Re: City Mafia Game Thread
If mass roleclaims happen, claims from bottom up has merit. The earliest picker among the living can lie their arse off, but the last person always can.
I still disagree with the idea that mass roleclaims are useless unless they happen on D1. Mass roleclaims serve two main purposes: give the town information (cop, role thief, watcher, tracker, role cop, bus driver, roleblocker, coroner, jailkeeper results) and force mafia to declare the role they must live up to the rest of the game. If mafia pick and received a power role, having to announce their targets each night thus far and continue announcing their targets each day thereafter will go a long way toward ferreting out said mafia.
Roleclaim?
Treestump claiming doesn't always affect the lynch numbers. It depends on the number of players alive. If I'm reading the rules right, a treestump claiming with 18 players alive (17 voters after claiming) will affect lynch numbers. A treestump claiming with 17 players alive (16 voters after claiming) won't affect the lynch numbers.
Lowering the lynch numbers doesn't mean it's the ideal scenario. The person lynched isn't more or less likely to be mafia (which is kind of a requirement for ideal scenario).
A townie treestump claiming effectively lowers the number of townies by 1. A townie treestump not claiming and getting night killed also lowers the number of townies by 1 but also prevents a power role from being killed. Same non-claiming townie treestump can vote up until claiming treestump.
A mafia treestump claiming effectively lowers the number of mafia by 1 - the same as getting lynched. However, and this is a BIG however, the mafia treestump can't be lynched to prove they are anti-town. They may continue to talk and influence others and it becomes exceedingly difficult to prove the mafia treestump is mafia. Also, they can potentially lower the vote number to lynch and lock a townie at L-1. A mafia treestump not claiming is in a pretty good position since it's what a good townie would do. They can run interference for other mafioso with the Ace in the hole of claiming while denying the town a prove/disprove the alignment.
In case you can't tell, mafia treestump is one of the roles I'm most worried about. Look at what happened to the mafia "treestump" in the Half-Life game. It's brutal.
I've only played a draft game in which it was made public who picked which roles. Roleclaiming can be useful here, but only on day one and if we start from the bottom of the list. But the fun lies in not knowing and keeping the WIFOA feel to it.
If mass roleclaims happen, claims from bottom up has merit. The earliest picker among the living can lie their arse off, but the last person always can.
I still disagree with the idea that mass roleclaims are useless unless they happen on D1. Mass roleclaims serve two main purposes: give the town information (cop, role thief, watcher, tracker, role cop, bus driver, roleblocker, coroner, jailkeeper results) and force mafia to declare the role they must live up to the rest of the game. If mafia pick and received a power role, having to announce their targets each night thus far and continue announcing their targets each day thereafter will go a long way toward ferreting out said mafia.
You're sounding fairly certain that Noodle is town. Just an observation.I'm also against lynching Noodle. Maybe would want to lynch him as soon as possible, because there is a high chance he went for doc or for some other role that granted him NK immunity, thus they would want him lynched, rather than waste an NK on him.
Yes, I think the host would allow WIFOA circumstances in a WIFOA game. Masons should only be confirmed when/if they confirm themselves. Barring that, I'm assuming any mason could be mafia.Also, do you think a host would allow mafia to choose mason? That would give the mafia a HUGE advantage over the town with having an inside man. But if that's the case, that means masons are no longer real masons and they now have to worry about each and ever one of them. WIFOA.
Goryani's "What position do you think is the lowest number to receive their choice and not a duplicate?":
The lower the better. Still, this has the flaw that many may have thought the same. I chose two lower numbers (8 and 15) to avoid duplicates and still I didn't get the tree stump role.
Roleclaim?
Interesting; so the ideal scenario would be for the stump to claim on the first day, so that the lynch number decreases, allowing the town a slightly more successful chance to lynch someone. Am I right?
Treestump claiming doesn't always affect the lynch numbers. It depends on the number of players alive. If I'm reading the rules right, a treestump claiming with 18 players alive (17 voters after claiming) will affect lynch numbers. A treestump claiming with 17 players alive (16 voters after claiming) won't affect the lynch numbers.
Lowering the lynch numbers doesn't mean it's the ideal scenario. The person lynched isn't more or less likely to be mafia (which is kind of a requirement for ideal scenario).
A townie treestump claiming effectively lowers the number of townies by 1. A townie treestump not claiming and getting night killed also lowers the number of townies by 1 but also prevents a power role from being killed. Same non-claiming townie treestump can vote up until claiming treestump.
A mafia treestump claiming effectively lowers the number of mafia by 1 - the same as getting lynched. However, and this is a BIG however, the mafia treestump can't be lynched to prove they are anti-town. They may continue to talk and influence others and it becomes exceedingly difficult to prove the mafia treestump is mafia. Also, they can potentially lower the vote number to lynch and lock a townie at L-1. A mafia treestump not claiming is in a pretty good position since it's what a good townie would do. They can run interference for other mafioso with the Ace in the hole of claiming while denying the town a prove/disprove the alignment.
In case you can't tell, mafia treestump is one of the roles I'm most worried about. Look at what happened to the mafia "treestump" in the Half-Life game. It's brutal.