Shark: How do you plan to win this game?
Not sure if i'm overthinking it, but I think this question is rolefishing, because to answer, the person answering has to talk about their win conditions. I don't really like to answer that kind of question. But my general plan across all games that I've developed is that no matter what team, is to never overreact to things, it never works. Otherwise, I wing it based on role and situation. I don't have much experience so i'm still experimenting with playstyles.
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I'm not asking RVS like questions, I don't like it. I don't really have material to scumhunt with yet, so i'm waiting for some actual material to question. I could try asking some questions, but people like nuke do not seem to be play seriously until after RVS, I don't want to judge people when they're dicking around because they have nothing to do in day 1.
First off, this comes across more as overly cautious play. You're taking a softball question and make an accusation of rolefishing (scummy, since the only thing he could divine is your faction, not your specific role) while dodging the answer at the same time. Town, scum, and third parties are all going to claim to be vanilla town, and give some variant of the typical "I plan to hunt scum and live" spiel everyone gives.
Why are you so afraid of telling us how you plan to win as town? Don't want us to be able to tell when you're violating your own strategy so we can't bust you for it? Or are you so wrapped up in your plans as scum you see a potential scumslip behind every post and refuse to even answer an easy RVS question?
Also, avoiding RVS is somewhat anti-town. The entire purpose is to get the scumhunting started. If you don't like it, make like NUKE and do something outrageous or unorthodox to move things along. Come up with your preferred alternative to RVS, and try it. What you do not do, EVER, is come out and say you're going to lurk until something interesting happens. Lurking and waiting on others is scummy because it does nothing to help town at all.
You're making this too easy, Shark
If you already know what every faction is going to claim to be/do/say, then why is it a huge deal to you what Shark says? Do you
need him to feed you what you just claimed to know was a lie, just to satisfy your sense of rightness?
I disagree that avoiding RVS is a scummy move. I don't think I really need to explain that, but if I do then let me know. I'll make sure to use my extra-large Comic Sans to explain it to you.
Overall, this feels like a bandwagon with shaky reasoning at best. You're the fourth vote on Shark, so you must be convinced of his scumminess and be ready to lynch him, right? Because vote four isn't a pressure vote in almost any case.
Wing it how?
This. There's a lot of talk about "winging it" and I don't like it. That's an easy way to avoid suspicion when your lynch target flips town: "Oh, uh, I was just winging it, you know. So it wasn't really my fault." The point of asking someone for what they would do in a certain situation is to observe if they actually do what they said they would do when that situation actually happens.
So Urist I, let's get specific. You must have something in mind. What would you do if you got unsatisfactory answers?
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