Poi wrote:If you vote for someone else, then they may speak up about it, which can be a good way to get a read on at least one of the players involved in the situation. Voting for oneself doesn't put anyone else on the defensive (albeit a very petty defensive), thus taking away one of the great aspects of the random vote.
I guess we'll have to disagree on the way we think then. I like the way I do RVS, and even you would have to admit this game hasn't suffered for it.
Gir wrote:Because a random vote for somebody else creates Antagonism, Strife, Discussion! If you vote for yourself, who is your antagonist to argue with? Yourself?
Unless someone else picks up on it, like Poiven here, it is mnot going to generate discussion.
Plus, if you vote for another Person, you have two persons involved. The possibility that one of the two is scum is higher than if you have a selfvote. If you get two players in an argument, the probability of a slip up is higher.
So I agree with Poiven here - vote for other People are better then votes for oneself.
Doom de doom doom doom...
Unless someone actually takes a random vote seriously then voting someone on page two isn't guaranteed to generate anything. Even if you do generate a conversation, it doesn't guarantee any other people will get involved either. However, self voting is a full town topic. All it takes is one person to chime in and I'm guaranteed to get MORE then two people involved in the conversation. You say a conversation with two people has an increased chance of having scum on it, what about one involving six? Or eight?
You also have to realize that in RVS the majority of players are either omitting random votes, or voting for other people. By doing something completely different it adds a unique property the game would otherwise not have, which adds an infinite number of possibilities. The more we do to promote discussion, the wider range of discussion we get, and the more varied the results are. This increases our reads of each other exponentially.
Very long story short, you can't honestly argue if a self vote is better or worse then a RVS vote. It all depends on your preference and playstyle. My Random vote is always on myself because I know the potential it has behind it.
Anka wrote:I'm getting general town reads on Korlash and Poiven so far.
seems fairly early to be getting reads... Still i have to agree with Poi. I find commenting on something you don't actually think is important to be a town thing. Scum generally have a motive behind their actions and a fear of putting too much out. Like I said, fairly early to make any decisions but it's definitely a good start.
