I'm a bit bored and have been reviewing the thread... so this is something of a brain dump for my thoughts on each player so far (in order the are posted in the start of this thread):
TP42
theplague42 in post #13 wrote:FoS: Mute
because he didn't RVS in his first post and placed the second vote on me afterward. I would vote for you but I don't want to be yelled at for OMGUS. Happpened to me in my first game.
theplague42in post #16 wrote:2+3. I've read some games where people have been attacked harshly for "being defensive" in the RVS. And my FoS was pointing out something suspicious, not a die-hard scumtell. I am not going to cause myself to get attacked this early without a solid reason for voting.
First he claims he would vote but is scared of OMGUS vote retaliation, then backtracks to just pointing out something suspicious. This is all during RVS, so it's taken with a grain of salt, but I'm chalking it up to being a newbie (like me) and trying to stay off peoples radar.
That's really the only thing I've found interesting, otherwise it's been general banter.
Neuky
He hasn't been quite as active as some of us, so there's really not much to go on yet. He seemes suspicious of Mute's table still a little bit, but not as much as me.
Mute
We went at it over the table for a while. He's responded decently, but I guess I get a funky vibe off how he claims to be playing the game (scum until proven town) and the table in general. I honestly still can't see how the table benefits anyone but scum... ESPECIALLY when everyone starts out as scum in the table. If the idea of scumhunting is to press specific people until you find someone who is scum, then that table seems quite backwards to me. You press them and their number goes down until you decide they are town. If you press them and just get a bunch of null reads, then they are still going to be scum. Or do you consider a null read to be in town favor based on the chances of them being town > being scum.
Another issue I have with the table, and I've expressed it before, is that it seems to just add a bunch of clutter to the thread rather than just saying "I think x and y are scummy, and here is why" If you post the table, I feel like you'd need to post a reason for every single persons standing in the table. I think it would be too easy to manipulate the table to scum advantage.
Lastly, you never told me what my rating is in your table after the events of last night :p
Angry Scientist
Another person who hasn't really posted that much. He hasn't really revealed anything about himself. I noticed that his registration date is about the same as mine, but he hasn't indicated if he has ever played this before. He seems to talk as though he has, but who knows.
@Angry:
Have you played mafia before? If so, where? etc
Naben
He hasn't even confirmed yet, so yeah...
Stels
I get a townie vibe from him for his encouragement, but that could easily just be the SE trying to help me out.
Ty
I think my thoughts about Ty are fairly clear. He says a lot of stuff, but the content isn't really there. Someone else pointed out that he might just be taking on the role of teacher more than player, but I'm not buying it totally. If he's still playing to win, then I think his words against Nacho speak volumes compared to his general thoughts on gameplay. Certainly he's sharing some good general tips for town, but he's had tunnel vision on nacho from the beginning. He's pointed out some minor stuff with other players logic, but it hasn't been worth mentioning really. Is his tunnel vision because he is scum and wants to oust nacho because he (as the IC) is the one most likely to catch on to his games?
Nacho
I feel like he's really playing his IC role more than the game. He's definitely tossing out good thoughts and make people question eachother. He's also defended himself well against Ty. No one else has really questioned him though.
This thought just crossed my mind....
Are Nacho AND Ty scum?
This thought is definitely interesting to me now though. Nacho unvoted pretty quickly after we realized I missed the unvote and Ty wasn't gone. If the day really shouldn't end that's something a more experienced player would be better able to decide, but I would think that if you were confident enough to throw down a vote for someone and they almost get lynched, you'd want to stick to it and see if you can get the lynch there.
I also noticed the fact that despite calling out Nacho in every post, Ty hasn't voted for him yet.
Maybe it's a ploy between the two of them (both scum) to try and draw someone out to NK. (If so, I'm probably screwed now, lol) It seems like it'd be pretty safe for a scum to vote for his buddy up to L-2 and the find some reason to unvote at L-1. (I gave him a pretty good one, in this case). Meanwhile, you get to learn what the other players are picking up on and who is most likely a threat to your evil plot to destroy the town.
Nachomamma8 wrote:@Ty:
Vote: Ty
You've failed to explain in your post why not answering your questions has any scum intent behind it. You also failed to answer my question. Instead, you posted a case on me which is concluded with a question: why shouldn't you lynch me? Well, if you're town you don't feel confident enough to put a vote with that case, so you'll only end up making yourself look like scum. But if you ARE scum, then go ahead. I'd love to see you try to lynch me.
In only his second post, Nacho voted for Ty simply because he didn't answer one post well enough.
Didn't two other people says that it's scummy to challenge others to form a wagon against youself?
Isn't that what Nacho just did above?
Is this one of those risky gambits you were talking about before nacho?
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It occurs to me now that the scum is probably already submitting their NK with my name on it... and whether that happens or not I suppose doesn't really mean anything. If I get NKd, it'll make Nacho and Ty look extra suspicious, even though the real scum might simply be using that as a cover for themselves.
/end brain dump