What's with all the name claims and roleclaims on day one? SRSLY?
Rodion's post 1007: Go back and read this. Really read it. I have rarely seen a more conciliatory piece of work in a game of Mafia. I especially like this little gem:
Rodion, post 1007 wrote:Zinger2099 - started posting without contributing, switched to claiming 3rd-party JK and then town JK (I took his doc claim as a joke). Really scummy to me, but I'm weary of other people exaggerating his scuminess (Junpei/Meran), which leads me to consider the possibility that it was, after all, just a poor gambit (and that the people who exaggerated deserve a deeper look).
He agrees with the crowd that Zinger is "really scummy" but also casts a wide IGMEOY at everyone who agrees with him. That's a neat trick, if you can pull it off.
Nero Cain, post 1150 wrote:We can argue all day if you want Silver but thats only helpful for scum wich I suspect is what you want.
I disagree with this completely. In my opinion arguing always gives more information to town, especially after some flips have occurred and people go back over the arguments with knowledge of the alignments of some of the parties involved.
Junpei, post 1152 wrote:I am not spamming this thread I am scumhunting. I know I have a lot of posts that might not be evident of that directly but it is clear that I am helping town move forward.
To me it looks more like obstructing town by monopolising the conversation with huge Walls o Text (tm), but I could be wrong.
Rainbowdash, post 1227 wrote:Scum getting reads is not fine. The more in the dark we leave scum, the better we are in the long run. Letting scum take in the dark shots weakens them far more than town taking in the dark shots is weakened. Scum kills tend to have multiple levels of reasoning attached to them, so are difficult to correctly pin down reasoning of, especially in the early stages of a large game.
I don't know what this means, honestly. But I think I agree with Junpei, which is unfortunate and disconcerting since I'm not buying his PR claim and I think he's scum.
I'm not placing a vote yet, since I think I need one more reread/skim and I want to look at a couple of ISOs before I present a case, but I wanted to say hello and get a few thoughts down in the meantime.
Oh, and I think Zinger is probably an anti-town third party. There isn't a good reason for that claim otherwise. Second choice would be scum, and I don't see any way he would be town with that play.
Back to reading this over again.