Dale
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- Apr 7, 2010
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Look at my recent day 2. Why do I come up with independent scum AND town reads? I am the first to call out leetic for the "calling out logic without scumhunting" point and the first to call out Elementar for the "being apprehensive about blame for the shot" read. I am the first to articulate the difference between Eevee and Elementar. This shows actively trying to game solve, which you probably should be townreading.
This on its own is probably the only weak defense I give in the post as a stand-alone defense, and can amount to "I gave new reads so I'm town." This is a bad reason to read me as town. This is null in a vacuum.
That's not the point of the read though. It implies trying to solve the game independently and having incomplete information in doing so. The history this builds of active game-solving, in addition with trying to get Eevee's alignment in a low post environment where it's hard for me to generate other reads should scream town member trying to figure out who else is town. THIS is what you can read me town for. The reads themselves are a symptom of being town.
Look at the read I give on Elementar. I think that he is a bit scummy, but I still think he's a bad shot even if by some chance he isn't the one with a gun. This shows a town perspective of wanting to keep players in the game who can be read and solved. This is townplay. Scum don't care about these sorts of things. Town should because town functionally have two win conditions: find all the mafia, or build a large enough town circle that eventually excludes the mafia. Keeping players that I know my read can change on shows that I'm actively considering the fact that even though there are some signs of scum play in his actions, there are other things that he's doing that are towny and I want to evaluate on them later when they become more relevant and easier to press on. Mafia just want to look like they are scumhunting and tend not to think about the game as vying for position to solve the game.
This is another great reason to read me town. It shows I'm thinking about how to win the game from a town perspective. At this point as scum I'm more concerned with asking myself the question "how do I survive," not "how do we get enough confirmed town"? I already recognize that some players are probably going to scumread me until kingdom come. Scum will lose the game if there are too many confirmed town. I NEVER as scum try to leave alive question marks. The fact that I'm willing to do so should show that I have town interests at heart.