How to respond to presure when you're scum read

[Frozen Angel]

Defense, something that people talk about, does not exist.

This is wrong though. You should always be transparent and truthful about stuff and answer the cases on you. "The more you answer the scummier you look" is stupid.

answer with confidence , honesty and decency. If you remove every concern as soon as they rise - you won't ever get in trouble. Being active and present to answer will save you from getting lynched - regardless of your alignment

but putting that aside You shouldn't worry to much about being scum read (and thats not agsint my above suggestion you can do both). Just stay calm. whatever you do there will be some others who will interpret that as something scummy (sooner or later). You just need to be consistent and conscious about the game atmosphere and to not let it get out of your control.

and Thats me - who only got lynched twice in past year (about 50 games?) on MS (once as scum day 1 - when RC used a tricky tell) and once as town in lylo when I was exhusted from my teaching class and instead of defending myself I started criticizing the town!

[Frozen Angel]

ok new plan just insult everyone who vote you so they get upset and unvote

I tried that

It will work

But there will be a time when you will be out of "I'm sorry" and you will be ashamed to even sign for new games

[Frozen Angel]

[Frozen Angel]

Second is easier but the first makes the game more pleasant for all parties involved.

TRUE fact lol

[Frozen Angel]

You need to manipulate other townies when you are town and those who say otherwise are idealists who don't understand how the game works.

exactly!

Mafia is a game of politics. If your good at it you live and you get the lynches you want

if your ok in it you might die but they will follow your reads your reads or vise versa

if you suck at that then your day 1 mislynch and you have literally no impact or whatsoever in the game beside populating it

[Frozen Angel]

But being political doesn't mean to not be transparent

without transparency the town is doomes (they are the uninformed minority) no way to win if their playing against themselves

[Frozen Angel]

ah to live long :
eaither lurk the way no one can read you or be active and all over the place...
(just cause I saw people in first group survive not I appreciate that type of playing)

[Frozen Angel]

Posting 20 times a day is a good way to get townread as scum a lot of the time

their simply irrelevant variables

activity by itself is NAI

[Frozen Angel]

That factor depends on who are you playing with

[Frozen Angel]

POE is marely a tool

some is a good player if they know every possible tools that can help and treat them just as tools nothing more.

saying "I am not mafia" will actually effect the other players in a good way. Its lie. to tell a believable lie is a skill. if you can't do that don't use lie as a manipulative tool - easy

[Frozen Angel]

yes

as I said this game needs social skills and politics. even town needs to lie for different usages. Lie is not against transparency. Being believable is the first step to impact the game.

[Frozen Angel]

I can not imagine town lying except power role related.

Its either a lie or you didn't play enough games.

shrugs

[Frozen Angel]

Thats what I was trying TO MAKE people not do in past year in all my games that ended in a rant :/

My stance changed : People lie left and right - and if their good at it - let them do it but never trust anyone.

This stance lets me live lol

[Frozen Angel]

that depends on your definition of lie

like when [redacted] lied in bloodborne to make a confirmable town dies *when they were sleep ehem*

or like when town lied in saga again and again

I played like 50 games. Town lied in like 40 of them. ...

[Frozen Angel]

Lets not talk about bloodborne

My badfor mentioning it

[Frozen Angel]

I didn't answer

Its just too painful to talk about it.

[Frozen Angel]

I'm always in top 5 posters ... shrugs