@Teia, I go after lurkers because no one else holds them accountable. I also go after those who I think are scummy, like BV. The fact is, unless you have some lock solid can't-be-scum PR, you are increasing your chances of getting mislynched. And it's one thing if you get mislynched with a lot of interaction; people can at least gain something from that. When you lurk, you end up a PoE lynch which doesn't help town figure out the gamestate as well.
Notably, you didn't actually answer my question. I asked you whether you thought going after lurkers in an early-game context should be a higher priority than going after people acting scummy. Instead of giving an answer to the effect of "yes" or "no," you went off and gave an explanation for your position. That's like answering the question of how many land you have out with "two Explores." You're answering what you think an underlying issue is rather than the question as presented.
So, which do you think should be the higher priority right now?
I pegged Tanarin as scum early in this game, and now I am not sure anymore. There a lot stronger scum reads for me than Tanarin especially after his last post. I want to see him lynched at this post to see if he flips Town or Scum. If he flips Town, then I hate losing a player. If he flips Scum, he got me with his play at the end to not want to lynch him.
So you backed down on the "make sure he's not scum" thing (which you conveniently didn't answer my question on) and the only outcome you gave for if he flips town is you hate losing a player? You don't think analyzing his wagon in light of his flip would be a good source of information? Or you just think that's secondary to hating losing a player?
Why is this the "scummy response"? I don't understand what your issue here is.
If you're asked for reasoning for your reads, giving the reasoning for providing those reads is just a silly way to avoid answering the actual question (something you still haven't done outside a weak "I gave information previously"). Why would town want to do that? Laziness, perhaps, or a feeling that what they posted earlier was self-evident. Why would scum want to do that? To avoid drawing attention to their reads and having them questioned.
The one thing about the Tan wagon is that there hasn't been any push against it. Like, everyone's just fine with lynching him.
I'm a bit hesitant to use that as a reasoning that points to town as I've seen that erroneously clear scum. Remember Too Many Heads? My early day one wagon went to L-1 with no drawback at all until I thought I'd been hammered and threw a fit allowing for people to get paranoid.
When someone influential makes a case that seems sound, scum sometimes cut their losses and bus to look good. And then when it's on town, well.
Thank you.
The immediate difference I see between this and 311 is the overall feeling behind the post. Wheat's 311 has a clear focus: Tell a story, and use the conclusion to justify the current wagon. He didn't introduce any underlying points with it. It was just "hey here was a similar situation that once caught scum [so let's just go ahead with this lynch]." Your post here uses an anecdote to illustrate an underlying point (that scum sometimes cut their losses), which introduces that underlying point as a focus for discussion.
The former is scummy because blindly driving a lynch forward is what scum want to do. If it's on town, they don't want people to stop and reconsider their decision and don't want to give people too much to analyze after the fact. If it's on scum, they don't want people to analyze things too deeply to realize they're busing their partner. This is why Wheat's 311 raised a red flag for me and the post you quoted didn't.
Why is this the "scummy response"? I don't understand what your issue here is.
If you're asked for reasoning for your reads, giving the reasoning for providing those reads is just a silly way to avoid answering the actual question (something you still haven't done outside a weak "I gave information previously"). Why would town want to do that? Laziness, perhaps, or a feeling that what they posted earlier was self-evident. Why would scum want to do that? To avoid drawing attention to their reads and having them questioned..
I don't remember being asked for my reasoning though?
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KCC, so now that you know Tan's flip - what is your read on Teia and why?
I still think her play points more towards being new than anything else. I was a little bit more open to accepting the mafia possibility as of last night, but now that's assuming there even is one. In any case, there are other places I'd start looking first, like Karn.
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But only 3 anti-town is too low. I don't know that I believe in 0 mafia, since 2-3 mafia would bring up to 5-6 anti-town which is probably about right for the number of players since they aren't all aligned together. I'd bet on 2 for the total number of anti-towns that feels right but 3 for the scumteam size that feels most right.
I think interaction analysis is stickier because of fewer likely mafia. Players scummy in a vacuum rather than by interactions are more likely scum based on those flips I feel.
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KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
Well, this has been quite a day so far. Two SK flips is definitely weird. I'm pretty sure we still haven't seen the entirety of the fallout of last night's actions. Cythare clearly SK'd Hooker, and it's likely Cythare was the NK. But then who did BV SK? He clearly didn't off himself, and it seems likely that he was vigged (assuming we have a vig in this game, which seems like a fine assumption, especially considering MU2 had two). I would guess that the "Time travelling" aspect of BV's role means that his kill happens at a later point.
Anyhow, Tan was town and was right that BV was a good person to look at. He also fingered Bur, who was one of my earlier scum reads. Vote Bur.
