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== About ==
{{scummer|15481|userpic=logo_mafiascum_medium.jpg}}
I'm pretty boring.


== My games ==
I have two—and only two—scumhunting precepts. I'm putting them here because I forget them a lot, and I shouldn't:
=== Statistics ===
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<td><strong>Town</strong></td>
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<td style="width: 44.44%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: center;">Win (4)</td>
<td style="width: 55.56%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: center;">Lose (5)</td>
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# If someone is not scumhunting well, you should consider them correspondingly much more likely to be scum.
# You should not consider players to be town for anything other than incisive scumhunting or believable claims.


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Scumhunting is defined as the process of analysing subtleties in a person's play to determine whether they are informed or uninformed, and therefore their alignment.
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<td><strong>Scum</strong></td>
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<td style="width: 50%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: center;">Win (2)</td>
<td style="width: 50%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: center;">Lose (2)</td>
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<p>Both precepts follow directly from the core principle behind Mafia, as stated on [[Game of Mafia|this wiki:]]</p>


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: “At its heart, Mafia is a game pitting an uninformed majority against an informed minority.
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<td><strong>Third Party</strong></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000; text-align: center;">No completed games.</td>
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=== Completed ===
As a result, the two precepts will always enable you to identify all except for the ultimate of scum players, who are capable of playing the game as if they truly were uninformed.
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<br> Other players rely on additional scumtells that have to do with things such as gut, tone and voting patterns; while they might help narrow the field down some, stronger scum players can slip past as well. (Figure 1)
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Newbie 1080</strong></td>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16915]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Cop</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Won (D2)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #000000; border: 1px solid #666666;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">Killed (N1)</span></td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Replaced Geodaman585</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">My first and probably best game on Mafiascum, lynching one mafia D1 and investigating the second N1. Sadly I was killed before I could out my report, but the rest of the town brought home a satisfying win.</td>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> The only real disadvantage of playing according to only the two precepts is that weak town players can fall afoul of the first one.
<br> However, when questioned or put under pressure, these players can often produce satisfactory analysis. It's much, much harder for scum to do so. (Figure 2)</p>


