I object to doing [an issue massclaim] today. Tomorrow, perhaps. Today? No.
On that note... [...] ...I don't feel obliged to answer that question. It's not quite rolefishing, but given the unknown effects of issues at this point, I'm not answering it.
Fair enough, and consistent with your stance on D1 issue massclaim.
However, for the record I think we do have enough information about what issues do to know that a massclaim will benefit town more than scum. We know that they
do not correlate to role, and that they
do correlate to alignment. If Issues have any further mechanical function, neither town nor scum would know at this point, unless the mod has been a real bastard and told the scum more of the rules than he told the town. Which is contrary to his statements of intent for the game.
If Issues turn out to have previously unknown mechanical functions, these can be used to ferret out fakeclaims made when we were still ignorant of those functions. And since Issues correlate to alignment but not roles, scum would need to fakeclaim to protect their alignment, while town would not be forced to fakeclaim to protect power roles.
Why are you more interested in using the green vote to shift issues than to protect someone from nightkills?
Because the issue at hand was whether we should be voting for ourselves. And in the absence of claimed or inferred power votes, the only person I see any compelling reason to greenvote for NK protection is me. I
know that I'm town, I only
believe that you are. And no, greenvote as a tiebreaker is not a terribly useful thing to do, because it's only one NK protection so the scum will still have six perfectly valid targets.
A power role claim would change the picture on the green votes, but a D1 roleclaim is a horribad idea that needs to be purged with fire.
In particular, Bookthras and Tiruin have been voting more people than there can possibly be mafia+third party in the game at this point. Please be advised that this is starting to look an awful lot like lazy, bandwagony scum play.
I don't like this. It's hard to quantify why, but I just don't like it.
See reply to Dariush above.