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KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
I think maybe one SK shot the other, then the scum NKed him, maybe? That's what I thought when I saw the flips.
I need to reread.
This only works if BV shot Cythare and was then NK'd. And since BV wasn't looking terribly townie, I'm not sure why the scum would NK him. It also assumes no Vig (as I assume that BV was vig-shot).
I suppose it's possible that one of the following happened:
-One of the NK's was Doc-blocked
-Two of the NK's were on the same person (i.e. BV and the NK were both on Cythare)
-We really do have no Vigilante in the game
But I think it's more likely that BV's ability is on a timer delay.
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I think maybe one SK shot the other, then the scum NKed him, maybe? That's what I thought when I saw the flips.
I need to reread.
This only works if BV shot Cythare and was then NK'd. And since BV wasn't looking terribly townie, I'm not sure why the scum would NK him. It also assumes no Vig (as I assume that BV was vig-shot).
I suppose it's possible that one of the following happened:
-One of the NK's was Doc-blocked
-Two of the NK's were on the same person (i.e. BV and the NK were both on Cythare)
-We really do have no Vigilante in the game
But I think it's more likely that BV's ability is on a timer delay.
Good points. I think the first two are more likely then the third, and there's a forth option: Vig didn't shoot N1. Maybe didn't wanna risk hitting town.
KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
Time Delay sounds like a poisoner...or maybe he killed himself to reappear in the future? I had a role with an ability like that in Ataghan. It could also be that the pair of them were tied together somehow, and that when one died, the other also must die. This would suggest a doc blocked NK.
Gut setup read:
2-man SK aligned pair
1 cult leader
3-man scum team
That's 6 anti-town in a 21 person setup. Obviously the presence of a cult changes the math a little, but at least at onset, that isn't unrealistic.
Very surprised Cythare was anti-town. He was reading very similarly to Celestial.
Whwat, how could you vote Rai after his posts toDay.
Obviously a new player, a and I don't think he could fake those thoughts as scum.
Hmmm.
That's a good point. Couldn't have been coached if he's mafia, unless the mafia knew an SK would flip, so if he's scum he can only be Cult Leader.
I have to reread and see if I actually believe he's a cult leader but I doubt it. And also I need to get better reads since most of my scumreads from yesterDay are either dead or seem townier toDay so far.
I'm also going to excuse myself from answering Teia with explanations for yesterDay's reads and instead provide explanations on updated reads when I get them.
I might get to it tonight, might be tomorrow night or even Thursday.
Riker as anti-town concerns me. Flavorgaming defense? vote Karn
Why does it concern you?
Picard gave me hope that flavor would be useful this game. If one of the most "good-aligned" characters in Star Trek is an SK, that hope is mostly gone.
Time Delay sounds like a poisoner...or maybe he killed himself to reappear in the future? I had a role with an ability like that in Ataghan. It could also be that the pair of them were tied together somehow, and that when one died, the other also must die. This would suggest a doc blocked NK.
I think poisoner. How would the second one work? We know he's a serial killer... so if he comes back, he would die. If he didn't flip on death, maybe. but that makes no sense.
Gut setup read:
2-man SK aligned pair
1 cult leader
3-man scum team
That's 6 anti-town in a 21 person setup. Obviously the presence of a cult changes the math a little, but at least at onset, that isn't unrealistic.
Very surprised Cythare was anti-town. He was reading very similarly to Celestial.
Maybe a 2 man scumteam, or maybe the cult IS the scumteam.The cult replaces wincon, right? I think I remember that from reading one of trhe other games.
KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
Time Delay sounds like a poisoner...or maybe he killed himself to reappear in the future? I had a role with an ability like that in Ataghan. It could also be that the pair of them were tied together somehow, and that when one died, the other also must die. This would suggest a doc blocked NK.
I think poisoner. How would the second one work? We know he's a serial killer... so if he comes back, he would die. If he didn't flip on death, maybe. but that makes no sense.
Gut setup read:
2-man SK aligned pair
1 cult leader
3-man scum team
That's 6 anti-town in a 21 person setup. Obviously the presence of a cult changes the math a little, but at least at onset, that isn't unrealistic.
Very surprised Cythare was anti-town. He was reading very similarly to Celestial.
Maybe a 2 man scumteam, or maybe the cult IS the scumteam.The cult replaces wincon, right? I think I remember that from reading one of trhe other games.
I'm not sure. In Ataghan, my role didn't flip on being "found dead." I basically just disappeared. The only real use the scumteam came up with for it was to vanish me and then have me re-appear later for a "surprise we win" type deal. I'm not sure if the same strategy even could be applicable here, but I felt it worth the mention as a possibility to keep in mind.
