yogsloth: <------------- Serious face
You made the scouting analogy earlier but the metaphor doesn't hold. A scout is trying to fill a specific role on an existing team (in sports or business, etc.), and usually with an existing leader with a particularly strategy/style.
Scouting may tell you something about two players, but they're looking for both absolute ability across a range of variables, as well as that question of fit with the team the player would join. A slower, taller receiver might be better than a short, fast one for a given team, or v-v.
Here there's no known system and no coordination. I can't definitively say that A is better than B for town because I have no idea what others will pick and ultimately the value is, at least to a significant extent, in how they synergize, and that part was always going to be a crapshoot. If I take the "towniest" role in the first slot, I raise the odds of a teammate down the line trying for the same and missing. Might be a good risk, might not. No way to know without being a mindreader.
I could also play defense and take a particularly advantageous scum role off the table, but hindering my own ability in the process. Great if I draw scum into a vanilla role, but a waste if I don't.
My decision was to choose interesting roles to a final pool, throwing out most which I deemed undesirable or suboptimal (whether as offense or defense I don't really see a need to dig into at this point), and then roll the dice amongst that small subset. Whether or not you approve of my strategy, I will say that I find the outcome worked quite well. No regrets.
You...do know at some point I'm going to turn that question around on you, right?
CSPVG: #253 - JMich - This, as opposed to drealmer's direction, could be a credible place from which to build a case against bler.
That I'm a cult leader? Shirley you cannot be serious.
Besides, I'm 99% positive yogs has proof I'm not CL. Whether he will confirm it or not is an open question.