Survivor Solgalessons
Feb 7, 2019 5:38:00 GMT
Post by Solgaleo on Feb 7, 2019 5:38:00 GMT
Welcome to the thread where I pretend that I have any sort of survivor expertise and talk about how to improve your game using examples from this one.
Today's Solgalesson is: So You Think You Might Be Targeted
So yeah, this afternoon was not fun. So the first and most important thing in case you might be targeted, is that you need a network of people who don't want you to be targeted. After all, the final goal of this is to not be targeted, and usually that's a lot easier when you can make the case why you should stay. If you don't know that you are being targetted then well...you're probably already dead. As such the first thing you want is to have a few people who you are pretty essential to or see you as useful to your tribe/alliance (As such you should excel in an area they don't already as otherwise you are either a threat or redundant).
After you've found out you are targeted next you need to find out how deep you are into that shit, but before you do: DON'T PANIC! If you are panicked you are just going to be less and less convincing, no one wants to deal with someone who's really nervous as they might do something stupid that sinks the entire alliance. As such...try and be calm. To survey the damage, talk to people, see if there are any notable changes, are people online but not talking to you? This is a bad sign. Are their messages to you shorter than usual? This is also a bad sign. Are they talking to you about the same amount? You are probably good.
There are two things you can do next: You can either defend yourself indirectly or directly. In a game like survivor, people surprisingly hate being confronted, and even if it works, they'll resent it, as such you should be indirect. This has two parts. The first part is to give the people who warned you reasons why you should be around. There are two parts to this: The first is "I'm really good at X and can help you. Where you focus on a primary attribute of yours that is good and play that up. Or a bad aspect depending on the point in the game (you need weak players like me to cut later can actually be a strong argument, as well as "you need a shield like me to survive to the end"). The other method is to focus on someone else "Like X is really bad at challenges, or X is a really huge threat". The important part is that any effective argument will use both and try to draw a direct comparative where you are more valuable than the other person you are trying to eliminate. The reason why you give this to your allies is just so they can more effectively argue to keep you to people who might be more on the sidelines (coming from you it will be worse). Meanwhile you just chum it up with those same people, invoke their sympathies, make them feel bad that they are betraying you, their friend, their ally. Show them all the good things you send them and the joy you bring them in life. Between this their minds should hopefully shift off of you and you'll be saved, AND you won't have gotten them all riled up with a confrontation.
If there is very little time left or the indirect approach is not working, then you have to just be direct. You have to go to people say "I know there are people voting for me or at least consideirng it, in case you are, here's why you should keep me". In this case you give the arguments you'd usually give to your allies to these people and just overall try to think not about why you are good in general but why you are good for them specifically.
So yeah that's what you do when you think you are in trouble. And surveying the field is really important because in my case today, I knew I was a target but not going home. I could have chosen to directly approach Jirachi and Meltan but if I had, that would have gotten around, made me seem to be a bad ally to have by being too much of a "Loose canon" and actually turned people against me. However, instead Meltan basically needs to make up with me tomorrow and play nice.
Also, when selecting an alternate, look for the extremes, the people who are the worst at something, not someone who is just mediocre. Like Meltan/Jirachi focusing on me was kind of a bad mistake as there was no "big moment" to point to as to why I should go, while I made myself helpful to those around me, even if it was mostly through recommending shows and sending cute pictures to people. Focusing on Coba getting that problem wrong or something else probably would have saved some effort for them.
Also when someone tells you you are fine and not to fuck up your position, DON'T FUCK UP YOUR POSITION.
Uh those are lots of words, there are probably some good things in there but maybe not...welp.
Today's Solgalesson is: So You Think You Might Be Targeted
So yeah, this afternoon was not fun. So the first and most important thing in case you might be targeted, is that you need a network of people who don't want you to be targeted. After all, the final goal of this is to not be targeted, and usually that's a lot easier when you can make the case why you should stay. If you don't know that you are being targetted then well...you're probably already dead. As such the first thing you want is to have a few people who you are pretty essential to or see you as useful to your tribe/alliance (As such you should excel in an area they don't already as otherwise you are either a threat or redundant).
After you've found out you are targeted next you need to find out how deep you are into that shit, but before you do: DON'T PANIC! If you are panicked you are just going to be less and less convincing, no one wants to deal with someone who's really nervous as they might do something stupid that sinks the entire alliance. As such...try and be calm. To survey the damage, talk to people, see if there are any notable changes, are people online but not talking to you? This is a bad sign. Are their messages to you shorter than usual? This is also a bad sign. Are they talking to you about the same amount? You are probably good.
There are two things you can do next: You can either defend yourself indirectly or directly. In a game like survivor, people surprisingly hate being confronted, and even if it works, they'll resent it, as such you should be indirect. This has two parts. The first part is to give the people who warned you reasons why you should be around. There are two parts to this: The first is "I'm really good at X and can help you. Where you focus on a primary attribute of yours that is good and play that up. Or a bad aspect depending on the point in the game (you need weak players like me to cut later can actually be a strong argument, as well as "you need a shield like me to survive to the end"). The other method is to focus on someone else "Like X is really bad at challenges, or X is a really huge threat". The important part is that any effective argument will use both and try to draw a direct comparative where you are more valuable than the other person you are trying to eliminate. The reason why you give this to your allies is just so they can more effectively argue to keep you to people who might be more on the sidelines (coming from you it will be worse). Meanwhile you just chum it up with those same people, invoke their sympathies, make them feel bad that they are betraying you, their friend, their ally. Show them all the good things you send them and the joy you bring them in life. Between this their minds should hopefully shift off of you and you'll be saved, AND you won't have gotten them all riled up with a confrontation.
If there is very little time left or the indirect approach is not working, then you have to just be direct. You have to go to people say "I know there are people voting for me or at least consideirng it, in case you are, here's why you should keep me". In this case you give the arguments you'd usually give to your allies to these people and just overall try to think not about why you are good in general but why you are good for them specifically.
So yeah that's what you do when you think you are in trouble. And surveying the field is really important because in my case today, I knew I was a target but not going home. I could have chosen to directly approach Jirachi and Meltan but if I had, that would have gotten around, made me seem to be a bad ally to have by being too much of a "Loose canon" and actually turned people against me. However, instead Meltan basically needs to make up with me tomorrow and play nice.
Also, when selecting an alternate, look for the extremes, the people who are the worst at something, not someone who is just mediocre. Like Meltan/Jirachi focusing on me was kind of a bad mistake as there was no "big moment" to point to as to why I should go, while I made myself helpful to those around me, even if it was mostly through recommending shows and sending cute pictures to people. Focusing on Coba getting that problem wrong or something else probably would have saved some effort for them.
Also when someone tells you you are fine and not to fuck up your position, DON'T FUCK UP YOUR POSITION.
Uh those are lots of words, there are probably some good things in there but maybe not...welp.
