First off ignore 1670 it was a misclick ... derp ...
Ok on the concept of mass-claiming – my gut is to say no. I don’t think the possible upsides outweigh the possible downsides.
Upsides –
1. Allowing claimed 1-Shot Role Cops to find fake-claims.
Yup, that’s about it as it stands.
Downsides –
1. Outing any protective roles that might prevent a scumkill.
2. Giving Scum a clean road map to Night actions. If you need any further evidence why this is bad look at
Thing Mafia. An open setup where Town carefully organized Night actions. Scum giddily used the knowledge of the intent of the plan to strategically kill of any threatening roles (the only Town investigation role for example) early which made Nightplay catching of scum impossible by Day 3.
3. Any scum in Eager / Gin / NotMafia render the possibility of Upside number 1 actually yielding anything helpful basically zero.
I could go on. But as of now I don’t think it is wise at all even with all the pointless early claims that have been made.
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1658 doesn’t move my read on the hydra away from scum in the least. In fact I’d say that would be a classic scum catch-up to me – focusing basically on one scum suspect (Leon) who wasn’t a popular Town or scum read and lots of verbiage that doesn’t add up to much actual content.
The Town read on NotMafia is also completely incomprehensible given the last sentence where he expresses concern about how Gin and NotMafia are using the PT.
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You demonstrated in that game you’d push a player (FAQ and Fire as Town, Shadow as scum) then find a way to back off later if it wasn't solidly received by Town. In this case the momentum on RC was pretty dead and you suddenly 180ed for bad reasons.
In post 1573, Infinity 324 wrote:Speaking of which, are you sure there weren't any other times I gave townreads for reasons you thought were bad?
Those were the two common games that came to mind. But this prompted me to looks at your games history and was reminded of The Purge Mafia where you were scum as well. So going to look at it later today also.
Yet another example of an absurd reason to Town read someone and why I think this is invented Town-reading from scum you. Your later “it is a weak reason I admit” is meaningless after I called out your scum proclivity to do so.
In post 1574, Infinity 324 wrote:I will say that this does look like an attempt to sort me which is...better than what I've seen before from MoI but it's a pretty weak attempt and not too hard to fake.
This is classic fence sit that appears to be looking to see what popular opinion on my analysis is … which is scum motivated play.
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In post 1595, eagerSnake wrote:I have reason to believe theres either a roleblocker or redirecter on the scum team
Leave it at that
Then I question why you’d have laid the groundwork on a Not Mafia shot if this is the case …
It is a bad stance. Roles are not negative utility just because they can be misused. Any role can be misused. True negative utility roles are a detriment to Town independent of how they are used (Miller, Ascetic) Also stop referring to some other site meta because this isn’t whatever other site you are used to.
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In post 1600, SirCakez wrote:Yeah and Walking Dead was over the summer/start of school. I have 1/4 of the time now, so I can't exactly get very engaged. My posting is down sitewide.
It has nothing to do with post volume. It absolutely has to do with lack of any engagement in the post you make. But nice sideline attempt.
In post 1600, SirCakez wrote:I pretty clearly called out their crappy reads in those posts.
And I'm still scumreading the slot, so no clue what you're saying here. My vote is still there too.
So you’ve parked your vote on a player that isn’t the main wagon, aren’t doing anything of consequence in pointing out why they are scum (which my summary shows) and claim that I shouldn’t see that as potential distancing?
Garbage. Of course bussing / distancing exists. It’s why my independent scum reads on you and Aella get enhanced with the interactions I am seeing. But using that fact as an excuse to not commit to an opinion in the present time is scummy fence-sitting.
"I am a leaf on the wind ... watch how I soar!"
Pretty much Geriatric game restricted at this point ... unless there are players I REALLY want to play with.