In post 1865, Frogsterking wrote:I think you're doing it correctly but it could be supplemented with other methods more, and your lack of organization and attention to detail is undermining your success. I suspect another dynamic is happening as well where you doubt your ability to do something because you didn't get the results you were expecting, but your ability to do the thing is fine, you weren't getting the results because of lack of planning, organization, and attention to detail. In this case your scum hunting ability wasn't a problem, it was your ability to execute it.
the lack of organization you saw here is mainly caused by me replacing in late game and having to rely pretty much only on a fast skim through the thread in order to get reads.
I skimmed through the thread, got what I got and just went with it.
Normally, I try to implement VCA and interactions in my reads as well so I don’t think that’s the main issue here. I don’t know what else I could add to fix my read accuracy...
from what I’ve seen till now, the main issue with my emotion based reads might be the day phase length on this forum. I usually play on a forum with 72h days max so most posts I analyze are “spontaneous” + the games tend to be a bit more emotional as well.
The day phases here are long enough to make stress a smaller factor, thus make players more likely to write better posts despite it.
and I’ve seen quite a few players on this site who don’t show emotions at all (or show them very rarely)... like luca, volxen, maybe irrelephant?
It seems that this way of reading can’t be applied to them at all
another problem is me misjudging people’s capabilities... but that’s something I’m still working on
bugs didn’t seem like a player I’d apply the reasoning above to
IF owe (who was in my PoE) is scum, considering the previous game I’ve read, I’d say that the results are pretty inconclusive
but if lunar is scum here, there’s probably something seriously wrong with my methods
idk what could it be caused by then :/
