Persona's Guide To Coasting

## ***Prologue***

Hello there, you weebs. I am known as Persona, or as Sona, Depending on how you know me. If you do know me however, you would know that i mostly coast as my playstyle while playing mafia, or on the off chance that i play the game somewhat normally, i will sooner or later go back to coasting at some point down the line of the game.

## ***The journey***

### The Beginning

You might feel the need to not play the game as much and instead watch how the game plays out instead, this is usually a inexperienced player's mindset until they learn their way to play the game through watching other people play, while also trying to contribute to the game in their own way. This is in some ways the same mindset as a coaster, but is also radically different from how a coaster can play the game. This is however Depending on your experience.

### The Descent

To begin your decent into the depths that is coasting, you will need to begin slowing down your involvement in playing the game. Basically, just slowly lower your activity in the game. You can still play the way you normally do, but in small spurts so that you're not completely active in the game, but you're still involved in it in some form or another.

Next, you must learn how to read the game chat in a coasters view, this is as easy as learning how the mechanics and the roles work, as you need to know these to know these as a normal mafia player anyway. but once you do that, you can learn how to read the chat in a nature of writing down things that you don't like about other players in the game, and compiling them all when you're asked for susses or at least to provide some input in the game. Knowing how the mechanics work are vital depending on what your reasons are for susing people are about, and for your statements on the game.

To Conclude your Decent, you need to master the things above while also being able to enjoy this style of playing. If you don't enjoy playing this way then why play the game in this style in the first place. Coasting is a vital aspect to being able to enjoy the game even if it is not your main style of play, as being active in the game and typing everything you think can lead to heavy burn out and not wanting to play the game. Being as someone who has gone through heavy burnout of trying to play the game in a way that everyone knows what im doing at all times, it can be really exhausting and lead you to not want to play the game. Being able to enjoy playing the game in a normal way while also using coasting to enjoy not playing the game at times.

### The Depths

Now that you've learned to Coast in a normal way that helps out the game, now you can learn about the other ways. To start out with, if you want to play the game but chime in randomly, you can side game or watch something not relating to the game, but still watching the game to be able to chime into and at least somewhat contribute to the game in some form or another. Its important to not forget about the game that exists and focus entirely on something else, because that just hurts the integrity of the game and hurts what how the game is going, flow wise. Its also important to not just focus on just reading the chat and checking everything, as it can just hurt your enjoyment of being able to play the game.

### Additional Tips

If someone tells you to stop coasting, just ignore them unless you are doing nothing to contribute to the game.

You should always at least be paying attention to the game and be able to mostly answer any questions other players ask you.

Be able to be flexible with coasting, different situations call for different behavior.

## ***Epilogue***

Thanks for reading this Guide for Coasting, Or at least a congrats for making it to this point. If you want to ask questions i might not answer, but you can @me in Scumbug Den (https://discord.gg/brtt2dN) or @me in the main mafia.gg server, but i may not respond :0. This Might have been somewhat of a lack luster guide but i hope you could atleast see in t my style of playing the game.