Drakon:
Drakon, you keep backpedaling whenever the slightest pressure comes your way. Why are you so afraid to mess up?
I'm afraid someone will lynch me if I screw up, even this early. Why would I want to be the first person lynched in the first game I played?
Someone has to be first. It's really not a problem if you learn from it.
Drakon, your not wanting to accidentally lynch a townie (at a point where there's no advantage to the town to NOT random lynch) seems suspicious to me. Do you have a reason?
My reason is the same as above, I don't want to be lynched for screwing up. I've seen that happen a few times on other boards after only one person was lynched.
I'm overly cautious. It's in my nature.
If you're not aggressive* in your attacks, then you're not going to make scum crack. Hitting them with a sledgehammer is a lot better than poking them with a noodle.
*[That said, don't be a jerk. Be forceful, which doesn't mean personal attacks. Expect to see your arguments called stupid at some point- just remember, it's only a game. We tend to be aggressive and confrontational ingame, but friendly outside of it.]
Caz: Fair enough.
drakon136 seems to be acting scummy, but it could just be because he's new.
This kind of passive statement doesn't get things done. Take a firm stand on issues- don't waffle around. Do you think he is scum or new-town? Why?
A great player here once said that you should never show doubt- something I think is good advice.
Dsarker:
Dsarker
If you were scum how would you be playing differently?
I'd be trying to avoid lynching at all costs.
That's one way to catch out scum- find people doing just that.
Additional: It would also be good to occasionally throw doubt on the person who started the vote if you hit a townie with a lynch. Of course, that only works if you position the doubts before the lynching and yet also don't cause enough doubt that it makes people stop lynching them.
This is a bad reason to suspect someone. If someone had a solid case on a person who flipped town, that does not make them scummy. Someone being on the vote with poor reasons, especially if it was a late or tiebreaker vote- that is a reason to suspect someone.
Unvote Shark. Meant to do that when you answered my question.
Jim: Let's assume you're scum. If the nonplaying scum IC tried to tell you to do something differently, and you believed your way was right, how would you handle it?