Cure wrote:I personally think outing everyone's actions is not completely in our favor, but since everyone seems to think it's a good idea. :\ My target was Ninfia.
I understand your reservations, since they're entirely reasonable, but I suppose the main reason I've decided to encourage the claiming is because no one is tied down to their actions each night. I did a bus last night and explained my reasoning, but next night phase I could just as easily change gears and pursue a protect or stun. Since we can all do this with both actions and target(s), when we claim it helps establish our opinions on players. From there, we can ferret out inconsistencies and/or develop better reads on players. Yeah, mafia can completely lie and slip under the radar, but they can do that in almost* any other game as well. However, since we lack an ability to vote outside of our one vote each phase, I believe this discussion is a good way for us to feel each other out. Also, we can still make some deductions regarding role claims and role effects through a "if this, then that" sort of checklist.
Is all of this worth arming mafia with more information? I think so. They have no more control over the roles than we do. They could put 3 people on one role action and still get RNG'd out of it. I think their organization and knowledge of what three players will do each night is going to slightly favor them with the role actions no matter what, so town using claims as a way to talk and add to the discussion seems good to me.
Maybe I'm wildly off-base with my interpretation, since usually I think it's ideal to hold back information and read between the lines. In this case, though, if we did not claim... then I feel like town would be too much in the dark. In other games, you would at least
know the results of your own action and that others (probably) got theirs off. For this game, we don't even have that luxury, so I think town gains the most from cooperating in this case.
Hmm... Some good insights from the posts in this thread. Nothing leaps out at me to address right this moment, so I'll come back to them later if necessary. I'm going to be playing Life is Strange alongside a friend in a short while,
but I do want to come back and get a vote in on someone before rollover. As drandahl suggested, due to town having the safety of needing to be
outnumbered, we can afford to be bullish. Also, we have no other reliable way to kill mafia, so...
I'm leaning towards someone more quiet or low on contribution. Mr. Alice, Sammiya, and Rasei stand out most until they say more. I am a bit wary of Cure's statements/stances on sharing information, though I can see that her posts might be done with good intentions behind them. It also seems out of place for a mafia to single themself out to such a degree. Plus she's been very talkative, which I appreciate.
(.... P.S. @ Kiyoko: So if it gets down to 1T:1M, mafia has to kill the last town to win, right?)
(Also, since I forgot I had this open in the preview box for like an hour and Cure posted: Cure, which player or players would you be most comfortable lynching this phase? Same for anyone that's not T3t, I guess, since he's already committed, and a few other posts have indicated some preferences. But all the same!)