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raynpelikoneet
Profile Joined April 2007
Finland43270 Posts
August 20 2013 10:00 GMT
#4501
Btw, you guys should really know (for future reference) that i have really weird ways of scumhunting. I come from a place where pretty much all the games are off thread comm games and it really affects my play. For example, how i got a town read on getmoript (geript/WoS hydra) in Bluelightz game: It was all because i asked geript about what he thought about WoS posts, and after that asked him if he thought WoS was scum (lololol). His answer was so sincere and honest he basically could not be mafia.

I think that's the reason i don't work well here. People have a problem understanding my motives behind my posts and i have a problem clarifying it.
table for two on a tv tray
Clarity_nl
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands6826 Posts
August 20 2013 10:01 GMT
#4502
Thanks
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AGAINST STUPIDITY CLARITY, I BELIEVE IN YOU! - Palmar
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
August 20 2013 10:03 GMT
#4503
Solution: policy lynch rayn from now on?
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
raynpelikoneet
Profile Joined April 2007
Finland43270 Posts
August 20 2013 10:04 GMT
#4504
On August 20 2013 19:03 Xatalos wrote:
Solution: policy lynch rayn from now on?

I have actually never been lynched as town and i intend to never start.
table for two on a tv tray
Clarity_nl
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands6826 Posts
August 20 2013 10:05 GMT
#4505
Nah I believe it when he says he'll try to work with me better. I don't really understand why I have issues with the way rayn posts or explains things. I don't have an issue with rayn as a person or anything, just wanna make that clear, seems like a cool dude.
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AGAINST STUPIDITY CLARITY, I BELIEVE IN YOU! - Palmar
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
August 20 2013 10:07 GMT
#4506
On August 20 2013 19:04 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2013 19:03 Xatalos wrote:
Solution: policy lynch rayn from now on?

I have actually never been lynched as town and i intend to never start.


I've been lynched/Vigi'd as town several times. NEVER as scum :D Yay....
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
Mocsta
Profile Joined December 2012
Australia9388 Posts
August 20 2013 10:07 GMT
#4507
hmmm, i only played two games with you rayn.
sciilian -= town
got = scum


i think you played completely different. The core is teh same; but the intention is different.
I thought you explained yourself quite well in sicilian.
This game you tend to get fixated on points and refuse to concede any ground. Thats normally pretty scummy to me because as scum its already hard to find an argument you believe in enough to rant about.
Clarity_nl
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands6826 Posts
August 20 2013 10:09 GMT
#4508
Oh and btw FirmTofu, you weren't wrong about your "meta read" on me in your deathpost. The thing is though, you have to consider that I took some heat d1 that made it harder for me to scumhunt.
I don't know if that's my mistake (the pm "lie" was obviously), but when the pressure is on me, which doesn't happen often when I'm town, I have trouble scumhunting. Don't really know why.
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AGAINST STUPIDITY CLARITY, I BELIEVE IN YOU! - Palmar
raynpelikoneet
Profile Joined April 2007
Finland43270 Posts
August 20 2013 10:15 GMT
#4509
On August 20 2013 19:07 Mocsta wrote:
hmmm, i only played two games with you rayn.
sciilian -= town
got = scum


i think you played completely different. The core is teh same; but the intention is different.
I thought you explained yourself quite well in sicilian.
This game you tend to get fixated on points and refuse to concede any ground. Thats normally pretty scummy to me because as scum its already hard to find an argument you believe in enough to rant about.

I think the difference is because the games were so different. There was a clear change of my play here because the lynch mechanic was different (you could compare this better to Titanic, Clarity was spot on of my meta there). When i am not a lord, i need to convince my house lord of something -> they need to convince other lords (as all the non-vote players were really not listened in thread regardless of what they posted). When i am a lord i need to convince other lords (i didn't really give a crap about what non-votes said, because they can't do shit) unless they had good enough arguments for me.

I dunno, it might be something i don't know and you are right about my play changes when i am town/scum but i would not count on it 100%. We'll see about it in the future. :D

At least i had a good track of who was convincing/who was not and who would do what kind of shit in town. Only thing i fucked up was that on D3 i thought Clarity would lead the town over Xatalos onto SnB lynch (although Vivax helped the town alot in that :/ ).
table for two on a tv tray
yamato77
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
11589 Posts
August 20 2013 10:31 GMT
#4510
On August 20 2013 17:25 Ace wrote:
@yamato

I actually vigi'd you in Sicilian Mafia because you were talking nonsense, not laziness
How did Sharrant catch you?

