My activity has been pretty bad, and I haven't been contributing to the game or making a lot of progress with my reads lately, so I figured I could help out in some way by throwing what I've already done out in the open.
-Dana has been careless and defensive throughout the majority of the game. I would normally categorize this as town behavoiur. He could also read as over-reactive scum, which makes sense especially with the RC townflip. I find his play to be short term and passionate. When he says he's found scum, he really pushes it. There isn't a
high degree of consistency to his actions, I can see this playstyle being telling of scum or telling of town depending on the player. I plan to read some of Dana's old games when I have the time.
-Throughout the majority of day 1 he was extremely non-contributive. He had a pro-town atmosphere, but aside from that he stayed distanced from the game and seemed to make a lot of excuses to not get involved. It wasn't until his sudden attack on peregrine that he had done anything of substance. I found his case on peregrine to be really bad, but differences in opinion do exist. It makes me think that it's possible he was just trying to make as much of a case as he could on someone, since he had been picking up some background heat for non-contribution. I tried to read back on some of his old games, but couldn't really find anything that related to what I was looking for.
-Plays in a very short term way, evidentially only aware of his immediate atmosphere. Theres no over-arching intention present in his posting. He lacks aggression, and so even when he posts something that might implicate a player it just comes off as speculation. He also doesn't follow up on most of his reads and statements. Most of the contributive posts give me the feeling that he is trying to contribute to catch up in the social activity standings. The often look good on the surface but carry little content beneath.
-Pretty much just vibes. His play seems really genuine, and he's playing in a way that would be hard to calculate.
-Hasn't done anything that I'm able to read into.
-Hasn't done anything that I'm able to read into.
-Thor is a really hard person to read. At the beginning of the game he was over-aggressive and evidentially driven more by a will to move the game as a whole than to persecute or find scum individually. His loudness wore off a great deal in day 2, when he seemed to suddenly switch gears. He felt more speculative or careful in nature (for thor anyway). He managed to cut down his list of scum suspects from 7 to 2. He's not sharing most of the analysis he's doing, if there is any, and is apparently playing more politically instead. The fact that he has little direction and doesn't seem to be moving towards any specific objective gives me a bad feeling, but he's still hard to read.
-I originally though Ooba was pretty townie, because he felt interested in the people he thought were scum, and had a good degree of consistency. He also seemed to agree with most of what I was thinking at the time. His reaction to Reaper's flip felt a little bit off. It's possible that his play this game has been calculated, but theres not a lot pointing to that over it being genuine. For now he's essentially null, since his play could go in either direction.
-Magua has been playing pretty pro-town, and not just in atmosphere. His reads feel rational and consistent, he generally matches up pretty well to my "good-hearted townie" model. This could very easily be done as scum though, and nothing he's doing is tipping me off either way, so he's a null-read right now.
-Emp doesn't say much and I don't have a very good grasp on what he's thinking. It feels like he's doing a lot beneath the surface of the game, even if that "a lot" isn't through deep analysis or the like. This makes me think that he's more likely town.
