Describe the Playstyle Above You

[RH9]

Thank you. You seem to be very dedicated and not easily swayed.

[Taly]

analytical, can actually be whimsical though. very flexible in one's thinking and not afraid to express what comes to them in the moment. hard to manufacture.

[Alyssa The Lamb]

Taly

likes to engage with people directly and get what he wants through their own mouth.

Taly

also is whimsical and has a way of flowing through thoughts as if they are fleeting moments, as prone to dissipating into the wind as they are of appearing in the moonlight.

Taly

is

Taly

.

[Taly]

Appears as if they actually have a crystal ball in Mafia. They often do not explain the rationale behind their thoughts, they just give them. A very gut-centered way of making reads but

Alyssa

pays acute attention to the game and solves by the narratives tailored into it rather than simply the behavior a player exerts. Potentially very strong with misleading as Mafia, and yet often suffers from WIM drain the longer a game goes because

Alyssa

is at the fickle desire of players that do not look behind the same curtains she does. Has several headspaces for the game and often seems unfearful to the notion of being scumread.

[T3]

a lot of walls
but like really towny walls
bolds names

[RH9]

To put it simply in a sentence, T3 is very hard to read, even when spectating.

[Gamma Emerald]

Very thoughtful, also quite trusting

[RH9]

Really good at gamesolving.

[DkKoba]

chronic spectator

[Nancy Drew 39]

anything goes

Spoiler:

[NorwegianboyEE]

Intense

[Enchant]

Overall average, but easy to enrage and sway wrong direction.

[Gamma Emerald]

Child of chaos

[T3]

posts a lot of short and serious post with capital letters

that's all i remember

[StrangeMatter]

I know him as being semi-chaotic but not a fully chaotic.

[JacksonVirgo]

From the game/s I've played with, pretty sharp but UTR in terms of expressing said sharpness.

[the worst]

low polarity, good at articulating yourself as either alignment. you walk the line between a high-presence/controlling style and an analytical style without compromising on charisma too much.

(I really hope this is still accurate lol)

[Ginngie]

The worst mafia player on MS

[Lady Lambdadelta]

The worst mafia player on MS

Aggressive with a sense of humour and self preservation. Generally can end up in a tunnel because of self confidence and lack of turn around, capable of leasing but prefers to live longer to influence later.

Can be demotivated out of a game by apathy creation methods.

[Frogsterking]

For shits and giggles (I had some bourbon.)

I have never played with LLD but I have read their guide on playing scum which ironically I think was very helpful for scumhunting. It's probably one of the first sources I would recommend reading to someone who is new to forum mafia though I think the points might not kick in until quite a bit of experience with the game. In particular this is the excerpt which stuck with me:

"As a result, the single most important thing to avoid being lynched as scum is to form connections with the players in your game. They don’t need to be positive connections, they don’t need to be tight relationships, they just need to be connections that you can exploit. It's great if a connection ends with a player believing you are town, but even this is not necessarily required. As long as there are players that are easier to lynch, scummier and even more dangerous than you, you can avoid lynches by the skin of your teeth.

It is a common idea that, at the most basic level, playing scum is being seen as town, but I’d like to suggest that this not only isn’t necessary, but that it may even be actively harmful. If you’re constantly being read as very town for the entire game, people begin to question why you are still alive. It is because of the unpredictable inconsistencies of players that connections, as opposed to general sense of towniness, are important. When you have connections with a player, your posting history is more important to them, and often, your mental progression is more obvious to them."

I think this also works in reverse (or inverse?) when we lack connections with other townies we lose the ability to

easily

perceive their mental progression as something which can be understood, causing us to scum read them. On a small scale (a few TvTs) this leads to a minor delay in Town winning the game, on a large scale (several Town determined to scumread each other) this leads to the complete dissolution of a Towncore or the failure to form one in the first place.

I've read part of a game LLD was in (HDP2) and I might edit this post with more direct feedback about LLD's playstyle once I've finished reading that game.

[Dannflor]

I think you like to get reactions out of people. You like to psychoanalyze people. You like to psychoanalyze the reactions you get out of people. You have a style that I think can rub a lot of people the wrong way, but I think it can be pretty effective, especially because most scum players on this website just straight up do not know how to deal with pressure. And you are the king of pressure. The only issues come when you clash with other townies who don't respond to that pressure well.

Overall, you strike me as a very passionate player. You put everything into your games and you don't mind being loudly wrong as long as it causes something to happen. I think your style can help make otherwise stale gamestates a lot more dynamic.

[Thestatusquo]

Anxious and earnest.

[Sterling the steampunk]

The one game I played with you, very lurkish. Annoyed the heck out of me, since we were scumpartners. Still, it worked pretty fine up until you got caught on some faulty logic.

The things you gotta work on are thinking through arguments, and the thing that made you be that lynch in Desperate Mafia, don't lose your head. There's always some way to get what you want, you just have to keep at it.

This may be out of date, though, that was more than half a year ago I think.

I have to agree, that got me voted out once.

honestly in future games I'm thinking of never voting day 1 unless there's a night 0, I want to wait for night action to get a feel of who going after who and what results the PR get

[GrandpaMo]

deleted user :'( but posting here to get feedback ego

[the worst]

you seem very talkative and motivated towards engagement solves over analysis