CKD wrote: I disagree with you here vollkan. I have played with Adel numerous times and never have I seen him play this way. At first, I was suspicious but chalked it up to Adel trying to bust the game mechanic (or at least work it). They his later played got super wishy washy, used a huge net, then was OMGUSy. then there was the flake. Perhaps his play was strange because events in RL was leading up to the flake. But I was getting decent scum vibes from Adel right about the time he was heavily defending Sens....the FL result only added to that.
What was the OMGUSy stuff exactly?
To address everything else:
This game is peculiar both in the setup and, at various points, in the level of activity. Those are two factors on their own which I think are relevant, but there's also an issue of the whole being bigger than the sum of the parts because, combined, I think they have the potential to seriously affect playstyle.
I'm going to quote something I said earlier here:
CKD wrote:
Adel casts a wide net as scum? This is a game where Adel didn't seem to really have any extremely strong suspicions (understandably, imo) and so I don't think it is unreasonable to think that Adel may have been dealing with that by trying to go as broad as possible.
It's a reasonable argument to say that, all else being equal, Adel casting an unusually wide net would be scummy. But my quibble is that all else is definitely NOT equal here. I'm saying this as somebody who has himself been unable to nail down any (speaking relatively to other games) firm suspicions here.
As a preliminary matter, put yourself in what, if town, would be Adel's position: you're in a complicated game and you don't have clear suspicions. In those circumstances, is doing what Adel did really that problematic? I think that a broad approach was at least a reasonably probable town reaction.
The FL result is, again as I have said before, unreadable based on the result because it did seem to be the optimum strategy at the time.
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