↑ Eye Urn wrote:
Easy, you pick the person who's only trying to appear to not lurk. Like someone who drops in and posts a brief message on page 3 while only having 1 other post with a random vote and nothing of substance.
VOTE: Deras
It's still pretty early on, but I like the thought process.
Stuff about replacements.
For me, I take a step back for a day or two when someone new replaces in, time permitting, then I read the whole slot again. Some people are very good at turning reads around whether they should be or not.
↑ fferyllt wrote:I'm a little suspicious of goodmorning for getting a townfeel for me as she puts it. My early posts last night were semi-intentionally flaky. My tentative reads she mostly disagreed had basis. As an external observer, to the extent I can get my head there, I'd not have a strong read on someone with my posts at the time she made that post.
1. Disagreeing with someone doesn't mean you're not on the same team.
2. I think they do have basis, but in some cases... I don't know what I was trying to say here, just don't get lulled into a false sense of security.
3. It took me a little while to feel comfortable with having gut reads. Everyone differs. At any rate, it's not like a pg2 Townfeel makes you confTown.
Eye, I find the pace of these games, especially the newbie games to be very slow at times. That said, I also don't like Deras' or Carey's level of engagement so far.
THEY CAN BE SO GLACIAL
As far as activity levels go: everyone has lives. I had it said to me in an early game here that the expectation is for players to be on probably once a day in Newbie games (though more is of course preferable).
↑ Deras wrote:I haven't posted more because I'm not actually sure what kind of behaviour is scummy or not on the first day, specially with all the random stuff that flies around, and I haven't gotten any reads on anyone.
Just post. Don't worry about looking scummy. If you do something that looks scummy, better to find out D1 than D3. Plus there is at least one other person on your team; even if you die, you won't necessarily lose.
Some people form reads later than others. That's cool too. If you notice anything you think is unusual from a player, that's usually a good place to start.
While we have their past behaviour to go on, I wouldn't rely too much on it or they might start using that as an excuse. Whatever their experience is, it's probably still more than most of us.
Good point. How much
can
you trust meta? I've no idea.
Since I can just go around this forum and check other people's games, I wonder if it's allowed/recommended that I should link you guys to my old forum so you can check some of my games?
You're welcome to if you like. It's not really necessary, though, and 5 years is quite a long time.
Whoops. Another quote wall. Oh well.
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