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<div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><ul>  
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<li style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 4em;"> [[File:Precepts_venn_other-precepts.png]] <p style="margin-top: 1.25em;"> Figure 1. Using precepts other than the two </p> </li>
<td colspan="3"><strong>Open 292</strong></td>
<li style="display: inline-block;"> [[File:Precepts_venn_two-precepts.png]] <p style="margin-top: 1.25em;"> Figure 2. Using only the two precepts </p> </li>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&amp;t=16903]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Citizen</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Lost (D2)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #666666; border: 1px solid #ffffff;">Endgamed (D2)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Replaced Sevei</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">My first and only experience with Fate (so far); LYLO on D4 lead to him being confirmed town but he hammered on the town cop due to the fact that it looked like him and I were 'in sync' (isn't that something mafia generally tend to avoid doing?). Then again I scumhunted terribly this game and I'm not proud at all. Probably my worst game so far.</td>
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I don't have any good ideas about how to play scum though. Usually I just like to find a nice dark place to lie in until I'm lynched or the game ends.
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Open 299</strong></td>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=17185]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Citizen</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Won (D3)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #666666;">Survived</td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Replaced Nobody Special</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">I got some reads right, but the town mainly won due to poor mafia play and good PRs. Short and sweet.</td>
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Mini Normal 1145</strong></td>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16947]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Citizen</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Lost (D4)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #666666; border: 1px solid #000000;">Lynched (D3)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Replaced Lucresia</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">Pegged 2/3 of the scum upon replacing in; both were lynched the following days. However things took a downward turn on D3, where scum sat back to watch a massive town on town fight between GreyICE and I. Due to it I was lynched that day and ICE's lynch the next day secured town's loss. Kudos to RangeroftheNorth for taking it home for scum although this game felt like a win for me.</td>
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Newbie 1094</strong></td>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17245]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Citizen</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Lost (D3)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #666666; border: 1px solid #000000;">Lynched (D1)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Original player</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">Ugh. I self-hammered this game and it felt really like vandalism; although it felt good, it fucked the game up for town and the mod. This game was basically newbs tunnelling each other while the mafia sat back and watched. Interestingly enough, this was the first game where I didn't replace in and I lost terribly. Significant?</td>
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Newbie 1099</strong></td>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17324]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Citizen</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Won (D4)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #666666;">Survived</td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Replaced AngelxDeidrael</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">This game moved so fast I barely had time to talk much, but I hammered correctly where it  counted in 3 way LYLO. By all rights the actual mafioso was less obviously scummy than the townie, but the nightkills and the townie's play did him in. I was called a VI for the first time this game, but it was by a mafioso who I got lynched so I'm not really paying much attention to it.</td>
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Newbie 1088</strong></td>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17182]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Citizen</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Lost (D4)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #666666; border: 1px solid #000000;">Lynched (D4)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Original player</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">Further supporting my theory that I only do well when replacing in, I tried to switch up my playstyle this game and become a lot more offensive; it drew the ire of mozamis and jediknight (both town). Unfortunately, trust between us was irrevocably damaged and when mozamis and I were both alive in D4, mozamis voted me letting the newbie swoop in and hammer. Neither of us had thought for a second that this newbie (Quackerz) could be mafia and he must be congratulated for winning after having his buddy lynched D1.
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Open 301</strong></td>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=17264]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000;">Werewolf Goon</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Won (D5)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #000000; border: 1px solid #666666;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">Killed (N2)</span></td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Original player</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">After disentangling myself from a possible lynch D1, I faded into the background along with my buddy DarthYoshi. We were feeling pretty good after a Mafia lynch D2, and luck went our way when I was NK'd N2, propelling my partner to 3-way LYLO after the remaining Mafioso was lynched. Unfortunately he lost in LYLO due to factors that weren't really related to the game (NK timing). A good game though, especially with Darth as a buddy, and it felt like a win regardless of the final outcome.
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<table style="width: 100%; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;" border="0" cellpadding="3">
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Newbie 1103</strong></td>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17472]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000;">Mafia Goon</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000;">Mafia Lost (D3)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #666666; border: 1px solid #000000;">Lynched (D3)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Original player</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">Although garnering town reads for the first day, after my buddy was lynched D2 I fell into a state of utter apathy that led to my lynch D3. All the townies here were obvtown too, which didn't help. And my buddy was lynched before he could claim a PR that would be uncc'd.
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<table style="width: 100%; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;" border="0" cellpadding="3">
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Newbie 1096</strong></td>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17259]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000;">Mafia Goon</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Mafia Won (D4)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #666666; border: 1px solid #000000;">Lynched (D2)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Replaced Mrs_Duck</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">My first game as scum, and a terrible one - I avoided the D1 lynch by the skin of my teeth and fakeclaimed doc D2 laughably badly. I was soon hammered, but I managed to pick the doc out of the players as a result. Thankfully my (and my predecessor's) obvscumminess left a slimy trail to a remaining town player, who was then lynched in LYLO.
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<table style="width: 100%; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;" border="0" cellpadding="3">
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Mini Normal 1147</strong></td>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17143]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Mason</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Lost (D6)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #000000; border: 1px solid #666666;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">Killed (N4)</span></td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Replaced Klazam</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">Currently in progress.
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<table style="width: 100%; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;" border="0" cellpadding="3">
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Open 310</strong></td>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=17658]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Doctor (Weak)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Town Won (D2)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #666666;">Survived</td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Original player</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">Currently in progress.
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=== Most recently completed ===
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Open 305</strong></td>
<td align="right">[http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=17470]</td>
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<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ff0000; border: 1px solid #000000;">Mafia Goon</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #00ff00; border: 1px solid #000000;">Mafia Won (D6)</td>
<td style="width: 25%; background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #666666;">Survived</td>
<td style="width: 25%; border: 1px solid #000000;">Original player</td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #000000;" colspan="4">Currently in progress.
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</table>
 
=== In progress ===
None; currently on extended V/LA.
 
== Comments ==
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Latest revision as of 11:04, 13 October 2016

Logo mafiascum medium.jpg This user plays Mafia. (Talk)

I have two—and only two—scumhunting precepts. I'm putting them here because I forget them a lot, and I shouldn't:

  1. If someone is not scumhunting well, you should consider them correspondingly much more likely to be scum.
  2. You should not consider players to be town for anything other than incisive scumhunting or believable claims.

Scumhunting is defined as the process of analysing subtleties in a person's play to determine whether they are informed or uninformed, and therefore their alignment.

Both precepts follow directly from the core principle behind Mafia, as stated on this wiki:

“At its heart, Mafia is a game pitting an uninformed majority against an informed minority.”

As a result, the two precepts will always enable you to identify all except for the ultimate of scum players, who are capable of playing the game as if they truly were uninformed.
Other players rely on additional scumtells that have to do with things such as gut, tone and voting patterns; while they might help narrow the field down some, stronger scum players can slip past as well. (Figure 1)

The only real disadvantage of playing according to only the two precepts is that weak town players can fall afoul of the first one.
However, when questioned or put under pressure, these players can often produce satisfactory analysis. It's much, much harder for scum to do so. (Figure 2)

  • Precepts venn other-precepts.png

    Figure 1. Using precepts other than the two

  • Precepts venn two-precepts.png

    Figure 2. Using only the two precepts

I don't have any good ideas about how to play scum though. Usually I just like to find a nice dark place to lie in until I'm lynched or the game ends.