EPTOn October 01 2015 22:28 Half the Sky wrote:
And yeh, I've said this before but the others touched on it, but meta is something that is used and abused by many others on this forum. I have learnt some hard lessons using it myself (example: it led to me throwing Gaiden) but I think as far as trusting other people's meta reads you need to probably just form your reads using other criteria and check that at least their approach to meta is making sense or that they can explain the parallel points on their reads between games.
If you are a new player you really shouldn't meta unless you have played 10-odd games with people anyhow and you still have to be careful of easily broken metas (i.e. inactivity as a certain alignment). The easiest way to safeguard is to use multiple layers of criteria for town or scumreading people and see if it adds up. Outside meta, is there town/mafia motivations for XYZ action(s)? And so forth.
And yeh, I've said this before but the others touched on it, but meta is something that is used and abused by many others on this forum. I have learnt some hard lessons using it myself (example: it led to me throwing Gaiden) but I think as far as trusting other people's meta reads you need to probably just form your reads using other criteria and check that at least their approach to meta is making sense or that they can explain the parallel points on their reads between games.
If you are a new player you really shouldn't meta unless you have played 10-odd games with people anyhow and you still have to be careful of easily broken metas (i.e. inactivity as a certain alignment). The easiest way to safeguard is to use multiple layers of criteria for town or scumreading people and see if it adds up. Outside meta, is there town/mafia motivations for XYZ action(s)? And so forth.
I think up to a certain point everything is meta though. What some players always do as town, others always do as mafia and vice versa. There's a few things that are 'objectively scummy' but even those are done by town on a mostly regular basis. The only thing you really have that's overarching is if you find something that can only be explained from mafia and absolutely cannot from town even in a crazy world, and those things are very rare.
