Page 16 of 36
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:56 am
by Dannflor
ah, I meant in the sense, it made me go “huh” and reread the game with a more open mind wrt murder
I don’t think your specific reasoning actually holds much water
Which I realize is contradictory in a way but whatever
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:57 am
by humaneatingmonkey
Huh thats your solid murdercat read? That hes updating his solve inthread?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:00 pm
by Dannflor
I think there’s an enigmatic genuine tone meta aspect to it too
But that alone for a read assumes murdercat is a bad player
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:01 pm
by Infinity 324
It's more than that but I'm not sure if I can express what more to it there is.
Besides like
He has a solving energy this game that I haven't seen from scum!him and have seen quite a few times from town!him
PEdit: hmm I don't think you need to be a bad player to not be able to replicate solving energy from your town play.
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:03 pm
by Dannflor
well “solving energy” is quite vague so I won’t argue with you there
I do think people need to be able to replicate basic aspects of their town meta to be considered good players though
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:03 pm
by humaneatingmonkey
Wow and thats enough for you to locktown him
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:04 pm
by humaneatingmonkey
I wish I can trust in myself the way Infinity trusts in herself to trust Murdercat with that little read
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:20 pm
by Prism
In post 367, inutile wrote: In post 366, Prism wrote:I am restraining myself from being a more forceful or aggressive advocate right now and it better pay off.
if on account of me there is no need, past on me much moreso than you
have i made the game easier?
It was more about Infinity/HEM/Murder.
I have no issues with your play or past. The game has not gotten easier yet but it has only been a few hours.
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:24 pm
by Infinity 324
Yeah, replicating it would require getting into a towny mindset pretty deeply and in a short timeframe, and I don't think murder has the capacity to do that.
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:26 pm
by Prism
While I appreciate that Infinity's read on Murder has gotten somewhat believable I would still vote her or catboi out if this were a traditional game.
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 1:24 pm
by Prism
inutile, who would you want to trust at this juncture if you had to? Or would you want to be one of the people leftover?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 1:56 pm
by humaneatingmonkey
Catboi? Whats wrong with Catboi?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:12 pm
by Prism
I'm out right now but there are extensive parts of my ISO about not liking his read on me.
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:13 pm
by Prism
One of those posts being in direct response to a question from you, by the way.
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:27 pm
by catboi
In post 279, MURDERCAT wrote: In post 274, Dannflor wrote:this is lazy
I'm not calling you scum but this is a bad way to play mafia I think
In this particular setup I am pretty confident that it makes sense to have questionable but leantown players pair up at some point. I'm not sure whether it makes more sense to do it early or later, but I do think it's advantageous.
Purely theory based digression, but I actually quite disagree with this - I think day 2 is a critical inflection point after an initial successful t/t pair - whichever side "wins" today gets one step away from fulfilling its win condition. A day 3 where town is winning places a unique set of pressures on scum - they can no longer afford to play passively, if they don't get paired they lose. You can see scum in the last run of this were forced into making desperation plays on day 3 that didn't pay off. I think that even in the event that town misses once in that scenario, their chances of winning are still good because you can analyze who was trying to advance a scum win condition. Meanwhile, in the other scenario, town has to play minesweeper, slowly clearing players one by one, and one impulsive move by anyone can lose the game. In that situation scum sits back and waits for town to misplay, and it becomes harder to tell people apart. So getting today right is fairly important.
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:31 pm
by Prism
I also vehemently disagreed with that. With this theory in mind, who would you like to see paired, and who do you need more from?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:36 pm
by inutile
In post 385, Prism wrote:inutile, who would you want to trust at this juncture if you had to? Or would you want to be one of the people leftover?
you probably but as much for utility as confidence in you being town; the being leftover thing feels like posturing more than anything,
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:36 pm
by Prism
? When you say utility, can you be more specific?
Sorry to be playing 20Q
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:40 pm
by inutile
In post 373, Infinity 324 wrote:If you have a good reason why you really want to pair with me then I'd only refuse if I really believed murder would not fall with anyone else.
i mean, i have good reason if you are town,
pedit: like the + from you being town if so would swing it to you but it's not as though i have actually done so here
also, 20 questions probably good here
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:42 pm
by inutile
also, dunno if + or - that you brought into line with what i pointed out before
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:44 pm
by humaneatingmonkey
In post 388, Prism wrote:One of those posts being in direct response to a question from you, by the way.
Sorry Prism, I'll pay more attention next time.
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:47 pm
by Infinity 324
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:48 pm
by inutile
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:52 pm
by catboi
In post 390, Prism wrote:I also vehemently disagreed with that. With this theory in mind, who would you like to see paired, and who do you need more from?
At this point in time I want more from everyone, even in the event we're wrong on a pair I want something to be able to read off of. So I'm not going to be talking about pairs much just yet.
Feel free to call this a cop-out answer~
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 3:03 pm
by catboi
re: infinity, the one thing she's said that's put me on edge was this:
In post 182, Infinity 324 wrote:Murder if you want we could abandon the whole endgaming thing and trust fall right now
I'm half joking
which has a bit of the feeling of "aha ha, just kidding...unless?" of possibly trying to provoke a yolo-leave. Other than that, I don't have a
problem
with her although I feel as the game has progressed she hasn't been as towny as others. But then I remember her getting stitched up for not hitting an arbitrary bar of towniness in Guardians and my team taking advantage of that, so I'm...cautious? I don't have a good conclusion to write here. Not a strong townread, I guess is what I should be saying.