I all-inned day 1 of Sicilian to get VE lynched instead of Sloosh, so I can imagine that some of it came off completely wrong. I wasn't alive long enough for laziness to kill me in that game, though with the post count thing, I had a patent excuse to fuck off after a certain point each day.

Sharrant seemed convinced that somehow I "argued different" than I do as town, or whatever. Some kind of meta-BS that isn't actually alignment indicative.
Writer@WriterYamato
yamato77
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
11589 Posts
August 20 2013 10:33 GMT
#4511
On August 20 2013 18:43 Xatalos wrote:
I'm going to use this seal picture whenever I scumclaim from now on :D Thanks Yamato!

Thank Hapa, I stole it from him lol.

Look up Liquid City mafia and click on his filter. Also Blazinghand's filter from I'm a cop you idiot mafia. Plagiarized both of those scumclaims.
Writer@WriterYamato
Xatalos
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland9675 Posts
August 20 2013 10:48 GMT
#4512
Dunno... I think I've learned to establish my townishness very well recently. But my leadership/analysis abilities are still a bit lacking. Maybe I just feel like I'm too inexperienced yet to really lead and prefer to somewhat sheep more experienced players players like iamperfection in this game (or rayn to a lesser extent in NWM). In real life too, I often prefer to be kind of a supporter/advisor to a "strong-willed", capable person. Someone with a vision and the strength to push for it. But maybe I'll be that person more often when I'm more experienced.... I just kind of dislike leading when I'm even slightly unsure of myself.
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." - Sun Tzu
marvellosity
Profile Joined January 2011
United Kingdom36161 Posts
August 20 2013 10:48 GMT
#4513
On August 20 2013 19:07 Mocsta wrote:
hmmm, i only played two games with you rayn.
sciilian -= town
got = scum


i think you played completely different. The core is teh same; but the intention is different.
I thought you explained yourself quite well in sicilian.
This game you tend to get fixated on points and refuse to concede any ground. Thats normally pretty scummy to me because as scum its already hard to find an argument you believe in enough to rant about.


This is a good post, I agree with this. It was well caught and true.
[15:15] <Palmar> and yes marv, you're a total hottie
yamato77
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
11589 Posts
August 20 2013 10:53 GMT
#4514
Ace is right when he says too much credit and leeway is given to vets on this forum. If you have a strong suspicion, badger the fuck out of the thread with it and make people talk about it. The biggest mistake I see people make as town is arguing with their scumspects. Even if you're right, it often gets you nowhere closer to lynching them. Instead, pressure other people into reacting to the case. You'll lynch many more scum this way, even if you start out casing a townie.
Writer@WriterYamato
Clarity_nl
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands6826 Posts
August 20 2013 11:25 GMT
#4515
At least i had a good track of who was convincing/who was not and who would do what kind of shit in town. Only thing i fucked up was that on D3 i thought Clarity would lead the town over Xatalos onto SnB lynch (although Vivax helped the town alot in that :/ ).


Yeah. While I wasn't convinced on vivax mainly because he played anti wincon regardless of his alignment, I wasn't against his lynch. There's no point to me saying that in thread though. If I'm pressuring snb that hard and at the same time explain that I'm fine with a vivax lynch then that takes pressure away from snb.

That claim was kinda silly though. Everyone was right to immediately jump on it. I always like to think through the possibilities and talk it through with others before just changing my vote though. I dunno if that looks scummy or whatever.
When I'm town I hardly ever think about if I look scummy, I think that works. Despite soft defending vivax no one ever went "oh clarity might be scum". The only scum that pushed me (kinda) was rayn and even then his argument was that I wasn't making myself readable because I stopped answering his questions which is a silly stance considering the rest of the game, and was never going to get me lynched.

My problem is is that I get myself in a position where I'll never get lynched, and I try to use that to push town goals including being traffic cop when I think it's needed, but my scumhunting is sorely lacking so I can't really lead town into victory.
What I do think however, is that 2-3 townies lurking makes the game 5x as hard.

I think I've learned that I don't really like pm games. It's really cool to have a super strong townread (like xata in this game) where I can just bounce ideas off of, but there were so many times where people were saying someone was town because of pm reasons (I did this once, and it was solstice cause he claimed 2 shot vig), and it made it hard to scumhunt when you just hit a brick wall like that. This was specifically the case with chrom, who I said was scummy in thread all day but enough people called town in pms that I just couldn't bring myself to go against that.

