Town vs Bandits - Possibly Returning! - Woo!

Geyde · May 7, 2019, 4:36am

Now in Geyde’s FM tutorial, we can get onto fun stuff

At the beginning of the game, you are PM’d a rolecard. First off, check the wincon. This will evaluate how you are going to be playing this game. Typically it will either involve defeating either the informed minority or the uninformed majority.

If you rolled town, then you know you are town. Your voice is important to get your thoughts out.
If you rolled scum, then you know everyone’s alignment in most game types. You also know who your teammates are, which is important. You need to make sure to work with them to overpower the town.

Geyde · May 7, 2019, 4:46am

As town you have many tools at your disposal in order to find scum by reading their intentions and motivations behind their posts.

Scum have an agenda they need to push in order to win, and they know what everyone is.

Town are trying to find the other town and find the scum. Being natural is how they roll.
Scum want to stop the town from finding the other town and want to prevent town from finding the scum. Scum additionally want to look town (or have their partners look town), so they may vote eachother to keep up being natural and/or throw eachother under the bus.

If someone is natural in their posting, and you can agree with their thought process and progression, you probably found a villager.

MathBlade · May 7, 2019, 4:48am

As a side note as scum always be posting as much if not more so than your town self. You’re wanting to make sure you get townread while subtly manipulating town into destroying each other.

MathBlade · May 7, 2019, 4:54am

It’s okay if you mess up as scum. You have buddies to help, and win or lose it’s just more fun to play. UTR (Under the Radar a lack of posting) imho is only viable if all the chefs in the kitchen are town and ripping themselves apart and 100% have ignored prior statements.

Magnus · May 7, 2019, 4:57am

I know what the wincons are.

Geyde · May 7, 2019, 4:58am

We can apply these ideas by looking into some common tells and articles from people who are waaaay better than me at mafia.

https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Category:Common_Tells
https://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/11752-11-Effective-Wolf-Hunting-(by-Klopp)

By looking at this guide you shouldn’t expect to be a god instantly out of the gate. The most important thing in mafia is acting with intentionality.
Practice and experimentation are extremely important. You shouldn’t sit idly by and let the TLs play the game for you even if you think that you aren’t as good at reading.

Geyde · May 7, 2019, 5:01am

You may know what they are at surface level, but what’s the connotation of those wincons?

Geyde · May 7, 2019, 5:05am

Final secret tip:

Reaction testing should only be used against players that don’t know it exists
It’s funny as shit when it works but don’t use it unless it will work

Magnus · May 7, 2019, 5:06am

Anyway, I can’t keep talking about this: 1% battery. No charger. SOS. Send help!

Geyde · May 7, 2019, 5:06am

Shut off phone
You might need that power

Htm · May 7, 2019, 5:06am

#relatable.

Magnus · May 7, 2019, 5:06am

And?

Magnus · May 7, 2019, 5:08am

Nvm. See you when i charge this thing.

Geyde · May 7, 2019, 5:11am

If anyone would like I could go over some practical examples of reading.

Some of the best places to start off on in my mind when reading scum are:

Magnus from 2d3 II
Insanity from Dustpan Deception
Geyde from Adiart Lovers

They get sequentially harder in difficulty, but using the principles we established earlier it shouldn’t be all that hard.

Geyde · May 7, 2019, 5:17am

In my book, meta reads don’t help players get better.
You should try to avoid using them excessively, and try to read players using other reasoning as a basis.

Meta makes a good pair of glasses to look at someone from, but they shouldn’t make your read.

MathBlade · May 7, 2019, 5:21am

Meta is more like guide rails for a walking path. It guides you towards a person and provides a start but you gotta know when to hop over it and when to follow the path.

Htm · May 7, 2019, 5:25am

Thanks for giving me all this valuable information…

Geyde · May 7, 2019, 5:27am

No problem.
I’m more than willing to help players become more intentional with their play.

MathBlade · May 7, 2019, 5:32am

Yep. If anyone wants scum!Blade tips let me know

Geyde · May 7, 2019, 5:33am

How do you create false scumteams and get several town under suspicion early without looking especially scummy for it?