WW16: The Outlaws and The Olives

[Catwalk]

To clarify, I never intended to simply follow you everywhere. I think I explicitly stated that in an earlier post where I addressed my piggybacking. My argument was that in absence of any reads of my own, it made more sense to me to follow the lead of a mostly established townie (is your head going to explode yet TT?). I did have a read on Azza, as I thought it extremely peculiar how he got minimal attention with practically no activity day 1 and nothing with any substance day 2. I still think that's a good read, and I'm still wondering why noone picked up on it.

There's something strange with your reasoning here, Catwalk. You said that following a mostly established townie is a good thing to do, in your opinion, when you don't have a lead on anyone. Than you say you have a good lead, a lead that you still thinks is good. So, how does this fares with you following Novice, then not following him and voting Azza (your good lead) and then following him again? It's hard not to make a connection with the player that Novice voted that you didn't follow (Selrahc, if I remember correctly).

Following novice's lead doesn't necessarily mean backing every single vote he makes. About Selrahc (and someone else I didn't follow him on as well), I responded to that earlier when novice inquired about the same thing. Anything specific you find contradictory about this?

Azza, just like Arromir, that Gaspar talked about in a later post (didn't quote it) are mostly lurking. And it makes it hard to get something out of mostly silent players, especially ones you don't have a baseline on and which are playing their first games here (coupled with the fact that this is a massive game for our standards, this could very well lead to a mostly lurking mode).

I distinguish between inactive players and lurking players. It looks to me like Arromir and Azza are deliberately not contributing, not merely too busy. And to me, that's a lot more suspicious.

Regarding the posts you quoted, they are indeed strange. But why would Azza decide to antagonize you at that point in time, if he was scum? It seems to bring an entirely not beneficial spotlight on him, which is difficult to believe a new wolf, mostly lurking, would do (in my opinion).

I think it matches a new wolf quite well. Aggravate an easy target, generating noise and seeming active.[/quote]