Like come on here, this is obviously such new town play that it's paining me that you guys aren't seeing it.
Also FOS on bbninjas here because I can only recall him being this insistent on a lynch candidate when he's scum. It's too different for me and I don't like it.
I'd also like to clarify that my "top scum reads" aren't exactly strong this game. They're about 60% scum, 40% town. It may not appear that way, but that's just how play.
I just had another look at Rainy's posts, and there
is a bit of an improvement curve going on: Not Contributing ----> Reasonless Votes that aren't RVS ----> Sheeping without reasons ----> Giving reasons. However, there are confusing
stuff like this randomly thrown about that cause him to jump all over my scumdar. And anyone that jumps all over my scumdar is scummy. This is my biggest problem with him.
I'll also just make it clear why I voted for Rainy in the first place. Rainyman made this completely out-of-the-blue vote on myself that basically didn't make sense. It was not because of the "rooting for scum" thing.
But we don't lynch for info - that's anti-town play. We shouldn't lynch a player because they give us the most info; we should lynch them because we think they're scum. You haven't provided anything that suggests rainy is scum.
I disagree with the "But we don't lynch for info". Going into Day 2, we should be maximising as much information as possible. You know that role information is generally withheld early game, so the only information a lot of us have is from the lynch. Optimal scum play is to lynch the players whose alignment will give as little information as possible on other players. Optimal town play is to lynch the scummiest players, and if there are multiple, then lynch the player who gives the most information.
Currently, Jesi and rainy are my top scum reads. Jesi as mentioned previously - sitting on the fence and a bit of backpedalling. I'm pretty sure town Jesi tends to tunnel a lot and be more confident. Jesi does backpedal as town too, which is why I'm a bit unsure here. My read on Jesi is very WIFOMy. I'd be happy with either Rainy or Jesi's lynch, but I think rainy will give more information than Jesi (see below). And I don't think TSM is scum.
And how would rainy's lynch provide info on Jesi and TSM? They haven't been associated with him and have no connection to him, so how would we get info off of them. The only player that could be associated with rainy is myself, as I suppose my defense of rainy could be seen as buddying. A scum rainy flip would, naturally, turn heads towards myself given my actions today.
Jesi defended rainy big time early game, and even later on. This
here also sounds like scum not wanting to vote their buddy, but knowing that they have to as to avoid suspicion. TSM has been going for rainy's head much more than I would expect a scumbuddy to do. If rainy flips town, then I also read Jesi more town, since I don't think scum Jesi likes to defend town so obviously. It also gives us a lot of information on others (especially PP, NP, TGK and myself), because most players either feel strongly for or strongly against rainy's lynch.
Minus the confusion (which is obviously the new player thing. I've been playing here for years so I'm quite familiar with it, especially with a lot of the players here), TSM is doing the same stuff as rainy. He hasn't helped due to his vote park, and he's much less active than rainy is.
I don't really get what you're trying to say here. If TSM is doing the same stuff as rainy, and if you read rainy as town, then why is TSM scum?
