All this will do is give the scummy ninjas an incentive to claim investigative roles. That would allow them to see anyone who has claimed vanilla or a less active role first, and can guide them in crafting a better lie for when they do claim. Additionally, if they time it right, we can have scum waiting to claim after our own investigators do as well, giving them even greater insight.

If it comes to a mass roleclaim, they're going to be lying anyway, and claiming an investigative role isn't very dangerous for scum. Especially when there's no way to verify it, and especially when (thanks to your earlier revelation) we already know that there are non-standard roles in this game. Most importantly of all, we certainly don't want to reward scum for claiming to be pirate investigators.

If we must do a mass roleclaim at some point, we need a less subjective and malleable criteria for determining the order in which we would claim. In past games, using post count to use a system where less active players claim before more active ones has worked well. I would say even say that agreeing to a completely random order would be better than your suggestion of Investigators claiming last.

At this point, I'd be highly opposed to any mass roleclaims anyway. I suspect that on Day 3 or 4, I will still be opposed to it. I just don't see it being that beneficial to us, with no way to know for certain until the game is over anyway.

No, I think we're going to need a different sort of strategy in this one. I would suggest that we forget about roles entirely. Unless you have one, of course, and then you should obviously use it to the best of your ability. But I doubt that worrying about other peoples' roles will get us very far in this game. We need to go back to the basics, and look for patterns and clues in posts.

Now, here is my question for everyone: If we're not hypocopping and we're not roleclaiming, what are we to talk about?

Because we really do need to have more discussion so that we have more to look back on in the days to come.