In post 649, Aneninen wrote:I haven't got an idea what you meant by this, Drixx.
Isn't checking the wagon of a lynched scum VCA?
The theorycrafting thread for VCA applies large scale probability to predict where scum will be found on wagons, and attempts to analyze vote counts using probability.
What you did has a lot more to do with psychology and understanding people, and is much more sound for a game that is primarily psychological in nature.
Applying probabilistic VCA to an individual sample is idiocy of the highest form. What you did is very good work and hopefully the newbies pick up on it. You also are the
only
person who gave a town response to my test, so I think we have a small town block with you and I, presuming you trust me that far.
Radmann has now been active multiple times including in at least one other game, and still has not addressed the questions and such waiting for him here. I think that's a pretty damning observation, and I hope it's just that he hasn't had time to adequately give to the game rather than he's actually scum and has decided to just lurksack out and roll over and get lynched.
To the newer players: If you stick with forum mafia and you play a statistically significant amount of games, you will not be assigned to a scum role very often. Playing as scum is a very unique facet of this game and it requires exercising a very different skill set than playing town, along with being aware of and appearing to utilize the necessary skills to succeed as town. You can learn more from one game where you are assigned scum and give 100% effort but still lose the game than you might learn from playing 10 games as a Vanilla Townie. You should never, ever, quit or give up or flake when assigned a challenging town role or a scum role. Those are your chances to really advance and hone your skills.
If you don't believe me, you should check out my profile and look at my topics and see the SMITE large themed game I was recently in. I replaced into the game part way into its 3rd day, around two months after the game had begun. The scum team had already lost 3 of its original six members, and I replaced into a scum slot which had made a role claim (he didn't have much choice) that was going to get me caught ... it was only a matter of time. On top of that, there were all sorts of crazy hidden mechanics from various people's roles in play at all times, which made it even more challenging to play. In that game, scum wasn't really much of an "informed" minority. To make matters worse, my two still living partners were demoralized and basically lurked the rest of the way until they were killed out of the game.
I played that for nearly four months, despite giving myself perhaps a 1 in 1,000 chance to come away with a win from the effort. I knew that if I played out the hand I was dealt, I would learn a lot and improve, and I think that I did learn a lot and that I've improved dramatically because of that game. For something like 4 or 4 1/2 months, I carried the scum win condition alone ... and to make it all the sweeter, I carried it to the win.
I cannot emphasize this enough to the newer players in this game:
Never. Give. Up.
No matter what your alignment, role, or whatever. No matter how bad the situation sees. Use every situation to learn and grow. The things you learn playing this game have applications in the real world, so it even has the possibility to transcend being a hobby and become a tool for personal growth.
I'll get off my soap box now... but really. Don't give up.
