Sorry
Simple, missed your clarification until my re-read.
Simple: Are you asking me what I think about the possibility of someone being a "cop" in their flavor text, but vanilla town for their role? Please clarify what you are asking me.
I meant the cop that instead of definite mafia/town alignment receives flavor description on inspects. E.g "You find lots of suspicious books in his house!". This is extension of "why not reveal flavor?" question.
Oooh, I see. In other words, what if cops in this game that don't receive a flat
Town or
Scum reply?
Well, such a change would have a number of very important impacts on the Cop role. First of all, vanilla Cop inspects are black-and-white. The cop doesn't have to question or figure out what the Mod is telling him, and unless there's a miller or godfather to worry about, he has no reason to doubt his inspection is 100% accurate. Even when dealing with a godfather or miller, there are ways of figuring out if your inspect was altered because of their role.
Flavor, however, screws it all up. It depends entirely on the player making the right call; barring some bizarrely specific and blatant details from LNCP, which could be abused by the rest of the town, this will definitely be easier said than done. What if I, as a player, am paranoid about books being a sign of witchcraft? Might I then deduce that my target is scum, even though he's town? It calls into question the validity of the cop's power, which is a VERY fundamental thing to change. Worse, anyone can try to argue that the person playing the cop is paranoid or naive. They can't simply compare the results of the inspection and see if it proves their roleclaim, because now the Town can argue that they misinterpreted their flavor. Hell, scum will have a field day with it, since sowing doubt and dissension is their objective.
Also, it would confirm that flavor text is important VERY important (possibly even critical) here. I don't think I'd like that, mainly because TOO much flavor text clues and deduction will make this feel more like a "Whodunnit?" rather than an true game of Mafia.
TL:DR That would be a drastic and scary change, with unpredictable impact on balance, and I as a player wouldn't like it.
While we're on the topic,
Simple, why the continued interest in specific flavor details? I find it odd because you were critical of Max's constant theorizing, yet are doing some similar things yourself. It's odd, contradictory behavior to me.
Hmm....
Dariush Any leads at the moment? I've not heard much from you in the way of solid suspects, mostly because earlier you said you had none. Has the recent flurry of posts changed that?