Good Morning everyone. I tried to read Katze’s first post but it has too many unfamiliar words and concepts. I am not even sure what am I truly confused about. X D
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Nothing specific at this moment. I have tried reading a forum mafia game before, so I think I might know the very basics. But here I see a lot of terms and I am just getting confused with that maybe.
I focus a lot more on townreading than scumreading, most forum mafia games can be won by townreading enough town members correctly, and using process of elimination to find the mafia members. It’s pretty rare for a player to do something that only a mafia member would do, but lots of town players have posts that simply only come from town if you know how to identify them.
Games like this do need solid scumreads because there are actions that negatively effect the target and ideally scum are targetted with those.
Overall when you are new it is extremely unlikely that you will have above average accuracy with your reads but the most important thing is that you post them (and the reasoning for them) so others can see your thought processes and use that to read you or use the points you bring up to help read other slots.
This article has some of them, feel free to ask any others that you don’t know
https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Commonly_Used_Abbreviations
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If you’re confused by parts of it, please ask way! I tried to make it digestible, but I may have… not done a good job with that.
Partially because this games mechanics are overall confusing, but I definitely could have explained certain things better – I’m not the greatest at explaining my thoughts~ 
I don’t know you but hello min! I’m Yellow.
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So we can deduce the baddies by stalking whose posts they liked? That should be easy!
Hey everyone! I’m Yellow and I came across mafia recently and had tried to read it previously. But I got impatient and decided to play it myself to get a grasp of the thing, and I am listening to some Gothic Piano while reading this thread.
That’s all I guess.
How are we supposed to quote several posts?
If I had to take a shot at this:
- Posts #45 and #52 for Napoleon – as they display actual thought and willingness to do anything in a position a wolf wouldn’t really need to for any reason other than posturing?
- For Marluxion, I’m actually not too sure. Nothing really sticks out to me there. Assuming you actually feel strength in that read, I’d guess it’s a tone/comfort read?
Yes I think I should try to make up my mind on players and how I feel about them before the Night phase or I won’t be able to perform the actions. Any tips on how I should try to see a player here?