Not to belittle this Kyanrute guy or anything, but man his play must be shit as hell if you are saying things like this when your protection vote is going for someone else.
I think Chugg is town, too, though maybe a little less than I think you are, but also more folks believe his towniness. Me believing your towniness is based on something only I can know that I can't talk about yet. The missing 5% there is me saying we shouldn't take anything for granted, either.
What ? Please explain further as to why this makes you believe that player to be town.
Well, let me talk through it and see if it holds up. I know what I want to say, the challenge is putting words to it...
Scum making broad statements about the game's makeup while only having purview over their own roles can be pretty risky if, in a few days, we see a notable lack of vanilla role flips; town would come back around to Pancakes' statement and ask, "well, what were you on about?" and think maybe Pancakes was lying. Scum would only make this statement if they had some assurance that there were several vanilla players, and it's highly unlikely they would know that at D1. The game is labeled as bastard - my first inclination was to think it was role madness, as well, but that may not be true. This is just anecdotal, but I suspect several players also came into the game suspecting this would be role madness. Basically, I think it's a gamble for scum!Pancakes to come out and make a comment like this, both as scum and as a relatively new player.
Basically, the simplest conclusion is that Pancakes is vanilla and did not think through that scum is going to pick up on that and avoid killing her for awhile, instead trying fishing for more roles.
You accepting that bet, cancelling it and trying to shade her into making that bet is as suspicious though. Just pointing it out .
I threw shade, but I backed out of that when I saw Reki's response.
Launch, promise I'm not trying to be disrespectful here - I'm a reaaally bad town player after all - but I wouldn't try that when you yourself said;
I'd probably went for someone I thought had a really strong town play.
So you're contradicting yourself here. Here too;
AW YIS, Reki super posts. I really do enjoy these!
To your credit here, also, you've not seen my town play to know whether I would be a threat or not.
But just in a very general sense, even just being a loud town voice is something scum would not want around. For example, Puns in Risk - at the point in time when we decided to kill him, Puns was totally off the reservation and was doing the scumhunting bad. However, he was still a strong town voice, and even a clock is right twice a day. We couldn't risk Puns coming to his senses the next phase even when he had shown some poor judgement that phase.
In two games I played previously with myself as scum and Chugg as a strong town voice, he did not suspect me and in both cases strongly townread me. Killing him was still the right call because he could rally town around a lynch, which was more power than we wanted out there.
A strong town voice can be hugely detrimental to scum - whether they're right all the time or not. With your clarifications, I don't think this is what you were doing, but I wanted to explain my thinking nonetheless.
Is 40 posts a "being in the background" amount, yes or no?
And this is more of a general comment about town-play in here, but the idea that if you don't make 80+ posts you're "in the background" hurts town more than it helps most of the time.
Welllllll, I did dip below 40 during some phases in Mario and Transistor, I think, but I was trying to avoid attention in those instances and just letting town eat itself alive. I don't consciously try to post so much, but I do try to keep engaged as town, so it might end up being more on average. That said, I've taken your feedback to heart and I am genuinely trying to slow my roll a bit; this game is moving fast enough as it is.
Channeling Z-Beat here, but there's probably one character from EZA that makes sense for that power and they're probably Town or Neutral going by flavor alone.
I am sure the flavor lines up, so thank you for the input there.
Would you be as kind as to elaborate a bit here?
Can't see why it would be so bold. It could attract some attention, but she could've laughed her way out of that stance really easily imo.
See my response to nin above.
Can't decide if a random redirect in LyLo would be more pro-town than anti-town but the salt alone would be probably worth a try.
It could go either way, but I just mean that even if we mislynch and scum have equal numbers to us, it won't be the end because they could botch a kill.
Let's flip this; would you vote me if I didn't cancel the bet?
Depending on the response. I would have first tried to convince you and suss out your reasoning for not doing so. If you had provided the same reasoning, I would not have voted, though. I'm not sure if/how you would have used the same reasoning in that scenario.
This reads towny. Anyone else wants to chime in?
Just a gut read, but yes, I agree it reads towny.
