None at present.

Finished:

• There Goes the Neighborhood (Mini Theme) - killed on Page 31, Night 3, Commuter.

Completed:

• Won:
  • Sherlock Holmes Mafia - survived.
    • Primary lesson learned: Revision to lesson of Ozy and Millie: don't be ambivalent about your partner's fakeclaims - wishy-washiness is scummy. Most townies tend to believe claims, at least provisionally.
    • Secondary lesson learned: Be willing to change your mind if you notice that you were obviously wrong.
  • Seacore's Color Concentration Mafia (Mini Theme) - killed on Page 9, Night 2, drop of yellow (vanilla at time of death).
    • Primary lesson learned: before you try a gambit as scum, estimate the probability of it working all the way to victory. A gambit that guarantees you won't be lynched today but guarantees you will be lynched in a few days is worthless.
    • Secondary lesson learned: It is very easy for scum to out themselves with their interactions with a partner's wagon.
• Lost:
  • Newbie Game 1027 - replaced Maniamax on page 23, Day 2; lynched on page 31, Day 4 at MyLo, Vanilla Townie.
    • Primary lesson learned: A claim is worth exactly nothing when it is impossible to have a counterclaim.
  • Newbie Game 1025 - Doctor, killed N1.
    • Primary lesson learned: Beware of those who slip under the radar, intentionally or accidentally.
  • Newbie Game 1037 - Vanilla Townie, NKed during the second night.
    • Primary lesson learned: It's not difficult to find connections between players, regardless of slot - they don't mean much unless one of the two has already flipped scum.
    • Secondary lesson learned: Policy lynches are sometimes justified.
  • Open 270 - Medical Mafia (variation: sanity not revealed on death) - endgamed D5, Naive Doctor.
    • Primary lesson learned: Wagon analysis at endgame is pro.
    • Secondary lesson learned: Don't waste too much time trying to analyze open setups unless it's really certain to work.
    • Tertiary lesson learned: Play it friggin' safe at LyLo/MyLo with night actions.
  • Ozy and Millie Mafia - Mafia Goon, killed N2.
    • Primary lesson learned: Don't be too skeptical of your partner's fakeclaim - that's an easy way for people to link you together.
  • Newbie Game 1075 - lynched on Page 35, Day 3, Vanilla Town.
    • Primary lesson learned: Never fall for the bus - if the lynch hits scum, check to see if one of the players decided they were scum without evidence.
    • Secondary lesson learned: Keep track of PR hints - you might just catch a fakeclaim without officially outing them.

Off-site:

• Won:
  • Mafia of Dune (California)- Freman (Vanilla Townie, username "Packbat"), survived.
    • This was a tough game, particularly since nearly everyone was a newbie and the Cop was killed N1 -- but rather proving chesskid3's advice from Open 270, pure scumhunting was able to nail both Harkonnen after the mislynch D1.
• Lost:
  • None so far.

Mish-Mash Games

• Modding:
  • Roll to Dodge: Zombie Apocalypse (with theplague42).
  • Classical Cryptography (with theplague42).
  • Mediocrity and Mediocrity 2 (solo).

• Playing:
  • Ticket to Ride: Europe

• History:
  • Was playing Once and Twice Now Rumble, but game appears to be idle.