In post 45, zMuffinMan wrote:In post 39, Antihero wrote:In post 34, Garmr wrote:The main objective as scum is to survive no matter the cost as long as you end game you win. Town have to survive and hunt scum. It's not not playing to your win objective. There's probably another reason I'm realizing yet.
the town win condition and the scum win condition are NOT the same thing.
denying this is denying that it's even possible to scumhunt.
most people don't know how to scum hunt anyway, so there probably wouldn't be any discernible difference in the long run. It would be interesting to run an experiment and check the average D1 scum lynch rate over 1000 games of scum not reading their role PM D1 (and town not knowing this) but due to the nature of said experiment, I doubt it will ever happen (I don't even know how such an experiment would be run). I imagine the results wouldn't be much different than average, though.
I'm not suggesting people can't be good at scum hunting, just that I don't think your average player would perform any differently trying to hunt for scum
You act as if scum's skill has nothing to do with this.
What you should say is, "on average, town's scum hunting abilities are not better than scum's ability to deceive town."