@Pawn Lelouch I have a question why haven't you voted me yet? I'm certain we've both thought, "Better someone else than me" and as we've both been consistently in the top two I'm wondering why you haven't pushed me?
Because I'm still not exactly at that type of desperation point and I would prefer to have you around since you are one of the better players who could help me scum hunt later on.
Why? Because of his last post, if you're going to die already and you have some proof, any kind of proof, that you're actually innocent, I think it would be best to "say" it as subtly as you can, yet he spent his post saying that giving your rol early is a bad idea and that defending yourself is difficult.
The thing is, if you're really town then is possible that people will try to protect you at night because you're the only know town, and the scum will know this so voting for you could end in a wasted of a night yurn, so they will probably target another person, so yeah, I don't see any reason as to not give some "hint" of your rol if you're about to die.
Dude, really? Yes, if you are actually innocent and the clock is ticking down then say your role and the like to get that info out and stop claims of it in the future. My post was in regards to the vast majority of day 1, where pressure is generally a lie and giving out your role early is a mistake.
Say that you are a watcher, to name one of the midtier investigatives. You end up revealing during the middle of the day because you can't push the players off of you. Sure any scum will switch off if they were on your train, but one they usually are a very small part of a vote train early on so those few votes barely make a difference and two, they would likely target a better player first.
That initially seems like something that is counterproductive with what I was saying earlier but it is true, if they can get lucky and take out one of the competent players just due to having a solid voting block and likely abusing the newbie rule they would jump for it. They just don't expect it to work and are likely settling for one of the weaker players.
And lets get back to the revealing as a watcher. Say that you do it and it works out. You get off and some random shmuck gets taken out instead. Now we get to the night phase.
You said you would be protected, and you would be right if there are protective roles in the game (not always the case). But there is a major opportunity cost there because if protective roles are known to be guarding you then scum can act with impunity. It makes for otherwise well protected players due to their skill, become far easier targets because of a lack of expected player roles.
That just isn't worth the cost in my mind. And what if the revealed power is a weak one? Well in that case you have scum a more complete picture of the game and made yourself much weaker as a result since your power is now known and can be played around. You may help yourself but it only hurts town as a whole.
And this is my experience on both sides of the table talking here. Early claims pretty much never go well for town and I always enjoy them when I'm mafia. So I feel secure in my beliefs here.
