The reason everyone gets destroyed here and tries to lurk is because they don’t try to FAIL enough times. You don’t get good at something without failing at it a couple times.
Then there’s the people who do try but don’t know where to get a good grip at the game. For example squid. They try decently but they don’t have a good grasp on how to accomplish scumreading.
Gods are only gods because they are given the title of god. You know what divides people from Alice and Wazza, it’s the fact that Alice seems to try while Wazza accepts the fact that they aren’t good enough at mafia to be like Alice. It’s the fact that he’s also predictable, he shows up to the same game, does the same stuff depending on his own alignment, and then scumreads people for scumreading him. Y’all are too focused on meta that you can’t read alice.
Alice is extremely consistent when trying to read people regardless of alignment. They think through their post and make sure it’s perfect before they post, that’s why meta consistently fails against her. But the fact is the only way to counter that is to try something new.
Look at my play style. I’m extremely unpredictable when I’m doing stuff. The reason I am is because being unpredictable causes people to make mistakes and allows me to read into those mistakes. Meta fails against me a lot because I act a lot different compared to my mood. If you look at me right now, it would appear that I’m trolling when I’m actually doing stuff to see what happens and then my head analyses it (but unfortunatly makes it hard to put into words sometimes because I get easily distracted)
What I’m basically trying to say is that half of you don’t even understand the greatness of forum mafia. There are other ways to go about reading people rather then just trying to rely on meta. Meta only works if you use it against people who are consistent, and that’s why most of the forum here gets meta read super easily because they never try something different.
I don’t even remember the point of this post I just hate how people think someone is unreadable based on the fact that they act similar to their alignment as both town and scum. You consider good players good based on the fact that they catch a lot of scum and then you separate people into tiered based off that and think it’s impossible to move up. I literally started when I played forum mafia as a person who trolled everyone and didn’t try that much and was considered one of the worst forum players here, but when I started trying I got to be considered a “good player”
