EPTOn January 18 2016 07:12 ExO_ wrote:
Anybody have any advice for me? I think I have a real problem with being able to be firm on my reads, and to really stick to what I think. I start to consider all the possibilities and doubt myself a ton, which is why in this end game I basically collapsed. A lot of the time I was on the right track with Palmar/Onegu (though completely wrong with kush).
Anybody have any advice for me? I think I have a real problem with being able to be firm on my reads, and to really stick to what I think. I start to consider all the possibilities and doubt myself a ton, which is why in this end game I basically collapsed. A lot of the time I was on the right track with Palmar/Onegu (though completely wrong with kush).
A lot of it is knowing the players and that comes from just experience with playing with them. Being unsure of your reads is really good though despite what you may think. The only downside to being unsure is that you need to understand when you're just being paranoid and that paranoia is taking over or when it's being unsure because they do something that you consider goes against your initial read.
The thing with being afraid of damdred was straight up paranoia (and not necessarily a bad thing) but when that kicks in you need to affirm your read all over again, figure out what made you think he was town to begin with and see if that still holds true and if he's constantly reaffirming that town read.
Secondly, when it gets towards end game you need to start thinking in different ways. You should at this point have a list of people you town read and reasons for town reading them, if that reason for town reading them is based on an action they did at one point in the game or you town read them for very minimal reasons that's a good time to rethink that person.
You also need to look at motives and who started doing what at what part of the game, mafia towards the end of the game are INTENT and hell bent on getting their mislynches. They are the people that aren't really looking at things logically per se and just surface level throw out "oh x and y are scum" or "oh maybe i'm wrong and it's z!" and don't really give a shit or are the people that heroically just push an easy to lynch guy. Townies will tend to look at all angles and rethink things and be totally unsure and paranoid (like you were experiencing) but not be so surface level.
Unless you play with shitters then gl!
