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Originally Posted by TehBankertin
Fun Question: Do you think finding scum on day 1 is difficult?
I know this wasn't directed at me, but I'll answer. Yes. So much so that no one ever tries on my site, and the last time I remember it happening, it was because someone who happened to be mafia posted lyrics from the musical Once Upon a Time, which I had just played, was sick of, and I voted him down.
More to the point, though, I think it's particularly difficult in a vanilla game. We almost always play games where everyone has a role, and getting info from it is usually far more useful than any kind of interaction with any other player that's just based on discussion. Thus town's main goal is to survive long enough to get use out of their role, not to even think about trying to solve the game on day 1.
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Originally Posted by TehBankertin
@Dorian what did you think of my list of reads I went over recently?
@Slendy same question.
I'm literally begging for interactions this game is kinda tilting me activity wise.
Achromatic - I didn't read game 2. You and everyone else seem to think he's very solidly town. If it's similar to his town play in game 2, I'm fine with this read for now. Almost everything he's done so far seems town-ish to me too, though I'm not a huge fan of his kneejerk-reaction vote still sitting on Doc.
riki - I agree, she's been asking a lot of questions and looking for logic-fails. That's fairly town-sided, like you say, although catching someone in a logic-fail doesn't equal catching scum. Of course, if you're going to pretend you have an innocent scan on her, you have to townread her.
Cue - I disagree. Throughout the day, I've seen things from him that have given me reads in both directions, and I'm not sure which ones are the ones to be paying attention to. I guess that, at the moment, equals out to a null in my book, but it's a null from pinging me in both directions, which is very different from a null from not pinging me at all.
bhuber - gave me a good first initial impression (which was totally just a gut read), but I'd need to see more. I'm especially waiting to see the interaction between him and MSU when MSU finally finds time (welcome back, MSU!). I think you're perhaps weighting him a little more heavily town than I would because of the similar reads - it's easy to do that, and sometimes it's right, and sometimes it's a trap.
fontisian - I'm not sure what you mean by "I think if she is scum it will be apparent who she is fighting for." I mean, so far today, it's been pretty apparent that she's been fighting for Cue to be lynched. You're pretty hesitant about her as town, and I certainly wouldn't go any higher than that now. At this point, I think I'd need to resolve Cue in my head before I could make a further decision here.
road - remind me what cue's point about road was that you liked enough to make this read. Everything that he's said so far, I've mostly just nodded along. I disagreed with a few minor points here and there, but nothing that seemed scummy. He handled your scumread on him very well, which speaks more to his skill than his affiliation, but definitely means that I need to consciously pay more attention here.
MSU - I don't know. I think he sounds genuinely frustrated by how unexpectedly busy the day became, and it's hard to do any of the things you (and the general culture here) expect people to do on day 1 when you don't have hours and hours. I mean, it
can be a scumtell, but I don't agree with how strong you seem to read it. I guess I just don't think he's intentionally lurking, which is what your read implies, and so I'll wait until he says more when he's cuaght up.
Right now, MSU's the easy vote, and Riki just now putting a 3rd vote on him before he came back (3rd vote is the most popular place to look for mafia on my site) is not sitting well with me at all. No better than Cue's 3rd vote on Banks sat with me.