Taking this as it comes, one big post today. Will be travelling later, during which I should be able to pay attention and make small posts, and will be travelling tomorrow also. It's weekend anyway, so nyeh.
IcyTeaWhat parts do you think drew my attention?
Are you asking me to build your case on me for you? Alright.
Nah I wanted to see how you'd present me, and how you'd present me presenting you.
The procgen abilities hold very little information about their holders' alignments.
ERMAHGERD rolefishing won't find alignment
ERMAHGERD Tea doesn't want to find alignment, they must be scum
I can see why you would reach that conclusion, but you're wrong about my intentions. The original Proc Gen Mafia, which I assumed you would have at least skimmed, had a lot of roleswapping on D1. I thought it would be offputting to see that happen in action, so I asked you the question to see how much you're thinking like me today, not to learn about your role. As for me not thinking roles are important: Their effects are, but revealing them in a massclaim is pointless as scum can speak the truth and live. A town powerplay isn't very useful when scum doesn't even need to lie to subvert it.
This part, in particular, being interesting. There were two questions you asked that had an element of role-fishing to them:
hector13: How would you react if your ability was swapped for something useless before the end of this day?
Deus Asmoth: How afraid are you of the delayed-kill mechanics (poison, infection, fire) in play?
These questions could basically be reworded as "do you have a powerful role?", which is an interesting first foray to make into the game, particularly in light of you saying the roles are alignment-independent.
Thus, your conclusion was not quite correct. I don't think you're scum because you're not trying to figure out alignments, I think you're scum because you're trying to figure out who has a powerful role. In other words, who you don't want to be in the game because they might get in the way of your night game.
Also I didn't read any of the first ProcGen game.
RGUI thought I should probably start with making a list of reads.
IcyTea31: Null, leaning town. Haven't exactly said anything that would make me read them as either alignment, but the recent "bandwagon" makes me feel that he might not be scum at least.
Starver: Null, since they haven't posted anything at all yet and there's just nothing to work with. I think it's too early to say he's lurking,
randomgenericusername: I honestly think I probably appear to be scummy to the rest, because of being kinda inactive and "lurky" like some have said. I really wasn't able to post, and I'll try to post more often whenever I have time and try to be more helpful from now on.
hector13: Slightly reading him as scum after calling out IcyTea for rolefishing. I don't know, but he seemed a bit too persistent on it. And the "bandwagon" reinforced my suspicions. It's not a very strong read, though. It's still too early in the game.
KitRougard: Scum, or maybe someone with a census-type investigative ability? Seems to be certain that hector13 is a SK with a "kill youself" ability, and tried to guess the town's distribution. So it's possible they have insider's knowledge.
SuperDorf: Just Null. For now, anything can be simply attributed to newbie mistakes, and until I see more, I won't be able to differentiate between that and actually being scum.
TricMagic: Null, too. With him, I just never know. Kinda just want to say scum and not bother trying to undestand him.
Nirur Torir: Leaning town for me, at least. Not very sure why, probably just a gut feeling. He just... Seems to be generally townish.
Maximum Spin: Leaning scum, spreading confusing and misdirection is never helpful for town. There's also been some low-content posts from him, which make me feel he might be scum posting to not appear lurky.
Deus Asmoth: A single post. Not much to read at all, so I'll leave him as Null.
Shakerag: I don't think I can even read drunk people. Null.
Leafsnail: Posted only twice so far, so I'm having the same problem as with Starver and Deus Asmoth. Then again, I haven't posted much either. Null I guess?
...Yeah, that's probably not very helpful. I read most of the players as null since I just don't have strong enough reads yet. And I might have missed some important or obvious stuff too. Also, while writing this post, about 6 new replies appeared.
This is one of the issues I talked about before the game. You've not made any effort to refine your reads beyond what you have already, and that's annoying. How will you figure out what questions work the best if you don't ask any? You have 7 nulls on that list, out of the 11 players who are not named randomgenericusername. Da's bad man.
One thing though: you've said IcyTea bandwagoning makes them feel not scum, while my bandwagoning makes me scum. Why the discrepancy?
Also, you said Superdorf being new makes them hard to read, but you only seem to think it's going to affect your ability to determine if they're scum. Why is that?
What are the low-content posts that Max Spin has made?
DAhector:
IcyTea: you’re doing a lot of rolefishing for someone who doesn’t think roles are all that important.
How much rolefishing is a lot? As near as I can tell he'd only asked one other person a question that could be interpreted as rolefishing at the time you said this.
It's relative. If he hadn't said later on that he didn't think knowing roles would be particularly useful, even in a massclaim... well I'd still have pointed out the rolefishing, just been much less bothered by it.
It'd be like you having dinner with a friend, who's eating a hamburger, and then they say they're vegetarian. That's a lot of hambuger for a vegetarian. IcyTea asked everyone a question, and 18.1% of them were rolefishing.
I was a bit on the fence about the question they asked Starver (whether aggressive role-swapping was anti- or pro-town) but the focus on that wasn't the roles, even if the role swapping and its consequences were an element.
SuperdorfJust keep doing what you're doing, it's all fine. Maybe less panic, sure, but if this is your first (or among your first) game, then you're going to feel out of your depth. Completely normal, just remember to keep posting, 'cause you learn by doing in mafia.
hector13: You accuse KitRougard of rolefishing. As I understand it, he's trying to find the Serial Killer. Is that rolefishing? Does it help town?
I should probably be poking Kit about that more.
I'm surprised nobody has poked
me about it. Ah well, free ride.
Anyway, it helps town, sure, but the sk is also aligned against the scum, so it helps them too. What Kit is doing is rolefishing, and just because someone has a kill (or can kill themselves) doesn't mean they're anti-town given the nature of this particular game.
It might imply Kit isn't town because they're not looking for scum though.
LeafsnailI've usually been intimidated from attacking more skilled players. I should do something about that. Let's go, Leafsnail, do stuff.
OK?Max Spin
Kit... I guess to cut to the end of this, yes, I am, well done.
I’m voting IcyTea for suspected rolefishing; why are you demanding very specific details of my role- engaging in actual rolefishing - and why are you expecting me to be honest about it?
Rolefishing is generally a negative because it helps mafia members pick off powerful roles and makes it easier for them to fabricate claims later. That said I don't think I've ever seen a mafia member deliberately rolefish before - it tends to be way more trouble than it's worth. Regardless of alignment rolefishing tends to be a result of a poor grasp of mafia theory rather than malice.
I find your heavy focus on rolefishing suspicious, hector13. You haven't at any point explained to the people engaging in it why it's poor play or considered that they may be mistaken - rather, it feels like you're using it as an opportunity run up lynches on people.
I'll accept it looks like my focus is on the rolefishing, but pretty much everything else here is wrong. Poor play is not scum-exclusive, and I have at no point suggested I want other people to vote for IcyTea. Try again?
I could offer examples of why rolefishing isn't necessarily negative but that would be providing IcyTea with an out, and I don't feel like doing that right now.
In saying that, still kinda RVS and I don't like that...
Nah. I'm happy with what I'm doing.