LlamaFluff wrote:Claiming shouldnt be done untill L-1 really. Wagons shift, new suspects come up. A claim outs a power role and hurts the town.
Fair points. However, I'd argue that there's nothing wrong with claiming at L-2 in a 12 player game with no dead (or even more in larger games), but as the number of players shrinks, so does the margin. The wagon might very well shift though, I'll grant you that, so it might have been slightly premature. I hope we'll get a chance to get back to it, on a slightly more stable wagon.
You never are supposed to outright gamble in this game. You are supposed to take all the information you have and use that to make an informed decision. If "Gimbo said he was scum" is all the information you have and you want it to lynch him. I think thats enough information to qualifiy you for lynch discussion as well.
Since you very rarely have access to all the information in a given case, making an informed decision really IS a gamble. You play the odds, weigh different scenarios against each other, but in the end, you have to guess.
Why? C'mon give me some theorys at least, a hunch isnt worth anything if you cant back it up with some reasoning.
Sure it is. Intuition is a powerful thing. Well, not when it comes to convincing others, of course, but that's not what I'm trying to do. Here's the post that made me react:
#44's post 7 wrote:LlamaFluff wrote:
While 44 and SH really didn’t explain their vote too well...
I explained it very well. It's late in the day to be joking. He's one ballsy scum.
Gimbo wrote:
wow never seen anyone so eager to lynch.
Are you kidding? We have ourselves a claimed scum here! Your only defense was WIFOM and that just won't do. My vote stays.
See if you can see what I saw.
LlamaFluff wrote:Fair enough, how about a case on him though? And not just a copy/paste of mine.
Interestingly, while I don't necessarily disagree about your case on him, I didn't think his action up to his "scum claim" warranted a vote.
- The scum claim: Now, in my experience (and imagination), there aren't a lot of reasons for doing this.
Obviously
scum wouldn't do that, which makes it a reasonable thing for scum to do, so there's WIFOM. Because there's WIFOM, you can't take it seriously, which means it's humour, or a way to relieve tension, or just a way to make people not take him seriously. To me, this screams scum, but as with all scum tells, a) they're not always correct and b) there's no way of convincing people you're right. Anyway, that's what got me started on him.
Gimbo wrote:dude and dudetes, its a fucking joke! lol, if i really was scum, would i say that? Jesus you guys.
Overreact much? Anyway, to answer his question - of course he would.
In the following posts, he keeps being extremely agitated for being at L-2, to the point where he insults the town for not "seeing" that the people on his wagon are scum. He also insults me.
Anyway. Based mostly on his reactions, I'd say he's either scum who did something he thought would be harmless which lead to this freaking-out of sorts, or he's a jumpy townie who did pretty much the same. As I don't really see anyone scummier right now, I'm happy with arguing for his lynch, until a) that happens or b) something else comes along to grab my attention.
LlamaFluff wrote:Im happy with my vote right now, you seem way to eager to get Gimbo lynched and are pushing him to claim already. We arent playing 24 hour days, we still have three weeks to do this.
Don't forget we've only got 60 days for the entire game. I don't think actually aiming for using all three weeks is a very good plan.
Now then, since you're voting me, how about you present your case on me? Do you think I'm scum, do you think I should be lynched?
#44 wrote:There aren't many power roles in these types of games so I'm curious as to why you wanted one so early in the first place.
It should be obvious, but I don't think he has a power role. If I thought he did, I wouldn't call for him to claim. If he does claims a power role, I'll suspect it's fake. Surely you agree that getting scum to claim is good?
#44 wrote:When will it become relevant?
After he's claimed, of course.
#44 wrote:Why are you willing to gamble at all in this game? Shouldn't you be scumhunting instead of playing the odds(which are not in the town's favor at this point)?
See my above comment about "gambling". After you've done some scumhunting (not that you ever STOP hunting scum) you always, to a certain degree, play the odds. Certain things (scumtells) increase the odds of someone being scum. When someone reaches various levels of probability of being scum, you start handing out FoS:es and votes.
Now, #44, you're still on Gimbo's wagon, and yet you seem concerned about me being on the same wagon and asking for a claim. Does that mean you don't want him to claim?