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Keirathi
Profile Joined May 2012
United States4679 Posts
April 15 2014 04:25 GMT
#361
Talking about reads with someone outside of the game is basically the equivalent of hydraing with them without anyone, including the hosts, knowing about it.

Everyone knows hydras are strong. (Or Masons, for that matter). Another person to bounce ideas around with is insanely beneficial as town. It gives you direction you may have been lacking otherwise.
My dear friend if I have gone pants on head, you have gone socks on ears!!! -ShiaoPi
Oatsmaster
Profile Joined October 2012
United States16628 Posts
April 15 2014 04:26 GMT
#362
I think the issue here is out of game communication with people that have access to the obs qt. Anything else is basically hydraing with someone that doesnt read the game. Which is not that beneficial in specific cases, only whether your logic checks out.

So dont contact people with obs and dead people and its fine
No gg, No skill.
raynpelikoneet
Profile Joined April 2007
Finland43270 Posts
April 15 2014 04:27 GMT
#363
Coaches are different. Ask BH, good coaches don't even have a clue what's going on in the game. They don't tell how to play a particular game and what to do in that game, they tell how to play mafia and how to find scum / trick town.

Last newbie game i coached i "knew" Robik was mafia because i happened to saw his scummy post, did i tell my coachees to lynch him? No. I told them how to play mafia when they asked me. Not who to lynch. It's dumb to bring coaching into this. It has nothing to do with the issue.
table for two on a tv tray
syllogism
Profile Joined September 2010
Finland5948 Posts
April 15 2014 04:27 GMT
#364
The person who is playing the game still has to actually convince the thread of the correctness of the read. Frankly this is less harmful from mafia perspective than having a great player suddenly replace a mediocre one.

Unless the coach isn't reading the thread at all and the coached person does not quote anything, your own perspective is usually going to affect any advice you give, no matter how general it may seem like.
Oatsmaster
Profile Joined October 2012
United States16628 Posts
April 15 2014 04:28 GMT
#365
Nobody reads threads they arent involved in man.
No gg, No skill.
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
April 15 2014 04:33 GMT
#366
What toad/foolishness did was wrong. What marv did was wrong.

This should be taken to the actual ban list thread.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
HiroPro
Profile Joined March 2012
United States2624 Posts
April 15 2014 04:33 GMT
#367
Casually discussing the game with someone is fine. I don't personally discuss reads with others while I'm playing as I think it's kind of silly and takes away from your own enjoyment, but w/e some people find it interesting. As long as it's not coaching or some kind of hidden hydra, I don't have a problem with it.

Actually saying in-thread that another specific player has been reading and agrees with you (even if you don't post direct conversations) is not ok. It's the same reason why newbie games don't allow you to talk about your interactions with coaches - it gives indications to your alignment that have nothing to do with what's going on in the thread.
syllogism
Profile Joined September 2010
Finland5948 Posts
April 15 2014 04:38 GMT
#368
On April 15 2014 13:33 HiroPro wrote:
Actually saying in-thread that another specific player has been reading and agrees with you (even if you don't post direct conversations) is not ok. It's the same reason why newbie games don't allow you to talk about your interactions with coaches - it gives indications to your alignment that have nothing to do with what's going on in the thread.

I absolutely agree with this. I also dislike when players ask hosts questions in public or even make specific excuses about their activity. In my view you shouldn't say anything that doesn't directly relate to the game.
Keirathi
Profile Joined May 2012
United States4679 Posts
April 15 2014 04:39 GMT
#369
Say I'm in a game right now and I PM you and say "Hey man. Can you take a look at *insert filter here* and tell me what you see? Something feels off." is okay?
My dear friend if I have gone pants on head, you have gone socks on ears!!! -ShiaoPi
ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
April 15 2014 04:41 GMT
#370
On April 15 2014 13:39 Keirathi wrote:
Say I'm in a game right now and I PM you and say "Hey man. Can you take a look at *insert filter here* and tell me what you see? Something feels off." is okay?

My opinion is that it's okay if and only if that person is otherwise un-involved in the game in any way (not a replacement, not in obs, not already talking to other players). But you're talking about from the player's perspective and they're talking about from the outsider's perspective.
Fear is the only darkness. ~Destiny Fan Club operator~
DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10857 Posts
April 15 2014 04:43 GMT
#371
This breakout discussion thread is the worst. We now have the same discussion in two threads and have to fucking cross post things.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
April 15 2014 04:46 GMT
#372
Well you can link to the discussion here with the ban request and we can keep the clutter contained. Since that thread is for ban requests and this one is for ban discussion or at least that was my intent.
Fear is the only darkness. ~Destiny Fan Club operator~
gonzaw
Profile Joined December 2011
Uruguay4911 Posts
April 15 2014 04:48 GMT
#373
On April 15 2014 13:38 DarthPunk wrote:
Rayn said marv has told him who he should lynch on two separate occasions. One of which was a game in which he had access to the obs qt.


This is important, you should post it in the Ban thread.

<- That way
Keirathi
Profile Joined May 2012
United States4679 Posts
April 15 2014 04:48 GMT
#374
On April 15 2014 13:41 ObviousOne wrote:
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On April 15 2014 13:39 Keirathi wrote:
Say I'm in a game right now and I PM you and say "Hey man. Can you take a look at *insert filter here* and tell me what you see? Something feels off." is okay?

