Dr Pepper, scum QT wrote:Mastin, I now Idolize you.
First time I've ever heard that before.In post 271, DoctorPepper wrote:Mastin! Youre my new hero!
I have no idea how you won that. Even through TIP, who wouldnt really have scum motivations to quickhammer us.
And I guess it feels good; this is my tenth scum win ever, which considering I've played in probably close to 150 games, is not nearly as good as I'd like it to be. General note, when I play good, you can mimic me, but I'm not always this good--my play is a rollercoaster of good-then-bad, as both alignments.
(And, by what I think is no coincidence, at opposite times. 2013 has been the best year for my scum meta ever, but it's also been one of my most sub-optimal years as town. There was
a brief period where my town play was improving, but it was during that time that my scum play suffered. )Butyeah. One of the key facts about my scum play this game was taking out who I determined I wanted dead, not who the town thought was town. It worked out fairly well, since I imagine when I read the dead QT, there will be lots of ranting about "lol, Mastin's so obviously scum".
In general, as scum, my approach is highly,
highly
methodical and strategic; my votes are ridiculously opportunistic in nature. My reasoning
looks genuine (for instance, my little stunt in lylo with the analysis, though that was in part a very real fear ), but my actual votes were highly opportunistic. As scum, I used to go after harder targets because the bullheadedness in doing so made me look town, but since then, I've changed my approach (the antagonism in having done so helped lead to some of my defeats) to attack whoever I see as being the most beneficial to my faction. Who may be the strongest player, but often is a weak (but--critically--not the weakest!) player. For instance, Tomie was a "weak"er player (probably in part due to the lyncher wincon), but not the easiest lynch I could have gone for. Tomie was a player I knew I could get mislynched, yet not receive flak for.Basically, my approach this game was, simplified, "Lynch the scummy-but-not-scummiest, kill the towny-but-not-towniest" players, which is the stereotypical scum mold as a player.
Keeping a calm, rational head is a huge help. Working with the town is another biggie. Keeping players who're impulsive alive helped, as did killing players who have similar personalities to my own. (That is, stubborn yet rational. For instance, Bacde.) Hitting the PRs was a nice bonus in having done so.All that said, I'm kinda glad that this game wasn't as anticlimatic as I thought it'd be. I did virtually zero actual work this game, basically just lurking my way to victory via strategic posting and letting the town rip themselves apart, which they did quite spectacularly. I was worried this victory would be so easy as to dismount Vs. Mafia.
But it wasn't quite that easy, and I'm glad it at least looks like I semi-earned it. (When, in fact, I was just winging it.
)Here's my ramblings, explaining my moves.
