What defines a bad/average/good/great player?

[Creature]

There are three skills you need as town:
1) Find scum.
2) Lynch scum.
3) Don't get lynched.

Or:
1) Find town
2) Form a townblock
3) Lynch the rest

[Deductive]

As town: Look for town-tells and genuine scum-hunting from players -> Attain town-reads -> Narrow down the likely suspects via town-reads then lynch them

As scum: Look for town-tells whilst simultaneously looking for PR-tells and scum-tells from townies that you can push on for -> Push/Lynch players outside your strongest town-reads + kill PR-reads at night phase

[SpyreX]

As town:
1.) Form a murderblock that's at least more town than not.
2.) Murder all others.
3.) Use your mouthwords.

As scum:
1.) Find out what it'll take to dissolve all town cohesion and get them twirling and murdering without thinking.
2.) Break kuribos heart.
3.) Know when #1 requires doing nothing versus being clever.

[Accountant]

Dont bother looking for PR tells

Shank good players

[SpyreX]

Use the right amount of words to get the job done. If you give 20 points on why x is scum, every town will find 3 to argue with, lynch you and then promptly forget everything you ever said

[gigabyteTroubadour]

Use the right amount of words to get the job done. If you give 20 points on why x is scum, every town will find 3 to argue with, lynch you and then promptly forget everything you ever said

plus if you have that many points against someone it'll look more like you were intentionally digging up shit on them and are more focused on smearing them rather than actually trying to get them lynched

learned that the hard way

[Postie]

And if you've written a poorly formatted wall of words then people's eyes are going to glaze over and they'll just skip it.

[Gamma Emerald]

And if everyone scum read you and you flip town they'll still ignore your points.

[Firebringer]

I am the worst

[Ranmaru]

Use the right amount of words to get the job done. If you give 20 points on why x is scum, every town will find 3 to argue with, lynch you and then promptly forget everything you ever said

Good point. Will keep this in mind, I like it.

[callforjudgement]

And if everyone scum read you and you flip town they'll still ignore your points.

I'm not sure I agree with this. There's a game before now which town won because I decided someone was either town with good reads or (more likely) scum, and essentially went "I think you're scum, but if you flip town I'll sheep you". (The situation was slightly more complicated than that, because the game was mechanically unusual.) They were town, and they were right.

[GuyInFreezer]

Blindly follow the dude who got nightkilled.
Lynch all opposers because the chances are they are scum.

[Realeo]

Blindly follow the dude who got nightkilled.
Lynch all opposers because the chances are they are scum.

This actually works. +1 karma....wait.. This is mafiascum.net, not epicmafia.com.

But seriously though, that works.

[Kmd4390]

It comes down to three things:
1) Amount of free time and effort
2) Level of confidence
3) Mental health state

I wish there was more to it but I don't really think there is. You really do just have to post the correct amount, be confident but not the the point of thinking you are God, and not be an emotional wreck. Do those three things perfectly and you'll be successful.

[Vi]

It comes down to three things:
1) Amount of free time and effort
2) Level of confidence
3) Mental health state

I wish there was more to it but I don't really think there is. You really do just have to post the correct amount, be confident but not the the point of thinking you are God, and not be an emotional wreck. Do those three things perfectly and you'll be successful.

This post is pretty true

[Realeo]

2 is fakeable though.

[Vi]

2 is fakeable though.

That doesn't make a difference.

[Frozen Angel]

It comes down to three things:
1) Amount of free time and effort
2) Level of confidence
3) Mental health state

I wish there was more to it but I don't really think there is. You really do just have to post the correct amount, be confident but not the the point of thinking you are God, and not be an emotional wreck. Do those three things perfectly and you'll be successful.

oh yeah its totally true

me myself, I'm so ruined in third in emotional wrecking - and I have a real mental issue.

[kuribo]

We all do, or we wouldn't play a game where the object is to lie to one another


My mental problem is I'm too much of a pacifist

[callforjudgement]

I play a game about lying in order to get more experience with being lied to, and more experience in how to look innocent when I actually am.

Sometimes I draw scum, which lets me experience the other side of things. Interestingly, most of the time as scum, you're still telling the truth; some games I didn't have to lie at all. (Other games as scum, I lied more or less continuously. Different games need different strategies.)

[Realeo]

oh yeah its totally true

me myself, I'm so ruined in third in emotional wrecking - and I have a real mental issue.

Have you tried sleeping? Whenever I'm angry at a game, I sleep then play it first time I'm awake. I noticed that I'm too busy to angry when I just wake up.

[kuribo]

Have you tried screaming until the town just does what you want?

[callforjudgement]

What if you know you're going to be nightkilled and need to manipulate what the town does tomorrow? (I lost that game because I couldn't convince the townies to stop tunnelling each other and vote scum in 3p lylo.)

[Gamma Emerald]

Blindly follow the dude who got nightkilled.
Lynch all opposers because the chances are they are scum.

This is stupid if it was a setup.

[Realeo]

What if you know you're going to be nightkilled and need to manipulate what the town does tomorrow? (I lost that game because I couldn't convince the townies to stop tunnelling each other and vote scum in 3p lylo.)

RC did it by self-lynch.