A catch all for silly questions.

[Plotinus]

yes

[Plotinus]

well, you play a game or two here and a game or two in the other place and it doesn’t really affect things either way. over time you will get an idea of how many games you can pay attention to at once. my personal limit is 3, so if i were in a game on another site then i wouldn’t want to join more than 2 here. some people seem to be able to handle lots and lots of games at once but others like to do it one at a time.

the game can be pretty different on different sites. some of the roles might be different, or there may be different mechanics considered normal. for example the other place i play at doesn’t have a hammer mechanic; days are fixed length and lynches are plurality lynches (coinflip for ties)

[Plotinus]

it wouldn’t come down to experience for me. it would come down to which one was my stronger scumread. if the one i was scumreading on their own merits and the other only by association with the first, then we go with the one who is scummy on their own.

if they’re both equally confscum like both of them have a cop guilty on them or something then it literally doesn’t matter what order we go in, hopefully there’s a vig so we can lynch one vig the other and move on.

the less experienced player is more likely to have made it obvious who his buddy was though, so his flip may be a little more valuable I guess.

[Plotinus]

idk. it depends on so many things. a lot of the time the nk is pretty straightforward anyway.

it would probably depend on “which lynch has more support from the town” than anything.

[Plotinus]

I would push the newbie then, since the vet is guilty by association but the newbie is caught by logic. If the situation were reversed; if it was the vet caught by logic and the newbie by assocation, i’d push the vet first and then i’d look long and hard at whether the vet was trying to tie themselves to the newbie to make it look like they were the partner when they really weren’t.

but always push the person you think is scum and wait to see if you were right about that person before going after the people you think are associated with them because it could be a red herring; think about a game in which you were town but everyone thought you were scum and some people started talking about who your buddy was before you were lynched. they were wasting their time, right? should they have gone after your alleged buddy first? they were still going to lynch you eventually so that would have been 2 mislynches instead of 1.

experienced players do tend to get nightkilled more often than newbies, but it depends on how right they’re being about their reads or whether the mafia is PR hunting or who is looking really obvtown; a newbie that is looking really obviously like someone who has never seen a scum role pm in their life could get nightkilled over someone who is experienced but is somewhat suspected by half the town.

for a cop there are two schools of thought: investigate your biggest scum read (this is good if you’ve been towning it up a bit too much and you’re worried about getting nightkilled. you might not have many chances so you should try to hit scum as soon as you can), or if you’re a better player who is good at reading other people, you should investigate your null reads, the people you aren’t sure of, because you’re confident that the people you think are town are really town and you’re confident that the people you think are scum are really scum, so you use the ability to help you with the middle you’re not sure of.

i think on day 1 people are a bit reluctant to lynch people that they know and love so there can be some anti newbie bias there which is unfair. some more experienced players are harder to sort out on day 1 for legitimate reasons though; their scumgame and towngame might be pretty similar and people need more time to sort them out. but that’s also true of some lesser experienced players; i’ve seen you around and while i haven’t played with you i think you’re one of the players that’s pretty hard to sort because you do look pretty scummy as either alignment BUT you’ll probably start seeing that as people get to know you better they’re going to know that about you and you’ll stop getting lynched so much on day 1 because town doesn’t want to mislynch town, town needs to figure out who is mislynch bait and who is scum. you’ll probably get better at looking town as you get more experience and other players will probably give you a little more benefit of the doubt after seeing you get mislynched a few times. but they can’t give you infinite benefit of the doubt because you have the same chance of drawing scum as the rest of them.

on the other side with experienced players there can be a burden of profficiency problem where if you have a bit of an off month because of offline problems then all of a sudden people think they’re scum because they’re not able to put their heart into the game the way people have come to expect or whatever. i’m starting ot have that problem already. i’ve only been here for four months i’m still almost a newbie whhhhhhyyyyyyyy.

[Plotinus]

It’ll get better with practice!

When I was scum people were speculating all over the place about who was scum with the townie i was trying to mislynch and usually they were just naming two townies and thinking they were probably scum together. doing preflip associatives like that is doing the scum team’s work for them, is what i’m saying.

[Plotinus]

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