What do people think of the notion that Day 1 is town's opportunity to vote out the least useful player to the town cause? As far as I can tell, players rarely make drastic slips on day one and with no flips or night action results, there are very few legitimate lines of enquiry. The further into the game, the higher the cost of lynching town. Does it then make sense to use day one, when a mistake is least disastrous, to lynch the person that's worst at playing the game?
If so, is the most dangerous player to town's prospects the least active player, the least competent player or the player that is worst at defending themselves?
I guess it isn't in people 'thinking'--wherein 'thinking' = believing as stated fact, but as a veil of unsurity. There are cases wen people state that the D1 lynch is either the worst play, or said people back off from the lynch because of the person's counterpoints. Problem is, the counterpoints are usually in the category of 'logical countering' compared to the 'poor play/least useful'.
Experienced that myself in..the latest scenarios, I'll bring up an example wherein the players mentioned are OK with this being stated as they said so. (ie discerning bad play from bad scum in Worse Things by GlyphGryph). From a town perspective [
My perspective, to be concise] (NQT, you were scum here and despite appreciating your honesty in what you said then, I'd like to hear what your thoughts are here.), the lynches went forward due to how the play was brought out--less of 'there was no backing' but more of 'this is illogical, and daresay, irrational'. The defense of the lynched was not that convincing, either, lacking counter proposals or addressing the accusations set against them. It was only fixed later on, as
Time is one of the most essential components of a Mafia game. Shorten the time, and people will be more paranoid-moreso on town, and
will affect their play. Critical thinking is used, instead of relaxed and in-depth thinking.
On the hypothetical above: I daresay it is up to the person and how they present themselves. Tiny 'misjudgements'-as said post-game, may not be seen as misjudgements in-game, wherein people take the role of 'not knowing' the others' role. I believe the hypothetical stems from games wherein D1 lynches played out poorly (meaning: Town got lynched)? Because I can say that the same method, though in less frequent occurrences, also led to Mafia getting lynched D1.
Needs specification, I believe.