My opinion is that it's okay if and only if that person is otherwise un-involved in the game in any way (not a replacement, not in obs, not already talking to other players). But you're talking about from the player's perspective and they're talking about from the outsider's perspective.

I don't think it's okay, whether that person is involved or not. Specifically talking about reads with anyone not in the game thread or appropriate QTs seems pretty sketchy.

There's a bit of a grey area, of course. Say I was playing a game of LoL with wave, and he's like "Hey, so how's Random Game going? I've read most of it but missed the last day" And I say something like "Oh it's okay. We lynched scum yesterday, and I'm pretty sure yamato is scum and we'll lynch him tomorrow." To which Wave replies "Oh yea, I can definitely see him being scum from what little I read."

Something like that is hard to really call "cheating", but it is certainly a grey area, and I'm sure most people have done it accidentally on occasion. But where do you draw the line? It's a very very hard line *TO* draw, and probably the best solution is just to say "Don't talk about reads with people outside of the game, EVER."
My dear friend if I have gone pants on head, you have gone socks on ears!!! -ShiaoPi
ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
April 15 2014 04:50 GMT
#375
Of course when I talk to someone outside of the game, it's usually about my own play or ideas for where to go, and not about other players, so maybe that's coloring my perspective on it.
Fear is the only darkness. ~Destiny Fan Club operator~
Keirathi
Profile Joined May 2012
United States4679 Posts
April 15 2014 04:51 GMT
#376
On April 15 2014 13:43 DarthPunk wrote:
This breakout discussion thread is the worst. We now have the same discussion in two threads and have to fucking cross post things.

There's a reason I'm not posting in the ban thread. I'm not making arguments for why anyone should or should not get banned. And I dont really think the ban list thread is the place to discuss potential rules changes.
My dear friend if I have gone pants on head, you have gone socks on ears!!! -ShiaoPi
ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
April 15 2014 04:51 GMT
#377
Haven't felt the need in a long time, back when me and VE were besties after I shadowed him in Nomination. So however long that's been minus a couple months.
Fear is the only darkness. ~Destiny Fan Club operator~
HiroPro
Profile Joined March 2012
United States2624 Posts
April 15 2014 04:53 GMT
#378
On April 15 2014 13:39 Keirathi wrote:
Say I'm in a game right now and I PM you and say "Hey man. Can you take a look at *insert filter here* and tell me what you see? Something feels off." is okay?

It's really hard to define stuff like this. If you're just like "BH obvious mafia, everyone else is jubjubs and can't see it -__-" and the other person is like "yea i agree", w/e who cares.

But if that person is going to write a case for you or tell you something like this, then I don't think it's ok at all:


Original Message From strongandbig:
hey so sorry ive been away
i'm at CERN now, it means I'm doing a lot of work - we shipped an experiment here from the US.
anyway let's talk a little bit about reads. Here's where I stand right now:

Players

1) Igrok ---- probably scum, b/c of carrying us and trololol
2) Cephiro ---- probably scum for setup reasons, scum probably have a samus bc of kp imbalance plus we and cephiro both revealed we are samus yet igrok decided to carry us, why?
3) Mister Saturn ---- town lol
4) grush57 ---- I don't think I've seen him play a game where it actually looked like he was trying. Null read
5) talismania ---- probably scum, i forget why at the moment but that's what I thought last night
6) kingdedede ---- probably town, no reason for scum to reveal that they had a bus driver when they could have used it to screw town over, and it would have been easy enough for him not to claim it's not like there was pressure on him
7) HomerunBat ---- idk. doublenubs. null read
8) Risen ---- probably town, i dont think scum would have jumped into that exact shit flinging fest like he did for such a little reason as to counter igrok's plan; seems more like something an excited townie would do. IMO if scum are trying to jumble up the thread they would do it either by getting emotional or by trying to incite someone else, but not just by getting into a setup discussion. I could be wrong though.


So ranking from towniest to least town:


1) Mister Saturn
2) kingdedede
3) Risen
4) HomerunBat
5) grush57
6) Cephiro
7) talismania
8) Igrok
Blazinghand *
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States25560 Posts
April 15 2014 04:56 GMT
#379
On April 15 2014 13:27 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Coaches are different. Ask BH, good coaches don't even have a clue what's going on in the game. They don't tell how to play a particular game and what to do in that game, they tell how to play mafia and how to find scum / trick town.


It's true, I don't need to read a thread to be a top tier coach. I haven't been following this discussion very carefully so this is not an endorsement of either side.
When you stare into the iCCup, the iCCup stares back.
TL+ Member
ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
April 15 2014 04:58 GMT
#380
On April 15 2014 13:56 Blazinghand wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 15 2014 13:27 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Coaches are different. Ask BH, good coaches don't even have a clue what's going on in the game. They don't tell how to play a particular game and what to do in that game, they tell how to play mafia and how to find scum / trick town.


It's true, I don't need to read a thread to be a top tier coach. I haven't been following this discussion very carefully so this is not an endorsement of either side.

bh
so meta
Fear is the only darkness. ~Destiny Fan Club operator~
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