Strategically play or tactical play?

[LicketyQuickety]

Strategic: Strategic planning emphasizes making goals analyzing the future. In Strategic planning, goals remain the same and methods change.

Tactical: Tactical planning emphasizes making goals analyzing the present. In Tactical planning, methods remain the same and goals change.

[LicketyQuickety]

Depends on my alignment.

3p?

[LicketyQuickety]

Depends on my alignment.

3p?

That in particular?

Well I am just assuming that you play strategically as Scum and Tactically as Town. That leaves me wondering how you play as third party.

P-Edit: Ninj'd. I will say playing on your own is a whole nother ball of wax and I find myself using tactics to set up what happens later.

[LicketyQuickety]

Probably strategically. I've never been real 3p.

Well I've only been 3p twice and neither were what I would call standard roles by a long shot.

[LicketyQuickety]

P-Edit: Ninj'd. I will say playing on your own is a whole nother ball of wax and I find myself using tactics to set up what happens later.

I should prolly clarify this more. I would say as Scum (and especially 3p) I tend to make many more micro actions that lead me to an end goal. I do things more with a purpose as Scum or 3p that leads to a clear direction. I am still trying to work on doing this as Town.

Aside form that I would like to give an opinion on how I see these two dichotomies.

I think there are people who have a natural bent toward one or the other. I would have to say that strategic play is prolly superior, since it takes a long term approach to solving how to win. That said, I think a player/person who has a natural bent toward tactical play can learn how to play strategically with enough experience. I think once someone has played enough and has learned the game enough, they can better adopt a more big picture view of the game and that this has many benefits to it such as surviving longer in games. IDK that someones reads will necessarily be better playing strategically rather than tactically because they both prolly used different methods to read people. I also think that playing strategically is a much better way to get your targets lynched rather that playing tactically and if you'll excuse this terminology winging it.

[LicketyQuickety]

I'd argue playing strategically as Town has some great benefits.

[LicketyQuickety]

I think you are a very smart player if as town you know how to play off that and frankly I don't think you can.

I'm always trying to improve. How do I improve this particular aspect of my play in the game? I do see how you got there though. Surely you can do it as Scum, but the question remains: how do you learn how to adopt a big picture view of the game? I gave experience as means to an ends in this, but besides that, what would be the method?

[LicketyQuickety]

Was there an equivalent to this strategical vs tactical in that champions of domains thread? That one was pretty cool.

IDK what that is. I am just rehashing something from my second game I played where I asked this as a RQS thing.

[LicketyQuickety]

I think there are 2 different issues here. There's keeping methods consistent and changing goals vs. the other way around, by which definition I consider tactical play way too easy to adapt to. Continuing to use the same method to scumhunt or play scum is usually not going to be very effective. On the other hand, there's the short term vs. long term definition, where it's very difficult to play strategically as town. However, it can definitely be useful to look at the bigger picture as town whenever possible, and as scum there are definitely conflicts/decisions to make between looking at the short term or playing for the long term.

I think in some ways playing tactically can work with great efficiency and can lead to good results almost all the time. For example: Scum hunting: Is a player doing it? That is a method for reading people that never changes but is very effective.

[LicketyQuickety]

Determining whether someone is scumhunting is very complex and requires different methods depending on the player and situation. Actually trying to determine whether someone is scumhunting is a perfect example of strategic play imo.

its not always clear if they ARE Scum hunting, but it usually is clear when they are not.

Spoiler: I am the member and CEO

[LicketyQuickety]

If it was, wouldn't it be easy to find scum? At least, wouldn't scum being lynched d1 a little more often?

The jury has spoken.

sorry, I'm too bored for my own good right now