Replacing out

[Nancy Drew 39]

there's most likely been "scum being scumread, reps out, great scum player reps in and saves slot" situations too, though i can't remember specific examples off the top of my head for that one

I speculate that not doomed scum is unlikely to rep out.

From what I’ve observed players of either alignment can lose interest when they get run up but really no good way to policethat.

Public replacing out is against the rules like Saudade did in Nancy v Titus.

Spoiler:

I was shamed (and now probably unfairly anonymously bl’d) for doing that in a game but I feared getting a temp ban in that, had I not. \_0_/

I am trying extremely hard not to be toxic in games, so that’s a huge influencer, if I’m not confident I can control it.

I’m a helluva a lot better now at avoiding doing that in general, so being punished for that is hurtfully ironic.

I find flaking to be the most destabilizing to games in general - especially when the mod lets the game drag on for days without a prod or necessary replacement.

[Nancy Drew 39]

what if i told you the act of replacing out is AI because its statistically correlated with being scum?

My replacement rate albeit low is definitely not AI. That really depends, town replaces out a lot too.

[Nancy Drew 39]

I think if we punish anyone who isn’t a continual repeat offender or for a sudden rl emergency, people will just be afraid to sign up for anything and that would ultimately kill the site.

My personal experience is that other people’s replacements have either actually helped or at least not hurt me - irrespective of alignment.

I hear this argument mostly from disgruntled scum but I think a competent scum player should always have a backup plan.

When I was scum in Coalition, the town replacement obviously did hurt us but we played around it and still won and I’m not at all salty about that because I like to constantly challenge myself whatever alignment I roll and you just need to be flexible.

I even won when my scumbuddy replaced out. So it really hasn’t really ever caused me to lose as scum but otoh, has helped as town.

What I see as destabilizing to games is either blatantly obvious tactical replace out or flaking. Flaking has actually seriously harmed my games as either alignment and if MU has harsh punishments for that, I can’t understand why MS doesn’t.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Why do we keep seeing these kinds of threads, yet not a one on flaking, which imo drags more games down than anything.