Couldn't have been coached if he's mafia, unless the mafia knew an SK would flip, so if he's scum he can only be Cult Leader.
WIFOM.
I'm also going to excuse myself from answering Teia with explanations for yesterDay's reads and instead provide explanations on updated reads when I get them.
Make sure to explain how any reads now differ from previous, if your views on anyone have changed.
Picard gave me hope that flavor would be useful this game. If one of the most "good-aligned" characters in Star Trek is an SK, that hope is mostly gone.
Not that it justifies flavour gaming, but as a Star Trek nerd I feel compelled to explain that Tom Riker is a transporter-created clone of Will Riker who joined the Maquis and stole the Defiant, among other things.
Also can we please have less setup spec and more behavioural analysis? Setup spec doesn't actually help us find scum. But it does make a convenient excuse to say "I'm helping" without actually contributing much.
@Killjoy: Only problem with that is that the last STMU had both a cult and a mafia.
Actually, on thinking about it more, it's unlikely. If one of the SKs killed the Leader, there would be no way for the cult to win. It just doen't make sense to have the scum be so easily neutered by possibly one kill. And a growing scumteam doesn't make sense, either actually. That would be a massive advantage.
KoolKoal: Feel free to take this with a grain of salt since self meta isn't particularly helpful, but I think I get scumread mostly for style over substance, but also for a certain lack of substance over style. It's not so much what I AM posting most of the time (though sometimes that can seem bad) but what I'm NOT posting. I've been told I come to non-obvious conclusions a lot, so when I post, quite a bit of the time there's jumps in logic that people can't follow and they think that's scummy. I get that accusation about a lot of questions I ask specifically. People call them "busy work" when the questions are legit etc.
As far as things to ignore, I can't think of anything. I would suggest you focus less on what I'm doing and more on how I'm doing it. That's probably more likely to be accurate. Like I've just said, what I do tends to come off a little weird, but if you look for how I do it, mindset comes into play and maybe you figure out something useful.
@Killjoy: Only problem with that is that the last STMU had both a cult and a mafia.
Actually, on thinking about it more, it's unlikely. If one of the SKs killed the Leader, there would be no way for the cult to win. It just doen't make sense to have the scum be so easily neutered by possibly one kill. And a growing scumteam doesn't make sense, either actually. That would be a massive advantage.
Most of that is how the last one worked. Look at the last game's setup reveal. The cult leader could grow the cult, but a single kill on the leader would take out the whole cult.
I doubt that we *only* have SKs and cult, but the "easily neutered" and "growing scumteam" things have happened before. Granted, there was some unhappiness with that setup back in the past, but still.
In any case, I do need to analyze behavior more. Going to reread now.
Vote: Teia - #607 doesn't actually do anything other than attempt to undermine the town read on Rai after her posts Today (which I agree with, I can't see her faking those thoughts as scum, either) - and it does so with very soft language "it could be a backpedal on a scum slip" without pursuing it to any degree. Cantrip's play, the way Teia entered the game and avoided impacting the Tan situation... I want to lynch Teia today.
Given that I already had a scum read on him, what exactly is scummy about continuing to see him as scum? Or is simply having a scum read on Rai what you find scummy?
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Notably, you didn't actually answer my question. I asked you whether you thought going after lurkers in an early-game context should be a higher priority than going after people acting scummy. Instead of giving an answer to the effect of "yes" or "no," you went off and gave an explanation for your position. That's like answering the question of how many land you have out with "two Explores." You're answering what you think an underlying issue is rather than the question as presented.
So, which do you think should be the higher priority right now?
So you backed down on the "make sure he's not scum" thing (which you conveniently didn't answer my question on) and the only outcome you gave for if he flips town is you hate losing a player? You don't think analyzing his wagon in light of his flip would be a good source of information? Or you just think that's secondary to hating losing a player?
If you're asked for reasoning for your reads, giving the reasoning for providing those reads is just a silly way to avoid answering the actual question (something you still haven't done outside a weak "I gave information previously"). Why would town want to do that? Laziness, perhaps, or a feeling that what they posted earlier was self-evident. Why would scum want to do that? To avoid drawing attention to their reads and having them questioned.
Thank you.
The immediate difference I see between this and 311 is the overall feeling behind the post. Wheat's 311 has a clear focus: Tell a story, and use the conclusion to justify the current wagon. He didn't introduce any underlying points with it. It was just "hey here was a similar situation that once caught scum [so let's just go ahead with this lynch]." Your post here uses an anecdote to illustrate an underlying point (that scum sometimes cut their losses), which introduces that underlying point as a focus for discussion.
