Before the next game starts, we probably need to discuss RC coding - Edit 1
Before modification by Isaac at 15/11/2011 02:29:13 AM
Mid-game discussions generally being tricky for anything that clearly cants toward the town. Pretty clearly our move to code RC's on Day 1 was what swung the game, a Day 2 mass claim seems almost inevitable from the setup, considering even had no one mid-day claimed as cop the odds favor someone being the lynch target who was a cop and would have claimed to avoid death, then kicked the ball off on a mass claim. Minus the RC coding, the scum would have had a good chance of faking in as cops themselves and I suspect, without posthumous knowledge of sanity, that we'd have needed many days to determine who was what, and a loss would have been quite probable... that's my opinion anyway.
Edit: Actually now that I think of it a day 1 mass claim might even be possible, we knocked DK off because she wasn't around and didn't defend herself, in almost every scenario except lucky scum find that person would have claimed cop and someone probably would have counterclaimed to make the lynch proceed, decent chance everyone would have been inclined to vote anyway without claims, being all cops, but I think someone would have counterclaimed then the mass claim ball probably would have rolled.
With that in mind, I think we should consider banning, or informally agreeing not to do it, any sort of day 1 mass RC codings, this case was a touch unique but it will always force the scum to RC on Day 1 limiting their maneuverability... it's doable, but IMHO permitting it will probably result in coded RCs becoming the new Day 1 first 48 hours normal and I think it would introduce a new dynamic that would bias strongly to the town, and either force mods to try to account for that or put the scum at a disadvantage... I prefer an informal agreement, kinda like our not doing lie detector pacts on each day, as opposed to rules, partially because I do like the coding ability to allow simultaneous reveals by two or more people, but I do think we need to restrict it to at least some degree, and I wanted to see if we had a consensus and on what, between games.
Edit: Actually now that I think of it a day 1 mass claim might even be possible, we knocked DK off because she wasn't around and didn't defend herself, in almost every scenario except lucky scum find that person would have claimed cop and someone probably would have counterclaimed to make the lynch proceed, decent chance everyone would have been inclined to vote anyway without claims, being all cops, but I think someone would have counterclaimed then the mass claim ball probably would have rolled.
With that in mind, I think we should consider banning, or informally agreeing not to do it, any sort of day 1 mass RC codings, this case was a touch unique but it will always force the scum to RC on Day 1 limiting their maneuverability... it's doable, but IMHO permitting it will probably result in coded RCs becoming the new Day 1 first 48 hours normal and I think it would introduce a new dynamic that would bias strongly to the town, and either force mods to try to account for that or put the scum at a disadvantage... I prefer an informal agreement, kinda like our not doing lie detector pacts on each day, as opposed to rules, partially because I do like the coding ability to allow simultaneous reveals by two or more people, but I do think we need to restrict it to at least some degree, and I wanted to see if we had a consensus and on what, between games.