Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 3:35 pm
In a game with only 2 scum, the idea of behind the scenes coordination doesn't really hold much weight - that kind of thing rarely happens in my experience, most scum teams don't plan that much but are generally more cautious to not appear as though they're working together. That kind of thing might be more common if you're used to fast-paced, chaotic games with larger mafia teams, I'm just saying I do not think that is what happened here. I also maintain my reasons for unvoting are soundly protown.In post 282, shwinnebego wrote:General Wu plays confidently, and attracted a quick pileup of votes, many of which melted away. My sense is genuinely that a quick pile-on followed by a quick melt-away is indeed suspicious, as it speaks to some coordinated action behind the scenes. While my specific sus on catboi for unvoting when I threatened to hammer was largely sneered at as irrational, trollish, and inattentive to the longer-term dynamics of a game like this (namely, that we lose information by truncating Day 1 prematurely), I maintain that the overall dynamic that I pointed out - whether or not we agree that catboi in particular ought to be the target of suspicion that emerges from said dynamic - is valid, and merits attention. Moreover, I also maintain that without the legitimate threat of a hammer on a player, vote pressure relatively early on during Day 1 becomes meaningless, and so I do not apologize for my jocular hammer threat, nor do I concede that it was unambiguously a silly thing to proffer. I do not see tremendous value in debating this exact matter further, but I hope this makes sense to at least some of you!
Meh, it's always beneficial as scum to keep your options open, I've had times where I wanted to do nothing but attack people but remembered you actually need to not look like you're okay with killing absolutely everyone. Of course, someone can be paranoid town as well, I'm just not sure having a lot of scumreads is a tell either way to me. It's dependent on the playstyle and attitude of the person with the reads.In post 292, MegAzumarill wrote:Generally as scum you have an agenda, you decide when to push who and for what reason in advance. You don't usually call out half the town as likely evil. It's not that scum never scumreads a lot of people early on (it can be pretty effective at instilling disruption), but in my experience it happens more to townies.
I also recognize that my playstyle may indeed come across as suspicious to someone looking in.
Do you think shwinn is scummy? You didn't actually give any suspects in your reads list earlier.In post 298, GeneralWu wrote:Now this post seems like an attempt at pocketing.In post 297, shwinnebego wrote:You're the best poster in this thread as far as I'm concerned, regardless of your alignment! I commend your playstyle, keep it up.In post 296, Save The Dragons wrote:i'm not big on long posts but every once in a while i'll pull something out of my butt
shwinnie and Roden are the most suspicious people as of right now in my opinion.In post 257, GeneralWu wrote:I feel that T3 is town because he's trying to solve the game. However, something about him seems a bit off.
I haven't looked at Val too much yet since he just got back like yesterday.
catboi is town because he could've just left his vote on me and let shwinnie zgrynibys me for no reason, but he didn't do that.
navigator seems genuinely trying to help, though I don't agree with everything he says about mechanics.
Meg is also towny. Though he makes fewer posts, those posts actually contain content that moves the game along. He also tried to stimulate discussion even very early in the game, indicating that he was trying his best to scumhunt and move the game out of RVS.
Roden seems weird since he was quick to jump on shwinnie. It's a bit scummy, but I don't think Roden/shwinnie is w/w.
save the dragons is inactive and most of his posts are one-liners. Some of his posts also don't do anything to move the game along.
I was a pretty strong town read in your eyes up until I suspected you, so it's hard to take this as anything other than OMGUS.In post 304, GeneralWu wrote: shwinnie and Roden are the most suspicious people as of right now in my opinion.
I found you suspicious when you said something along the lines of "if you don't vote shwinnie, I have no choice but to vote you".In post 305, Roden wrote:I was a pretty strong town read in your eyes up until I suspected you, so it's hard to take this as anything other than OMGUS.In post 304, GeneralWu wrote: shwinnie and Roden are the most suspicious people as of right now in my opinion.
I also want meg to answer this question, because I'm pretty curious.In post 291, GeneralWu wrote:So how did you feel that shwinnie's input will generate discussion that could end up being useful to town? Before you made this post, I don't think shwinnie posted much content or gave many reasons for his reads.In post 279, MegAzumarill wrote:VOTE: SavetheDragons
I dislike eliminating shwinniebego here for a few reasons.
1. The first is that I find it likely that if they are a town, they are probably a PR ( or doing some WIFOM thing). I would not want to out them if they are so.
2. I think that their flip doesn't give us much information. Either they are a town that has very much struggled adapting to the meta on this site, or they flip scum, which would be a very attractive bus on a new player. Either way we don't learn much about other players.
3. I honestly don't scumread them that much, they seem too apart from the norm of mafia games like this, so I think their behavior is NAI.
4. I feel that their input will generate discussion that could end up being useful to town.
Instead I feel like StD is a better vote, they overall don't provide much to town.
Shwinniebego, you should post your input if you feel like you need to say something, it will both help you get better and may help town.
I would like StD to post their reads and contribute a bit more substance. It doesn't really matter if you can't post often, but at least try to post something that is useful when you do.
And T3 appears to be avoiding confronting the accusation made at him by Val89, although the accusation doesn't hold a whole lot of weight imo.
Can you show me where I said that?In post 307, GeneralWu wrote:I just don't think it's towny to say "vote [player] or I'll have no choice but to pressure you instead".
In post 121, Roden wrote:Gonna have to disagree here. He's not just avoiding attention, he's lying to evade directly saying that. I don't see the town motivation for that.In post 119, T3 wrote:Avoiding attention is also NAI.
You're assuming a lot here. If any of that was an issue I think he'd just say that.In post 120, GeneralWu wrote:He might just be busy or something.In post 115, Roden wrote:You're used to 24 hour games but then you disappeared for over 36 hours? Doesn't really add up to me.In post 109, shwinnebego wrote:I’ll post more complete reads eventually. I didn’t realize that each game day was a week tbh
Home forum is breadnroses, game days are usually a day
Range of high chaos to vanilla but we skew high chaos
VOTE: Shwinnebego
Or he might think that since day 1 is so long, there's no need to post as much right now.
I think his activity is NAI.
Not really sure why you two seem to be against pressuring him and want to shut down potential content. Are you TMI'ing that you know Shwin is town?
VOTE: GeneralWu
I don't normally switch my vote up this much. But if you don't want to pressure scummy activity, then pressuring you instead seems like the only way to get this game going.
Can you tell me why you don't even want to consider pressuring someone who lied and is trying to avoid attention?
yeah definitely thisIn post 305, Roden wrote:I was a pretty strong town read in your eyes up until I suspected you, so it's hard to take this as anything other than OMGUS.In post 304, GeneralWu wrote: shwinnie and Roden are the most suspicious people as of right now in my opinion.
That is not true.In post 315, T3 wrote:Wu is blatantly trying to pocket. His reads are only based on who scumreads him.
So who do you think is evilIn post 318, Val89 wrote:I've moved into a slight townlean on GeneralWu, and won't be helping you flip him today....
navigator wagon is going to go nowhere
Where is my vote, Schwin?
Also, buddy, it's a newbie game - if you strongly prefer to act like a snarky lil' shit instead of fielding my admittedly naïve questions just let me know and I will direct my inquiries elsewhere - we can save ourselves both some timeIn post 320, Val89 wrote:Where is my vote, Schwin?
Whom have I been pushing since I came back from V/LA?
Should be clue there, somewhere...
vacation/limited access, when a player lets the mod and other players in the game know they will be inactive for a period of time.In post 321, shwinnebego wrote:what's v/la