TruckOSaurus said:
What's your take on Nickels and Carl? Have any other players caught your attention? |
I pretty much got the same impression as you on Nickles and Carl, but I'd like to add the following insights:
For Nickles:
1. Nickles is acting this game exactly how he said last game that he would if he ended up town. Having worked with him last game, I'm getting the impression that he's town. He's different than last game in exactly the way I'd expect him to be. I got a very early town read from his behavior.
2. Regarding his stupid gambit, I'll agree it was idiotic and horribly timed, but if he's scum he's REALLY BAD scum. Like seriously, this is so stupid to do as scum.
3. Regarding the argument that Nickles goes to great lengths because of the permaban bet. From his perspective, that permaban bet was a risk free gambit. Trust me, I was in the scum thread. And really, it was risk free in the context of the game, which is all that Nickles cared about. This time, however, the risk for a scum player is astronomical. It's utterly stupid, and it's about to backfire if he really is scum, but he's not backing down. If he is town though, it's relatively low risk. It's a day 1 vote, so a loss to town would be less serious than a loss to scum. That said, his major mistake was in revealing his plan to everyone. I chalk that up to him being a noob however, and a gutsy, overeager one at that.
For Carl
1. The only thing I'd say about the quotes was I found it odd that he seemed to purposefully go for diversity instead of taking the most popular quotes. It seemed deliberate, something I wouldn't expect of someone just doing it for fun. I don't see this as strong evidence, however.
2. Carl assuming there are multiple factions is ridiculous. That's exactly what I did, because it justifies scum's seeming to want to help town if they have more people to go after. We know nothing about other factions, all we know is that, according to the wording, there seems to be precisely one person connected to the nuke, and there's probably some amount of mafia. That's all that we as town need to know. We don't need to be thinking about other factions right now. Has anyone else been pushing multiple factions? Because I mostly only recall Carl doing this. Keep an eye on anyone who does. There's no reason for it at this point.
I'll get to my other impressions next.