Yamato here's a question for you, what do you classify as a "strong suspicion"? Because I always end up with a really strong read one way or the other, but the longer the game goes the more people have "some of column A (townie), some of column B (townie)" and my read weakens and gets closer to null.
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AGAINST STUPIDITY CLARITY, I BELIEVE IN YOU! - Palmar
Mocsta
Profile Joined December 2012
Australia9388 Posts
August 20 2013 11:33 GMT
#4516
Clarity I thought u played well and was a sound voice of reason.

Essentially a great sounding board and an important role for town to have.
In theory u and cat played off each other well.. But in practice I think got fixated too much on the theory world of Mafia. I.e. eradicating lurkers/bad town instead of top scum.

Overall given the prevalence of lurkers. I do think u both played well and did the best of what was available.
Clarity_nl
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands6826 Posts
August 20 2013 11:41 GMT
#4517
I think I trick people into thinking I played well or something cause someone said that in titanic too and I feel I played badly in both. I just suck at finding scum. Like I'm really bad at it. And when I do find scum I can't get them lynched and lose confidence in my read.

I'm sure I'll get better at scumhunting if I just continue playing, which is what I'll do, but it's hard to see if I'm progressing or not.
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AGAINST STUPIDITY CLARITY, I BELIEVE IN YOU! - Palmar
yamato77
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
11589 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-20 11:47:27
August 20 2013 11:42 GMT
#4518
"Strong suspicion" would be the person that is farthest over the null line into scum territory.

This works best when you have a decent idea of who is town already. Early in the game, your biggest priority should be finding townreads you are confident in and establishing that you are town. After a few townies realize they are all town, you can just pick off people outside the circle until you win. Almost all town wins are created this way. Town losses usually involve this circle never being established or the ringleaders of it being killed off. Without a few people you trust, the thread devolves into infighting and town will always lose in that situation.
Writer@WriterYamato
Mocsta
Profile Joined December 2012
Australia9388 Posts
August 20 2013 11:45 GMT
#4519
Well u can keep thinking that.

I guess in diff words. Having u in the thread was like being linked to a town hydra. Maybe YOU don't find the scum. But u help ENABLE the other ppl to find scum. Its an important support role. There's not many ppl I like publivally bouncing ideas off but u r one of them. I think its because u r quite impartial to everyone. Whereas most ppl have biases. Some public, some hidden.
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain18218 Posts
August 20 2013 11:50 GMT
#4520
On August 20 2013 17:57 Xatalos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2013 17:49 johnnywup wrote:
You got Risen to shoot me?

I had a pretty strong townread on Risen the last couple days. I dunno what he was like in PMs though

On August 20 2013 17:48 Xatalos wrote:
On August 20 2013 17:42 raynpelikoneet wrote:
The problem with the town was that people had (correctly) townreads on each other "because of PM's" and then many people did not do anything in thread (Onegu is a good example of this). It was easy to call people out for their thread posts and you can't really blame me for not knowing what you have PM'd with them. That's why people should not hide in PM-land.


Onegu just felt so sincerely townish especially in PMs and also in thread to a lesser extent. Gut feeling, I guess? And I really facepalmed hard when he was lynched....


I facepalmed hard when he was lynched too but since it was 2-2 with him getting 2 first I was scared to say anything because I didn't want someone to randomly switch to me :x


Although if you were lynched, it wasn't going to be endgame yet...? Not sure. Yeah, I pushed for you to be shot. Lurkers are my bane. I played SC2 Mafia for a long time before joining TL Mafia... In SC2 Mafia it was standard for scum to say nothing or at most talk very sparingly, while townies often spammed. Here it's more like... Townies are either very active or lurking. And scum are semi-active or semi-lurking, mostly semi-lurking the later the game goes on. But I always misfocus on the most inactive lurkers :/


I couldn't believe my vote for Onegu went pretty much COMPLETELY unnoticed. By then we'd decided the game was over if we got Onegu or Risen lynched, and were willing to risk what was an all-in scumclaim move.

But I honestly thought Xatalos, s0lstice, Risen, DI or well.. Onegu himself would take one look at that and yell "ACRO IS SCUM, SHOOT HIM DED". I had been calling Rayn scum all game. Suddenly, instead of rallying town (or doing anything) to vote for him or SnB I just voted alongside my scumread to lynch some guy I had not wasted more than about 5 lines on all game, under the very weak pretenses of saving my town read... about 8 hours before the lynch.

I was really surprised that that didn't instantly convince everybody I was scum.
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