In post 787, nancy wrote: In post 785, OkaPoka wrote:getting a townread on me is not important as long as there is a better lynch today
I don't think I could possibly disagree with this sentiment more than I do.
Your most important job as town, the number 1 thing on your to-do list, your first and highest priority, if you do one thing and absolutely nothing else in the game, should be to clear yourself as town to the rest of town.
You don't have to catch all the mafia. You don't have to catch ANY mafia. If you clear yourself as town, if the rest of town is able to see you as town, you've done your job, that's good enough.
I disagree with this. The way I play, my #1 priority is to help sort people. That way, even if I get mislynched or nightkilled, I've still contributed to helping other townies. If I did put being obvtown above hunting, then if I ended up at MYLO or LYLO and didn't have any good reads, that just makes it hard for me to help win the game. Plus, I'm genuinely not sure how to be obvtown, because that's dependent upon the specific players in the game and what they think is obvtown. Case in point, your renewed(?) scum read on me - which I'll address in my next post - when I feel like I've been as transparent (and transparency is towny, right?) as I can be.
In post 815, nancy wrote: In post 785, OkaPoka wrote:getting a townread on me is not important as long as there is a better lynch today
God I read this post again and I'm like.
This is, to a T, 100%, exactly what scum mindset looks like.
All scum need each dayphase is to dodge the lynch, be a little more town than someone else, make someone else look scummier than they are.
I just don't know whether OkaPoka is actually scum for saying it.
Like, can he really be having that thought as town here? Can he honestly think that it's not important for me or anyone else to get a townread on him?
It's like, kind of inherent to our condition as town to want to be townread. We don't like people thinking we're mafia, getting our alignment wrong. It feels bad. But Oka just... doesn't care?
This is like. Too Wolfy To Be A Wolf type territory, which is all through his ISO, not just this post. And at a certain point I think like... well, maybe he is actually just a wolf?
Ugh.
From my perspective, I don't care that much about being town read, either. I mean, it sucks to be scum read, but if I get mislynched, my alignment will be revealed and people will look back over my posts, and if I've hunted well enough, maybe I can still help solve the game. I also feel like trying so hard to be town read can be a little scummy, because I feel like scum have even more motivation to be town read than town - if they can get locktowned, they've basically won the game (I would know, this is basically how town lost my first newbie game). So, yeah, it's important to be town read, but some people have a hard time being town read and are better at hunting.
Rather than trying to funnel everyone into doing this one thing, why not encourage people to play the best version of their own games? I mean, there's no one right way to play mafia, right?
