In post 6689, podoboq wrote:I legitimately don't understand why scum would want to "shed excess towncred." Forget about me trying to convince you of anything, I'm already basically resigned to getting lynched today. Could you explain to me the strategy in what you're talking about?
I was an arsonist in WiFoM city back in October, and for most of the game, I was in danger of being nightkilled by the groupscum. I needed to look town enough to not get lynched, but not so town that groupscum nightkilled me.
In my second scumgame, the setup was like 2:2:1:1:1:1:1:1:3 or something with the 3 being town and I was on a two player scumteam but my buddy was modkilled very early into day 1. Nacho was one of the 5 third parties (the remaining 1s was a mafia traitor who could've joined either scumteam). In that game, I was the only player who was scumhunting, engaging with everybody, posting actively, and looking town. I didn't know how to turn the obvtown off yet because I was a newbie. I realised that I was probably going to get nightkilled and lose the game, so I started begging other people to stick their necks out too and saying that we probably all have the best role PMs we've ever gotten so that's not a good reason to hang back, and I tried to get other people to scumhunt and look towner than me so that they would get nightkilled instead of me, but my efforts just made me look even more town than I already looked, and then I was nightkilled on night 1 and lost the game.
If you're an SK, or if you're the last member of your scumteam, you lose the game if you're nightkilled, so you don't want to look too town, you want to look kind of in the middle. You were asking other people to push on you and scumhunt you and put you under more pressure. If people start looking into you, you'll look more lynchable and less likely to be nightkilled.
