I understand your perspective on the matter, though I'll note that, especially in a game where scum can ask questions of Pie about the existence of certain characters and roles in the game, there's value in at least forcing them to ask early, since doing so later nets them more opportunities to know about existing claims. Soft claims at least require them to put themselves into a given camp, which limits their choices later on. I also think that asking about character information can reveal some behavioral info, but that's mainly a question of emphasis.
My character is scummy in the way that they're described as a horrible person. If I'm correct the mafia are generally the bad guys in context of the theme.I was just thinking that if I gave my claim, it would totally make me look mafia so I thought I would preadress that.
Owen feels a bit pre-defensive about his character. Gives me some slightly off vibes, I think he's experienced enough to know that scummy characters don't translate at all to alignment.
I am a she btw lol
Tag, why in particular do you feel it was a bad idea to pressure new players in this game?Generally speaking, I feel like you can't get much out of a new player that you could from someone more experienced.Also I have no idea what the Lok/Rayja Sabha is and find no mention of it on my character's wiki.
That's interesting, I feel the opposite about Owen. I figure he would just try and fake claim before claiming his real character, and the fact that he is informing us of this in advance feels more like "Hey when I inevitably claim my character it's gonna sound scummy" which feels more town when he could just lie altogether about it. I would see it as more pre-defensive maybe from a different person with more experience who is lazy and maybe doesn't wanna try and fake claim, but noobs tend to get mis-lynched for trivial things and being misunderstood, so him going out of his way to clarify that seems more of a town tell coming from him.
Hey everyone, glad to see this site alive despite everything. I know little about Indian politics, so I'm gonna have to do some research for this one. I think it ought to be interesting though.
Alright, so here's an idea to get things moving: how about we all say what party our characters belong to? I feel like that might be a decent way to start. I'll go first. My politician is a member of BJP.
Well, fair enough. In that case, how about we all say whether our characters are a member of BJP, INC, or neither, and whether they are a member of the Lok Sabha, Rayja Sabha, or neither. I am a member of the Lok Sabha, technically speaking (I think).
If scum get counterclaimed in this game, that's just going to be downright hilarious. They have literally thousands of choices.Anyway, I don't think I've seen Moozer as scum yet. He must be due for it. Let's lynch him now, gambler's fallacy be damned.VTL Moozer
Technically I was scum in that game you modded.Oh yeah, I guess that's true. You didn't get to end up playing, though, so does it really count? I think that's debatable. Someone should make a site where we can debate stuff like that.
Wow, we're making really slow progress here. Normally, this is where I'd be pushing for soft claims from everyone to lock in character claims, but I'm not really sure how helpful that will be to the town considering the sheer breadth of options the scum team has for fake claims. Nonetheless, I guess it's something to go off of. I'll start by saying that my year is in the first century AD. What century is everyone else from?
There's just a huge tonal difference here.
Can you explain this? I feel that newbs are a lot easier to sort by alignment simply because if they're town, they'll just naturally towntell under pressure. You can't do that with experienced players who can fake that as scum
I am from the TMC
At any rate, I'll just out my character. I'm Bhupendrabhai Patel.
I am from the TMC
Given that Owen claimed a ministerial role, I've added that my character is a minister, though I'll still leave out his political party for the time being as well as the location that he ministers. For what it's worth, I townread Owen for his claim.
