Desert Center Mini Mafia - Page 2

On August 07 2015 02:36 The Shining wrote:


Probably my least sure scumread out of Edgar, ruxxar, igrok. I'm not really seeing scum in anyone else, except maybe Scott, but I'm only suspicious because of activity. I'm on page 27 right now and still haven't caught anything but rayn defending igrok(with good logic, let him play since the pressuring could make him useless) and I still don't see any reads from iGrok outside of RSo. He even had a post regarding the split between LAL and the dissenters but hasn't made a post about any other scumreads. And with him having RSo at only 50% scum as top read, it seems he's very weary of committing to any one way of thinking outside of LAL

On August 06 2015 06:55 iGrok wrote:

My 2-line post came off as having too much effort? Hoo boy, are you in for a treat this game.

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Since many of you have not played with me before (and I have not played with many of you), a brief point on my meta:
If I'm scum, I'll fake claim a 3rd Party Neutral Assassinating Survivor, draw multiple vigi hits and medic saves, and ultimately die but set my team up for the win.

If I'm town, I'll approach the game from a mechanics-focused angle, analyzing any and all known information about the game in order to break the setup, or at least make it town favored. On day 2 or 3, I'll write up a hyper-analysis of someone I find scummy, and either convict them or clear them.

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This setup is Mountainous, which means no power roles at all. Some might think that this makes it impossible to approach from a mechanics standpoint, but the secret is that, as I said in my OP, Mountainous setups rely entirely on activity between players. There is no reason to lurk to avoid notice as town, because there are no power roles trying to avoid mafia notice. Play loud, play proud, play nice, and we'll all have a good game. Lurk, and you're clearly scum, either as mafia or bad town.

On August 07 2015 07:06 The Shining wrote:


Not really sure what to make of this post. I want to immediately throw it into the same pile of Cake and ruxxar doing these self metas that just don't sit well with me. Like yes, meta can be used to find scum but you have to play the game, as well. This is a really big fluffy post where iGrok tells us what he thinks he does as town as scum. These always have to be taken with a grain of salt. Like obviously if you know you do xyz as scum and ABC as town, then you know enough to try and consciously change said meta.

He also reaffirms his stance on LAL.

One thing I did notice was he set that post up to say that in no way could he be scum here. We don't have 3p so he can't claim that like he would as scum. No vigi shots or medic saves to draw. He indirectly painted a scenario where there is no way he can be scum just because it's an all vanilla game and he can't do his normal scum things.

I'm not sure if that was intentional but if he's scum, that's a very interesting way to self-meta without giving away your alignment.

On August 08 2015 06:34 The Shining wrote:
Lol that entire shitshow is preventing me from posting correctly. I'm still not even sure what happened or when deadline is...

Damdred, my post right before EoD explained why I wouldn't switch to Scott. Work was hectic, I hadn't fully caught up, no idea when deadline was, I didn't see where or how the Scott wagon started gaining traction, and the biggest one was I had a newbie game with Scott in which he had like 5-6 posts d1 iirc. Did a lot of nothing, but had a strange vote post and scattered ideas like here and we lynched him D1. He flipped VT. I was afraid of it being the same situation.