U. Rebel
Treestump
As you read this, I'm getting NKed on Night 1.
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Post by U. Rebel on Jun 27, 2018 1:35:12 GMT
People who policy lurkers when there are actually things going on are most likely scum just trying to distance themselves from the main game and just trying to get a free lynch on town. Again, why would scum lurk if they know that they would be policied for it?Same goes for town. The fact is that lurking is still a viable strategy, hence scum does it. Town often keeps itself busy in cross tunnels or whatever.
Meanwhile, people who call out... is not scummy. Of course this is a spectrum, but yeah. I hope I made my point clear. Well, actually, most of the D1 lynches nowadays are on lurkers. It's not a viable strategy as lurkers immediately get policied for it nowadays. From what I've seen from recent Mafia games, town rarely has a cross-tunnel D1, compared to about a year in advance ago when D1 was mostly some people backing up someone and some people backing up someone else.
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Post by qtball on Jun 22, 2019 3:16:53 GMT
bump
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Post by Snaq ◢ ◤ on Jun 22, 2019 8:10:30 GMT
Good analysis from MafiaScum.
Lurking -> Harmful to town -> Is scummy
There are town lurkers but they're hurting town, and leaving them alive is often bad IMO because you'll have very risky slots alive in the end game. Either these slots are scum or not scum but you can't reliably read them at a moment where you need to, or they're town needing to make a decision themselves while not keeping up with the game often.
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Post by Wob on Jun 22, 2019 11:54:09 GMT
In an ideal world all lurkers would be turboed. Unfortunately, in practice it's extremely difficult to differentiate between those who are scum and want to deny information from town, and those who don't know how to contribute or just aren't paying attention. Although you could justify policy lynching any slot that lurks, policy lynches in general are pretty iffy because you're essentially throwing the current game to improve the meta. Also people who decide to go after lurkers are often perceived as avoiding making meaningful reads (and sometimes they actually are).
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Post by spiderz on Jul 1, 2019 8:12:12 GMT
ACTIVE lurking is scummy, some players are genuinely busy and have irl emergencies during a game, but if you are purposely lurking it is extremely scummy for one your trying to avoid attention, 2 bassicly what snaq said about it not contributing to wincon. 3 scum is lurking because town is feeling a lynch/scumpool and scum dont want to mess that beneficial lynch/scumpool so they lurk. though some new players genuinely dont know what to say which ive even felt when i started playing ps mafia, on fourm i think majority of lurking their is active lurking well because it is fourm and their is a lot of time to be active so its a little hard to non intentionally lurk
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Post by creamykitty on Jan 10, 2020 21:20:26 GMT
Depends, someone just for not talking for 3 minutes isn't scummy, but if they won't talk at all no matter how many times you spam ping them and ask them to claim or smth then it is scummy.
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