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Scumhunting for bad players

about 7 years

Don't do it.

Do you ever find yourself tryharding harder than that time you spent an hour on the toilet bowl pushing that stubborn turd out of your a s s after 1/2 off taco night? After you spend 11 minutes pushing on your hard scum fos to the point of having an aneurism, only for them to get hammered and flip blue, or worse flip PR.

Accept the fact that you can't scumhunt for sh*t and that your reads are always wrong.

Find a townread and sheep their reads. You'll win more games.

Townhunting is more valuable than scumhunting.

When you're stuck in 3 way no clears, do not rely on your godsent scumhunting talent because you will surely mishammer. Instead, consider the reads of all confirmed town who died.

If you sheep a townread and their FOS always flips town, your townread is mafia OR you should dodge them because they suck OR you should stop playing ranked mafia because you suck.

PSA: Unnecessary bussing does not win you games ever. Bussing is scummy. Do not do it.

Who is your favourite cheater this round??
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yachi
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Lndigo
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GundamTanaka
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VanityPrime
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bluefish
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Rushian
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LukeSkywaIker
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jimmaster
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Starfire22
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i82much
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Aww, no fair do me!
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Just thought I'd leave this here.
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UniversalStudios says

Reliance on PRs bred generations of players that don't realize that at its core, this is a team game.



UniversalStudios says

And that's a behavior that the mods should have corrected years ago.


> a behavior that the mods should have corrected
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xxerox says

99% of the times the towniest are maf.


Lol
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about 7 years
And that's a behavior that the mods should have corrected years ago.
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99% of the times the towniest are maf.
about 7 years
Reliance on PRs bred generations of players that don't realize that at its core, this is a team game.
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yeah that's right you blabbermouth piece of vegetation probably nourished by cow feces, I had SELF-ESTEEM before you said that!
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I'm deeply hurt by the fact that you didn't read the rant I directed at someone else. My self-esteem has been shattered by the fact that, while not reading my careless rant, you thought my phrasing was bad.
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f^ck you flowey
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you can do that with default EM but you can't see this post amirite
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this is exactly what I do half the time
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elephantasm says

townhunting and scumhunting are different parts of the same process and trying to form one's own reads and take them into account iin your hammer is part of how you improve. i would consider myself a relatively poor player and i think most people who play with me consider me at best mediocre and at worst pretty bad, but i still find that sheeping townreads is bad play, and part of the reason I'm so lacking; being too scared to vote one's own reads when one is uncertain results in both unnecessary mishammers and an objectively slower rate of improvement. It might increase your winrate (emphasis on MIGHT) in the short term, but in terms of actually getting better at reading, i seriously doubt it. That doesn't mean you should mindlessly tunnel and not ask others about their opinions, obviously, because that's part of the game and scumhunting



elephantasm says

ex. one of the last games I played like yesterday I considered hammering both scum but then townread someone who was tunneling another town, and ended up hammering that town whom I had formerly thought towny

overthinking and being overly wimpy are bad things. It is known, statistically, that practicing at the edge of your skill level is the best way to improve at most things so I don't see why this would be an exception


tl;dr and bad phrasing.

permanently blocking/hiding elephantasm's comments with my custom script
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Dyl says

Damn I was about to make a list of users that are really bad and should read this but then I realized..





I'm not that guy anymore


matured kid
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ex. one of the last games I played like yesterday I considered hammering both scum but then townread someone who was tunneling another town, and ended up hammering that town whom I had formerly thought towny

overthinking and being overly wimpy are bad things. It is known, statistically, that practicing at the edge of your skill level is the best way to improve at most things so I don't see why this would be an exception
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townhunting and scumhunting are different parts of the same process and trying to form one's own reads and take them into account iin your hammer is part of how you improve. i would consider myself a relatively poor player and i think most people who play with me consider me at best mediocre and at worst pretty bad, but i still find that sheeping townreads is bad play, and part of the reason I'm so lacking; being too scared to vote one's own reads when one is uncertain results in both unnecessary mishammers and an objectively slower rate of improvement. It might increase your winrate (emphasis on MIGHT) in the short term, but in terms of actually getting better at reading, i seriously doubt it. That doesn't mean you should mindlessly tunnel and not ask others about their opinions, obviously, because that's part of the game and scumhunting
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JeffreyAaron says

I'm hella good at mafia lol


you're hella good at downvoting innocent posts e_______e
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I'm hella good at mafia lol
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Damn I was about to make a list of users that are really bad and should read this but then I realized..





I'm not that guy anymore
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Someone refer VanityPrime to this thread
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lndigo has a special charm

and he's a circlejerker
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Its true! My great mentor pingu's one and only piece of wisdom he inparted upon me as my mentor was a link to a how-to-townread/tell doc. Bless you Pingu. Bless.