Mr.Person : What is your dream mafia team (assuming 4 man team) ?
A 4 member team where every member has a 1-shot daykill or any other lylo breaker including vote steals, vote blocks, lynch blocks, 1-shot kill seperate from the mafiakill, delays, ect ect. It would be fine if only one member had such an ability and everyone else had defensive abilities like protections, godfatherlyness, asceticness, roleblocks, action immunity, ect.
So a team of 4 where everyone is an action-immune daykiller with infinity votes. Yes that sounds about perfect.
Well, depends on whether I poison during the Day or during the Night. If I were to poison during the Day, then I would wait until near the end of the Day to choose. Otherwise, I'd wait until the Night to choose. Because poisoning people at the start of Day 1 is a really stupid idea, and it usually gets you killed (As does most D1 kills).
Now, you should rephrase your question to less stupid things that are not quite as loaded. I would consider this replacement: "You have a Day 1 kill that must be used now. Who do you use it on?" In which case I would reply TolyK. That question isn't pointlessly time dependent, and therefore answerable right now. See the difference?
Are there any circumstances where it would be ok to use a daykill on D1?
Now why would you use it on TolyK? Holy shit Webadict, you're coming dangerously close to question dodging here by not really answering the question.
Mr. Person: What role or person do you feel most threatened by?
The scum role designed to counter the town's otherwise strongest role. Second most threatening is the one that's countering MY role. Everything else, eh, who cares.
As for players, I'd pick IronyOwl. eh dodges lynches and doesnt afraid anything. Course that's the whole problem, in actual play I'm not threatened by IronyOwl at all, but errytime we get to the end of a game guess who's standing there with that smugass avatar's grin? It's a "gee IronyOwl makes a fearsome mafioso", not a "holy shit IronyOwl's going to get me lynched if I fuck it" problem. That threatening jerk is Webadict.
Simple: If you were a one-shot roleblocker, how would you choose your target?
I would save it until i got at least some knowledge of how the roles are distributed and/or very serious suspicions towards someone, in game this big throwing it early would be rather useless. Of course i would also use it if we would come to some critical situation ( one death to lylo or something like that) or we come up with a fail-proof plan to win with the block's help.
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Or you could stop overvaluing a one-shot roleblock and just accept it's likely going to be wasted anyways. That "game saved by a roleblock" scenario is exceedingly unlikely to happen, but it will NEVER happen if you sit on your 1-shot until you get killed or lynched or converted or whatever nasty things are going to happen to use during the night. Or day, for that matter.
On the other hand a RB's time to shine is when there's but a single mafia member left because each night either you clear someone or there's no mafiakill. On the other side of that other hand, you have to get there. Statically speaking you won't and right now you have a very real chance of blocking a mafia member. Probably not the kill, but blocking any mafia member whatsoever is good in a PR-heavy game such as this since every single one of them is likely to be doing something nefarious every night.
I want to have a more laid-back game, though that probably won't work now
I think everyone needs to be questioned, but i'm guessing the more experienced players (Think, Irony, Wuba, Person, and the like). I know Jack AT is a good mafia-side player (from being on the same team as him before ) so questioning him might help too.
I notice you failed to list yourself. Why is that?
...I pretty much expected that answer.
Then why even bother asking if you already know the answer?
The level of chaos is unknown, and there are a lot of players. Which is to say, we have no idea what to expect. The possibility that the town has a glut of investigative roles is valid. A D1 no lynch, then, is not as foolish a course of action as it normally is in games where the structure is well known, and we can expect lynchings to have a useful effect.
D1 lynches being essentially random, it may be better not to risk killing a useful towny who might otherwise have identified a member of the scumteam in the night.
I'm going to
vote NUKE as a policy lynch. Refusing to play the game is not a strategy, it's bullshit. And until you get a lynch target through any method of your choice OR are obviously trying to get a lynch target, I'm not moving my vote. Which is sad since I'd much rather be lynching people who I suspect, but we have to stop lurking somehow. And if at the end of the day you refused to get a lynch target, well, lurking away D1 was pretty scummy, now wasn't it?
As to why your stance is retarded, if we were about to lynch an inspector, said player can claim and we can no lynch or lynch someone else if we want. But if a player is scummy, we really should be lynching them anyways. Scumreads should not be playing second billing to "maybe he's a good PR" since scumreads trump PR every day of the weak.
Here's some maths assuming we randomly lynch, there's 4 scum total with no third parties and only one role vigilante. Other roles don't count since they could be spoofed by others, false or inccorect because of mod trickery, or an outright lie by scum.
Chance of hitting a scum member: 2/9 (22.222...%)
Chance of lynching that guy and ruining things: 1/18 (5.555...%)
Then at night, here's the chances of hitting that guy IF
A mafia member was lynched: 1/14 (7.143%)
A townie was lynched: 1/13 (7.692%)
If we don't lynch, there's obviously just the nightkill and inspection
Chance of hitting a scum member: 0
Chance of hitting that guy and ruining things: 1/14 (7.143%)
In other words you're trading a 20%(!) chance of finding scum to remove a 5% chance of accidentally killing a role who has the ability to find scum. And if there's more than one that guy and you throw in third parties and/or a bigger mafia, sure your math gets a little bit better, but we're doing pretty well if we have 2 that guys, one of the that guy (vigilante) is probably a third party anyways (sk), and having more mafia just makes lynching all the more imperative.
And that's assuming such a role exists. Worst case scenario is there isn't a role like that, and I always take the worst case scenario as fact until proven otherwise. Then being wrong is a pleasant surprise rather than game breaker like your assumption being inccorect is.
Speaking of which, Andrew425- You're scum and everyone knows it. Now crack like an egg and spill out the scumjuices.
PPE: Powder Miner STOP RVSING. DO SOMETHING USEFUL.
In other words
"You're scum totally just give up
adviceNUKE
Stop RVSing it's useless"
Hypocrite.