Early game (just getting out of RVS stage):
Om the nom seemed to be better at reading people than at writing. For example in
68 he is already liking ogzin/house and disliking vonflare went on to not do anything useful in the following 5000 posts. He was wrong about soren in
155 and probably about drixx if actiondan was right about what the setup spec thing mean about drixx, though drixx's behaviour looks kinda weird to me too so i dunno.
He does seem to be scumhunting in
205 and before that too, and asking people some questions about other people. scum have some need to scumhunt too for real, as others pointed out recently, but I think scumhunting in public is still better than not doing it.
But over all I like the conversation between om and copper that spans a few pages and seems to end around
219
Mid day 1 (I guess from about post 300 onwards):
He continues scumhunting. I like that he focuses more on scumhunting than setup spec. There is some setup spec but the majority of his posts are about finding scum, finding out what other people think about potential scum, etc. Makes a case against Drixx in
566. It's a good case. It will stick with me when I later read Drixx in depth, because the case is based on the first 10% of the game and I do want to see how Drixx behaved in the last 90% too, but I like the case. Responds to drixx again in
732.
Going to take a detour to see whether it was Drixx or Dan that claimed first, and it looks like it was Drixx. Not sure I agree with his conclusions 100%. I mean we seem to be the same kind of role from different games, but the mods designed the games separately and then smooshed them together so we weren't designed together as counterparts for each other, I just happen to be a role from one game and Drixx happens to be a role from another game. It seemed obvious to Dan that we confirm each other but is it obvious to other people? Is everyone else thinking that my flip could confirm drixx or visa versa? It doesn't seem obvious to me yet. I think later when I do my own thorough readthrough of Drixx, I'll not take any setupspec things that I don't understand as a given. Hopefully, Drixx's behaviour will be enough to rely on instead but back to Om because this is seriously taking all day.
Correctly re-evaluates townread of ika mollie in
624.
Scumreads death for a while, but then he changes his mind
898 because death's play reminds him of his own. I think if I were scum and were staging a rethinking of a scum read for some strategic purpose, that I would have not done so by drawing parallels to my own play. "He's super scummy because he's playing just like me oh wait never mind." I can see scum thinking something like that but I can't quite see scum saying that with their out loud voice. And then he takes some time (almost 2 days) off to think by himself.
In
1049 while talking about potential vig kill targets, he says points at Vyse/Dani/Swagrid/Jackel. Of those, one was scum, three are dead, and the one he was scumreading least of those 4 was replaced by Titus. I don't know if it means anything that Om wanted those 3 policylynched and they're all gone now, but I thought it was interesting.
Late Day 1 (1417 onward I guess)
Checks out of the game for a while because overwhelmed by it moving too fast. Townreads are molla, marquis, and tptg. Makes some more effort in
1919. I don't understand all of his pushes at this time and I think I might actually have to read the 500 posts between 1417 and 1919 from all the people he's pushing against, so this is a note to self to do that later once I have more educated opinions about those people.
Day 2 (starts 2410)
I really hate naked votes because I can't tell just by looking if
2495 is a day 2 RVS or what. Okay, going back to read. In
2403 Oranje calls Lucian mod confirmed town. But then later people are voting for lucian so i am confused.
Okay, it looks like people thought lucian scumslipped somewhere on this page
http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... start=2475 and so now i've detoured to lucian's iso to see what happens next there. Ozgin begs Lucian to use his shot on Ika, claiming he has a guilty on them, Lucian shoots and Ika dies. So now I understand why deathfisaro was urging to me to rethink both elusive and lucian — elusive because Om the nom has been looking really towny all this way and lucian because people were suspicious of him and shooting Ika after Ozgin told him too was strategically sound whether lucian was guilty or not, so I don't think lucian should get town points for that shot specifically — that's going to depend on the rest of his ISO but I want to finish with Nom today and come back to Lucian later.
Then Om vanishes for another few days only to surface with another naked vote for Lihin (
2952), who ended up being town. A bunch of other people were voting Lihin too? And Oranje said he has a case against Lihin (
2605). So basically the case was that Lihin's role was too unlikely. Sad it turned out that Lihin's role was true after all. Glanced at Lihin's ISO a bit and it didn't look supertowny but they already flipped town so it's a waste of time to look harder at them right now I think.
And that's it for Om for day 2. I'm not as happy with Om's day 2 play but I guess he could have lost interest. :/
Day 3 (starts 3661)
Elusive joins on
4911. Om doesn't post at all from the start of day 3 until Elusive joins 5 days ago (1500 posts between Om's last and Elusive's first). Elusive seems to know something about VCA. I don't know anything about VCA, so I'm excited to watch her and Titus and maybe learn some things. Posts lots of notes on her readthrough of Vyse (dead scum)'s ISO. I'm curious what conclusions she draws from those notes.
She spends the next few posts making sense of things and seems about as overwhelmed as I am but she seems more experienced than me. She seems to have some measure of trust in drixx and titus but I'm not sure if this is from other-game rapport or what. Picks Brantz for the next ISO dive, and asks him some questions.
I am losing interest in typing this because I've been doing this all day but yes good scumhunting from this slot today. ISOs vonflare and peregrine.
tl;dr: Very little to complain about in Day 1. Good scumhunting. Good track record on early reads of people who have already flipped. Changes her mind gracefully when new information comes in. Day 2 was mostly inactivity and sheeping other people with a little bit of effort put in occasionally. Either lost interest in the game or was coasting on any townreads earned in Day 1. Elusive joined in Day 3 and did lots of reading ISOs and scumhunting so I'm pretty happy with this slot right now and they've slid up a few places towards the townier side of my reads list (I've actually moved her to just above Lucian, who was at the top of the middle).