I am not 100% sure what the finger of suspicion thing is, but I remember a few years back someone from another forum used it here, or maybe I saw it in one of the allstar forum games. I believe it is like an informal accusation without an actual vote. Kind of like saying I am going to or thinking of voting for you.

Also, almost every game here (except a very small one) will generally have an SK.

The bold is where I disagree. If we are applying pressure all over, then scum might not necessarily know how to react. We might catch them in a lie or at least an inconsistency. I've seen it happen plenty of times. You just have to know how to conjure up reads and reactions out of people.
We're never going to know if we are targeting the right people but we still have to try, or else we are targeting nobody.

The difference is that here, you're all allowed to role claim. On The Syndicate we are not.

I am not sure I follow what you are saying here, but we're mostly just talking about semantics that aren't totally relevant to this game right now. That said, I'm interested in getting to know everyone here so please continue if you want. I'm just not sure what your point is, is all.

Not at all! But I do think that it's counterproductive to worry too much about preserving townies. If we're not actively trying to catch the scum, we're not gonna win. Sometimes that means accusing a townie and being wrong about it.

I am very much in favor of scum hunting, and I don't think doing that has to result in outing town power roles. While the anti-town players want to find and remove our PRs, we want to find and remove them first. My preferred way of doing this is to make everyone talk. Do not worry, I'm not a reckless vote-slinger. My reputation is that of a very patient and inquisitive townie. I just pump the thread full of questions.

From what I gather Sloonei and MovingPictures are veterans, just not of our play style. So they're far from newbies, though I tend to agree with your assessment about newer players should generally be town their first game or two.

He is an excellent player that is not to be underestimated.

As far as him not voting for a third person, like someone else said, splitting votes is generally considered bad here because of the majority voting thing. I would not read into it one way or another but I am the type of player who assumes everyone is playing as smart as they possibly can and avoiding any common traps or scummy "reads."

Alright. As a general strategy, that sounds like what I'll do. "Rainbow lists" are a thing we use at my home site, where we'll rank all our suspects in an ordered list with different colored tiers (hence the "rainbow" designation) to represent "strong/weak town" and "strong/weak" mafia reads. I'm never going to be shy about stating who I'm suspicious of, even if I'm not necessarily voting for them at the time.

Perhaps, but without any other info, we won't know that until later... which supports your theory. I don't disagree that it isn't a strategy, but I tend to play it safer earlier. Like I said earlier, I tend to slide the risk/reward of early pressure more towards risk.

This I agree with. We do a similar thing here, more or less, using a "out of 5" scale for measuring how townie/scummy a person reads. Color coding is something I've never seen, but am very much for haha, I'm more of a visuals guy.

Thank you. I mainly voted for him just to kick off my Day 1 festivities of casting a wide net, but not much has come out of that yet. With plurality voting, I think it's always best to look into every corner of the thread to try and find information. I can understand why people would be wary of getting to divisive on a day with majority voting, but that is not the case in this game. Old habits Die Hard though, so it's not something I want to make a big fuss about. That said, he did the opposite of what my strategy is, so I voted for him. He's not been back here since, unfortunately.

I mentioned this somewhere earlier (I've made a lot of posts and I'm starting to get lost in all of them!), but Day 1 pressure is often more beneficial later in the game than it is right now. It gets the ball rolling now instead of later, so that we can go into Day 2 with more light than there otherwise would be. And then, say on Days 3 or 4 when we're trying to split the hairs of our favorite suspects, we can go back to look at all the juicy Day 1 content to help us decide which way to lean. I always go into Day 1 with an eye for scummy behavior and hope that we'll catch a bad guy, but I do not expect us to do so right away.


They're lots of fun, MP is the master of rainbow lists. Just wait til he shows up.

Just noticed this game was open.

What's up party people?

Hello, who do you want to vote for today?

Not really. But you seem to be fascinated with killing him. Any reason behind that?

I'd vote for my poor decision making abilities.

I get the feeling you're suggesting that it is harder to play when you cannot role claim. But if that is the case, I disagree. It can be very difficult to come up with a believable fake claim when you're playing a game where 8-9 of 10 characters are present as other players (without you even know that exact fact or who those are), and you need to try to guess the 1-2 characters that aren't in the game, and have a believable matching power claim for them that no one else has.

You had asked whether "an accusation was X?" I am just pointing out that no, it is not always or only X, it can be X, Y, Z, etc.

Your points certainly have merit. I am not opposed to trying this approach. I am still not sure if its a better approach in a plurality game vs. a majority voting game.

So DBoy has posted twice since the two votes and hasn't claimed.
JOH is MIA. It doesn't look like we are getting much done besides for the standard D1 should we kill someone talk, so after those two I will switch to no lynch. Unless someone says something really suspicious.

DB is a master of claiming truthfully and then getting lynched anyway because no one believes him, sadly. I am heading to bed and am in no mood to kill anyone today.

change vote: No Lynch