Well played, scum-team. Well played. <3
It bothered me a little that there weren't more posts to better my reads on TFR, Howl and Micc, but I figured, as Singer mentioned, that low activity was normal for newbie games, and that was
three
players and not two, all of them newbie slots.
It took me half the game to realize town could do scummy stuff on purpose, 'just because'.
I totally tunnel-visioned Depi into a lynch because of it, nearly did the same with House and Elle.
At some point during day-two, I got an okay town-read on Hopkirk after he went and backtracked on his reason to vote me after noticing something he'd missed a fair bit earlier.
(note to self: post less while sleepy. At one point it got so bad, I typoed Castle instead of House xD)
Made me feel it was sincere deduction, since Scum would probably benefit from not pointing such a detail out if no one else spotted it either, and let town get wagoned longer, but then as the day went on, my belief in his innocence faded in the face of everyone else's arguments.
So uh... theory questions time!
*bounces up and down ecstatically!*
How good
is
being super-mega-protown-unattackable? (thanks, Howl!
)
I get that, medic/jailkeeper aside, it usually means a swift bullet to the head during the night, and I'm kind of sort of okay-ish with that. Might change my stance as I get more games under my belt.
But does town really gain that much from having an obvtown player for a short while, as opposed to, say, someone who does the same investigation/voting, but isn't quite as open about their reads and the reasons behind them, or adds in scummier tactics to the mix, and lives longer as a result?
On the flip side, if being obvtown more often than not becomes a part of someone's meta, does that mean they're screwed when they get scum roles, since they arouse suspicion from surviving too long, or can WIFOM/towniest survivor's gambit muddle things up?
Related to that: how often
do
scum usually let the towniest player live longer than a night or two?
I'm also quite curious on whether there's a consensus on theory, or at least a common policy on mafiascum, regarding which situations merit the use (or no use) of intent to hammer. Does it change depending on whether there's PRs still alive? Inactive players waiting for a prod/substitution? V/LA?
Alsoooo, policy lynches. Why, and when, are they a good idea?
I've read about "Lynch all liars", and similar, but don't feel confident enough to know which of these tautologies are actually enforced with votes/lynches more often than not, and which just denote anti-town behaviour that town might still do anyway, because reasons.
*takes several deep breaths, hugs everyone*
I went and textwalled again, didn't I?
Sorry for being the eager newbie, and thanks in advance for any answers and/or tips on how to better my play as either faction!
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