Who should a tracker investigate with multiple scum alive?
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Who should a tracker investigate with multiple scum alive?
If there's 2-4 scum in the game, should a tracker follow her biggest suspect or try to check for power roles?
From the scum's POV, should they send the most suspected (expendable) member, or the least suspected?
I'm just curious to what the general strategy should be. Trackers are so much weirder than cops and I couldn't find much advice with the search button.- Creature
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There's enough WIFOM around that I think the best strategy is probably to investigate your (or the town's) second-strongest scumread. Someone who's universally read as scum probably won't perform the kill (unless the scum are planning to sacrifice/bus them), and most people are sufficiently bad at finding scum that there's enough randomness in this investigation that scum can't really WIFOM it. (Besides, someone who's looked sort-of scummy all game, but not enough to be lynched, has an above-average chance of being town power.)scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town- Shadow_step
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Personally I'd never go for players who have been very scummy on the given day to track because they are highly unlikely to perform the NK. I'd target a player who has been a little scummy and in the lurking territory.
I've observed that scum players who aren't really being town read or scum read, people in the nullish pile perform the kill.ShowThe shadows betray you, because they serve me.
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It's complicated because some scum play differently than others.
One game I was scum playing against ranger who we knew was roleblocker.
We as scum knew she wouldn't roleblock the obvious scum member, because people wouldn't normally kill using the obvious scum. So to counter that, we killed using the obvious scum
And it turned out she was targeting between the other two of us, was 50-50 as to which and almost switched choice, meaning neither of the other choices would have been safe/good.- Raskolnikov
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I'd track whichever of my scumreads are more townread by the majority/consensus, but who I still feel somewhat confident are scum.
I don't think lurkers are that good an option though, because people like to investigate lurkers and I think scum know that.I'd target a player who has been a little scummy and in the lurking territory.
Obviously in the end it is mostly WIFOM like call says.- RadiantCowbells
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I agree with this.In post 5, Raskolnikov wrote:I'd track whichever of my scumreads are more townread by the majority/consensus, but who I still feel somewhat confident are scum.
I don't think lurkers are that good an option though, because people like to investigate lurkers and I think scum know that.I'd target a player who has been a little scummy and in the lurking territory.
Obviously in the end it is mostly WIFOM like call says.2019 stats: Town WR 76.7%, overall WR 81.667%, 1 scum defeat involving a major mod error in lylo vs 8 scum wins.- Infinity 324
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There are two main strategies for killing with scum: killing with the least scummy in the hope they won't be tracked, or killing with the scummiest so that you don't lose much if they are.
This makes it very hard to aim a track, especially as the former strategy is likely more common. (The difference is if you're planning to bus someone; in such a situation, you may as well have the bussee make the kill.)scum· scam · seam · team · term · tern · torn ·town - callforjudgement
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