Has anyone else actually been researching past games to find info that could be helpful to solving the game?
I don't see how this makes you town. Mafia/3p have just as much inclination to do this.
Has anyone else played in basically every Chaos Mafia so they know what to expect and how things work or how Storm works?
Uhh... so you're town... for coming in with prior knowledge about Chaos mafia? Wow, I didn't realize that Storm randed alignments based on how much we knew coming in. Y'all might want to kill me then, because I didn't know what to expect at all coming in, so that must make me mafia?
If anyone can do it and it's actually helpful then why haven't they been?
I mean, Hapi has. Who on this player list has knowledge of Chaos mafia? Maybe you should ask THEM this question, solving, rather than just trying to defend yourself with bad defenses?
Also, when someone asked if mafia was buckable Ex answered yes and I actually corrected him. So apparently even people who have played Chaos Mafia games before are unreliable with this information, and if I were scum I could have just not corrected him.
You could have, but a good way to win townpoints with people who aren't great as town is to do setup spec, IIoA and CWAC. Maybe you're town being helpful, this is fully compatible with town!Minish, but maybe you're not, and this is fully compatible with scum!Minish as well.
Also I just outed the very probable existence of a hostile 3rd party.
Mafia theory actually says this should be mafia-indicative since mafia are more inclined to care about 3p and want town hunting 3p rather than mafia... BUT it is late enough in the game and with two mafia flips, I won't count this against you, but it still does not do anything to make me feel like you're town.
Not to mention I'm used to just playing Chaos Mafia relying heavily on mech/setup stuff and not reads and that's what I was expecting to do coming into this game. This is by far the craziest Chaos Mafia game. Like the last one ended in about 13 pages. Most around maybe around 40 pages. They usually last maybe 2-3 game days. I think I have only really been around for the first half of the day phase of the original day 1. Every other time I've been awake has been during the night phase, save for a tiny bit of being awake at the very beginning of the previous day but even then I was about to go to bed. And I'm not going to ISO people only to end up dead at the beginning of the day or the game ended and have all that effort wasted, so yeah I haven't given a lot of solid reads on people yet.
Okay? It sounds like you have a lot of excuses, and you know, maybe you're just town here and these are all valid. BUT from my POV (and I'd guess others, but I don't want to speak for them), there is NO WAY to tell if these are coming from town or scum, and do nothing to make me feel like you're town.
But people haven't even given reads on me either besides "KoD and Fext interacted in a certain way with everyone else besides you" basically.
Yeah, surprisingly when you give no readable content all game, people can't really give fleshed out reads on you, and you just slowly trend downwards in the PoE until you're elim'd. This is why PoE works well as a strategy - it picks up both scummy people and people who you can't tell the alignment of for whatever reason.
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Minish, is there ANYTHING in your play that I should think makes you MORE LIKELY town than scum? If I had to look through your ISO, where would I look to find you town? Can you point to something and say "this is town!Minish, and scum!Minish would not do this!"?