Few of my honest (I say honest because some are rather blunt) thoughts from reading since I left. I'm writing this as I read so I'm sorry if some points are repeated.
DLMF wrote:FoS on Raffles, for being overly aggressive in scum hunting.
Can I ask why that is such a bad thing?
DLMF wrote:If both are scum, they voted/fos each other early on as a distancing tactic.Now both are confident the other is town (raffles post 33 and vryklan post 9)
Isn't it more plausible that since we are best mates in real life, we were voting each other for kicks? Post 33 is still pretty much first page of the game. I find it amazing that you can deduce my current stance on Vryklan from that post.
John wrote:I'm posting to show im not lurking, but have no information at this time to contribute. Everyone is bringing up logical points, and I am unable to tell who I should trust. I'll try to come up with something by tonite.
Translation:
I'm lurking, but I'm posting a filler to stay off the lurker-list. I'm lazy and can't be bothered to find anything to comment on, let alone make an analysis. I can't form my own opinions, I'd much rather go along with what others are saying. But as it stands, there's no general direction of flow, so I'm staying out of this.
Peter wrote: For scum, this is the essence of the game. How do you appear town when you have opposite goals? You have to put on your "town" face, and this is harder than you might think.
Wrong
Peter wrote: Good vanilla town players don't care if they get lynched. They speak the truth and do their best to logically out scum. This is the difference.
and wrong.
For the first one: Is it any concern of the scum what happens in the day? Some nice mafioso might look out for their fellow scums, but most just gets on with it. What has day got to do with their objectives? Just so long as they themselves don't get lynched, all is fine. Scums have night kills. They don't need lynching to kill. Then a good scums just forget that they are scums themselves and get on with scum-hunting as they would do normally.
For the second one: Townies
should
care about being mislynched. Assuming a game with no vig, if townies are only ones getting lynched then how the hell are you going to kill the mafias? It sounds obvious, but lots of people seem to miss this point.
Guardian wrote:hippocrit
Oh man am I the only one who is dirty-minded?
Peter wrote: The death of a scum player is significantly more important early game than the death of a town player. At this point town shouldn't be scared of death, whereas Scum are.
Okay the first part I agree with, but the second? Wouldn't scums be scared of being lynched
all the time
? I don't know about anyone else but I have never seen a reckless scum.
I agreee with Peter's stance on regarding the revealing of information. However I think there's a balance you have to strike. You can't expect the town to pick up on
all
the scum tells. Also, a better skill is to develop a discussion and accuse inconsistencies.