The former is scummy because blindly driving a lynch forward is what scum want to do. If it's on town, they don't want people to stop and reconsider their decision and don't want to give people too much to analyze after the fact. If it's on scum, they don't want people to analyze things too deeply to realize they're busing their partner. This is why Wheat's 311 raised a red flag for me and the post you quoted didn't.
I don't remember being asked for my reasoning though?
I asked you the reasoning for the reads I quoted.
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KCC, so now that you know Tan's flip - what is your read on Teia and why?
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The previous two games I was in there was three, and the ones I have looked at had three, and I thought it was standard operation to have three.
I find it highly unlikely that
1. a kill failed
2. the other two kills targeted two sks.
There is foul play at work here.
Either way, we're all gonna burn
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Cythare, Tom Riker, the Houdini Mine Specialist Serial Killer
This is what the Star trek wiki has to say on Houdini mines. I could see this as a sort of bastard-mod kill target, but that seems unlikely?
Either way, we're all gonna burn
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Vote Teia Rabishu Need to reread with these flips, but I am ok with this for now.
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Two SKs, and HP implies a cult...
But only 3 anti-town is too low. I don't know that I believe in 0 mafia, since 2-3 mafia would bring up to 5-6 anti-town which is probably about right for the number of players since they aren't all aligned together. I'd bet on 2 for the total number of anti-towns that feels right but 3 for the scumteam size that feels most right.
I think interaction analysis is stickier because of fewer likely mafia. Players scummy in a vacuum rather than by interactions are more likely scum based on those flips I feel.
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Either way, we're all gonna burn
Obviously a new player, a and I don't think he could fake those thoughts as scum.
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vote Karn
Why does it concern you?
And with those 2 sk flips I need a reread.
Anyhow, Tan was town and was right that BV was a good person to look at. He also fingered Bur, who was one of my earlier scum reads. Vote Bur.
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I need to reread.
This only works if BV shot Cythare and was then NK'd. And since BV wasn't looking terribly townie, I'm not sure why the scum would NK him. It also assumes no Vig (as I assume that BV was vig-shot).
I suppose it's possible that one of the following happened:
-One of the NK's was Doc-blocked
-Two of the NK's were on the same person (i.e. BV and the NK were both on Cythare)
-We really do have no Vigilante in the game
But I think it's more likely that BV's ability is on a timer delay.
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Good points. I think the first two are more likely then the third, and there's a forth option: Vig didn't shoot N1. Maybe didn't wanna risk hitting town.
Gut setup read:
2-man SK aligned pair
1 cult leader
3-man scum team
That's 6 anti-town in a 21 person setup. Obviously the presence of a cult changes the math a little, but at least at onset, that isn't unrealistic.
Very surprised Cythare was anti-town. He was reading very similarly to Celestial.
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Hmmm.
That's a good point. Couldn't have been coached if he's mafia, unless the mafia knew an SK would flip, so if he's scum he can only be Cult Leader.
I have to reread and see if I actually believe he's a cult leader but I doubt it. And also I need to get better reads since most of my scumreads from yesterDay are either dead or seem townier toDay so far.
I'm also going to excuse myself from answering Teia with explanations for yesterDay's reads and instead provide explanations on updated reads when I get them.
I might get to it tonight, might be tomorrow night or even Thursday.
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Maybe a 2 man scumteam, or maybe the cult IS the scumteam.The cult replaces wincon, right? I think I remember that from reading one of trhe other games.
I'm not sure. In Ataghan, my role didn't flip on being "found dead." I basically just disappeared. The only real use the scumteam came up with for it was to vanish me and then have me re-appear later for a "surprise we win" type deal. I'm not sure if the same strategy even could be applicable here, but I felt it worth the mention as a possibility to keep in mind.
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Any reason he couldn't just be newb scum? 575 could just be a backpedal on a scum slip, and there's no reason newb scum couldn't know how SKs work.
WIFOM.
Make sure to explain how any reads now differ from previous, if your views on anyone have changed.
Not that it justifies flavour gaming, but as a Star Trek nerd I feel compelled to explain that Tom Riker is a transporter-created clone of Will Riker who joined the Maquis and stole the Defiant, among other things.
Also can we please have less setup spec and more behavioural analysis? Setup spec doesn't actually help us find scum. But it does make a convenient excuse to say "I'm helping" without actually contributing much.
I doubt that we *only* have SKs and cult, but the "easily neutered" and "growing scumteam" things have happened before. Granted, there was some unhappiness with that setup back in the past, but still.
In any case, I do need to analyze behavior more. Going to reread now.
Town Win % = 75%
Mafia Win % = 75%
Overall Win % = 75%
Completed Game Log
2014: Best Mafia Performance (Group)
2014: Most Improved Player
2014: Best Town Player
2014: Best Overall Player