First of all, I need to echo the sentiment that Ike's post #61 looks scummy. As someone who likes to solve mysteries, being town is the best. Especially in a vanilla set-up, there's really no allure to being mafia other than deceiving people. You know everything from the start, so there's no scumhunting. No excitement. Unless Ike is the type of player who stabs often in Diplomacy (has anyone played with him?), I consider this a small mafia sign.
There's one thing far worse though. Let's look at the following options:
- We randomly kill someone every round. No discussion, just random. Our chance of winning is: 27%.
- We no-lynch every round. Our chance of winning is 0%.
- We no-lynch D1, but then start killing randomly. Win: Obviously less than 27%!!
You know who would be happy with NL? Scum! I will reread to see who advocated most for this and then vote for them.