BarackObama's Guide
Tools to Scumhunt
Teamwork
Work together.
You can't scumhunt while working alone. Ask others who they fos, make your opinions known. If someone tries to say that you're mafia, try to explain calmly why you aren't, and when they trust you, bring up points to make your opinion known.
Brain or Gut
Gut could mean anything at all, but it could mean that your gut noticed something important that your brain didn't. When your brain and gut disagree, it's smart to not vote until you read back, find what your gut says and wait until your brain and gut agree.
Take your time
Only bad players or mafia will rush you. You have 10 minutes, if somebody is rushing and yelling at you to vote fast, feel free to take as long as you need to reread and figure out who the mafia is. If you are unsure of something, feel free to ask people to unvote.
Reread
Always reread the past days. You can always find a scumtell that you didn't notice before.
Compare play styles
It gets easier to read someone 0once you've played with them a lot. If you have trouble reading someone go read their past games. If you notice somebody is active and contributing as villager, but just sits there as mafia, when you join a game and they just sit there and are inactive, they're most likely mafia.
Don't rely solely on cop/tracker/watcher reports
Especially in games with Miller and Godfather, and extra visiting roles, reports don't always mean mafia or scum. Use them as back-up to know roles, but don't rely solely on them.
Never random lynch
Random lynching is never the right answer. Always at least read back and try to find scum. In almost every case, a random lynch is the worst move possible.
Process of elimination
You know how your teachers and professors always tell you to use this on multiple choice tests? Use it here, get townreads and scumreads on certain people and eliminate them. For example:
In a game with PlayerA, PlayerB, PlayerC, PlayerD, PlayerE and PlayerF. You are playerF and town. Two of them are the mafia, theres no millers, lawyers or godfathers.
If PlayerA is uncced cop, and cop has an inno on PlayerB. That leaves PlayerC, playerD, and PlayerE. This narrows it down to just 2/3 scum. Instead of looking for scumtells here, try to find the person whos towntelling the most. Once you eliminate who you think is your townie, You have the mafia right there.
Practice
Practicing your scumhunting is the best way to go, with more experience you'll start to notice more basic actions that mafia teams follow, and if somebody gets mad at you for scumhunting wrong, just remember that nobody is always right, and you'll always make mistakes. The person yelling at you has probably messed up plenty before.
Work together.
You can't scumhunt while working alone. Ask others who they fos, make your opinions known. If someone tries to say that you're mafia, try to explain calmly why you aren't, and when they trust you, bring up points to make your opinion known.
Brain or Gut
Gut could mean anything at all, but it could mean that your gut noticed something important that your brain didn't. When your brain and gut disagree, it's smart to not vote until you read back, find what your gut says and wait until your brain and gut agree.
Take your time
Only bad players or mafia will rush you. You have 10 minutes, if somebody is rushing and yelling at you to vote fast, feel free to take as long as you need to reread and figure out who the mafia is. If you are unsure of something, feel free to ask people to unvote.
Reread
Always reread the past days. You can always find a scumtell that you didn't notice before.
Compare play styles
It gets easier to read someone 0once you've played with them a lot. If you have trouble reading someone go read their past games. If you notice somebody is active and contributing as villager, but just sits there as mafia, when you join a game and they just sit there and are inactive, they're most likely mafia.
Don't rely solely on cop/tracker/watcher reports
Especially in games with Miller and Godfather, and extra visiting roles, reports don't always mean mafia or scum. Use them as back-up to know roles, but don't rely solely on them.
Never random lynch
Random lynching is never the right answer. Always at least read back and try to find scum. In almost every case, a random lynch is the worst move possible.
Process of elimination
You know how your teachers and professors always tell you to use this on multiple choice tests? Use it here, get townreads and scumreads on certain people and eliminate them. For example:
In a game with PlayerA, PlayerB, PlayerC, PlayerD, PlayerE and PlayerF. You are playerF and town. Two of them are the mafia, theres no millers, lawyers or godfathers.
If PlayerA is uncced cop, and cop has an inno on PlayerB. That leaves PlayerC, playerD, and PlayerE. This narrows it down to just 2/3 scum. Instead of looking for scumtells here, try to find the person whos towntelling the most. Once you eliminate who you think is your townie, You have the mafia right there.
Practice
Practicing your scumhunting is the best way to go, with more experience you'll start to notice more basic actions that mafia teams follow, and if somebody gets mad at you for scumhunting wrong, just remember that nobody is always right, and you'll always make mistakes. The person yelling at you has probably messed up plenty before.
